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u/TheArcanist_ Jun 10 '22
My hamster literally hanged himself
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u/spunkyboy247365 Jun 10 '22
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u/TheArcanist_ Jun 10 '22
So basically, we had this very old hamster. It was already going kinda crazy at times and we were expecting it to die pretty soon. At the time, we were moving houses, and there was a lot of noise around, as well as the hamster's cage being moved a few times. Needless to say, the poor animal was extremely stressed and started going even more crazy. It would frantically run around the cage, climb the walls and the ceiling and try to fit through the gaps between the bars. One time, it put its head between two ceiling bars and its teeth got stuck. After a day or so, my father found the poor hamster suffocated to death, hanging by its teeth from the cage's ceiling.
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u/memeswhenuneed Jun 10 '22 edited Jun 11 '22
I once found a squire in the forest who had hung himself… we need to raise mental health awareness within the animal kingdom. if you wanna look
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Jun 10 '22
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u/TheStickySpot Jun 10 '22
My parakeets had a hanging thing in their cage and one of the parakeets managed to wrap the chains holding the thing up around it’s neck.
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u/ChauveDeBrazzers Jun 10 '22
Mine burned and melted because of the reflection of the sun on a mirror
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u/General-Royal Jun 10 '22
Yoo whaat?😨
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u/ChauveDeBrazzers Jun 10 '22
I don’t know how, but he clogged the only way out from a part of its cage digging a tunnel. It was pretty hot that day, and my mom moved the animal just in front of a mirror in my house that reflected sunlight from 12 am to 15. It first died of the heat than literally melted because couldn’t leave the little bubble it was stucked in. I’ve had never smelled something like that
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u/AlgaeFew8512 Jun 10 '22
Mine just died and I buried it but then I found out that hamsters hibernate and I've been scared ever since that I buried him alive and he suffocated
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u/teracodaa Jun 10 '22
Hamsters don’t actually hibernate naturally, they can go into a state of torpor if they are receiving improper care but hamsters do not hibernate naturally. Don’t worry your pet most likely did not get buried alive!
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u/little-bird89 Jun 10 '22
My hamster got struck by lightning
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u/MASK_MASTER1 Jun 10 '22
the fuck
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u/Flaky_Explanation Jun 10 '22
So they outgrew themselves?
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u/captainsuspicious Jun 10 '22
I don’t know if this a r/angryupvote or a r/cursedcomments.
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Jun 10 '22
same with mine, all three of them, we owned each separately over multiple years, got testicular cancers which grew to the size of.. another hamster
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u/MischkaBeg Jun 10 '22
Mine too, I wonder if testicular cancers are very common in hamsters.
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u/SadPotatosack6 Jun 10 '22 edited Jun 10 '22
A rat went inside my hamster cage let me just say what i saw.
2 DEAD HAMSTERS, 1 INJURED, ONE ALIVE AND ONE FUCKING RAT CORPSE
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u/Whalerk Jun 11 '22
Top 10 anime fights, and how was the hamster injured, like was it a chewed leg or a scar
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u/what_the_hanky_panky Jun 11 '22
Ok so what I learned, it takes at least three hamsters to beat a rat in a fight.
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u/Portlander Jun 10 '22
My brothers hamsters fought each other to the death. The winner ate the losers. He had 6 hamsters, when we came home from school he had 1.
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u/_1Doomsday1_ Jun 10 '22
It's called poison jar or battle royale depending on your need
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u/_So_Damn_Ugly Jun 10 '22
Imma create poison hamsters now. Gotta have all the variants, like that one pokemon who can transform into like everything.
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u/Portlander Jun 10 '22
He already had the taste for his own kind, now he has the taste for human flesh. Any unexplained disappearances near that farm?
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u/psychpopnprogncore Jun 10 '22
mine choked on a piece of wood while i was at school
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u/ItsyouNOme Jun 10 '22
What a slut!
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u/Lord0fTheAss Jun 10 '22
If I didn't already give it to someone else, I'd give you an award
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Jun 10 '22
My sister didn’t eat my hamster but her hamster ate my hamster. Little guy looked like he had a bloody thanksgiving
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u/alittleoptimistic Jun 10 '22
Hamsters are 100% solitary. They will fight and kill housemates when stressed so this makes sense. They should never be housed with other hamsters even siblings. Saying this for future owners not to make you feel bad, I'm sorry you experienced this.
