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Please don't laugh, but I think I may have eaten dd's hamster, I am so upset.

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LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 15:28

Please don't laugh at me, I am so upset. She is at school, she will be gutted

I warmed up a pot of chicken casserole left over from yesterday to have for my lunch. I have eaten it, it's too late to do anything, but it was boiling for a good hour before I ate it and now I've just gone to feed dd's hamster and his cage is open and he isn't there . There was no lid on the casserole pot, his cage was on the shelf at the other end of the kitchen and the door was shut so there isn't really anywhere else he could have gone. He must have fallen in and drowned before it got hot, that's the only thing I can think of. I didn't find the hamster in the stew obviously, but there were some hairs in the pot, I just washed it it was full of bones anyway because they were those cheap chicken portions just boiled in from frozen.

Please, don't just laugh at me, I know this sounds silly but he was my daughter's birthday present, she is 6 and I don't think she will ever forgive me

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ilovecaboose · 09/11/2006 17:26

HAmsters are like Houdinis (even more so than toddlers). They can get through gaps you can't even see.

Carmenere · 09/11/2006 17:26

Is this averybadhamster by any chance?

Flamesparrow · 09/11/2006 17:26

I'm convinced.... that its a windup.

The DD is home... sobbing in the bathroom...

ilovecaboose · 09/11/2006 17:27

And yeah if you've been lurking fro months how come you didn't see the gerbil threads?

Twiglett · 09/11/2006 17:27

I am surprised that you are able to type so eloquently if you are stupid enough to eat a hamster without noticing

what a larf

I love the uppityness of trolls sometimes ..

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 17:27

ilovecaboose, do you think he could have squeezed under the gap under a normal internal door? I don't know where he would have gone next though, it isn't a very big house and we have had a good look

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Blu · 09/11/2006 17:27
ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 09/11/2006 17:27

LP if you were that offended you would just flounce off and have nothing more to do with 'those dreadful MN lot'..

Getting boring now..

Tutter · 09/11/2006 17:27

absolutely flmesparrow

am gagging for her to tell us his name was houdini

or delia

Baconbaps · 09/11/2006 17:27

So, you think you may have eaten the pet hamster. What's the first thing you do?

Is it

a) Throw up, panic and rush out to the pet shop for another one before DD gets home.

b) Log on to the internet and give a running commentary to a load of strangers on what you have done, remain there whilst your DD cries in the bathroom and wonder why people think you might have made it up.

ilovecaboose · 09/11/2006 17:28

could have got anywhere - anywhere!

Am still not entirely convinced.

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 09/11/2006 17:28

Where is Mars?

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 17:29

I haven't seen any gerbil threads, I mainly read the pregnancy ones as I am 16 weeks at the moment. Why would I read a thread about a gerbil?

I am just going to ignore the people who don't believe me. What is worse though is that some of you do believe me and are STILL laughing about it. That is just cruel!

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DizzyBint · 09/11/2006 17:30

so lapauvre what lessons have you learned from today's events??

i must not keep animals in the kitchen

i must check the contents of casserole dish before i go in with the blender

i must think it odd if my chicken casserole is hairy

i must stop eating my chicken casserole when a hairy hamster floats to the surface

Carmenere · 09/11/2006 17:30

Mars, Hunker or Blu, which one? I'm going for HM because she has hamster knowledge

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 17:31

She isn't crying any more she is eating her tea. She is still very upset though, wouldn't your child be if their pet was missing? Some of you aren't for real, never mind not believing me.

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Saturn74 · 09/11/2006 17:31

LOL at Blu's post.

Hilarious mirth at LaPauvre's determination to maintain the anonymity of the hamster!

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 09/11/2006 17:31

Eating her tea?????????????!!!!!!!!!

intergalacticwalrus · 09/11/2006 17:31

She's not eating the casserole is she?

DizzyBint · 09/11/2006 17:31

did u check her tea before you gave it to her?

Twiglett · 09/11/2006 17:32

Blu wants again cuts to the heart of the issue

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 17:32

If I told you his name what would be the point? It would just be something else to laugh and be spiteful about. My daughter chose his name and it means something to her, so I don't want people taking the mickey any more than you already are.

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Baconbaps · 09/11/2006 17:33

You sure you're pregnant and not just digesting a stoat?

ilovecaboose · 09/11/2006 17:33

gerbil thread. was v. funny

intergalacticwalrus · 09/11/2006 17:33

My money is on it being a hairy fisted trucker hamster

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