ITCHY IS STILL ON THE RUN! Of course I have seen split second flashes of her dashing across the carpet and I did get near to throwing a teeshirt on her last night. But she is far too quick to scoop with bare hands. Other hamsters, including Russian hamsters and Chinese you can just pick up when they come too close but these robos are like wild woodmice from the garden. Not a hope in hell of catching them without serious recourse to purpose-built robo-dead-ends, traps and the extensive use of sheeting to chuck over the little swine.I have yet to make any serious efforts to get her back because I know the room has been mouse-proofed with polyfilla so she shouldn't be able to get anywhere. My problem is suitcases (half-unpacked) piled beside the door, legions of carrier bags under the sink (but gaps by the pipes filled in) and so on. I have put out fall-in traps full of used robo-bedding and food but these have failed to attract her enough...
Hopefully by this time tomorrow she shall be in close custardy... But: we shall
see!
Animals big and small are primarily driven by food. She knows where she can get a steady intake, I am confident that she will appear soon. After she has finished exploring the new frontier she will want to come back to what she knows. She is like me when I was 15!
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hoping she is saftly home by now :-)
ReplyDeleteAt least you know she's around. We used to have a 'humane' mouse trap. The mouse would go in for the bait but then couldn't get out again. We'd release them in the paddock but then a crow would pick them up and not in a nice way. Erm perhaps it's time to unpack? You never know what you might find in the corners of that suit case!
ReplyDeleteI'm now tormented with worry about what best, Dollar or Euro. Thank you very much Maria.
ReplyDeleteHope you catch Itchy tonight.
Which can be addressed to you or Maria, but with a different meaning, depending.
ReplyDeleteGood luck Gleds. How will you ever catch her? It sounds like this has happened before...what did you do then?
ReplyDeleteCan you set something up that has food in it for her?
Oh no!
At least you know she's exercising all that dashing around - she's going to get hungry any moment, better have something tempting ready for when she crashes*!*
ReplyDeleteREENY ... and that is how I caught her!!!
ReplyDeleteSALLY... yes she is... after 48 hours awol
BAINO the humane traps they sell round by me are useless. we had far better ones in Wales that really did capture wild mice. yes I thought of unpacking but it was v daunting. Caught Itchy before that anyhow..(!)
ANON ... hi spammer!
Z: o don't remind me I'm not going to sleep now..!!
ReplyDeleteDEBS: threw items of clothes on her, quickly gathered her up in the clothes
BIMBIMBIE: exercise? she was really skinny and underweight when I finally grabbed her
any more posts coming ?
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