"And if none of that works, get a powerdrill and destroy a circle into your cabinets. You will eventually find your hamster in the middle of the floor, staring at you with a bewildered expression as you wonder why you did that." ~ Erin Heh heh heh
Thank you so so much for this video! My Syrian Mingo got out of his cage somehow, and I followed this video step by step and it WORKED! Within an hour too! My girlfriend watches your channel regularly, and since she was out of town, she sent this to me and I followed the steps and he’s now back happy and okay! Thanks!
dis part killed me LOL "some hamsters are happy enough just to walk off the face of earth,and into the abyss of the bucket". X'D Edit- HOLY SHIZ 203 LIEKz WAT HOW
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for this tutorial! My 10 year old daughter's hamster escaped into a vent in the bathroom and was missing a week. We tried luring him out but never saw him. Your bucket trap worked like a charm! It took 2 days. This morning he was there in the bucket! My daughter is SO HAPPY. Thank you.
My hamster is way to lazy to get out of its cage. Once my friend accidentally left the door open easily for her to get out my about 3 hours later she was still in there.
DAMNNN XDDDD that IS ONE LAZY HAMSTER XDDD.i don't hamster...;-;...DEY SO CUTE DOE D; but,der ain't no space in my house cause it's like a rental house,but we live on the same floor as the owners,so yeaaa :l
thankyou so much Erin! My hamster has been missing for 3 days and I thought she was gone forever. Because of this trap we found her this morning and I am so so happy!!
We were looking after our schools hamster , Rosie, and it escaped whilst my dad was looking after it for me. He rushed out to pets at home because he thought our cat had got it. I wish I could have seen his face when he walked into my room and saw Rosie run across my bedroom floor😂 so now I have 2 hamsters😂
My hamster escaped last year I tried everything I tried 50 things in 5 days the next day we were going on holiday on the day I tried this and found him thanks so much!
This video saved my family! Our hamster got loose in the car on the way home from the pet store and ran up into the dashboard where he stayed for 3 days. I tried other approaches but the peanut butter on the stick trick was the one that finally got the little critter out. Bless you! I was afraid it was going to die in there or chew up all the wires.
Great video or should I say trap! Einstien and Amylase looked soo cute demonstrating. Amylase couldn't wait to get the peanut butter bottle on the other hand Einstien was soo lazy that he just went for the treats:)LOL!
my baby hamster escaped and we searched for him for 2 days and today my dog was in his crate and ge was barking so my dad went to take the dog out and my dog started sniffing the laundry when my dad looked in side ge saw it sleeping and quicky grabbed him he was really hungry and thirsty but he is good now
We lost our hamster, Clementine, yesterday and were giving up hope. Found your video and tried it out. This morning, Clementine was BACK! Thank you so much for our Easter miracle!
This is a miracle worker My hamster was in my loft and shes the same Colour as the installation so we couldn’t find her I set up the trap that I saw on this video about a year ago and I watch the video again to make sure I got everything precise I set up in there and my dad checked the loft every now and then and early this morning we went up and she was sat in the bucket looking up at us Thank you soooo much x !
just wanna say thank u my hamster escaped sometime today while I was out after destroying my room looking for him I tried this an had him in 2 hours u deserve more subscribers
Hamster : escapes in the night Me: doesn't want to wake everyone up at the night so goes back to sleep Hamster : Is in its cage next morning Me: What the (censored for kids)
This worked perfectly with one exception; I set up a similar contraption but only successfully recaptured Maverick "Dufresne" (my daughter's hamster) after adding a small dish of water to the bottom of the bucket. Thank you for posting your video. It saved a LOT of tears...
I don't know if this works but you could wrap something with peanut butter (for example a walnut or something) and tie a string to it and follow the string. they'd probally take it to their hideout
I’ve heard this is actually a great method of finding where they’re hiding. You can also sprinkle flour in the area you think they might be and look for their foot prints
Thank you so much!! My hamster was missing for 3 days and we built the trap and I woke up to find this morning that he was found!. He was really angry tho.. He was biting and scraching his cage alot but I'm happy he is back! It was my fault he escaped because I left his cage door open 😑😁😂
This is a great design! If my hamster escaped, I would definitely make this. However, I might die of a heart attack before I could finish building it... I get stressed easily.
OH MY GOD THANK U SO MUCH!! My hamster escaped, and I cried and cried for minutes until I found this video. I quickly got books a bucket, and treats and I didn't have to, I did, give her food and water. but she surely enough climbed into the trap! I set a camera and everything and right as I left, she found her way back home. I'm so grateful!
