Tic Tac's Big Ride

We have had our hamster, "Tic Tac", for over a year.  He was actually our second hamster because our first one got out of his cage and just vanished.  It is kind of a gross thought to think that he is a skeleton somewhere in this house. 

 We have had Tic Tac going on 2 years now.  In that 2 years, he has been rescued out of the clutches of our cat Ai Ai three times now.  Literally, taking Tic Tac out of his mouth.  Anyways....today, I was cleaning his cage.  When I do this, I put Tic Tac in his exercize ball.   A few minutes later, I hear Owen's bulldozer toy going of and hear him mumbling about Tic Tac going to be "dumped".  I rescued Tic Tac just in time!