Molly+escape

= Molly’s Rescue =


==== It all started on the long weekend. Nobody was taking Molly home, but she would be fine. She had stayed by herself over a weekend before. All that changed the following Monday. Only the teachers had to come in for a workday but then Ms. Johnston, the lion’s team science teacher, walked in the door and saw Molly’s cage door open. She had escaped! Ms. Johnston looked all day hoping to stumble across a little furry hamster, but she never did catch her. I came in to school the next day and walked into Ms. Johnston’s room and just then she said “Anna, I have some bad news. Molly escaped.” My mouth dropped wide open and stayed like that for probably 5 minutes while Ms. Johnston told me what had happened. Since hamsters are nocturnal, which means she sleeps during the day and plays at night, we were not going to be able to catch her. The next day there was a sigh of relief when we knew that something had nibbled on the food that we had laid out, and we were hoping that it was Molly. Ms. Johnston had a hunch that she was living in a big black recliner that sat in the back of her room. I asked Ms. Johnston how we were going to catch her and she said that we would have to set a __humane__ trap. I asked my grandpa if I could borrow his trap, and he said yes!The next day I brought it in and set it up hoping to see a little ball of fur in it the following day! I hurried to school anxious to hopefully see that my trap had worked. Ms Johnston’s room door was shut and the lights were off, so I waited until the bell rang. It worked! Molly was caught and now safely back in her cage. She was lured into the trap by yogurt treats that I knew she could not resist, the bad thing is that Ms. Johnston was sick on Friday and did not come into school, so I took Molly home over the weekend being very careful not to let her escape at my house. On Monday when I walked in Ms. Johnston was very, very happy to see Molly safe and sound. ====


====For a few days Molly was cool and resting but on Wednesday the tragedy remade itself. Molly had gained up enough strength to push on one of the side blocks in her cage and it popped out. She had escaped again! By this point I was just hoping that she had not figured out that my trap would catch her and not fall for it. However all my worries were relieved when Mrs. Shover, the lion’s team Language Arts teacher, got a call from Ms. Johnston saying that Marcus had caught Molly! Marcus likes animals and is a friendly person. He saw Molly scurry right by him and said “Hey, look there is the hamster.” So he scooped her up in his hands and Ms. Johnston told him to put her in her cage. I made sure that the side block would not come off again and went back to class relieved of all my worries, but I bet now Molly will have to have a new cage, one that she can’ t get out of!! ====