Yes she normally sleeps in the afternoon, she wakes up about 5 or 6 pm, we feed her, she eats a bit then goes back to her hiding, comes back up about 8/8:30. Her cage is in my daughter's bedroom and she has a way to go back, we put some boxes stacked but I'm gonna change for books, it might be easier for her, the lack or noise and traces is what concerns me, no sign of poop anywhere, no wet floor, no noise.
Aww, thanks
I don't have a camera, normally when she's out she doesn't care much for treats, she doesn't eat out of our hands a lot, specially when she's out of the cage.
That looks lovely, Mauve has a lot of chew toys but doesn't care for them, only cardboard through the bars, and she is in heat, yesterday I saw something white coming out of her, googled and it was this, has no idea, she smelled horrible too, didn't even get better with sand bath, I believe it was because of this heat. I don't know how often this happens but whenever she's smelly I assume she's in heat.Blossom was super demanding, similar to Mauve when she was a bit younger…definitely a bit of a challenge. The biggest thing which helped Blossom settle down was the addition of a dig box (an old too small wheel filled with shredded cardboard, so not expensive), deeper bedding through her cage, and loads of different textures to chew on which I stick between the bars of her cage. So long as she has things to chew between the bars, she is fine, but I do have to keep them topped up. I got a lovely delivery of natural bits from Pride Rock Blooms which have gone down really well. Blossom’s favourites are dried banana leaves and coconut husks. The cork mat went down well too! Oh, and egg boxes too…how could I possibly forget the egg box lol. Blossom was definitely worse when she was in heat, and a bit of extra time out in her play box helped with that. Good luck!
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Female hamsters are in heat every 4 days, so it’s pretty frequent! I’d maybe try some deeper bedding and also a dig box where you can scatter some food for her to forage to keep her busy…worked well for Blossom
Ahhh no wonder. Also she doesn't like mealworms and I heard protein is important for hamsters, but she always leaves them on the plate, could she eat a bit of tuna?
Thank you, I will have a look
Hi Maz, what I meant by downstairs was because I live up high in a block of flats, on the 8th, and underneath one part of our balcony is the 5th floor, the other part goes straight to the garage as in level 0. So if she jumped off the balcony we were hoping to see remains of her on either floors. Our flat has only one floor, we closed all the doors, I set up traps, the bucket one didn't work as our bucket is missing too
but I did check and underneath the slaps in the kitchen to cover the furniture, there's many gaps which she could have gone through and I set up traps there too, such as her favorite food and some wood pieces, she'd knock the off and we'd hear noises, but nothing, she's vanished without a trace, we've looked everywhere. Our mood goes on and off, crying, going about our day, looking for her, getting angry, crying again, it's very confusing and disturbing at this point. I try to smell her everywhere, check for poop, nothing. It's like she was never here, apart from photos and cage. 
