Another escapee ...

Geez louise! You'd think this was Attica or something, as many escape attempts as we have. The girls were watching a movie in the dark in the living room with their rats (in their rolling balls). Jess had taken the top off Little Missy's ball and set it on the floor hole-down so Missy couldn't roll it, then put a book on top (of a round object???) to weight it down. Apparently neither geometry nor physics is really a strong point for Jess.

Anyway, Missy escaped and a frantic search ensued when the girls discovered her missing. Adrian was the one who actually found Missy -- she'd gone back to Jess' room and was trying to get to her cage. What a smart rat! No harm, no foul, but hopefully they learn a lesson from this.

Very smart rat! Ever heard of a ball trying to get back INTO its cage? LOL I'm glad no harm came of her little misadventure! :)

Thanks, I am too. I did think it was great she was trying to get back into her home. :) I guess she was happy cuz it was freshly cleaned!

Well, it should be comforting to know that if you'd had a problem finding it, you have some "friends" there who are very adept at tracking down rats...

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Yes, several of them! :) The kids were pretty determined to find her before the cats did, and I think that may have been on Missy's mind as well. :lol:

Be glad she didn't find her way into a ball python cage or something :shock:

Yes, I'm definitely glad, because she is way too big to be food for my crew at this point. :shock:

Wrong thread, i think, but I have an update for this one: apparently a neighbor kid opened our gate while Buddha was playing in the backyard, so the girls had to go out and catch him, and in the process they let Jezebel out as well, so now we have to wait for her to come home. Sheesh.

Wrong thread. OOPS!

Man Marla you need to like weld steel plates on all your animals cages/gates/balls/etc... so they stop escaping :)

Glad you found everyone, and I hope the other dog comes home soon.

Thanks, Chris. i think i need to just put the whole house in a steel cage with two-stage entry/exit! I've added a low-tech lock system to Sir Not's cage and his brother Bo Peep is in a locked bin as are the other boys, so Snyder is the only bp who can escape at this point, and I'll be fixing that soon. :) Jezebel is our black cat, and I'm sure she'll be home tonight. Here she is, watching the geckos:

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Ohh :) i wasn't sure if it was a cat/dog, guess I woulda known if i read ur profile :) Anyways hope she comes home soon!

Yep, I was tryin to keep it a secret from you. ;) I'm sure she'll be home tonight. she's not much of a wanderer.

Do you own a cranky twenty foot long Retic by any chance :wink: :lol:

I used to keep rats when I was younger and we had escapees all the time. One was gone for three months, then one day she was just sitting in top of the cage visiting her family, waiting to be let back in. She let me pick her up and stick her back inside, lol. They're funny little creatures!

Raj, no! Thank goodness. :)

Lindsay, that's funny. I think this is my first rodent escapee ever, now that I think about it. I'd much rather have one of these guys loose in the house than a feeder mouse, tho. :shock:

I've had a zillion rodent escapes... I got my first rat because the cat got my hamster, someone talked my sister into getting a rat because they're so much nicer. My first pet rat, Camilla, used to get out of her cage and get in my bed with me like a puppy, it was crazy. I finally ended up giving in and letting her sleep with me! I was maybe six or seven at the time. The cat finally got her when she tried to get in my mom and dad's bed after I had her for a few years :( Since then I've had 32 pet rats total (16 at one time). I feel bad keeping dead rats in my freezer, but I'm more of a snake person now, lol.

That's so cute that she slept with you! Adrian ended up having to put Punkin in the bathroom every night because she gets bored and makes noise in the middle of the night. That's sad that she climbed in with the cat, though. Not as smart as she thought she was, i guess. I kept mice as a teenager then had a boyfriend with pet rats then got my own pair of rats when I got married a year later. Then we bred mice to feed our first BP, and now the kids have pet rats. So I've done pretty good for escapees up til now. i can't imagine having 16 rats, though. That's a bit much for me!