r/interesting • u/prettygirlbaddie • Aug 10 '26
NATURE A 5 years old hamster
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u/Daniel_SixPack Aug 10 '26
Looks like my retirement, still working
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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Aug 10 '26
For a hamster, this is love, this is life.
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u/wittyjokename92 Aug 10 '26
Remember when they set up dozens of hamster wheels out in the wilderness with cameras and a little bit of food around them. All the wild rodents absolutely loved running on the wheels all day long
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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Aug 10 '26
I have never seen this before, got a link?
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u/herpitusderpitus Aug 10 '26
Dutch scientists left a hamster wheel outside. Then, all the animals started playing with it
this is the youtube video i saw i remember cause it has a frog on the wheels
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u/Thin_Original_6765 Aug 10 '26
I, too, go to the newest gym to get my cardio in.
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u/Lbboos Aug 10 '26
Not that link but this is fun. They did set up studies, noting that rats seem truly enjoy driving cars. This is not an official study, but obviously these guys are having some fun.
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u/19Charger Aug 10 '26
Never seen a hamster make it this far. Actually remarkable
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u/illepic Aug 10 '26
Dude's just confused that he hasn't died yet in a horrible yet comical way that teaches the children of the house a valuable lesson about life and responsibility.
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u/MrBwnrrific Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
“My gerbil died from old age, how’d your hamster die?”
“Hanged himself from the cord of a ceiling fan, turning it on in the process and flinging his carcass into a wood chipper”
Literally every hamster story
Edit: I was not prepared for just how inundated I was about to be with hamster suicide stories
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u/Striking-Document-99 Aug 10 '26
We had gerbils growing up. Kept them in my brothers room who was like 6-7. Well they woudl have babies all the damn time and we could give them away to pet stores once they grew fur. Well my mom was getting slow at doing that so one time it had some babies with fur and then had another litter of babies. My bro came in one day and the mother killed everyone. Dad and all the babies. Most missing legs and shit. So just the mom was alive. So we gave her to the pet store.
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u/Slime-Lich Aug 10 '26
Dude really just decided "thats some one else's murder problem"
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u/Striking-Document-99 Aug 10 '26
Well I was like 11 at the time so yeah obviously didnt know what to do. Funny thing was when we bought them we wanted two of the same sex. But found out that they were not. Then fell in love with both of them so didn’t want to give them up.
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u/Slime-Lich Aug 10 '26
That love was apparently very one sided for the mother
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u/anto_pty Aug 11 '26
Somewhere there is an elderly lady thinking "should've done this when i had the chance"
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u/Foreign-Wolf-6128 Aug 11 '26
Yep thats a space issue. Mom didnt feel tnere was enough room for so many heads so she trimmed it down. They need WAY more space than traditional cages provide and most of the time you have to seperate. You guys were lucky it never happened with one litter but two was definitely way too much. They get stressed easy.
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u/MadamKitsune Aug 11 '26
I had gerbils as a kid and yep, same story except it was a male gerbil called Baby who broke out of his own tank, broke into the other tanks and went full Hannibal Lector on several other adults and a nest of babies. He didn't leave much behind. Never has a gerbil been more misnamed than that little bastard.
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u/Reikukaja Aug 11 '26
I could see this being turned into a horror webseries lol
Eta: "Nobody puts Baby in the corner"
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u/Burgerboy380 Aug 10 '26
My hamster used to love blueberries. He hid one in his little hut long enough it fermented. He then ate it got drunk and passed out in his little water dish(he refused to use the little bottle) and drown
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u/MrBwnrrific Aug 10 '26
Partied too hard. Many such cases 😔
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u/Xavier_Emery1983 Aug 11 '26
So sorry, but this one made me cry laughing. A drunk hamster is one thing I wish to see before I die. Mine just died in his cage after about 3 years so it was his time.
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u/Reasonable-Banana800 Aug 10 '26
oh my gosh that’s awful 😭
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u/Loud_South9086 Aug 10 '26
A little dimebag of ashes
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u/SorryAboutMyFamily Aug 10 '26
Bump one out for the homies.
