Houdini Hamster

[bikemad]

Anyone know if a hammie can escape thru the bars on its cage?

Last night had ds screaming house down cos spots was running round his room and he thought she would bite him-anyway managed to catch spots eventually n get her back in the cage-no doors were open and no holes in the cage-only thing we did have was a ummmm treat thing that you fix between 2 bars but it stretches the bars slightly itms.Also the top door on snowys cage was also open.

At 1st I thought ds had done it but after me n dp have spoken to him we beleive him when he says he aint touched them cos tbh he is scared of them bitting him so wont go near them unless one of us is next to him.And also snowys cage is so large and high that ds cant even reach the top door only the 2 bottom ones.

Got no idea how spots got out.And no idea how snowys door got open cos ds cant reach.Cant be sd cos she aint been here.Any ideas?

[Ravenfire]

No BM they cant get through the bars are way too small even for the small hamsters. TBH I cant think of anyway a hamster could open a top door and I have never had one of mine open a side one, although if there were able to open any that would be the more likely one. Is there any way J could have stood on something to reach it or got the cage down?

[Bunny]

LMAO, my last hamster was a Houdini hamster as well, somehow she got out of her cage and i found her the next day scuttling through the dining room into my bag where she had already discovered a Wagon Wheel biscuit, she was taking it and squashing it into the corner of the room in the carpet.

[Ravenfire]

Are the bars quite wide on your cage bunny? I have had loadssss of hamsters over the years and they have never escaped other than when we left the cage open when smaller and my mum had lots of babies ones all over the show!

[Bunny]

I had one of the plastic cages but due to the hot weather we'd had that summer we'd taken the top off it and covered it with a heavy magazine, but we still can't see how she'd escaped from it, she had chewed a hole in the plastic wheel on the side but there was no way she could have squeezed through it. Only she knew how she did it and took the mystery to hamster heaven with her.

[bikemad]

No BM they cant get through the bars are way too small even for the small hamsters. TBH I cant think of anyway a hamster could open a top door and I have never had one of mine open a side one, although if there were able to open any that would be the more likely one. Is there any way J could have stood on something to reach it or got the cage down?

I cant see any way that he could have reached without risking breaking his neck-the cage is up on a desk in his room so the top one reaches almost my head but theres nowt in his room to stand on unless he brought sd's beanbag in but that dont look high enough itms.The cage he wouldn be able to move-I find it heavy tbh.

Im wondering if sd did it last time she was over n we have missed it til now-the top one isnt one snowy could get out of itms.

[Ravenfire]

I reckon that is the most likely explanation BM

[bikemad]

Im wondreing we did have a sweet on a stick itms and that was stretching two bars apart cos of how you hang it but dont know if that would be enough space for the hamie.

[bikemad]

I reckon that is the most likely explanation BM

Dp says no but it is the type of thing she would do open it n not bother to close it but not that she will ever admit it. :ac39:

[Ravenfire]

In all honesty I dont think so. I had a dwarf hamster (thats what you have isnt it) and I quite often gave it those, is it like the nutty treat on a long stick?

[bikemad]

In all honesty I dont think so. I had a dwarf hamster (thats what you have isnt it) and I quite often gave it those, is it like the nutty treat on a long stick?

Yeah thats the ones-it was wierd tho cos no doors were open and no holes in the cage for houdine aka spots(sd's hammie).It is tiny but cant see it is that tiny as to be able to squezze out itms.

The door on snowys cage im convinced is sd tbh tho cant prove owt.

[bikemad]

Ok since this happened we have put cable tie things on every door-2 on each door and the hamie was in the cage when I put ds up last night but went to check n close window bout midnight and the flippin thing was out running round sd's room(we close door tight now incase!!!!).Checked again and all doors still got cable ties done exactly as dp did em-dont ask he does em wierd!!!!!and no holes anywere in cage-any ideas. :wacko:

[Bunny]

I know this is a long shot, but do any of your family sleepwalk ????

[Ravenfire]

Have a good look around the cage and make sure there is no way its managing to get under the bars at all. I would also take off the thing that is stretching the bars and lay it down in the cage for the hamster to eat and see if it then still gets out! Failing that set up a camcorder on it..lol

[bikemad]

I know this is a long shot, but do any of your family sleepwalk ????

Not to my knowledge unless I do-lol. :wacko:

[bikemad]

Have a good look around the cage and make sure there is no way its managing to get under the bars at all. I would also take off the thing that is stretching the bars and lay it down in the cage for the hamster to eat and see if it then still gets out! Failing that set up a camcorder on it..lol

Took the sweet thingy off the 1st time it escaped so know it aint that.Have to inspect every inch of the cage I think-if push comes to shove il get one thats clear plastic and no bars!!!!

Camcorder-like that idea-lol.

[Katiequiggle]

One of our hams will get out of absolutely anywhere given half the chance, we have rotastak cages and the kids knock the tubes and they come apart. I've had the floor boards up in the bathroom retrieving the damn thing. The mice have only escaped once and that was through the ventilation strip round the top of a round rotastak unit, I've wired round it now to make the gaps too small for them to get through. I know that with mice if you can fit a pencil through a gap a mouse can fit through so if you have dwarf hams make sure the bars of the cage are not too big, they would certainly get through the bars of a rats cage.

Kate

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I think we have worked out how hamie got out-the door on the top of spot's cage doesnt sit right-closed but kinda wonky so one side has a gap-dp has got cable ties on it now to keep it closed tight n since then no escapes so think it was getting out of there.

[Macaroni]

LOL They are sneaky little things that can squeeze though tiny little spaces you wouldnt have thought possible