We figured out where he went this morning — we could hear him chewing inside the wall of the kitchen cabinet — so my husband set up traps in the area for him: enticing boxes with ramps and stairs, and smelly but delicious food (like peach slices and cheese) on a plate inside. Tonight he quietly left his hidey-hole, surreptitiously clambered down to get at the food … and fell right into a box. As planned! Now he’s safely back in his cage, but he’s loading up his little cheeks with food and running for the door every time we walk by.
*sigh* Reptiles are so much easier. But at least he didn’t die in the wall or something — that would have upset my husband.
Glad to hear you found him. :)
especially just before a move :)
Should’ve used Track Beasts.
eh eh GG mania
/agree, I’d take a skink or a king snake over a hamster any day… Too bad my dorm won’t allow anything but fish… :’(
Nice! Your husband is ready to be a hunter: already knows how to trap! ;)
Ahh the good old Hamster gone missing, i sometimes miss having me wee hammy
I kept an iguana in my dorm closet at college, but I wouldn’t recommend it. :>
Unfortunately, despite all my efforts to introduce my husband to the joys of hunterhood, he persists in thinking of WoW as shallow and lonely (not enough grouping activities), and hunters in particular as overpowered whiners. *shrug*
Anyway I could go over to your house and punch him in the face? Pretty much the entire game is group based.
But meh, that’s just my quick to violence nature (DO NOT WANT MORE RAGE!) and thus why I play a PVP warrior. Anyway, you should have just laid down volley. hit that rogue out of stealth.
“Unfortunately, despite all my efforts to introduce my husband to the joys of hunterhood, he persists in thinking of WoW as shallow and lonely (not enough grouping activities), and hunters in particular as overpowered whiners. ”
and you’re still married to him? Must be love for sure. :)
We call Hamsters “Disposable Pets”. LOL
I had a hamster when I was young that ate so much and got so fat, he got stuck in one of his habitrail tubes and I came home from school to find him suffocated to death. Stupid rat!
I also had a Red-bellied Piranha that I fed goldfish too. Well, the dumb ass tried to swallow one whole and chocked to death on it. Miraculously, the goldfish survived so I named him “Killer” and he became my goldfish that killed a piranha. LOL
Re husband: This is a problem we’ve had since we met eight years ago. He’s all about the grouping while I generally refuse to group completely. It’s led to some stress in our relationship, but we largely deal with it by playing different games and being careful when we rant to each other. (Other couples fight about money. We fight about the definition of a casual gamer and risk-vs-reward.)
Re goldfish: Many years ago, before Timor monitors were common, I bought a “timor monitor” from an importer that turned out to be a Varanus scalaris. They were supposed to eat fish, so I bought two small (about 1.5 inch long) goldfish and put them in her water dish (about the size of a cereal bowl). Well she was freshly wild-caught and completely unhappy, so not interested in eating for several days, and a cereal bowl is not big enough for two goldfish — they started to droop badly by the second day.
Then I went out to a movie, and when I got back my mother had set up a 10 gallon aquarium and moved the goldfish in there “just until the lizard is hungry”. My mother doted on those goldfish for many years. :>
RE: Re: Husband – My ex-girlfriend and I fought because I was a gamer and she “didn’t understand” it. Turns out that she used to play games & video games, but could never win, so she deemed them “stupid” and “childish”. Now you know why she is my ex:
RE: Re: Gold fish – That’s hillarious. I had a tank full of mollies (whores of the fish community) and I got a water newt that would make his home at the bottom of the tank. Well, my Nan (Grandmother on my Father’s Side) put her hulking gold fish in my tank because “his bowl was getting too small for him.” – Well, that day I came home to a lot less mollies and a newt with 3 legs.
I put the gold fish back in his bowl and let the healing process begin. Well, after time passed and my newt regenerated his leg, she put the gold fish back in and he finished the job. Boy, was I pissed!!!
Ya know, at first as I read this i was supprised to find that the famous Mania is a woman! But the more I think about it the more it makes sense, because a man would never have the patience you do for all that pet work!
I would have just used a freeze trap…
Me and my boyfriend are both avid wow players. As a warrior, and him a holy pally, we are of cours running a 2v2 team.
Note, boyfriend: I am not a girl. let’s just leave it at that, shall we?
He also bought an infinite amount of the darkmoon faire beer and drinks it. every time he logs in. This has led to hilarity, since that particular beer makes mobs appear two levels higher then they are. many spottings of “Level 72 elites” Have been found.