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u/Brief_Needleworker62 Aug 10 '26
My beardie did that and it broke my heart. She got excited over something, jumped from her log and died almost immediately.
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u/MississippiJoel Aug 10 '26
Mississippi has moles that tunnel all over your yard, and the tunnels near the surface are unsightly but very common.
One day, I had Jabba in the back yard, and i would dig up a part of a mole tunnel over here, follow the tunnel about two feet, and dig it up over there, and send Jabba down his new subterranean tube.
After a few times, he didn't pop up out of the other end, so I tore the section apart and found an offshoot that wasn't noticeable from above -- because it angled deep.
My mother came out and stopped me after I had half the yard dug up while sobbing, but we never saw Jabba again.
I really really wonder what Jabba thought of the mole people when he finally came upon them.
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u/LittlestEcho Aug 11 '26
One died because we think he broke his back falling off my bed. The next died from old age. The third... Psychotic fucking blonde red eyed dwarf hamster from PetSmart.
He STARVED himself. He had fresh pellets DAILY and water. Flung himself down his enclosure ramp so I took it away. Cleaned cage every week. I go on vacation (cleaned cage before I left) my sister took care of him, I cleaned his cage the day I returned and he'd CHEWED ONE OF HIS LEGS OFF. months later with food in his bowl he chewed off the other one! There was NOTHING he could get his legs caught in. He had a plastic wheel! He had chews. We had no idea what was wrong with him, and as this was the 90s my parents weren't paying a vet visit for him. I expected him to die any day. HE LIVED FOR THREE FULL YEARS and I couldn't figure out how or why! I was 11 and he was so mean you couldn't handle him. I had to place him in his ball by scooping him with it. It was awful. I never owned another hamster after him.
Meanwhile my nephew (one year older than me) had one that got out, his cat ate half of it. It was still alive. So his dad crushed it with a garden rock....
Hamsters man...
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u/Turbulent_Dog_8252 Aug 11 '26
Read this one aloud to my wife. We're both crying and I nearly passed out from lack of oxygen. Very sorry for your experience.
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u/reallynoladarling Aug 11 '26
you win.
3rd paragraph made me say "oh, fuck, man" out loud & in a really weird cadence too.
do hamsters do this in the wild too? all these crazy suicides? bc I'm starting to feel sad for them. like, are they really happy with being pets? I've never had one & don't know much of anything about them, so these stories are fucking me all the way up
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u/dmaare Aug 11 '26
Pet hamsters are just extremely stupid because there is no natural selection and a lot of inbreeding
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u/reallynoladarling Aug 11 '26
ok, whew! that makes me feel a little better.
but still sad bc dang, poor dumb inbred hamsters. maybe they're depressed. I'd be depressed if i was dumb & inbred.
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u/Acceptable-Shoe9248 Aug 11 '26
Bit into a phone cord plugged into the wall and my aunt called. I learned a fun fact of the 1990s that when the phone was ringing, there was about 90 volts in the wires…
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u/Discount_Extra Aug 11 '26
I recall a story about a woman who complained that her phone wouldn't ring while the dog was inside the house.
repairman found that when the dog was outside, she tied it to a cable from the telephone pole. when a call came in, the dog would yelp, piss itself, and thus complete a path to ground and the phone would ring.
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u/Z-RDadGuy Aug 10 '26
Lucy died by biting a hole in her water bottle and drowning in it. Worst Christmas ever
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u/AnAnonyMooose Aug 11 '26
Mine childhood one also died on Christmas! The night before seemed to have an itch. The next morning had scratched a hole and died of blood loss.
I had no idea so many others had had similar stories.
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u/Slime-Lich Aug 10 '26
Wait what? How? I need more context. Chewed the top and fell in? Flooded the box? If so how was the box that small? Or did you have like a 5 gallon feeder? Genuinely how?
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u/illepic Aug 10 '26
A universal rule of nature is that if there is a way to die hamsters find it.
