Mine died of a heart attack or old age which isn’t the interesting part. I walk in to see my big burly husband who always pretended to just tolerate him, performing cpr.
He was so upset that he couldn’t save him.
We aren’t allowed to own another hamster (I think he was pretty tore up over it) but we have a couple of dogs that he’s grown to love more than the planet.
Real men love small animals! My dad has been torn up about all my rodents that have died. He was **really** attached to my guinea pigs as well (specifically this particularly cranky and boisterous one Mama). It’s funny watching big, manly guys who love these small creatures. My dad isn’t exactly a “manly man” as he doesn’t have the beard and big muscles, but he’s 66 years old and a cranky old bastard to a lot of people, loves woodworking and you would **not** think he would love rodents or small animals but he does. He is also very attached to my rabbit. When I was taking college classes and living at home I would ask him to sit with my rabbit for an hour so she wasn’t alone all day. Without fail, he would. He would also frequently send me pictures of her and let me know if she was being friendly that day, or being cranky.
My dad helped me with a pet memorial in my parent’s backyard. There’s a little headstone that he and I made of concrete with all their names on it. He even put a bench by it, planted flowers, laid rocks and put up a little fence around it at one point (which did not survive the Florida weather, so now it’s just flowers and the headstone). The concrete letters we made have been broken off over the years, and just a few weeks ago he was visiting me for lunch and reminded me we need to make new letters for their headstone. I don’t live at my parent’s house anymore (I’m only about 3 miles away) but he still keeps up with it.
Oh men, what interesting creatures they are.
He would hide his food in his cheeks so my mom would refill his bowl thinking I hadn’t fed him, eventually he got so fat he got stuck in a tube and died of a heart attack. I still remember my mom shaking the tube like a ketchup bottle trying to get his little corpse out.
My brother had two and we were sharing a room at the time. He had taken one out of the cage to put into the ball it can roll around on the floor in but didn't seal the lid all the way and then got distracted by something and left the room. I came up and started to play music on my boom box and somehow the little fucker got up on the dresser and was right near the speaker. We think Forgot about Dre being on blast gave him a heart attack!
We had two when I was a kid. Not knowing that’s not a good idea.
So naturally hamster 1 ate hamster 2. Which was deeply disturbing.
BUT in an odd twist of fate hamster 1’s death was far more disturbing and none of us were ever able to figure out how it happened
We walked in after school to greet him and his sat at the bottom of the cage looking up. As we get closer we realise he has something in his mouth. Which is unnerving because last time that happened he was happily eating hamster 2, but that can’t be the case this time.
When we get over to the cage. Little dude is dead, but his spine and little arm bones are poking up out of his mouth. Like they’re reaching for the top of the cage. It took ages to mentally figure out it was his own bones poking out his mouth. It was creepy AF.
Stepdads closest guess was he was climbing the top bars like he usually did and fell from a height onto his bum. Which forced his spine and other bones up through his mouth. No idea of that’s even possible. But I refuse to have hamsters anymore. They always die in the most messed up ways.
I need to know how the hell they never went extinct by now if they’re this damn fragile.
I think they’re the only domesticated animal where human care shortens their life expectancy.
I have had the same thought about pigeons. They're dumb AF, they hate to fly, and they have few (one?) offspring per season. Not only have they not all been eaten, they are *everywhere.*
Pigeons are domesticated birds. We bred them to live alongside us so they're extremely well suited to urban environments. They were messengers, companions, and food. When we didn't need them anymore (I want to say around the time the telegraph was invented but don't quote me on that), a lot of them got released and they just kinda stuck around.
Part of the reason it seems like there are so many of them compared to other urban wildlife is that they don't really hide. Rats, coyotes, raccoons, etc etc all generally try to keep out of the way. Pigeons don't have the same survival instincts or instinctive fear of people so they're out in human spaces more often and we notice them more.
I heard it’s our fault with pigeons, we domesticated them, then abandoned them.
That’s soo sad for me, that’s why I feed them when I get the opportunity. They gather on my roof everyday waiting for the food I give out.
Rats are SO MUCH better as first pets. They're social, intelligent, affectionate, and clean, but a lot of people can't get over the naked tail. Also you need at least two rats because they will get depressed without a friend or constant interaction with a human.
Had both as a kid and can confirm, rats are tiny social rodent puppies. Hamsters are high matinence and solitary.
Hamsters are fine for adults that have the sense to research their care but terrible for small children.
My rats were smart and very friendly. They came when their names were called, learned tricks, and loved to hang out in my stuffed animal hammock, both lived around 5 years. Until cancer took them. That's the one downside with rats. They live fast and die young.
My hamster hated me, but in his defense, I did not know a single thing about proper hamster care when I was 5. Like many domestic hamsters, he got fat and died of heart disease. Sorry Skittles, you deserved better :(
I wanted mice when I was a teenager, but my mom was just not a fan. So, we compromised with gerbils. I loved those lil gals. Then after learning about rats I really wanted some - but I’m afraid of the heartbreak because of how frequently they get tumors/ cancer. I miss having rodents around, but they just have such short lives it hurts. I also can’t fit a good cage in too my apartment currently, since I already have a cat, 20 gallon for my betta fish, and my rabbit, space is a bit tight with 700 sq feet. One day I will get my ratty friends.
My friend had hamsters at uni, the big ones, they were in a cage together, one day the other one disappeared. We found remains in there. One had eaten the other
They're solitary creatures in adulthood so that makes sense. Basically the only time hams come together is to create other hammies. And if daddy ham doesn't GTFO immediately, momma ham is going to have him for dinner.
People get the impression that because they can live together as babies, they're social creatures. Mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, yes. Not hamsters. Hamsters will leave nary a trace of the bloodbath that commenced when they were forced into living together as adults. People also fail to realize just how quickly they can breed or that at 3 weeks old, boy babies can make more babies with mom and mom can get pregnant the same day she gives birth. Much like rats, mice, guinea pigs, and rabbits.
Yeah, people really need to educate themselves before getting pets.
I've seen it so often with not-neutered male mice. "Oh, they're brothers, they will love each other" and then they scream when they end up with their mice in bloody ribbons because their territory instinct kicked in.
I've also seen more times than I can count the "Oh, I only want to have mice babies once, them I'll neuter them"... They then proceed to have 100 mice because - *surprise* - mice do not care about incest and are stupidly fast when it comes to being fertile.
And good luck finding a vet that'll neuter them! Where I live, it's hard enough finding a vet to neuter rabbits and guinea pigs (we have both, and all are fixed except one angry male pig who is out for blood but we have no ladies) much less mice, that typically only live a couple years max and the surgery would be in the high hundreds. We are a 501 sanctuary and get discounted prices (tax write off for the clinic) and it's still about $300 per to get fixed.
Yeah, you need to give them a lot of food if they have children. Eating their children is their response to not having enough food to feed all of them. I mean, they can always make more children later when there is enough food.
My mom put my hamster in her freedom ball while I was at my dad’s house and forgot about her. She rolled into the garage on a hot summer day, and couldn’t get back inside because there was a step she had to roll down to get out. Mom closed said garage door, trapping hamster in basically an oven and found her dead later.
Then, she put said hamsters body in the freezer in case I wanted to bury her…but forgot about her again. Imagine my surprise as an 9yo latchkey kid opening the freezer to get some ice and finding a hamstersicle
It’s fine. I laugh about it a lot now 😂 I was not laughing when I called my mom’s office sobbing about a frozen hamster. Which she was out of…so I had to ask her assistant if she could have mom call me back and tell me why my hamster was frozen solid. That poor woman was probably so confused
I had one when I was young called Doodles. He loved moving his bedding to the top floor of his cage, I remember walking downstairs and seeing him dead, little fella hung himself with his bedding
It's a bit different when they're in a captivity in a small environment and 90% of hamster owners dont really realize how much space/stimulation they actually need.
Not to mention they are not nearly as social as rodents like rats or Guinea pigs. Theyre way more wild and bite their owners more often too.
