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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: unlucky mark mv6 on 30 December 2009, 00:08:19
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My missus and son are trying to twist my arm to get em a hamster.My question is,do you reckon our staffie would eat it,and should i let em have one. ::)
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We have a guinea pig,a parakeet and a staffie.Our dog is so stupid it just sniffs the guinea pig and tries to catch the bird when we let it out of it's cage to fly around the house.It will never catch it as it is too high when it flies.
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My missus and son are trying to twist my arm to get em a hamster.My question is,do you reckon our staffie would eat it,and should i let em have one. ::)
Only if you've trained it to open the cage.
Whether the dog eats the rodent or not is dependant on the dog, but the chances are the dog will want to play with it....and the chances of the rodent suffering heart failure after such an event are probably quite high.
Ignoring keeping the two apart though, hamsters are low maintenance, but also have a very short life span.
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My missus and son are trying to twist my arm to get em a hamster.My question is,do you reckon our staffie would eat it,and should i let em have one. ::)
Only if you've trained it to open the cage.
Whether the dog eats the rodent or not is dependant on the dog, but the chances are the dog will want to play with it....and the chances of the rodent suffering heart failure after such an event are probably quite high.
Ignoring keeping the two apart though, hamsters are low maintenance, but also have a very short life span.
:y ...and nocturnal.
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a mate of mine has a miniature hedge hog and a daft staff and a dafter top gear dog and they get along if the hog stays in its cage. If it did come out though my money would be on the hog
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My nieghbour has a SBT & when her little girl brought home the Hamsters from school the dog was frightened of the Hamsters & cried all day to get out of the room ;D ;D ;D ;D
Bloody Poofter ::)
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depends how upset the family gets when little furry dies, my memory of the things is you never see them until you have to burry it efter a heart attack, as said. Save your time money and agro imo.
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There are better rodents than hamsters....try gerbils, far more entertaining :y
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A rat would be a better pet than a hamster. Hamsters are more likely to bite, rats are more intelligent, don't go disapearing down the furniture etc.
I used to keep and breed tame rats years ago, I had dozens of them. Great pets.
Whatever you get, get a book on how to keep it at the same time, and go through it with your lad so he can take the responsibilty of looking after it.
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depends how upset the family gets when little furry dies, my memory of the things is you never see them until you have to burry it efter a heart attack, as said. Save your time money and agro imo.
Couldent agree more chris :y
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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
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My son's got two guinea pigs, but I have to clean the cage twice a week, otherwise they get very smelly. Plus you need quite a big space for the cage and you should let them out for a run, at which time they will chew through anything and everything.
As has been said, hamsters are nocturnal and will drive you mad running around that wheel all night.
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We used to have two guinea pigs. They made great pets. They had a hutch by the back door but also had the use of a 8' x 8' run on the 'lawn' in the garden. It's amazing how much grass two guinea pigs can eat, just keep moving the run around the garden & the lawn mower can stay in the shed! :y :y :y :y
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Hamsters: hide all day, scratch all night then just die.
Would agree with many comments above re: alternatives, esp. rats-intelligent and make nice pets.
You could always put a Furby in a hamster cage and just lie ;D
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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 ;D ;D
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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 ;D ;D
Its now powering my 4-pot ;D
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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 ;D ;D
Its now powering my 4-pot ;D
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 ;D ;D
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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 ;D ;D
Its now powering my 4-pot ;D
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 ;D ;D
Bless ;D
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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.
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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 !)
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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!!!!
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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)
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There are better rodents than hamsters....try gerbils, far more entertaining :y
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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 :(
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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.
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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?
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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.
;D ;D
you are lucky they didnt eat your nose ;D
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It seems that Richard is now a common name for them