Karin

Oh no! An escaped hamster. This hasn't happened to us yet and I hope it never does.
Hopefully Princess has just found a comfortable place to sleep (because it is daytime now) and later she will be enticed by the food set out for her and you will be able to catch her before the cats do.
Good Luck!

Karin




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Emimly's hamster went missing this morning. The Wheel that attaches to the
cave came off somehow and Princess got out. We've search everywhere adn
can't find her. There's no body parts anywhere so it appears that the cats
didn't get her but there's no evidence of her hiding either. (poop) We put
the cage back on teh floor withone hole open adn Emily will put some veggies
around to entice but I'm not too hopeful. The cats are in teh bedroom.
Can hamsters climb stairs? My assumption is that she'll go DOWN but not up.
Elissa Cleaveland
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No, but we've read some of her other stories. That is another connection
I offer to my kids - getting more books by an author that they have
enjoyed.

dd grabbed a book at the library called Totally Personal & Private. It
is about journaling and was written by a homeschooler (although I don't
know any details of her homeschooling). It inspired her to start a
journal. Then she wanted to read the journals by Amelia (written by
Marissa Moss). In looking for those at the library we discovered that MM
has also written some historical fiction journals. So we grabbed one of
those too.

Mary Ellen
snip>>>"I, Houdini"? It's by Lynn Reid Banks

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Karen

I've had luck catching escaped hamsters by placing a bucket near the wall
with a little ramp leading up to it (ruler or some such, taped in place).
Put some food in the bucket. The theory is they go up the ramp, jump in
after the food, and can't get out. You can leave it out all night, which
beats the stick-string-box approach.

Karen



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The really cool thing about RATS is that they come when you call! We let ours
on the floor to run around (when the cat's up), and they always come running
when we lie on the floor and call them---or they scramble up our legs if
we're in the chairs. They love human company!

Kelly

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On Fri, 1 Mar 2002 17:28:17 EST kbcdlovejo@... writes:
> The really cool thing about RATS is that they come when you call! We
> let ours
> on the floor to run around (when the cat's up), and they always come
> running
> when we lie on the floor and call them---or they scramble up our
> legs if
> we're in the chairs. They love human company!

Our rat does this. We also had a hamster that we used to let run around
free for days at a time, he'd play with our dopey cats and sleep by the
hot water heater. We could always find him there... maybe look for yours
there?

Dar
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I had a rat when I was a kid, and if he got out, he'd go into the walk-in
closet and sleep on cloth, or get into the bed. But he'd go back to his own
cage for food.

He was named "Biggie" (as were thousands of rats in the late 1960's, I'm
sure).

Sandra

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>
>>He was named "Biggie" (as were thousands of rats in the late 1960's, I'm
>>sure).>>

I don't get the reference. Who's was Biggie named for? I had a rat for a
Psych lab class that I named Ratso Rizzo.

~Mary

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Biggie Rat and Itchy Brother

From a cartoon TV show of long ago.


from http://www.toonopedia.com/leonardo.htm

The King Leonardo segment had four principal cast members. King Leonardo (a
lion) was the ruler of Bongo Congo, whose major export was bongo drums (very
popular at the time). Odie Cologne (a skunk) was Leonardo's faithful
assistant, and a good "man" to have around — he was probably the only
character on the show competent to run things. Itchy Brother was Leonardo's
brother, a flea-bitten dimbulb driven mainly by jealousy of Leonardo's
throne. Biggie Rat was a high-level criminal (you could tell by his Edward G.
Robinson accent) whose function was to plan and execute Itchy's coup
attempts. Jackson Beck (Brutus in the 1960s Popeye cartoons and Perry White
in The New Adventures of Superman) provided the voices of Leonardo and
Biggie, while Allen Swift (Terrytoons' Clint Clobber, and miscellaneous
voices in The Tom & Jerry Show) voiced Odie and Itchy.

King Leonardo was the first production of Total Television, which later
changed its name to Leonardo Productions. Under that name, it also produced
Tennessee Tuxedo and Underdog. Most of the actual animation was done in
Mexico by Gamma Productions, where The Jay Ward Studio also farmed out much
of its work.


They're mentioned in an article about where Itchy and Scratchy (the
cartoon-within-a-cartoon on Simpsons) came from.
http://www.silverbox.com/krusty/debate3.html

Dan Vilter

When I was growing up, the neighbor's Rats were called Willard, Ben and
Socrates (as were thousands of rats in the early 1970's, I'm sure). Willard
even looked a bit like Bruce Davison.

-Dan Vilter

on 3/1/02 3:14 PM, SandraDodd@... at SandraDodd@... wrote:

> He was named "Biggie" (as were thousands of rats in the late 1960's, I'm
> sure).


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joanna514

Hi all!
I'm just got back from FL and we had great time.
I was planning on visiting Sharon, but the drive was too long to add
even an hour to it. 18 hours. Left at 5am and arrived here at
11:00pm.
I am planning on going down in May for the FL get together and
camping at Ft. Clinch though!
We had a good time at my parents, house sitting. The West Palm Beach
library is awesome! Great kids section with nice library ladies!
Well, one was a little rude, turning down the video Carly was
watching without a word to her. But the kids section is downstairs
and had all kinds of cool stuff. We stayed for a couple of hours,
and went twice.
We also did the Playmobile store(twice), which I highly recommend to
anyone that is near to one. We climbed trees one day and went to the
beach another, and also found a great park and a mall with an inside
playspace that had huge fruit for kids to climb all over.
Just wanted to say I'm back and glad to be reading here again.
Though the rat talk is totally creeping me out. I was at my parents
trying to figure out how to sign on to their computer which is on the
other side of the house where we weren't going much(big house).
Anyway, as I was sitting there, a rat(or a huge mouse) ran by. I was
up on the chair, screaming my lungs out, before I knew what hit me.
I'm not a rodent lover, with the exception of our rabbit(though if I
think about it too much, even he can creep me out while I'm holding
him). I don't know what it is that freaks me out, but they really do.
My son freaks out about those FL roaches, which don't bother me a bit.
Joanna