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One of my chucks escaped from her enclosure and is living under my refrigerator. She comes out but never goes far from the frige, so before I can do anything, she runs back under. Would appreciate any idea on how to capture her.

Char

Has she eaten since she escaped?

Yes, over the weekend I was hoping to nab her and left some food, but it didn't work (me slow; her fast). Today, I left 1 blueberry for her. I don't want her to starve, but I don't want her to be happy.

Here's my plan: move source of food farther and farther away from fridge. then by Friday, it and she will be far enough away from the fridge that I can block it so she can't get back under. That's really the only place I can't reach her.

She did this once before a few years ago. I got lucky. I found her in the bottom of my iguana's cage eating all the food he had dropped during the week (my ig is a slob). I was able to block the fridge and get her out of the ig cage. My ig cage has a separate tray below the cage bottom that pulls out - think bird cage - so she wasn't actually in the cage with the iguana, but underneath it.

Put several new hide outs around a food dish away from the fridge. Cardboard boxes w/ holes / make shift lean too--etc. Give her new options on where to hide and make sure you can nab here while she is happy hiding!

Great idea. I used a shoe box. Taped the top on and cut a hole in the side. Then I made a handle out of the packing tape - a loop that I could easily grab if she was inside. left a trail of food to the hole and then put more food deeper inside the box. A few minutes ago, I thought heard something . . . she was 1/2 inside the box, but far enough away from the fridge that I could slide the 'pool noodle' that I was using to block her retreat to the fridge. (it fits perfectly, btw, if anyone else ever needs to block the fridge). She didn't hear me until I was right on top of her; she backed out of the box and looked at me. Before she knew it, she was caught. I am so relieved I cannot tell you. The escape was totally my fault (I left her enclosure door open) so I was just beating myself up. Now she's cleaned up and back in her very nice house with a big bowl of feed and water and her heat lamp.

glad ya got her under containment!!!!!!!

This is the best kind of feel good news imaginable!

Did the food deprivation work? LOL!

I did. Took about a week but I finally got her. I've always said if she had her way, she eat nothing but blueberries. I knew they'd be enough to get her out of hiding.

Blueberries would get me out of hiding. LOL