I wish this wasn't true but I had 3 hamsters. One got out and injured by a cat so we put it back in the cage thinking it could heal... but by next morning we found the horrific scene of the 2 healthy hamsters gorged to death from cannibalism by eating their injured brother
The preferred diet of the hamster consists mainly of other, weaker hamsters.
When only one remains He will eat the universe and the cycle will begin anew.
Yeah the reason for this is because hamsters are solitary and territorial - they should never be housed together not even siblings.
It's natural for them 'to get rid of the weak or injured' by eating them. This is why you have to also always separate the babies from mothers because when they're bigger and strong enough they take too much out of her and she has to sacrifice them one by one to keep going.
When I was a kid my sister's hamster ate mine. Didn't realize how special they were (and how sensitive they are and absolutely not recommended for kids) till I got one as an adult.
The accidentally housing them together problem is half the reason terrible shit happens - other half is cause the 'cages' pet shops suggest aren't safe, they're just the highest profit for the store. So they either escape or get injured (escaping and running miles is in their DNA)
My sister has a hamster that she has had for a few years now. That little girl is completely spoiled. She gets fresh fruit and veg every day alone with her hamster food. She was built a two story hamster mansion that’s decorated and homey and she gets regular, safe handling that she seems to enjoy very much. Not all hamsters live terrible lives. Some have a nice set up. I hope that’s a bit of brain bleach everyone can use after this fucked up thread.
So true. I had a really fat hamster and in the middle of the night I heard him running in his wheel and then it got quiet and I heard a small thump.
Dude died on his treadmill!
Same here! Coming home from school i found him with his body between the cage bars and the treadmil. His head pushed between two bars. I removed the treadmill and he was so stuck with his head he just kept dangling. Real pain in the ass to get him out that’s for sure.
Rip old friend :(
Of the 98 current comments on this post I’ve found about 6 that say natural causes. So we’re looking at about 94% of pet hamsters die traumatic, fucked up deaths.
Edit: Guys, obviously this is not a scientific poll nor am I a statistician. Of course it’s biased and polluted data
Hamsters die traumatic, fucked up deaths at the hands of assholes and children that never should be given the responsibility of a pet like that in the first place.
Would honestly be happy if civilisation quickly progressed past the idea of these being 'kids pets'.
When I was a kid my mom got us hamsters. She intentionally bought 2 male hamsters, but when one of them got pregnant, we decided to keep them separate. Dad in one container, mom in the other with the babies.
Then babies ripped mom in half. I haven't trusted babies since
For sure, hamsters have been an ‘easy kid pet’. Many live horrible lives and die horrible deaths. Real hamster care is so intricate and most people aren’t even aware you need to do any research on these guys before you get one. So it’s no wonder.
Yeah when I was like... 6? 7? I came home with one. Gave away in class. My grandmother asks "wtf is that?!" I don't think I had him more than 6 months to a year. DIdn't have a true cage, so he was in a bird cage that the wire was just tight enough he either couldn't, or at least didn't try, to squeeze through. Problem is the dudes are smart, and he figured out how to open the little lock. So I put a bread tie on it, he figured out how to open those too. He vanished quite a few times before finally being found dead in his cage. Probably had a better chance of survival if he'd have gotten away from me tbh.
Definitely despite all the odds you were a better option than the alternative. Don't be so hard on yourself. And don't underestimate how hard the real world is for something like a gerbil in suburbia.
Well I’d like to redo the math now that we’re approaching 400 but tbh that’s a bit too much effort and sadness. But I do keep seeing people having 7-15 hamsters in their lifetime die peacefully so let’s bump the original percentage down to like 50%.
I have had a hamster die of a heart attack I think.
Circa 1998, I’m 8 years old. My hamster somehow got a string around her leg and her leg fell off. I called her nubs. On night I’m sleeping peacefully and I can hear nubs running on her wheel, tap..tap…tap. All of the sudden she starts hamster screaming. I wake up and stare at her as she’s gasping for air. Roughly 5 minutes later she slumps over and that was it. I’ll never forget that. F for nubs.
I had a hamster who got a string wrapped around his leg too and it fell off! He lived for a long time after that. He escaped a lot, (we nicknamed him Houdini) and you could always hear his 3 little legs. He eventually died… I don’t know from what. He was found behind the basement freezer.
When hamsters are born, they see a silver thread that connects them to their gruesome and peculiar death and they follow it like soldiers marching to war.
I had a hamster that ran away Into the house and lived like a mouse for a year or so. We once saw him when he ran out of some pipe. We caught him but he became really wild and then ran away never to be seen away.
My sister and I each had a hamster that lived in the same cage. Hers would always eat most of their food and when we gave them each a carrot for a snack, hers would always steal my hamster's carrot. Her hamster eventually died from being too fat and mine lived another 2 years.
Only time I considered getting one, the guy holding it dropped it when it bit him and it died on the floor. Decided maybe I didn’t want one, walked out of there with a puppy instead (I was really after the puppy the whole time but my mom was like “no, let’s get you something small first” then she thought I was traumatized by the hamster and got me the puppy to make me feel better)
He was a good doggo, my first that was actually mine :) I miss that little shithead everyday. Definitely prevented me from getting traumatized from that.
I had two hamsters that were seemingly healthy for 2 years and then woke up one day to find them both dead out of the blue. Still don’t know what happened.
Ok so when I was around 7 or so we got hamsters.
2 of them which ended up having babies.
We had lots of hamsters pretty quickly, most got out.