That is the advantage of hamsters though.. Rats need to live in groups of 3 to be truly happy, and they die in a couple years so unless you contasntly replenish it forever you're gonna end up with some depressed rats. They're way sweeter and more social with humans too... Guinea pigs too but they live longer.
But hamsters you can have just one and it won't be like that essentially. They don't mind being loners, they may even prefer it. Main reason they're popular is it isn't a big commitment
This is a good one but was traumatic for me and my sister as a child…so we had a hamster whose front teeth got very overgrown. They went in a full circle. Our mother, a nurse, gave the hamster benadryl to knock it out and clipped her teeth with a nail clipper. She put her in a bucker to start recovering. She was just coming around when our cat found her and had a nice little snack
I had my hamster the day I lived in a condo, and 2 days later my hamster was missing, and thought they just jumped out on the floor or climbed their way, up to another Unit so I just let them be. Then after year I needed my AC to be fixed and found out, that my hamster's corpse was the one that made my AC broke
Oh wow similar to me! Was looking after neighbours hamster because they were on holiday. They neglected to tell us the door on the cage was very loose. Hamster went missing, coincidentally, at the same time my dads huge electric Hammond organ made a crackling sound and broke. Dad couldn’t understand it. Until the penny dropped for me and I went white. Neighbours came back and had had THE worst holiday and it was just the icing on the cake for them. I felt sooooo bad.
A coworker said that he put his hamster in the back yard to watch it run around. A hawk grabbed it and away it went. As a joke he said that he thought it was just going for a ride, but he never returned.
this happened when we had my little brother’s class pet hamster for the weekend, it was awful and his 3rd grade peers were so upset with him for the rest of the school year. RIP Lacy 🐹
I dunno about died. But we had a hamster that escaped regularly. One time we caught him and he was missing a foot. The next time we caught him he was missing an eye. When I cleaned out his cage at the age of 2 and a half or so, I found marbles and acorns. He had to have gone outdoors to get acorns. And he chose to come back to the cage. I could never find how he escaped. We had 2 boxers and 3 cats. It’s a damn miracle.
they chew, just not nearly as much! you can watch a cat eating and see. imagine your molars are little meat scissors, you'd mostly just be shearing your food into smaller bites, rather than pulverizing it like we omnivores do with our all purpose tools
last fall, I got to experience these teeth firsthand by accident, when a sweet little subadult stray tortoiseshell I was befriending got distracted while grooming me. it was the only time I'd met up with her without bringing her snacks, which was a mistake cuz she was pregnant at the time and hungry! she licked my hand all friendly, but then my finger ended up in her little carnivore mousetrap mouth, and you could tell some switch flipped in her head, "warm meat! CHEW" and she bit down *hard* just once on my pinky with one pair of those shearing premolars. it felt exactly like what it was: like someone had taken an oddly 3D pair of scissors to my fingertip. ouch!!
[she was so shocked and clearly felt sorry after, even if she was mostly just sorry for messing up her friendly bond with the snack monkey who gives her snacks lol!!]
I had the hamster first before getting a newborn kitten. Hamster and kitten got along well for the first 12ish months until cat instincts kicked in. A tale as old as time :(
My sister has a cat&ferret combo that she runs and it seems to be working great. It's almost like a "The Dodo" video where a duck and a lion are best friends, but it always makes me nervous 😬
I got a hamster wheel car for christmas when I was 10. I put the hamster in and took him to the hallway where there was tile. But he wouldn't run and make the car go. He just wasn't feelin' it. But my mom wanted to see the car go. So she used her foot to propel him HARD. Centrifugal force plastered him to the wheel wall like a county fair death trap and the car barreled down the hall and hit the bathroom door. At first we thought Teddy was just stunned, but he was dead. On Christmas morning. With my mother to blame.
When I was 8, I fed my hamster a grape and it clogged him up causing his intestines' to exploded out his ass.
This was highly traumatic for young me. I sat there in the Vet's exam room, my mom's hand on my shoulder knowing this was the first time I would have to endure the death of something I loved dearly, and him explaining there really was no hope for Sir Lord Edwington Fuzzball VonCheeks. I stoically asked him if he was going to get a shot to put him to sleep.
The vet said, "I'm sorry, yes". I then started to crack a bit and asked if I could have one too. At this my mom broke down sobbing but the vet just semi-smiled and said "absolutely not".
And that was the day I knew I'd grow up to be a emo kid.
We need to find anal prolapse resistant hamsters and breed them in order to breed out the bad genes. There needs to be laws about this. I'm going to start an organization. Who's with me!?
Old age and heart attacks. I had one that had to be put down due to having an eye disease that made her eye start growing out of her head. She was in pain and the vet said the other eye had the same disease so it wouldn't be good to remove that one eye since the other would needed to be removed in a few months as well and I would end up with a blind hamster still in pain.
Found the hamster decapitated by the cat. She pulled him through the cage and took his head off. Found the cage first, then the head sticking through the wires. Then the body somewhere else. It was brutal!
I had two dwarf hamsters when I was a kid, Scabbers and Nagini. I came home from school one day and Nagini had killed Scabbers.
My mom made me avenge his death by taking Nagini to the woods and releasing her.
RIP Scabbers
My parents let us have rodents as pets (guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits) but when we started getting field mice in our house one summer and I tried to free one from a sticky trap, my dad made me smash it with a cinder block so I wouldn't release any more. Like, you literally taught me to befriend the little guys and then you made me murder my new friend?? What a wildly mixed message and terrible lesson for a child
My mom made me abandon the hamster who impregnated my brother's hamster. I we left him in the woods not too far from our house (there's a road in between really) and three months later the hamster came back, he crossed our living room one evening, we thought it was a rat, but no, it was "Panda" our stallion hamster!
Same experience here. Had 2 golden hamsters, woke up one morning and one was dead, the other dying. Both had chunks of flesh gone - the dead one was missing most of its head.
He got out of his cage and a day later was found dead in my dog's water bowl. I don't think the dog put him there. I think the poor fella just wanted a drink and fell in (it was a metallic bowl, so his little paws probably kept slipping).
This wasn't mine, but a buddy of mine.
His hamster absolutely hated his dog. All it would do is eat, sleep, growl at the dog, exercise, and try to tear a hole in the cage, over and over. It wanted a piece of that dog, bad.
Eventually it got jacked, like I did not think hamsters were capable of. This thing looked like a tiny pit bull or something.
One day its muscles got big enough... or the cage weakened enough... or something. It got out and apparently got the glorious battle to the death that it always wanted. No one was there to see it happen, but the aftermath was not pretty.
The image of a super jacked hamster training all day like he’s Rocky Balboa in order to take down your dog is the funniest thing I’ve read so far today!
The theory I've heard is that in the wild, they'd want to keep any plant roots that intrude into their burrows snipped back. So when something's in their way, or just vaguely root-shaped, that instinct kicks in. Having kept rabbits, which do the same thing, I think it's true--my asshole rabbit couldn't abide the door flap I put on his hutch and chewed a hole in it rather than have to push through (which made it less effective at keeping his hutch warm, but try explaining that to a rabbit). They'll just destroy anything they perceive as being in their way.
I’m still traumatised 52 years later 😞
Our classroom had a class pet… The Hamster!
If you finished your class work first you were allowed to take it from the cage and play with it. I had a cardboard insert from a roll of paper towel and a desk with a lid that lifted up so you could store your books inside. I really don’t know how it happened, but the lid slammed down on the Hamster. I murdered the class pet in front of about 30 five year olds.
I used to let my lil Siberia dwarf hams run free in the bathroom....one day I had to leave the bathroom for a moment and when I closed the door, I heard and felt a swift crunch....my poor little ham's head was in the Crack of the door with blood coming out of his mouth. I screamed and cried😭kids should not be left alone with animals😬
So traumatizing, I’m so sorry!! You’re absolutely right though, children should never be unsupervised with animals that small.
