Kamikaze Hamster
One night, we had a band from Scotland staying at our house as they were playing a local gig. They camped out on our living room floor, and in the morning, the drummer asked if we had a cat, as he felt something furry on his face. We didn't, so this confused us, and we laughed and pointed at him for being weird.

We had a hamster that was in one of those fishtank cages on top of a wardrobe in the back room. It gnawed at the little slots for putting water bottles in and such, and it seems it had managed, without us noticing, to gnaw around the latch to the door, gradually, until it finally sprung free. It must have leaped FROM THE WARDROBE, then darted all over the band's faces before disappearing down the back of the fireplace.

We never saw it again, but it helpfully came out while we slept and left shits on the sofa.
(V3lvetPresley, Fri 1 Feb 2013, 20:21, 1 reply)

I had three hamsters which escaped in almost the same way - two I found quite easily, the third eluded me for about a fortnight. I thought the cat had had him until I had cause to look in my (wo)man-drawer for a screwdriver, when I found him sleeping in his nest right at the back.
(Freakmandu, Fri 1 Feb 2013, 23:32, closed)