My daughter's hamster, Chooch, escaped from his cage, in the middle of the night. He was out for two days. We searched everywhere. I knew he was in a certain room bc I put specifically placed treats in different rms and only one batch was touched. Last night, I gave this bucket trap a try. Chooch was in the bucket within half an hour. I was amazed. I really thought it would take at least overnight. Thanks!
You are a lifesaver. I am pet sitting, the little girl's hamster escaped in the house. (I was freaking out). Set up the trap as you directed. The next morning there she was calmly in the bucket. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you. ❤❤
Thanks so much for this! Yesterday, my brother found my hamster in the living room and I suspect it was because he (my hamster) smelled the peanut butter on the trap. While it didn’t catch him, it probably did the job in getting him in the living room after 2 entire days of me not finding a sign of him in the house!
Thank you SO much Erin! I needed to set my hamster's lid up since it had fallen in the cage. I put him in my dresser, not knowing that he'd be able to get out. When I tried to find him I couldn't see him anywhere. I checked everywhere and even moved my dresser, but he wasn't there. I was super stressed at that point and so I called my sister to continue looking while I set up a rodent trap. Sure enough, I hear little paws scratching at something. It sounded like wood and it was coming from my dresser. My mom urged me to take out the drawers and when I did, I found my little roborovorski dwarf in the opening, shaking, but at the same time he'd smelt the peanut butter and tried to escape. I took him and put him back in his cage and he seemed to calm down a bit.
This worked! We don't use peanut butter so I put paper towel on top with some sunflower seeds in the middle. I also used large flower pot so the scratching alerted me and woke me up.
Thank you so much! After a week of worrying and frantic searching I saw your video yesterday, implemented your solution, and by 12:30am this morning Barry was back in his home safe and sound!
My hamster actually did a flying leap and landed on the bottle, lol. So much for that haha. Don't worry, she's now safe and sound eating those homemade hamster treats you showed on a video!
My little Pabu has escaped and I don't know for how long. He has one eye and hates physical playtime with a passion. I was tired of listening to him chew on the tubes so I slept with earplugs in since his training wasn't working after weeks of trying. I wake up this morning at 10:00am and I have been looking for him ever since. Last time he did this we found him on my staircase. Knowing his curiosity and excitement of knowing that there is a whole world outside his cage, he must have ventured farther down in my house. I set his cage on the floor in my room and placed 5 treats and a tiny smear of peanut butter on tinfoil in each bedroom on the top floor. If he comes out at night for food, one of us will hear him messing around with the tinfoil. On the ground floor I set up two of the same tinfoil traps on carpet and two flour traps on the hardwood floor. If he gets food from the flour traps, he will leave little footprints. If these traps don't work on the ground floor, I will move on to multiple bucket traps! Wish me luck on finding my problem child!
Yeah, the little tugmunch was found near one of the peanut butter traps I set out at 11:00pm the same day I commented this. From the time I noticed he escaped to the time we found him, he was gone for 13 hours. He was probably gone longer than that.
Here's another idea- if you don't have a bottle and straw you can just use a sheet of paper to cover the top of the bucket. Cut an x-shaped slit in the paper and sprinkle some treats/food over it preferably in the middle of it to get the hamster to walk out to where the slits are. The important thing is to make it appear solid to the hamster so they will walk on it to get the treats. Once they step onto the hole they will fall through it and into the bucket. The best part of this trap is that hamsters are curious and gullible enough (or maybe just hungry lol) to fall for the same setup over and over again! My niece had a hamster that was an escape artist and the bucket trap worked every time. Just make sure they don't fall very far or they can get badly hurt or even killed. And that there's a soft surface to land on.
I've heard of bucket traps, but the water bottle bait is brilliant! When my hamster escaped a couple weeks back I was lucky enough to be home when it happened, I just had to listen for rustling and scooped her quickly into her ball while she was distracted by a treat. They do love to wind us up don't they?
My hamster Bruce decided to wander off 2 days ago. I have built the trap and it worked like a charm 👍. I sprinkled walnuts on the books and put a date paste in the bottle.
