Today this blog entry received a comment, asking for help:
“omg help I lost my hamster and I don’t know what to do please help me it’s been 2 days”.
Hamsters are escapologists. They make break-outs a profession. They are such curious little love hearts and regard themselves as explorers as well. Don’t worry about your hamster. It will be back. Just leave the cage on the floor with some food in and his homely sleeping house and he will return regularly at night to fill up his cheeks. My hamster likes to dig himself into and behind the sofa and the heating when he is out on leave.
It might be best to first find out in which room (s)he is and then leave the cage on the floor with some food and I guarantee the hamster will be back at night when it’s calm.
The only difficulty will be for you to wake up when (s)he is in the cage.
Alternatively, you could put sunflower seeds on the floor in each room and then the next day find out in which room they are gone. Sometimes it also smells horrible when the hamster goes to the toilet and wees, which can determine in which room it is.
Key to finding him is to keep the doors shut in your house so the hamster can not change rooms. It might be best if the hamster is in the bedroom, then you’ll wake up when it’s back in its cage and you could just close the doors and put the upper part of the cage back. Otherwise, it will most likely just fill up the cheeks and return to freedom and build another hoard somewhere in the room.
Sometimes it might also help if you sit on the floor and watch television in the evening for some hours, but pretty quietly not quite in the dark, but also not in too bright conditions and if you have some nice smelling food around on the floor, such as freshly cut carrots, cucumber, corn/maize, and similar, the hamster might leave the hiding place and come out to get it. Don’t rush to catch him/her, just watch where he/she is hiding and taking the food- it will have its hoard there and be a regular visitor to this favourite place. If your hamster isn’t tame you might not be able to catch him by hand – it is astonishing how they can squeeze themselves away and they rather jump down into unknown depths than consider giving up. Best is to leave a little box lying around where he can go into and examine- or his sleeping house, and you might just be able to pick him up in the box.
My hamster is now pretty tame so he runs around every evening during the news and when I watch telly. He even comes when I call him and I can pick him up by hand. If you feed him from your hand, it will get tame quite quickly and then it is easier to catch it after it escapes, in total Fluffy doesn’t escape at all anymore because he knows he gets a walk nearly every evening (apart from when I have guests).
Fluffy usually gets active at around 8pm till about midnight and also has a morning session at dawn.
[ video : How to catch a lost hamster ]
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Comments
Comment by DarrellWade on 2006-10-07 13:51:46 +0100
I have had 3 hamsters in my life and more than once have they escaped, at least the first one. I had better cages with more interesting things for my last two hamsters which I had at the same time.
Anyhow I was a heart broken 8-year-old when my first hamster disappeared. I looked and looked in the morning for him and could not find him. Finally I had to go to school and I put on my jacket which was hanging from the back of a chair. Guess what! There was a warm lump in the jacket where my hamster was sleeping in the lining. He was happy to crawl out and into my pocket and hand and I could put him away in his cage and go to school.
The second escape was when the cage was in the basement instead of the kitchen. or my bedroom. I hunted and hunted again. My Mom said that hamsters are very curious animals and that he was probably quietly sitting somewhere watching us look for him. She said just to sit still and wait and he would come out wriggling his nose to investigate.
The advice given seems hamsterly wise and likely to find the errant hammy in the house. You just have to be a bit careful when sitting on sofas and with keeping doors shut. Hamsters can probably get through any door without weather stripping though. They can get through a hole as small as a quarter.
Gosh now I am thinking of getting another hamster, or maybe a pair of gerbils, I’ve never had a Guinea pig or rabbit though…
~ Darrell
from Port Moody, BC
Comment by Jessica Heart on 2006-10-18 02:23:35 +0100
Help! I lost my hamster. This is the second time she has got out. She isn’t really tamed,but I’m working on that. It has been and least almost 2 days. What should I do? Please e-mail me at puddytat95@hotmail.com Any information is helpful. Thanks
Comment by Tirzah on 2006-11-05 11:57:19 +0100
I have a hamster I got from the little kids I tuter. I just got back from a 12 band thing, its almost three oclock here, and I went to feed him and found him gone. I have Three cats in the house, which is why usaully the room he is kept in is closed at all times and the cats never ever allowed in, with the idea that if he escaped it wouldn’t be too bad of a problem, because he would be somewhere safe. Only my dad left the door open for whats counts for more then twenty four hours now. My cats don’t hide their food as some do, so I know he’s not dead yet, thank heavens, but I need a fast way to find him. Even if I could have a quick less then a day way of finding what room he’s in it would be a help, cause one of my cats is a wicked good hunter…. and smart to boot. Any help will really be appriated. Thanks,
Tirzah.
Comment by Emily on 2006-11-25 15:15:04 +0100
could you help me find my hamster? He has been gone for 2 days and when he was lost the cage was on the counter next to the refrigerator. I’m afraid that he went behind the frige and into the air ducts that open up behind the frige. I have moved the frige but he wasn’t there. it’s posible that he didn’tgo behind the frige but what can I do to catch him?
Comment by Erik Osgood on 2006-11-30 00:32:50 +0100
Hi. My name is erik and i have lost my hamster, havent seen him for a day. i have 2 of them, they are dwarfs. the one i lost must have gotten out of his cage through a hole that was uncovered on the top. he was in my livingroom at the time overnight in his cage when he got out. the next day i went and looked for him and i couldnt find him. i cleaned out the cage, and looked EVERYWHERE in the house, behind and underneath everything. I set out traps overnight using all the traps i have read about (none deadly of course). this morning i checked the traps, they are all empty…im very worried becuse i have a dog too. she is a chesapeake bay retriever, and she doesnt seem like she would eat a hamster. Normally when she does something wrong i ask her about it , and she scowards with her tail between her legs but this time she just wagged her tail, i dont know if she did it. i am very worried and sad and i dont know what to do. if my dog ate it, how would i find out? if not, what can i do otherwise.
