Is it normal for a juvenile syrian hamster to be constantly trying to escape? He managed to get out once via climbing on his water bottle through the top of his 30 gallon tank. Since then, I stuck a cover on it with books to make sure he didn't attempt it again along with removing anything that he could use to climb to the water bottle. I just ( Read more... )

I forgot to tell yall how it went with Dewey ( Read more... )

Life has been hectic for me lately.  It's been hot and as I despise hot weather I have been cranky.  Dita caught some bizarre virus and until you have had to baby a sick skunk I don't think you can fully appreciate life.  I still have marks from the rectal temperature portion of events.  I'm trying to be a productive member of the community with ( Read more... )

For the last few days I have had a funny feeling.  For no reason I will run to Belle's cage in the middle of the night and make sure she's still in there.  Well, last night, after a suspicious rustle of plastic bags, I ran over to find an adorable brown furrball on my floor.  This adorable little furrball didn't mind my picking her up - though she ( Read more... )

I caught her checking me out again.  I looked over to see one cute little eye, staring at me out of a uterus.

I am really not sure which one of us is in the cage at this point.

As I couldn't grab the camera in time, please enjoy this graphical representation:


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YES!  Belladonna has outwitted me again!  Here's the play-by-play, and I need help with this one, guys


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You may recall the statement in my earlier post, that if she could figure out how to get on top of her cage she could figure out how to get out?  Well she did - but not the easy way, oddly.

The scene of the crime:

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So I was sitting here in my room and happen to look up to see Andi crawling into the room. She looked up at me like 'hey, mom! what's up?'

Anyone else have any escape stories where your hamster came and found you?

So, less than a few days after getting Romeo, we had an incident ( Read more... )

So I was just watching Tora trying to escape again. She scrambles wildly in the space between the Silent Spinner and the cage wall and manouvers the Spinner down so it won't spin. Then she climbs on top and gnaws/scrabbles at the top of the cage ( Read more... )