I have tons of items under chairs ,tables and my bed and im afraid if my hamster escaped she could crawl into the tiny spaces inbetween the items snd never find her way out like my old hamster 6 years ago
This was a really awesome video! I had heard about the bucket trap. But I never heard of the water bottle idea. Because I was thinking my hamsters are not just going to walk and fall right into the bucket. So the water bottle idea is great! Thank you for sharing! :)
Im glad you did a video on this! A while ago my hamster Mochi escaped her cage luckily I was in the room and caught her and was able to solve the problem :)
Thanks for making this tutorial. I read about the bucket trap at Spruce Pets, but I wasnt sure how to make a ramp. I have some ramps, but I don't know if my baby hamster would go up the ramp. The bóok ladder is perfect. Also, the bottle on the top is very clever. Thanks for this! It saves me a lot of time screwing my ramp into a bucket. I can make two traps in a few minutes. know he's in the apartment and I took apart a small part of the kitchen wall in the corner, where there is a square column, because I heard him in there. This way, he can get some warm air because it's pretty cold in the column. I didn't see him in there, but now I don't have to worry if he goes in there again. He ate some food last night, so tonight, I'll put out the bucket traps.
Hi there! I and my husband and kids can't thank you enough for putting this video...we lost our little guy the first night we got him home and it was a very sad Christmas for us...yesterday we came across this video and gave it a try and voila` he was in it this morning!!!!!!! We are one happy family :) Thanks a ton for this video.. and for all those skeptical one's out there.. please give this a try ......it does work!!! Please drop in your email or website where I and my family can learn to care for our Hamster.....this is our first ever pet and we have a ton of questions and we are still fighting over his name....LOL...Thanks again and god bless!!
Oh my!! Einstein is so adorable! I didn't think any hamster would just gladly jump into a trap! ( He mostly he crawled into the bucket, but you get my point...) So cute!! :o)
My aunt has a hamster and the hamster somehow escapes during the wee hours of the morning to play with her cat, then goes back in the cage when she wakes up. Smarty-hammy. He also sleeps in whichever direction the cat is, and the cat just plays with the hammy as well. (:
My dad has these armadillo trap thingies, that catch the animal like this; you put food in the back of the trap, the animal walks over the presure plate, the door closes. That is how I found my hamster.
Fruity_gacha idk what your cage is but try replacing it with a bigger one or a taller one or one that cant be possibly escaped from look for bite marks around the house that arent normally therr
My previous hamster escaped from her cage in the middle of the night, she went to my bedroom and climbed into my bed. I was very shocked to wake up to tiny footsteps on my feet!! :O
Hey Erin I have a dwarf hamster and he can’t sense that the peanut butter is there I’m a bit concerned he might be blind he doesn’t climb onto my hand like my other hamster did but he doesn’t run away either he only runs away if I make noise could you tell me what this means please thank you.
Hamsters have bad eyesight and rely heavily on sense of smell. If he were blind it wouldn’t affect him in that way. It could be he just doesn’t like peanut butter and doesn’t want to be held.
Thank you so much for your video! I made a hamster trap as you described and it worked! My hamster was safely in the bucket in 4 hours! Safe and well. Thank you so much. And wishing you all the good things in the world!
I picked up my hamster while she was in her cage, and then she quickly jumped off before I could stop her. I keep her cage on a table, so she fell down at least 11 inches but I'm glad she wasn't hurt. I panicked and just grabbed her, but not too tight and left a little open space for her head to peek through so she could breath. I put her back in her cage and she's now safe and sound. :)
I lost my baby Sterling for a terrifying hour and found his chubby butt in the hamster food bin eating a pea. I was so happy and also laughed at how he went STRAIGHT for the stash.
But in some cases your hamster will just walk off the face of the earth into the unknown oblivion. XD I died of laughter when she said that. Thanks for the idea tho Erin!
Another clever way of using this trick is to fill the bottom of the bucket with water. All the hamsters that fall in will drown which eliminates the need to provide them with housing while still keeping your house hamster-free.