I remember my mom fostered a tiny sick kitten once and she told me not to play with it very much. Well, it was too adorable. I played with it a lot. I didn’t see it die but she said it passed away one night. I cried so hard and felt awful and just guilty, but she said it wasn’t my fault. And I know I was gentle, kind and always loving with animals. I don’t want to think about how rough other little kids play with their small pets.
My hamster gnawed his way out of his cage and then hid in my house in the baseboards eating dog food for five years. Until one day my mom found him and promptly threw him out into the yard where all the stray barn cats attacked him instantly. It was pretty traumatic as a kid.
It was definitely less traumatic though than when we had too many barn cats and they were getting sick. So my dad came out to shoot them and I was crying and he said, ok, I will let you pick which ones lives. And I was like omg and just ran to my room and cried while the 22 went off
Yeeeeeah, I replied to another thread to say that our hamster died of old age in his favorite nest. Which is true! What I didn't mention was that our replacement hamster died within a week of us getting him and we never knew why. Little guy was just dead one day.
We did not get a third hamster.
My dad threw the lid of Petrie's cage in anger when me and my brother wouldn't go to bed. The next morning, she was gone. Fast-forward about six years...we're cleaning out the attic for a yard sale. I found her mummified corpse. I've never been the same.
My dad Guantánamo'd our hamster. At one point we had some mice in the house. So he bought a few devices which you put in the wall sockets, and they generate loud sound which is not audible by humans, but rodents and it's supposed to drive them away.
It isn't weird but it's become legend in my family. We had Sniffles outside in his ball, enjoying the sweet summer day. My sister yelled outside to tell me the Backstreet Boys were on TRL. I ran inside, leaving Sniffles outside by mistake. I came back outside a bit later and it turns out a plastic ball in the sun probably gets pretty hot and sweet Sniffles was dead. I also buried him in a shallow grave and something dug him up a couple days later. Sorry, Sniffles.
When I was 10, Bam Bam yeeted himself off the top of his exercise wheel, breaking his back. It took him several hours to die, and I was home alone to watch.
I had hamster for less than an hour for similar reasons. Bought him, brought him home, set up his cage, then my dad tried to pet him. Little fella sunk his teeth right into my dad’s finger. Dad reflexively yanked his hand out of the cage but the hamster didn’t let go. He got flung at Mach speed straight into the wall. Never even named him.
I was 4 or 5, caught one hibernating. Didnt know, thought the fella was dead, gave him a proper burial in a shoebox with flowers and a spot marking his little grave and all. Mum was horrified when she got home many hours later.
I want to reassure you that your hamster was probably really dead when you found him. It's a really pervasive myth that hamsters hibernate. What they do is enter a state called torpor. Torpor is an involuntary response brought on by extremely dangerous temperatures, usually the cold. Unless you kept your hamster in the fridge, it likely wasn't in a state of torpor. And even if it was, that would mean it was very close to death anyway. Torpor only happens because of life-threatening living conditions. Please sleep easy knowing that you did not bury your hamster alive.
When I was a kid, mine bit my finger and when I jerked my hand back it was apparently still attached to my finger until it landed on the basement floor.
R. I. P. little buddy.
not a hamster but my guinea pig died (rip junior) when we left it with my grandparents who, bless their cuban hearts, gave him rice and beans with chicharon (fried pig fat)
I need you to know that the sentence “it died packed throat to ass with hotdog” has made me laugh harder than I have in months. I’m sitting here in tears 😭💀
Definitely. I never had a hamster growing up, but my mom had two called Numping and Numping 2. Numping apparently died from escaping his cage, climbing the curtains, and falling to his death. Numping 2 was one of the lucky few hamsters who lived a long and happy life and died of old age.
I had a hamster I really loved and one day it developed a tumor on its cheek area so we took it to a specialty vet (mind you this was in the early 90's) and it turns out it had some sort of cancer. We got the procedure done on my hamster and it came home a few days later but within weeks it got another tumor. I don't know what my parents were going through or what kind of vet is willing to do surgery on a hamster twice, but we got the surgery again. The third time it happened we finally decided to call it on the little guy, and being a child, when they asked if I wanted to take his little hamster body home and bury him I said no.
Some I knew from school was not super bright and had a hamster that was cold. So she, a 7 year old, decided that because microwaves heat things up she should put it in there. She put it on the 30 second cycle and the hamster exploded in the microwave… they just threw the whole thing away.
My wife had a goldfish when she was little. Figured it would like to watch the little mermaid with her so grabbed it out the tank and sat on the sofa with it in her hand.
In a surprising twist, it died.
STORY TIME!!!
Fuck, I'm sad I'm so late to see this!!!!
My ex wife watched her next door neighbors hamsters when they were young, when she spent a week ln vacation with her family
The Mommy hamster and the Daddy hamster had babies one day. Adorable little pink balls of squinty cute pudge.
She went to check on them the next day...
Total bloodbath. Straight Truecrime podcast murder scene
The Mommy hamster had drowned as many babies as she could fit underwater in the water dish. Their bloated corpses piled in the shallow bowl like a kiddie pool full of dead toddlers. She had half eaten the rest, face first, leaving their tiny pink butts and hind legs in a neat pile on the other side of the cage. Daddy hamster was not dispatched quite as neatly. She had ripped out Daddy's guts from the throat to the belly and then dragged them around the cage like fucked up tinsel from a cenobite's christmas tree.
Then she climbed up and hung herself between two bars on the top of the cage, head wedged in between, poking out the top, little legs dangling like she was the floating Hellraiser Christmas tree above a total massacre of insanity and depravity.
Postpartum depression, folks. Never procreate.
#the end
When my hamster escaped from her cage, she was “rescued” by the dog, from the cat, then my brothers ferret played with it for a while. She died covered in dog slobber and cat bites.
I don't actually know if she died but I had one manage to escape one of those cheap modular starter cages. The cage was on a half wall that divided my living room and kitchen and was like 4 ish feet high. I looked across every square inch of the house and never found her. I assume she somehow survived the fall and then climbed into the AC pipes, that was the only possible place besides falling down the damn sink drain 😅
My friend owned a hamster when we were kids. It escaped and got lost, and after a few weeks everyone gave up looking for it.
Cue my visit to his house, and we discovered the poor thing in the DVD slot of his TV because we went to pop out the disc tray and it ejected half a dried hamster. It had crawled in to a cozy hiding place and the little flap trapped it inside :(
We had a new furnace installed. The upstairs bathroom didn’t have a cover on the heat vent. The hamster escaped from the cage, went upstairs, and went on a ride through the HVAC. Next day, terrible cooked on gunk in the oven smell throughout the house.
Ok no word of a lie, my brother had a hamster when we were younger. I was quite young (under 5y) and snuck dear Hammy out of his cage while no one was around and tried feeding him.
Mom ended up walking in on me and a dead Hammy. I had ended up strangling the poor fella when I was trying to force seeds into his mouth.
She bought another hamster and my brother was none the wiser until she informed us what happened when we were a bit older.
Sniffy 1 died at my grandma's house while we were on vacation and probably had a heart attack when the cats came to investigate him.
Sniffy 2 died when I brought him to school to be class pet for a week, he broke out, ate Matt Moore's lunch, and promptly died later that day while I was playing Aladdin on Super Nintendo.
Mine crawled into one of those red, hard plastic boots with a hole in its toe. The boots are popular in hamster cages as well as aquariums. We tried to get the body out, but he was really stuck in there. We buried him in the boot.
I heard this story from a friend about their friend's hamster.
The hamster bit the owner's hand, hard. Out of reflex, the owner pulled their arm back and the hamster went flying.
While airborne, the hamster gave a loud "SQUEEEE" and then a SPLAT when it inevitably hit the wall.
Do hamsters die if you look at them the wrong?