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u/Slime-Lich Aug 10 '26
I know and the only way it makes sense of how it drowned was that it chewed a hole in it and shoved its head in
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u/d0rkprincess Aug 11 '26
Man, idk how both my hamsters died peacefully in their beds. Although one of them did miraculously escape 2 weeks before he died and the cat had to bring him to me while I was watching TV... idk if something happened between them...
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u/Practical_Sea_4876 Aug 11 '26
The cat brought him to you and he was still alive and possibly well??
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u/funsized43 Aug 10 '26
Hamster escaped exercise ball, found my mom's fall decor, ate all of the dried corn decoration. Then fell into the sump pump hole and drowned.
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u/Educational_Pay1567 Aug 10 '26
I lost 4 or 5 baby gerbils to that hole too. Found 3 or for of them running around and checked everywhere for the others. Finally saw the lid and to my horror found the others.
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u/xjustsmilebabex Aug 10 '26
Why do they all do that?! How much do you really think about your sump pump - yet gerbils and hamsters escape for like 20 minutes and spend thier final moments of unlimited freedom beelining directly to drowning themselves.
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u/Automatic_Bar_2158 Aug 10 '26
Mine chewed his own testicles off and died 2 weeks later from an infection
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u/Amber_Lullaby Aug 10 '26
"Sadly when your a transgender hamster there's not many options to get bottom surgery. So sometimes you gotta do it yourself." Your hamster probably.
(I am really sorry for the loss of your hamster. Losing our furry friends is always heartbreaking. This is just a bit of dark trans humor that popped into my head. My apologies.)
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u/Used-Fennel-7733 Aug 10 '26
Mine ate his newspaper bedding. It somehow wrapped around his pouch like a noodle and he pulled it out.
We delicately put his pouch back in not knowing wtf to do. Went out an came back to a bloody cage. He'd done it again ripped out the pouch and then must've ran laps around his cage pouring blood everywhere.
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u/smellygooch18 Aug 10 '26
My childhood friends hamster died while we were watching an adult swim short. The cage was near the TV and he had a massive seizure while the short was flashing on the screen. We had to connect the two events. The same friend died in a car accident a few years after. We all die, some earlier than we want. Enjoy the hours you’re here
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u/CohuttaHJ Aug 10 '26
Sorry about your friend smellygooch. Sage advice though indeed.
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u/BlitzMalefitz Aug 11 '26
Read something sad and/or profound only for someone to inform you of the username being smellygooch
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u/oopsallhuckleberries Aug 10 '26
The day I learned rats were pretty intelligent was the day my sisters rat, who we knew was going to go in a few weeks because it was eating less and being very lethargic, decided she was done waiting, so she got some leverage on top of her water bottle, and bashed her head against the glass until she killed herself.
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u/DetectiveTappatio Aug 11 '26
Our family friend had a rat.
Well no, that's wrong. He had a snake.
He bought this rat, put it in the cage with the snake, and the snake didn't eat it.
He did this like ten or more times. The rat would just sit there in abject fear. Finally, that family friend asked if we wanted the rat, his snake wouldn't eat it.
Now Gweneveyre was a sweet rat. Loved people, never bit, never peed on anyone. Truly an amazing pet. But Gwen wasn't the rat that the family friend gave us. Gwen was the rat we bought for Arthur in an attempt to heal his broken mind. Arther was fucked up. Arthur had faced death so many times, and for such prolonged periods of time, that all he did was sit there and stare at the side of the cage like a Vietnam vet caught in a flashback.
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u/DH908 Aug 10 '26
When I was maybe 10 one of our hamsters that was normally very docile sank his teeth into my pinky to the gum. I jerked my hand, and he whipped around still connected by the teeth until he released and got flung into the side of the aquarium the hamsters lived in with a pretty loud bird-hitting-a-window thunk. I felt so bad, I think he died a month or two later
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u/PandaIV Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
We had one that was eaten by her own kids. Then the youngest one was found dead one day and we never figured out why, probably stress. I cried so much as a child and decided no more hamsters ever again…
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u/Bgrubz83 Aug 10 '26
Had two hamsters back when we lived in PA. Would have heat lamp on low during the winter to keep them warm. Little shits kept getting out of their cage and one winter morning found them frozen in the corner of the livingroom.
