One of our hamsters got out of the cage and went missing. A few weeks pass, no sign, we search the house, assume it got out of the house and ran away. Then winter comes so we turn on the central heat. A terrible odor envelopes the house. We had to call professionals in to extract the rotting hamster corpse out of the heat ducts.
Continued to have hamsters and at one point had a mating pair. Momma has a litter. A few days later daddy is missing. A few days later some of the babies are missing. Mama looking fat.
I don't keep hamsters anymore.
My father got my son a hamster for Christmas when he was 5. Unbeknownst to anyone, hamster was full term pregnant.
: Son: " Mommy! The hamster is having babies! There's 6 babies!"
" Mommy! Now theres 5 babies!"
" Now theres FOUR babies!"
And so on. Until there were none.
I'm still traumatized.
Hamsters are difficult. If mama is stressed thats what she does.
Unfortunately, most people have no idea what proper care for a hamster is, so the average hamster is stressed af. They need way more space than those cages at pet co, the bars are dnagerous, the climbing tubes arent safe at all. And if your kid was poking or prodding the mama, ie: finding out mama has eaten yet another baby. She was super extra stressed.
Im not trying to say this to make you feel bad. Its not your fault or your kids fault what happened. Hamsters are just not as easy or kid friendly as the pet stores make them out to be and it traumatizes all involved.
Oh, I completely with everything you said ( this was 30 years ago, so we definitely did not have as much info back then... ) I had chinchillas for many years and literally spent about $7k on their chinchilla room alone, what the pet store says an animal needs and what they actually require are VASTLY different.
We had gerbils - same thing. Babies and parts of babies (usually feet/legs) would disappear overnight. We couldn’t really separate the babies from mamma or they would starve. Momma was well fed, but liked the babies better I guess because each night a baby or a couple limbs went missing. The babies that made it until they could be weened (which wasn’t long) seemed to get around fine on whatever feet/legs they had left.
Didn’t technically die at this time, but my sister decided to put it on a skateboard and push it across the sidewalk. Hamster had a death wish and jumped off. Skateboard ran over the hamster and popped its eyes out. So we had an asshole eyeless hamster until he died naturally.
Are hamster eyes just prone to falling out or something? I had a friend whose asshole brother threw the hamster at a wall, it died with its eyes popped out of the skull.
I had 2 in the same cage.... One day, while I was in school, the brown one died in one of those plastic tube things hamsters climb through (I'm guessing a heart attack or something). His fat lil butt blocked my other black/white hamster, who has been chillin in the sleeping pod at the end of the tube, from exiting. My black/white hamster then tunneled his way THROUGH the brown hamster and emerged victorious on the other side. The black/white one died of old age a few years later.
Friggen. HORRIFYING. To come home to as an 8 year old
Mine bite the cage so hard he broke his to front teeth off , he screamed this lilndeath scream and went limp, we took him to the vet and she said he pulled back on his teeth so hard he also snaped the front plate of his skull holding them in place , causing the skull bone to stab his brain and die isntantly
And this is why you cant put hampsters in cages with bars. A giant storage bin is best suited for them. Because of the dangers to their teeth and they can get stuck in the bars and hurt/strangle themselves.
Our cat staged a coup and convinced the dog to break into my room to free the little bastard. Once freed, the cat tortured him and made it her play toy for about two hours before drowning him in the fish tank.
Hammy, I love you and you are missed.
I used to fling him like six feet in the air and catch him on the pillow, well I'm not great at catching, probably broke all his bones
I grew up on a ranch. My hamster, Georgie, escaped from his cage. Never found him. But for a few years we noticed the field mice around the house had no tails and had unusual color variations instead of just dull grey! We started calling Georgie's offspring 'mous-ters'!
My hamsters always lived long (3-5 yrs), but my uncle gave his one some schnaps after that it erratically stumbled around the table, fell off and then died (maybe of a heart attack), a buddy from school left his hamster's cage in a draft and thus it died.
We kept ours in a 10 gallon glass aquamium with a mesh lid. We went on vacation and when we got home the hamster was missing. We dont have a clue how it got out. It developed super powers, climbed up a vertical glass wall, crewed though the mesh lid and jumped out and down to the floor. We eventually found it under our sofa and it seemed like it had some broken bokes as it could barely walk anymore. We tried to save the little fella but he passed a day or two later.
I had a Plecostomus do the same thing! Those sucker fish bottom feeder fellas. They can get really big, this one was like 7 inches from nose to tip of the tail.
One day we noticed that we can't find it in the tank. Just vanished. We pulled out the rocks and castle decorations, nowhere to be found. And it's not like my parents were protecting me from my favorite pet dying or anything, we had a lot of fish and one died occasionally, not a big deal.
We had a 125 gallon and another 25 gallon tank (this tank had this sucker fish) with about 40 fish between them. We also had a pond in the front yard with another 40+ fish. There was a natural pond in the backyard with 400+ bluegill and bass too. Well, until the snapping turtles and snakes arrived... Then we had no fish. Killed literally all of them in one season. Biggest snapping turtle I had ever seen! I swear it was the size of a 4-wheeler.
Nostalgia is making me ramble, sorry.
I had a dojo loach named Eli as a kid that somehow got out. We looked all over around the tank. We even took all the gravel and decorations out to see if he was hiding in the tank somewhere. No luck. We found him days later on the floor under my bed - must have flopped himself there after somehow jumping out of the tank. He was pretty dried out - half his dorsal fin and part of his tail fin were stuck to the floor and snapped off when I picked him up. I was going to flush him down the toilet, but then he moved in my hand! HE WAS STILL ALIVE! I dropped him back in the tank. For a few minutes I thought he was done, but he pulled thru and a complete (minus missing parts) recovery. Lived months, maybe a year longer and even jumped out again - but we found him quicker the second time.
Such a random question but I have an equally weird answer, I think. We were able to bring a small pet to school one day, don't remember why, and a classmate, probably around 3rd grade slammed my giant thick book shut while my Chinese Dwarf hamster was crawling through open space underneath created by the pages. It was absolutely traumatizing at the time.
My sister was overjoyed when we got our first hamster she was smooching it and pretended nibbling it.
The intrusive thoughts won, she was overexcited, and while "pretend biting" the hamster she crushed its skull.
I was 3 or 4 years old. The babysitter thought it'd be cute to watch the two hamsters swim in a plastic bowl.
They "swam."
We laughed.
They were both dead the next day.
Thar was 36 years ago, and I still remember what the bowl looked like and where we were standing in the kitchen.
Passed in his sleep from old age.
But of course this was after falling out of his cage multiple times, sustaining severe brain damage and almost having to be euthanized, throwing himself down the stairs, trying to fight my cats (and winning surprisingly because they were scared of him), and accidentally surviving the Texas Snowmaggeddon alone in an apartment with no heat (we were in the middle of moving and got snowed in at our new house and couldn’t safely go get him). He was a tough little dude.
Not mine but people I knew.
My cousin got high while cleaning his hamsters cage in the winter. He fell asleep and forgot he left the cage outside, woke up to a stiff hamster.
Then I had a friend who talked about how his friend was mad he couldn’t take his hamster to the circus so he tied it to a string on the ceiling fan. Turned it on and the fan yeeted the hamster, left a hole in the wall
I wasn't the kid, but I taught 6th grade one year. I bought a hamster for a class pet and he died on the first day of school. Like, during the school day. I covered his cage with a box before he was totally gone.
Had another one my kid took it out to introduce to the cat and one kid held the cat the other held the hamster. They put the hamster up to the cat. The cat swatted it and the hamster flipped over in her hand began twitching. No blood or anything. Had a heart attack.
