If you were a hamster

[almostn9ne]

If you were our pet hamster and you'd escaped in the night, where would you be right now?

Just asking for a friend.....ahem.

Down the side of the washing machine with a selection of cat biscuits, happened to a friend...

I would have gone out of the dining room, across the hall and into the lounge. I would now be sitting on top of the skirting board behind a corner cabinet.

I would wait until my humans had almost given up on ever finding me. When mum was about to leave the room I would poke my tiny nose out and she would hold out a kitchen roll tube for me to crawl in to.

I would be a n the bathroom behind the bath. You could put out some peanut butter and set up a baby monitor to listen for me....

Under the fridge or under the floorboards
I had one escape for 6 months and was wild when I eventually caught it
It made me feel very guilty for keeping it in a cage

I would have escaped, made my way through the living room, the hallway past a sleeping dog, and into the kitchen where I would hide out behind the kick board for over two weeks. I'd make a comfy nest from random bits of dog hair, bits of paper and be found nibbling on a postage stamp

I'd have taken a trip upstairs and started to build a nest in your pajama drawer, sorry about the holes in your favourite lounge trousers...

I'd wait until you left a lovely long like of my food in the middle of the floor at night and then come out of my hiding place, while you sat in wait to catch me

I would be in the childrens bedroom, nibbling stray cheerios and living my best life, chewing discarded socks and a corner of the new carpet (from experience) good luck OP

I'd be hiding 2 feet away behind the dresser.

Or I'd climb the main staircase of the house to find my lovely little girl owner. (!)

Apparently you can set a trap with a bucket and books for stairs, and food in bottom of bucket and soft landing.
Climb up the book stairs, slide down steep bucket, too steep to escape.

I watched a video yesterday where someone’s hamster had escaped and managed to get themselves stuck in the owner’s wheel arch of their car! And they drove it to the mechanic to work out what the squeaking was

Can you rig up a deep bowl/pot with vv tasty food in it and a ramp of some description? So hammy can climb in but not back out.

Have a Google of "bucket trap" and set one up. Another thing people do is to put the hamster cage on the floor and leave the doors open - sometimes they return to their nice familiar bed of their own accord.

My hamster escaped three times, my rats have escaped once.

Hamster was found behind the fridge, under the sofa and in my sons wardrobe.

Rats were found under the sofa.

Good luck.

Oh also what we did was check a room at a time, then once we were sure he wasn't in that room we would close that door so he couldn't scurry in whilst checking the next room!

As a kid, escaped hamsters were to be found under the cupboards in the kitchen.

Having eaten a load of Bertie Botts every flavour beans I found under the sofa, I would make my way upstairs, into my small human's bedroom, throw up the disgusting mustard and cinnamon flavour sweets, gnaw my way through the divan bed frame and make a nest inside the bed. I would then need a trip to the vet for some antibiotics to treat the infection in my pouches caused by said Bertie Botts every flavour beans.

under the bed thats where i usually found them

In the humans desk chewing her school books. It really happened miss!! (It really did).

Inside the armchair. Meaning you have to cut the bottom off of the chair to get the bastard out.

Hahaha ours was behind the oven eating all kinds of disgustingness

In the cereal cupboard.

Do you have a cat....they would find them pretty quick....although there is an element of jeopardy involved obviously!

In the air vent of the footwell of a skoda fabia.

It will take a solid 8 hours of trying to coax me out at which point the owner of the car will drive to her nephew (a mechanic) to rescue me from said air vent.

I will henceforth be known as Lucky by the small human and Shithead by the larger ones.

Behind the fridge or similar large heavy electrical item. Good luck on tracking him down!

Just hiding behind the cupboard in DS bedroom and hoping that my human would put my cage on the floor with the door open so I could sneak back in for all the little hamster treats she has put in there for me (and then quickly trap me again as she's only pretending to sleep)

In the the loft of the neighbour 2 doors up. But don't worry I would be returned in a Tupperware container.

Ours was missing for days and found Inside the couch. We had to cut the bottom out to get him

Kitchen cupboards