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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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happybiggirl · 09/11/2006 19:07

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Twiglett · 09/11/2006 19:09

aha

thanks for explanantion

Twiglett · 09/11/2006 19:10

also lovin' 'Grace Under Fire' moniker btw

SparklyfestiveYellowFeathers · 09/11/2006 19:12

LaPauvre
I've had 3 Hamsters that have escaped. The first one was behind a tall cabinet, the second had hidden in the pantry and chewed its way through a ton of polystyrene ceiling tiles and made a nice bed and the last one had chewed its way through the carpet in a corner of the room and got to the floorboards.

I'm 100 million per cent sure that you did'nt boil him or eat him.
Just try and explain to your dd that they can escape very easily and any gaps anywhere will be used as an exit!
I would really recommend the humane traps and I would highly recommend using Rolos to trap them with! They are meant to be the best type of food to use. Just make sure you put in a wet cotton wool ball for a drink and check the trap the second you wake in the morning.

happybiggirl · 09/11/2006 19:13

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GraceUnderFire · 09/11/2006 19:14

Thank you

holidaymum · 09/11/2006 19:15

lol at happy big girl.

chocolatemummy · 09/11/2006 19:17

it cannot be true, you cannot eat a hamster and think it was chicken, you would feel the bones, rib cage etc when you bite it(sorry to be graphic)
hamsters escape all the time, muine ate its way into the base of the sofa, wasn't found for
days.

If I were you I would be honest and say he has escaped and make it into a game seaching for him.
He will prob turn up quite happy

Gingerbear · 09/11/2006 19:19

ahem, I would be more worried about chicken portions BEING BOILED UP FROM FROZEN than eating fresh poached hamster.

tiredemma · 09/11/2006 19:19

how could you not notice a whole hamster in a casserole? He would not have broken up into small pieces- not unless you were cooking a massive pot of acid.

bizarre thread. bizarre.

WhizzBangCaligula · 09/11/2006 19:21

Be careful with the humane trap in case you find a mouse in it instead of a hamster.

DumbledoresGirl · 09/11/2006 19:23

This has to be a joke surely? I am sorry, but I don't think it is real at all. Not just that the poster has not eaten a hamster - you couldn't do that and not notice - but also that there is no hamster lost. The poster's comments just don't ring true.

DumbledoresGirl · 09/11/2006 19:24

Oh but I wanted to say to OliveOil - your post "oh yes, I ate a whole elephant once, it wandered in from the garden, how was I to know it was in my quiche?" made me laugh more than I have done so for days. Thank you.

LittleWonder · 09/11/2006 19:25

Screeching with laughter - ye gods this is hilarious.

she won't tell us the name because (if this is true) little girls give their hamsters names like (my daughter and her friend's names for theirs):

caramel
banoffee
cornflake
honey

It was a FOOD name I tell you, maybe it was called casserole! come on Pauvre, tell us, you know you want to...
any one for ham stir-fry?

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 19:30

LittleWonder is right, it was a food name. Still not funny though. Dd is in bed now and dh has gone to buy a humane trap. I hope those of you who said he is hiding in the house are right.

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LittleWonder · 09/11/2006 19:31

PLEASE what food name???

DumbledoresGirl · 09/11/2006 19:31

Aw come on LePauvre, it was funny, but getting a bit dull now. Let on who you really are!

lindac · 09/11/2006 19:32

hamsters can get into the smallest holes mine did once, it will come out when humgry you will hear it running around in the night thats when there at there noisiest?

LittleWonder · 09/11/2006 19:33

Oh just give us a clue about its food name PLEASE...
Was it a sweet or savour dish?
A fruit?
what does it begin with?

Mellowma · 09/11/2006 19:33

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WideWebWitch · 09/11/2006 19:34

at this thread!

DumbledoresGirl · 09/11/2006 19:34

Hello WWW! When did you reappear?

iota · 09/11/2006 19:34

www

Mellowma · 09/11/2006 19:35

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Blandmum · 09/11/2006 19:36

good to see you back www, I've missed you!