In East Lothian on Monday, the answer was eight…
Fudgie the hamster escaped from her cage when being looked after by a friend whilst her owners were on holiday. Hamster-minder Angela Appleby woke up on Monday morning to discover that her friend’s furry pet had escaped, probably squeezing behind the units in the kitchen.
She remarked on the problem at work to her manager, whose fiancé is in the fire service, and before you could say “Spin my wheel and pass the sunflower seeds”, two fire engines arrived outside her home to retrieve the rodent.
After taking the family gas cooker and pipes apart trying to find the hamster, the crews from the Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue tried to tempt out Fudgie with a chocolate-covered camera placed under the floorboards. When that didn’t success, they then tried to suck the hamster out using a vacuum cleaner covered with a sock. When suction power didn’t succeed either, the fire crews finally handed the case over to the Scottish SPCA.
Fudgie is still at large.
While Fire Protection Online does not sell a Hamster Retrieval Kit, we does sell some other neat kit that might have been useful in the search for Fudgie, such as our powerful FlareSafe torch, and a shiny new plastic fire bucket to transport her safely back to her cage!
photo by Steve_C at Flickr.com
