Our hamster is dying as I type

Jo6673

He's laid in his bedding in his house- my boy just picked him up and moved him a bit- all I can do is check on him now
I have done all the more helpful suggestions you've given

I'm not a hamster murderer, I adore them but I'm at my wits end watching him breathe his last- why do ours never die in the night!

The last one got a blessing and a funeral as my stepmum is a vicar!

Fleago

I know just how you feel, Jo. We've only had one hamster, years ago, but we went through what you're going through now when he died.

kittykate_2

sorry i just had this mental picture of a lady putting a hamster in a box and cackling as it couldn't breathe. i'm not saying that's you, jo, im sure you aren't like that - you sound real upset.

i would just make it comfy and then go out and hope it was dead when i came back. perhaps that says a lot about me - hoping bad problems sort themselves out.

Jo6673

Kittykate- He was in his bed on the lid and I put the bowl over the top- he didn't flinch- neither did he suffocate as he kept breathing so I moved it away
He is still going!
Thanks for your concern but I am here going through this with him and I do love him and wouldn't have done that in the 1st place if I thought he would suffer for me doing it
As it is he is still breathing- albeit more and more shallow

Jo6673

I'm not getting any pleasure out of this!

GibsonSt19

I've heard that a (biodegradable) carrier bag, an elastic band, a brick, and a river/lake/deepish puddle can ease hamsters into their inevitably sad, but painless 'afterlife'.

Sorry, a joke, in bad taste

Personally, I had a hamster that died of a stiffy.

No, really!

He clung to the side of his cage for three days, gnawing away at the bars (as hamsters do), and it was only during this time we realised he was a bloke hamster. He was sporting a rather impressive appendage.

We woke up one morning to find him on his back in the cage, quite astonishingly STILL achieving a seriously awesome and disproportionately large erection (I wasn't jealous, honestly), in death. Now THAT'S impressive.

I had a sneaky suspicion about something, called TRANSCO, who when I told them our hamster had died and we'd been experiencing headaches, rushed round instantly to sort out an old, and most death inducing, fireplace.

I find it amazing that the Lord would bless us with such a cheap method for carbon monoxide detection.

But in all honestly, and joking aside, I was sad that we'd lost 'Cow', our fresian flavoured furry friend.

Also, my wife was somewhat dismayed to find that carbon monoxide didn't have the same effects on human males, as it did on hamster guys.

Jo6673

kittykate wrote:

sorry i just had this mental picture of a lady putting a hamster in a box and cackling as it couldn't breathe. i'm not saying that's you, jo, im sure you aren't like that - you sound real upset.

i would just make it comfy and then go out and hope it was dead when i came back. perhaps that says a lot about me - hoping bad problems sort themselves out.

Thats why I'm sat in here talking to you guys rather than watching him and asking for support!
Hoping when I go through next time he'll have gone

chatta

Jo6673 wrote:

Thats why I'm sat in here talking to you guys rather than watching him and asking for support!
Hoping when I go through next time he'll have gone

Hope you feel supported, xxxxxx

kittykate_2

Jo6673 wrote:

Kittykate- He was in his bed on the lid and I put the bowl over the top- he didn't flinch- neither did he suffocate as he kept breathing so I moved it away
He is still going!
Thanks for your concern but I am here going through this with him and I do love him and wouldn't have done that in the 1st place if I thought he would suffer for me doing it
As it is he is still breathing- albeit more and more shallow

oh god, i got the wrong end of the stick pretty bad then!!! i'm sorry chick i'm just a peaceful person. hopefully, he'll be in peace soon. (((hugs)))

Jo6673

Yes thanks guys- little Minky will do too i'm sure!

Woke at 3 this morning and spent 2 hours wondering where to bury him- he's usualy doing a Linford Christie in his wheel at that time and the silence was awful!
The last one died as my parents happened to be here and took him in a ferrero rocher box- perfect casket for a hamster- to their large garden! They took him out the box as its not very bio-degradable!

We've got a postage stamp of a garden and there are cats everywhere- but I've found a little area under some gravel where I don't think they would find him