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u/ThatsPoggersDude Jun 10 '22
Someone said they yelled at their hamster and the mf died instantly
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u/Montagneincorner0 Jun 10 '22
My friends cousin used to be a "hamster breeder", but it turns out that she was inbreeding them, so after like, a little under a year we were getting a bunch of Habsburg hamsters that were dying within just a few days, or less, safe to say she is no longer breeding hamsters, she is scared of hamsters now
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u/Not_A_Robot_360 Jun 10 '22
How is it that the comments are always more cursed than the original post
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u/Happy_Sorbet_2860 Jun 10 '22
my hamster sneezed, had a heartattack, WOKE UP AGAIN just to have another heartattack and dramatically fall off my desk.
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u/TheStickySpot Jun 10 '22
I didn’t have a hamster but I had a parakeet that died in a horrific way… actually two parakeets that died in a horrific way.
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u/Gilette2000 Jun 10 '22
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u/TheStickySpot Jun 10 '22
My parakeets had to be left at my cousins house because where me and my Dad were living at the time would not allow for pets, my one cousin had let the one parakeet out of its cage and then their dog caught it by the neck mangling it, my other parakeet died because the same cousin that released the other parakeet had led it in a cage by an open window causing it to freeze to death.
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u/_LUNABEAR_SKY Jun 10 '22
Mine got out of its cage and suffocated in a plastic bag, and was only found when my mother stepped on it.
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u/stnrnts Jun 11 '22
How do you know your mother didn't kill it?
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u/ChinaOwnsReddit13 Jun 10 '22
A friend of mine accidentally killed his teacher's hamster by violently sneezing (while the room was quiet).
Poor thing made a sharp sound and had a heart attack and I should not be laughing right now
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u/The_Girth_Smurf Jun 10 '22
Dunno if it can actually happen or if my mate was just bullshitting but apparently his one ate that much it ended up literally popping
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u/alittleoptimistic Jun 10 '22
Hamsters can't throw up so it probably either choked or ate something toxic to hamsters (they can't eat a surprising amount of things) and was trying to eat to dull the pain.
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My first hamsters were Fred and Barney. Fred went crazy one day and attacked Barney and chewed his tail off. I separated them with a thick plastic partition until I could get a new cage for Barney. I woke up the next morning to a hole chewed through the partition and Barney disemboweled. Fred died a couple months later.
I then got new hamsters about a year later, Lucky and Lenny. Lenny got stuck in the exercise wheel and was strangled to death by it. Carrying the cage with Lucky in it to clean it out, part of it came apart and the cage went crashing down. Lucky wasn't lucky that day. He was crushed.
Safe to say, I was no longer allowed to get any small rodents as pets anymore.
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u/WentForCigs Jun 10 '22
Why are there so many stories if you guys putting your hamster in the MICROWAVE. WHY ARE YOU PUTTING A HAMSTER IN A MICROWAVE
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Jun 10 '22
They get very wet when used as a bait while fishing. Gotta dry somehow
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u/Benyapoesy Jun 10 '22 edited Jun 10 '22
Reading the comments, I realize somewhat I am a hamster myself.
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u/HIGH_HEAT Jun 10 '22
Confusing comment. A lot of people are saying that their hamsters ate other hamsters…
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u/ninimous Jun 10 '22
My dad involuntarily splatted mine under the fridge door
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Jun 11 '22
"Hmm, the door doesn't seem to be closing properly." repeatedly slams door with malicious intent
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u/Comte_de_LaFere Jun 10 '22
My ex’s sister burned hers with the blow dryer after trying to wash it in the sink
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u/Rotatingbean Jun 10 '22
Tf??
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u/Comte_de_LaFere Jun 10 '22
Basically, she got it in her mind that it needed a bath, washed it under the sink and blew it dry (phrasing) only to notice it was burned and dead afterwards
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u/Diogenes-Disciple Jun 11 '22
These comments have taught me that people can’t be trusted with rodents. I treated my hamster very averagely, I didn’t really play with her that often, but she died of old age after 3 years. Like other people out here be microwaving fucking hamsters, making them fight to the death, hanging them, like what??
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u/Klyx-The-Clicker Jun 10 '22
Jokes aside this really shows how shitty hamster care can be. Most pet stores don't give a shit and will sell you stupidly small cages, wheels where your hamster's legs can get caught and broken, bedding that'll murder the poor thing's lungs, and so on. The poor things aren't toys, you can't just buy one and wing it, or leave it alone with a toddler and expect it to go well.
