WARNING-please make sure your hamsters are def dead and not hybernating.

[horseshoe]

Got round my friends today just before she was about to put her little hamster in a box for burial.

Little thing only needed a warm up in the hands to kick it back to life. She had it near a window and it had got cold.

She then told me this is the 6th hamster she has buried in a year

I wonder...

ooops!!! RIP the other five..........probably buried alive - eeewww.

she will be haunted forever by the ghosts of murdered hamsters

i thought this was made up, so it's really true.

a la eastenders live burial

At least they didn't fall in the casserole and get eaten!

my stepdad had a really funny story about this when his dd was little

they decided their hibernating hamster had died so he got it out and was going to throw it into the fire (I know ) but as they went towards the fire it got warm and it opened one eye so they put it back to hibernate some more

but it wouldn't wake up when the time came so they took it to the vets

the vet laid it out on his table and gingerly picked up its foot with his tweezers

the leg fell off

"I think that the animal has been dead sometime, Mr Stepdad" he said solemnly

that's awful

lol cappucino

I had a sneaking suspicion that opening this thread may make me larf.

I was completely right!

(sorry)

pmsl!

Oh my!

This reminds me of when my tortoise died during hibernation, i was about 7 i think. When we went to fetch the tortoise, it stank, i mean it reeked and was blatantly dead. My mum wasn't sure so she said, "lets put it in a bowl of water and see if bubbles come out of its nose" Even i could work out the thing was a gonna.

Another story, my neices rat died post operatively after being returned from the vets unconcious (totally out of order). They phoned me because i used to be a vet nurse, so i asked all the relevant questions, is it breathing, "no, it doesnt appear to be moving, hasnt moved for over an hour" ok, are its eyes open, do they react when you touch them, "yes and no reaction" Ok, Does he feel cold to the touch - "yes, oh and he is really stiff too" By this point i was really struggling, it was well past wine o clock and i had put SIL on speakerphone, DP almost had a hernia trying not to laugh [heartless]. I mean, the thing was cold and stiff and i still couldnt get them to accept the thing was dead ffs. I felt sorry for the neice, she had accepted it, but her mother kept me on the phone for nearly an hour asking the same questions over and over. Id drunk a whole bottle of red by the end of the phone call and DP just left the room - git.

lol

I have some of those stories. We revived on of my hamsters when I was a child, so when my sister's beloved stanley died, she put him in a box on the boiler in the kitchen. We eventually had to have a family meeting to address the smell of the slow-cooking dead hamster in the kitchen...

My friend's hamster,however, had a tasteful funeral and was buried in the garden. He revived in the night and was found the next day trying to get back into his bedding, which we had put in the bin!

i was feeling a bit low but ur heading made me chuckle

have i bury hamsters alive??

Depends how deep the grave was, they are obviously expert tunnelers! I've had lots of hamsters and only two haver ever resurrected.

my best friend when i was small had a hamster that was found apparently dead, cold and stiff, in its cage. they didnt have time to bury it before school so put it in the shed to perform last rites etc that night, when they went back to get it it was twitching. her mum gave it a teaspoon of brandy to perk it up and the poor thing went absolutely beserk and fell off the kitchen table.
and it was STILL alive at the end of that...mark my words they are the undead....

Wooden stake?

This would explain where Nicholas Ridley came from then. We found him at midnight on an urban road. He lived for about a year after that.