Hamster Wranglers

Add that title to the many other titles I have! Joel woke Kota and I up at 5 am the other morning to tell us one of the beloved hamsters had gotten out and was running wild in the kitchen. Kota got up first since I think this time of the morning is somewhat "evil" and was hoping he could wrangle the critter on all on his own. This was not to be the case, unfortunately! I heard the call come from the kitchen....MOM!!! and this is where I really did have to get out of bed at this evil time! So here we are, in the kitchen, hamster behind the stove, Kota with a drum stick to use for leverage to poke the said critter from his hiding place and so such luck! I then had to move the stove and kitchen table and chairs so I could use the drum stick as a cattle prod and get the hamster to move toward Kota on the other side of the stove. We did have success and he was captured! YEAH!!! Kota returned him to his cage to join his brother and then we promptly put masking tape on the door to the top of their cage. You may ask how he got out and I will tell you, when my neice was over she opened the door to the top of their cage that they use as their "bedroom" and broke the latch. I actually thought I should put tape on it then and there but didn't cause I thought.."they can't get out". I was wrong and my punishment was to get up at evil 5am and wrangle the darn thing! He is safe and sound and in permanent lock down from here on out.