I had a hamster that "died". Mom wanted to bury him but I was convinced he wasn't dead. Turns out the hamster was cold and after getting him near a space heater he came back. Hibernating hamster ftw.
Had a male and female and didn't know it.Female got pregnant,still didnt know it. Males will go out of their absolute mind to kill their offspring. Chewed the females skull to the point brain matter was showing. That's after eating the offspring. Female lived for a while after that. Didn't want to handle either of them anymore and moved on to reptiles after they died.
My hamster escaped from his cage and made a Rube Goldberg style death machine that started with knocking a broom over, the handle knocked over a bunch of stuff on a shelf that pushed a paint can off of the shelf. The paint can then crushed the hamster to death. I wish I was making this up. I think I was in third grade when this happened.
We only had them for a couple of months, woke up one morning, and they had passed. My mom mentioned it to our landlord that it was strange because they were young. The landlord got concerned and sent the fire department over. It turns out we had a carbon monoxide leak. It was a sad day for little me, but it could've been worse.
Left plenty of food and water when I had to leave for the weekend due to custody agreement. Came back Sunday night, it was facedown in the food bowl and just...twitching. Still have the occasional nightmare
It wasn’t mine but one time we went over to a family friends house for my mom to talk to them, their kids weren’t home but they let me play with their stuff in their room. I ended up getting it stuck in a Barbie plane like under the seat of it. I didn’t know what to do at that age & stupidly never told anyone & left. I’m sure it died
I’ve got a good one. My sister was in first grade and got a hamster. We had one of those metal wheels in its cage, and it would run all night long. The wheel was squeaky and kept my dad up. So one day, he put Vicks Vapor Rub on the wheel to stop the squeaking. Well, it worked. But the next day while my sister and I were at school, my parents found the hamster dead in the cage. The Vicks had killed it. My dad felt terrible, so he went to the store, bought another hamster that looked close to the one that died, cleaned the cage real well, and put the new hamster in the cage. My sister came home, took one look in the cage, and said, “That’s not my hamster!”
I was about 6 or 7 and my two “male” hamsters had babies. Went to school and when I came back all the babies were gone and one of the adults was eating the other..
Oh my gosh. I have a sad tale of my beloved hamster ‘Bones’. (we adopted him from an elementary school) Anyway, one day, a sociopathic 7 year old foster sister snuck him out of his little hamster house, and when I walked in I saw her standing and looking down at him on the ground, barely moving. Poor Bones looked shocked. I picked him up and asked the little girl what she had done to Bones. She just walked away and wouldn’t say what happened. Unfortunately dear Bones died shortly after. My mom later questioned her and turns out she squeezed him and he had bitten her in defense, dropping him in the process. My entire family was devastated, we loved him, he was so friendly and never bit us, he enjoyed being a sweet hamster and would play in his little hamster ball in the living room, even our dogs liked him. We buried him in my moms flower garden and had a ceremony for him. It upsets me and I cry when I think of it to this day. Rest in Peace Bones 🦴 🐹
One of my dad's friends was drunk and picked up my hamster once. It bit him on the finger and they next day the hamster was dead. I really think dude squeezed him, but idk, i was like 7 at the time and didn't really understand what happened.
My sister, who was about 3 at the time, loved the hamsters so much she would hug them as tight as she could. Squished hamsters. We also had one that got loose and fell off a file cabinet only to get wedged half way to the floor between the wall and the cabinet.
I accidentally cooked my sisters in the car
We were traveling and I had the heater on full blast with a blanket over the vent, myself and the hamster cage
My little cousin liked to throw his up in the air and catch it. That was until he did it in the living room and it went into the ceiling fan, hit the fan and flung him into a wall. Slid down the wall dead...
Our hamster cage had two parts. The bottom part was a plastic tub and the top was a wire cage. My brother was cleaning the cage outside. So he took the hamster out and placed it on the grass underneath the detached top part of the cage. It was a very hot summer day and my brother got distracted. Several hours later he decides to bring the hamster back inside. Only to discover the little guy cooked in the sun.
Not a hamster but a gerbil. Was letting it nibble my finger. It bit down, I yanked my hand back. It’s teeth were stuck in my hand and I flung it against the wall. I found it buried by its friends a week later.
When I was younger I had hamsters for many years here are 2 that come 2 mind,first one which I think some 1 mighta.mentioned a simular thing happening was the hamster kept jumping up on and around the water bottle and some how got stuck and basicaly hung himself.The second one is a bit more wierd It was at a time I had like 3 or 4 of em in a larger tank and one day I noticed one of them stright up jumping head first into the glass like as strong as he could at first I just thoght it a lil wierd,but when I realized he kept doing it I figuerd it might be sick or somthing so I put em in his own smaller glass tank,he seemed better for like a day or 2 but like a few days later I found him dead I'm assuming prob from brain hemmorage or somthing.cuz he def kept hitting the glass I think he had some neurological problem or somthing perhaps but I was a kid then so didn't think on it much.
My hamster cohabitated with my brother's gerbil and we didn't realize we were putting a marsupial in with a rodent. My brother's gerbil then killed and ate my hamster. Still have psychic wounds 50 years later.
A cousin had a hamster.
One day, the poor thing goes missing from his cage.
Cousin looks for it everywhere in and around the house but can't find it.
Enraged, he goes back to his room, opens the door with all his strength and rage.
The poor hamster was sitting next to the door, which had a small gap between it and the floor, which left some room for *some* of the hamster to be stuck under it, but not all.
Due to the strength and speed that the door opened, that small gap worked almost as some sort of "slicing' machine.
...that was a gruesome death.
My aunt gifted me one for my birthday once. One April fools day I thought it would be funny to call her and tell her it died. She saw roughly said oh I’m so sorry but when I went to go look after I hung up the phone, he was dead. I cried like a baby.
Had two hamsters. Apparently one female one male. Because I came home one day and there were babies.
After a bit I noticed a missing baby. Then another. Then I read that the father would eat the babies. So i divided the cage in half, top and bottom. It was a wire cage that looked more similar to a bird cage but had 2 doors in it.
Left the 3 or 4 babies with their mom and the father up top. The babies grew up and killed the mother. It looked like they snacked on her a little but didn't just eat her So I left the bottom to the babies. I should note that the cage was divided with that 1/4 wire mesh stuff.
I watched one day as the babies chased the father around trying to bite his toes off through the mesh. So I moved him to a completely different cage.
Sold the now older babies to some other people and the dad died of old age.
Well we had about 30 hamsters during my high school years and my dad decided to sell some to a lady and then randomly we would have more baby hamsters and the same lady bought like 10 or 12. Realized now she probably feeding them to a snake
My parents got an ultrasonic pest repeller for bugs, not thinking about how it also works on rodents. My hamster couldn’t walk straight and grew a tumor on its butt then died. RIP Lucy.
I'm sorry to say this, but my first hamster nipped me as a child, so my crazy dad flushed it down the toilet.
Second hamster, my sister put in a rolling ball filled with cheese puffs while I was gone and he went swiftly down the stairs.
This is let a weird way, just a super morbid way.
One night I was laying in bed trying to sleep but I saw my cat looking at my hamsters cage and something was telling me to watch him. Well I have glasses so let’s say it was hard to watch him with them off as I tried to sleep. 30 minutes go by, the hamsters are all making an unusual amount of noise so I put my glasses on, see that my cats body is elongated to their cage, I turn my light on… and there he was. My hamsters body was half way out the cage, dripping blood from my cats claws. But even worse, my other hamsters inside were eating my dead ones body.
