Animal Stories: Runaways

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#1

Wee. I hope this isn’t a bad topic. I thought I’d make it after my freakin’ rat had gotten loose.

Anyone have a pet run away and have been able to get it back? I’ve got a few of those stories seeing as I have a zoo.

When I was 3 or 4, my first bulldog got off the tree we had tied her to while going on a boat at Cranberry lake. I can still remember it but it feels dream-like. I was so upset, but my parents later found her hiding behind a bush in front of a neighbor’s house. :stuck_out_tongue:

Throughout my childhood, I’ve lost mice, hamsters, gerbils, and rats, because it seemed as soon as I forgot to feed them they’d find their way out of the cage and search for food themselves. I’d find myself searching the entire house only to wind up in the basement where they would be hiding, luckily out of the reach of the cats.

Thursday night, I was told the rat I had saved from being eaten by my blood python had squeezed out of her cage in the basement and got loose. So after giving the cats canned food I began to look under the cabinets with a flashlight. I put my head to the floor and searched, but couldn’t find her. When I sat up again, she walked out from underneath another cabinet. But it wasn’t that easy. Sure she took the food from my hand but scampered when I attempted to grab her.
Sooner or later my brother came home and we wound up catching her after nearly squishing her between a box and a sheet of glass.
Now, she doesn’t have a crappy rabbit cage but a tank, and she’s in a place where I’d be pretty darn stupid to forget to feed her, since it’s near the cats’ canned food.
Oh, and I wound up having to drag my 20-something lb cat up two flights of stairs to lock her in the bathroom, along with the other two. :stuck_out_tongue:

All I could think of throughout this venture was Ratatouille. xD

I’m sure I have more pet stories but I gotta get ready to go to my stupid class at the Met in the city. :stuck_out_tongue:

#2

Ah, yes. I have a story :smiley:

Well, when I was about eight or nine, I had a pet hamster that we kept in the garage, so that my cat wouldn’t get to it. One day during the winter, the cage door was left open, and it walked out. Since we thought it was impossible for it to survive in the garage when it was so cold and snowy outside, we just got two more hamsters… why not? Haha :stuck_out_tongue:

Here’s the cool/almost weird part: my brother was in our garage one day, about a month later, when he came running upstairs telling me that he found my hamster. I didn’t believe him, but I went down, anyway. And there he was, sitting on the floor of my garage, eating a dead spider :laughing: We still kept him, but he had some sort of brain damage from the cold. It was sad… he kept randomly flipping onto his back, and running into walls :cry: But it was still pretty funny how we found him – alive – after a month in the freezing garage during winter.

#3

It’s not really a runaway story…but actually just something similiar with an interesting twist.

First cat I ever got, Cotton, amply named because he’s white, was actually a stray we picked up. Over the years, me and him were great pals. One time we accidently either had a door open or something open that he crawled out from. He was missing for hours on end and we were all worried.
About the same day at night, we heard a noise near the back door. Opened it up, and there was Cotton.
Yep. To me, he went out to meet a few stray friends of his and probably pal around with them and come home later. Heh heh…really smart guy him. Knows a good home isn’t something to run out from hehe.

#4

Well, my puppy has a girlfriend. She snuck out of her house one day just to walk with my puppy. After the walk was over, she left back for her place.