I just set up exactly what you told me to do. My hamster, Dakota, got up last night. I haven't been able to find her since but I'm hoping this trap will work. My hamster is black so that makes her hard to find. Well, I see if the trap worked in the morning. We also set her wheel on the ground. We think that maybe she'll go on the wheel and the wheel makes noise so my mom or dad will hear it and go try and catch her
+Turtle Sisters search really good and make sure you dont let wires near the ground so your hamster wont bite and die, eventually he has to come to the food
My Hamster, Sugar Cookie escaped and I was making the trap and my mom screamed "COOKIE!" so I was like: I WASTED PEANUT BUTTER FOR NOTHING! ... **Licks peanut butter off of bottle**
Once, when my hamster had escaped, I made this and I was checking to see if there were any traces of my hamster being there. I did it a different way, though, since I'm allergic to peanut butter. So anyways I was checking the trap and saw that one of the treats on the books had been chewed. I was extremely excited. I was about to tell my family, so I turned around. My hamster was standing right there. We just stared at each other for a while until, I swear, he winked at me. What did I do? I winked back. So... long story short, we caught him, and got him a new cage. :D
My hamster went missing when I wasn’t home and we had to try and find him lol. He ripped up meh slipper and used it for bedding,found his food draw and stocked up,and basically make a little house in meh room. It was cute tbh. We put the cage on the floor and he came back cause he was thirsty and went to sleep 😂
You saved my darling my aunt was watching Teddy for a day and lost him,i set up one of your traps in each room and got him in a day ( he had been missing for two days by then) thank you sooo soo much for this great trick!!!
Just used this to catch my flat mates that i was meant to be looking after. It escaped and was hiding in the walls. Trap caught her this morning and she's back in the cage. What a time to be alive
my hamster escaped the other day and she got under the floorboards. we made a hole so she could get up and we put treats in the room. in the morning they where gone so we knew she was coming up ( all the doors were closed. when I knew she was coming up I started searching the internet this was the best thing and it worked my hamster is now happily home in her cage : )
I laughed so hard when Einstein just walked off into the bucket😂 he's so cute.
+Caroline Adkins IKR
"And if none of that works, get a powerdrill and destroy a circle into your cabinets. You will eventually find your hamster in the middle of the floor, staring at you with a bewildered expression as you wonder why you did that." ~ Erin
Heh heh heh
Larry Wolf this needs more likes
Thank you so so much for this video! My Syrian Mingo got out of his cage somehow, and I followed this video step by step and it WORKED! Within an hour too! My girlfriend watches your channel regularly, and since she was out of town, she sent this to me and I followed the steps and he’s now back happy and okay! Thanks!
dis part killed me LOL "some hamsters are happy enough just to walk off the face of earth,and into the abyss of the bucket". X'D
Edit- HOLY SHIZ 203 LIEKz WAT HOW
Cookie Randomness I laughed so much
Cookie Randomness I thought she was gonna say was sometimes they will hang on with there feet but then push themselves up and run away lol
Cookie Randomness 😂😂😂😂
Richard De Leon Dang. rip hamseter
Cookie Randomness LMAO!!!!
when my hamster escapes i just go to my washroom and find her sitting beside the toilet.
Awwww
She wants a more fancy sand bath,shes tired of getting sand up her butt every time she poops.. or did, cuz they probarbly passed :(
Oh my gosh, thank you so much for this tutorial! My 10 year old daughter's hamster escaped into a vent in the bathroom and was missing a week. We tried luring him out but never saw him. Your bucket trap worked like a charm! It took 2 days. This morning he was there in the bucket! My daughter is SO HAPPY. Thank you.
You could catch ME with smooth peanut butter. :)
😂😂
LOL XD
MMODoubter lol
LOL
Yup XD
My hamster is way to lazy to get out of its cage. Once my friend accidentally left the door open easily for her to get out my about 3 hours later she was still in there.
DAMNNN XDDDD that IS ONE LAZY HAMSTER XDDD.i don't hamster...;-;...DEY SO CUTE DOE D; but,der ain't no space in my house cause it's like a rental house,but we live on the same floor as the owners,so yeaaa :l
My hamster is the same, she can see the front is open but she just carries on eating or goes to sleep
Sarah XD
My dwarf hamster opens the door of his cage but never comes out 😂😂
Me on sunday.
OMG my hamster was missing for 2 hours as soon as i was building it he ran over to eat the peanut butter and i caught him thank you 💕🐹
Mishel Ortega, I'm so glad!! Just the thought of a hamster missing makes me feel all sad inside.
Mishel Ortega my hamster was lost for a week in my garage and she came back today
me too
@LifeWithLaila
How did it survive...?
Nano we left her cage open with lots off food and water on it in the garage eventually my mum went out and seen her in it
for me i just cry in the corner of the room till he/she comes. i always works xD
Barretta Flamman hhaahah
Same thing I did when my hamster went missing my dad found her in my closet!!!
+Bunnys_aj yesterday my hamster escaped and I found her under my fridge!
+Pets Are Life Pets Are Love OMG! I have had my hamster escape before and we found her under the fridge 2!
