I don't know if it counts but...I used to have a hamster that was born missing a leg, so she used to hobble around everywhere and nibble on her remaining back leg until it was bald. She also chewed the hair off of the stump of a leg that was missing, plus she was blind and pretty much deaf. So we named her Tripod--for obvious reasons. Anyways, we kept Tripod in a hamster cage with my brother's hamster--Dopey (like master like rodent), who was an able-bodied hamster. Poor crippled Tripod would trod around on the wheel for a while, and then Dopey (being the hyperactive hamster she was) would jump on the wheel and run as fast as it could--hurling Tripod across the cage until she hit the cage wall. We would sit there and watch this for hours--I feel bad now that she's died, though (just last week). I'm out of town--so my family froze her body in a tupperware case and put her in the fridge so we can bury her later. Sad stuff =(
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