One of my hamsters, Tara, has been missing since last night. I was hoping that she just made her way around the pad, so I left some sunflower seeds in the most accessible places within the apartment to lure her out. But alas, as of the time I left there were no signs of the female rodent as there were still the same number of sunflower seeds in those areas where I placed them.
This led me to think three other probable causes for her disappearance:
- Somebody might have hamster-napped her.
- Since the hamster haven is close to the windows, and that we usually open the windows during the mornings, the cats outside must've found a way to get in and nab her, thus making her cat chow.
- Still on the premise of the location of the hamsters' home and the open windows, the curtain must've been blown into their niche, and Tara, curiously enough, used the curtain to climb her way to freedom and out the window.
For theory 1, the only suspects would be my parents and Elson, a good friend of mine who has been staying in the pad while looking for his own place. A contradiction to this concept is that what would my parents do with the hamster? I mean if they do want one, they essentially are part masters of the rodents since the hamster haven is situated in the pad, co-owned by them. And if it so happens that they hate the critters, why just eliminate one? As for Elson, well, he came in the pad just right before I got there last night and finding out that she's gone, thus eliminating him from the suspect list.
For theory 2, the chink would lie in the fact that Hammie, the other hamster, is still in place. Borrowing the reasoning from the above paragraph, why would the cat just take one hamster? OK, probably Hammie was able to hide, but given the topography of their habitat, their is definitely no way he could've hidden effectively without the cat/s spotting him. So I guess this renders this idea almost improbable.
The third one might be the most plausible scenario, but again if so, why is it that Tara was the only one who escaped? Well, I did observe that Hammie is less adventurous so he may have cowered with the fact of going out of his literal zone of comfort.
Point being, I am still hoping that Tara would show up. Hammie's visibly depressed with his new found solitude, as he even barely touched the grub I gave him last night, as well as his seemingly inactive mode. So Tara, if you've chanced upon this blog entry of mine (and in the event that you can understand human symbolisms), please come home... Hammie misses you.
