A HAMSTER who found himself wedged in a tiny pipe six days was freed thanks to an ingenious invention by an RSPCA officer.

The animal welfare charity had been called to the rescue after attempts to free Jamie the hamster had failed after he’d become trapped following an escape from his cage in Bridgwater.

Thankfully RSPCA welfare officer Alison Sparkes was on hand to help, with a tiny hand-crafted ladder she created especially.

“Jamie was being looking after by a friend of his owner when he escaped and went down a 10cm-wide pipe that housed the water pipes”, said Alison.

“This vertical pipe was one metre deep. The gap between the water pipes he squeezed through was about 4cm wide and was impossible to look down the pipe due to the pipes inside it.

“They’d dropped a piece of thin rope down hoping he would climb up but after six days, still no luck so they called us.

“We knew he was ok as they’d been dropping food down and could hear him eating so I went home and cut a one metre long ladder from some old wire mesh, then went back, fitted it in the pipe and later he emerged.”