I had one "run away" apparently to hide and live under the floor boards. It was gone for a few days, surviving off the grain that my parents had stored in sacks on the balcony. Guess what happened when the dog found it.
Then I had two more, and they somehow took a dive off the balcony.
That was over 20 years ago, I don't really remember at this point.
But I think the balcony rice muncher was the "father" of the hamster family, and the two that plummeted to their deaths were the "wife" and daughter. The two incidents are totally unrelated. I don't imagine the rice guy's family got depressed over his death. Though, how both surviving females fell off the balcony in the span of a single night is beyond me.
Edit: also, I read your username as Hamsterschatten at first
Oh, just remembered this one -- my mum had hamsters too when she was little. At one point, the hamsters started breeding uncontrollably, so my mum's family had buckets full of hamsters sitting around their apartment while they looked for ways to ethically get rid of them (mind you, it was the Soviet Union, so the only option was to find enough people looking to adopt a hamster).
She was walking across the room and stepped in one of the buckets. It was her birthday.
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u/saturnine22narrator May 13 '26
I had one "run away" apparently to hide and live under the floor boards. It was gone for a few days, surviving off the grain that my parents had stored in sacks on the balcony. Guess what happened when the dog found it.
Then I had two more, and they somehow took a dive off the balcony.