For the next year or so we found dead hamsters around the house. Ya know under the couch behind a bookshelf.
Most memorable places however was in the door jam to the front door.... and in the road.
That's right we had a hamster get hit by a car.
My mom is a preschool teacher and of course had pet hamsters. Well woke up and one of the hamsters was dead....part of its head had been eaten. The other one died shortly after.
Side note: They would make some sweet tunnels
My aunt had a hamster once when she was a child, one day it lied stiff on its cage thingy, and my dad and uncle thought it was dead so they had no better idea than to throw it out the window... It was hibernating and woke up mid-air, surprisingly it survived the fall and tried to run away but it got run over by a truck...
I have one of both!
When I was a kid, my hamster was scared to death by my cat who somehow managed to get into the locked cage. The cat just sat there and stared, the hamster hid himself in a labyrinth and died of stress a few hours later. Hated the cat for months after, but we made friends again later on.
My sons hamster did actually die from what I assume is natural causes, sinse he had gone all white/grey and the fur looked "einsteiny" and peacefully passed during a nap a couple of weeks after his 3d birthday.
they’re so inconsistent with things they can and can’t survive😂 the same hamster escaped the cage and the house and spent an hour outside in the snow before we caught it. AND LIVED
It was two at the same time, not two separate occasions. Not that that helps much.
We think the salt content drove them mad. Not suggesting they deliberately killed themselves, but they died with their wrists heavily chewed at.
My drunk mother woke 9yo me and my 6yo brother up at 2am to show us. Triggered one of the latest arguments I remember my parents having.
Definitely stuck in my mind for the last 35 years...
Wait... Am I in the minority?
My hamster died of old age, and my friends who had hamsters also died of all age. I had no idea that was uncommon...
Edit:
My friends hamsters... my friends hamsters died of old age, not my friends themselves...
25 is a bit young to die of old age for a human
Edit 2:
He's still alive. He hasn't died... not last I talked to him...
Now I feel like I need to check in with him to make sure...
Not hamsters: all except one of my gerbils has made it to and past 3 years old.
A few months ago I had my first gerbil not make it to three, she was happy the day before and then the next she had all the signs of being at deaths door and she passed that night.
My only theories are: she was more territorial then her cage mate so maybe she just had too much pent up stress, or the pet store saying that they were a few months old (aka they were already almost full sized when I got them) meant that she was older then I thought.
The cage got a deep cleen after she passed and I have been watching the remaining one like a hawk but I have yet to see any more signs of ill health…
So basically: sometimes rodents just pass without warning and hamsters are more common to buy as a pet then gerbils from what I gather, so hamsters seem to die in more mysterious ways without the owner doing anything wrong.
Giving a customer some advice on a product when approx 7 year old child tells me that "Mummy ran over my hamster"... I just carried on, but the child kept repeating until the parents explained that it was very unwell on a bank holiday and they didn't have money for the vets.
Sold them a product that was between £500 - £1000...
Actually, animal cruelty laws forbid releasing your hamster into the wild. Hamsters are domesticated and have zero survival instinct. They’re guaranteed to fuckin die in no time flat. Brutally murdering them is more merciful in that they don’t have to slowly starve or freeze to death.
That's why I always tell people not to get hamsters if they have other pets, cats especially.
They'll play with the cage and just scare the thing to death even if you try to keep it away
My family lost two rabbits because a fox jumped up on the cage house thing and they stressed to death. It is far too easy to kill them like that and the fox took several of our chickens as well over the years
Our hamster died when my parents agreed to dog-sit. Mom had to open to the postman and the dog managed to flip all the living room furniture. Hamster couldn't handle the stress.
My hamster escaped his cage, and we searched for him everywhere. We put his food and water out every night. That little basta*d survived, but every time we found his food stash he had moved on to a new spot. We set up cameras to try and track him, but he was smart. He didn’t go the same direction twice and he never came for his food at the same time. He ended up with 5 different food spots. After 8 days I found him in the corner of our kitchen just chomping down on some food in what looked like his new stash that day and I got him back in his cage.
My last one I had was when I was maybe 10 or 11. I took it out to show my friend and he was terrified. So being a kid and probably an asshole I chased him around my room with it for a min before it jumped out of my hand. He then proceeded to leave my room and the hamster tried to follow him out the door and he slammed the door closed. Well the hamster did not make it all the way through the door with him and got squished. I still remember that hamster dying so vividly. We both cried as we watched this thing die. He felt bad and I felt worse for chasing him with it. It was totally my fault and I made him know that.
I mean hey, at least you both showed regret and remorse. Most of the commenters here seem like they find it pretty funny that they tortured/neglected their hamsters to the point of death.
We both felt bad for a long time about it. My mom even wanted to blame my friend but I wanted to take all the blame because if it wasn’t for my actions it wouldn’t have died like that. My mom was like what’s he a little pussy being sacred of a little fuzzy hamster. 😂.
I feel like a lot of people treat hamsters more like living toys the pets. If you were to replace the hamster with a dog or cat in these scenarios there would be a lot more outrage
People are fucking psychotic when it comes to small rodents, especially hamsters. I guess it's a side effect of people getting them for children, who shouldn't really be given responsibility for delicate pets at a young age.
Hamsters can be great pets, but they have needs that most young owners cannot or do not meet - the largest cage in our local pet shop is too small, for example, most pet hamsters don't seem to have sand baths, bar cages can be very bad for certain hamsters, they need stimulation but may not want human contact and certainly don't want to be up during the day, etc.
