to be counting down the days until our hamster dies?

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Just that really. 30 weeks pregnant and irritable. I hate our hamster. Is smells after a day. It makes a massive racket on its wheel. It has a horrid ugly cage. I feel guilty knowing it can't run around like a wild hamster should/would. It's just annoying and pointless. Hardly ever gets played with by DD. Am I a vile human being to have had a fleeting thought re how nice it is going to be when hamster is no more and refusing to get another?

sub - I agree. My DP is the first class kind

If you wanted to know whether my DP was an idiot or not I would've told you he was from the outset! Wait... impure thoughts about DP..... oh no.....

This thread is hilarious.

OP you’re a trooper for sticking around despite some of these responses... fingers crossed it goes to the big wheel in the sky soon

You keep contradicting yourself. Either it's cruel to keep her in the cage (every other weekend and one evening a week, wow) or she doesn't care and lives a normal life. She chews the bars because she's bored or poorly. Why didn't your partner take responsibility for her? It's sad that you had to.
Where do you live? I have cats but could maybe find someone else who'd want her.

I think you’ve dealt with this thread with great humour, OP.

I hope you manage to rehome your hamster to a loving home - you can tell from this thread there are a lot of us who love them.

Not sure you’ll have as much luck with the DH though

I wouldn't call them domesticated, more like tamed or trained than domesticated. You can foster habits in them and train them to do things like coming to the cage door when you want to lift them out or expect feeding at a specific time or play with toys in certain way and they have basic dominant personality traits that can vary in the sense that some will be brave/timid, aggressive/friendly, curious/indifferent but that doesn't mean they're domesticated. Humans being humans like to anthropomorphise their little furry friends and project emotions onto them, there's no harm in it but it doesn't mean those feelings are reciprocated. Given opportunity to escape, most hamsters would take it. Generally they come back for food and their nest but if they didn't have access to those things (e.g., their cage waiting for them) they'd start over elsewhere with a new nest and whatever eefood source they could find.

Hamsters are cute but they are also pains in the arse. I bought one off a boy at school and my mum made me keep it in my room as the family dog was going mental trying to get at it. Kept me awake rustling around and going in it’s fecking wheel all night, I very quickly rehomed it to my gran

tea I haven't contradicted myself. I have explained that hamster could probably be played with more, but has a decent size cage and lots d toys, fed, watered, played with then DSD is here (this is not enough and we have realised this and are trying to rehome).

I never said that the hamster doesn't care. My point is that everyone thinks I am a monster for treating a hamster a lot better than I think many people do. This doesn't change the fact that I think it is cruel to keep a hamster in a cage.

No contradictions here just common sense

Does your mil look like your hamster or vice versa OP? Just trying out some rudimentary psychology.

No she looks like Jimmy Saville. Not even kidding. It's uncanny.

That's probably worse then. I won't give up my day job.

Hi there everyone,

We don't really think this thread is in the spirit, so we're going to zap it.

So funny people reported a thread about a bloody hamster 🤣🤣 thanks all for the entertainment at least.

Is it a female hamster?

They let off a smell that's quite putrid. I've had hundreds of hamsters, some are far noisier than others, and males definitely don't smell like females do. But the female smell comes and goes, it shouldn't be there all the time.

If it's male or it is there all the time then it might be because it's in a plastic cage (I hate those, no air and just nasty hot smelling yak) or because the bottom plastic part of a metal cage hasn't been cleaned properly.

This thread is hilarious. The OP is looking after an unwanted hamster to the best of her ability, but had the sheer audacity to say she can't wait till it dies (of natural causes) and is called vile! Hobestly, some people here can't wait to pile abuse on someone for the flimsiest of reasobs - and deliberately misrepresent the actual situation in order to do so. OP I hope you get something sorted soon. MN is like stepping into the Twilight Zone at times.

What the actual fuck MNHQ. You're zapping a fucking hamster thread now?!

This is bullshit. I'm really beginning to hate this pathetic place.

What the actual fuck MNHQ. You're zapping a fucking hamster thread now?!

So fucking funny

You MUST be joking mnhq. This is the embodiment of the spirit of Mumsnet. Not taking life too seriously, you know? It's HAMSTERS. You know, small furry rodents WITH A BRAIN THE SIZE OF A HAZELNUT! Ridiculous.

Where’s the Daily Fail when you need it?

Hi there everyone,

We're doing a reverse ferret on this one and leaving it up. We do appreciate Mumsnetters have made this thread pretty funny, but please be aware that animal threads do bring out strong emotions for a lot of posters.

We adore our hamster! His cage does get a bit whiffy but that's our only complaint. He's friendly, funny and is a huge source of joy and comfort to our 6yo daughter. She handles and cuddles him every day. We wakes up at mealtimes begging for scraps. He's never bitten. We've had him about 18 months and I'm dreading the day he dies.
Honestly, rehome him or learn to love him.

Op Yanbu, look at hamster pages on fb, look at pets at home, research other shelters that could take her.

And MNHQ what the fuck? I can't believe you were actually going to delete this thread. What absolute bollocks. What is going on?

This place used to be a sweary, not for the faint hearted, type of place. The opposite of Nethuns if you will.

But they are changing it. They delete threads the moment a person requests it, the second a hamsters turns his wheel too loudly, the moment someone disagrees with another.

I left one pathetic forum for doing the exact same thing (they now have absolutely no forum at all, clearly everyone had the same idea....) so where's the next place we can go to when we are forced to ditch the second coming of Nethuns?

Maybe with this thread and the other one this week (deleted) where posters shared how they accidentally killed or harmed their pets, people thought MN had already changed - for the worse.

You think that's change? You think that kind of thread is a new thing? Really?