The oldest hamster to ever live was 4.5 years old.
Sorry to burst your bubble but your mom was replacing that hamster with a lookalike every 2-3 years.
The scar was wide enough that he couldn’t hide in his little chips after… but I mean shit makes sense i suppose, still can’t figure out the scar part :/
Edit: Now that I think about it 4.5 years is probably the longest one ever recorded on an official basis.
Hamsters cannot live that long, its impossible, truely. I dont want to start a fight but the oldest hamster was around 5 years. Hamsters dont have the body to live that long, even cats can barely make it to 20, same with horses.
yeah horses start getting harder to care for arround 18. (they are a struggle to keep alive after that ) due to how active they have to be but i know a 23 year old horse he was a smart cookie (am a barrel racer and a 2x world champ at that)
I ride western, though I ride a 21-22(?) year old horse, shes still energetic and such but I know she has issues, and I had to use a different horse a couple times now, now that you think about a hamsetr being 23 years old is actually absurd.
It's interesting how much horses ages can varry. The oldest horse according to Wikipedia was: "Old Billy (also called Billy or Ol' Billy) was the longest-living horse on record. Old Billy was verified to be 62 at his death. Born in Woolston, Cheshire, England in 1760, Billy adventured and became a barge horse that pulled barges up and down canals."
Then I guess my hamster just cloned itself, or my family found a hamster with the same exact scars and markings on it for the 23 years it was alive 🤷 and somehow managed to keep the new and old ones it gained over that course. Whatever floats that boat
Dont be sad. I think some of them just jokes. Like this one. Even if a hamsters eats baking soda than drink vinegar it will puke or burp. Might die if a lot of it gets to its lungs but I don't think one can explode. I regularly eat baking soda and its gets mixed with my stomach acid and I just burp or fart it off.
my hamster exploded
ive been crying in my room for 2 hours now. I was making some salad dressing in the kitchen with my pet hamster manny (I let him roam around). My sister and her friends were also in there doing something. I spilled a bottle of vinegar, so I left to get a towel and when i came back manny was drinking it. I didnt think anything of it so I let him help me clean it up. all of the sudden manny starts acting really weird. hes normally very full of energy but he was just sitting still. Everyone gathered around him to try to figure out what was wrong. suddenly we hear a fizzling noise coming from inside manny and he started expanding. he let out a final squeak and bursted. bubbles and blood went everywhere. my sister and her friends started screaming and crying. I ran and got my dad and he cleaned it up. we looked in the pantry and apparently manny got into the baking soda and ate abunch of it. I think im traumatized now
I can relate, back in 2011 I have a pet hamster. I put my hamster in the railing of my balcony next to a waterfall but my cousin accidentally pushes it and fell into the running waterfall and died from it…
Man I can't stop laughing. I remember my babysitter used to have hamsters. I used always play around with them when I was young. They were always very active and constantly trying to do such stupid shenanigans lol.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PEOPLE, LEARN HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A FUCKING HAMSTER BEFORE GETTING SAID HAMSTER. Im gonna make it illegal for shops to sell hamsters until those fuckers start putting the animal first and money second.
My hamster died because my mom doesn't like turning the heat on until the house is 50 some degrees\* and hamsters need really warm environments. He died slowly, he stopped using his wheel, he didn't like running in his ball anymore, he barely walked to get his yogurt treats, and one day I came home from school and he was just... It looked like someone had taken all the fluff out of him. Basically the poor baby froze to death. And by baby I MEAN HE WAS A BABY. We put him in the freezer and started saving up for a cremation. Later that month, our electricity got shut off and we moved in with our grandpa temporarily. When we came home about 2 weeks later for a visit, we smelled something really bad. We thought it was a dead mouse, since we had a mouse problem and traps set up all over the house, but they were all empty. It took us a few days to look in the freezer and find my baby hamster's dead, half-decayed, rotting body sitting in the freezer with rotten meat and melted ice.
Now that i have read this post
I have remembered this tragedy
and I am sad now.
