It’s 2 am…..do you know where your hamster is? Well I don’t!!! Brady’s new little furry friend Ollie decided it was high time to bust free of his glass prison and set forth on a journey that would be cut short by a mean crazy lady armed with marshmallows and cheese.
1:28 am- I am awakened by Shorty, the older of our 4 dogs, normally I dont let the dogs upstairs but I made an exception tonight. he flies out of bed and is scratching frantically over by the stereo sitting on the floor. I try to ignore him because I figure he is hearing the tree limbs brushing the house outside as it is a very windy night. This is where it gets interesting!
1:45am- Yes, I ignored that dog for 17 minutes, I was so flipping tired! After 17 minutes of listening to him carrying on, I decided to get up, half awake and see what all the commotion was about. I moved the stereo and in my bleary-eyed attempt to look behind it, I see a flash of honey colored fur whiz past my feet and then I see a red weiner dog with this furry creature in his mouth……..crap! Is that a @#$%$ rat?!?! Couldn’t be but I tell you what it looked like….Ollie! I run into Brady’s room…Ollies cage looks fine, but he is NOT in there! There is a hole in the screen lid about the size of a quarter! I stand there amazed at how he could have gotten out of a hole that small and then I realized I wasn’t going back to sleep anytime soon!
1:50am- I start searching frantically for the little rat, yes at this point Im so ticked off that he is no longer the cute little Ollie we have grown to love, he is simply a rat.
2:20am- The search is over, he is nowhere to be found. Did Shorty hurt him, is he lying dead somewhere? Gosh I hope so…. did I just say that?! I decided that I better start finding the humor in all of this.
2:21am- I start setting traps for him and leaving trails of food, then I sat his cage down on the floor hoping he would come back. I feel like I am on a hunting trip….except I am hunting a teddy bear hamster. HA!
2:25am- I sit patiently on the bed in the dark with only a flashlight scanning the room for any signs of him.
2:28am- THERE HE IS!!!! He is behind the tv. Let the games begin!
2:30am- This hamster is screwing with me, he knows I am after him, he doesn’t care….obviously.
2:35am- It’s so on now….he is going down. I have failed to find the humor, but I know it’s there somewhere, but at 2:30 in the morning, it’s just not happening.
2:40am- He takes one of the marshmallows and runs back behind the tv……crap.
2:50am- This little game of cat and mouse is getting old….I am to the point I am going to just go back to bed and wish him the best on his freedom. Good luck and good ridens!
2:54am- Wait….here he comes…..YES! He is in the cage, I tip it back up and proceed to stack heavy books on top to keep that little @%## where he belongs!!!!
3am- Finishing up this blog and then going back to sleep. Where did my night go so wrong? Maybe I should be thankful the dog woke me up and I realized the hamster had escaped. Otherwise he would still be galavanting around the house.
Oh well, such is my life, crazy and unpredictable…….but I wouldn’t trade it for anything!!!!
PS- I apologize for any typos, I am typing with one eye open.
by krmac
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