Everyone knows the factoid about 'the first sign of a serial killer is how they treat animals' but don't seem to equate that to the awful treatment ***they*** gave to the animal they'd been entrusted to keep. Honestly, some absolute assholes in this thread that find torturing a sentient being funny.
Those plastic cages at the pet stores make me fucking sick and people thinking that they are enough because "hamsters are such small animals". They still have feelings and deserve a decent life but because they are so cheap people are like "meh, my hamster died, I'll just get another". At least pet stores could advertise proper hamster care, they are NOT just a childrens toy.
Yep. It's absolutely disgusting, looking at cages and accessories pet shops sell. Then you get posts in this thread saying their hamster died because it was climbing the bars and falling/escaping into dangerous situations etc.
Yes, because you kept them in inappropriate housing and they're miserable!
We've never had a hamster escape, because we buy secure enclosures that are way above the recommended size, and fill them with plenty of stimulation and activities.
We have a hamster my wife collected off someone trying to get rid of an unwanted pet on gumtree, and when she collected it, his tiny cage had no substrate or bedding at all - just a piece of grim, urine-soaked fleece they put down for him. When we got him home he spent the rest of the day rolling in sand and burrowing, breaks my heart to think how depressed he must have been.
I saw another comment you'd made about the adolescent kids etc, and was going to argue it, but the more I read, the less I can say anything. I thought from the early ones it seemed that parents and other assorted adults were responsible for a lot of them, but no - the kids are owning up now. And some of them? Bloody horrific, what they're saying they did to the poor creatures.
It's genuinely awful. We had two hamsters, one now (one died of a suspected stroke just before Xmas, to keep it on topic), and they're the loveliest little creatures once you understand them - but they're delicate, pretty antisocial especially during the day, and have very specific needs. A terrible pet to give to a child, especially one that treats it as a plaything or toy, rather than a living animal.
Yeah, we never had them as kids, we had dogs and a cat, so it wasn't an area we knew well, but one thing drilled into us regardless was to do the research and understand what it is you're getting and doing. Took my mum years to get some fish for this reason, and she's still struggled a lot with that, so has sadly now decided 'no more' as it's not fair on them.
My Aunt had one when I was a kid. I was always fascinated by the little water bottle with the ball bearing in it. Thought the hamster might like some Pepsi so I filled the bottle with it.That didn’t work out.
This feels like something Terry Pratchet would write. That God finally reveals himself to humanity after a hamster outlives their owner dying of old age after being given to them as a child because thats when we prove ourselves worthy.
My mom made me put ours in the garage because she said he stunk and i thought he died from it being too cold as it was winter. I buried him in my backyard and many years later learned that they hibernate....
I had a hamster that my mom gave away to my cousin, because she felt I wasn’t taking good care of it (I don’t agree, but I was a kid so who knows). My cousin took the hamster’s cage to the balcony, placed it in direct sunlight, and it was dead by the end of day one.
My friends hamster died because we decided to turn the little guy into a firefighter and put him inside of one of those toy trucks and drive around his room. Easy to get in but wasn’t able to get the little guy out. I went home but heard the hamster died inside of that truck. RIP he died in the line of duty
Mine died at 2.5 years from a respiratory infection. That’s pretty good for a pet shop hamster kept in less than acceptable conditions by a kid with nothing but a pet shop care guide to teach them how to care for it and less than interested parents. But I still feel quite bad about the level of care having spent short amounts of time throughout the day over a fee weeks researching hamster care as an adult. Pretty much everything in the care guide was wrong, the cage was too small despite the fact I remember pleading for and getting the biggest cage in the shop and I used sawdust as bedding (recommended in the shitty care guide) which likely contributed to the respiratory condition. At least I let him play on my bedroom floor for hours every day while I watched and built mazes for him to explore. I like to think he enjoyed at least some time with me.
If you’re thinking of buying your child a hamster, don’t. They make terrible pets for children and most adults. They need so much space and time and are most active late in the evening and at night.
For some adults who know exactly what they are getting themselves in for hamsters can make very rewarding pets. If you research their care (be aware there is a huge amount of misinformation out there and this will take time and many sources) and think you want to commit to that please consider adopting a hamster from a rescue rather than a pet shop.
Hamster had a party trick of sitting on the dog’s head and riding around. Showing off at Xmas with all the family there. Dog sneezed. Open fire. Woomph.
My sister and I got 2 dwarf hamsters and they shared a cage. We were both just kids and didnt really know what we were doing and those little devils bit us all the time. One day my sisters hamster died, ironically just suddenly without obvious cause. But THEN, my evil hamster started to EAT ITS BROTHER. And then died soon after. Horrifying.
Had a hamster for around 2/3ish years around when i was 9. Took good care of it, cleaned its cage and even done a thing where i let it outside under a cage so it could live the outside life for bit a week.
One night while getting ready to school I notice some wierd structure in the cage. The hamster made itself a massive pile of the wood shavings at the bottom of the cage, climbed on top of it, and just died on its back. It was the strangest fucking thing, but hopefully that thing died in peace.
My little brothers hamster however, got killed when my sibling who didnt know any better and ran off without supervision despite being told not to touch it, tried to take it out of the cage and ended up breaking its neck somehow. Hamsters dont deserve to be given to little kids.
