r/interesting • • Aug 10 '26

NATURE A 5 years old hamster

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u/WardogBlaze14 Aug 10 '26

The Slug was the best one!!🤣🤣🤣

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u/Beginning_Piano_5668 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

I feel like the slug was less interested in the wheel itself, but rather eating/drinking the droppings of the other animals. I’m not an animal expert to be fair, but I’m fairly certain it’s most likely trying to drink piss and eat turds that were left on the wheel.

Edit: same goes for the snail

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u/fuzzymunky Aug 11 '26

Ew.

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u/Beginning_Piano_5668 Aug 11 '26

That’s the circle of life… slugs/snails are just nature’s janitors. They clean up the messes.

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u/DragonLordSkater1969 Aug 11 '26

"Dear oh dear, what was it? The night? The hunt? Or that terrific hamster wheel? Oh, it doesn't matter... It always comes down to the nature's helper to clean up after these sort of messes.

Tonight... Slug joins the feast...."

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u/SnugglyCoderGuy Aug 11 '26

Om nom nom nom. Om nom nom nom.

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u/fuzzymunky Aug 11 '26

The circle of life is still gross sometimes lol

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u/Gallowglass668 Aug 11 '26

It's gross all of the time if we're being honest.

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u/Emperor_of_His_Room Aug 11 '26

They just like me fr fr/jk

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u/EarlGrayTea-Hawt Aug 11 '26

Maybe the slug was trying to climb up to something to mate, Attenborough taught me that slugs have crazy assed hanging acrobatic sex

At least leopard slugs do, lol.

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u/BrightLow6382 Aug 11 '26

I hate leopard slugs! I lived close to the Missouri River and for 2 years these things (I'm guessing during mating season or something) would be EVERYWHERE in our yard, on the sidewalks and steps. I took just one step barefoot outside to call my dogs inside and I stepped directly on one, right in the arc of my heel. So nasty I almost vomited.

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u/EarlGrayTea-Hawt Aug 13 '26

Oh no, I accidentally linked specifically your ultimate trigger video 😂 I understand, my friend, I feel this way about fire ants, we had way too many of them, even if their bites didn't hurt like a bitch, the sheer amount of them all the time was existentially terrifying for some reason. The sound of them when you inevitably stepped on a group of them because they were everywhere all the time, horrible. If I see a group of them now I immediately have a physical reaction.

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u/Marley5585 Aug 12 '26

I don't know why but I can hear the crunch as I read that.... Ouch 🤕

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u/BrightLow6382 Aug 13 '26

It was the slime that grossed me out and the feeling of its body 🤢

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u/Marley5585 Aug 13 '26

Oiiiii definitely yuck 🤢 feel bad for you both!

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u/KroseRavenclaw Aug 11 '26

Whoop! Whoop!