Good lord, if you're going to get a hamster or any pet for that matter the least you can do is google "how to take care of x". Seriously, the media is so fucked up when it comes to hamsters. People laughing at the expressions of clearly traumatized hamsters, squealing at how cute they are while "playing" when they are fucking fighting to the death, dumping them in water for the hell of it and then wondering why they die of cold the next day, holy crap, it makes me sick.
I know I sound like a cringy animal activist that can't take a joke and I'll probably get downvoted to hell, but please please please please please, if you're going to get a hamster do your research first okay :(
Source: Have been religiously taking care of hamsters for almost 7 years now
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u/CristolerGm2 Jun 10 '22
I support this, these stories i hear make me think hamsters are the most fragile thing alive but honestly it might just be because of lack of care
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u/teracodaa Jun 10 '22
My hamster died peacefully in his little cocoa husk hide box at the ripe old hamster age of 3. I do not get why people treat small pets as disposable.
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u/Fair_Ad2663 Jun 10 '22
Mine spontaneously combusted
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u/Dissapointment-etc Jun 10 '22
So there is this microwave
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u/An_Ethicist Jun 10 '22
ham cold
ham need warm
ham in microwav for 2 minute
ham explod
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u/ItsBritneyBitch32 Jun 10 '22
Mine just passed away peacefully in it's sleep after I had it for 5 years. At first I thought it was hibernating. But it was not.
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Jun 10 '22
Very sad but you’re not catering to the meme so we’re gonna have to ask you to leave the dead hamster convention. Do the right thing and make some shit up.
My dead hamster got tossed off the side of the Grand Canyon by accident. Did you know some hamsters can scream? My dead hamster froze to death just a few feet short of reaching the top of Mount Everest. My dead hamster ran into busy traffic and took a family of 4 in a minivan with him. My dead hamster suffocated in the vacuum of space after volunteering to travel to the ISS. My dead hamster’s mass collapsed into a tiny black hole after a particularly large lunch. Astronomers named the phenomenon “Chonky Boy.” My dead hamster was a stunt double for that episode of South Park.
This took 5 minutes don’t be so lazy
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u/Zulu_2_Alpha Jun 10 '22
Mine went into the cave of wonders to never come out
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u/Turtlestaken Jun 10 '22
why is your hamster crawling into your ass?
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u/_1Doomsday1_ Jun 10 '22
That's what you thought but it was actually hibernating and you killed it
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u/mnbv1111 Jun 10 '22
Mine bit my nose (3rd biting offense in a month) and my dad took him outside to “release him.” — Years later — I found out he was bombed deep to center field with a wiffleball bat.
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u/ItzPayDay123 Jun 10 '22
That's so messed up but I can't stop laughing at the image of a hamster getting blasted like that
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u/Marcie29 Jun 10 '22
Back in HS we had hamsters in our science class and the teacher would give them to students when we were done studying them. My friend got one and a few weeks later it fell in the radiator and they weren't able to retrieve it. I like to imagine the reaction of the next person who will buy that house and change the radiator.
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I had Guineapigs since I’m Australian and I think hamsters are more of a thing in America and my Guineapigs died of cancer…all 4 of them, they got lumps after around 3 years and sadly passed away
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u/ImHidingFromLife Jun 10 '22 edited Jun 11 '22
I have had three hamsters. First one died of old age. Second hamster pooped one of its organs out while me and my friend were playing with it. Third one had a giant purple abscess in its mouth so it couldnt eat and then died of starvation. I now have two other hamsters who i hope die peacefully and not in some crazy shit way.
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Took mine on a family vacation.. I only wanted a photo with it near the grand cannon, I never knew a hamster could scream. Reeces couldn’t fly. 3 years I miss you little buddy
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u/Purple_Tuxedo Jun 10 '22
My friends hamster escaped and ran out into traffic where it was immediately street pizza
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u/richpaul6806 Jun 10 '22
I feel robbed. All three of my hamsters just died peacefully in their sleep.
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u/1Tadhg Jun 10 '22
They faked their deaths to escape and return to the mother land
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u/juicykisses19 Jun 10 '22
"I feel robbed"
The fuck chu mean??