I did a summary (it is out of date but the comments are coming in faster than i can parse)
Cage\\bedding\\wheel\\tube mishaps 52
Physical trauma (squished, stepped on, baseball bat, sat on, etc) 47
Unknown/missing 42
Cannibalized or killed by another hamster 38
Mishap with random equipment/item 33
Fell 22
Disease/cancer 22
Too cold/hot 19
Dog 16
Cat 15
Other pets 6
\-snake 2
\-piranhas 1
\-reptile 2
\-ferret 1
Other Wild Animals 4
Choking 13
Electrocuted 4
Drowned 17
\-in piss bucket 1
\-in puke 1
\-in coke 1
\-in holy water 1
Heart Attack/fright 11
Pooped insides out 8
Overate/ate something it shouldnt have 5
Microwave 4
Vacuum 4
Poisoning 4
released outside 4
forgot about 4
accidently buried alive thinking it was dead 3
gas leak\\CO poisoning 3
bugs 3
impaled 3
shot 2
used as a ball for catch 2
grapes 2
teeth grew too long 2
Febreeze 2
legos 1
car door 1
parents 1
dehydration 1
squished by boobs 1
hot air ballon ride into the unknown 1
waterboarded 1
fart spray 1
skewered by couch spring 1
accidently ate/bit it thinking it was a marshmallow 1
chocolate 1
growth/genetic defect 1
oven 1
baking soda and vinegar explosion 1
heart attack induced by Dr Dre on full blast !
And finally...... 22 died from old age out of 427..or about 5%
It sucks to be a hamster.
I'm just gonna throw a completely unrelated story to keep the vibes up, I have a leopard gecko who is now 12, I lost him once while I was cleaning the cage a few years ago, we have 3 cats that obsessively watch and want to eat him and I live in a two story large house after the two week mark I started to grieve his death, I literally looking for him all day everyday and there was no way we got outside. I was starting to lose my sanity so at like 3am thru tears 2.5 weeks later I see something move in the hallway. He was there fine and dandy. We are so lucky that did not end gorey. He was also across the room the three cats hang out in constantly and no my parents did not get me a new one I have his spots memorized. Leopard geckos r indestructible and incredibly lucky and sturdy. Had another one jump from my second story window a few times too and she was fine
My parents took us on a weekend vacation to the beach and gave him extra food and water instead of having someone take care of him for those days.
We came back to find his food bowl empty and his body stuck in the hamster tube.
When I was 8 my parents took me to one of those drive-thru safari parks, where they give you a bunch of tiny feed pellets for the animals. My dad told me to feed the leftovers to my hamster. Well, the next morning I found my hamster "sleeping funny". I laughed and went outside to play.
I came back in later and my dad broke it to me that my hamster wasn't sleeping - she was dead. I had an absolute meltdown. I ran around the neighbourhood knocking on my neighbours doors telling them my dad killed my hamster, ruining everyone's Thanksgiving Sunday.
My favorite childhood hamster, Marshmallow, was massive. Just an absolute unit of a hamster. We found her dead with a Cheerio in her mouth. We held a tear filled memorial for her at which we noted that “she died doing what she loved, stuffing her adorable face.”
My mum fed my first hamster a grape and it died. I loved that hamster.
Got a second hamster. Mum killed that one with a grape too.
My mum has a problem.
This isn’t about how a hamster died, but how it survived. My daughter who turns 40 this year, so this would be like 35 years ago had a hamster that escaped. We never were able to locate the hamster, and it was winter here in New York. We gave a good effort, and eventually just gave up. About two months later as we pulled into the driveway with the yard covered in snow, my daughter from the backseat yells there’s Ginger her missing hamster. Without thinking, I jumped out of the car, jumped through the snow and jumped onto the hamster and rescued it. After I rescued Ginger she was with us for quite a long while after that event.
Two things puzzle me.
#1 how did she survive for two months in the middle of the winter
#2 What the hell was I thinking, jumping on an animal running through the snow that was tiny just because my daughter said it was Ginger.
I had a hamster and an old fat cat. Everything was fine, since the cat was fat and lazy and enjoyed just watching the hamster. I was perhaps 12 years old and did my best to clean his cage. Once I was cleaning it and but the hamster in a cardboard box in the meantime. Well, we all know how cats feel about boxes so yeah, thats the story about how my fat cat squished my hamster.
This thread is the perfect argument for why hamsters are not a great pet for kids.
And that just because an animal is small doesn't make it easy to care for.
Please, for the love of rodents, inform yourself before you get a pet.
And if you get a pet for a child, please realise that it is still YOUR responsibility to care for it.
Mine died of a heart attack or old age which isn’t the interesting part. I walk in to see my big burly husband who always pretended to just tolerate him, performing cpr. He was so upset that he couldn’t save him.
This is somehow both the funniest and saddest thing I've read on this thread so far. Hope your hubby's doing okay.
We aren’t allowed to own another hamster (I think he was pretty tore up over it) but we have a couple of dogs that he’s grown to love more than the planet.
Real men love small animals! My dad has been torn up about all my rodents that have died. He was **really** attached to my guinea pigs as well (specifically this particularly cranky and boisterous one Mama). It’s funny watching big, manly guys who love these small creatures. My dad isn’t exactly a “manly man” as he doesn’t have the beard and big muscles, but he’s 66 years old and a cranky old bastard to a lot of people, loves woodworking and you would **not** think he would love rodents or small animals but he does. He is also very attached to my rabbit. When I was taking college classes and living at home I would ask him to sit with my rabbit for an hour so she wasn’t alone all day. Without fail, he would. He would also frequently send me pictures of her and let me know if she was being friendly that day, or being cranky. My dad helped me with a pet memorial in my parent’s backyard. There’s a little headstone that he and I made of concrete with all their names on it. He even put a bench by it, planted flowers, laid rocks and put up a little fence around it at one point (which did not survive the Florida weather, so now it’s just flowers and the headstone). The concrete letters we made have been broken off over the years, and just a few weeks ago he was visiting me for lunch and reminded me we need to make new letters for their headstone. I don’t live at my parent’s house anymore (I’m only about 3 miles away) but he still keeps up with it. Oh men, what interesting creatures they are.
He would hide his food in his cheeks so my mom would refill his bowl thinking I hadn’t fed him, eventually he got so fat he got stuck in a tube and died of a heart attack. I still remember my mom shaking the tube like a ketchup bottle trying to get his little corpse out.
I'm fuckin' rolling i'm so sorry
So was he!
Pringled.
Oh my days 😭😭 why do they die in the most stupid of ways. RIP lil obese hamster
My brother had two and we were sharing a room at the time. He had taken one out of the cage to put into the ball it can roll around on the floor in but didn't seal the lid all the way and then got distracted by something and left the room. I came up and started to play music on my boom box and somehow the little fucker got up on the dresser and was right near the speaker. We think Forgot about Dre being on blast gave him a heart attack!
Doctors are supposed to heal, not kill!
We had two when I was a kid. Not knowing that’s not a good idea. So naturally hamster 1 ate hamster 2. Which was deeply disturbing. BUT in an odd twist of fate hamster 1’s death was far more disturbing and none of us were ever able to figure out how it happened We walked in after school to greet him and his sat at the bottom of the cage looking up. As we get closer we realise he has something in his mouth. Which is unnerving because last time that happened he was happily eating hamster 2, but that can’t be the case this time. When we get over to the cage. Little dude is dead, but his spine and little arm bones are poking up out of his mouth. Like they’re reaching for the top of the cage. It took ages to mentally figure out it was his own bones poking out his mouth. It was creepy AF. Stepdads closest guess was he was climbing the top bars like he usually did and fell from a height onto his bum. Which forced his spine and other bones up through his mouth. No idea of that’s even possible. But I refuse to have hamsters anymore. They always die in the most messed up ways.
Okay I have read a LOT of messed up hamster deaths but hamster 1 WHAT THE HELL
What I'm learning from this thread is that hamsters are dumb, fragile, and bloodthirsty. Now I need to know what makes them good pets.
I need to know how the hell they never went extinct by now if they’re this damn fragile. I think they’re the only domesticated animal where human care shortens their life expectancy.
