Missing Hamster miracle!

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Morton94

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Thought I'd share a heartwarming story.

We have a hamster called Sheila and just over a week ago my daughter didn't clip her water bottle back on to the cage properly and she escaped.
Reading online it's claimed missing hamsters can live 3-4 days without food or water.

Our house has a mouse problem, due to being next to a nature reserve and just yesterday we made the decision to put her her cage outside and clear the cluttered corner as we presumed she'd died. Mouse guy came and removed the poison he set down (on our request, we had a change of heart and are going with a humane trap, thankfully the poison was not touched) and said his condolences on the loss of our hamster.

So tonight, just finished ordering Iceland for the morning, off to bed I go, just as I finish checking up on all things Boro and Wrestling, a scream comes from downstairs! Sheila returned after over a week! She somehow survived and we think she'd been returning nightly to her cage and eating her food 🤣

We are absolutely delighted, even my dog did a little tippy tappy dance when he seen her.

From telling my kids she's probably gone and we didn't want another one because there wasn't one as good as her, to having to run outside and get her cage back 🤣 Thankfully our bin was full and I couldn't put it in 🤣

All's well that ends well! Happy kids in the morning!
 
Syrian hamster or dwarf? I had an escapeologist hamster before, called Aero. Couldn't work out how but she could let herself in and out whenever she wanted. After 6 months i just left her cage open 🤷‍♂️ she was one of the pets at home last chance saloon bargain bin hamsters - the ones that go unsold so they stick them near the door. Used to split her time between living in her cage or inside my settee. Always came out to eat crumbs out of the rug.
 
I was given a baby corn snake by a friend who was an escape artist, we never figured out how it kept getting out as the enclosure had no obvious gaps. Anyway it went missing for a week and we presumed it was gone. Sad times.

I was photographing stockton riverside music festival and getting some setup shots at the comedy tent. Went to change to a wide angle lens and when I took the lens hood off, there was this baby corn snake, coiled around my lens hood. So I'm stood there in the middle of Stockton festival with a snake 😂
 
I had a gerbil that lived in my room, he would routinely escape from his cage at night by nibbling the latch on his door and I'd wake up to find him sat on my computer desk so in the end I just left his cage door open so he could roam about my room (which he'd have done anyway) while I was at college.

Came back home one day and found him dead in our back garden, he'd squeezed himself through the gap in the window and fallen 10ft onto the concrete patio.

I mean I assume that's how he died...
 
JimboJenkins said:
Syrian hamster or dwarf? I had an escapeologist hamster before, called Aero. Couldn't work out how but she could let herself in and out whenever she wanted. After 6 months i just left her cage open 🤷‍♂️ she was one of the pets at home last chance saloon bargain bin hamsters - the ones that go unsold so they stick them near the door. Used to split her time between living in her cage or inside my settee. Always came out to eat crumbs out of the rug.
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Syrian! That's hilarious, they're funny little creatures
 
Morton94 said:
Thought I'd share a heartwarming story.

We have a hamster called Sheila and just over a week ago my daughter didn't clip her water bottle back on to the cage properly and she escaped.
Reading online it's claimed missing hamsters can live 3-4 days without food or water.

Our house has a mouse problem, due to being next to a nature reserve and just yesterday we made the decision to put her her cage outside and clear the cluttered corner as we presumed she'd died. Mouse guy came and removed the poison he set down (on our request, we had a change of heart and are going with a humane trap, thankfully the poison was not touched) and said his condolences on the loss of our hamster.

So tonight, just finished ordering Iceland for the morning, off to bed I go, just as I finish checking up on all things Boro and Wrestling, a scream comes from downstairs! Sheila returned after over a week! She somehow survived and we think she'd been returning nightly to her cage and eating her food 🤣

We are absolutely delighted, even my dog did a little tippy tappy dance when he seen her.

From telling my kids she's probably gone and we didn't want another one because there wasn't one as good as her, to having to run outside and get her cage back 🤣 Thankfully our bin was full and I couldn't put it in 🤣

All's well that ends well! Happy kids in the morning!
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You aren’t from Redcar and have a dog are you 😳
 
Our hamster when I was a lad used to escape his cage on a night to play the piano! I kid you not. Also he once climbed up stairs and woke me up by running across my head.

He was called Titch
 
Morton94 said:
Thought I'd share a heartwarming story.

We have a hamster called Sheila and just over a week ago my daughter didn't clip her water bottle back on to the cage properly and she escaped.
Reading online it's claimed missing hamsters can live 3-4 days without food or water.

Our house has a mouse problem, due to being next to a nature reserve and just yesterday we made the decision to put her her cage outside and clear the cluttered corner as we presumed she'd died. Mouse guy came and removed the poison he set down (on our request, we had a change of heart and are going with a humane trap, thankfully the poison was not touched) and said his condolences on the loss of our hamster.

So tonight, just finished ordering Iceland for the morning, off to bed I go, just as I finish checking up on all things Boro and Wrestling, a scream comes from downstairs! Sheila returned after over a week! She somehow survived and we think she'd been returning nightly to her cage and eating her food 🤣

We are absolutely delighted, even my dog did a little tippy tappy dance when he seen her.

From telling my kids she's probably gone and we didn't want another one because there wasn't one as good as her, to having to run outside and get her cage back 🤣 Thankfully our bin was full and I couldn't put it in 🤣

All's well that ends well! Happy kids in the morning!
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I'm pleased you got the whole hamster back and not just its head.
 
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