To flush the hamster

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*lighthearted of course for all the animal lovers

Bloody hamster!

Leant my brand new mattress against the wall next to hamster cage (was asleep) whilst i fixed a screw under my bed, put the mattress back on the bed and it's got a big hole in it!!

Start looking around for what the flip did this to my new mattress and the hamster is stood at the top of its cage with mattress fluff hanging out of its huge cheeks!!!

Aghhh!!!

ThumbWitch - we had that happen, but it was the class hamster which we had home for the weekend. We caught it eventually but it took trails of lovely food to entice it out.

I know the title is a joke but please don't ever flush dead hamsters - I found out the other day they often get trapped in the sewer and have to be manually retrieved. Meaning there actually is some poor sap whose job is to climb into a sewer and pick up animal corpses. Apparently tons of people flush dead animals!

erm guys I was mildly triggered by this thread, pls put up a trigger warning

seriously?

Soup

true... For what? :0

Trigger warning: pets hamsters flushing

that makes about as much sense as... "I was drunk". Trigger warning alcohol

Perhaps is the nibbled mattress that is the problem.

ah... Hm?

I'm not against trigger warnings (unless the title already gives the trigger away...)

The matress? Hmm. HAmsters are adorable, but they sound like difficult pets. We have a cat. So, hamsters are a bad idea... If the little guy went out of his cage... :0

Blimey - our hamster sounds nothing like any of these demons! He never bites, likes being handled and after we've taken him out of his cage for a run round climbs back in of his own accord (up the bars to the third floor and in through the door) and gets back into bed. I've joked to the kids that he'd never escape because he seems to really like it in his cage and thinks of it as home.

Here is a little video which might cheer you up, OP.

Warning Do not watch if you think this thread needs a trigger warning!

We never had a hamster, but my M-i-L bought a gosling and two duckings for her farmyard.
Come spring the young goose got into the garden and chopped all the heads off the tulips ..... so M-I-L chopped the head off the goose and we had roast goose for Sunday lunch.

Op your hamster has nothing on my old hamster, mine was a proper escape artist
They're funny buggers.
Put a book on the lid!

That's true, they are supreme escape artists! My mum used to have 2 miniature Russian hamsters, pretty little things, but one was a proper Houdini. That is, until the day mum saw the cat and she appeared to have a big furry moustache - turns out the Houdini hamster had escaped, and the cat had caught it and was carrying it around in her mouth, unsure what to do with it! Mum got it off her, and amazingly it was just damp and terrified but otherwise unhurt! Last time it escaped though.

I loved my hamster when I was little. To such an extent my carpenter dad built him a beautiful wooden cage, with all sorts of toys, doors and ladders inside.

4 days later, we discovered a huge hole where hamster had eaten his way out

soup how many cats in a "handful"?

soup how many cats in a "handful"? grin

Depends if you're trying to worm them at the time.

To be fair OP I don't really think you can blame the hamster for this!

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A friend's gerbils got out and chewed through every single cable in the house before caught. That was an expensive day!

Our cat is so tame and calm compared to all these little furry cuties :D

My niece had a hamster which seemed to live forever...

He was on a table nr to the patio doors in his cage

The little fucker chewed a big hole in the beautiful full length curtains .... When closed they looked like someone had attempted to make paper dolls....

We had 3 hamsters in a row when I was growing up, in a row. First two liked to bring their bedding into the tubes and sleep there. Death by suffocation. Third and last one always tried to get out and did so one night, promptly meeting our cats. Death by being a tasty snack.

I think hamsters are adorable and I wouldn't mind another one, but they're weird!

Some of your hamsters seem slightly suicidal

Awww I also had one as a kid that chewed a big hole in my bedroom curtains because the cage was too close to them.

One of our childhood hamsters escaped and chewed through the pipes / wires at the back of the gas fire , at the time we had one of those back boilers and we only found him because the heating and hot water was broken and the gas man who came found him .

Haha just saw that video, made me laugh!
Sorry for the lack of trigger warning... Didn't realise mattress eating hamsters were a trigger, lesson learned!

Ha ha only if I'm allowed to flush my rats! We did similar but the cage was too close to the sofa not a mattress. There's a nice big hole in our sofa and I know exactly which one of the bastards did it too!

As much as I loved my rats, one of them would chew on anything. She once ate half a diablo (those plastic juggling toys) and on another occasion chewed through a mains power cable (shutting off our electricity and singing her fur).

My dad looked after my hamsters for me for a week - chewed a huge hole in a bean bag took YEARS to clear up all the little polystyrene 'beans'!

"wooden"

Oops.

I had a hamster 🐹 as a girl. I put the cage on my chest of drawers, under the window. One summer night I left the window open, with a slight breeze blowing through. Guess what happened to one corner of the curtain...