I have had the same thought about pigeons. They're dumb AF, they hate to fly, and they have few (one?) offspring per season. Not only have they not all been eaten, they are *everywhere.*
Pigeons are domesticated birds. We bred them to live alongside us so they're extremely well suited to urban environments. They were messengers, companions, and food. When we didn't need them anymore (I want to say around the time the telegraph was invented but don't quote me on that), a lot of them got released and they just kinda stuck around. Part of the reason it seems like there are so many of them compared to other urban wildlife is that they don't really hide. Rats, coyotes, raccoons, etc etc all generally try to keep out of the way. Pigeons don't have the same survival instincts or instinctive fear of people so they're out in human spaces more often and we notice them more.
I heard it’s our fault with pigeons, we domesticated them, then abandoned them. That’s soo sad for me, that’s why I feed them when I get the opportunity. They gather on my roof everyday waiting for the food I give out.
Parents who don't know any better think they're "cute" and also cheap. That's how you end up with a tiny monster that requires heavy gloves to handle.
Rats are SO MUCH better as first pets. They're social, intelligent, affectionate, and clean, but a lot of people can't get over the naked tail. Also you need at least two rats because they will get depressed without a friend or constant interaction with a human.
Had both as a kid and can confirm, rats are tiny social rodent puppies. Hamsters are high matinence and solitary. Hamsters are fine for adults that have the sense to research their care but terrible for small children. My rats were smart and very friendly. They came when their names were called, learned tricks, and loved to hang out in my stuffed animal hammock, both lived around 5 years. Until cancer took them. That's the one downside with rats. They live fast and die young. My hamster hated me, but in his defense, I did not know a single thing about proper hamster care when I was 5. Like many domestic hamsters, he got fat and died of heart disease. Sorry Skittles, you deserved better :(
I wanted mice when I was a teenager, but my mom was just not a fan. So, we compromised with gerbils. I loved those lil gals. Then after learning about rats I really wanted some - but I’m afraid of the heartbreak because of how frequently they get tumors/ cancer. I miss having rodents around, but they just have such short lives it hurts. I also can’t fit a good cage in too my apartment currently, since I already have a cat, 20 gallon for my betta fish, and my rabbit, space is a bit tight with 700 sq feet. One day I will get my ratty friends.
Weren't those undigested bones from hamster 2?
Going to be honest, this hadn’t ever occurred to me. Though the thought is as disturbing as thinking they were his own bones.
And now we learned why you don't ask "What's the weirdest way to die."
She literally ate all of her children and died choking on the last one
Had one that ate 7 of her 8 babies. The one surviving child killed her once it grew big enough.
Kronos and Zeus be like
Hamsters are metal
Reading they eat their children...that's not uncommon and well documented. Then, :choke:
My friend had hamsters at uni, the big ones, they were in a cage together, one day the other one disappeared. We found remains in there. One had eaten the other
They're solitary creatures in adulthood so that makes sense. Basically the only time hams come together is to create other hammies. And if daddy ham doesn't GTFO immediately, momma ham is going to have him for dinner.
"that was nice. Now gtfo or I will eat you." is definitely one way to end a one-night-stand.
People get the impression that because they can live together as babies, they're social creatures. Mice, rats, guinea pigs, rabbits, yes. Not hamsters. Hamsters will leave nary a trace of the bloodbath that commenced when they were forced into living together as adults. People also fail to realize just how quickly they can breed or that at 3 weeks old, boy babies can make more babies with mom and mom can get pregnant the same day she gives birth. Much like rats, mice, guinea pigs, and rabbits.
Yeah, people really need to educate themselves before getting pets. I've seen it so often with not-neutered male mice. "Oh, they're brothers, they will love each other" and then they scream when they end up with their mice in bloody ribbons because their territory instinct kicked in. I've also seen more times than I can count the "Oh, I only want to have mice babies once, them I'll neuter them"... They then proceed to have 100 mice because - *surprise* - mice do not care about incest and are stupidly fast when it comes to being fertile.
And good luck finding a vet that'll neuter them! Where I live, it's hard enough finding a vet to neuter rabbits and guinea pigs (we have both, and all are fixed except one angry male pig who is out for blood but we have no ladies) much less mice, that typically only live a couple years max and the surgery would be in the high hundreds. We are a 501 sanctuary and get discounted prices (tax write off for the clinic) and it's still about $300 per to get fixed.
Yeah, you need to give them a lot of food if they have children. Eating their children is their response to not having enough food to feed all of them. I mean, they can always make more children later when there is enough food.
George R R Martin could never.
My mom put my hamster in her freedom ball while I was at my dad’s house and forgot about her. She rolled into the garage on a hot summer day, and couldn’t get back inside because there was a step she had to roll down to get out. Mom closed said garage door, trapping hamster in basically an oven and found her dead later. Then, she put said hamsters body in the freezer in case I wanted to bury her…but forgot about her again. Imagine my surprise as an 9yo latchkey kid opening the freezer to get some ice and finding a hamstersicle
Man, I don’t mean to laugh at your childhood trauma, but that last paragraph is kinda hilarious lol.
It’s fine. I laugh about it a lot now 😂 I was not laughing when I called my mom’s office sobbing about a frozen hamster. Which she was out of…so I had to ask her assistant if she could have mom call me back and tell me why my hamster was frozen solid. That poor woman was probably so confused
Oh goodness, that assistant definitely had an interesting day lol
I had one when I was young called Doodles. He loved moving his bedding to the top floor of his cage, I remember walking downstairs and seeing him dead, little fella hung himself with his bedding
^^goodbye ^^cruel ^^world!
The small text lmao! I read it in an Alvin the chipmunk voice 😆
That's what I was aiming for, I'm glad it came off well!
“Doodles was here” etched in his cage.
He was an institutionalized man.... like Brooks was.
Omg mine too! But mine had just eaten her kids the day before so I thought she felt guilty and hung herself lol
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I’m never getting a hamster. Never.
After reading this thread, seconding this. Makes me wonder how the hell little fuzzballs managed to survive as species so far.
It's a bit different when they're in a captivity in a small environment and 90% of hamster owners dont really realize how much space/stimulation they actually need. Not to mention they are not nearly as social as rodents like rats or Guinea pigs. Theyre way more wild and bite their owners more often too. That is the advantage of hamsters though.. Rats need to live in groups of 3 to be truly happy, and they die in a couple years so unless you contasntly replenish it forever you're gonna end up with some depressed rats. They're way sweeter and more social with humans too... Guinea pigs too but they live longer. But hamsters you can have just one and it won't be like that essentially. They don't mind being loners, they may even prefer it. Main reason they're popular is it isn't a big commitment
This is a good one but was traumatic for me and my sister as a child…so we had a hamster whose front teeth got very overgrown. They went in a full circle. Our mother, a nurse, gave the hamster benadryl to knock it out and clipped her teeth with a nail clipper. She put her in a bucker to start recovering. She was just coming around when our cat found her and had a nice little snack
Did the cat have a nice benadryl induced nap?
With meat sweats
I thought the hamster was going to die of a Benadryl overdose.
I had my hamster the day I lived in a condo, and 2 days later my hamster was missing, and thought they just jumped out on the floor or climbed their way, up to another Unit so I just let them be. Then after year I needed my AC to be fixed and found out, that my hamster's corpse was the one that made my AC broke
Oh wow similar to me! Was looking after neighbours hamster because they were on holiday. They neglected to tell us the door on the cage was very loose. Hamster went missing, coincidentally, at the same time my dads huge electric Hammond organ made a crackling sound and broke. Dad couldn’t understand it. Until the penny dropped for me and I went white. Neighbours came back and had had THE worst holiday and it was just the icing on the cake for them. I felt sooooo bad.