Please, anyone who noes the ansewer to any of these questions, email me at erikosgood@comcast.net asap.
Thanks
Comment by Natalie on 2006-12-11 02:49:42 +0100
PLEASE HELP ME I JUST MOVED INTO A NEW HOUSE WITH MY BIG HAMSTER AND MY BABY ON THE BIG ON KIKI HURT THE LIL ONE CARAMAL SO I SEREATED HIM IN A BOX AN DI WENT TO THE MOVIES AND WEN I WOKE UPO THE NEXT DAY MY SISTER TOLD ME HES NOT IN THE BOX ANYMORE! I DIDNT TELL MY MOM YET SHE WOULD BE VERY UPSET WITH ME PLEASE ITS A UGENT THING I TRIED TO PUT THE OTHER ONE IN THIS OTHER CAGE AND THE CAGE THEY LIVED IN TOGETHER ONPEN WITH FOOD ITS JUS THAT THE BOX HE WAS WAS IN THE UNFINSHED BASEMENT ITS STILL JUNKY WITH BOXES CUZ WE JUST MOVED IN AND HES NOT COMINGG I CANT FIND HIM AND I HAVE TO GO TO MY VACTION IN A 3 DAYS IF I CANT FIND HIM IM DEAD MEAT PLEASE ITS VERY UGENT PLEASE RESPOND BACKK AT lilshorty_nat@hotmail.com
if you do you will help me truly lotss PLEASE REPLYY
natalie
Comment by Daniel on 2006-12-31 16:49:49 +0100
My hamster vanished form the cage while i was cleaning out my bedroom 2 days ago, me and my family have been through every room on that floor of the house and found nothing, I’ve tried the bucket trap to no success, and i’m starting to panic a little bit. Any tips/advice would be welcomed, please send replies to nigel.bloomer@ntlworld.com, thanks.
Comment by Stephanie on 2007-01-06 21:24:39 +0100
I lost my hamster today accidentally, and I have tried everything. I have placed flour by every door and around piles of food, and yet the hamster still hasnt returned. I also did the bucket thing, and put her cage on the floor. This is not the first time I have lost a hamster, but I really want her back. Any more suggestions?
Comment by nikki on 2007-01-13 23:41:29 +0100
plz someone help me my hamster got out and its in a place where its never been before…my grandmas basement there r no holes and the climbing places r way to high up for it to climb. ive looked every where and i set up traps to catch it and i even put its cage on the floor. I need help to see wat else i can do.. sumone plz help me email me at lil_brat1840@yahoo.com if u can give me sum advice i will be very very happy
Comment by kacy on 2007-01-19 00:24:08 +0100
my hamster got out this moring i put him out of the room at night because he was chewing on his bars to get out. so i put him above are tv stand and wen i woke up he was gon. i am worried ever since i got the hamster my dog has been jeluos he tries nipping at it when i hold it he is an border collie cross i also have 3 cats i am worried i am going to try the bucket ttrap see if that works if anybody has any info on how to catch a black lost hamster pleeze say so thanx
Comment by Abi on 2007-01-27 22:27:13 +0100
please help me, I had some friends round and the hamster shot out of my friends hand and under the airing cupboard she is only a dwarf hamster and I am so worried as she could have squeezed into the wall and because there are gaps she may have gone down a hole and under the floorboards it has been roughly about 24 hours now and I am soooo worried that she might get hurt, I have but out some water and food and bedding where I found loads of her droppings but I have just recently checked and blocked up the holes and I cant seem to find her we have had to knock a hole in the ceiling downstairs and we haven’t found her yet, I cant’t see the bucket trap working as she is only little and maynot be able too climb up the books. Also what foods are safe for dwarf roborovski hamsters so that I can try and lure her out if it is not already too late. 🙁 please help me soon, Abi. p.s. if she did go down a hole into the floor should I block it up or not because I wondered if she was already in the airing cupboard somewhere that she could not fall down but I am also worried that that might mean that she won’t be able to come back up, please help.
Comment by Michelle on 2007-03-03 16:48:50 +0100
I have lost my hamster, I was taming it and went out for a party, my sister left the cage open, and it has escaped. I think it may have gotten into the storage cupboard where there is a lot of insulation, I am really worried and have been in tears. Please help it is the best pet I have ever had and I don’t want to loose it now.
Comment by doth on 2007-03-06 00:40:41 +0100
you should try getting a big bucket and some string. put the string over the bucket and put a pieace of wood agenst the bucket and put some
penut butter on the string and your hamster will smell the penut butter and climb up the wood and on to the string an then she/he will fall into the
buket but put somthing soft in the bottom.
Comment by Joe Emmerson on 2007-03-14 00:15:19 +0100
Hey, my name is Joe and im twelve, i have 2 dwarf hamsters and somehow the littlest one has got out, i only got them in december and i can’t fing him anywere. tonight i have put 4 bits of food in each room of my house and hope he will eat it so i know which room to go in. Hes incredibly small and im so worried,i cant leave the cage open as his mate will get out. Please email me at little_emi_06@hotmail.co.uk for ideas of what to do! its the first time i’v had hamsters so im a bit lost. Thanks, itll be appreicated.