Yikes! Under a fridge is a really dangerous place
thankyou so much Erin! My hamster has been missing for 3 days and I thought she was gone forever. Because of this trap we found her this morning and I am so so happy!!
Einstein isn't the smartest but he sure is a cutie ^~^
There has never been a more true statement ;) x
ErinsAnimals why is name Einstein then?
Irony my friend.... Irony
Albert enstein
Thuy Jarrett WELL HE IS EINSTEIN SO NO BODY CAN CALL HIM DUMB OK
We were looking after our schools hamster , Rosie, and it escaped whilst my dad was looking after it for me. He rushed out to pets at home because he thought our cat had got it. I wish I could have seen his face when he walked into my room and saw Rosie run across my bedroom floor😂 so now I have 2 hamsters😂
Best. Story. Ever. 😂😂
pure. genius.
My hamster escaped last year I tried everything I tried 50 things in 5 days the next day we were going on holiday on the day I tried this and found him thanks so much!
This video saved my family! Our hamster got loose in the car on the way home from the pet store and ran up into the dashboard where he stayed for 3 days. I tried other approaches but the peanut butter on the stick trick was the one that finally got the little critter out. Bless you! I was afraid it was going to die in there or chew up all the wires.
Great video or should I say trap! Einstien and Amylase looked soo cute demonstrating. Amylase couldn't wait to get the peanut butter bottle on the other hand Einstien was soo lazy that he just went for the treats:)LOL!
my baby hamster escaped and we searched for him for 2 days and today my dog was in his crate and ge was barking so my dad went to take the dog out and my dog started sniffing the laundry when my dad looked in side ge saw it sleeping and quicky grabbed him he was really hungry and thirsty but he is good now
We lost our hamster, Clementine, yesterday and were giving up hope. Found your video and tried it out. This morning, Clementine was BACK! Thank you so much for our Easter miracle!
Had to do this last night and it worked like a dream.
This is a miracle worker
My hamster was in my loft and shes the same Colour as the installation so we couldn’t find her I set up the trap that I saw on this video about a year ago and I watch the video again to make sure I got everything precise I set up in there and my dad checked the loft every now and then and early this morning we went up and she was sat in the bucket looking up at us
Thank you soooo much x !
They are so cute falling into the bucket😂😂😂😍😍
just wanna say thank u my hamster escaped sometime today while I was out after destroying my room looking for him I tried this an had him in 2 hours u deserve more subscribers
Hamster : escapes in the night
Me: doesn't want to wake everyone up at the night so goes back to sleep
Hamster : Is in its cage next morning
Me: What the (censored for kids)
This worked perfectly with one exception; I set up a similar contraption but only successfully recaptured Maverick "Dufresne" (my daughter's hamster) after adding a small dish of water to the bottom of the bucket. Thank you for posting your video. It saved a LOT of tears...
I don't know if this works but you could wrap something with peanut butter (for example a walnut or something) and tie a string to it and follow the string. they'd probally take it to their hideout
I’ve heard this is actually a great method of finding where they’re hiding. You can also sprinkle flour in the area you think they might be and look for their foot prints
It works!!! Within 2 hours of setting this up we caught the little hamster! So freaking grateful! Thank you for this tutorial
Thank you so much!! My hamster was missing for 3 days and we built the trap and I woke up to find this morning that he was found!. He was really angry tho..
He was biting and scraching his cage alot but I'm happy he is back! It was my fault he escaped because I left his cage door open 😑😁😂
Nice one Einstein :D *walks in bucket* he does not really fuss over peanut butter does he?
This is a great design! If my hamster escaped, I would definitely make this. However, I might die of a heart attack before I could finish building it... I get stressed easily.
OH MY GOD THANK U SO MUCH!! My hamster escaped, and I cried and cried for minutes until I found this video. I quickly got books a bucket, and treats and I didn't have to, I did, give her food and water. but she surely enough climbed into the trap! I set a camera and everything and right as I left, she found her way back home. I'm so grateful!
thank you all hamster youtubers. now im learning about hamsters ^.^. now i know how to take care of one im getting one this weekend!
My daughter's hamster, Chooch, escaped from his cage, in the middle of the night. He was out for two days. We searched everywhere. I knew he was in a certain room bc I put specifically placed treats in different rms and only one batch was touched. Last night, I gave this bucket trap a try. Chooch was in the bucket within half an hour. I was amazed. I really thought it would take at least overnight. Thanks!
