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Odd. now it’s back...
The only possible explanation is here:
Where do missing socks go?
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The solution is here:
How do I find loose gerbils? - Mothering Forums
http://www.mothering.com/forum/347-pets/919050-how-do-i-find-loose-gerbils.html
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Where do missing socks go?
http://myria.com/where-do-all-the-missing-socks-go
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lol Funny, Dude.
Didn't you know? That's a scientific problem that has been solved. . . the fifth ring of Saturn is composed entirely of left socks. . . Electric and gas dryers are actually secretly designed by the NSA and CIA as experimental teleportation devices. So that the secret is kept, they are only designed to teleport left socks. Of course, it is a law of physics that you can't get something for nothing and energy has to balance, so in exchange wire coat hangers are teleported into your closet from deep inside Jupiter, causing the Great Red Vortex. As more and more of them were were teleported, the spot got more intense. Now, however, the efficiency of the newer dryers is greater, so the Red spot is not so intense. In addition, dryers being imported from South Korea are using alternative hanger sources on Ceres, causing the visible bright spots.
When I was a nine years old, my mother gave my sister and me two male hamsters.
Three days later, Chester (my sister's hamster) gave birth to seven baby hamsters, and two days later Herman (my hamster) presented us with six more.
What do you do with SOOOO many baby hamsters? I figured you sell them to pet stores. I found the pet stores would pay $1 apiece six week old baby hamsters! That was a nice piece of change in 1958.
I kept one male from Chester's litter and one female from Herman's litter and went into the business of raising hamsters. I became a hamster entrepreneur. . . supplying most of the hamsters for the pet stores in Sacramento at age nine. At one point I had 167 baby hamsters in inventory.
One thing I learned was that hamsters spend 90% of their time trying to figure out how to get out of their cages. The second thing I learned is that no matter how escape proof the cage, they will find a way out, usually one you haven't thought of. Cages in 1958-1959 were not too well engineered. The third thing I discovered was a sure fire way to re-capture an escapee.
Hamster Catching procedure:You need three things:
- bucket
- three foot long board
- carrot
Place bucket in the middle of the room with the board set up as a ramp leading to the top of the bucket. Pare off the skin of the carrot. Rub the carrot generously along the board so that the carrot actually wets the board and the carrot aroma is apparent. Drop the carrot in the bucket. Go to bed (hamsters are nocturnal). The escapee hamster will be in the bucket in the morning.
This sure-fire hamster catching method only failed once. I had a hamster that was a survivor of a mother who went canniballistic on her litter (a reaction to stress) and "stumpy," a little baby who wound up with only one leg was the only survivor. He got around by scooting around like an inch worm. He was quite a trooper. My mom raised him from a blind, pink little worm-like infant in a pot on our stove's griddle to keep him warm from the pilot light, feeding him hourly milk mixed with oats 24 hours a day until he could eat on his own. Even Stumpy escaped! We set up the bucket to retrieve him. . . but no Stumpy in the bucket in the morning. Four days, no Stumpy. Ten years later, when we replaced our floor furnace, we found poor little Stumpy at the bottom, all dried out, perfectly preserved, a hamster mummy. So sad.