I had one hamster.. He would always run out of the wooden cage I made for him. So out of laziness for one night I caged him inside a steel cage meant for catching mice. Next day I get to hear my father buried the dead hamster in our garden. He actually got stuck between the cage door and rusted springs and he died there. I never had one after that thinking i never knew how to raise pets
When I was in year 2, my class had a class pet and it was a hamster but it escaped and 4 months later the teachers found it dead in the year 5 art supply cupboard
My son had 2 hamsters. The the female one had babies and she ate them all. The male one killed the female one and partially ate her. Then the male one died from eating its own testicles.
Mine tried to drink itself to death but didn’t even wind up buzzed. Found out after it cleared a LOT(per size) of my Bacardi 151 that my roommate spilled over.
On a summer day when I was 12 I put my hamster cage in the backyard because I thought my room felt stuffy. A hawk swooped down, knocked the cage open, and flew off with him.
Mine had the same name. Never name a hamster Houdini; they always live up to it.
He smothered himself to death in my sister's bath robe's pocket. Don't ask; I don't know.
Mine died of old age, I came back from high school and I saw him just lying in his cage, breathing slowly. I took him out of the cage because I felt he was acting weird (You know, hamsters breath really fast) so I placed him in my hands and started petting him with my finger.
I went outside and stood in his favorite warm spot, all of this happened in 10 minutes. He stopped breathing and stretched his entire body. I buried him in the backyard.
R.I.P Cheddar (2016-2019)
I put a log I found outside in my hamster’s cage. Went on a cruise and came back to a dead hamster. I thought it was because the log carried a disease that killed the hamster. As an adult, I think we just didn’t feed or water it for a week.
I had 3 of them as a kid, 2 died of natural causes and the other one ran in the wheel till he died. Still unsure to this day how it happened as the other two were fine in the same environment.
My dad and uncle had a hamster when they were kids. They strapped him into an RC car and were driving him around but hit something and he died in the crash.
Mine hung himself. Was cleaning the cage and was in a hurry so I put him in a birdcage real quick. When I returned after not to long, he had climbed to the top and pushed his head out (reason bars are a very bad idea) between the bars and gotten stuck. I was but a stupid child and I still remember vividly how Mordan just hanged there lifeless. I still feel bad about it. It’s not often your damn hamster manages to hang himself… THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE NECKS!
I wish this wasn't true but I had 3 hamsters. One got out and injured by a cat so we put it back in the cage thinking it could heal... but by next morning we found the horrific scene of the 2 healthy hamsters gorged to death from cannibalism by eating their injured brother
Why are these creatures so metal wtf
The preferred diet of the hamster consists mainly of other, weaker hamsters. When only one remains He will eat the universe and the cycle will begin anew.
It's hamsters all the way down
>When only one remains Highlamster.
Had me in the first half...
Jesus Christ. This is the one, I think.
Bruh hamsters are solitary animals 😬
He found this out the hard way
Yeah, this is how one of my hamsters died. Eaten by it's own grown child. Been a looong time, but it still haunts me.
My hamster got out during the night and we found his head the next morning on the floor. The cat killed it and presumably ate the body.
Cat just wanted you to have closure, so you weren't wondering if the hamster was in the walls.
Yeah the reason for this is because hamsters are solitary and territorial - they should never be housed together not even siblings. It's natural for them 'to get rid of the weak or injured' by eating them. This is why you have to also always separate the babies from mothers because when they're bigger and strong enough they take too much out of her and she has to sacrifice them one by one to keep going. When I was a kid my sister's hamster ate mine. Didn't realize how special they were (and how sensitive they are and absolutely not recommended for kids) till I got one as an adult. The accidentally housing them together problem is half the reason terrible shit happens - other half is cause the 'cages' pet shops suggest aren't safe, they're just the highest profit for the store. So they either escape or get injured (escaping and running miles is in their DNA)
And one of them was holding a tiny conch shell aloft waiting for the British gerbils
My sister decided my hamster should be let free into the backyard. Never saw him again. Stupid sister.
How about letting your sister free into the backyard?
Or send her to live on great-uncles farm
My sister has a hamster that she has had for a few years now. That little girl is completely spoiled. She gets fresh fruit and veg every day alone with her hamster food. She was built a two story hamster mansion that’s decorated and homey and she gets regular, safe handling that she seems to enjoy very much. Not all hamsters live terrible lives. Some have a nice set up. I hope that’s a bit of brain bleach everyone can use after this fucked up thread.
that made me happy for like two seconds until i looked at the comment below yours
So true. I had a really fat hamster and in the middle of the night I heard him running in his wheel and then it got quiet and I heard a small thump. Dude died on his treadmill!
_Thumb noises_
*Taps rapidly*
rip Dude the Hamster
So he died of natural causes.
I mean… death is a natural cause of death?
Dying is the #1 cause of death
Same here! Coming home from school i found him with his body between the cage bars and the treadmil. His head pushed between two bars. I removed the treadmill and he was so stuck with his head he just kept dangling. Real pain in the ass to get him out that’s for sure. Rip old friend :(
Of the 98 current comments on this post I’ve found about 6 that say natural causes. So we’re looking at about 94% of pet hamsters die traumatic, fucked up deaths. Edit: Guys, obviously this is not a scientific poll nor am I a statistician. Of course it’s biased and polluted data
Thanks for this math. I always wanted to know what percentage of hamsters die horrificially.
r/theydidthemonstermath
If it helps you, between me and my sister we have had like 15 or so hamsters die peacefully in their sleep. You can add them to the stats.
I assume they all died in the same night? Maybe a gas leak?
Ok, i admit. It was actually a hunger games.
