Be careful before burying your hamster

Person_one

cla666 wrote: »

To make you understand her warped ways....this is the sister who took my whole collection of around 30 barbie dolls, broke them in various ways and opened an accident and emergency dolls ward. And I mean properly snapped them to bits. Weird child. :rotfl::rotfl:

That's perfectly normal, surely?

System

Now i will have nightmares as our hamster died a couple of months ago and i left the prodding and the poking to hubby. What if he didnt poke and prod him enough?

On the plus side, my house isnt cold so i am hoping i'm worrying for nothing.

the_pink_panther_2

Judi wrote: »

Now i will have nightmares as our hamster died a couple of months ago and i left the prodding and the poking to hubby. What if he didnt poke and prod him enough?

On the plus side, my house isnt cold so i am hoping i'm worrying for nothing.

I don't think it's been cold enough this year (until the last few days) for your hamster to have been hibernating... If hamster was stiff, that's a pretty sure sign he wasn't hibernating... My hamster definitely had been cold (not just a bit cold either), I can't imagine it could have happened unless your house had been pretty cold.

tinktinktinkerbell

we always try to warm our hams up just to make sure and we leave it 2-3 days before burying

Slinky

As a child I was helping my friend who lived across the road clean out her hamster's cage. Foolishly we were doing this in the garden. Hamster made a bid for freedom and disappeared into the hedge between her house and the one next door. We couldn't find it. Oh dear, end of poor hamster............ or so we thought. A few weeks (maybe 3 or 4) later my friend's dad was driving up the road one evening, spotted a neighbour's cat playing with something in the road. He got out to investigate and discovered the perfectly healthy hamster being prodded by the cat. So he managed to retrieve the hamster and it lived out its life in its cage.

Now I think of it, my dad was walking to work one day and spotted a white rabbit in the entrance to a field. He managed to catch it, brought it home. We remembered that one had gone missing maybe 6 months before from the street which backed on to ours (and in which I now live). So dad and us kids went round and knocked on a few doors, and found the house. You could tell the owners really didn't believe the story about it being found in a field........... I bet they thought we'd had it and got fed up with it. I wonder where it had been for all that time.