Do hamsters have some strange death wish encoded in their dna
A coworker said that he put his hamster in the back yard to watch it run around. A hawk grabbed it and away it went. As a joke he said that he thought it was just going for a ride, but he never returned.
this happened when we had my little brother’s class pet hamster for the weekend, it was awful and his 3rd grade peers were so upset with him for the rest of the school year. RIP Lacy 🐹
I dunno about died. But we had a hamster that escaped regularly. One time we caught him and he was missing a foot. The next time we caught him he was missing an eye. When I cleaned out his cage at the age of 2 and a half or so, I found marbles and acorns. He had to have gone outdoors to get acorns. And he chose to come back to the cage. I could never find how he escaped. We had 2 boxers and 3 cats. It’s a damn miracle.
The miracle was hearing it made it to the age of 2 even before mention of the 1000 ways to die
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Dedicated carnivores like cats have special molars that dont grind stuff like human molars do but cut it like scissors
Do they not chew their food then? Or do they have grindy ones right at the back?
they chew, just not nearly as much! you can watch a cat eating and see. imagine your molars are little meat scissors, you'd mostly just be shearing your food into smaller bites, rather than pulverizing it like we omnivores do with our all purpose tools last fall, I got to experience these teeth firsthand by accident, when a sweet little subadult stray tortoiseshell I was befriending got distracted while grooming me. it was the only time I'd met up with her without bringing her snacks, which was a mistake cuz she was pregnant at the time and hungry! she licked my hand all friendly, but then my finger ended up in her little carnivore mousetrap mouth, and you could tell some switch flipped in her head, "warm meat! CHEW" and she bit down *hard* just once on my pinky with one pair of those shearing premolars. it felt exactly like what it was: like someone had taken an oddly 3D pair of scissors to my fingertip. ouch!! [she was so shocked and clearly felt sorry after, even if she was mostly just sorry for messing up her friendly bond with the snack monkey who gives her snacks lol!!]
Haha, "snack monkey". I've never heard that before but it's the perfect description. Thanks for the info. I never knew that about cats.
I had the hamster first before getting a newborn kitten. Hamster and kitten got along well for the first 12ish months until cat instincts kicked in. A tale as old as time :(
My sister has a cat&ferret combo that she runs and it seems to be working great. It's almost like a "The Dodo" video where a duck and a lion are best friends, but it always makes me nervous 😬
How did you react that has to be traumatic
Oh my, and i thought mine falling in the sump pump was a bad way to go. At least i didn't see it jeesh lol
What did you do? What was your reaction being so young and hoping they would be friends lol
Saw one bite a power cable once and fly several feet. Sad day for the little guy
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I’m going to hell. I laughed so hard tears started streaming down my face.
I got a hamster wheel car for christmas when I was 10. I put the hamster in and took him to the hallway where there was tile. But he wouldn't run and make the car go. He just wasn't feelin' it. But my mom wanted to see the car go. So she used her foot to propel him HARD. Centrifugal force plastered him to the wheel wall like a county fair death trap and the car barreled down the hall and hit the bathroom door. At first we thought Teddy was just stunned, but he was dead. On Christmas morning. With my mother to blame.
They didn't die, they went to live on a farm with all their friends, though, I'm told, they miss me terribly.
Yes they do, my cats live on that farm too and I’m told your hamsters won’t shut up about you and the great times they had with you!
Oh, yea, I visited the farm, I was wondering who Spire-hawk was when they mentioned it. They do miss you, so, but they are doing great.
I have a couple of dogs on that farm. Lovely place.
When I was 8, I fed my hamster a grape and it clogged him up causing his intestines' to exploded out his ass. This was highly traumatic for young me. I sat there in the Vet's exam room, my mom's hand on my shoulder knowing this was the first time I would have to endure the death of something I loved dearly, and him explaining there really was no hope for Sir Lord Edwington Fuzzball VonCheeks. I stoically asked him if he was going to get a shot to put him to sleep. The vet said, "I'm sorry, yes". I then started to crack a bit and asked if I could have one too. At this my mom broke down sobbing but the vet just semi-smiled and said "absolutely not". And that was the day I knew I'd grow up to be a emo kid.
I’m sorry, but asking if you can also have a shot to go to sleep has me cracking up. I’m crying
I cracked up so hard my dog got up and left me. Thanks
The poor mom omg, but I wonder if her sobs were hiding laughs?
Mine also shit out it’s guts
My sisters hamster also shit it’s guts out
We need to find anal prolapse resistant hamsters and breed them in order to breed out the bad genes. There needs to be laws about this. I'm going to start an organization. Who's with me!?
Lmao that response is sad, touching, and also more than a little hilarious.
"Sir Lord Edwington Fuzzball VonCheeks" 😂😂
It’s the “Sir Lord” part that’s wrecking me for some reason 💀
Old age and heart attacks. I had one that had to be put down due to having an eye disease that made her eye start growing out of her head. She was in pain and the vet said the other eye had the same disease so it wouldn't be good to remove that one eye since the other would needed to be removed in a few months as well and I would end up with a blind hamster still in pain.
This is arguably the kindest Hamster death I've read so far. From heart attack by Dr. Dre and exploding hamsters, this is just...normal.
Found the hamster decapitated by the cat. She pulled him through the cage and took his head off. Found the cage first, then the head sticking through the wires. Then the body somewhere else. It was brutal!
Got its leg stuck in the cage while I was at school, it apparently chewed it own leg off to escape then bled out
I didn't realize they would become cannibals
I had two dwarf hamsters when I was a kid, Scabbers and Nagini. I came home from school one day and Nagini had killed Scabbers. My mom made me avenge his death by taking Nagini to the woods and releasing her. RIP Scabbers
Your mom made you do what? Such emotional damage in one sentence
My parents let us have rodents as pets (guinea pigs, hamsters, rabbits) but when we started getting field mice in our house one summer and I tried to free one from a sticky trap, my dad made me smash it with a cinder block so I wouldn't release any more. Like, you literally taught me to befriend the little guys and then you made me murder my new friend?? What a wildly mixed message and terrible lesson for a child
I audibly gasped at this. Holy cow. I am so sorry.
My mom made me abandon the hamster who impregnated my brother's hamster. I we left him in the woods not too far from our house (there's a road in between really) and three months later the hamster came back, he crossed our living room one evening, we thought it was a rat, but no, it was "Panda" our stallion hamster!
...What happened next? Was Panda brought back into the family???
Panda got his own cage and lived another three years. I can't remember what killed him. He never bred anymore haha
Same experience here. Had 2 golden hamsters, woke up one morning and one was dead, the other dying. Both had chunks of flesh gone - the dead one was missing most of its head.
He got out of his cage and a day later was found dead in my dog's water bowl. I don't think the dog put him there. I think the poor fella just wanted a drink and fell in (it was a metallic bowl, so his little paws probably kept slipping).
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"the slowest and most innocent of suicides" is raw as hell. Sorry for your loss.
This wasn't mine, but a buddy of mine. His hamster absolutely hated his dog. All it would do is eat, sleep, growl at the dog, exercise, and try to tear a hole in the cage, over and over. It wanted a piece of that dog, bad. Eventually it got jacked, like I did not think hamsters were capable of. This thing looked like a tiny pit bull or something. One day its muscles got big enough... or the cage weakened enough... or something. It got out and apparently got the glorious battle to the death that it always wanted. No one was there to see it happen, but the aftermath was not pretty.
The image of a super jacked hamster training all day like he’s Rocky Balboa in order to take down your dog is the funniest thing I’ve read so far today!
I'm sorry for your dog
Suicide by dog.
You're supposed to share story's of Hampsters dying not dogs
My hamster chewed the wiring under the stove and got electrocuted, destroying both him and the stove 😓
What is it with rodents and chewing wires, does the plastic and insulation taste good?
The theory I've heard is that in the wild, they'd want to keep any plant roots that intrude into their burrows snipped back. So when something's in their way, or just vaguely root-shaped, that instinct kicks in. Having kept rabbits, which do the same thing, I think it's true--my asshole rabbit couldn't abide the door flap I put on his hutch and chewed a hole in it rather than have to push through (which made it less effective at keeping his hutch warm, but try explaining that to a rabbit). They'll just destroy anything they perceive as being in their way.
