Sheldon Kwik Fit fitters rescue hamster trapped in car Birmingham Mail
WHEN a hamster escaped from its cage and got lost under the floor of a car, it looked destined to be stuck there until it starved to death.
Nilesh Parmar, aged 36, and his wife Heena, 35, bought their six-year-old daughter Jayani and son Yuvraj, aged three, a dwarf hamster called Lily, in the hope it might make them more responsible around their Solihull home.
The excited children were keen to show their grandparents in Leicester their pet and placed her cage in their Volkswagen Golf, with the luggage. But there was outright panic as soon as dad put the keys in the ignition.
Mr Parmar, an insurance salesman said: “My daughter screamed and said the hamster had escaped and was scurrying around the car.”
Mr Parmar and his wife spent 15 minutes trying to catch the pesky hamster to no avail but then it went eerily silent. He used his torch to see if he could locate it and then heard a scratching sound coming from beneath the car floor.
He said: “I realised that the hamster had entered into a narrow air vent underneath the driver’s seat and due to the shape of the vent it was impossible for me to reach it or for the hamster to make its own way out.
