what a chance of this happening

tint bandit · September 18, 2003

my wife complains,oh my son also that I spend to much time on computer monday,BLAW BLAW BLAW so tuesday morning wake up 6 am to check site while eating breakfast'nothing' well go to bathroom and our hamster is in the bathtub all the way at the other end of house from his cage.man I wake everybody up to see who did this'not us' one end of his tunnel came loose and the son of a gun chewed the telephone cord cable into then some how crawled into bath tub at the other end of house "I dont think so" I guess I"ll talk to my fellow tinters after they go to bed!I thought somebody was in the house playing a psyco trip on me :thumb :thumb

Exact-Oh · September 18, 2003

:thumb My siblings and myself had hamsters when we were kids. They always sprung from their kingdom and ended up in the weirdest places.

Don't gross out or anything, but we found my older sister's hamster (rat), after it had been missing for two days... in the bottom of the dishwasher, dead! I certainly hope it wasn't in there long, but then again, maybe that's part of my problem dealing with serious life as an adult!

September 18, 2003

ewww! think I'll just have fish for pets!

September 18, 2003

Mine had a little white mouse. Couldn't keep him contained. I finally gave up. I had a huge terrarium coffee table in the living room that the first X had built for his pet terrantula :dunno and it had become the new home of my nephews turtle. It's top had a 1/4 inch gap for air. Somehow every morning there that mouse would be in the terrarium eating the turtles food. He's bounce on the turtles back until he boinged high enough to reach the top edge and hang on till he wiggled himself thru that gap back out.

:dunno Then one day when Mom was fixing to be here I was in a cleaning frenzy and vacuuming under the dryer...you know, just in case Heaven forbid one of Moms earrings happened to roll under there and I'd have to move it and she'd see the filth... :dunno So I heard the Rainbow pitch change and figured it was a baby sock that'd been under there for years or a pretty good size dust bunny getting sucked up in there. When I went to empty the water in the Rainbow the little not so white anymore mouse was in there. :dunno

I still have nightmares of his poor little body swirling around in there before his final demise. What a way to go.

Exact-Oh · September 18, 2003

September 18, 2003

What a mental picture BS! TB, it wasn't me, I don't even know where you live! :dunno

September 18, 2003

man thats funny BS. I guess the noise of the vacum must have drowned out the "OH SHIOT" when he started to go down tube and you must not have heard him. I'll bet his little eyes got as big as dinner plates :dunno

September 19, 2003

Poor thing. I wondered what his last thought was too PM. The horror!

Little sucker'd chewed up the bottom of several cereal boxes (which I wouldn't discover until I picked them up and cereal went everywhere ) chewed the cord in to on my printer and done lots of other damage too before I got rid.... I mean ...before the accident. A mouse is a mouse, whether you paid for it or not. It's funny now... but I was horrified when I realized what it was in the water. My daughter was pretty upset but since he'd been free for a while he wasn't as special as he'd been when she could hold and love him.

September 19, 2003

AND In that same terrarium a couple years later my nephew had a "couple" gerbils he put in it. In about a month, I kid you not ....there were 54. He sold them back to the pet shop for 50 cents a piece.

I've seen more than once hampsters doing amazing death defying feats to get to the female. Couple weeks later you hear squeaking in the female cage. Yep... a half dozen more.