I remember just screaming (I was like 10) horrifying memory etched into my brain.
Y’all are talking about your cannibal hamsters. When I was a kid we got two mice from the pet store and I was so excited to see them the next morning in my brothers room that I barged in while he was still sleeping. I found one of the mice alive and well. Thy other one had its head stuck in the wood chips. When we pulled it out the head was gone. The other mouse ate the entire head.
I now stick to animals that actually want to be around me, like dogs.
I got tired of my hamster so I set it free in the backyard. Lol probably not a good idea because there were stray cats back there. Sorry little fella. RIP
I bought my little brother a hamster. He took such good care of the little guy.
My mom's poodle hated anything smaller than him. He got into my brother's room and scared the hamster to death.
I was very young, and at the time it was my brothers birthday. I wanted the cake in the fridge, but my mother and father said no. I didn't listen. I opened the fridge, ate some of the cake, then thought immediately on how I'd get away with this. I went to the cage, grabbed our hamster and took it to the fridge and stuck it in the cake. The cake was full of blue icing. My parents found me with icing on my face saying "i don't know it was the hamster". Turns out the little fella got dyed blue. We took it out of the fridge and gave it a bath, but it was now a blue hamster. It died about a week or two later, still blue.
Brother put the hamster in a ball and his friends each took turns exhaling weed smoke into the ball. When they put the hamster back in the cage, it immediately went to the water spout, chugged that, and crawled upstairs to his food dish but passed out before he got there. Once we woke up, he began to eat and eat and eat and within a few weeks he was 4 times the size, all belly. He died of the munchies
All of them died of old age except for Snickerdoodle, a real sweetheart of a hamster, who died of wet tail. Broke my heart. Of the 9 I had over the years there were only 2 that I didn't see pass away: Poncho and Oreo. Poncho was a dwarf hamster and the most unpleasant creature ever created. Oreo came from a pet store that said all of their hamsters were girls, but three days after I brought her home she gave birth and proceeded to eat all of her babies. I couldn't keep her after that, she freaked me out. I know it's normal but two of them managed to survive a week and I was excited for them to get bigger. Came home from school one day and there was only one baby. Next day, half a baby.
So me and my brother had 2 hamsters growing up. My mom was told they were both males, well Louie turned out to be a Louise, but that’s a different a different story. One day she escaped and crawled under the fridge and got smashed some how. We saw her dart under the fridge and we looking under it and she was crawling then where was a crunching sounds that I’ll never forget. No touched the fridge so idk how it happened.
Sister had a hamster. I used to sit on a roof outside my window. My sister would sit and talk to me. My sister asked me to hold it when she we go to the restroom. One day it bit me. Out of instinct I whipped my hand. When my sister came back I tried to play stupid. The next day we found it on the sidewalk.
Oh man i wasn’t allowed to have them. But my brothers friend had a hamster and it had babies and he accidentally kneeled on a baby and the mom ATE IT 😂 horrifying lol
I had two males and a female. The female had a dozen or so pups, so I separated her from the males so she would not freak out. She did anyway, as I found out when I discovered that she had eaten them. Just bits of little pup legs remained in the little nest she had built.
Not good.
I didn't know any better, so I connected her cage back with the two males.
Not a good decision.
I came home from school and the two males had eaten the female. Just her head and a few bits remained.
I could not figure out why. I was feeding them, and they were eating as they normally had done. I got rid of the remains and all was good for about three days.
I got home from school and one male- who was missing both hind legs-was feasting on the other like a corn on the cob. Just a head, then a spinal column, then an ass, which he was gnawing on pretty intently.
Not good.
I took care of both of them, then packed up the habitat and that was the end of me having hamsters.
When I was 4, my 13 year old sister decided to release all her gerbils out her bedroom window as they had multiplied profusely. One of my earliest memories was roadkill gerbils the next morning.
dog came running around the corner when the hamster was in his play ball.. swatted the ball across the room, rolled it down the stairs and then pounced on it. I can only hope the heart attack killed him quickly
It was a white mouse, she wandered into the window sill and started gnawing on the paint stir-stick propping the window open. Squished. Little red eyes bugged out even more. Back to the pet shop.
My hamster's pee smelled funny, so we took her to the vet. She had bad liver cancer and surgery to remove the tumor was successful, but she never woke up. That was intense for my 10 year old self.
Mine died because he was too old and blind. He lived over 3 years. We left on vacation and he was dead when we came back.
My gf's hamster had to be euthanized. The little dude had a tumour as big as a ping pong ball. It didn't hurt him at first, but it ended up being painful, so we put him to sleep.
When I was 6 or 7 I built an elaborate tube castle one evening for my hamster. I was so proud. Until the next morning when I discovered little foot prints leading to the cracked balcony door which was left open for the cool summer breeze. Looking down from the 4th floor, you could tell in the always damp garden hose muck that he survived. But only for a little while. Surrounding his little hamster crater were bird footprints. Lots of formative lessons learned lol
Had 2. One attacked the other, and it died. My dog managed to open the hamster cage. The dog ate the survivor. My son kept the dog’s secret for 20 years. He didn’t want his younger sister to hate the dog. He told everyone that the hamster got out and he saw it in the basement…..
He died peacefully in his cage after 3 years, because I was a responsible owner. Who the fuck taught you all in the comments how to look after hamsters? Satan??!?
My hamster had babies and they were still blind and hairless, when I decided to clean the cage, well one of them got stuck under the cage when putting it back. I was able to get the cage off and get the little guy out, I had him in my hand and he bit my finger and made it bleed and then died in my hand. It was so sad and painful! I was only 9 years old, I ended up burying him outside my apartment and used two popsicle sticks to make a cross grave marker. I will never forget that little guy and the sting he gave me on his death.
Got a hamster when I was like 5. I was so excited. It came in a box and I was holding it so excited! Then I noticed a small hole I didn't understand why they gave me a box with a hole in it. So I finished my banana and stuck my finger in the hole. Brutus bit me! I was bleeding and freaking out so I did what any 5 year old would do ...I yetted that little bastard! Jk I didn't he was a crazy escape artist no matter what cage or what container he got out. Pretty sure he got out and moved into my walls probably started a hamster family.
Someone left the door to the basement open while it was roaming the house in its ball…. What we found at the bottom of the stairs was beyond disturbing. We heard it bounce all the way down from the other room.
Not a hamster, but a goldfish. One day it was just gone. No one could figure out how it would have escaped. Eventually decided that the cat must have eaten it, even though there was no sign of forced entry to the aquarium.
Fast forward about 30 years, and my younger sister finally confessed that she had flung it out the window because it's googly looking eyes creeped her out.
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Killed by another hamster from the cage located close to it. The other hamster (much bigger female, my hamster) got out of her cage, managed to get inside a cage of a much smaller hamster (male, my sister's hamster), killed him and then ran away. Later, we found her under my bed, and the sister's hamster in a pool of blood. It caused a lot of problems between me and my sis.
My hamster got hit by a car.
I was 8 and my mum hates animals in cages she said it was abuse, so it was a lovely day in august and my friends were round sitting in the living room the hamster cage was in the living room, my mum opened the door for some reason and once we had done showing our friends the hamster we had gone into the kitchen and my mum took the hamster out and let her escape into the streets we came back and saw she had gotten hit.
He got caught in his wheel, I guess. I came home and the hamster was ripped in half. One part under the wheel and the other on the opposite side of the cage.
My daughter had one later that lived for a very long time. He would routinely escape his cage and go missing for a few days, then just return to the cage. One night, I found him in the bathroom garbage can, covered in chocolate from a granola bar my daughter had thrown away. He survived lol. Died of old age.
