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The TX
Gallente
Earth Inc.
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Posted - 2008.08.07 00:36:00 -
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Devastating news in the TX household - another of our hamsters has mysteriously died.
Either me or the GF checks them at least every 24hrs to make sure they're alright, but neither of us checked last night. Tonight, my GF checked them, and found one motionless, not breathing, squished in a corner hald buried in random hamster-cage-bedding-and-crap.
Stiff as a board too - rigamortis (spelling?).
To me, it looks like she was just squished under some other hamsters - they like to sleep all squished together - she looks like she was on the bottom of a pile of hammies, so I think perhaps she's suffocated.
When hamsters are dead or dying, the vet told us once that they can mutilate each other a bit, and Baileys has a noticeable wound with some insidey-bits visible on one side - I'm am sincerely hoping that these were inflicted AFTER death, and that the position I found her in is in fact an indication that she was suffocated in her sleep rather than bullied and wounded.
There is another possibility - that's shes choked on some bedding of some kind, the vet says they can choke on the cotton-wool type of bedding, and I dunno if my GF said she'd already removed the stuff, or she has NOW removed the stuff... I dunno.
Either way, it's very sad, and we're both quite upset. She's gone to bed, and I'm emmersing myself, as ever, into the virtual world of teh interwebs and forums and stuff to escape reality again. When I'm really tired, I'll hopefully go to bed and nod off quickly without having to think too much about it.
The Russian Dwarf hammies should be ok in groups. We've given them lots of food bowls, lots of water bottles, plenty of tubes and housing and bedding and treats and wheels etc etc - they've got loads of space - we've done everything we can do to make them happy, so the likelyhood of them killing each other off should be very small.
My gf cut the bottom bit off a drinks carton, and I've wrapped her in kitchen roll, put her inside. Also put some woodshavings and some chocolate treats in to see her through to the other side.
There were six, then there were five, and now the dearest sweetest friendliest hamster in the world has departed us, leaving us with just four.
RIP Baileys The Hamster.
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The TX
Gallente
Earth Inc.
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Posted - 2008.08.07 00:36:00 -
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Devastating news in the TX household - another of our hamsters has mysteriously died.
Either me or the GF checks them at least every 24hrs to make sure they're alright, but neither of us checked last night. Tonight, my GF checked them, and found one motionless, not breathing, squished in a corner hald buried in random hamster-cage-bedding-and-crap.
Stiff as a board too - rigamortis (spelling?).
To me, it looks like she was just squished under some other hamsters - they like to sleep all squished together - she looks like she was on the bottom of a pile of hammies, so I think perhaps she's suffocated.
When hamsters are dead or dying, the vet told us once that they can mutilate each other a bit, and Baileys has a noticeable wound with some insidey-bits visible on one side - I'm am sincerely hoping that these were inflicted AFTER death, and that the position I found her in is in fact an indication that she was suffocated in her sleep rather than bullied and wounded.
There is another possibility - that's shes choked on some bedding of some kind, the vet says they can choke on the cotton-wool type of bedding, and I dunno if my GF said she'd already removed the stuff, or she has NOW removed the stuff... I dunno.
Either way, it's very sad, and we're both quite upset. She's gone to bed, and I'm emmersing myself, as ever, into the virtual world of teh interwebs and forums and stuff to escape reality again. When I'm really tired, I'll hopefully go to bed and nod off quickly without having to think too much about it.
The Russian Dwarf hammies should be ok in groups. We've given them lots of food bowls, lots of water bottles, plenty of tubes and housing and bedding and treats and wheels etc etc - they've got loads of space - we've done everything we can do to make them happy, so the likelyhood of them killing each other off should be very small.
My gf cut the bottom bit off a drinks carton, and I've wrapped her in kitchen roll, put her inside. Also put some woodshavings and some chocolate treats in to see her through to the other side.
There were six, then there were five, and now the dearest sweetest friendliest hamster in the world has departed us, leaving us with just four.
RIP Baileys The Hamster.
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Minmatar
Metafarmers
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Posted - 2008.08.07 00:51:00 -
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My condolences for your horrible loss 
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Micheal Dietrich
Caldari
Terradyne Networks
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Posted - 2008.08.07 01:21:00 -
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yeah sucks to lose pets. I've got a cat going on 18 years now who is at the moment skin and bones and yet he refuses to give up.
