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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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LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 19:36

LittleWonder why do you want to know what the poor little thing's name was? Just let it rest.

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lucy5 · 09/11/2006 19:36

This isn't Mars again, is it?

Carmenere · 09/11/2006 19:36

Great to see you www It's not you is it?

WideWebWitch · 09/11/2006 19:37

God, it's like bloody crack, mumsnet. But worse (pinched from someone else, can't remember who, may have been willow)

Blandmum · 09/11/2006 19:37

I flounced once, couldn't stay away

WideWebWitch · 09/11/2006 19:37

No, no, LePauvre, certainly isn't me, no, no.
This thread is hilarious.

WideWebWitch · 09/11/2006 19:39

I meant "LePauvre isn't me"

LittleWonder · 09/11/2006 19:39

LaPauvre, I really want to know the creature's name. If you just tell me, I promise to tell you why I want to know.

happybiggirl · 09/11/2006 19:40

Message withdrawn

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 19:41

His name was Popcorn. OK?

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WideWebWitch · 09/11/2006 19:41
tortoise · 09/11/2006 19:42

Popcorn!(or cock porn as a friends DS calls it!) PMSL!

ComeOVeneer · 09/11/2006 19:42

LOL at cock porn.

Blandmum · 09/11/2006 19:43

ah that old supper standby

ragoût de maîs éclaté

tiredemma · 09/11/2006 19:43

oh dear, ive just wee'd a little, think I need a Tena lady.

mousiemousie · 09/11/2006 19:44

Did you have Freddie Starr round for dinner?

Gingerbear · 09/11/2006 19:44

lol @ tiredemma.
and cock porn

tortoise · 09/11/2006 19:45

tiredemma That made me lol!

StrawberryMoon · 09/11/2006 19:46

am going against my gut instinct here!!..but........

hampsters come back when hungry..leave a trail of food leading to his/her cage and it'll go back..you just have to be ready to close lid again!
we once had one that was'lost'(not in any form of foodstuffs tho!) for weeks, hed bitten a hole into mums side board at back, made a nest and came out each night for food!..took us fecking ages to catch the little blighter!

hub2dee · 09/11/2006 19:50

OMG, La Pauvre. I can't believe the lack of support you are receiving on your first post to MN. Really, laydees this is shocking. Her kids have feelings too you know. If this is how we welcome newbies who have potentially ate blended hampster brain, I really exasperate. Can't you find a little bit of compassion for a stranger ? Why not give her the benefit of the doubt, huh ? La Pauvre, I am a vegetarian and animal lover so I can really relate to your situation. . I am also half French so I can really relate to your name.

Oh, I am so angry about all this. La Pauvre, do you want me to come over and help you look ? I know it's late, but the quicker we can start the search the better. I am in North London. You ? If I am too far I'm sure we could get another mumsnetter to help. Twiglett is in South London, and I know she's been a little brusque on here, but I've met her and she's lovely, and she'd come out. Hunker is kind of in another direction, but we'd kind of have London mostly covered, and as you can tell she knows a lot about rodents. If you're not in London there are a few MNers who live outside the big smoke, and I have no doubt at all there'd be a few who could come and help.

Really hoping we can help you, tonight if possible.

LittleWonder · 09/11/2006 19:50

blimey, is it just me or have more people realized they need to do more pelvic floor exercises?

lindac · 09/11/2006 19:54

ludaloo pmsl

LaPauvre · 09/11/2006 19:55

I'm grateful for your kindness hub2dee but I don't live in London

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Saturn74 · 09/11/2006 19:56

He was called Popcorn?

Surely there would have been lots of noise then, if he did fall into the casserole?

kittywits · 09/11/2006 19:56

Poor you, sorry everyone's taking the piss
Rodents can squeeze into the tiniest of spaces, infact seemingly impossibly small ones. You would have noticed it in the pot. Hope it turns up soon.