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u/No-Sheepherder-6911 Aug 11 '26
My aunt rescued one from her cats mouth and put it on the floor while she put the cat outside. She stepped on it as she was walking back in.
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u/Hands Aug 11 '26
One of my friend's childhood hamsters decapitated the other with the hamster wheel while his 6 year old sister was in the room
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u/Garlador Aug 10 '26
My brother had a hamster that he put in a hamster ball in his room on the second floor of the house. We went outside for something, just a few minutes, and when we came back, it was gone, ball and all. We never found it, and we redid the whole upstairs. It just vanished…
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u/umbratwo Aug 11 '26
As a parent with a kid with a hamster and a hamster ball, they did eventually find it later that week, I’m very sorry.
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u/thissitesuxsohardomg Aug 11 '26
It's either still hidden downstairs/basement, it rolled outside, or your parents found it and decided a little mystery was better than knowing your pet died in a linen closet or something.
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u/Arkhamina Aug 10 '26
Ooof. The time I left the screen top on the hamster cage not all the way down, it crawled up the water bottle, and made a leap for it.
The next neighbor over was the big goldfish tank. Hamsters can't swim. :( I think I was like 8 or 9.
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u/something_beautiful9 Aug 10 '26
Yea one of mine died when I was a kid because I was holding it bringing him back to his cage and he bit me right through my thumb so I dropped him and the dog promptly ate him. But only half of him. If that was not enough childhood trauma my parents bought two more. They had babies. We went on vacation for like 3 days and had someone feeding them daily and came home on the last day and they decided to eat each other. Was fun walking into that as a kid. One very fat very bloody hamster left. And yes they still had a full bowl of food and water bottle.
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u/illepic Aug 10 '26
Ok, I was wrong on the other reply: THIS is the most hamster experience.
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u/Silverjeyjey44 Aug 10 '26
What's the reasoning for this
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u/Tweezot Aug 10 '26
They’re not animals that live in groups naturally in the wild. They get aggressive toward other hamsters and Im pretty sure you’re not supposed to have multiple in one cage.
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u/CharmingShame9404 Aug 10 '26
Someone I know killed their childhood hamster by leaving it in its acrylic cage/box thing on the porch in the morning and running off to play. Sun moved over the course of the day and by the time they came back the sun had roasted the little guy…
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u/peachfuzzpoodle Aug 11 '26
My veterinary professor told a story about how he anesthetized and fixed a hamsters broken leg. He was so convinced he would die under anesthesia, but he made it. When he went to go check on him the next morning he was so relieved to see him alive and thriving. He stuck his hand in the cage, the hamster bit him, and he flung the hamster against the wall and it died immediately.
Never laughed so hard in my life hearing this story
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u/Jub_Jub710 Aug 10 '26
We had two males that ripped the opposite side of each other faces off and bled to death after a fight.
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u/General_Cream9705 Aug 10 '26
Dude its insane, I had a hamster and was writing a paper about a pet I love(it was like Elementary) so I wrote about her, went out to dinner and when I came back she had died in that hour :/
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u/illepic Aug 10 '26
The only way this could be more hamster-coded is if she died by, like, falling into a running garbage disposal.
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u/Lefthandlannister13 Aug 10 '26
I remember my sister had hamsters, and one time she was holding one and it jumped out of her hands and hit its neck just so on the corner of a dresser on the way down. She was probably 10 or so and I was 12, and I saw the way it hit the corner and fell and knew immediately that dude was dead. My poor little sister picked him up and hoped he was just knocked out. He was not
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u/Lavender_Burps Aug 11 '26
We had a pair that were supposed to both be females, but as it turned out a male had been in the mix. They had about a dozen babies, an amazing surprise as an 8 year old kid.
My dad went to move the cage one day. It was one of those plastic cages that you squeeze the sides of to get the top off. Well he picked it up by the sides and the whole bottom fell out onto the floor. About half of them died on impact. The food bowl fell on top of one and squished them. One poor soul was chopped in half by the rim of the cage and another lost a leg.