You are a lifesaver. I am pet sitting, the little girl's hamster escaped in the house. (I was freaking out). Set up the trap as you directed. The next morning there she was calmly in the bucket. Thank you, Thank you. Thank you. ❤❤
Thanks so much for this! Yesterday, my brother found my hamster in the living room and I suspect it was because he (my hamster) smelled the peanut butter on the trap. While it didn’t catch him, it probably did the job in getting him in the living room after 2 entire days of me not finding a sign of him in the house!
Thank you SO much Erin! I needed to set my hamster's lid up since it had fallen in the cage. I put him in my dresser, not knowing that he'd be able to get out. When I tried to find him I couldn't see him anywhere. I checked everywhere and even moved my dresser, but he wasn't there. I was super stressed at that point and so I called my sister to continue looking while I set up a rodent trap. Sure enough, I hear little paws scratching at something. It sounded like wood and it was coming from my dresser. My mom urged me to take out the drawers and when I did, I found my little roborovorski dwarf in the opening, shaking, but at the same time he'd smelt the peanut butter and tried to escape. I took him and put him back in his cage and he seemed to calm down a bit.
This video saved my hamsters life and i cant thank you enough for the miracle of this trap
This worked! We don't use peanut butter so I put paper towel on top with some sunflower seeds in the middle. I also used large flower pot so the scratching alerted me and woke me up.
The part where Einstein just jumps in was so funny😂😂
Thank you so much! After a week of worrying and frantic searching I saw your video yesterday, implemented your solution, and by 12:30am this morning Barry was back in his home safe and sound!
My hamster actually did a flying leap and landed on the bottle, lol. So much for that haha. Don't worry, she's now safe and sound eating those homemade hamster treats you showed on a video!
Thank you!! This helped us get our 🐹 back! Snowy was so happy to get back to her home :)
My little Pabu has escaped and I don't know for how long. He has one eye and hates physical playtime with a passion. I was tired of listening to him chew on the tubes so I slept with earplugs in since his training wasn't working after weeks of trying. I wake up this morning at 10:00am and I have been looking for him ever since. Last time he did this we found him on my staircase. Knowing his curiosity and excitement of knowing that there is a whole world outside his cage, he must have ventured farther down in my house. I set his cage on the floor in my room and placed 5 treats and a tiny smear of peanut butter on tinfoil in each bedroom on the top floor. If he comes out at night for food, one of us will hear him messing around with the tinfoil. On the ground floor I set up two of the same tinfoil traps on carpet and two flour traps on the hardwood floor. If he gets food from the flour traps, he will leave little footprints. If these traps don't work on the ground floor, I will move on to multiple bucket traps! Wish me luck on finding my problem child!
Did you end up finding him?
Yeah, the little tugmunch was found near one of the peanut butter traps I set out at 11:00pm the same day I commented this. From the time I noticed he escaped to the time we found him, he was gone for 13 hours. He was probably gone longer than that.
It worked!!! Ours got loose and had been gone for 2 days. Set this us before work and she was right back in her cage when I came home! Thanks!
Here's another idea- if you don't have a bottle and straw you can just use a sheet of paper to cover the top of the bucket. Cut an x-shaped slit in the paper and sprinkle some treats/food over it preferably in the middle of it to get the hamster to walk out to where the slits are. The important thing is to make it appear solid to the hamster so they will walk on it to get the treats. Once they step onto the hole they will fall through it and into the bucket. The best part of this trap is that hamsters are curious and gullible enough (or maybe just hungry lol) to fall for the same setup over and over again! My niece had a hamster that was an escape artist and the bucket trap worked every time. Just make sure they don't fall very far or they can get badly hurt or even killed. And that there's a soft surface to land on.
I've heard of bucket traps, but the water bottle bait is brilliant!
When my hamster escaped a couple weeks back I was lucky enough to be home when it happened, I just had to listen for rustling and scooped her quickly into her ball while she was distracted by a treat. They do love to wind us up don't they?
I made a cream cheese and peanut butter mix. And put his fav treats up his stairs. I caught him the next morning. Thank you❤️
that's an amazing method!
I FOUND MY GERBIL WITH THIS TRAP!!! THANK YOU!!! :)
Aw!!! Einstien is so cute and adventurous!
My hamster Bruce decided to wander off 2 days ago. I have built the trap and it worked like a charm 👍. I sprinkled walnuts on the books and put a date paste in the bottle.