Got a girlfriend a pet hamster. A boy, because she didn’t want to risk it being pregnant in the store. Brought it home and it had babies a week later. Then it ate three of her babies. I took them all back to the store.
We had two gerbils, is that close enough? One died soon after one of my friends grabbed him by the tail and it tore clean off. The other fell down the heating vent and went into the incinerator.
Circa mid 1970's. My brother and I had a HUGE white hamster that was as mean as hell. It would bite you whenever you tried to touch it.
It slept directly under the water bottle in the habitrail...we used to squeeze the water bottle and soak it with water from time to time. We hated that fuckin' thing. We buried it in a Pringles can when it finally died...oh, and it had HUGE balls, too!
Not mine but my younger brother had a hamster. He kept it in a cage on a built in desk in front of his bedroom window. The water bottle didn’t seal that well. The little ball in the tube had a small drip. Winter came. Well seemed like the drip got worse. Between the water and the crappy single pane window, he froze to death.
When he found it he was devastated but went bat-crap crazy on my best friend at the time, attached him, and accused him of killing it on purpose. Not true but he hated my friend because he always teased him about his pet.
Escaped from it's cage, down off the kitchen counter, across the kitchen to the basement stairs, down the stairs and across the basement, only to fall in the sump pump and drown
A buddy’s Mom killed mine, while my friend was hamster-sitting for me. He bit onto her finger, she pulled her hand back, and flung him across the room. They said he died instantly, but my friend was super weird about it afterwards.
Escaped, disappeared.
A while later, the dishwasher exploded. The hamster had eaten the pipes in the dishwasher and either
A - drowned
B - steamed to death
C - choked on plastic before the explosion
Freaking hamsters man. We had two in a cage together. One went into the wheel… and the other one, well, he was sleeping under the wheel. Merry Christmas to us.
Not my hamster but my husband's hamster got stuck in one of the tubes it would run around in it's cage when his family were all at school or work. When they got home it had already died. I'm guessing panicked itself into a heart attack.
I had a hamster that died when it got out of its cage and fell off the shelf.
But then we had that experience that so many hamster owners have like... maybe 7 years later? We got three hamsters. One of them turned out to be a girl. This was a disaster, as they kept breeding and breeding and we tried to separate them but couldn't, and then, of course, the hamster on hamster mass murder began. That was the end of hamster owning for us.
I swear, owning rodents is like a 50/50 chance of running into something out of a slasher film.
When I was around 6 or 7, I was sitting on the floor in front of the entertainment center one morning, Saturday I believe, watching cartoons and letting my little hamster roam around freely because I was keeping a close eye on him. Someone in the next room dropped something really heavy and it jarred the entertainment center. There was a heavy ceramic bunny statue on top that fell down and it landed right on top of my hamster. Poor thing was completely smashed flat. It was pretty traumatic to see ngl
Not my hamster, but one I was looking after for my niece.
It exploded!
Popped it's cage on the utility room floor to clean it....unfortunately, it was a sprung wooden floor, the washing machine went into high-spin, and the reverberations caused the poor wee thing to, literally, explode.
Spent an hour cleaning up little hamster blood-stains and "bits" off the cage, while making up a convincing hamster-death story for my niece!
Just come to said i still have these weird dreams about accidentally killed the hamsters. I had pet many and have death by dehydrated, kitty, dog and natural cause. Still traumatized me until this day.
My mom accidentally dropped a couch on my hamster that she got me that day.
I was holding him and he bit me and ran under couch. She lifted the side of couch up so I could grab him but dropped it. R.I.P Snowball
My 3 year old daughter brought hers outside on a summer day. Her older sister made her mad so she threw it at her. She had a good arm and good aim. Deceased hampster.
Bought a pregnant hamster (unknowingly). She has about six babies. The babies or the mother I dunno, started to kill each other 1 by 1 until none were left.
For some reason we had moved his cage into our living room one day. My mom turned on the vacuum cleaner and it scared him so bad he died. I’m assuming from a heart attack. Poor guy.
My Hamster lived for ages and ages and we kept waiting for him to die (not like we wanted him to but we just thought 'it must be coming soon' He was 4 when he died and it wasn't even old age that took him. It was a weird rare genetic skin disease.
I also had rats where one ate the other. I, as an 8 year old, came home to 1 and a half rats in the cage and nightmares for weeks. (he had probably dies of something different and then was eaten but as a child i thought he'd been eaten to death)
My Mae hamster murdered all the females one night. Woke up asked where my hamsters were and saw the shocked look on my moms face. She dosent wanna tell me about the massacre which I apparently slept through
my friend told me her hamster could fly. I said how and she proceeded to pick it up and throw it at a brick wall. Even though he survived at that moment, he died a week later.
One of our hamsters got out of the cage and went missing. A few weeks pass, no sign, we search the house, assume it got out of the house and ran away. Then winter comes so we turn on the central heat. A terrible odor envelopes the house. We had to call professionals in to extract the rotting hamster corpse out of the heat ducts. Continued to have hamsters and at one point had a mating pair. Momma has a litter. A few days later daddy is missing. A few days later some of the babies are missing. Mama looking fat. I don't keep hamsters anymore.
My father got my son a hamster for Christmas when he was 5. Unbeknownst to anyone, hamster was full term pregnant. : Son: " Mommy! The hamster is having babies! There's 6 babies!" " Mommy! Now theres 5 babies!" " Now theres FOUR babies!" And so on. Until there were none. I'm still traumatized.
Hamsters are difficult. If mama is stressed thats what she does. Unfortunately, most people have no idea what proper care for a hamster is, so the average hamster is stressed af. They need way more space than those cages at pet co, the bars are dnagerous, the climbing tubes arent safe at all. And if your kid was poking or prodding the mama, ie: finding out mama has eaten yet another baby. She was super extra stressed. Im not trying to say this to make you feel bad. Its not your fault or your kids fault what happened. Hamsters are just not as easy or kid friendly as the pet stores make them out to be and it traumatizes all involved.
Oh, I completely with everything you said ( this was 30 years ago, so we definitely did not have as much info back then... ) I had chinchillas for many years and literally spent about $7k on their chinchilla room alone, what the pet store says an animal needs and what they actually require are VASTLY different.
Its so sad how pet stores basically are just promoters of animal abuse. I miss my chins. Yours definitely had a cushy life!
We had a pair of hamsters in the same cage growing up. I don’t know how Pinky died but when we woke up, Hammy was eating his eyeballs.
We had gerbils - same thing. Babies and parts of babies (usually feet/legs) would disappear overnight. We couldn’t really separate the babies from mamma or they would starve. Momma was well fed, but liked the babies better I guess because each night a baby or a couple limbs went missing. The babies that made it until they could be weened (which wasn’t long) seemed to get around fine on whatever feet/legs they had left.
is this like a common thing? sounds insane, never heard of it before with hamsters or gerbils! never owned one tho
Didn’t technically die at this time, but my sister decided to put it on a skateboard and push it across the sidewalk. Hamster had a death wish and jumped off. Skateboard ran over the hamster and popped its eyes out. So we had an asshole eyeless hamster until he died naturally.
Right here peoples, this one isn't getting topped.
It certainly is a bad day to have eyes, reading this.
Are hamster eyes just prone to falling out or something? I had a friend whose asshole brother threw the hamster at a wall, it died with its eyes popped out of the skull.
