About a week ago, I woke up in the middle of the night to use the restroom. This is not out of the ordinary. What was out of the ordinary, however, was that when I turned on the light I found our itty bitty dwarf hamster, Sonic, standing in the middle of the floor staring up at me! I screamed, which woke Chuck, and the two of us were forced into a dreary-eyed, cat-led hamster-hunt around the apartment in the middle of the night.
We caught him! Put him in his cage and explored the area. The bathroom door had been shut to keep the cat out and his cage was on its table, unmoved. The only thing that was even remotely strange was that the lid to his cage was flipped completely open. The lid is usually only open about an inch to allow room for our makeshift water bottle setup. But even open, he should not have been able to climb the smooth plastic walls above and below the row of bars to get out and he certainly should not have been able to get from the top of his cage to the floor! Sonic has been a part of our family for more than a year and a half now and he has never shown any inclination that he has the ability to leave his cage at his own will.
Sonic's cage setup for reference. It's really high up for such a little guy.
So how the heck did he get out and fall the equivalent of at least 3 hamster-stories to the ground without getting hurt?!?!
We each have our theories as to how it happened and each of our theories are equally ridiculous and likely impossible. So, what do you all think? Does anyone have any ideas as to how our little man made his great escape?
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