Eight firefighters were called in to help find an escaped hamster, it was revealed today. Two fire crews used a chocolate-covered camera and a vacuum cleaner to try and locate missing Fudgie at six-year-old Zoe Appleby's home in Dunbar, East Lothian.
The girl's mother contacted the fire service after the pet had scuttled down a hole in the kitchen floor, and stayed there for six days. She had to reassure neighbours when two fire engines from Dunbar and Newcraighall pulled up outside their house on Monday afternoon.
In the search for Fudgie, firefighters took the family cooker and gas pipes to pieces.
They also dropped a mini-camera - coated with chocolate in an effort to lure Fudgie towards it - underneath the floorboards.
They then hoped to suck out the furry rodent using a vacuum cleaner with a sock over the nozzle.
Despite their efforts, they failed to recover Fudgie and called in the Scottish Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SSPCA).
The hamster, who was being looked after for a friend during the school holidays, has now been missing for eight days.
A spokeswoman for Lothian and Borders Fire and Rescue said: 'The call related to a hamster that was trapped behind a wall.
'They got a Fibroscope camera and put that down under the floorboards to see if they could find it.
'In the end we left it in the hands of the SSPCA.'
Zoe's mother Angela told the Daily Record newspaper: 'When we got in touch with the fire brigade, eight of them turned up in two separate engines.
'I had to reassure the neighbours that everything was OK and it was just a hamster.
'But the firefighters were excellent and tried everything they could. The drama that tiny animal has caused is unbelievable.'
The nursery nurse said she believed Fudgie has made a home for herself under the floor using cardboard tubing that she put down for the pet to climb up
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