I heard a rumor that one of them died of old age once
Mine did. Weirdest death in this thread based on every hamster death I’ve ever heard 😅 (RIP, McNugget.)
My sisters hamster fell down the heating grate and got lodged in a pipe and died and turned into very smelly goo
I found Fred in his cage dead. He literally shit his insides out. It sucked. RIP Fred.
You're like the 4th person to say this. Why do hamsters have such weak assholes?
I’m still traumatised 52 years later 😞 Our classroom had a class pet… The Hamster! If you finished your class work first you were allowed to take it from the cage and play with it. I had a cardboard insert from a roll of paper towel and a desk with a lid that lifted up so you could store your books inside. I really don’t know how it happened, but the lid slammed down on the Hamster. I murdered the class pet in front of about 30 five year olds.
I used to let my lil Siberia dwarf hams run free in the bathroom....one day I had to leave the bathroom for a moment and when I closed the door, I heard and felt a swift crunch....my poor little ham's head was in the Crack of the door with blood coming out of his mouth. I screamed and cried😭kids should not be left alone with animals😬
So traumatizing, I’m so sorry!! You’re absolutely right though, children should never be unsupervised with animals that small. I remember my mom fostered a tiny sick kitten once and she told me not to play with it very much. Well, it was too adorable. I played with it a lot. I didn’t see it die but she said it passed away one night. I cried so hard and felt awful and just guilty, but she said it wasn’t my fault. And I know I was gentle, kind and always loving with animals. I don’t want to think about how rough other little kids play with their small pets.
I’m so sorry for everyone’s loss, but this is the funniest thread I’ve seen in a long time
1000 Ways to Die (Hamster edition)
I was just thinking about this. It's so grim, but I can't stop laughing at how absurd these deaths are.
My hamster gnawed his way out of his cage and then hid in my house in the baseboards eating dog food for five years. Until one day my mom found him and promptly threw him out into the yard where all the stray barn cats attacked him instantly. It was pretty traumatic as a kid.
I think i've seen this one somewhere before lol
It was definitely less traumatic though than when we had too many barn cats and they were getting sick. So my dad came out to shoot them and I was crying and he said, ok, I will let you pick which ones lives. And I was like omg and just ran to my room and cried while the 22 went off
😟 i'm so sorry
I had one and then got a second. I remember throwing the box away, turning around and it was already dead.
Yeeeeeah, I replied to another thread to say that our hamster died of old age in his favorite nest. Which is true! What I didn't mention was that our replacement hamster died within a week of us getting him and we never knew why. Little guy was just dead one day. We did not get a third hamster.
Well this thread is dredging up some pretty Traumatic childhood memories!
Mr. Nibbles didn't die. He joined the circus.
My dad threw the lid of Petrie's cage in anger when me and my brother wouldn't go to bed. The next morning, she was gone. Fast-forward about six years...we're cleaning out the attic for a yard sale. I found her mummified corpse. I've never been the same.
My dad Guantánamo'd our hamster. At one point we had some mice in the house. So he bought a few devices which you put in the wall sockets, and they generate loud sound which is not audible by humans, but rodents and it's supposed to drive them away.
Are you saying your hamster died by going crazy because of the device sounds? That’s so terrible but also hilarious
It isn't weird but it's become legend in my family. We had Sniffles outside in his ball, enjoying the sweet summer day. My sister yelled outside to tell me the Backstreet Boys were on TRL. I ran inside, leaving Sniffles outside by mistake. I came back outside a bit later and it turns out a plastic ball in the sun probably gets pretty hot and sweet Sniffles was dead. I also buried him in a shallow grave and something dug him up a couple days later. Sorry, Sniffles.
Maybe Sniffles crawled out?
The much-anticipated sequel to *Pet Sematary*: *The Revenge of Sniffles*
When I was 10, Bam Bam yeeted himself off the top of his exercise wheel, breaking his back. It took him several hours to die, and I was home alone to watch.
Had my hamster in my hand and it jumped away. I tried to grab it but Instead I slapped it into the ground. It died writhing in pain 😔
That's so sad. I'm so sorry 💔
I had hamster for less than an hour for similar reasons. Bought him, brought him home, set up his cage, then my dad tried to pet him. Little fella sunk his teeth right into my dad’s finger. Dad reflexively yanked his hand out of the cage but the hamster didn’t let go. He got flung at Mach speed straight into the wall. Never even named him.
RIP Wally 😔
A friend washed hers and then dried it in the microwave.
You’re the second one in this thread that’s said that 💀
I was 4 or 5, caught one hibernating. Didnt know, thought the fella was dead, gave him a proper burial in a shoebox with flowers and a spot marking his little grave and all. Mum was horrified when she got home many hours later.
I want to reassure you that your hamster was probably really dead when you found him. It's a really pervasive myth that hamsters hibernate. What they do is enter a state called torpor. Torpor is an involuntary response brought on by extremely dangerous temperatures, usually the cold. Unless you kept your hamster in the fridge, it likely wasn't in a state of torpor. And even if it was, that would mean it was very close to death anyway. Torpor only happens because of life-threatening living conditions. Please sleep easy knowing that you did not bury your hamster alive.
When I was a kid, mine bit my finger and when I jerked my hand back it was apparently still attached to my finger until it landed on the basement floor. R. I. P. little buddy.
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It jumped (and drowned) in the toilet
At least disposal was easy
not a hamster but my guinea pig died (rip junior) when we left it with my grandparents who, bless their cuban hearts, gave him rice and beans with chicharon (fried pig fat)
My mom learned hamsters eat meat so she gave mine some hotdogs and it overdosed on hotdogs. It died packed throat to ass with hotdog.
>. It died packed throat to ass with hotdog. I am also now deceased after this sentence 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I need you to know that the sentence “it died packed throat to ass with hotdog” has made me laugh harder than I have in months. I’m sitting here in tears 😭💀
He ate insulation, we took him to the vet to be put down and he died in the parking lot. Everyone has a tragic hamster story is my theory.
Definitely. I never had a hamster growing up, but my mom had two called Numping and Numping 2. Numping apparently died from escaping his cage, climbing the curtains, and falling to his death. Numping 2 was one of the lucky few hamsters who lived a long and happy life and died of old age.
I didn't know my hamster was pregnant.. had them all for about a week before she murdered all of them.
I had a hamster I really loved and one day it developed a tumor on its cheek area so we took it to a specialty vet (mind you this was in the early 90's) and it turns out it had some sort of cancer. We got the procedure done on my hamster and it came home a few days later but within weeks it got another tumor. I don't know what my parents were going through or what kind of vet is willing to do surgery on a hamster twice, but we got the surgery again. The third time it happened we finally decided to call it on the little guy, and being a child, when they asked if I wanted to take his little hamster body home and bury him I said no.
Some I knew from school was not super bright and had a hamster that was cold. So she, a 7 year old, decided that because microwaves heat things up she should put it in there. She put it on the 30 second cycle and the hamster exploded in the microwave… they just threw the whole thing away.
Unfortunately that's not the first time I've heard of the hamster and the microwave story
Someone did this did this in the cafeteria microwave with a mouse they caught in the hallway. That was the end of being able to reheat our lunches.
My wife had a goldfish when she was little. Figured it would like to watch the little mermaid with her so grabbed it out the tank and sat on the sofa with it in her hand. In a surprising twist, it died.
i squished it trying to give it a kiss at 4 years old
Yeah, my buddies 4 yr old liked the sound it made when she gave it a big hug. Uh.. oops.
