This is our Hamster… Monster. She has managed to escape her cage 3 or 4 times now. Usually she hides in the spare bedroom closet. The last time she hid in the kids room. Skylar heard her playing with pennies in his room!
Today… was what we call a HAMSTERMERGENCY!
She has been slowly chewing away at a ventilation cap in one of her tubes. How cute and noisy. This morning Skylar went into the spare bedroom where she resides and found her STUCK! She was stuck halfway through the the ventilation cap! She couldn’t move forward or backward and was just sort of hanging there. He ran downstairs in a panic to get me.
I removed the tube from the habitat and place her and the tube on the bed, wondering what the heck to do. The pictures don’t look like much… but I assure you she was stuck! She kept crawling around the bed trying to get out of her new plastic corset! Sometimes she would stop and rest, and just lay her head down. Which makes me think maybe she is hurt.
The next thing I did was hold the tube in place and she if she could get a grip on the mattress and pull herself out. She pulled for about 10 minutes (no joke) while I tried to safely break the plastic. Eventually she did get free. The hole is not much bigger than a quarter. She is a very large Teddy Bear Hamster. I do not know how long she was there, or even how she managed to fit her head through that hole. I’ve checked on her a few times since her ordeal and she hasn’t really moved much. She is sleeping in the corner. But thats what hamsters do during the day anyway.
I complemented Skylar on how calm he remained during our Hamstermergency. He replied, “WHAT?!?!?!? I WAS NOT CALM! I was so scared. I WAS NOT CALM!” I assured him that even though he may have felt really scared on the inside, he in fact did remain calm and handled the situation very well. (I did read the look of pure terror on his face through out the situation.)
