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To ask what is the worst pet you have ever had?

164 replies

TomLee475 · 12/08/2019 19:26

I had a cat for 3 weeks , first cat , didn't realise it scratched I was 16 at the time , quickly sent the cat back.

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Fred578 · 12/08/2019 19:28

Ah you’ll get ripped to pieces on this thread. Mumsnet frowns on people returning pets - in a big way!

Davros · 12/08/2019 19:28

Hamster. Boring as fuck

hellodarkness · 12/08/2019 19:30

Hamsters. Boring, noisy at night, smelly.

WhyBirdStop · 12/08/2019 19:31

Hamster had stress issues used to trigger hibernation in any weather, also bit me a lot. Still didn't get rid of it though

Watchingthyme · 12/08/2019 19:31

I had a tiger. I had to drug it a lot or it would try and mail you to death. So it was actually quite boring

Watchingthyme · 12/08/2019 19:32

Maul you!!

MyFokMarelize · 12/08/2019 19:32

Fred578

I don't know why but I feel quite sure that the OP already knows that Wink

Davros · 12/08/2019 19:32

Are you Siegfried or Roy?
I looked after our hamster but it gave me no joy

BobTheFishermansWife · 12/08/2019 19:32

Goldfish... They just did nothing!!

Dustybun · 12/08/2019 19:33

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AnkleWarmersAndPixieBoots · 12/08/2019 19:34

Hamster, asleep all day and fucking manic and noisy at night...never again!

Cherrysoup · 12/08/2019 19:36

Gerbil. I had an old aquarium I’d happily kept hamsters in for years. Fucker jumped out on the first day. Never saw it again.

Bambamber · 12/08/2019 19:37

Definitely a Syrian hamster. Little bitey bastard

FudgeBrownie2019 · 12/08/2019 19:38

Hamster. Got pissed up one night (me, not him, man at the shop had promised me he was a him) got up with a massive hangover and he'd had six teeny tiny babies. Load of old shit. And also, they eat their babies if they don't get enough protein so I had to feed him rare roast beef for weeks til his babies were big enough to find homes of their own.

FaFoutis · 12/08/2019 19:39

Hamster. It used to hang off my arm by its teeth.

TroysMammy · 12/08/2019 19:40

Indian stick insects. Laid eggs like buggery and as they got towards the end of their lives their limbs fell off. They only ate privet and I live in an area where there are no privet hedges. Had to detour on my way home to get them food. Also boring as hell.

MaisyMary77 · 12/08/2019 19:40

Cat.

Poops and vomits in awkward places. Keeps trying to trip me up when I’m coming down the stairs. Sneaks into my wardrobe for naps. Ripped my sofa arm to shreds. Tries to sleep on my head when I’m in bed...I’m sure he is trying to kill me...

Love him to pieces though! 😀

hammeringinmyhead · 12/08/2019 19:40

A vicious guinea pig. He could only be handled with gardening gloves.

Davros · 12/08/2019 19:41

Hamsters are winning

iklboo · 12/08/2019 19:41

I like the idea of a tiger mailing you to death. I imagine it with glasses on end of its nose composing 'Disgusted of Chippenham' type letters Grin

RUOKHUN · 12/08/2019 19:42

Hamster - used to escape all the time. He lived downstairs in the living room. One time he was missing for two weeks, and then we found him in my mum’s underwear draw. Which was not only upstairs but the top draw...

buttertoasty · 12/08/2019 19:43

Goldfish. A PITA and really high maintenance.

ohcarriemathison · 12/08/2019 19:43

@FudgeBrownie2019 oh my god ! I didn't know that.
I got a "boy" hamster when I was 11 and it was in my own.
2 days later my fat boy had tiny little babies.
I held them, I know I know I really shouldn't have.
She then ate some !!
It was all a bit traumatic.

clawdiaP · 12/08/2019 19:44

A cockerel who was so ill tempered he had to be let out of the coop by someone sitting on the roof of the hen house and using a golf club to unhook the latch, or he would savage your ankles.

Shootingstar1115 · 12/08/2019 19:44

Hamster. Bloody thing was nasty. It hadn’t been handled prior to me owning it and it never got used to me and bit me all the time. Had to clean the cage out all the time and put it in a ball and that’s about it. Boring bloody thing!

My mum also bought us dwarf hamsters as a kid once. They were worse! We were told they were two females but in fact they were boy any girl and had babies. The babies are hideous. The thought of it makes me sick now finding them in the cage unexpectedly. 🤢

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