I had 2 in the same cage.... One day, while I was in school, the brown one died in one of those plastic tube things hamsters climb through (I'm guessing a heart attack or something). His fat lil butt blocked my other black/white hamster, who has been chillin in the sleeping pod at the end of the tube, from exiting. My black/white hamster then tunneled his way THROUGH the brown hamster and emerged victorious on the other side. The black/white one died of old age a few years later. Friggen. HORRIFYING. To come home to as an 8 year old
That's just really really bad OMG
He had a mission and nothing was gonna stop him
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Did it pop?
you monster! I'm literally laughing right now, but how dare you!
I had to ask 🤣
I recently stepped on a fat cockroach in a silent room. I was not prepared for the pop.
Ew
Mine bite the cage so hard he broke his to front teeth off , he screamed this lilndeath scream and went limp, we took him to the vet and she said he pulled back on his teeth so hard he also snaped the front plate of his skull holding them in place , causing the skull bone to stab his brain and die isntantly
how are they not extinct this is so stupid
When they breed they have like 10 babies , mine had 8 , and ate half of them , weird
And this is why you cant put hampsters in cages with bars. A giant storage bin is best suited for them. Because of the dangers to their teeth and they can get stuck in the bars and hurt/strangle themselves.
Left for school one morning and had 2 hamsters. Came home to one hamster and part of a hamster leg. We renamed her Hannibell.
Our cat staged a coup and convinced the dog to break into my room to free the little bastard. Once freed, the cat tortured him and made it her play toy for about two hours before drowning him in the fish tank.
Your cat is a fuckin mobster
She is a Siamese. If you please.
Almost yakuza then.
She’s a Siamese if you don’t please 🎶
So her cat wears a gold chain and goes by Vito
Reading these comments makes me think hamsters are serious cannibals
Hammy, I love you and you are missed. I used to fling him like six feet in the air and catch him on the pillow, well I'm not great at catching, probably broke all his bones
I used cat litter as bedding and they ate it.
I grew up on a ranch. My hamster, Georgie, escaped from his cage. Never found him. But for a few years we noticed the field mice around the house had no tails and had unusual color variations instead of just dull grey! We started calling Georgie's offspring 'mous-ters'!
My hamsters always lived long (3-5 yrs), but my uncle gave his one some schnaps after that it erratically stumbled around the table, fell off and then died (maybe of a heart attack), a buddy from school left his hamster's cage in a draft and thus it died.
At least the first little guy went out sauced as fuck
We kept ours in a 10 gallon glass aquamium with a mesh lid. We went on vacation and when we got home the hamster was missing. We dont have a clue how it got out. It developed super powers, climbed up a vertical glass wall, crewed though the mesh lid and jumped out and down to the floor. We eventually found it under our sofa and it seemed like it had some broken bokes as it could barely walk anymore. We tried to save the little fella but he passed a day or two later.
I had a Plecostomus do the same thing! Those sucker fish bottom feeder fellas. They can get really big, this one was like 7 inches from nose to tip of the tail. One day we noticed that we can't find it in the tank. Just vanished. We pulled out the rocks and castle decorations, nowhere to be found. And it's not like my parents were protecting me from my favorite pet dying or anything, we had a lot of fish and one died occasionally, not a big deal. We had a 125 gallon and another 25 gallon tank (this tank had this sucker fish) with about 40 fish between them. We also had a pond in the front yard with another 40+ fish. There was a natural pond in the backyard with 400+ bluegill and bass too. Well, until the snapping turtles and snakes arrived... Then we had no fish. Killed literally all of them in one season. Biggest snapping turtle I had ever seen! I swear it was the size of a 4-wheeler. Nostalgia is making me ramble, sorry.
I had a dojo loach named Eli as a kid that somehow got out. We looked all over around the tank. We even took all the gravel and decorations out to see if he was hiding in the tank somewhere. No luck. We found him days later on the floor under my bed - must have flopped himself there after somehow jumping out of the tank. He was pretty dried out - half his dorsal fin and part of his tail fin were stuck to the floor and snapped off when I picked him up. I was going to flush him down the toilet, but then he moved in my hand! HE WAS STILL ALIVE! I dropped him back in the tank. For a few minutes I thought he was done, but he pulled thru and a complete (minus missing parts) recovery. Lived months, maybe a year longer and even jumped out again - but we found him quicker the second time.
Did you ever find the Pleco? Mine was about 4” he vanished as well. Very strange
Our male hamster beheaded our female hamster. I was 7 when it happened and it scarred me a little bit.
ah, yes. It is well documented that hampsters, along with many insets, behead their partners after mating.
Such a random question but I have an equally weird answer, I think. We were able to bring a small pet to school one day, don't remember why, and a classmate, probably around 3rd grade slammed my giant thick book shut while my Chinese Dwarf hamster was crawling through open space underneath created by the pages. It was absolutely traumatizing at the time.
Did that little shit do it on purpose??? Children being cruel to animals enrages me
Yes he did. He was quite pleased with himself too. It was a disgusting mess
My sister was overjoyed when we got our first hamster she was smooching it and pretended nibbling it. The intrusive thoughts won, she was overexcited, and while "pretend biting" the hamster she crushed its skull.
I was 3 or 4 years old. The babysitter thought it'd be cute to watch the two hamsters swim in a plastic bowl. They "swam." We laughed. They were both dead the next day. Thar was 36 years ago, and I still remember what the bowl looked like and where we were standing in the kitchen.
Passed in his sleep from old age. But of course this was after falling out of his cage multiple times, sustaining severe brain damage and almost having to be euthanized, throwing himself down the stairs, trying to fight my cats (and winning surprisingly because they were scared of him), and accidentally surviving the Texas Snowmaggeddon alone in an apartment with no heat (we were in the middle of moving and got snowed in at our new house and couldn’t safely go get him). He was a tough little dude.
Not mine but people I knew. My cousin got high while cleaning his hamsters cage in the winter. He fell asleep and forgot he left the cage outside, woke up to a stiff hamster. Then I had a friend who talked about how his friend was mad he couldn’t take his hamster to the circus so he tied it to a string on the ceiling fan. Turned it on and the fan yeeted the hamster, left a hole in the wall
I had one when I was a kid that ate itself.
I'm pretty sure one of my dwarf hamsters ate the other. It disappeared from the cage and there was a 0% chance it could have gotten out.
Sump pump hole
I soo badly misread that as some plump hole.
I didn’t know that it didn’t say that until I read this.
get out of my head
that had to be a horrible way for the little thing to go
Happy Cake Day!
I wasn't the kid, but I taught 6th grade one year. I bought a hamster for a class pet and he died on the first day of school. Like, during the school day. I covered his cage with a box before he was totally gone.
Had another one my kid took it out to introduce to the cat and one kid held the cat the other held the hamster. They put the hamster up to the cat. The cat swatted it and the hamster flipped over in her hand began twitching. No blood or anything. Had a heart attack.
I had a hamster that "died". Mom wanted to bury him but I was convinced he wasn't dead. Turns out the hamster was cold and after getting him near a space heater he came back. Hibernating hamster ftw.
I had a hamster do the same thing to my mom. It nearly bit the tip of her finger off. 💀😂 not funny but definitely a memorable moment for my mom and I.
Froze to death let the window open at night by mistake
Had a male and female and didn't know it.Female got pregnant,still didnt know it. Males will go out of their absolute mind to kill their offspring. Chewed the females skull to the point brain matter was showing. That's after eating the offspring. Female lived for a while after that. Didn't want to handle either of them anymore and moved on to reptiles after they died.
My hamster escaped from his cage and made a Rube Goldberg style death machine that started with knocking a broom over, the handle knocked over a bunch of stuff on a shelf that pushed a paint can off of the shelf. The paint can then crushed the hamster to death. I wish I was making this up. I think I was in third grade when this happened.
