Hampster adventures

[bugshaw]

Matilda the Big Hamster still isn't tame, for all her happy hand-related caperings at the pet shop. She doesn't freeze when she sees me, which is an improvement, but she won't be held, at least not by me. I let her out of the ball onto my lap this evening, but she leapt to the coffee table where we had a brief game of Grab The Hamster, which she won by jumping onto the floor. She had a minute of exploring beneath the coffee table, stretching her nose up to the bottom shelf like a Mighty Beast, while I willed her not to hide under a sofa or the tv unit or somewhere inaccessible. Her unerring instinct though led her to the most perfect hamster-sized nook, there's a half-depth CD shelf next to a bookcase and a hamster can just nip round the back and hide underneath. And a human can block it off with a tray - haha! I am more clever than a hamster. Then drag the coffee table and sofa around and position The Ball and a backup cardboard box so as to cut off escape routes. A little bit of patience and a quick hand with the ball lid and the hamster is safely resecured.

Comments

[desperance.livejournal.com]

May have told you this before, but a friend was once looking after someone else's hamster and let it out to run around his living room. It went beneath the radiator, and failed to reappear. When we looked, it had vanished entirely. Then we noticed the bulge making its way slowly up the wall, behind the wallpaper...

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

Eek! It seems that it would be easy to capture a hamster in the wallpaper, but that the cleanup afterwards would be extensive.

[ms-cataclysm.livejournal.com]

You are the Bugshaw College of Rodent Escapology and I claim my free packet of sunflower seeds.

[bugshaw.livejournal.com]

I pride myself on my low graduation rate!