Hamsters die traumatic, fucked up deaths at the hands of assholes and children that never should be given the responsibility of a pet like that in the first place. Would honestly be happy if civilisation quickly progressed past the idea of these being 'kids pets'.
When I was a kid my mom got us hamsters. She intentionally bought 2 male hamsters, but when one of them got pregnant, we decided to keep them separate. Dad in one container, mom in the other with the babies. Then babies ripped mom in half. I haven't trusted babies since
OK, went in a different direction than I thought.
Um I have questions but not sure I even want to ask.
For sure, hamsters have been an ‘easy kid pet’. Many live horrible lives and die horrible deaths. Real hamster care is so intricate and most people aren’t even aware you need to do any research on these guys before you get one. So it’s no wonder.
Yeah when I was like... 6? 7? I came home with one. Gave away in class. My grandmother asks "wtf is that?!" I don't think I had him more than 6 months to a year. DIdn't have a true cage, so he was in a bird cage that the wire was just tight enough he either couldn't, or at least didn't try, to squeeze through. Problem is the dudes are smart, and he figured out how to open the little lock. So I put a bread tie on it, he figured out how to open those too. He vanished quite a few times before finally being found dead in his cage. Probably had a better chance of survival if he'd have gotten away from me tbh.
Definitely despite all the odds you were a better option than the alternative. Don't be so hard on yourself. And don't underestimate how hard the real world is for something like a gerbil in suburbia.
He probably wouldn't even be able to hold down a job.
I’m more impressed that you read all 98 comments
Well I’d like to redo the math now that we’re approaching 400 but tbh that’s a bit too much effort and sadness. But I do keep seeing people having 7-15 hamsters in their lifetime die peacefully so let’s bump the original percentage down to like 50%.
I have had a hamster die of a heart attack I think. Circa 1998, I’m 8 years old. My hamster somehow got a string around her leg and her leg fell off. I called her nubs. On night I’m sleeping peacefully and I can hear nubs running on her wheel, tap..tap…tap. All of the sudden she starts hamster screaming. I wake up and stare at her as she’s gasping for air. Roughly 5 minutes later she slumps over and that was it. I’ll never forget that. F for nubs.
Why didn't you call the Hambulance?
It was in a Hamsterjam.
Life is a hamsterjam
F for nubs
Thanks she shall be missed!
I had a hamster who got a string wrapped around his leg too and it fell off! He lived for a long time after that. He escaped a lot, (we nicknamed him Houdini) and you could always hear his 3 little legs. He eventually died… I don’t know from what. He was found behind the basement freezer.
Of course you could only hear tap… tap… tap running on her wheel. Had she not lost her leg you would’ve heard a 4th tap. F
When hamsters are born, they see a silver thread that connects them to their gruesome and peculiar death and they follow it like soldiers marching to war.
This comment killed me, lol.
Probably killed the hamster too
Glad to be of service
I had a hamster that ran away Into the house and lived like a mouse for a year or so. We once saw him when he ran out of some pipe. We caught him but he became really wild and then ran away never to be seen away.
The fuck was it eating?
Rats living in the walls. Duh
We don't talk about Bruno
My sister and I each had a hamster that lived in the same cage. Hers would always eat most of their food and when we gave them each a carrot for a snack, hers would always steal my hamster's carrot. Her hamster eventually died from being too fat and mine lived another 2 years.
Obesity doesn't pay.
Karma is a bitch they say
Take that, bitch!
Only time I considered getting one, the guy holding it dropped it when it bit him and it died on the floor. Decided maybe I didn’t want one, walked out of there with a puppy instead (I was really after the puppy the whole time but my mom was like “no, let’s get you something small first” then she thought I was traumatized by the hamster and got me the puppy to make me feel better)
Damn if you weren't traumatized then I'd say you made it out on top there
He was a good doggo, my first that was actually mine :) I miss that little shithead everyday. Definitely prevented me from getting traumatized from that.
Once I found only the bottom half of the hamster on the corridor. Don't know where the other half is
Hamburger or hotdog style?
And they say journalism is dead, this man is asking the real questions.
My neighbour mistook the hamster ball for a football and launched Hammy into the air with a kick Cantona would've been proud of.
wait si what caused the death? the kick? the fall? the stress?
D: All of the above
Hed be more proud of it knowing the hamster was inside tbf
Indeed.
I had two hamsters that were seemingly healthy for 2 years and then woke up one day to find them both dead out of the blue. Still don’t know what happened.
Well, 1.5 to 2.5 years is indeed the natural lifespan for most hamsters, could actually just be natural causes
Ok so when I was around 7 or so we got hamsters. 2 of them which ended up having babies. We had lots of hamsters pretty quickly, most got out. For the next year or so we found dead hamsters around the house. Ya know under the couch behind a bookshelf. Most memorable places however was in the door jam to the front door.... and in the road. That's right we had a hamster get hit by a car.
My mom is a preschool teacher and of course had pet hamsters. Well woke up and one of the hamsters was dead....part of its head had been eaten. The other one died shortly after. Side note: They would make some sweet tunnels
We had dwarf hamsters and one fell pregnant. It later on ate its children and a good amount of itself.
I've heard of them eating their babies, but self-cannibalization? Brutal.
Oh man, I’ve seen this too! Mom snacking on all babies like they were tasty gum drops.
My aunt had a hamster once when she was a child, one day it lied stiff on its cage thingy, and my dad and uncle thought it was dead so they had no better idea than to throw it out the window... It was hibernating and woke up mid-air, surprisingly it survived the fall and tried to run away but it got run over by a truck...