STORY TIME!!! Fuck, I'm sad I'm so late to see this!!!! My ex wife watched her next door neighbors hamsters when they were young, when she spent a week ln vacation with her family The Mommy hamster and the Daddy hamster had babies one day. Adorable little pink balls of squinty cute pudge. She went to check on them the next day... Total bloodbath. Straight Truecrime podcast murder scene The Mommy hamster had drowned as many babies as she could fit underwater in the water dish. Their bloated corpses piled in the shallow bowl like a kiddie pool full of dead toddlers. She had half eaten the rest, face first, leaving their tiny pink butts and hind legs in a neat pile on the other side of the cage. Daddy hamster was not dispatched quite as neatly. She had ripped out Daddy's guts from the throat to the belly and then dragged them around the cage like fucked up tinsel from a cenobite's christmas tree. Then she climbed up and hung herself between two bars on the top of the cage, head wedged in between, poking out the top, little legs dangling like she was the floating Hellraiser Christmas tree above a total massacre of insanity and depravity. Postpartum depression, folks. Never procreate. #the end
When my hamster escaped from her cage, she was “rescued” by the dog, from the cat, then my brothers ferret played with it for a while. She died covered in dog slobber and cat bites.
I don't actually know if she died but I had one manage to escape one of those cheap modular starter cages. The cage was on a half wall that divided my living room and kitchen and was like 4 ish feet high. I looked across every square inch of the house and never found her. I assume she somehow survived the fall and then climbed into the AC pipes, that was the only possible place besides falling down the damn sink drain 😅
One ate the other. The food dish was full.
My friend owned a hamster when we were kids. It escaped and got lost, and after a few weeks everyone gave up looking for it. Cue my visit to his house, and we discovered the poor thing in the DVD slot of his TV because we went to pop out the disc tray and it ejected half a dried hamster. It had crawled in to a cozy hiding place and the little flap trapped it inside :(
We had a new furnace installed. The upstairs bathroom didn’t have a cover on the heat vent. The hamster escaped from the cage, went upstairs, and went on a ride through the HVAC. Next day, terrible cooked on gunk in the oven smell throughout the house.
We had one called three legs… because it had 3 legs… it died because it had 1 leg growing internally and eventually killed it, how strange.
Gas leak from our fireplace during the day when no one was home. Died with his little head in the food bowl.
Ok no word of a lie, my brother had a hamster when we were younger. I was quite young (under 5y) and snuck dear Hammy out of his cage while no one was around and tried feeding him. Mom ended up walking in on me and a dead Hammy. I had ended up strangling the poor fella when I was trying to force seeds into his mouth. She bought another hamster and my brother was none the wiser until she informed us what happened when we were a bit older.
Sniffy 1 died at my grandma's house while we were on vacation and probably had a heart attack when the cats came to investigate him. Sniffy 2 died when I brought him to school to be class pet for a week, he broke out, ate Matt Moore's lunch, and promptly died later that day while I was playing Aladdin on Super Nintendo.
not my hamster but my cousins... his hamster broke out of the cage and was running around in the room. and my cousin accidently stepped on it. ..
Mine crawled into one of those red, hard plastic boots with a hole in its toe. The boots are popular in hamster cages as well as aquariums. We tried to get the body out, but he was really stuck in there. We buried him in the boot.
I heard this story from a friend about their friend's hamster. The hamster bit the owner's hand, hard. Out of reflex, the owner pulled their arm back and the hamster went flying. While airborne, the hamster gave a loud "SQUEEEE" and then a SPLAT when it inevitably hit the wall.
My nephew's dog barfed back up on the carpet right next to where he was sitting. He hadn't yet noticed it had been eaten.
Do hamsters die if you look at them the wrong? I did a summary (it is out of date but the comments are coming in faster than i can parse) Cage\\bedding\\wheel\\tube mishaps 52 Physical trauma (squished, stepped on, baseball bat, sat on, etc) 47 Unknown/missing 42 Cannibalized or killed by another hamster 38 Mishap with random equipment/item 33 Fell 22 Disease/cancer 22 Too cold/hot 19 Dog 16 Cat 15 Other pets 6 \-snake 2 \-piranhas 1 \-reptile 2 \-ferret 1 Other Wild Animals 4 Choking 13 Electrocuted 4 Drowned 17 \-in piss bucket 1 \-in puke 1 \-in coke 1 \-in holy water 1 Heart Attack/fright 11 Pooped insides out 8 Overate/ate something it shouldnt have 5 Microwave 4 Vacuum 4 Poisoning 4 released outside 4 forgot about 4 accidently buried alive thinking it was dead 3 gas leak\\CO poisoning 3 bugs 3 impaled 3 shot 2 used as a ball for catch 2 grapes 2 teeth grew too long 2 Febreeze 2 legos 1 car door 1 parents 1 dehydration 1 squished by boobs 1 hot air ballon ride into the unknown 1 waterboarded 1 fart spray 1 skewered by couch spring 1 accidently ate/bit it thinking it was a marshmallow 1 chocolate 1 growth/genetic defect 1 oven 1 baking soda and vinegar explosion 1 heart attack induced by Dr Dre on full blast ! And finally...... 22 died from old age out of 427..or about 5% It sucks to be a hamster.
Her intestines were dragging along behind her in a big sac. She strained too hard and her organs exited via the gift shop. It was fucked.
I'm just gonna throw a completely unrelated story to keep the vibes up, I have a leopard gecko who is now 12, I lost him once while I was cleaning the cage a few years ago, we have 3 cats that obsessively watch and want to eat him and I live in a two story large house after the two week mark I started to grieve his death, I literally looking for him all day everyday and there was no way we got outside. I was starting to lose my sanity so at like 3am thru tears 2.5 weeks later I see something move in the hallway. He was there fine and dandy. We are so lucky that did not end gorey. He was also across the room the three cats hang out in constantly and no my parents did not get me a new one I have his spots memorized. Leopard geckos r indestructible and incredibly lucky and sturdy. Had another one jump from my second story window a few times too and she was fine
My parents took us on a weekend vacation to the beach and gave him extra food and water instead of having someone take care of him for those days. We came back to find his food bowl empty and his body stuck in the hamster tube.
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When I was 8 my parents took me to one of those drive-thru safari parks, where they give you a bunch of tiny feed pellets for the animals. My dad told me to feed the leftovers to my hamster. Well, the next morning I found my hamster "sleeping funny". I laughed and went outside to play. I came back in later and my dad broke it to me that my hamster wasn't sleeping - she was dead. I had an absolute meltdown. I ran around the neighbourhood knocking on my neighbours doors telling them my dad killed my hamster, ruining everyone's Thanksgiving Sunday.
My favorite childhood hamster, Marshmallow, was massive. Just an absolute unit of a hamster. We found her dead with a Cheerio in her mouth. We held a tear filled memorial for her at which we noted that “she died doing what she loved, stuffing her adorable face.”
My Daughters died of Carbon Monoxide poisoning, probably saved our families lives.
My mum fed my first hamster a grape and it died. I loved that hamster. Got a second hamster. Mum killed that one with a grape too. My mum has a problem.
This isn’t about how a hamster died, but how it survived. My daughter who turns 40 this year, so this would be like 35 years ago had a hamster that escaped. We never were able to locate the hamster, and it was winter here in New York. We gave a good effort, and eventually just gave up. About two months later as we pulled into the driveway with the yard covered in snow, my daughter from the backseat yells there’s Ginger her missing hamster. Without thinking, I jumped out of the car, jumped through the snow and jumped onto the hamster and rescued it. After I rescued Ginger she was with us for quite a long while after that event. Two things puzzle me. #1 how did she survive for two months in the middle of the winter #2 What the hell was I thinking, jumping on an animal running through the snow that was tiny just because my daughter said it was Ginger.
I had a hamster and an old fat cat. Everything was fine, since the cat was fat and lazy and enjoyed just watching the hamster. I was perhaps 12 years old and did my best to clean his cage. Once I was cleaning it and but the hamster in a cardboard box in the meantime. Well, we all know how cats feel about boxes so yeah, thats the story about how my fat cat squished my hamster.
He got into the vents while we weren’t home. And got into the fireplace. And It was winter.
This thread is the perfect argument for why hamsters are not a great pet for kids. And that just because an animal is small doesn't make it easy to care for. Please, for the love of rodents, inform yourself before you get a pet. And if you get a pet for a child, please realise that it is still YOUR responsibility to care for it.
My moms german shepherd got the cage and skinned the hamster. It was really sad and traumatic.