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Mad Hermit
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Posted - 2008.08.07 01:27:00 -
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My condolences. Even though you know that rodents don't exactly have an excessively long lifespan it still hurts when you lose them. 
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Surfin's PlunderBunny
Minmatar
Metafarmers
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Posted - 2008.08.07 01:56:00 -
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When my cats die I am totally having them stuffed
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Jago Kain
Amarr
Pan Galactic Traders
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Posted - 2008.08.07 02:14:00 -
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 Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
When my cats die I am totally having them stuffed
Stuffed ***** 4tw!!
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Posted - 2008.08.07 02:16:00 -
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Originally by: Jago Kain
Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
When my cats die I am totally having them stuffed
Stuffed ***** 4tw!!
Indeed good sir, yes indeed.
Originally by: Crumplecorn
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EnslaverOfMinmatar
Yarsk Hunters
DeaDSpace Coalition
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Posted - 2008.08.07 05:45:00 -
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lol
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Imperator Jora'h
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Posted - 2008.08.07 07:57:00 -
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Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
When my cats die I am totally having them stuffed
Pfft...that's so last century.
Have the cats cloned.
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Kazuma Saruwatari
Caldari
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Posted - 2008.08.07 08:26:00 -
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Originally by: The TX
There were six, then there were five, and now the dearest sweetest friendliest hamster in the world has departed us, leaving us with just four.
RIP Baileys The Hamster.
Condolences, genuinely. Reminds me of the time my old cat, Mr. Jack passed away in his little hidehole back at our old home. At least he died in peace in his favorite spot.
..but a small little devil on my right shoulder is going, "you idiot! You play an internet spaceships game wherein scamming, murder, corp embezzlement and theft, and suicide ganking is the norm and you cry over the friendliest hamster's death? You panzy! gb2wow or w/e you internet spaceship nerds go spout out."
...last time I'm feeding him thoughts of pirating in lowsec and spraying water at my sister's cat to **** it off. sorry.
*proceeds to strangle devil*
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Louis deGuerre
Gallente
Federation Zone Operations Command
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Posted - 2008.08.07 09:30:00 -
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...Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) are generally solitary and will fight to the death if put together...
...it is not unheard of of hamsters ganging up one one and killing and eating it...
Vicious little buggers, really.
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The TX
Gallente
Earth Inc.
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Posted - 2008.08.07 09:33:00 -
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Originally by: Louis deGuerre
...Syrian hamsters (Mesocricetus auratus) are generally solitary and will fight to the death if put together...
...it is not unheard of of hamsters ganging up one one and killing and eating it...
Vicious little buggers, really.
Yeah, that's why we got Russians cuz they're supposed to be better in groups. But like I say - we give them plenty of space and good and entertainment, in fact, you might concider the housing we've given them to be a little excessive - but as long as they're happy, then it's all good.
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Louis deGuerre
Gallente
Federation Zone Operations Command
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Posted - 2008.08.07 09:57:00 -
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Yeah, those are pretty cute. A friend of mine had build like a 2 meter cubed maze for his.
Pretty awesome that was. You could tell his hamster loved it.
I hope the other five will fare better.
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Bad Borris
20th Legion
Digital Renegades
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Posted - 2008.08.07 09:58:00 -
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Hamster Burgers
Took a while.
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Reven Cordelle
Caldari
School of Applied Knowledge
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Posted - 2008.08.07 09:59:00 -
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Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
yeah sucks to lose pets. I've got a cat going on 18 years now who is at the moment skin and bones and yet he refuses to give up.
My cat is exactly the same but 19 years old. Hes still jumping around like a crazy fool but I literally cannot understand how he is continuing to digest food. The width of his back, just after his ribs is like one and a half inches. There can't be much Cat in there.
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Slade Trillgon
Siorai Iontach
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Posted - 2008.08.07 11:16:00 -
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Sorry for the loss... Had to put down my 17 year old Dachshund a few weeks back and that sucked real hard so I know what you are feeling. Curly had been with me since I was 14, over half my life.