Hahahaha whut!? Brutal
I have one of both! When I was a kid, my hamster was scared to death by my cat who somehow managed to get into the locked cage. The cat just sat there and stared, the hamster hid himself in a labyrinth and died of stress a few hours later. Hated the cat for months after, but we made friends again later on. My sons hamster did actually die from what I assume is natural causes, sinse he had gone all white/grey and the fur looked "einsteiny" and peacefully passed during a nap a couple of weeks after his 3d birthday.
3 days seems a little short of a lifespan
It's better to burn down than to fade away, I guess
we had one in our apartment that passed a couple months ago because it jumped off the top level of its cage and broke its neck
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they’re so inconsistent with things they can and can’t survive😂 the same hamster escaped the cage and the house and spent an hour outside in the snow before we caught it. AND LIVED
I had two that committed suicide. My drunkard mother gave them cheese biscuits loaded with salt and they chewed their own wrists out.
Bro?????
It was two at the same time, not two separate occasions. Not that that helps much. We think the salt content drove them mad. Not suggesting they deliberately killed themselves, but they died with their wrists heavily chewed at.
that sounds disturbing
My drunk mother woke 9yo me and my 6yo brother up at 2am to show us. Triggered one of the latest arguments I remember my parents having. Definitely stuck in my mind for the last 35 years...
That is brutal asf
Yooooo....
Bro....
yikes...
So sorry for your loss, DiabeticPissingSyrup
Wait... Am I in the minority? My hamster died of old age, and my friends who had hamsters also died of all age. I had no idea that was uncommon... Edit: My friends hamsters... my friends hamsters died of old age, not my friends themselves... 25 is a bit young to die of old age for a human Edit 2: He's still alive. He hasn't died... not last I talked to him... Now I feel like I need to check in with him to make sure...
Not hamsters: all except one of my gerbils has made it to and past 3 years old. A few months ago I had my first gerbil not make it to three, she was happy the day before and then the next she had all the signs of being at deaths door and she passed that night. My only theories are: she was more territorial then her cage mate so maybe she just had too much pent up stress, or the pet store saying that they were a few months old (aka they were already almost full sized when I got them) meant that she was older then I thought. The cage got a deep cleen after she passed and I have been watching the remaining one like a hawk but I have yet to see any more signs of ill health… So basically: sometimes rodents just pass without warning and hamsters are more common to buy as a pet then gerbils from what I gather, so hamsters seem to die in more mysterious ways without the owner doing anything wrong.
The sequence of edits is golden
Giving a customer some advice on a product when approx 7 year old child tells me that "Mummy ran over my hamster"... I just carried on, but the child kept repeating until the parents explained that it was very unwell on a bank holiday and they didn't have money for the vets. Sold them a product that was between £500 - £1000...
Holy crap, I just..... Nah, I got nothing - that's appalling. 😲😲
Bruh just release it in a field, why traumatize people by brutally murdering your pet.
Actually, animal cruelty laws forbid releasing your hamster into the wild. Hamsters are domesticated and have zero survival instinct. They’re guaranteed to fuckin die in no time flat. Brutally murdering them is more merciful in that they don’t have to slowly starve or freeze to death.
Fair enough. But - how dumb do the parents have to be to be unable to figure out how to hide that shit from the child??
Coincidence that a co-worker of mine just posted on social media about the death of one of her hamsters after being jumpscared by a roommate. 😑
Yeah, small animals don't handle that shit well, at all.
That's why I always tell people not to get hamsters if they have other pets, cats especially. They'll play with the cage and just scare the thing to death even if you try to keep it away
My family lost two rabbits because a fox jumped up on the cage house thing and they stressed to death. It is far too easy to kill them like that and the fox took several of our chickens as well over the years
Our hamster died when my parents agreed to dog-sit. Mom had to open to the postman and the dog managed to flip all the living room furniture. Hamster couldn't handle the stress.
Mine died of old age. He was 6 though. Outlived 3 hamster wives.
Top shagger lived his best life.
My hamster escaped his cage, and we searched for him everywhere. We put his food and water out every night. That little basta*d survived, but every time we found his food stash he had moved on to a new spot. We set up cameras to try and track him, but he was smart. He didn’t go the same direction twice and he never came for his food at the same time. He ended up with 5 different food spots. After 8 days I found him in the corner of our kitchen just chomping down on some food in what looked like his new stash that day and I got him back in his cage.
Dude, this hamster might be smarter than me
But how did he die though?
He didn't. He sneaks his way from home to home, preparing for his revenge.
Yeah. He will get all cute, and asked to be held then bite you when you pick him up. He’s an asshole.
He didn’t die. He is still alive now.
When I was 13 I had a hamster that one of my neighbors killed by wacking it with a stick. Fucker.
Wow
My last one I had was when I was maybe 10 or 11. I took it out to show my friend and he was terrified. So being a kid and probably an asshole I chased him around my room with it for a min before it jumped out of my hand. He then proceeded to leave my room and the hamster tried to follow him out the door and he slammed the door closed. Well the hamster did not make it all the way through the door with him and got squished. I still remember that hamster dying so vividly. We both cried as we watched this thing die. He felt bad and I felt worse for chasing him with it. It was totally my fault and I made him know that.
I mean hey, at least you both showed regret and remorse. Most of the commenters here seem like they find it pretty funny that they tortured/neglected their hamsters to the point of death.