Comment by Faye on 2007-04-02 05:36:57 +0100
i have lost my hamster for 2 days now and i need help.i have looked everywere.i have even put choclate drops on the floor and they are still there
please help me
Comment by Vicky on 2007-04-04 20:21:47 +0100
OMG! 2 days ago i bought a hamster and this morning shes gone! I have tried to look for her everywhere and unfortunately i live in a 3 floor house that has 8 bedrooms…i dont know exactly which room shes in and shes not used to me yet so i dont know much about her at all, this is the first time she has escaped and since i have 2 other chihuahus in the house im really scared for her life! I believe there are rats in my house along with rat holes all around the house as well (ew!) so does this mean the chances of finding her is next to impossible? this is my first time being a hamster owner and im so heartbroken…any advice is appreciated…thank you soo much!
Comment by slamence on 2007-04-09 22:59:41 +0100
i let my hamster out of the cage and it jumped out of my hands and went under the bed now we cannot find it we have searched the whole house and have found nothing it is a robovioski hamster and white plz i really love it and hope it returns
Comment by slamence on 2007-04-09 23:03:43 +0100
i just want to know if hes alive or dead
Comment by lauren on 2007-05-22 02:36:15 +0100
help the class pet has been missing for two days he has vanished.we moved everything including the stove and the refridgerator.
Comment by Gabriella on 2007-05-28 03:35:39 +0100
I have lost my hamster and he ahs been gone for almost 3 days! It is my first hamster. I moved him into a cardboard box because he is the father of my other hamster’s babies…oops!LoL. Well I sure he has had no water and I have set up traps and tried looking in every single room on my second floor! I have checked places multiple times! I need help and quick before he dies! My dad said he might have escaped through our heating vent. This is horrible. I have only had him for 2 months!
Comment by Jordan on 2007-06-04 05:23:33 +0100
I was holding my Robovioski hamster(TAZ)and he jumped out of my hands and took off running but I was holding my other robovioski hamster(Sylvestor)and I had to put Sylvestor up in cage and I had been looking everywhere These are my first hamsters I laid his food out and put some strawberries out too but I don`t know what room he ran in I hope he will come for the food then I can Put him back in his cage.
Comment by Kat on 2007-06-04 22:02:11 +0100
If you are looking for a lost hamster (of any breed) then i have the perfect thing for you!!!!!
Here’s what you do:
First, make sure all the doors in your house stay closed. And watch where you walk! Make sure none of the electrical wires in your house are not on the floor. Then, put some food in the floor of each room. (Try an apple slice, which has a strong smell.) Keep checking each room to see where the food has been eaten. Once you see that the food is gone, you’ll know what room your hamster is in. Then you can search carefully.
A tricker method: Place a towel in the bottom of a bucket. Then, place a piece of apple in the bucket. Make a little staircase out of books leading up to the top of the bucket. Your hamster may fall for the trick, and you may find him in the bucket.
Hope this helps!!! Kat
Comment by Kat on 2007-06-04 22:06:14 +0100
Quike reminder…
Make sure you put food in every room and close the door and check the food!!! And try the bucket thing… it works most of the time!!!! :)… Be that not… 🙁
Comment by Raul on 2007-06-07 22:56:31 +0100
I just lost my hamster again today, I have found droppings on the staircase (his cage is on the second floor) and the a lot more droppings in the bathroom!? Does that mean he’s in there? I sure hope he didn’t burrow through the wall or my mom will kill me. Darn, I wish I had cat now. At least I would be sure he can bring him back dead or alive. I think I’m going to try the bucket trick tonight with some peanut butter and apple. Let’s hope he gets back as I am leaving on vacation in two days and it seems like a catasrophe waiting to happen. I don’t care if he ran away outside, my only worry is that my mom might find him before I do or worse, he starts chewing through the house.
Comment by zoe j on 2007-07-01 00:22:31 +0100
my hamster got out the cage last ngiht..the last time i seen him waslast night at half past 1..ive put a slice of apple in each room and the bucket thing in my bedroom..i have had my hamster not even a month and i lvoe him so much..hes reli tame and the first hamster i have ever had that i could actually pick up on my own……im really really worried he will chew through electrical wires becasue my dad will go mad and if my cats eat him that will be eeeven worse….i cant hear anything under the floorboards..i have been on so many websites also and ive tried everything…ive also been told he will die of startvation after five days so im panickingthat iw ont find him until hes dead… any advice other than the bucket thing would be much appreciated..i love you eddie hope to find yousoon..x
Comment by lavonte on 2007-07-02 02:52:32 +0100
I lost my hamster a my dads house.and at home every loves him .i brought him whith me. and he got out of his
glass tank.hes gone missing for two days now.im wooried that he whent under the stove or in the walls or under the
floor boards.i put his cage very high so he woudnt think of jump ing down.bbut he did.i think he haert himself.
and isant moving any where.i put food out but he isant eating a thing.i think he cant move and eat.i havent haerd
any peeps from hi.the house is preety big and theres alot of plases he can be.and a dont whant to tell my family at
home that he is gone because they would be upset.i tried the bucket thing but it didnt work.like the other people who tried to do.PLEASE HELP I LOVE MY BEST FRIEND HAMMY.
Comment by anonymous on 2007-07-11 22:43:21 +0100
I got my first hamster (PRECIOUS) less than 3 months ago and I really loved her she was the best, she never bit anyone. But 3 weeks ago she got out (yes 3 weeks!!!!) I have used almost every trick but she will not come out, i know she is still alive though because i leave out water for her it is is gone in the morning.
WHAT DO I DO I WANT MY PRECIOUS BACK!!!!:(
Comment by Robert on 2007-07-18 21:41:19 +0100
help……i lost my hamster named mimiski.she is almost 2 years old and i lost her in my basement.i found some sunflower seeds and a pile of pee.i tried the bucket thing and dinot work…what do i do?
