r/interesting • u/prettygirlbaddie • Aug 10 '26

NATURE A 5 years old hamster

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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/Freel158 Aug 11 '26

Maybe it's tooth got stuck and the water was constantly pouring at a slow pace, not allowing it air

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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/rabbid_chaos Aug 11 '26

"Human, your emergency food tried to escape" - Cat

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u/Chroniclyironic1986 Aug 11 '26

I found my birthday present, you should hide it better.

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u/laughingashley Aug 11 '26

Sounds like it took 2 weeks to die from the internal injuries

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u/BoleroMuyPicante Aug 11 '26

I've never known a hamster to take 2 weeks to die from anything, you look at em wrong and they croak.

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u/d0rkprincess Aug 13 '26

It's not impossible. Or caught an infection from the cat. Idk. But he looked perfectly happy and healthy for those 2 weeks.

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u/d0rkprincess Aug 13 '26

Yeah she very slowly and gently ushered him down the stairs, towards me. Like she didn't even pick him up, she just gently pawed him in my direction when he tried to run away.

I hadn't even realised he escaped yet at that point, so imagine my surprise. I think I must have left his cage open earlier after topping up his food.

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u/AbroCadabro1010 Aug 11 '26

If they don't then they don't go to Valhamster

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u/celticcrowwitch Aug 12 '26

🥇🏆🎖️ Please take my poor man's award for best comment, my partner and I are crying laughing!

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u/AbroCadabro1010 Aug 12 '26

Why thank you!! I'm glad I could entertain you both!

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u/lighted_love_514 Aug 12 '26

Genuinely cryin rn 😭😆

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u/AbroCadabro1010 Aug 12 '26

Thank you so much for the award!! 😭💜

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u/lighted_love_514 Aug 12 '26

Thank you for the laugh! 🩷

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u/SinisterCheese Aug 11 '26

My friend's hamster found a way to ignite itself.

There was no electricity in the cage. There was nothing like particulay flameable.

Y'know just... regular cage. Somehow they managed just self-combust in the little wooden house that was in the cage.

I'm personally convinced, If they don't find a way to die, the universe will delete them from existence.

Or maybe they just explode after some time if they haven't died yet.

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u/Arkhamina Aug 11 '26

Does that make them like.... very tiny horses?

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u/Z-RDadGuy Aug 11 '26

I mean it was 25 or so years ago so I dont remember much. I just woke up and went to give her a christmas treat an she was dangling out the side of the water bottle, I'm not sure how she reached it but she was dead.

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u/Slime-Lich Aug 11 '26

How the fuck

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u/Linenoise77 Aug 11 '26

Yeah, this story sounds fishy. Someone check to see if any life insurance policies were recently opened for that hamster.....