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Is it possible that my hamster is still alive???

Hey,

I had my hamster out of his cage and I let him run about on the sofa and he jumped off and nobody has since him since :frown:

We heard him gnawing behind the skirting board the first day he escaped but nothing since. He went missing on the 7th of this month.

Question is do you think he could still be alive?

Reply 1

m:)ckel

14

Yeah, but I'd buy a new hamster just in case.

Reply 2

ticos

13

This is the cutest thread.

Yes, I do think it is possible. Hamsters are rodents remember, they thrive doing things like this.

I used to have a hamster about 7 years ago, and when it escaped it was gone for about three weeks before we got it back. When you work out which room it is in, leave its cage in the middle of the room at night with the door open, and a ladder leading up if the door isn't on ground level. Leave lots of treats in and around the cage, and make sure the cage contains plenty f fresh bedding. Remember to leave the doors of the room that you think it is in closed, so as to contain it. This method worked for my hamster, who eventually did return 'home'!

Good luck! :smile:

Reply 3

Kimbolina

OP

ticos

This is the cutest thread.

Yes, I do think it is possible. Hamsters are rodents remember, they thrive doing things like this.

I used to have a hamster about 7 years ago, and when it escaped it was gone for about three weeks before we got it back. When you work out which room it is in, leave its cage in the middle of the room at night with the door open, and a ladder leading up if the door isn't on ground level. Leave lots of treats in and around the cage, and make sure the cage contains plenty f fresh bedding. Remember to leave the doors of the room that you think it is in closed, so as to contain it. This method worked for my hamster, who eventually did return 'home'!

Good luck! :smile:

Thank you for your advice :smile:

when I go back home I will do it. I miss him he was like my bud :frown:

I just worry without food and water he can't survive, we only heard him behind the skirting boards but not since so not sure where he is but thanks :smile:

Oh and to the person who said get another one in case what if he comes back? He wont have a home anymore :frown:

Reply 4

dh00001

16

yes chances are it will feed on your socks :p:

my cousin lost hers under the floorboards for two weeks once, it came out fatter than it went in :s-smilie:

Reply 5

Kimbolina

OP

dh00001

yes chances are it will feed on your socks :p:

my cousin lost hers under the floorboards for two weeks once, it came out fatter than it went in :s-smilie:

Lol, he got out before but came back after 2 days really skinny so after 2 weeks almost seems impossible for him to be alive :frown:

Reply 6

ticos

13

dh00001

my cousin lost hers under the floorboards for two weeks once, it came out fatter than it went in :s-smilie:

Reply 7

ticos

13

Kimbolina

Lol, he got out before but came back after 2 days really skinny so after 2 weeks almost seems impossible for him to be alive :frown:

Leaving food out generally is a good idea. Also bedding. It will attract him out from wherever he is hiding, and will keep him well nourished.

Do try my method though. Hamsters can't resist an easy life, and besides, who wouldn't want to live in a nice cage with food and clean bedding always provided, and a really cool wheel to run around in?!

Reply 8

Kimbolina

OP

ticos

Leaving food out generally is a good idea. Also bedding. It will attract him out from wherever he is hiding, and will keep him well nourished.

Do try my method though. Hamsters can't resist an easy life, and besides, who wouldn't want to live in a nice cage with food and clean bedding always provided, and a really cool wheel to run around in?!

He was too fat to run in his wheel lol one of his legs poked out :biggrin:

I left my sister's hamster out to try and let him smell him out incase he was lost but he never showed up :frown:

OP

Jonah Ramone

Heyyyy, why you laughing? :p:

Reply 11

dan

11

when my cat was younger, it slipped through a hole in the kitchen cupboards and we thought it was under the floor. So my dad ripped up all the floorboards but couldn't find it - that was until I opened a drawer in the units to find him asleep in it.

So, moral of the story - check your cupboards first.

Reply 12

Jonah Ramone

19

Kimbolina

Heyyyy, why you laughing? :p:

Reply 13

devilgirl999

1

i had a mouse that escaped for a week in my house, the cat must have thought it was fake or something cos she just sat watching where it was scraping, eventually we caught it when it made a mad dash into the living room and hid behind the fireplace so my dad had to unscrew the fire lol! i caught her though. And i had a baby guinea pig (only 2 weeks old) that survived 3 days in our garden, until my dad caught it with a fishing net lol!

hamsters, lol.

Mine escaped and after a week I thought he must be out the house and maybe dead outside but he was actually living in my draw.

Reply 16

Hammers_Gal

i remember losing the school hamsters single handed when i was about 9!! They turned up at the other end of the school about 6weeks later one trying to bite its way through the mains or something if i remember correctly (could be wrong about the type of cable though!) So technically i could have de powered my school just because i didn't 'quite' shut the cage door properly!!!

So after the tangent it is very possible it will still turn up!! Check your kitchen cupboards xx

Reply 17

Bubblebee

15

horrorboy

Mine escaped and after a week I thought he must be out the house and maybe dead outside but he was actually living in my draw.

Yeah I lost my hamster, two weeks later I hear something open my desk drawer and find him making a bed out of my photograph albums :biggrin:

Reply 18

ticos

13

Kimbolina

Hey,

I had my hamster out of his cage and I let him run about on the sofa and he jumped off and nobody has since him since :frown:

We heard him gnawing behind the skirting board the first day he escaped but nothing since. He went missing on the 7th of this month.

Question is do you think he could still be alive?

So OP, any luck yet?

Reply 19

Albannach

9

Kimbolina

Hey,

I had my hamster out of his cage and I let him run about on the sofa and he jumped off and nobody has since him since :frown:

We heard him gnawing behind the skirting board the first day he escaped but nothing since. He went missing on the 7th of this month.

Question is do you think he could still be alive?

No.

Is it possible that my hamster is still alive???

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