Comment by kaitlyn martens on 2007-07-23 15:39:14 +0100
help my hamster got out through a hole one the top of the cage and she has been missing for 5 day
please if u have any tips email me fast I WANT MY BABY BACk!!!!:(
Comment by kaitlyn on 2007-07-23 15:42:25 +0100
help me hamster cookie has been missing for 5 days yes 5! please i nned to find her fast i miis her so much
if u have tips email me at martens_kaitlyn@hotmail.com
Comment by caitlin on 2007-08-01 01:34:47 +0100
MY HAMSTER HAS BEEN LOST FOR SO LONG AND I DON’T KNOW WHAT TO DO!!
Comment by alyssa on 2007-08-18 21:40:25 +0100
I have a Hammie named Lucy she escaped I must of left the cage open because she has a regular small cage she was in my room and I put food EVERY WHERE!HELP!!!!!!!!!!!
alyssac1@netscape.com
Comment by Patricia on 2007-08-23 06:53:05 +0100
I have two hamsters named bubble n squeak and i woke up this morning and after i ate my auntie called me and said that they were both missing and i came in and we saw something moving and we found bubble!!!(we always lose her and she always comes back) but squeak is still missing i looked everywhere but i still can’t find her what should i do??? i have lost them load of times but usually i find out their lost after 5 minutes but never anything like this please help!!!!!!
Comment by Claire on 2007-09-03 21:01:04 +0100
I have 2 Chinese hamsters and 1 of them likes to run about but except now this is the second time she has gone for a long run. The last time we found her on the door step with the cat.(we dont know how she got outside) and now this is the third night she has not come back i cant leave the cage door open as the other hamster we escape. I have tried putting sunflower seeds down and she has ate the ones in my brothers room. But we have moved everything but there is no sign of her. We are now getting worried about here. The cat is an outside cat and hes usually pretty good.Except we had a gerbil and the cat got her tail(it still lived) Please help Thanks
I dont want here out for to long as her sister is getting upset and she is not eating or drinking .If it comes to the worst we might have to replace her wich wont be good!
thanks x please send me a message if you have any tips
Comment by Claire on 2007-09-03 21:02:28 +0100
If you have any comments about 34 then please mail me thanks
Comment by sarah -louise on 2007-09-19 18:23:50 +0100
i have 6 hampsters and last week my cat let two out 2 days l8a i found 1 in her mouth 2day she has let out four i have only one cage who could i catch them now
Comment by jake on 2007-09-23 16:17:39 +0100
hey girl with the cheesepke bay dog if u got dog use him to help find ypur hamster because dog have realy good noses
Comment by ash on 2007-10-02 21:15:13 +0100
please can some1 help..my hamster Fudge escaped today,he was on top of my freezer(which is kinda tall) but it has lil like ladderish things on back
but nearby on floor is a way under the floors and i looked evrywher for Fudge and left his cage open and put loads of treats around but he hasnt come
back and its been a day…what should i do.Please e-mail me at Ashw360@hotmail.co.uk
Comment by Jessy on 2007-10-07 18:02:26 +0100
SOS! i have two hamsters and they both are gone.. i found one but not the other. i look EVERWHERE. i put the cage down and i put food everywhere. =/ is he dead? is there ANYTHING! if so email me at kyleehot89@yahoo.com Thanks.
Comment by ben on 2007-10-20 21:22:15 +0100
hi
have lost my hamster tonight some how it has mange to lift up the cagedoor i hve looked every were in all the rooms in my house
can anyone think how i can find it i have got the cage on the floor with the house next to it and the food on the floor
Comment by My hammy on 2007-10-26 22:20:36 +0100
I love my hammy, her name is fuzzum. I never had a hamster before and this is my first time owning one. she is sooo sweet and almost never bites anyone, maybe because she is a honey bear. Thanks for the info i will do some of what i read..
Comment by Bailey on 2007-10-28 02:19:40 +0100
Help me, please dear help me! I’ve lost my NEW hamster, and she was very scared in the first place! She was scared because she just came to my house
in Tennessee from my aunt Linda’s house in Arkansas! Socks (my hamster) has been loose since some time this morning, my mom was cleaning out her cage and Socks was in her little ball that runs in place. So I’ve got three cats, one of them a kiten with sharp teeth and claws. Well, mom left the door open as she cleaned the cage, and the hamsters knocked the ball over and the haster got loose. So now we’ve got two dogs and three cats AND a hamster running loose in the house. HELP!
E-mail me at grumpygirly95@aol.com
Comment by baz on 2007-12-21 17:46:34 +0100
how long can they survive out of their tank? our Daz haz escaped and we think he’s in the cavity wall, is there any chnace we will see him again? will be trying peanut butter tonight, and this is his 2nd night away
Comment by Jessica on 2007-12-31 13:21:40 +0100
Please Please Please Help Me ! I Have Lost My half Year Old Hamster, Summer And I Cant Find Her Anywhere! Me And My Mom Have Been Looking For Her For 2 Days! She Is Nowhere To Be Seen, She Escaped By Puching Her Waterbottle Out About two Nights Ago While I Was Asleep. Please Please Tell Me Some Ways Of Finding Her! Can Hamsters Get Down Stairs ? Please eAMIL mE aT Mess-Jess123@hotmail.co.uk! PLEASE!