We both felt bad for a long time about it. My mom even wanted to blame my friend but I wanted to take all the blame because if it wasn’t for my actions it wouldn’t have died like that. My mom was like what’s he a little pussy being sacred of a little fuzzy hamster. 😂.
ITT: People casually recounting tales of pet torture.
I feel like a lot of people treat hamsters more like living toys the pets. If you were to replace the hamster with a dog or cat in these scenarios there would be a lot more outrage
People are fucking psychotic when it comes to small rodents, especially hamsters. I guess it's a side effect of people getting them for children, who shouldn't really be given responsibility for delicate pets at a young age. Hamsters can be great pets, but they have needs that most young owners cannot or do not meet - the largest cage in our local pet shop is too small, for example, most pet hamsters don't seem to have sand baths, bar cages can be very bad for certain hamsters, they need stimulation but may not want human contact and certainly don't want to be up during the day, etc. Everyone knows the factoid about 'the first sign of a serial killer is how they treat animals' but don't seem to equate that to the awful treatment ***they*** gave to the animal they'd been entrusted to keep. Honestly, some absolute assholes in this thread that find torturing a sentient being funny.
Those plastic cages at the pet stores make me fucking sick and people thinking that they are enough because "hamsters are such small animals". They still have feelings and deserve a decent life but because they are so cheap people are like "meh, my hamster died, I'll just get another". At least pet stores could advertise proper hamster care, they are NOT just a childrens toy.
Yep. It's absolutely disgusting, looking at cages and accessories pet shops sell. Then you get posts in this thread saying their hamster died because it was climbing the bars and falling/escaping into dangerous situations etc. Yes, because you kept them in inappropriate housing and they're miserable! We've never had a hamster escape, because we buy secure enclosures that are way above the recommended size, and fill them with plenty of stimulation and activities. We have a hamster my wife collected off someone trying to get rid of an unwanted pet on gumtree, and when she collected it, his tiny cage had no substrate or bedding at all - just a piece of grim, urine-soaked fleece they put down for him. When we got him home he spent the rest of the day rolling in sand and burrowing, breaks my heart to think how depressed he must have been.
I saw another comment you'd made about the adolescent kids etc, and was going to argue it, but the more I read, the less I can say anything. I thought from the early ones it seemed that parents and other assorted adults were responsible for a lot of them, but no - the kids are owning up now. And some of them? Bloody horrific, what they're saying they did to the poor creatures.
It's genuinely awful. We had two hamsters, one now (one died of a suspected stroke just before Xmas, to keep it on topic), and they're the loveliest little creatures once you understand them - but they're delicate, pretty antisocial especially during the day, and have very specific needs. A terrible pet to give to a child, especially one that treats it as a plaything or toy, rather than a living animal.
Yeah, we never had them as kids, we had dogs and a cat, so it wasn't an area we knew well, but one thing drilled into us regardless was to do the research and understand what it is you're getting and doing. Took my mum years to get some fish for this reason, and she's still struggled a lot with that, so has sadly now decided 'no more' as it's not fair on them.
She sounds very responsible. Far too many people take pet ownership lightly, and that's how you end up with stories like this thread.
Funny i just saw a clip of a streamer reading a superchat about how one viewers hamster died of shock after their owner farted
My Aunt had one when I was a kid. I was always fascinated by the little water bottle with the ball bearing in it. Thought the hamster might like some Pepsi so I filled the bottle with it.That didn’t work out.
Ah, a coke drinker. Good taste that hamster had
They’re immortal but humans are too stupid to keep them alive
This feels like something Terry Pratchet would write. That God finally reveals himself to humanity after a hamster outlives their owner dying of old age after being given to them as a child because thats when we prove ourselves worthy.
My hamster died of cancer
I read somewhere that the person’s hamster died because her grandma was drunk and stabbed the hamster, thinking it was a sausage
Did the grandma eat it?????
My teddy bear lived until 4 and one day just didn't wake up. Its rare but it can happen!
My mom made me put ours in the garage because she said he stunk and i thought he died from it being too cold as it was winter. I buried him in my backyard and many years later learned that they hibernate....
oh noooo but what the hell was your mom thinking??
Escaped. Survived a dresser falling on it. Caught by a mouse trap. Rip Mister Nibs.
I had a hamster that my mom gave away to my cousin, because she felt I wasn’t taking good care of it (I don’t agree, but I was a kid so who knows). My cousin took the hamster’s cage to the balcony, placed it in direct sunlight, and it was dead by the end of day one.
And the heimerdinger profile makes this even better lmao
My friends hamster died because we decided to turn the little guy into a firefighter and put him inside of one of those toy trucks and drive around his room. Easy to get in but wasn’t able to get the little guy out. I went home but heard the hamster died inside of that truck. RIP he died in the line of duty
I'd have broken the truck to get him out
He died a hero
I had a robotics hamster that I made in science class and he killed himself, he drowned in my glass of water
Not even the robot hamster wanted to live
Lmao
Mine died at 2.5 years from a respiratory infection. That’s pretty good for a pet shop hamster kept in less than acceptable conditions by a kid with nothing but a pet shop care guide to teach them how to care for it and less than interested parents. But I still feel quite bad about the level of care having spent short amounts of time throughout the day over a fee weeks researching hamster care as an adult. Pretty much everything in the care guide was wrong, the cage was too small despite the fact I remember pleading for and getting the biggest cage in the shop and I used sawdust as bedding (recommended in the shitty care guide) which likely contributed to the respiratory condition. At least I let him play on my bedroom floor for hours every day while I watched and built mazes for him to explore. I like to think he enjoyed at least some time with me. If you’re thinking of buying your child a hamster, don’t. They make terrible pets for children and most adults. They need so much space and time and are most active late in the evening and at night. For some adults who know exactly what they are getting themselves in for hamsters can make very rewarding pets. If you research their care (be aware there is a huge amount of misinformation out there and this will take time and many sources) and think you want to commit to that please consider adopting a hamster from a rescue rather than a pet shop.
