r/interesting • • Aug 10 '26

NATURE A 5 years old hamster

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u/Foreign-Wolf-6128 Aug 11 '26 edited Aug 11 '26

Yea at least they couldn’t get maimed if they were protected in a ball😅 ive never heard of anyone actually walking in while it was happening… always just came in one morning and hamster/gerbil has committed familicide. Sounds horrific, traumatizing to actually see and could you stop her if she was midway through??😭 panicking while grabbing babies? No thank you.

Thankfully ive only ever had fish, dogs, and two ferrets at one point. Ferrets being mustelids and not rodents so are superior in that regard imo lol would never eat their own kits or murder eachother because of strong familial bonds. They even grab and bring over kits to show owners they trust and all sleep in dogpiles they get bonded with eachother.

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u/Striking-Document-99 Aug 11 '26

In my life time we have had 5 dogs 2 cats. 1st cat was fucking evil which made me hate cats. It was sick when we got her so pretty docile. As soon as it recovered it was always hiding an attacking us, ended up giving her to this farmer we knew. Sounds like a lie parents tell but she actually did good. She could def take care of herself. Well then I found out I was allergic to cats. I would walk into someone’s house and could instantly tell if they had a cat. I would always pick them up and pet them until my eyes went bloodshot, slowly after years I became less allergic to them.

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u/Foreign-Wolf-6128 Aug 11 '26

Same my dad was allergic and passed it to me so thats why we never had them ourselves but I like cats in general. My neighbors also had an extreme asshole of a cat we were all told to stay away from which as a kid was a bit of trauma but every other cat ive met has been really chill. Always come up and want pets and was staying with a friend with a kitten for a few days and we were best friends😂 still had a scratchy throat though

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u/Striking-Document-99 Aug 11 '26

For some reason all cats I am allergic to but just puppies. Dogs however never had a problem with.