Much Love
Jessica x
Comment by Louise on 2008-01-17 13:22:18 +0100
Help!! My hamster has been missing for 2 days and i’ve looked everywhere for her! I put pile of food in each of the rooms in my house but it hasn’t been touched! I tryed listening in each of the rooms as well but heard nothing. Im really worried that something has happened to it. Have you got any idea of what i can do to find her? or do you think shes not going to come back? I have a dog but dont think she would do anything to harm the hamster. I have also left its cage out with fresh food and bedding in hope it might return in the night but no such luck. Please help as i have no other ides of what to do and i really dont think the bucket thing would work 🙁
Please Please Please help x
Comment by Aman on 2008-01-28 18:39:01 +0100
Please could u help me i just got my hamster 2 days ago shes still 3 months and i have got to find her o have put traps in my room with slices of appel but shes not coming plese help i cant do anuthing till i find her thnx
Comment by graham on 2008-02-01 19:58:59 +0100
HELP my hamster has been missing for 4 days now. what do you suggest i do?
Comment by graham on 2008-02-01 19:59:37 +0100
HELP my hamster has been missing for 4 days now. what can i do to get her back?
Comment by cara on 2008-02-20 12:37:23 +0100
i got mi hamster just a day ago and my hamsters were just setteling in, when i ent 2 bed my hammsters where both i presoom in there cage, my mum came in the next morning and thought she saw them both, but about an hour later, one of them dissapeard,i had a look round in my room everywhere as my cage is in there, but i got 2 dogs and im not shure if the dogs have gone for her, but if they did there would still be a body there, so i think they are still in my room somewhere or inside the floorboarding, i really want her back as she is only a baby,
if any1 nos hat 2 do plz message me!!
Comment by bonny on 2008-02-21 21:15:51 +0100
Hamsters are natural escape artists. We’re on no.6 and mostof them have escaped at tome time or other. We have caught previous escapees in a bucket trap, and once, after hamster missing for 2 weeks, living under sink in kitchen, we borrowed a humane trap from the council and caught him in that. I’m told that using a hamster of the opposite sex, and putting it in the cage on the floor of the room you think hammy is in, will attract them.
Comment by Rebecca on 2008-03-08 07:16:51 +0100
Hi I’m Rebecca. I just went into the bathroom where we keep my hamsters at night because their cage is SO noisy and the top of one of the cages was off. Of course there was no hamster to be found. We think it got away in my bedroom because my sister had JUST moved it into the bathroom and the lid was in my bedroom. I have a cat and two dogs. My cat has allready claimed the life of one of my original hamsters which is actually the sister to the one that I have in the bathroom this very moment NOT missing. I don’t know how i am going to keep that cat away from her. I also don’t see how she could have gotten the lid off her cage. The problem is I don’t know how long she’s been missing. I think only a few hours but for all I kmow it could be around a day now. If you have any suggestions or stories you want to tell me about your hamster and how to find mine please e-mail me at staykool101@yahoo.com
Thanks again!
Rebecca
Comment by Anoymous on 2008-04-20 23:42:47 +0100
Help!Ijust got a new hamster yesterday and it’s a baby.Of course it doesn’t know me very well so I don’t know what to do.I’m going to try the bucket thing.I HOPE I Find It!I’m so unhappy because we’ve looked everywhere and it’s the hamsters 2 day out of the cage.My first hamster hid in our instalation, but this one doesn’t.I don’t know where to look.I think it’s still alive, but I don’t know. We think that it got otside, but where do you look outside?
Comment by Mark on 2008-05-08 08:46:36 +0100
Help! i have two NEW hamsters and they both escaped!!
i have found one nibbling on the trap that i set up but i cant find the other hamster
please help me!!! i have looked everywhere but i still cant find it!
the worst thing is that it could have gone into my dads storeroom which is FULL of
boxes which has small and big gaps between each box
please help me by emailing a method to help find it at adawong04031@gmail.com
Comment by Christopher on 2008-06-05 02:19:05 +0100
Hello, I am extremely nervous because I cannot find my hamsters anywhere. They have been gone for quite some time. There was a mother, a male, and they produced 3 babies… This is what I’m nervous about… 5 HAMSTERS ON THE LOOSE! AND WHAT IF THEY PRODUCE MORE? THEY COULD BE ALL OVER THE PLACE!
Something I am very worried about is if there will be other rodents around… Will RATS invade my home? Will they eat the hamsters? What if the hamsters die? Will they attract new rodents?
I placed food and the cage and fresh water on the ground… Next day it was all gone… I just don’t know what to do. I know that they’re nocturnal and like to come out at night, but when will one ever be able to catch them if we need light for them to be visible? Please, if anybody can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. My email: sportsbeast07@yahoo.com
Thank you and take care, hope to hear from you soon,
Christopher
Comment by lisa on 2008-06-17 17:32:30 +0100
help!my hamster is lost in a 2 story house and no sighns of her anywhere!!!!email me at sarah@yahoo.com
Comment by jodie on 2008-06-21 11:00:56 +0100
omg please help me my sister has lost her pet hamster in the garden !!!!!!!!!!!!! we were up all night looking for him but we can’t find him please help we don’t no what to do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Brooklyn on 2008-07-03 00:10:02 +0100
Hi im brooklyn, im 11 years old and my hamster has got out of her cage! I have looked everywhere and I cant seem to find her! Ì`m so worried about my poor hammy! I havnt had her very long and she not very tame yet..ive tried putting the cage on the floor with no luck yet im not allowed to put flour or hamster food on the floor and im not sure if the bucket trap would work. please if anyone has any ideas email me at tigersrock14@hotmail.com thanks!