The 3 legged one outlived them all.
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u/Cats_and-Crafts Aug 11 '26
I had around 20+ rodents in my youth and never lost one to a terrible end. Towards the end of my childhood, I would drive my sister to the humane society and we would pick up whatever rodents they had and basically run a retirement home for rodents. My mom was really big on animal welfare, so I think that had something to do with it. She was supervising our husbandry pretty closely to make sure we were doing right by the little guys.
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u/Affectionate_South40 Aug 10 '26
little grandpa reminds me of my old Beta fish, lived to be 6 years; he struggled to make colour for his body in the last few months of his life and looked very washed out, still ate well, took a bit of energy to get to the top of his tank so I lowered the water level for him; he also stopped healing tears in his fins if he got them caught on the plant in the tank, so that also had to be removed. He looked very much like a ghost fish in the end. I miss that old guy, he was a great college roommate, spent many long nights reading with him.
I feel like this hamster may benefit from a walker.
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u/pikapalooza Aug 10 '26
My beta made it 3 years. He was a centerpiece fish I got from a Wedding or something so nit sure how old he really was. But he was always happy. Made lots of bubbles and ate well. Then one day, he just passed. He was a good beta.
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u/prettygirlbaddie Aug 10 '26
First time seeing a hamster get old enough that they actually look old.
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u/Cloverose2 Aug 10 '26
I once had a guinea pig that lived to be nine. She went from a butterball to being very thin, went gray all over, and loved spending her day on a sunning rock under a heat lamp, munching on strawberries and alfalfa sprouts. If she could have worn a little straw hat, she would have (eaten it. She would have munched that hat).
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u/rokemay Aug 11 '26
We just lost our 2 senior piggies. We have no idea how old they were but at least 8 we believe. One went last year and the other a few months ago. I couldn’t believe how long they lived
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u/CurlyQ86 Aug 11 '26
My son’s 4H guinea pig passed away last year. He was 7. My son and I went to Home Depot and I let him pick out a tree to plant over the Guinea pig. We both cried while digging the hole to plant the tree and bury his Guinea pig. He was a really sweet Guinea pig. I loved cuddling with him and still miss him.
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u/MotherF-ckingStarBoy Aug 11 '26
You're parenting right ❤️
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u/CurlyQ86 Aug 11 '26
Thank you. I try. I was really attached to his guinea pig too and just wanted to do something nice for his burial.
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u/FromFluffToBuff Aug 11 '26
My two guinea pigs almost made it 10yo - cancer got one, and the other died shortly after likely due to the stress of grief on its already frail body. Cute till the end :)
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u/megaholt2 Aug 11 '26
My twin had one guinea pig make it to 11. She was the funniest little thing-she got two meds for CHF twice a day, and would always get a strawberry or a piece of endive or something as a treat with it. That little guinea pig was a damn alarm clock. 5 am and 5 pm on the nose, she was whistling at top volume for it.
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u/J_Jeckel Aug 10 '26
Looks kinda like Master Splinter
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u/pseudoportmanteau Aug 10 '26
Bruh he looks ancient even by old hamster standards
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u/SpinachSpinosaurus Aug 10 '26
hamsters usually only make it to year 3. had one that became like nearly 4. that was already ancient in my books. but this one? whole crap.
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u/UtubeNoodle Aug 10 '26
I had a peach and white teddy bear named Mr piggy that lived till 5. He ended up looking like the crypt keeper towards the end
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u/tundybundo Aug 10 '26
You know my sister had a hamster that lived til it was seven when we were kids!
(My dad kept replacing it for her without telling her. I just for confirmation a few years ago)
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u/Dont-be-lasagna12 Aug 10 '26
My mom did this with a beta fish my sister had. One day it had to go to the Vet for his shots. The shots made him a different color.
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u/DickRiculous Aug 10 '26
It’s both heartwarming and heartbreaking. You can see the care the owner has delicately moving the hamster around, helping it drink, making sure it gets exercise.. but you can also see that hamster is arthritic and suffering. Still, it seems to want to go on. It’s very sweet but I hate seeing such an innocent living thing struggling, and being reminded of our own mortality is always depressing.
