My cat brought in a ...... to the garage...?

Question

Don't worry. It was alive, with no marks or anything on it.. I think it was just stunned or something.

My Mom called me from downstairs and told me to come into the garage becaues there was some rodent my cat brought in. As we looked at it, it looked more and more like a HAMSTER! It had those huge cheeks, with some lettuce and clovers in it, it was brown and a little fuzzy, with little ear holes (no flaps for ears) and black eyes. The thing is, it had a long, undocked tail. We put in in a bucket so we could carry it to the bush, and so I picked it up with a glove and put it on the grass. I had to give it a poke so it would go under the bush.

Now, are there any such thing as ferril hamsters? Or are they all domesticated?

Answer 1

even though it had a tail and could not be a dwarf or syrian hamster it could have been an escaped pet chinese hamster cause they look more like mice with their long tails.

Answer 2

ferril hamsters? hahaha

       - ha ha

Answer 3

Some do live in the wild, I just don't know if any live in the wild in the USA.  You can check out this website http://library.thinkquest.org/TQ0312800/...

Answer 4

Feral hamsters do exist, but they usually can't survive in the wild for long.

For one thing, most places don't have the right kind of food for them, so they end up starving to death.

For another thing, since they were born in captivity, most of them don't know HOW to look after themselves.

For a third thing, in most places, the climate is either too hot or too cold.

I bet it was some kind of ground squirrel or mouse. There are many different species. If you tell us where you live, we can have a better chance at guessing what it could have been. And about how big was it? Was the long tail covered in hair?

It could have been a mole.

Answer 5

Could it have been a gerbil or something?

Maybe a vole? lol sorry i cant help :P

Answer 6

It was definitely not a hamster, because it had a tail. Depending on how large it was, and whether the tail had fur, it could have been a squirrel.

The fact that it had no ears, just holes, cancels out the possibilities of wild rats, mice, degus, chinchillas, and gerbils. Long tail means it couldn't be a guinea pig or a hamster.

Answer 7

You do get ferral hamsters that have escaped from captivity and live in colonies, it is not very common though, what you have is probably a water vole, I know it is deffinetly not a hamster as hamsters dont have long tails and they certainly arent docked.  Check this website out and see if this is what you have, I dont know if you wouuld get these in the US though.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/wildfacts/fa...