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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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MerlinsBeard · 09/11/2006 17:33

Are hamsters safe to eat in pregnancy??

Saturn74 · 09/11/2006 17:34

Now awaiting 'please don't laugh, but I think I may have mixed up my mooncup and my chinchilla, I am so upset' rival thread.

DizzyBint · 09/11/2006 17:34

yes as long as they are pasteurised

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 17:34

Please don't drag my pregnancy into this. Some of you might be forgetting that real people post on here, this is very sad and upsetting for my family, not a joke.

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ilovecaboose · 09/11/2006 17:35

just seen this in gerbil thread

kittythescarygoblin on Friday, 20 October, 2006 9:19:12 PM
"Perhaps we should just get a hamster next time, not quite as speedy, especially if we find a nice fat one Ohh sounds like I am planning to eat it"

Tutter · 09/11/2006 17:35

or maybe he was called

bob

or

dunk

or

stu

7up · 09/11/2006 17:36

Lapauvre, stop posting if its upsetting, you cant blame people for having a laugh can you. just post on here tomorow morning when hammy comes home

intergalacticwalrus · 09/11/2006 17:36

SPRAY at Bob!!!!

ROFL!

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 09/11/2006 17:36

Real people do indeed post.. but often, they like to namechange for a laff...

(Don't forget that some Mners have the power/authoritsation to see who you really are! )

Twiglett · 09/11/2006 17:37

Tutter you are very very brave being on this thread .. very brave indeed

Baconbaps · 09/11/2006 17:37

If you're that upset go and comfort your daughter. It's not our fault you ate a rodent.

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 17:37

Actually I think I can blame people for having a laugh if it is at my and my dd's expense, I know it might be funny in a book or on TV or something but this happened today, and my dd is gutted, so I don't understand why people are being so mean. I like MN and it often makes me laugh, but I was not expecting this!

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Tutter · 09/11/2006 17:38

twiglett

me, pleading not to go in the stew

MerlinsBeard · 09/11/2006 17:38

pasteurised hamsters....LOL

My sides hurt, i snorted my cuppa down my nose (and that bloody hurt) adn my jaw is aching.

Thank you LP real or not you have cheered me up no end.

Blu · 09/11/2006 17:38

Honestly Lepauvre, if you ate DairyLea Lunchables like everybody else, none of this would have happened.

I AM sorry for your poor daughter, am still a bit worried about the absent cat - but think you need to get a grip. Post the casserole recipe - complete with it's little amuese-gueule - on the Recipes Board, and move on.

To the next course....

Flamesparrow · 09/11/2006 17:38

Hmmm... Mars was talking to me - but I think that was in the gap whent he daughter was being told.

southeastastra · 09/11/2006 17:38

people are suspicious today, go and comfort your daughter, or look for the hammy!! don't take it personally

intergalacticwalrus · 09/11/2006 17:39

I love Mumsnet!

beckybrastraps · 09/11/2006 17:39

You give a thread the title "I think I may have eaten dd's hamster" and you didn't expect this?!

MerlinsBeard · 09/11/2006 17:39

go and comfort ur DD then. telling a lot of cyber strangers about it is really odd

ShinyHappyPeopleHoldingHands · 09/11/2006 17:39

You were NOT exepcting it??? BUT YOU PUT 'PLEASE DON'T LAUGH' IN THE TITLE!!!!

You are getting all twisted up now LP..

Carmenere · 09/11/2006 17:39

No one is laughing at your dd, we are laughing at the bizarre situation, oh ok we are laughing at you

Twiglett · 09/11/2006 17:39

I, of course, am totally safe as I am a real, if mis-spelt, foodstuff

HonorMatopoeia · 09/11/2006 17:40

It''s moments like this that make (online) life worth living!

Chandra · 09/11/2006 17:40

Don't know if this would help, some friends lost their hamster and because they had 2 cats they did asume the worst, anyways, 3 months later they were watching TV when the hamster happily went out of the kitchen into the bedroom. The thing had built a nest under one of the beds and had learned to find his own food... so, there's hope! I wouldn't worry about eating him, I don't imagine hair to be easy to swallow. And... you would have seen him when you put the vegetables, belive me, they don't dive so if he was there he should have been floating in the surface.