Thank you so much for posting this video! Now Blossom is safely back in her cage.
I have tons of items under chairs ,tables and my bed and im afraid if my hamster escaped she could crawl into the tiny spaces inbetween the items snd never find her way out like my old hamster 6 years ago
Diamond Heart™ did you do this trap? Did you ever find hour hamster
This was a really awesome video! I had heard about the bucket trap. But I never heard of the water bottle idea. Because I was thinking my hamsters are not just going to walk and fall right into the bucket. So the water bottle idea is great! Thank you for sharing! :)
Im glad you did a video on this! A while ago my hamster Mochi escaped her cage luckily I was in the room and caught her and was able to solve the problem :)
Thanks for making this tutorial. I read about the bucket trap at Spruce Pets, but I wasnt sure how to make a ramp. I have some ramps, but I don't know if my baby hamster would go up the ramp. The bóok ladder is perfect. Also, the bottle on the top is very clever. Thanks for this! It saves me a lot of time screwing my ramp into a bucket. I can make two traps in a few minutes. know he's in the apartment and I took apart a small part of the kitchen wall in the corner, where there is a square column, because I heard him in there. This way, he can get some warm air because it's pretty cold in the column. I didn't see him in there, but now I don't have to worry if he goes in there again. He ate some food last night, so tonight, I'll put out the bucket traps.
Hi there! I and my husband and kids can't thank you enough for putting this video...we lost our little guy the first night we got him home and it was a very sad Christmas for us...yesterday we came across this video and gave it a try and voila` he was in it this morning!!!!!!! We are one happy family :) Thanks a ton for this video.. and for all those skeptical one's out there.. please give this a try ......it does work!!! Please drop in your email or website where I and my family can learn to care for our Hamster.....this is our first ever pet and we have a ton of questions and we are still fighting over his name....LOL...Thanks again and god bless!!
Very cool to see the hamsters fall/walk into the trap XD
We’ve got a mouse problem in my classroom so had to come all the way back to this video for a trap 😂
Oh my!! Einstein is so adorable! I didn't think any hamster would just gladly jump into a trap! ( He mostly he crawled into the bucket, but you get my point...) So cute!! :o)
My aunt has a hamster and the hamster somehow escapes during the wee hours of the morning to play with her cat, then goes back in the cage when she wakes up.
Smarty-hammy.
He also sleeps in whichever direction the cat is, and the cat just plays with the hammy as well. (:
My dad has these armadillo trap thingies, that catch the animal like this; you put food in the back of the trap, the animal walks over the presure plate, the door closes. That is how I found my hamster.
I laughed so hard at Einstein when he decided to fall into the bucket. :)
einstein is so adorable i cant handle it.
the hamsters are probably thinking *ooh mini food land* when they walked in the bucket. lol
I'm watching these because my hamster keeps escaping her cage
Fruity_gacha idk what your cage is but try replacing it with a bigger one or a taller one or one that cant be possibly escaped from look for bite marks around the house that arent normally therr
It worked ! I had lost my hammy Oreo by him escaping and this worked flawlessly. Thank you Erin !
Thank you so much my hamster has been gone for 1-2 days and we cant find her:( finally i have a way to maybe get her back:)
Did you find her
My previous hamster escaped from her cage in the middle of the night, she went to my bedroom and climbed into my bed. I was very shocked to wake up to tiny footsteps on my feet!! :O
Hey Erin I have a dwarf hamster and he can’t sense that the peanut butter is there I’m a bit concerned he might be blind he doesn’t climb onto my hand like my other hamster did but he doesn’t run away either he only runs away if I make noise could you tell me what this means please thank you.
Choochoo Monkey he could just be a lazy hamster or he could be blind
Hamsters have bad eyesight and rely heavily on sense of smell. If he were blind it wouldn’t affect him in that way. It could be he just doesn’t like peanut butter and doesn’t want to be held.
Thank you so much for your video! I made a hamster trap as you described and it worked! My hamster was safely in the bucket in 4 hours! Safe and well. Thank you so much. And wishing you all the good things in the world!
I picked up my hamster while she was in her cage, and then she quickly jumped off before I could stop her. I keep her cage on a table, so she fell down at least 11 inches but I'm glad she wasn't hurt. I panicked and just grabbed her, but not too tight and left a little open space for her head to peek through so she could breath. I put her back in her cage and she's now safe and sound. :)
I lost my baby Sterling for a terrifying hour and found his chubby butt in the hamster food bin eating a pea. I was so happy and also laughed at how he went STRAIGHT for the stash.
