Hamas

[Annefrankingmachine]

Hamster lovers rejoice, we have found a new home!
I hereby claim this abandoned messageboard in the name of the Hamster Appreciation Society (HAMAS).

Yes, our days of wandering the web like the nomadic Peruvian Grey Hamster are finally over. Now we can finally relax and start nesting, like the Peruvian Beige Hamster.

I would like to start by yet again distancing the HAMster Appreciation Society from the other, nastier HAMAS. Let me say once and for all that we have no interest in committing terrorist acts against the state of Israel. Instead we are concerned mainly with Rotastak systems and sawdust.

With that out of the way, let me kick off the discussion by revealing this week's hot topic:
Has anything amusing ever happened to you in connection with a hamster?

once we had two guinea pigs (same sort of animal) and they died.

[decadnids]

yes, when I was little I was cleaning out my hamsters cage, and my dog walked into the room, and the hamster was affraid, and he bit my finger... it really hurt, and the little bastard wouldn't let go..

also, the hamster used to have one of those roller balls that it could run around the room in, and it was good fun letting the dog play with the hamster in the roller ball, I would always make sure that neither the hamster or the dog where in any danger...

(hamsters are good swimmers too!!!)

I used to own the most violent aggressive hamster known to man when I was a child, you couldnt even put your hand in its cage, that thing could draw blood too, I was terrified of it. I keep snakes, lizards and Tarantulas, give me one of those any day, hamsters are probably the only animal that give me the fear. They are evil, the snakes like them though.

It was a regular night when I decided to put my hamster Flur
in the pink ball and run around on the floor.THen I went to my mothers room to watch a movie and my brother was in the room with the hamster watchinh T.V.we forgot lock the door because my dog can open doors.then my dog opened the door and sliped in.when she saw the pink ball she went after it!there was a crak!As sheba got Flur.as sheba a exerpt hunter at getting rabbits sqriels and possoms.A hamster had very little chance of living .but we huried her to the vet and as the vets giving flur some medications she said this is one lucky hamster.she still limps a little but she is pain free and is a regular hamster.

[Annefrankingmachine]

I tell you, I never get tired of that story. That must be, what, about the tenth time you've posted it? every time it has me wondering "will the hamster be all right?". Gripping stuff.

[emef]

oh sorry... i thought this was a humas thread

i once had a hamster that went bald before it died. it looked pretty funny.

i also had 2 gerbils and one day, after they had been living happily together for at least 2 years, i looked in their cage to find that one had eaten the other and all that was left of it was its head and a load of fur. i was so disgusted with him for eating his brother that i disowned the surviving gerbil. it was very traumatic.

my wee brother owns a chinchilla - it is utterly mad, runs about the room at lighting speed, up walls and stuff. it's sort of like a cross between a rabbit and a squirrel. usually they are totally timid but his is quite tame. its fur is the softest fur in the world. they have sand baths, which means they lie down in a sand pit and spin round really quickly

I had a hamster and it puked its insides out of its mouth... no end of er "surgery" could get him to injgest them again.. and he died...

[decadnids]

Ibi, that happened to the first hamster I had, but it shat its guts out... they could do nothing for the poor little thing.

Who invented the word Ham-ster.?

[penciLneck]

German, from Middle High German hamastra, perhaps from Old High German hamustro, of Slavic origin

[decadnids]

. Hamsters are hoarders, meaning they store stashes of food in their burrow; the word "hamster" comes from the German word 'hamstern', meaning to hoard.

hamsters freak me out. i had a bad experience with them when i was a kid. i used to hang out in my mates house which was full of pets. in the space of a month their dog had followed me to the park and got lost forever, then i discovered their fish floating in it's bowl. it could happen to anyone you may think but they had three hamsters which came down with a constipation like disease. the poor things had to be squeezed every day to relieve them of the shit which was building up inside. eventually two of them died. but the third one whose name was "bigpig" recovered. but only to be discovered out in their garden by me. it was lying on its back with a six inch nail in its belly. from then on everyone called me "the murderer". yikes, it's a very unhappy memory. i didn't do it i tells ya.

maybe u have a split personality

[quote]but they had three hamsters which came down with a constipation like disease. the poor things had to be squeezed every day to relieve them of the shit which was building up inside. eventually two of them died. ][quote]

This is caused by a genetic problem, usually caused by in breeding, it can effect thier back legs too and paralise them in the back end, this is quite common in Guinea pigs too.

[bob effect]

my mate had a hamster who got loose one day and chewed through the cable at the back of the fridge. The resulting shock blew both its ears and one its legs off but by some miracle it survived. It used to run round the house in one of those clear plastic ball things, we used to give it blowbacks and watch it go mental. Happy days.....

[Annefrankingmachine]

I AM A HAMSTER
The hamster's perspective:
Being a hamster i'd like to post so that you all have the word straight from the hamster's mouth.
I am owned by a trendy little fellow with a massive gut who drinks in the pub next door. He treats me okay except when he puts me in his anus. Why do people insist upon doing this? I know several hamsters who have been through this rather odd experience and i can catagorically say that no hamster has ever taken any pleasure from being forced up a man's arse pipe. What are you supposed to do once you're in?
At first i used to struggle to get back out again but this seemed to be futile as i was just re-inserted. Now i just kind of go to sleep in there and try not to think about it.
Surely HAMAS can explain why people feel compelled to do this?

Si, you not being getting your nuts wet?

[mr.lizard]

I bought my ex-girlfriend two gerbils for her birthday once: not for putting up her botty though. keats and milgram they were called (we were students). she didn't care much for them, and then took them home to her family abode, where they got butchered by her fat old Jack Russell, Tom. They were brutally savaged... and died in agony. Much like our relationship.

Can I join HAMAS? Or maybe I could form a splinter group - GERCOM?

[Annefrankingmachine]

Goodness me!

If you are indeed a hamster capable of accessing the internet and typing coherant sentences, it seems your owner is quite literally sitting on a goldmine, or at least shoving one up his arse.

A talented fellow like you could surely be earning your owner a fortune on the chat show circuit. Why don't you kick start the process? If you want to avoid being inserted into bottoms, use your talents to email Graham Norton. I'm sure he'd have you on his show, and he'd be very unlikely to shove you up

oh

hang on

maybe that's not such a good idea.