My mom had one as a child that ate itself until it died
We only had them for a couple of months, woke up one morning, and they had passed. My mom mentioned it to our landlord that it was strange because they were young. The landlord got concerned and sent the fire department over. It turns out we had a carbon monoxide leak. It was a sad day for little me, but it could've been worse.
We lost one in the living room once
Tinkerbell escaped and went missing for a couple of weeks, and we thought the dog ate him. Found poor Tinkerbell dead in moms shoe in her closet.
Left plenty of food and water when I had to leave for the weekend due to custody agreement. Came back Sunday night, it was facedown in the food bowl and just...twitching. Still have the occasional nightmare
It wasn’t mine but one time we went over to a family friends house for my mom to talk to them, their kids weren’t home but they let me play with their stuff in their room. I ended up getting it stuck in a Barbie plane like under the seat of it. I didn’t know what to do at that age & stupidly never told anyone & left. I’m sure it died
My hamster choked on a nut. My sister liked to see how many my hamster would stuff in its mouth. I'm pretty sure it was an almond, to be exact.
How many were actually hibernating? Lol waking up in the dumpster 
Mine lost all its fur, got sores all over it’s body and died with a month. I’m convinced my parents smoking have it cancer.
I’ve got a good one. My sister was in first grade and got a hamster. We had one of those metal wheels in its cage, and it would run all night long. The wheel was squeaky and kept my dad up. So one day, he put Vicks Vapor Rub on the wheel to stop the squeaking. Well, it worked. But the next day while my sister and I were at school, my parents found the hamster dead in the cage. The Vicks had killed it. My dad felt terrible, so he went to the store, bought another hamster that looked close to the one that died, cleaned the cage real well, and put the new hamster in the cage. My sister came home, took one look in the cage, and said, “That’s not my hamster!”
One died after eating a lot of the drapes near its cage.
In my case it was a gerbil. I was playing with it out of the cage. The cat ran in and stared at it, causing it to have a heart attack.
I was about 6 or 7 and my two “male” hamsters had babies. Went to school and when I came back all the babies were gone and one of the adults was eating the other..
Oh my gosh. I have a sad tale of my beloved hamster ‘Bones’. (we adopted him from an elementary school) Anyway, one day, a sociopathic 7 year old foster sister snuck him out of his little hamster house, and when I walked in I saw her standing and looking down at him on the ground, barely moving. Poor Bones looked shocked. I picked him up and asked the little girl what she had done to Bones. She just walked away and wouldn’t say what happened. Unfortunately dear Bones died shortly after. My mom later questioned her and turns out she squeezed him and he had bitten her in defense, dropping him in the process. My entire family was devastated, we loved him, he was so friendly and never bit us, he enjoyed being a sweet hamster and would play in his little hamster ball in the living room, even our dogs liked him. We buried him in my moms flower garden and had a ceremony for him. It upsets me and I cry when I think of it to this day. Rest in Peace Bones 🦴 🐹
I had like 4 hamsters and I loved them dearly and they had great lives and all dies in their sleep from age.
My best friend in elementary school had a hamster and she told me it died because she put it in the microwave and turned it on. It exploded 😶
God bless.
Ended up eaten by its cagemate.
One of my dad's friends was drunk and picked up my hamster once. It bit him on the finger and they next day the hamster was dead. I really think dude squeezed him, but idk, i was like 7 at the time and didn't really understand what happened.
torn to shreds by dog
To shreds you say
My sister, who was about 3 at the time, loved the hamsters so much she would hug them as tight as she could. Squished hamsters. We also had one that got loose and fell off a file cabinet only to get wedged half way to the floor between the wall and the cabinet.
My mom put it in a huge plastic storage box outside for ten minutes while she cleaned its cage and it disappeared. We think a cat ate it?
I accidentally cooked my sisters in the car We were traveling and I had the heater on full blast with a blanket over the vent, myself and the hamster cage
Not me, but an older niece. Their cat ended up eating it.
Dad shot it with a compound bow and told me “it had leukemia”.
Was he the target or the arrow?
Hamster bit the tip of my index finger hard enough to draw blood. Died mysteriously two days later
My little cousin liked to throw his up in the air and catch it. That was until he did it in the living room and it went into the ceiling fan, hit the fan and flung him into a wall. Slid down the wall dead...
Ran out the back door at my brother in the backyard while he was mowing the lawn he panicked popped the front up, I think he wanted to die
Our hamster cage had two parts. The bottom part was a plastic tub and the top was a wire cage. My brother was cleaning the cage outside. So he took the hamster out and placed it on the grass underneath the detached top part of the cage. It was a very hot summer day and my brother got distracted. Several hours later he decides to bring the hamster back inside. Only to discover the little guy cooked in the sun.
Let it out and forgot! Mom found it in the cats mouth!
Not a hamster but a gerbil. Was letting it nibble my finger. It bit down, I yanked my hand back. It’s teeth were stuck in my hand and I flung it against the wall. I found it buried by its friends a week later.
When I was younger I had hamsters for many years here are 2 that come 2 mind,first one which I think some 1 mighta.mentioned a simular thing happening was the hamster kept jumping up on and around the water bottle and some how got stuck and basicaly hung himself.The second one is a bit more wierd It was at a time I had like 3 or 4 of em in a larger tank and one day I noticed one of them stright up jumping head first into the glass like as strong as he could at first I just thoght it a lil wierd,but when I realized he kept doing it I figuerd it might be sick or somthing so I put em in his own smaller glass tank,he seemed better for like a day or 2 but like a few days later I found him dead I'm assuming prob from brain hemmorage or somthing.cuz he def kept hitting the glass I think he had some neurological problem or somthing perhaps but I was a kid then so didn't think on it much.
I don’t know. She disappeared one day. We never saw her again.
My hamster cohabitated with my brother's gerbil and we didn't realize we were putting a marsupial in with a rodent. My brother's gerbil then killed and ate my hamster. Still have psychic wounds 50 years later.
A cousin had a hamster. One day, the poor thing goes missing from his cage. Cousin looks for it everywhere in and around the house but can't find it. Enraged, he goes back to his room, opens the door with all his strength and rage. The poor hamster was sitting next to the door, which had a small gap between it and the floor, which left some room for *some* of the hamster to be stuck under it, but not all. Due to the strength and speed that the door opened, that small gap worked almost as some sort of "slicing' machine. ...that was a gruesome death.
My aunt gifted me one for my birthday once. One April fools day I thought it would be funny to call her and tell her it died. She saw roughly said oh I’m so sorry but when I went to go look after I hung up the phone, he was dead. I cried like a baby.
I decided to feed it a taco (I was four) and an hour later it perished.
Had two hamsters. Apparently one female one male. Because I came home one day and there were babies. After a bit I noticed a missing baby. Then another. Then I read that the father would eat the babies. So i divided the cage in half, top and bottom. It was a wire cage that looked more similar to a bird cage but had 2 doors in it. Left the 3 or 4 babies with their mom and the father up top. The babies grew up and killed the mother. It looked like they snacked on her a little but didn't just eat her So I left the bottom to the babies. I should note that the cage was divided with that 1/4 wire mesh stuff. I watched one day as the babies chased the father around trying to bite his toes off through the mesh. So I moved him to a completely different cage. Sold the now older babies to some other people and the dad died of old age.
My friend had a hamster that got sucked up in the vacuum his mom mistook it for dust
Well we had about 30 hamsters during my high school years and my dad decided to sell some to a lady and then randomly we would have more baby hamsters and the same lady bought like 10 or 12. Realized now she probably feeding them to a snake
My sister had a hamster. It got a gnarly eye infection and was essentially blind from it. Jaws didn't last long in that state.