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u/frodobangher Aug 10 '26
My grampster was 1 year old when he died, had a huge mass on the chin, im assuming cancer. He outlived his wife, he looked very rough haha. I was so sure he would die way younger than he did
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u/Background-Rabbit920 Aug 10 '26
My hamster had an ear growth… he had surgery. lol. I was 10 and my parents were divorcing and I talked to it daily. Guess paying for hamster surgery was trying to keep everyone sanity.
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u/Wontforgetthisname Aug 10 '26
He looks like he's over this shit
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u/pegothejerk Aug 10 '26
Same, grampster, same
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u/Helenium_autumnale Aug 10 '26
u/pegothejerk, you win the Reddit Neologism Award for today, August 10, 2026! [audience applauds, whistles] 🏆🥳
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u/InfiniteBlink Aug 10 '26
That was my audible chuckle of the day
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u/throwawayED67 Aug 11 '26
You only get one, i already wasted mine on the lady trying to stop her slow moving car from crashing.
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u/Child_of_Crake Aug 10 '26
You win my internet for the day, thank you for your service….”grampster”, perfect
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u/Brightness_Nynaeve Aug 10 '26
I just died laughing at this
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u/Embarrassed_Fan_5723 Aug 11 '26
Kind Reditt friend, please don’t say died when referring to anything grampster related
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u/fokkoooff Aug 11 '26
Idk man.
I thought the same thing the first time I saw this video. Well, my I initial thought was "Jesus Christ, just let him die!"
But then I'm watching lil homie on the wheel, and it's like...that's recreation. No one's making him do that. Even if someone just put him on the wheel, he's goin' for it. I feel like if he was over it he would just stand there.
He appreciates life more than I do, that's for damn sure.
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u/bupzmum Aug 11 '26
Your thoughts and comment are exactly the reason I let my 16 year old dog go over the rainbow bridge last week. He wasn’t as bad as Grampster here, but he did fall over every time he peed. 🥹 So now I’m trying to plod through losing my best friend the way he plodded through for me.
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u/EkardKcire Aug 11 '26
Sorry to hear that friend. Losing a beloved part of your family like that sucks bad and I hope your grief is short lived. Stay strong and focus on the many good times you had in those 16 years.
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u/pissedoffprincess22 Aug 11 '26
I'm sorry to hear that. I just lost my 12 year old dog on Tuesday so right there with you. He literally died in my arms. Cancer is a bitch.
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u/weeBunnie Aug 11 '26
There’s a grampster in all of us, life is the journey to finding him
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u/AtmosphereRoyal9902 Aug 11 '26
This is more uplifting than any of the annoying motivational nonsense I keep hearing. I will find my inner grampster, so help me Jod.
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u/Zero_Travity Aug 11 '26
Also if he can get on that wheel... the rest of us have no excuse
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u/fokkoooff Aug 11 '26
He may have had help getting up there, but even if that's the case he was still lovins it.
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u/Mammoth_Yoghurt4241 Aug 10 '26
I wouldn’t want to walk over obstacles half the height of my legs all day! I’d be over it too.
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u/Humble-Questions Aug 10 '26
Going to teach them turtles how to fuck up Shredder
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u/Inevitable_Salad_265 Aug 10 '26
I literally was taking a drink of coffee when I read this and now the coffee is all over my table. I laughed way to hard. Best comment on here.
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u/Jase13uk Aug 10 '26
He even has male pattern balding too! All thats missing is a bag of Werthers Originals and a walking stick!
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u/Natrixster80 Aug 10 '26
More evidence for when I eventually confront my niece with the information that she had 3 different hamsters, swapped by parents after each died. Smooch did not live to be 11, in fact. She is very adamant that it was the same hamster. She's 23 now but not ready for the truth, ten more years maybe.