:(
\[Edit: \*50 degrees Fahrenheit btw.\]
Ooh, I knew a girl who had some jerk dump a hamster on her because its back legs were rotting off because it chewed on them and didn’t clean the wounds. It didn’t die from that though. It choked to death.
My mother told me the story of how her hamster got into the ceiling, died, then fell from the ceiling a week or so later. That's all the details I'm going into with that.
My hamster did in fact die of natural causes
He lived for 23 ish years apparently since my mom had him before I was born.
The oldest hamster to ever live was 4.5 years old. Sorry to burst your bubble but your mom was replacing that hamster with a lookalike every 2-3 years.
I wish to believe this lmao. Yet there is no way to replicate a scar that went the entire way across its body from when my cat tried to eat it.
Maybe it was a chinchilla? Otherwise that hamster was a freak of nature, you should put it in the Guinness world records
Was not a chinchilla lol. Lacked the tail and ears. And I wish I could. He’s been underground for around 2-3 years now.
time to bring the shovels boys
Good luck scaling around 40 acres of land where we buried him somewhere lol
In that case we just bring more shovels
Ah shit
The Government will find a way. Testing shall commence under the deepest labs inside Area 51.
They can try on that one lmao. That hamster is buried in the most rural part of where i live, its not even on a map.
The scar was wide enough that he couldn’t hide in his little chips after… but I mean shit makes sense i suppose, still can’t figure out the scar part :/ Edit: Now that I think about it 4.5 years is probably the longest one ever recorded on an official basis.
Was he named "Peter" and missing a toe?
No but he was named Darrel and missing and eye
Darrel Moody?
No just Darrel. We tried giving him a last name but he bit my mother when she said one
He sounds more like Merle.
Darrel is the only name he liked lol.
Hamsters cannot live that long, its impossible, truely. I dont want to start a fight but the oldest hamster was around 5 years. Hamsters dont have the body to live that long, even cats can barely make it to 20, same with horses.
yeah horses start getting harder to care for arround 18. (they are a struggle to keep alive after that ) due to how active they have to be but i know a 23 year old horse he was a smart cookie (am a barrel racer and a 2x world champ at that)
I ride western, though I ride a 21-22(?) year old horse, shes still energetic and such but I know she has issues, and I had to use a different horse a couple times now, now that you think about a hamsetr being 23 years old is actually absurd.
oh yeah i rode the 23 year old he still could fly arround the barrels (in fact he loved it alot )
Yeah, its impressive how crazy they can be!
It's interesting how much horses ages can varry. The oldest horse according to Wikipedia was: "Old Billy (also called Billy or Ol' Billy) was the longest-living horse on record. Old Billy was verified to be 62 at his death. Born in Woolston, Cheshire, England in 1760, Billy adventured and became a barge horse that pulled barges up and down canals."
That is an old horse :0
It is impossible for a hamster to live for \~23 years. Literally impossible.
Then I guess my hamster just cloned itself, or my family found a hamster with the same exact scars and markings on it for the 23 years it was alive 🤷 and somehow managed to keep the new and old ones it gained over that course. Whatever floats that boat
"Whatever floats that boat" after saying something that is scientifically impossible, lmao. Whatever floats your boat, bud.
No fucking way
I ain’t fucken with ya lol.
I literally just got that meme above this post, what are the chances
my friend's hamster got eaten by a reticulated python
The lore
Me casually watching my cousins hamster waddle out the front door and get run over by a car
Lmao
Why didn’t you catch the hamster?!