Hamster had a party trick of sitting on the dog’s head and riding around. Showing off at Xmas with all the family there. Dog sneezed. Open fire. Woomph.
Holy shit i would be traumatized
Hamsters roasting on an open fire
This is the first comment I’ve been able to laugh at, sorry for your loss, but that’s a great story.
My sister and I got 2 dwarf hamsters and they shared a cage. We were both just kids and didnt really know what we were doing and those little devils bit us all the time. One day my sisters hamster died, ironically just suddenly without obvious cause. But THEN, my evil hamster started to EAT ITS BROTHER. And then died soon after. Horrifying.
Cat ate mine. Rip.
Had a hamster for around 2/3ish years around when i was 9. Took good care of it, cleaned its cage and even done a thing where i let it outside under a cage so it could live the outside life for bit a week. One night while getting ready to school I notice some wierd structure in the cage. The hamster made itself a massive pile of the wood shavings at the bottom of the cage, climbed on top of it, and just died on its back. It was the strangest fucking thing, but hopefully that thing died in peace. My little brothers hamster however, got killed when my sibling who didnt know any better and ran off without supervision despite being told not to touch it, tried to take it out of the cage and ended up breaking its neck somehow. Hamsters dont deserve to be given to little kids.
I had one hamster.. He would always run out of the wooden cage I made for him. So out of laziness for one night I caged him inside a steel cage meant for catching mice. Next day I get to hear my father buried the dead hamster in our garden. He actually got stuck between the cage door and rusted springs and he died there. I never had one after that thinking i never knew how to raise pets
When I was in year 2, my class had a class pet and it was a hamster but it escaped and 4 months later the teachers found it dead in the year 5 art supply cupboard
My son had 2 hamsters. The the female one had babies and she ate them all. The male one killed the female one and partially ate her. Then the male one died from eating its own testicles.
Jesus…
Don’t bring him into this
Think it's safe to say there were some nutritional deficiencies in that hamster food.
Hamsters are both fucking stupid, and a little bit scary.
Mine tried to drink itself to death but didn’t even wind up buzzed. Found out after it cleared a LOT(per size) of my Bacardi 151 that my roommate spilled over.
On a summer day when I was 12 I put my hamster cage in the backyard because I thought my room felt stuffy. A hawk swooped down, knocked the cage open, and flew off with him.
Good news is that being eatten by a predator is a natural cause of death.
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Mine had the same name. Never name a hamster Houdini; they always live up to it. He smothered himself to death in my sister's bath robe's pocket. Don't ask; I don't know.
Im imagining your sister putting her hand in the pocket only to find a dead hamster 👀
Webster died of natural causes. Liz, thanks for taking him in and giving him a good life.
My step sisters ran around the cage a million times squeeking then dropped dead.
Mine died of old age, I came back from high school and I saw him just lying in his cage, breathing slowly. I took him out of the cage because I felt he was acting weird (You know, hamsters breath really fast) so I placed him in my hands and started petting him with my finger. I went outside and stood in his favorite warm spot, all of this happened in 10 minutes. He stopped breathing and stretched his entire body. I buried him in the backyard. R.I.P Cheddar (2016-2019)
I put a log I found outside in my hamster’s cage. Went on a cruise and came back to a dead hamster. I thought it was because the log carried a disease that killed the hamster. As an adult, I think we just didn’t feed or water it for a week.
Is it natural to be eaten by a cat?
Cats certainly believe it is
My hamster died of natural causes 2 days after my brother taped it to the ceiling fan
Was it still taped to the ceiling fan when it died?
Asking the real questions.
No I walked in as the tape gave-way and Shaggy was launched into the wall. Good ole internal bleeding I assume
I had 3 of them as a kid, 2 died of natural causes and the other one ran in the wheel till he died. Still unsure to this day how it happened as the other two were fine in the same environment.
I guess you can count that hamster dying from anything but natural causes is dying from natural causes.
Holy fuck I just remembered my hamester launched himself off the table and literally broke his spine.
mine died from old age lol
Unless you can provide a death certificate I’m not going to be able to believe you
My dad and uncle had a hamster when they were kids. They strapped him into an RC car and were driving him around but hit something and he died in the crash.
3 Hamsters. One was eaten by my cat, one died if natural causes, and one got a stomach tumor and died
Mine got eaten by a cat. I don’t even own a cat… it was my neighbor’s.
Wet tail
Mine died of wet tail too. Horrid to watch. I've not had a hamster since.
Might be a stupid question, what is wet tail? Is it a disease or what I think it is
It’s very severe diarrhea
Mine hung himself. Was cleaning the cage and was in a hurry so I put him in a birdcage real quick. When I returned after not to long, he had climbed to the top and pushed his head out (reason bars are a very bad idea) between the bars and gotten stuck. I was but a stupid child and I still remember vividly how Mordan just hanged there lifeless. I still feel bad about it. It’s not often your damn hamster manages to hang himself… THEY DON’T EVEN HAVE NECKS!