Comment by kim on 2008-08-03 15:25:41 +0100
Help i have lost my hamster i was over at my friends house and we though that her and my hamster would get along but they didn’t so we made another cage for it but during the night it got out. when we got up he was gone. we LOOKED EVERYWHERE w
we have tried everything we put lettuce out, food even tried to get my dog to sniff him out but didnt work. we have tryed the bucket thing but didnt work we realy need to find him be4 its to late. please help us find him, if you have anything that will help us please comment or email us A.S.A.P please help we want little loey back!!!
kim and mia
Comment by kate o brien on 2008-08-04 10:13:04 +0100
Hi my name is kate nd my hamster has bin gone 4 the nite his cage is up very high nd his door waz open lasnite wen i came in nd there waz no evidence of any1 nocking the cage or anyting PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help me i cant stop cryin i put his cage on the ground nd fresh food in every room nd nothing haz happened PLEASE IM BEGGIN U PLEASE HELP MEXX
Comment by kate o brien on 2008-08-04 10:23:19 +0100
if yhuu av any comments 4 comment 58 my email is kateobrien@yahoo.co.uk thanx
Comment by Mommy on 2008-08-16 14:50:18 +0100
My son lost his hamster a few days ago and we tried the empty bucket with the ruler trick-It didn’t work.
So I came up with this idea. Get a bucket (or cardboard box), string some fishing wire (or thread/yarn whatever you have handy) from each handle of the bucket so it runs across the bucket. Now put food on there that your hamster can’t resist (we used cauliflower). Use books or VHS tapes to make stairs up to the ledge of the bucket. When the hamster tries to walk across the fishing wire to get his treat- he falls in!
I think this worked so well and so quickly because the hamster could smell/see the cauliflower.
Try it – it’s a brilliant!
Comment by Mallory on 2008-10-21 05:22:23 +0100
Can you please help me? my hamster has been lost for 6 days. Both of my parents have tried to help me look for my hamster, but we didnt find anything. We have tried almost everything!!! we looks in small holes and under all of the furniture. we even looked behind the refridgerator! i live in an apartment, so it should be easy to find him, but i have had no luck at all! my parents stay up late looking for him. can you please help me!!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Tsevy on 2008-12-27 13:48:15 +0100
hi,
i just woke up 3days ago and i saw my hamster was gone. Im really worried about him i really dont know what to do! i tried a few traps like the bucket one and the flower one but nothing works ! PLEASE HELP ME IN SOME KIND OF WAT COZ I MISSS HIM.i really am getting worried a LOT because usualy when he gets out we hear him in the morning making a noise under my bed and behind the sofa so please can u try and help! I MISS HIM!
thanx
Tsevy x x x
Comment by Tsevy on 2008-12-27 13:52:24 +0100
hi,
its me Tsevy again and i really dont know where he could be hiding we looked everywhere and i do live in a flat and i thought it would be really easy but it isn’t!
thanx
Tsevy x x x
Comment by shannen on 2009-01-06 22:03:46 +0100
hi i lost my hamter 2 day i av put a bucket out and foood i dont no wot 2 do help !
Comment by ella on 2009-01-10 09:44:43 +0100
i have a very good idea and it worked for me ! go on you tube and type in how to cach a lost hamster it may take a while to load but please do try this
Comment by Lily on 2009-03-03 18:18:29 +0100
Help, please! I lost my hamster Honey today and I can’t find her! The lid was off so I think she got herself out! We know she’s in my room but I have no clue what else to do. We’ve tried just about everything. I’m going halfway on hysterical.
Comment by heyden on 2009-03-29 14:39:31 +0100
Help my dwarf hamster was sent out by my big bros friends so now i am looking for her my dads says I will get another one but i love my hamster Name:Puny(he is really small).i did every thing i could how long can it survive out of its cage????….????….???»>.««<
Comment by iLoVeMyHaMsTeR on 2009-06-19 15:41:58 +0100
Help!! my teddy bear hamster is gone i really love him! i feel bad becasue i dont play with thim much after he bitt me, but i really want him bacK! i have a cat which hasent ever eateed one of past hamster but has sniffed them out! I love hime to much so have hime die!11
Comment by Lola on 2009-06-22 14:25:59 +0100
Anyone, please say how to look for my white chinese hamster…. I live in beijing and I think it will be hard for me to see it dead…..
PLEASE!!!
Comment by Madison on 2009-07-24 21:28:57 +0100
I am watching my friends dwarf hamster and the cage door was open when i went to go feed him. Last night when i checked on him the door was closed. I don’t know if he escaped or not but i can’t find him. And even worse they have an outside cat that loves to kill animals but the cat must be inside because we can’t let her in at midnight. I am freaking out trying to find this hamster please help me some one!!:(
Comment by MaKenzie on 2009-08-23 00:54:19 +0100
Someone please help my hamster has been gone for three days please help!!!! any info. is useful Please email me at makenziec@gmail.com
Comment by sandrar on 2009-09-10 14:08:25 +0100
Hi! I was surfing and found your blog post… nice! I love your blog. 🙂 Cheers! Sandra. R.
Comment by lizzy on 2009-12-08 16:45:28 +0100
please help me i woke up this morning and my hamster wasnt in her cage. she is very well trailnd and she has gotten lost many time but this is the worst pleas give me some ideas or tricks that will help me find her.
Comment by becky on 2010-02-20 23:25:36 +0100
we have lost our hamster [daisy] and cant find her so…… hope we find her
Comment by maggy on 2010-02-22 05:09:15 +0100
it’s 11pm and i’m 11 and it’s a school night i’d been up for 12 hours looking 4 my hamster oreo AND SHE IS STILL NOT HERE !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i’m toatly poed right now!!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by maggy on 2010-02-22 05:14:01 +0100
I’m tired e-mail me A.S.A.P
thanks:} but Im not goin 2 bed not yet
Comment by maggy on 2010-02-22 05:16:20 +0100
p.s e-mail address is Maggy kozlowski@yahoo.com
Comment by katie on 2010-03-11 14:09:22 +0100
help me to catch my hamster its under my upright freezer how do i catch it if you have any info just send a message to mee on katiematthews0@hotmail.co.uk plizz i would be greatful if someone had any ideas for mee to catch my little dwarf hamster he is only a baby abou t3 months old help!!!!!!
