Hamster escape

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Rory's hamster's cage door was open this morning, with no sign of hamster in the straw at the bottom of the cage. Our hamster care book suggests leaving some food and water in the bottom of a bucket with something a hamster can climb up and fall into the bucket, and there was a live capture mammal trap sitting around in the shed left by the previous houseowners, so those are sitting on the bathroom floor hoping he will come out this evening. But we know from the trunking round the piping it can get behind the skirting board at the end of the room, because one of them managed that before (while there were people in the room, and it came back out fairly quickly when some hamster nibbles were placed just outside the hole behind the bidet that it went into), and from there it can almost certainly get under the floor, and from there almost anywhere.
Will the hamster be recaptured? Will it emerge outside the bathroom where a cat can get it? Will Alan have to take up the floor to get rid of a rotting hamster corpse? Will it knaw through the underfloor heating hoses? Stay tuned for the next exciting episode. (Or in the likely hamster dies, is mummified, is never seen again case, for the boring conclusion.)