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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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katierocket · 09/11/2006 18:07

Got to agree. Salamander that's pretty low.

Twiglett · 09/11/2006 18:07

SenoraP .. did someone eat nutcracker

SenoraPostrophe · 09/11/2006 18:09

I think she ate Joanne23 didn't she?

lou33 · 09/11/2006 18:09

can hamsters jump high enough to land in a cooking pot?

Salamander · 09/11/2006 18:09

I apologise for eating the Borrowers.
It ws an honest mistake.

I turned my back for five minutes, that's all.

They must have jumped in, mistaking my Hungarian ghoulash for a jacuzzi and...

well the rest is gastranomic history...

shebnem · 09/11/2006 18:09

i dont think you have eaten it LaPauvre, dont worry.
you would have noticed it in the food, if it was in it.
i think it will come out from somewhere and yr dd will be happy.
can you put a food it likes to eat to a corner so it comes out.
anyway you will remember this in the future and maybe laugh.
i can guess it is not laughable for you now.

holidaymum · 09/11/2006 18:09

we had nutcracker for tea in a casserole with some fava beans and a nice chianti!

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 18:11

Thanks shebnem.

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Salamander · 09/11/2006 18:11

Surely MN Towers have to pick this thread up for the MN Newsletter...

"Have any of you MNers out there mistakenly eaten your pets?"

eenysugarplumfairy · 09/11/2006 18:12

Ladies & Gentlemen, here we have HAMSTERGATE!

Baconbaps · 09/11/2006 18:15

If you don't want people to take the piss then don't post on a public forum. What on earth did you expect? If this isn't a wind up then you haven't eaten it, it's escaped, DD will get over it - it's only a hamster FFS. You've had sympathy and good advice amongst the sniggering so get off the flickin' PC (seeing as it's been coming up to 3 hours since you first posted) and go and COMFORT YOUR DAUGHTER!!!!!

southeastastra · 09/11/2006 18:16

it does remind me a bit of dumbfluffgate

eenysugarplumfairy · 09/11/2006 18:17

As I said... HAMSTERGATE

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 18:21

Baconbaps. You're very harsh.

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Baconbaps · 09/11/2006 18:23

You still here?

Salamander · 09/11/2006 18:25

Why are you still on the PC LaPauvre?

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 18:26

I am still here, my dd is on the rug next to me watching bedtime hour and my dh is washing up, I have my pc in the lounge, so what? What are all you doing here, don't you have children?

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wheresthehamster · 09/11/2006 18:29

I am sitting here with tears rolling down my cheeks. Thanks for cheering me up!

I'm sure it's already been said but to sit at a computer posting when you are in the middle of a hamster crisis sounds a bit fishy to me.

PS. Just realised that my name is very apt for this thread!

WaitingForGodKnows · 09/11/2006 18:31

Have you got a red rug? It may be under there. I hear small furry rodent-types are partial to home furnishings of that type.

Baconbaps · 09/11/2006 18:31

I'm just being realistic. It's a hamster. Get over it. Worse things happen to people you know. You haven't eaten it and if you did it's done now.

Blu · 09/11/2006 18:32

I have been Googling to see if there is any help for you, Lepauvre. I found a link to Hamsterline and HamsterAid - but neither are working.

Anyway - I'm actually wondering whether we shouldn't report you to the RSPCA.

Saturn74 · 09/11/2006 18:32

Some of us do have children, some of us don't - but at least we know where all our rodents are!

PinkTulips · 09/11/2006 18:36

well i've just burned the dinner reading this thread, lol.

find it vastly amusing to imagine someone could actually be stupid enough to think they ate their hamster without noticing! and that casserole sounds vile!

(((waves))) hello sal, haven't seen you around lately, eeny and ds keeping you busy?

holidaymum · 09/11/2006 18:38

'Fraid I'd be worrying more about the affects of ungutted hamster in pregnancy if it was me! But then it can't have happened so thats ok.

I certainly wouldn't be posting on here if i had an upset child. As it is mine are happily playing together as they are not currently distressed.

Blandmum · 09/11/2006 18:39

doesn't notice small skeleton, fur, intestines, eyes, hamster shit.

hate to think what food usually tastes like if you didn't notice!