My hamster died rather unfortunately..I kept the cage on top of my wardrobe, I hadn't seen him for a while and assumed he was hibernating or something (I was 14).
Turned out he'd fallen down the back of the wardrobe and got jammed there.. I think I found him about 2 months later. The worst part is that I didn't think 'How sad', I just thought 'Ut oh.. that's not good.'
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Wed 15 Oct 2003, 23:06,
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Turned out he'd fallen down the back of the wardrobe and got jammed there.. I think I found him about 2 months later. The worst part is that I didn't think 'How sad', I just thought 'Ut oh.. that's not good.'
I turned my cowardly budgie Nigel......into a killing machine. How? Regularly I would swish a tea towel or piece of kitchen roll really low over the top of his cage giving off the impression that it was a large bird of prey trying to get themselves a piece of prime budgerigar. I'd often swoop my hand down over him aswell as if I was going to give it a HUGE clip round his budgie ears.
Through lack of sleep fearing the next attack, Nigel became a rather touchy budgie. He used the cuttlefish to make his beak razor sharp, and trying to put seed in his feeders regularly resulted in bleeding hands.
So the monster I created now started to piss me off. My abuse increased tenfold. One day he was looking a bit out of breathe in his cage. I thought it was because the kitchen was rather warm due to things cooking in the oven, or that he'd been jumping round his cage. Sadly not, it would seem Nigels heart was playing up. One final swoop over his feathery bonce and he just fell off his perch, and landed spread eagled across the bottom of the cage, never to be annoyed by me again.
I liked him really
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(Through lack of sleep fearing the next attack, Nigel became a rather touchy budgie. He used the cuttlefish to make his beak razor sharp, and trying to put seed in his feeders regularly resulted in bleeding hands.
So the monster I created now started to piss me off. My abuse increased tenfold. One day he was looking a bit out of breathe in his cage. I thought it was because the kitchen was rather warm due to things cooking in the oven, or that he'd been jumping round his cage. Sadly not, it would seem Nigels heart was playing up. One final swoop over his feathery bonce and he just fell off his perch, and landed spread eagled across the bottom of the cage, never to be annoyed by me again.
I liked him really
:'¬(
Mozer,
Wed 15 Oct 2003, 23:37,
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Hamster HooverOK ... I think I have a winner here ... ;)
We used to have a russian dwarf hamster ... In a rotastak system ... With load of external tubing ... Which the hamster used to store food in ...
So the food never went bad... My wife used to hoover out the tubing every so often ...
One day ... Whilst hoovering out the tubing, the hamster decides to poke its head out of it's bedding home ...
Imagine it's surprise when it was sucked down the tubing into the hoover ...
I received a distrught phone call at work, from my wife, to let me know what had happened ...
She had open the hoover to find the hamster still alive & had phoned the vets ... They had told her to bring it down instantly ...
When she arrived the person on the desk, trying to stop laffing, just pointed, for the vets benefit, to the hamster trying explain what had happened ...
The hamster survived the hoover tube journey ... But died at an early age ... :(
BSK :D
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Wed 15 Oct 2003, 23:39,
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We used to have a russian dwarf hamster ... In a rotastak system ... With load of external tubing ... Which the hamster used to store food in ...
So the food never went bad... My wife used to hoover out the tubing every so often ...
One day ... Whilst hoovering out the tubing, the hamster decides to poke its head out of it's bedding home ...
Imagine it's surprise when it was sucked down the tubing into the hoover ...
I received a distrught phone call at work, from my wife, to let me know what had happened ...
She had open the hoover to find the hamster still alive & had phoned the vets ... They had told her to bring it down instantly ...
When she arrived the person on the desk, trying to stop laffing, just pointed, for the vets benefit, to the hamster trying explain what had happened ...
The hamster survived the hoover tube journey ... But died at an early age ... :(
BSK :D
boil in the tank fishi was recently looking after my sisters goldfish and broke the tank filter. trying to fix it i messed around with what i thought must be some thing to do with the filter mecanism but was actually the temperature regulator. anyway, i thought i'd sorted the tank out till three days later i found the fish floating upside down in a tank of hot water. i can only assume the cold water fish were slowly cooked alive. ooops.
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Wed 15 Oct 2003, 23:43,
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Re: hoover hamsterThis reminds me of a true story that I was told many years ago.
I had a pal work for the gas board. He got a call out to a suspected gas explosion at a residential house. When he got there the only damage he could see was a smashed front door and a burnt out vacuum cleaner in the middle of the garden. Transpired that the lady of the house was vacuuming the hallway and a mouse ran across the floor and was sucked up into the cleaner. She was freaked somewhat and worried that the mouse was dying an awful death inside the machine. So she thought she'd better put it out of its misery and make sure it was dead. She took a cannister of camping gas, broke the nozzle and pumped the contents into the dustbag.
Then deciding the mouse must be dead by now she decided to carry on vacuuming the floor and switched on the machine....erm hang on the machine is full of gas.
Boom, the vacuum cleaner shot thru the hall, smashing thru the front door to land in a smoking heap in the garden.
My pal nearly wet himself laughing when he found out what happened.
He also has an interesting story about an explosion at a chicken shed, but maybe another time for that one *g*
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Thu 16 Oct 2003, 1:46,
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I had a pal work for the gas board. He got a call out to a suspected gas explosion at a residential house. When he got there the only damage he could see was a smashed front door and a burnt out vacuum cleaner in the middle of the garden. Transpired that the lady of the house was vacuuming the hallway and a mouse ran across the floor and was sucked up into the cleaner. She was freaked somewhat and worried that the mouse was dying an awful death inside the machine. So she thought she'd better put it out of its misery and make sure it was dead. She took a cannister of camping gas, broke the nozzle and pumped the contents into the dustbag.
Then deciding the mouse must be dead by now she decided to carry on vacuuming the floor and switched on the machine....erm hang on the machine is full of gas.
Boom, the vacuum cleaner shot thru the hall, smashing thru the front door to land in a smoking heap in the garden.
My pal nearly wet himself laughing when he found out what happened.
He also has an interesting story about an explosion at a chicken shed, but maybe another time for that one *g*