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Fraszoid
Caldari
Condottieri Industries
The Economy
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Posted - 2008.08.07 17:30:00 -
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Sorry for you loss. I had 2 guinea pigs over the past several years, whom happened to die the nights I was up at 4am and didn't bother to check on them before I went to bed. Internet space ships are good for getting over it, and a new hamster is just a pet shop trip away.
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Blydchyld
Caldari
Galactic Extensive Enterprises
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Posted - 2008.08.07 18:30:00 -
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Edited by: Blydchyld on 07/08/2008 18:30:25
I managed to place my cat in the microwave and turn it on for 2 mins before the situation was intervented by my mother(i was 4)
The cat is still alive and kicking/biting/clawing/dribbling at 18 years of age.
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Zephyr Rengate
dearg doom
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Posted - 2008.08.07 18:53:00 -
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Hamsters arnt real pets.
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2008.08.07 18:55:00 -
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Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
When my cats die I am totally having them stuffed
Pfft...that's so last century.
Have the cats cloned.
Why wait till they're dead?
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Patch86
Di-Tron Heavy Industries
Atlas Alliance
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Posted - 2008.08.07 19:10:00 -
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Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
When my cats die I am totally having them stuffed
Pfft...that's so last century.
Have the cats cloned.
Why wait till they're dead?
CLONE ARMY, AWAY!!!
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Micheal Dietrich
Caldari
Terradyne Networks
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Posted - 2008.08.07 19:13:00 -
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Originally by: Patch86
Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
When my cats die I am totally having them stuffed
Pfft...that's so last century.
Have the cats cloned.
Why wait till they're dead?
CLONE ARMY, AWAY!!!
Why bother with the costs. Just come out here to farm country and watch them clone themselves and take over the barn.
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Plumpy McPudding
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Posted - 2008.08.07 19:24:00 -
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Originally by: Micheal Dietrich
Originally by: Patch86
Originally by: Imperator Jora'h
Originally by: Surfin's PlunderBunny
When my cats die I am totally having them stuffed
Pfft...that's so last century.
Have the cats cloned.
Why wait till they're dead?
CLONE ARMY, AWAY!!!
Why bother with the costs. Just come out here to farm country and watch them clone themselves and take over the barn.
Because those cats will never be my Mr. Scruffles! 
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Daelorn
Perkone
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Posted - 2008.08.07 19:29:00 -
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Don't ever get the cotton type bedding, because:
Many many years ago I had a hamster, it was lonely so we got another one, both were suppose to be the same sex, but... they weren't.
One day I wake up and find many hamster babies and to get to the point the cotton wrapped around the babies, some died, some lost legs, ect. I would never buy that crap again.
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Kyanzes
Amarr
Utopian Research I.E.L.
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Posted - 2008.08.07 20:07:00 -
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Giant African Snails FTW
RIP btw
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The TX
Gallente
Earth Inc.
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Posted - 2008.08.07 23:36:00 -
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Originally by: Kyanzes
Giant African Snails FTW
RIP btw
Can you imagine the size of the bird that comes to snatch those up..... lol
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Rakivic
Galactic Express
Burning Horizons
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Posted - 2008.08.08 13:40:00 -
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Jeez it is a freaking hamster go to the local pet store and buy another for like $5 bucks
now build a bridge and get over it
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Obsidian Inc.
KIA Alliance
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Posted - 2008.08.08 13:46:00 -
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Originally by: Blydchyld
Edited by: Blydchyld on 07/08/2008 18:30:25
I managed to place my cat in the microwave and turn it on for 2 mins before the situation was intervented by my mother(i was 4)
The cat is still alive and kicking/biting/clawing/dribbling at 18 years of age.
Two minutes?! That's enough to thoroughly heat up my wife's pasta bake from being in the fridge 
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Posted - 2008.08.08 15:58:00 -
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Originally by: Ombey
Originally by: Blydchyld
Edited by: Blydchyld on 07/08/2008 18:30:25
I managed to place my cat in the microwave and turn it on for 2 mins before the situation was intervented by my mother(i was 4)
The cat is still alive and kicking/biting/clawing/dribbling at 18 years of age.
Two minutes?! That's enough to thoroughly heat up my wife's pasta bake from being in the fridge
one of the most well placed smilies i have ever seen lol
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