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To ask what I can do with dds (dead) hamster

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Takethemdown · 07/07/2018 23:13

We live in a flat, no garden, we usually bury animals at my sisters but she has flagged everywhere now.
Due to the heat poor hammy is already starting to smell. In fact she stinks :(
Can i freeze her until we get back? Go out and Bury her in woods or a park?
No plant pots.

Help!

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Catzpyjamas · 07/07/2018 23:16

You could freeze her until your vet opens and then take her there to be cremated. Poor hamster Sad

Ploppymoodypants · 07/07/2018 23:16

Are you rural? I put our small dead things in a hedge for wildlife and nature to deal with. Obviously only v small like hamster or mouse etc and only if they haven’t died of an illness that might endanger wildlife. Also needs to be a big deep bushy hedge.

BeeFarseer · 07/07/2018 23:17

I'd bury her quickly, in a park flowerbed or woods, whatever is easiest. If she's already starting to smell I wouldn't want that in my freezer.

This is going to sound awful, but I once disposed of a dead hamster in a KFC popcorn chicken box and put him in the bin. Blush I was a student and panicked.

PsychoPumpkin · 07/07/2018 23:17

If she already stinks I’m not sure you should stick her in the freezer. How long has she been dead to smell already? Or is it the heat speeding up the process?

Sorry no help at all. We were able to immediately bury our childhood hamsters in the garden.

BertieBotts · 07/07/2018 23:20

Maybe a shallow grave in a wood somewhere. As said nature will then deal with it and hammy will benefit many creatures and plants. I would defo do it somewhere like a wood, off the path, not in a park - I think a cat or dog is more likely to dig it up in a park and then it could end up traumatising a small child! Whereas if a fox/the insects get to it in woodland then it's highly likely to be gone before anybody notices.

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Takethemdown · 07/07/2018 23:21

I think it's the heat. She was fine yesterday morning and we went to check her tonight to make sure her water was OK and found her :(
I've got no car, kids in the house and a hamster. I do have a spade but there's no where to dig until it's light. (I'm not going on the woods tonight.)

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vanillasky1001 · 07/07/2018 23:21

I had this problem. Gerbil went into the park under a hedge.

81Byerley · 07/07/2018 23:23

Double wrap it and put it in the bin.

BlueBug45 · 07/07/2018 23:23

If the kids come with you then it's a "proper" funeral.

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Takethemdown · 07/07/2018 23:24

I'm wondering whether to freeze her tonight just to stop the smell getting worse and going at first light?

Slightly worried about walking around with a large spade tomorrow Blush

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ThinkingCat · 07/07/2018 23:24

I'd just wrap up deceased hamster well and put in outdoor bin with lid on. If your DD wants a funeral service, perhaps you could make it a celebration of life / memorial service, which deceased hamster does not need to be present for.

garethsouthgatesmrs · 07/07/2018 23:26

wrap up well and put in shoe box then in your wheel bin. retrieve in the morning and take to local woody area.

that's what I would.do anyway.

garethsouthgatesmrs · 07/07/2018 23:27

Slightly worried about walking around with a large spade tomorrow blush

we are in the UK. No-one will dare challenge you anyway. They are all too polite.

Applepudding2018 · 07/07/2018 23:28

We buried DS's hamster in woodland- I wrapped it up and we dug a little hole for it.

It wasn't hot summer and smelly though.

Applepudding2018 · 07/07/2018 23:30

We used a trowell - no need for large spade.

AnastasiaVonBeaverhausen · 07/07/2018 23:31

Freeze her and then give her a full state funeral with DCs tomorrow. Sorry for your loss 🐹

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Takethemdown · 07/07/2018 23:31

I randomly only have a large spade. I don't even have a garden! I think we inherited it with the flat. Which is possibly worrying.

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Onedaylikethi5 · 08/07/2018 03:20

Just use the outdoor bin.

OneStepSideways · 08/07/2018 08:56

Ziplock bag and outdoor bin. Or bonfire. You can always hold a memory service later, get a little plant to remember her by or something. I wouldn't put in the freezer unless you want to introduce bacteria to it!

mindutopia · 08/07/2018 09:09

I’d freeze and find a place tomorrow. I lived in NYC when I was in my 20s and had a guinea pig. When my guinea pig died, she went in the freezer for several months (it was January and the ground was frozen!). When spring arrived, off I went with a big spoon for digging and buried her in an out of the way bed in a park.

BertieBotts · 08/07/2018 10:16

Us a spoon to dig, you'll only need a small hole. Or maybe DC have a beach spade?

Cismyass · 08/07/2018 10:46

Bit of DIY taxidermy?

NewYearNewMe18 · 08/07/2018 10:49

Christ, I thought you were going to be looking for recipes

GiddyGardner · 08/07/2018 10:54

I once took a 'dead' hamster to the local common to bury, was about to bury it, only to see it take a large gasp of breath! All of the hamsters I have had seemed to have dropped into deep, deep unconsciousness before they died. I remember my dad managing to keep one alive for ages in his hands. I didn't bury it then, but it did die soon after.

Fluffybat · 08/07/2018 13:11

I was in similar situation once and froze my hamster for a few days. Then took him to my mum's and cremated him in garden

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