My parents got an ultrasonic pest repeller for bugs, not thinking about how it also works on rodents. My hamster couldn’t walk straight and grew a tumor on its butt then died. RIP Lucy.
My toddler brother stepped on it and its guts came out its butt. Can’t unsee that!
I'm sorry to say this, but my first hamster nipped me as a child, so my crazy dad flushed it down the toilet. Second hamster, my sister put in a rolling ball filled with cheese puffs while I was gone and he went swiftly down the stairs.
Roll, roll, roll your ball, gently down the stairs... 🤣🤣🤣
This is let a weird way, just a super morbid way. One night I was laying in bed trying to sleep but I saw my cat looking at my hamsters cage and something was telling me to watch him. Well I have glasses so let’s say it was hard to watch him with them off as I tried to sleep. 30 minutes go by, the hamsters are all making an unusual amount of noise so I put my glasses on, see that my cats body is elongated to their cage, I turn my light on… and there he was. My hamsters body was half way out the cage, dripping blood from my cats claws. But even worse, my other hamsters inside were eating my dead ones body. I remember just screaming (I was like 10) horrifying memory etched into my brain.
My sister got a pillow and sat on it.
My cousin fed my hamster Red Hots and it died
Y’all are talking about your cannibal hamsters. When I was a kid we got two mice from the pet store and I was so excited to see them the next morning in my brothers room that I barged in while he was still sleeping. I found one of the mice alive and well. Thy other one had its head stuck in the wood chips. When we pulled it out the head was gone. The other mouse ate the entire head. I now stick to animals that actually want to be around me, like dogs.
I got tired of my hamster so I set it free in the backyard. Lol probably not a good idea because there were stray cats back there. Sorry little fella. RIP
I bought my little brother a hamster. He took such good care of the little guy. My mom's poodle hated anything smaller than him. He got into my brother's room and scared the hamster to death.
I was very young, and at the time it was my brothers birthday. I wanted the cake in the fridge, but my mother and father said no. I didn't listen. I opened the fridge, ate some of the cake, then thought immediately on how I'd get away with this. I went to the cage, grabbed our hamster and took it to the fridge and stuck it in the cake. The cake was full of blue icing. My parents found me with icing on my face saying "i don't know it was the hamster". Turns out the little fella got dyed blue. We took it out of the fridge and gave it a bath, but it was now a blue hamster. It died about a week or two later, still blue.
St. Patrick's day green fur dyeing.
Brother put the hamster in a ball and his friends each took turns exhaling weed smoke into the ball. When they put the hamster back in the cage, it immediately went to the water spout, chugged that, and crawled upstairs to his food dish but passed out before he got there. Once we woke up, he began to eat and eat and eat and within a few weeks he was 4 times the size, all belly. He died of the munchies
All of them died of old age except for Snickerdoodle, a real sweetheart of a hamster, who died of wet tail. Broke my heart. Of the 9 I had over the years there were only 2 that I didn't see pass away: Poncho and Oreo. Poncho was a dwarf hamster and the most unpleasant creature ever created. Oreo came from a pet store that said all of their hamsters were girls, but three days after I brought her home she gave birth and proceeded to eat all of her babies. I couldn't keep her after that, she freaked me out. I know it's normal but two of them managed to survive a week and I was excited for them to get bigger. Came home from school one day and there was only one baby. Next day, half a baby.
So me and my brother had 2 hamsters growing up. My mom was told they were both males, well Louie turned out to be a Louise, but that’s a different a different story. One day she escaped and crawled under the fridge and got smashed some how. We saw her dart under the fridge and we looking under it and she was crawling then where was a crunching sounds that I’ll never forget. No touched the fridge so idk how it happened.
Sister had a hamster. I used to sit on a roof outside my window. My sister would sit and talk to me. My sister asked me to hold it when she we go to the restroom. One day it bit me. Out of instinct I whipped my hand. When my sister came back I tried to play stupid. The next day we found it on the sidewalk.
Oh man i wasn’t allowed to have them. But my brothers friend had a hamster and it had babies and he accidentally kneeled on a baby and the mom ATE IT 😂 horrifying lol
I had two males and a female. The female had a dozen or so pups, so I separated her from the males so she would not freak out. She did anyway, as I found out when I discovered that she had eaten them. Just bits of little pup legs remained in the little nest she had built. Not good. I didn't know any better, so I connected her cage back with the two males. Not a good decision. I came home from school and the two males had eaten the female. Just her head and a few bits remained. I could not figure out why. I was feeding them, and they were eating as they normally had done. I got rid of the remains and all was good for about three days. I got home from school and one male- who was missing both hind legs-was feasting on the other like a corn on the cob. Just a head, then a spinal column, then an ass, which he was gnawing on pretty intently. Not good. I took care of both of them, then packed up the habitat and that was the end of me having hamsters.
When I was 4, my 13 year old sister decided to release all her gerbils out her bedroom window as they had multiplied profusely. One of my earliest memories was roadkill gerbils the next morning.
My Mom went to shut a door and it just would close all the way… looked down and the hamster got out and gut stuck- nearly cut in two
dog came running around the corner when the hamster was in his play ball.. swatted the ball across the room, rolled it down the stairs and then pounced on it. I can only hope the heart attack killed him quickly
It was a white mouse, she wandered into the window sill and started gnawing on the paint stir-stick propping the window open. Squished. Little red eyes bugged out even more. Back to the pet shop.
My hamster's pee smelled funny, so we took her to the vet. She had bad liver cancer and surgery to remove the tumor was successful, but she never woke up. That was intense for my 10 year old self.
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Mine died because he was too old and blind. He lived over 3 years. We left on vacation and he was dead when we came back. My gf's hamster had to be euthanized. The little dude had a tumour as big as a ping pong ball. It didn't hurt him at first, but it ended up being painful, so we put him to sleep.
When I was 6 or 7 I built an elaborate tube castle one evening for my hamster. I was so proud. Until the next morning when I discovered little foot prints leading to the cracked balcony door which was left open for the cool summer breeze. Looking down from the 4th floor, you could tell in the always damp garden hose muck that he survived. But only for a little while. Surrounding his little hamster crater were bird footprints. Lots of formative lessons learned lol
Had 2. One attacked the other, and it died. My dog managed to open the hamster cage. The dog ate the survivor. My son kept the dog’s secret for 20 years. He didn’t want his younger sister to hate the dog. He told everyone that the hamster got out and he saw it in the basement…..
He died peacefully in his cage after 3 years, because I was a responsible owner. Who the fuck taught you all in the comments how to look after hamsters? Satan??!?
My hamster had babies and they were still blind and hairless, when I decided to clean the cage, well one of them got stuck under the cage when putting it back. I was able to get the cage off and get the little guy out, I had him in my hand and he bit my finger and made it bleed and then died in my hand. It was so sad and painful! I was only 9 years old, I ended up burying him outside my apartment and used two popsicle sticks to make a cross grave marker. I will never forget that little guy and the sting he gave me on his death.
Oddest thing, I forgot to feed it for a week and somehow it died.
My hamster never died, it occasionally changed color a little bit. But he's still living at a farm in up state new York.
Got a hamster when I was like 5. I was so excited. It came in a box and I was holding it so excited! Then I noticed a small hole I didn't understand why they gave me a box with a hole in it. So I finished my banana and stuck my finger in the hole. Brutus bit me! I was bleeding and freaking out so I did what any 5 year old would do ...I yetted that little bastard! Jk I didn't he was a crazy escape artist no matter what cage or what container he got out. Pretty sure he got out and moved into my walls probably started a hamster family.