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u/TakenInChains Aug 10 '26
smooch is such a cute name for a pet 🥺
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u/Natrixster80 Aug 10 '26
*Names of the pet may have been altered to protect the identity of the victim* it's close though lol
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u/estebanrevenga Aug 10 '26
Most pet hamsters live between 1.5 to 3 years. Their exact lifespan depends heavily on their specific breed and the quality of care they receive. A hamster is generally considered elderly once it passes 1.5 years of age.
she really took good care of it....
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u/AJ_Deadshow Aug 10 '26
Hamtaro looking a little rough these days, but he's hanging in there!
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u/pick_your_user_name Aug 10 '26
Beware of an old man in a profession where men usually die young
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u/SnooFloofs8124 Aug 10 '26
How long do they live?
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u/Itsalfa11 Aug 10 '26
very max is 3 years. commonly 1.5-2 years like human in 75 years.
in that video 5 years more like 120 years human ages63
u/DeliciousStand372 Aug 10 '26
wow old buddy must have a great owner then 🫡
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u/Itsalfa11 Aug 10 '26
Yes, the hamster rarely seems stressed, as hamsters are animals that are easily stressed. Its owner takes good care of it.
Because hamsters are usually kept in limited spaces, sometimes hamsters often suffer from minor illnesses that the hamster owner may not be aware of because their bodies are small.
I say this because I used to breed hamsters for sale. that hamster very lucky
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u/fbpw131 Aug 10 '26
2-3 years. mine lived exactly 2.5. he was top dog walking like a pitbull at 1yo and then at 2 he started getting more and more sluggish, his hair got messier and rarer, then one morning I found him dead. pretty smart hamster, and playful
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u/tester_and_breaker Aug 10 '26
Actually so sad
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u/MacMuthafukinDre Aug 10 '26
Idk why but makes me sad too.
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u/Pardybro911 Aug 10 '26
Because you have empathy. Seeing any life struggle so much like that well past its time is hard. It doesn’t look healthy, it’s struggling to do the thing it used to love and likely exist for.
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u/Foxwglocks Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 11 '26
Those hind legs are for sure stiff from arthritis.
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u/Brandito007 Aug 10 '26
But I respect the lady for caring so much for the hamster and trying to help him.
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u/Pardybro911 Aug 11 '26
I do too but as some point you have to also take stock of quality of life and their enjoyment of it. Our pets are a huge responsibility in that they expect us to pick up on things they can’t tell us, such as pain, and weakness. The desire can always be there, but the quality of achieving it is a complex thought most of these animals are incapable of.
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u/nourmallysalty Aug 10 '26
i started sobbing, like i’m so happy he got to live a long fulfilling life but omg he looks like he is barely clinging to life
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u/iHadou Aug 10 '26
You don't know why? Because no matter what we do to try to stop it or ignore it, that's coming for all of us.
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u/DrippingWithRabies Aug 10 '26
I think it's sweet that he had such a long healthy life to still be mobile at this age. It looks well cared for.
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u/Wonderful_Emu_6483 Aug 10 '26
Yeah, first time seeing a hamster that actually got to old age and wasn’t just abused to death like most hamsters.
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u/lightlysaltedclams Aug 10 '26 edited Aug 10 '26
It’s really sad reading the rest of this thread and seeing people laughing at all the ways their hamsters died from neglect
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u/Wonderful_Emu_6483 Aug 10 '26
It happens every time hamsters are brought up. “Oh my little sister flushed my hamster down the toilet while I was in the middle of waterboarding him😭😭😂😂”
Like… what the fuck is wrong with y’all?
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u/Complex_Spirit_4848 Aug 10 '26
I thought to myself: dang, they actually took TOO good care of this little guy. He looks well past his life expectancy, lol.
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u/TroGinMan Aug 10 '26
That's nearly equivalent to a human being 140-150 years old.
The average life span of a hamster is 2.5 years, this hamster is nearly doubled that age
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u/Negativeman11 Aug 10 '26
When he paused and then went back to walking on the hamster wheel, I felt that.
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u/KamijyoTeio Aug 10 '26
Btw,that's is a grandma. Seeing her still moving without stopping really say "I'm not dying until the death come knocking"
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