Hamster Hero

One dark and rainy night, a hamster and a cat went into the laundry room. The next morning, only the cat was left.

Four days later, a man (me) lays in bed, awake, at around 5 am.

He hears the distinctive noise of rodent on cardboard. Channeling his inner owl, he attempts to locate the rodent using only his ears, in the dark morning.

Finally, the time is right to strike, so he wakes up his wife (the striker), who turns on the lights and stands by hopefully waiting as the man removes the concealing boxes from the stack near his side of the bed.

Suddenly the man sees the telltale fur and stubby tail of the elusive rodent, which then becomes wedged between a tile box and the gently sloping straw bale wall. It's black, beady eye gazing upward, with some hope yet that it can't be reached, the man readies his striker, then pulls out the last box of tile. She lunges and snaps up the furry beast, who still tries pointlessly to run, while being held in the striker's agile talons.

She puts the escape-artist back in it's cage and adds packing tape over the exit covers to prevent the prisoner from a repeat performance.

For his alertness (insomnia), box lifting prowess, and keen vision in saving "Chewy" (the rodent) the man is dubbed "Hero".