Our hamster escaped Saturday. We used this method and it worked perfectly! Thank you for the idea.
i watched this when my hamster creampuff was missing again and luckily I found her right next to me when I had an open jar of peanut butter
THANK U PEANUT BUTTER
I miss Einstein and hes cute lil hamster bum :(
My hamster has escaped we found him but the cage is broken and l upgraded it 2 times should l upgrade it again?
Great idea!! Lol it was funny when you said about Einstine walking off the face of earth hahaha
Oh my goodness Einstein was so cute! He was just like, peanut butter? Nah. I'll just drop in! Hehe :)
But in some cases your hamster will just walk off the face of the earth into the unknown oblivion. XD I died of laughter when she said that. Thanks for the idea tho Erin!
This is absolutely ridiculously genius!
Another clever way of using this trick is to fill the bottom of the bucket with water. All the hamsters that fall in will drown which eliminates the need to provide them with housing while still keeping your house hamster-free.
I don’t what to do, mine escaped, I HAVE TWO CATS, Edit: I found him, he’s alive, I’m gonna head to the vet to make sure he’s okay
I just set up exactly what you told me to do. My hamster, Dakota, got up last night. I haven't been able to find her since but I'm hoping this trap will work. My hamster is black so that makes her hard to find. Well, I see if the trap worked in the morning. We also set her wheel on the ground. We think that maybe she'll go on the wheel and the wheel makes noise so my mom or dad will hear it and go try and catch her
I just check. She didn't even get near it. All the things were still there. Any other ideas?
+Turtle Sisters search really good and make sure you dont let wires near the ground so your hamster wont bite and die, eventually he has to come to the food
Was she caught?
Turtle Sisters that is soooo....GENIUSSSSSSS
Did ya ever catch her?
This is such a creative idea but if one of my gerbils escaped no matter how tall the bucket is they would jump out 😂😂
i cringed when amylases foot got stuck.
My hamster would escape out of his cage, go up the stairs to my dollhouse, go back down the stairs and then go back to his cage. I miss him so much 😢
My Hamster, Sugar Cookie escaped and I was making the trap and my mom screamed "COOKIE!" so I was like: I WASTED PEANUT BUTTER FOR NOTHING! ... **Licks peanut butter off of bottle**
I just lost my hamster and ive been crying all the day. I am sooooo sad!
my hamster got caught in the corner playing with my frisbees
I caught my hamster in the corner as well but it was biting my carpet
This method worked within hours! After three days too. Thank you
Once, when my hamster had escaped, I made this and I was checking to see if there were any traces of my hamster being there. I did it a different way, though, since I'm allergic to peanut butter. So anyways I was checking the trap and saw that one of the treats on the books had been chewed. I was extremely excited. I was about to tell my family, so I turned around. My hamster was standing right there. We just stared at each other for a while until, I swear, he winked at me. What did I do? I winked back. So... long story short, we caught him, and got him a new cage. :D
I searched this video yesterday as my hamster was missing....thank you so much....today he was in the bucket 🙏❣❣
My hamster went missing when I wasn’t home and we had to try and find him lol. He ripped up meh slipper and used it for bedding,found his food draw and stocked up,and basically make a little house in meh room. It was cute tbh. We put the cage on the floor and he came back cause he was thirsty and went to sleep 😂
This actually worked my hamster has been missing for two days and when we tried it the next day he was there thank you
Wow that's so helpful!!!!!!!!!! My hamster escaped once but we found him but If we didn't this would have been super helpful!!!!😎😀😊☺️
You saved my darling my aunt was watching Teddy for a day and lost him,i set up one of your traps in each room and got him in a day ( he had been missing for two days by then) thank you sooo soo much for this great trick!!!
Just used this to catch my flat mates that i was meant to be looking after. It escaped and was hiding in the walls. Trap caught her this morning and she's back in the cage. What a time to be alive
thank you so much Erin i this morning my hamster was out and the bucket trap got her by 11:00 so thank you
I keep having nightmares of my hamster escaping and now this is in my recommendation- oh no 💀
my hamster escaped the other day and she got under the floorboards. we made a hole so she could get up and we put treats in the room. in the morning they where gone so we knew she was coming up ( all the doors were closed. when I knew she was coming up I started searching the internet this was the best thing and it worked my hamster is now happily home in her cage : )
Yay!