Comment by Evangelyn Beatrice Lee Jia Yi on 2010-03-27 14:18:42 +0100
I got 6 Hamster i lost my all my hamster because last tuesday one of people ask me where you buy the hamster and my grandmother was very brave to scoid the people to get away form my house.Me and brother was very scared to come to stole my hamster and we bring our hamster to my house for two days. Thursday i put it back and at night he stole my hamster I was very sad .i think the next of my block 52 lor 6 tao payoh people stole my hamster.if you saw my hamster with some Grey and some white on the body call me 91036955 or 63565784.thanks
Comment by maddie o’neill -cook on 2010-03-28 03:00:36 +0100
I have dismantled my lounge wall at the bottom, because we could hear our lost hammy scratching there, but even though we have made a hole for her and left food and water by it, there has been no sign and now I think she might die. There is no food or water behing the wall. It is terribly upsetting to think she is there and might starve to death. The bucket thing can’t work if thewy are trapped somewhere and can’t get out’
Comment by Savannah on 2010-04-24 12:35:34 +0100
I used to have an Albino hamster and it was really tame to me but bit everyone else!! i nearly cried when it died :’(. now ive got this dwarf hamster and the otherday it escaped! so i moved my bed and i found it there asleep but then it woke up and started to run so i bloked it off with loads of objects and got its house so then it had no choice but to go into the hole in the house.
Comment by James on 2010-04-29 21:18:11 +0100
Hi, i read something that said to turn off the lights at night and look through a camera on nightvision mode, the hamster(s) eyes will be bright dots, and they should be awake at some point during the night. Hope this helps, i’m going to try it tonight to look for our hamster who escaped this morning. Good luck to others
Comment by Sunshine on 2010-04-30 03:22:23 +0100
I had just lost my hamster today. I found her under my bed in the farthest cornner also it was the darkest part int room. She wouldn’t come out and I had to go to karate, so I had put a blanket under my door and when I got back she was in her cage sleeping. That was the fith time that she had exaped just have faith that you will find you hamster.
Comment by Sunshine on 2010-05-12 00:27:05 +0100
Hey anyone Who sees comment 81 please responed and listen to’ what i wrote!!!!!
Comment by Hamster Fan on 2010-07-19 23:34:48 +0100
Yep, this trick works perfect. I’ve tried it and got my hamster in 20 minutes.
Comment by Sunshine on 2010-07-29 15:10:15 +0100
Thank you so much for writting back
Comment by Sunshine on 2010-08-20 03:50:03 +0100
Dear readers I’m very user to tell that my hamster died. She dyed by being stuck in a wall (because there was a hole in the wall.). And she was stuck in there for about 5 days I was so sad anyway I guess what i’m trying to say is don’t let your hamster inside of a wall!!!!!!!!!!
Comment by Madison on 2010-08-25 14:45:35 +0100
HELP! My hamster figured out how to get out of her cage and has been gone for 4 nights! I have two dogs and I am scared they will find her before I do! I have tried putting food in a bucket with a ladder to get up, I bought a havahart trap, have put food in every room, and have searched every corner of my house! NOTHING! Any advice?
Comment by Sunshine on 2010-09-12 01:37:17 +0100
Today was a hard day for me,because I had to get ride of all of my hamster stuff(the Beding,food,cage ect.) my hamster died if you didn’t read the one above this.
Comment by Sunshine on 2010-12-22 08:22:41 +0100
This is to blogger number 88 you should totaly make like a trial of food to try to get your hamster to go into your room. As for your dogs it depense on what type they are if their nice old dogs I would not worry about a thing but if their big mean and scary rot- rulers I might want to have their stomaches looked at by a docter. Check for any cracks in the wall incase it is in there the wall. Sorry for the bad spelling if your a spelling master or something like that.
Comment by Eleanor on 2011-02-05 21:26:14 +0100
I have lost my black grey and white hamster i am 10 years old and i have losr her this morning my parent are going to get me a new one but i want my Trixie back she is one of a kind and never ran away before any help contact tadobbing@sky.com thank you buy x
Comment by PNj41796 on 2011-05-27 23:47:37 +0100
My hampster is the cutest hampster ever. He is a teddy bear hampster and is all white with pink extremities. He is very tame and even uses a litter box. I must have forgotten to close the cage door to his multi fortress resort when I cleaned the litter box and he is no where to be found. His cage is in my finished basement, but unfortunately the door to the unfinished portion was open so pretty much the whole basement is game for search. Due the clutter mess in the unfinished portion of the basement I’m so nervous that I’m not going to catch him. I currently have portions of his fortress in each portion of the basement with food and water. I’m hoping that he will just come back to eat and go up in one of his lofts. I want to find him so bad. Thinking that I may put flour down around his cage/food and see if that will help me find him. I’m just at least hoping to find some food missing tomorrow indicating that he is still with us. Why can’t he now just come when i call his name and we would be good. ugh.
Comment by Devon on 2011-07-18 19:25:40 +0100
I have 2cats 1dog 2 hamsters and one cage if I open the cage at night or day the other hamster will get loose
Comment by lily on 2011-08-02 22:13:44 +0100
HELP! I JUST GOT MY SYRIAN HAMSTER 2 DAYS AGO SO ITS BRAND NEW. NOW, IT’S MISSING! PLEASE HELP ME. ANY SUGGESTIONS? AND SHOW UR CARE BY RESPONDING TO MY EMAIL: uslily2010@hotmail.com.
