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[cruisetopoland]

our hamster used to run that wheel for 4 hrs everynight, until i put it in its plastic ball and kicked it over the fence 

Its now powering my 4-pot 

[Richie London]

our hamster used to run that wheel for 4 hrs everynight, until i put it in its plastic ball and kicked it over the fence 

Its now powering my 4-pot 

ours lived just over 2 years which is long so im told. kids wanted it, i was the only one who would touch it, lovely little thing it was too, felt a idiot grooming it with a toothbrush though 

[cruisetopoland]

our hamster used to run that wheel for 4 hrs everynight, until i put it in its plastic ball and kicked it over the fence 

Its now powering my 4-pot 

ours lived just over 2 years which is long so im told. kids wanted it, i was the only one who would touch it, lovely little thing it was too, felt a thingy grooming it with a toothbrush though 

Bless 

[Ken L]

Only hamster I've had was when I was about 13, the day after we brought it home from the pet shop it had several babies, we thought oh, got about ten for the price of one, then it went and ate them all, there were half eaten babies in the cage still alive, we had to destroy them.

   Then a few weeks later it went missing, we searched high and low, down all the furniture, we couldn't find it anywhere, Then the following sunday, Mom was cooking the sunday dinner, with a chicken in the oven, she smelled a funny burning smell and opened the oven door to find the hamster at the edge of the door, instead of being a fluffy light tan it was burned brown and it's feet were burned of to the first joints on all four legs.
   We bathed it in saline solution and put it back in it's cage, it recovered and lived about 18 months as normail, spinning it's wheel and everything.

[redelitev6]

guinea pigs make a lovely pet i got 2 for my girls they lived indoors in aplastic cage/hutch but when the novelty wore off and they didnt bother with em i took em back to the store shame cos they really were nice pets,but thats the thing with kids i want iwant iwant then you end up looking after the pet they cant be arsed with

we made the same mistake with a puppy -can i have , i'll take it for walks etc, guess who's walking it late at night-muggins here , give it a few weeks to see if the fad passes,if they still want one give them conditions to owning one ,cleaning out etc, and if they don't -get rid of the bloody pest(hamster-not the family !) 

[cruisetopoland]

Only hamster I've had was when I was about 13, the day after we brought it home from the pet shop it had several babies, we thought oh, got about ten for the price of one, then it went and ate them all, there were half eaten babies in the cage still alive, we had to destroy them.

   Then a few weeks later it went missing, we searched high and low, down all the furniture, we couldn't find it anywhere, Then the following sunday, Mom was cooking the sunday dinner, with a chicken in the oven, she smelled a funny burning smell and opened the oven door to find the hamster at the edge of the door, instead of being a fluffy light tan it was burned brown and it's feet were burned of to the first joints on all four legs.
   We bathed it in saline solution and put it back in it's cage, it recovered and lived about 18 months as normail, spinning it's wheel and everything.

Scary pet!!!!

[cem_devecioglu]

guinea pigs : a bigger one and easy to play with..

hamsters are very fragile , short living and and in contradiction to their small size very emotional..

one hamster family that we have after the day husband died the next day the wife also :-?
(they were old)

[maria]

There are better rodents than hamsters....try gerbils, far more entertaining 

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I wouldn't  have gerbils, my daughter Hannah had 3 and she tryed so hard to tame them and all  they did was bite , They are nasty little things and they will jump out of your hand and are hard to catch if they get away, but hamsters are just brilliant as I have had 3 and two was males and the other a female and the males hamsters dont bite, or you could get rats which make lovelly pets as i have had  6 in the past and none have ever bitten me and they are so funny and they dont ever run from you, I miss my rats

[STMO999]

Just a thought.........DONT even think about chinchillas. They can escape any cage, are destructive little bastards and can live for twenty years.
I had two when I lived in Finchley in the nineties. Every night I would make their cage escape-proof and every night I was woken by the sounds of curtains/sofas/carpets/neighbours being eaten.

[cruisetopoland]

Just a thought.........DONT even think about chinchillas. They can escape any cage, are destructive little bastards and can live for twenty years.
I had two when I lived in Finchley in the nineties. Every night I would make their cage escape-proof and every night I was woken by the sounds of curtains/sofas/carpets/neighbours being eaten.

Are you sure they were not gorillas?

[cem_devecioglu]

Just a thought.........DONT even think about chinchillas. They can escape any cage, are destructive little bastards and can live for twenty years.
I had two when I lived in Finchley in the nineties. Every night I would make their cage escape-proof and every night I was woken by the sounds of curtains/sofas/carpets/neighbours being eaten.

 

you are lucky they didnt eat your nose

[Martin_1962]

It seems that Richard is now a common name for them