to be counting down the days until our hamster dies?

[SnuggMugg]

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?

What horrible timing for me to read this. My much-loved beautiful wee hamster is badly injured and my kids are devastated. You start a thread, not can you advise me how to rehome my hamster, but wishing it would die. Horrible.

loves hanging out with us

How can you tell?!

Please don’t get any more pets, OP.

You don’t sound like you have an ounce of compassion.

Vegans care about animals and will try to find good homes. I can think of plenty things worse. They probably rehome when animals are in dire need not when someone has got one on a whim and can't be arsed. I wonder why they don't have the capacity.... ...

Everything is a million times worse when your up the duff....noise ......smells ...irritability times 100. ...my dog ...god rest his soul ...had me gunning for him when I was preggers last....his nails going clip clip clip clip clop clop on the wood floor drove me insane..had to buy ear plugs..

@BlueberryPud exactly! Thank you! And now I have this hamster that I didn't want or ask for I'm an awful person for looking forward to the inevitable day where hamster is no more because it'll be out of its misery!

Anyone who things any hamster in a cage is happy is so naive.

So it’s every other hamster owner who’s in the wrong now, is it?

LordVoldemart - first you need to get them super tame so you have a chance of catching them. I did this by sitting in the empty bath with mine so he had no choice but to be near me, and he soon realised I wasn’t going to hurt him and began enjoying a fuss (this maybe took 2 weeks). Then I’d get him out and let him have a run around on my bed, obviously making sure he didn’t fall off, and get him used to me catching him. Then I put him in the kitchen, which is quite big, and just let him run around for as long as he wants. He has found a hole into the cupboard under the sink and usually chooses to go in there and chew up my car washing sponge . When it’s time to put him back I give him some treats (little bit of cheese or chicken, or some fresh fruit or veg), so he doesn’t mind going back in his cage. He’s tired out by then anyway.

@tworoundsofwaterplease oh I know there are worse things it's only an expression.

@SuburbanRhonda I don't think you've read my posts if you think I have no compassion!

Where are you?
We have a Syrian and it hardly smells. However, we had my daughters school friends Russian dwarf one and that stank.
I know my partner will kill me if you are near me I will happily take it.

Sorry - I misunderstood the Facebook reference.

I don't think any are 'happy'. However I think a larger one is much more preferable to a tiny one, and a hamster who gets love, attention and appreciation is much happier than one who doesn't.

How I can tell he loves hanging out with us is because if he’s running free he will often choose to come and sit with us or climb on us, rather than running away or hiding. He’ll happily just sit on my lap for ages enjoying being stroked.

disclaimer. Sorry for having a bad thought. I'm not actually going to kill our hamster and have done a lot to ensure it is happy and content as possible. It has a big 3 tier cage and I've done lots of research. I've come to the conclusion that it will never be happy, does not like being handled, should not be kept in a cage and it won't be an awful thing when it dies, OF NATURAL CAUSES. We are trying to rehome. Some sensitive folk on here I swear!

No one I know in real life actually enjoys having one

My 16 year old son was devastated when his last hamster died, he looked after her very well and played with her a lot.

I don't think you've read my posts if you think I have no compassion!

I’ve read the whole thread which led me to conclude this.

My girl's hamster stinks quickly. He has lovely plastic cage with tubes etc but he really does smell quickly, unlike the previous hamster we had.

Our hamster is noisy too. He is almost 2 now so getting an old boy and doesn't have long left I don't think. I don't think you are some cruel, nasty person OP. You aren't hurting it and it is looked after. Some OTT responses here.

@SuburbanRhonda oh dear 🤦🏻‍♀️

How old is the critter?

I absolutely love having my (all rescued from people who get them then can't be assed) hamsters.

They can be trained to like being handled but as prey animals it takes a lot of patience and knowledge.

Fair enough. My hamsters would have made a dash for the floorboards if we’d let them run free. We’d never have seen them again!

I don't think hamsters thrive in small cages, as pets for young children. They belong in their natural habitat.
I don't think letting them out to run around in a domestic kitchen for an hour a night makes them 'happy', although it might make their existence less miserable.
I think everyone who just read that knows I'm right.

@U2HasTheEdge I'm sending people think I'm actually going to hurt it or be cruel to it when actually I just think it's cruel to get one in the first place!

OP, please don’t @ me - I’m on the thread. I get enough crap in my inbox without emails telling me what I already know.

sub ok calm your boots 🤣