MANY MANY THANKS!
Comment by lily on 2011-08-02 22:17:17 +0100
HEY, I DONT NOW WHERE MY HAMMY IS, SO PLEASE CONTACT ME: uslily2010@hotmail.com. thanks!
Comment by Cassie on 2011-08-24 23:20:14 +0100
HELP!!!!! My hamster was in the bathroom with me, cause she like to run around in there and she’s not tame yet so i need a small space to watch her. Well when i wasn’t looking she crawled into a hole under my bathroom counter and now i can’t get her out unless she crawls out on her own, please help, how can i get her to come out? email me at tennisangel10@yahoo.com
Comment by Sharon on 2012-01-02 14:07:39 +0100
My daughter hamster got out of her cage, early one morning. We had left for that morning so she got loose after we left. Hous after returning home we realize she was out of her cage. Everyone searched a room. She was in my husband and I closet scared. We were so thankful and lucky.
Comment by Ariella on 2012-01-27 01:43:54 +0100
I fly around the world alot for work, I returned yesterday, my partner said he saw 1 of our dwarf hamsters strolling around, he picked her up & put her back in her cage. This 1 has got out before and our other 1 stayed in, so we presumed the other one wasn’t much of an explora. We soon realised they both had got out, I’ve set up the bucket trap tonight, hope it works. The hamster we found is acting strange without her sister, any other tips incase this isn’t successful?
Comment by lani on 2012-02-26 21:30:08 +0100
help we lost my hamseter and we found one but ones still missing please help me im scard we have 4 dogs i have tryed every thing please help me
Comment by april on 2012-03-10 16:57:39 +0100
hi, my name is april yes april
and prince my hamster gets out all the time and the soloition is if you know 100% (s)hes in your room stay up late and put apple slices or your hamsters faveoitue food on the floor since ive got my bed up high i stay looking at ther floor and see if (s)hes there it should help but if your hamsters doesnt come get a bunch of frineds and search your room again and again this should help 🙂 but if there not get a bucnh of your frineds again and stay in differnt rooms 🙂 and say found the hammie and let him get a bit of food then go for it but dont scare it
Comment by Athena on 2012-04-21 18:01:22 +0100
I have lost my hamster for about 6-7 hours it is in my drawer in my room it has a small hole but it is a small one it has done this to me 3 times and it came back this time is the first time he does not come back for so long!!! what can i do?
Comment by Phaedra on 2012-04-21 18:31:35 +0100
Well i have too hamsters one mine and one my sisters.My sister was giving food to mine and her hamster. When she was putting food to my hamster, my hamster escaped and crawled in to my sisters kloset and the klozet has a little hole and it can sqash inside.My sisters olso went in there she left the door open from the cage!!We putted food inside we waited and mine came out but then my sister said to put my hamster inside so hers can come out so i am waiting waiting and i am still waiting.It has past 3 ours from then when we have lost our hamsters.It has done that allredy 3 times but now it is the longest time our hamsters has done that!!!!!!!SO PLEASE HELP US !!!!!
Comment by Athena on 2012-04-21 18:49:14 +0100
I forgot to tell you that the hamster that is lost my little Genifier has 3 little babies and they are crying because they want milk!! What should i do i am so worried!!! 🙁
Comment by Athena on 2012-04-21 19:35:44 +0100
I am crying so much for my little baby i am also scared because her babies want milk they are crying too! 🙁
Comment by Athena on 2012-04-21 19:36:36 +0100
please if any suggestions send a e-mail at tlcathena@yahoo.com 🙁
Comment by Alysha Hoskins on 2012-05-19 19:38:04 +0100
I have a hamster named Peppa that I have up my nans&the other night she escaped when she broke her tubes apart. She’s been gone for about 2 days&I can’t seem to find her. I’ve shut all the doors&left food down in each room but it doesn’t seem to be working. She’s been taking the food&running away with it. What should I do to try&find her? Please get back to me as quick as you can on AlyshaEmilyHoskins@hotmail.co.uk. Thanks!
Comment by sherin on 2012-07-07 10:21:15 +0100
I found out that my boxer Abby dog has this problem and i have been struggling with
how to help her. I have a wood specialty friend that made me a chair for
her. It is adjustable to any size dog, a hole for the tail to stick out, a
whole for a dog food tray which tilts upwards or down. He has custom made
this just for my Abby dog. mrbrawnwhite@gmail.com His name is brown white and he will make
them just will have to pay for shipping. He is excellent at what he does,
he built me this chair in 2 days.
Comment by haley on 2012-07-07 17:16:50 +0100
well my hamster is gone.my dad looked in the cage this morning and theadore (my hamster)it a she my sister named her.so we looked all the house for theadore
Comment by Jordin on 2012-07-30 04:58:08 +0100
My sister let my hamster go in the basement recently. There are so many bad things that could have been done. We have mice ,because we live in the woods, and there were several poison traps out at the time. Because of the fact that his ‘cage’ is a tank, there is no straight way I can lure him in without a mess. Any ideas? I really don’t want to stay up till 3:00 in the morning no matter how much I want to find him.
Email me if you have advice- jordinpostell@yahoo.com
Comment by molly on 2012-08-03 18:35:40 +0100
i bought my hamster yesterday and we got home… i went to bed and the next morning…. GONE! it’s enn 2 days and i’m afraid that she might hve gotten outside plus we have a pool. it’s really bad cause it’s the last one i’ll have if i don’t find her/him (don’t know yet) thanks!!