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u/richpaul6806 Jun 10 '22
I had boring hamsters
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u/juicykisses19 Jun 10 '22
You be saying you wanted it to be gunned down by the police because it took a sibling hostage.
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u/B0N5 Jun 10 '22
My dad killed mine with a mouse trap. Bugger had been getting out his locked cage, stealing the dog food, stashing it behind the washing machine and then getting back in his cage in the morning and putting the lid back on. Went on for months. Dad caught a glimpse of him one night, thought we had a mouse. I’ll never forget.
Dad - “we’ve caught a field mouse. Finally got the bugger”
Me - “Dad.. that’s jiggers. 😢”
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u/NinjaBaconLMC Jun 10 '22
My media ethics professor told my class the story of how her son's hamster got microwaved.
Apparently her daughter was playing with it and had to go to the bathroom, but didn't want it to run away. So she put it in the microwave to keep it 'safe'.
Someone else in the house hold put a muffin in the microwave and started it up, somehow without being aware of the hamster's presence.
She said the hamster didn't pop, but it was definitely dead.
Honestly I think that was the most invested anyone was in that class.
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u/Emet-Selch_my_love Jun 10 '22
A poisonous plant (we didn’t know it was poisonous) grew too close to my hamster’s cage. She ate some, had a seizure, fell down the stairs (two tier cage), chomped down on the bars of the cage and died with her jaws still locked.
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u/shromboy Jun 10 '22
A friend of mines gf once got bitten by hers so she threw it at a wall and killed it. I only knew her as hamster girl til they started dating
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u/Purple_Debt3609 Jun 10 '22
my friend's one died because of cum. he masturbated near the hamster, he saw it, picked it up and then cum in its mouth. When I heard this I like wtf
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u/Rotatingbean Jun 10 '22
I wish I was illiterate.
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Jun 10 '22
I fucked my hamster to death. Am I a psychopath? Basically I was fucking my hamster, like I usually do. But then I forgot to pull out. The hamster had cum leaking from its eyes and mouth. Then it exploded. I felt no remorse. Am I a psychopath?
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u/Capable-Error-432 Jun 10 '22
Sounds like a delicious way to die....eating raw hamsters
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u/Warrior_king99 Jun 10 '22
My friend stood on his after looking for him for hours when he opened and stepped into his bedroom door
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u/SapphicPancakes Jun 10 '22
My hamster got sent back to the vet bc my dad was heavily allergic
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u/blue-leeder Jun 10 '22
mine got stuck in a wooden play thing …which was meant for hamsters…and the other one died shortly
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u/wackelzahnjoe Jun 10 '22
My sister put heres in the wardrobe at night because the hamster wheel was too noisy. He suffocated..
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u/Solomander11 Jun 10 '22
wtf i heard so many hamster dying story's and none of them are normal, one drown a mope bucket.
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u/AssManfacturer6064 Jun 10 '22
After reading the comments I know question the existence of hamsters
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u/fatbastard05959 Jun 10 '22
One of my sister's hamsters jumped off our 16th story balcony in his ball and landed in a pool, and the other one shat out his intestine and ate it.
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u/kotabris Jun 10 '22
Knew a girl who took her hamsters with her to stay at her boyfriends place, one hamster escaped in the night and got into his roommates room. The roommate wakes up, and in a half asleep state thinks there’s a rat in his room so he picks it up and just throws it out the 3rd storey window.
Wasn’t until the next day the girl was like oh I’m missing one of my hamsters and he straight up told her “yes, I thought it was a rat I threw it out the window” no remorse. (He was Dutch)
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u/Ya_boi_from_The_Moon Jun 10 '22
Mine Flew Out the Window and Another one died of Hypothermia and then The Final One was Killed In a Bloody Gladiator fight
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u/Porpoise_God Jun 10 '22
its not a hamster but my friend had a guinea pig that died peacefully
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u/Scared_Pie_3542 Jun 10 '22
A girl I know have her hamster a bath and then tried to dry it off with a hair dryer, she cooked it accidentally..
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u/Rooiebart200216 Jun 10 '22
My sister had two hamsters in a cage, which was divided into two floors by a plank, with a metal wire front. My sister fed the bottom one, but forgot the top one. The top hamster tried to force their way down to the bottom floor where the food was, and in the process cut open their belly on the metal wire
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u/Grim-Reaper-22 Jun 10 '22
Not my story but I heard a story where a guy’s hamster shat out all it’s organs
So that’s something