Death In the family!!!!! - Page 2

SPUGGIE J · 07-12-2005, 17:46

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Originally Posted by Tinkerbelle

Now let's not get giddy eh Spug

Not quite giddy yet but getting there. All that is need is some fairy magic.

lettie · 07-12-2005, 17:50

I don't know if they hibernate or not Slinky.... I don't think they do but I'm not a hamster expert...

If you think he's dead then he probably is. At least if you leave him there until Saturday......you'll know one way or the other..

Debbie J · 07-12-2005, 17:50

Sometimes hamsters do appear dead but are actually alive. Even poking them doesn't wake them. Put your fingers on its belly to see if theres a pulse.

slinky · 07-12-2005, 18:05

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Originally Posted by Debbie J

Sometimes hamsters do appear dead but are actually alive. Even poking them doesn't wake them. Put your fingers on its belly to see if theres a pulse.

Owwww yuck!! no way. I deal with a lot of dead people in my line of work....but I don't do dead fluffy things......... I looked for breathing, no couldn't see anything, that's enough for me. MUM to the rescue, she can check tonight!!

shakermaker · 07-12-2005, 18:09

my hamster died 3 times before it finally snuffed it!

just shout very loudly or strum a guitar for about 5 minutes next to its cage

Tinkerbelle · 07-12-2005, 19:06

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Originally Posted by slinky

so she can come round and delivery the bad news to Zack, then we will prepare a funeral

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It's a shame

................ we haven't still got the snakes coulda saved you a shoe box!

black_flights · 07-12-2005, 20:28

Ur all mean poor hamster :P well i dont what im talking about my poor little hamster had a metal cage and he hung himself on the bars

I can't have been that bad of an owner can I that he decided to do himsef in?

chav1 · 07-12-2005, 20:38

my ex once thought her hamster was dead and her brother put it in the oven and after a few seconds it came tro life

turns out it was hibernating so yes it can take a lot to wake them up

the above story may not be true though as it has been since found that my ex is full of sh1t so its hard to know truth from fiction lol

if it feels cold and is rock hard like a stone then rigamortise has set in and its dead

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do not put in oven as i never did find out what gas mark setting was used or how long it was cooking for lol

slinky · 07-12-2005, 20:58

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Originally Posted by chav1

my ex once thought her hamster was dead and her brother put it in the oven and after a few seconds it came tro life

turns out it was hibernating so yes it can take a lot to wake them up

the above story may not be true though as it has been since found that my ex is full of sh1t so its hard to know truth from fiction lol

if it feels cold and is rock hard like a stone then rigamortise has set in and its dead

ps:

do not put in oven as i never did find out what gas mark setting was used or how long it was cooking for lol

Lmao!!!!!!!!! omg that made me pmsl........ Too late now, vet mum has been, she said " hmm definitely dead" so I guess it must have been.
I still have to face telling my son in the morning

grannyclaret · 07-12-2005, 21:07

say he has gone to be one of santa's little helpers...

slinky · 07-12-2005, 21:18

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Originally Posted by grannyclaret

say he has gone to be one of santa's little helpers...

Thanks for the advice, but GC, 8 going on 80, he will just give me one of them looks as to say " please mum, give me some credit".

Romps · 07-12-2005, 21:50

You could try saying he was playing on the PC and enjoyed his time with mouse so much that he decided to move to this site!! He can look ater him and visit him there!!!

VIRTUAL HAMSTER

After all your worrying and sensitivity he'll probably say something like... "DERRRRRRRRRR MUM HE'S DEAD..........GET OVER IT!!"

garinda · 07-12-2005, 22:50

To/ Mr. Richard Gere.
204468 Passalides,
Laurel Canyon,
90043 CA
USA.

Still time to catch the Christmas post.

Less · 07-12-2005, 23:13

Years ago, my daughter's turn to bring the hamster home from school. One morning my wife came upstairs Telling me quietly the Cat had got the hamster.
Urgent action required, hamster put into it's nest box with just a little showing. When my daughter got up over to feed boris, my wife said for her to leave it alone as it seemed to be hibernating.
Wife takes daughter out visiting so that I can take the corpse to the local pet shop & try to get a substitute. Boris had been white with brown patches
so getting a perfect match chances next to nil.
Fortunately the pet shop had a hamster but different pattern & much smaller, it will have to do.
Daughter comes home over to cage, What's happened to Boris? What do you mean I asked innocently, His patches have moved & he's alot smaller (it's a good job hamsters aren't very big or she might have noticed he has also changed sex!).
Well, said I sometimes when hamsters hibernate they shed their skin which can make them seem smaller & the new skin changes colour. She was happy with that, went out to play.
The following Monday my wife takes boris back to
school and explains in confidence to teacher, teacher says boris was an old hamster & when he died they weren't going to replace him so we shouldn't have bothered.

SPUGGIE J · 07-12-2005, 23:38

A heart warming moral story that Less.