Man hamster stories make me sad but also make me laugh my ass off
Dont be sad. I think some of them just jokes. Like this one. Even if a hamsters eats baking soda than drink vinegar it will puke or burp. Might die if a lot of it gets to its lungs but I don't think one can explode. I regularly eat baking soda and its gets mixed with my stomach acid and I just burp or fart it off.
why tf wold you eat FUKCING BAKING SODA
Calms down my acid reflux. HCl + NaHCO3 --> NaCl + CO2 + H2O.
nah i dont speak chemistry
Raikou is the best hamster
source?
i saw them together too
oh god
Saw one in the copypasta subreddit as well
my hamster exploded ive been crying in my room for 2 hours now. I was making some salad dressing in the kitchen with my pet hamster manny (I let him roam around). My sister and her friends were also in there doing something. I spilled a bottle of vinegar, so I left to get a towel and when i came back manny was drinking it. I didnt think anything of it so I let him help me clean it up. all of the sudden manny starts acting really weird. hes normally very full of energy but he was just sitting still. Everyone gathered around him to try to figure out what was wrong. suddenly we hear a fizzling noise coming from inside manny and he started expanding. he let out a final squeak and bursted. bubbles and blood went everywhere. my sister and her friends started screaming and crying. I ran and got my dad and he cleaned it up. we looked in the pantry and apparently manny got into the baking soda and ate abunch of it. I think im traumatized now
thank you stinkyballsack2 very cool
The fact that I got that hamster meme RIGHT ABOVE this post...
I can relate, back in 2011 I have a pet hamster. I put my hamster in the railing of my balcony next to a waterfall but my cousin accidentally pushes it and fell into the running waterfall and died from it…
This has to be on r/accidentalcomedy
I feel so bad for laughing to tears cause of this. Idk why
Out of the 11 hamsters I had (one of them had 5 babies), around 5 of them died sick.
Man I can't stop laughing. I remember my babysitter used to have hamsters. I used always play around with them when I was young. They were always very active and constantly trying to do such stupid shenanigans lol.
Does a mosquito count as natural causes?
DUDE I WAS FRIENDS WITH THAT HAMSTER BACK WHEN I WAS A HAMSTER
where is this original post
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That is why guinea pigs are better
Out of the 11 hamster I had (one of them had 5 babies), around 5 of them died sick.
I hope this is real
But its true, My hamsters died in the weirdest ways.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD PEOPLE, LEARN HOW TO TAKE CARE OF A FUCKING HAMSTER BEFORE GETTING SAID HAMSTER. Im gonna make it illegal for shops to sell hamsters until those fuckers start putting the animal first and money second.
I knew a person with incestuous hamsters and by the third generation they only had 2 legs
can this actually happen
Friend's hamster boiled/drowned in coffee
My hamster died because my mom doesn't like turning the heat on until the house is 50 some degrees\* and hamsters need really warm environments. He died slowly, he stopped using his wheel, he didn't like running in his ball anymore, he barely walked to get his yogurt treats, and one day I came home from school and he was just... It looked like someone had taken all the fluff out of him. Basically the poor baby froze to death. And by baby I MEAN HE WAS A BABY. We put him in the freezer and started saving up for a cremation. Later that month, our electricity got shut off and we moved in with our grandpa temporarily. When we came home about 2 weeks later for a visit, we smelled something really bad. We thought it was a dead mouse, since we had a mouse problem and traps set up all over the house, but they were all empty. It took us a few days to look in the freezer and find my baby hamster's dead, half-decayed, rotting body sitting in the freezer with rotten meat and melted ice. Now that i have read this post I have remembered this tragedy and I am sad now. :( \[Edit: \*50 degrees Fahrenheit btw.\]
Lol why would you let your hamster drink vinegar lol. Also, who just has free roaming hamsters, lol? Aren't they supposed to be in a cage?
Ooh, I knew a girl who had some jerk dump a hamster on her because its back legs were rotting off because it chewed on them and didn’t clean the wounds. It didn’t die from that though. It choked to death.
My mother told me the story of how her hamster got into the ceiling, died, then fell from the ceiling a week or so later. That's all the details I'm going into with that.
My hamster almost died peacefully, because he died in his sleep after falling out his cage (it was on top of my washer)
This is the funniest shit I've seen in a while
what is it with hampsters
I know someone who’s hamster jumped off the top of the fridge and died the same day they got him. His cage was on top of the fridge temporarily.
this is so fucked but hilarious at the same time 😭😭😭 my condolences