Hamster bait

The little visitor from next door is back. Possibly. Stems keep disappearing from the little vase on the kitchen counter and there's rattling behind the wainscot. The neighbours have again confessed to having lost a hamster, although not nearly as shamefacedly as they ought to have been, in fact it was strongly hinted that if the little visitor preferred to stay with me, they'd be just fine with that. I explained that I was not just fine with that and asked for ideas on how to catch him before he ate the rest of the decor. Ohhahaha, they laughed, to be honest that hamster is completely bonkers, they said, good luck, they said. Thanks for nothing, I said.

So in the sink lies the last orchid stem, a tomato and some cucumber. Plan A! The hamster will crawl into the shiny sink and be unable to scramble back out.