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It took a while to be found - I wasn’t in any of my usual afternoon siesta spots! I like to change it up every so often… 
-Skye #SkyeLove
Non-house-rabbit-owners (or servants) don't realize the feeling of dawning horror when you realize you don't know where the bunny is...
Skye seems pretty well-behaved, though. We joked that Lena would burn down the house while we were out.
@cazabon Yes, this! 
One of us often remarks “where’s Skye”-
Followed by the commenting along the lines of “She zipped out to run some errands/for a bite to eat”.
I’m still convinced my guinea pig Mo would slip out at night… he was the ultimate escape artist… probably into the club scene…
Oh, so much this. So very much this.
That reminds me of a #story I have not told here previously. Shock, I know.
My partner wasn't allowed any #pets as a kid. After she finished school and was out working in the real world, she decided to fix that, and picked a #hamster as her first pet. Standard Syrian hamster, kind of tawny coloured. She named her Zena Wallenda. If you've ever seen a hamster hanging upside-down from the wire root of their cage, you know why.
[...]
We had a bunch of #Habitrail for Zena; she had quite the setup. But she managed to let herself out of her #cage a number of times - the front door on the basic cage part could be sprung by pulling down on it in just the right way. So I ended up adding a #latch mechanism to it. We would frequently see and hear her trying to open it the "old way" that had worked.
Then one night we were in the living room watching TV. Zena's habitat was there as well.
[...]
All of a sudden we hear a metallic "#sproing!" noise and the door has popped open, and Zena is climbing out of the door. She had somehow managed to figure out how to un-latch the new latch mechanism, and then open the door the old way.
I had to make a more complex latch after that, that couldn't be opened from within hamster-arm's-reach of the cage.
[...]
@cazabon 
Oh, wow!!!
One of the times she escaped, prior to the first latch, in the middle of the night, was stressful. We couldn't find her, and eventually found tiny hamster paw prints in the dust under a cupboard in the kitchen, where there wasn't a kick-plate. Peering deep under there, I saw there was actually an opening into the wall.
We looked everywhere. I went down in the basement and checked everything. Couldn't find her. Then late that night, I was at my computer in the basement [...]
The house was dead silent, my partner was asleep. And I thought I heard the tiniest sound. I paused and waited for what felt like minutes, and heard it again. A tiny scritching noise.
I started crawling around on the floor and pausing until I heard it again, trying to locate the source. Eventually it seemed to be coming from inside a wall...
I pressed my ear to the drywall and became as silent as I could - and a minute or two later, I heard that scritching sound.
[...]
It was coming from behind the wall. I woke my partner up, grabbed tools, and cut out a meter-square chunk of drywall (I couldn't precisely locate the sound). I pulled it out, and immediately after, out came a very #dusty and #tired Zena. She came straight into my hands. She'd gone into the wall, fell down to the basement, and was trying to scratch her way out.
I repaired the drywall on the weekend, but I made that first latch for her cage right after we #rescued her.
@cazabon Oh my goodness!! What a story! Awww she was so very grateful you found her. That is incredible you were able to zero in on a square metre and pull her out! 
We were awfully glad, too. I don't have a lot of pictures of her, but here's a few.
@cazabon Ah these are fantastic! I adore her! 
She was a fantastic hamster (and first pet). She was inquisitive and friendly, not aggressive at all.
We ended up having quite a number of Syrian hamsters, and they were all great. Wally had the most amazing fur-skirt, and we also ended up taking in Wally's father, Dudley, a stud hamster , when he retired.
Dudley was completely zen, nothing could bother him. He just loved the peace and quiet, I think.
@cazabon Sooo much to unpack here…!
Oh, that must have been fun. I love birds but have never had one.