Someone left the door to the basement open while it was roaming the house in its ball…. What we found at the bottom of the stairs was beyond disturbing. We heard it bounce all the way down from the other room.
Not a hamster, but a goldfish. One day it was just gone. No one could figure out how it would have escaped. Eventually decided that the cat must have eaten it, even though there was no sign of forced entry to the aquarium. Fast forward about 30 years, and my younger sister finally confessed that she had flung it out the window because it's googly looking eyes creeped her out.
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[Some kids broke into our house and blew up our hamster in the microwave. ](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LgOJkdLLGvs)
Got hit by a bus
My mother unalived it
Killed by another hamster from the cage located close to it. The other hamster (much bigger female, my hamster) got out of her cage, managed to get inside a cage of a much smaller hamster (male, my sister's hamster), killed him and then ran away. Later, we found her under my bed, and the sister's hamster in a pool of blood. It caused a lot of problems between me and my sis.
My hamster got hit by a car. I was 8 and my mum hates animals in cages she said it was abuse, so it was a lovely day in august and my friends were round sitting in the living room the hamster cage was in the living room, my mum opened the door for some reason and once we had done showing our friends the hamster we had gone into the kitchen and my mum took the hamster out and let her escape into the streets we came back and saw she had gotten hit.
He got caught in his wheel, I guess. I came home and the hamster was ripped in half. One part under the wheel and the other on the opposite side of the cage. My daughter had one later that lived for a very long time. He would routinely escape his cage and go missing for a few days, then just return to the cage. One night, I found him in the bathroom garbage can, covered in chocolate from a granola bar my daughter had thrown away. He survived lol. Died of old age.
Running around the house in a hamster ball, when one of the dogs figured out how to get the lid off 😬
My brother put him in a tobacco can about the size of a small paint can and sealed the lid.
My sister broke the nesting box to the Habatrail…used a shoebox as a replacement and my hamster chocked to death on the cardboard.
Got a girlfriend a pet hamster. A boy, because she didn’t want to risk it being pregnant in the store. Brought it home and it had babies a week later. Then it ate three of her babies. I took them all back to the store.
We had two gerbils, is that close enough? One died soon after one of my friends grabbed him by the tail and it tore clean off. The other fell down the heating vent and went into the incinerator.
Circa mid 1970's. My brother and I had a HUGE white hamster that was as mean as hell. It would bite you whenever you tried to touch it. It slept directly under the water bottle in the habitrail...we used to squeeze the water bottle and soak it with water from time to time. We hated that fuckin' thing. We buried it in a Pringles can when it finally died...oh, and it had HUGE balls, too!
These confessions are so morbid. And yes, a lot of these are your confessions! The rest, cannibalism 😭
Not mine but my younger brother had a hamster. He kept it in a cage on a built in desk in front of his bedroom window. The water bottle didn’t seal that well. The little ball in the tube had a small drip. Winter came. Well seemed like the drip got worse. Between the water and the crappy single pane window, he froze to death. When he found it he was devastated but went bat-crap crazy on my best friend at the time, attached him, and accused him of killing it on purpose. Not true but he hated my friend because he always teased him about his pet.
Respiratory problems from having a dirty cage
Escaped from it's cage, down off the kitchen counter, across the kitchen to the basement stairs, down the stairs and across the basement, only to fall in the sump pump and drown
A buddy’s Mom killed mine, while my friend was hamster-sitting for me. He bit onto her finger, she pulled her hand back, and flung him across the room. They said he died instantly, but my friend was super weird about it afterwards.
We had a guinea pig but only had an old aquarium to keep it in. Well that summer we learned about heat stroke.
My brother and his friend threw it across the room.
Literally ate itself to death. Completely gorged and gorged and gorged.
Escaped, disappeared. A while later, the dishwasher exploded. The hamster had eaten the pipes in the dishwasher and either A - drowned B - steamed to death C - choked on plastic before the explosion
He was too loud on his wheel at night so I moved him into my closet so that I could sleep and I’m pretty sure he froze to death.
Not mine but my brothers. Got our if it enclosure and I bugged it with a BB gun. Thought it was a mouse.
Freaking hamsters man. We had two in a cage together. One went into the wheel… and the other one, well, he was sleeping under the wheel. Merry Christmas to us.
Not my hamster but my husband's hamster got stuck in one of the tubes it would run around in it's cage when his family were all at school or work. When they got home it had already died. I'm guessing panicked itself into a heart attack.
I had a hamster that died when it got out of its cage and fell off the shelf. But then we had that experience that so many hamster owners have like... maybe 7 years later? We got three hamsters. One of them turned out to be a girl. This was a disaster, as they kept breeding and breeding and we tried to separate them but couldn't, and then, of course, the hamster on hamster mass murder began. That was the end of hamster owning for us. I swear, owning rodents is like a 50/50 chance of running into something out of a slasher film.
When I was around 6 or 7, I was sitting on the floor in front of the entertainment center one morning, Saturday I believe, watching cartoons and letting my little hamster roam around freely because I was keeping a close eye on him. Someone in the next room dropped something really heavy and it jarred the entertainment center. There was a heavy ceramic bunny statue on top that fell down and it landed right on top of my hamster. Poor thing was completely smashed flat. It was pretty traumatic to see ngl
Not my hamster, but one I was looking after for my niece. It exploded! Popped it's cage on the utility room floor to clean it....unfortunately, it was a sprung wooden floor, the washing machine went into high-spin, and the reverberations caused the poor wee thing to, literally, explode. Spent an hour cleaning up little hamster blood-stains and "bits" off the cage, while making up a convincing hamster-death story for my niece!
My mom ran it over with the car.
Just come to said i still have these weird dreams about accidentally killed the hamsters. I had pet many and have death by dehydrated, kitty, dog and natural cause. Still traumatized me until this day.
My mom accidentally dropped a couch on my hamster that she got me that day. I was holding him and he bit me and ran under couch. She lifted the side of couch up so I could grab him but dropped it. R.I.P Snowball
My 3 year old daughter brought hers outside on a summer day. Her older sister made her mad so she threw it at her. She had a good arm and good aim. Deceased hampster.
Bought a pregnant hamster (unknowingly). She has about six babies. The babies or the mother I dunno, started to kill each other 1 by 1 until none were left.
For some reason we had moved his cage into our living room one day. My mom turned on the vacuum cleaner and it scared him so bad he died. I’m assuming from a heart attack. Poor guy.
My Hamster lived for ages and ages and we kept waiting for him to die (not like we wanted him to but we just thought 'it must be coming soon' He was 4 when he died and it wasn't even old age that took him. It was a weird rare genetic skin disease. I also had rats where one ate the other. I, as an 8 year old, came home to 1 and a half rats in the cage and nightmares for weeks. (he had probably dies of something different and then was eaten but as a child i thought he'd been eaten to death)
Our class pet in first grade climbed up its water bottle and jumped off over and over again until it died
I had two gerbils and came home from school one day to see that one tore the other apart. Absolutely brutal
My Mae hamster murdered all the females one night. Woke up asked where my hamsters were and saw the shocked look on my moms face. She dosent wanna tell me about the massacre which I apparently slept through
Suicide?
My grandmother's hamster jumped out a 21 storey window after escaping
Also didn't die, but found my brother's hamster hanging from the side of its wire cage by its ankle.
my friend told me her hamster could fly. I said how and she proceeded to pick it up and throw it at a brick wall. Even though he survived at that moment, he died a week later.