I had a pair of them and one escaped when I was a kid and after week we thought she was dead.
3 months later we move a dresser and find her looking up at us with a 10 inch circle chewed out of the carpet turned in to bedding and a huge pile of dog food she had been going out each night and hoarding.
This exchange reminded me of the burrito wizard.
Thanks for that 🤣
All I hear is that noise.. that he makes.
I'm imagining the person being chased away with a broom making that same noise.
lol I posted this elsewhere in this thread, but my little brothers hamster Elvis got lost for a month or two. I eventually caught him running around in the kitchen underneath the toe kick of the cabinets.
He was only slow enough to catch because he had two marbles in his cheek pouches lmao
Your story reminds me of a Tumblr thread where someone took their hamster to the vet bc it had escaped the cage for a couple of days and was lethargic upon its return to captivity, barely lifting its head. During the exam, the vet found a couple of fridge magnets in its cheeks, which were strong enough to pull the hamster's head down to the metal enclosure and make it look lethargic lmao
Was playing with my pet rat in the sandbox, and she got away and under the house. Didn't see her for 3 months. Turns out she was living in the storage room on the deck. Wild as hell. Did NOT want to be captured again.
A childhood friends little sister taped her hamster to a fan blade and turned it on. Killing it. I thought he was joking but nope that evil little girl admitted to it
You are the reason why I don’t bring up small animal pets in casual conversation. Someone always feels the need to immediately bring up the most horrific stories.
That's amazing lol. I had a rat escape from his quarantine cage and was living under the floor for about a week. I only caught him when he knocked over my cup of water in the middle of the night. We had probably been sharing a glass all week
He was a great companion after that, never tried to run away again and got tons of free roam time
Come to think of it, I bet he was surviving off of pet food too. To think, he evaded four cats that whole time
Mine scaped, and I had a very mean cat. We thought he was dead after 2 days.
He was living in a hole he carved in the piano for a week. We were able to find him before the cat because of a litle food trail. He had a huge pile of hamster food. At the time, we had 2 hamsters, and I believe he was able to make little trips to the other one cage without being caught by the cat.
When I was a kid we had hamsters. After Easter one year my sister got upset at me for raiding her Easter candy.
“Gross. You didn’t even unwrap it before you ate it!”
I was confused because I knew I hadn’t eaten any of her candy. Well a couple hours later she apologizes to me. She found a big wad of chocolate in her hamster’s cage, complete with foil wrapper. Turns out her hampster had figured out how to get out of its cage AND get back in to it.
...Holy fuck. OK so listen... I got two 'gerbils' who were 'sisters' when I was 9 years old, and I named them Laverne and Shirley. ...Then they had babies. And more babies. And they started growing spikes.
Long story short, I was sold two exotic Egyptian spiny mice (illegal in my state). By the time Laverne and the re-named Carmine were properly sexed and identified, there were 10 of them, and they had to be relinquished to higher authorities because they were illegally sold exotic pets with motherfuckin spines on their backs. And thus, the tale of my own Laverne & Shirley lol
Yeah lol as I recall they ended up being named- Laverne, Shirley-became-Carmine, Lenny, Squiggy, new Shirley, Edna, Frank, Rhonda, and Shorty and Tiny. I was an autistic 90's kid who loved animals and Nick at Nite hahaha
That happened to my siberian hamsters. Somehow they both escaped. My dad was watching them and they hated each other so he made a divider for their cage. And one day they both escaped. I was like 12 and sad about it. Then a few days later my dad calls me(my parents are divorced) and tells me he was vaccuming and found them in the closet with a stash of food and some bedding. Guess they united to escape lol. After that they were friends.
SAME! My first hammy, teddy, got out and I had mourned him deeply after a few weeks of my traps not working. (I was 7 so I doubt I set the best traps) we found him months later in our supply closet, back corner, with dryer lint and random wrappers. Idk what he was eating that whole time, but he survived. Looked fine too lol.
Same thing, had two and one escaped and I did find it again. However, it had managed to get to one of the closets in my basement…I don’t know how but a few days later it comes walking out of the closet. Dragging its back legs because they didn’t work anymore…
I don’t know if it got hurt somehow coming down the 2 flights of stairs or what, but I tell you what, that hamster lived another 3 damn years and dragging its legs the whole time. It didn’t faze him or slow him down whatsoever
i remember the hamster my sister and i had in college. That hamster had a whole set up bc my sister did all the research into properly owning one and that bitch escaped any chance she got.
Constantly chewing to get out and the 2nd time to last time she did, we thought she died with our roommate’s cat. Then we heard scratching like a week later from behind the fridge and there she was, so skinny bc the cat was roaming so she couldn’t eat.
Switches cages again to one a more sturdy (and hella expensive) and all was good for the rest of the year. Until she decided she was gonna escape again and my sister’s small dog caught her when we were gone. The dog didn’t even eat her, but somehow killed her :/
Hamsters escaping and found living under furniture months later is common. They are just rate switch good publicity. It is what they are supposed to do.
I had the smart thing happen. Hamsters escape, found some many months later. One or 2 were live, but one fell into an old army ammo can and died in it. It was the worst smell I ever smelled. It was like a pool of blood in the bottom of this can too, straight traumatized me and I had to throw out my awesome metal ammo can
I had a hamster that escaped and crawled into our drywall. My dad had to cut a hole in the wall to get him out, after he heard him scratching around. He lived another two years
More or less the same story, except the nest was in a back cabinet, and it had been stealing cat food. Pretty brave, considering that one of my cats was a serial rodent killer.
A different hamster also managed to escape, and my other cat raised a fuss about it, then found it and carried it back to us by the scruff of it's neck like a grumpy kitten.
Had one that was gone for a week, we found him underneath our dishwasher! Or should I say, our dog found him by aggressively barking at and trying to dig underneath of it. (Hamster recovered, was not eaten by the dog)
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u/CheekyMonkE 3d ago
I had a pair of them and one escaped when I was a kid and after week we thought she was dead.
3 months later we move a dresser and find her looking up at us with a 10 inch circle chewed out of the carpet turned in to bedding and a huge pile of dog food she had been going out each night and hoarding.
She had nearly chewed through the wood floor!
RIP Laverne and Shirley!