Why am I the only one in this family......

[Claudia1]

....that finds the missing hampsters! I'm the only one in our family that doesn't like small animals. I never mistreat them but I just don't enjoy them.

DS noticed yesterday that one of his remaining 4 hampsters (down from 6 last fall) was missing. Since DGD sometimes plays on a blanket on the floor, we all tried very hard it find it.

Well, today, when everybody is gone, I walk by the hampster cage and happened to inhale. BIG MISTAKE!!! Yep, that little dwarf hampster had been "buried" by its roommate quite some time ago. I can just barely see it.

I put out a powerful ordor killer and will let DH deal with it after work. I just can't make myself do it!

I guess we should have not forced them to do the dwarf hampster version of "Survivor". He must have been voted out of the cage and refused to go alive. Now we will have to do a murder investigation and deal with those pesky yellow police tapes. Hmmmm..... I wonder how they will do a chalk line on the bedding.......

Anybody know how to make a hampster talk?!?!?!

 

[browneyes]

Originally posted by Claudia1
[BAnybody know how to make a hampster talk?!?!?! [/B]

Yes, I do. The next time you get in the urge to get a hamster, get one of those little fake dancing ones that will dance and sing (aka talk) with the push of a little button.

Sorry your hamster died.

 

[holycow]

I don't blame you for not liking them...I have a hard time with small creatures too!...yeck!

Hope your DH will be home early tonight!

HC

 

[Bumbles]

I've not had a problem with hamsters but I have a friend of mine who is forever losing his gerbil.....bigger than a hamster, but still small enough to go where you don't need them to

 

[Tiggerkeeper]

Sorry, you were the unlucky one to find the critter. I am always the one who finds chipmunks floating in the fountain on the patio!Ugh! I just don't like 'em!

TK

 

[cinlee3]

Sorry about the hamster. I am the only one in my family who could catch the gerbils. I don't like little critters like that either. We now have a sugar glider which I absolutely hate - and they live to be about 10 or 15 years. DS is the only one who can catch her because she bonded to him.

 

[gravymom]

When we were kids, my mother worked the night shift as a nurse. One of our gerbils got out and she saw it when she got home. Only problem was, she thought it was a mouse and reached for the broom. You can guess the outcome. The parents tried to replace the gerbil but apparently gerbils don't play nice with newcomers so we eventually found out that Mom killed the pet. Not a shining family moment...

 

[Claudia1]

Cinlee3, what is a sugar glider?

 

[Taterillus]

Hamsters are by nature solitary animals. Putting more than one syrian hamster in a cage is asking for trouble. Some of the dwarf species can be kept in pairs. I don't think that more than 2 of them in a cage after they are more than 8 weeks old is a smart idea.

 

[ChiTownZee]

Some of the dwarf species can be kept in pairs.

And they should be from the same litter.

 

[Claudia1]

They were brothers that have been together for 4 months. We suspect natural causes and don't see any evidence of "foul play".

Acutally, we think it fatally injured itself. There is a small hole at the top of the cage that can be used for a running tube. We usually keep it plugged because their exercise wheel is directly underneath it. The little creatures climb on top of the wheel and throw themselves up toward the hole, attempting to escape. Twice, our DS has left the hole open and one escaped. They keep trying to get out, even with the hole it closed. We think that he injured himself from his acrobatics.

 

[Serena]