Another Hamster
Bought a hamster - went for a female one because my daughter wanted a girl hamster (I couldn't tell the difference anyway). Trouble was it was mental. Would do backflips for no reason - it bit anything that came within 'fang' distance. It was a complete b*tch of a hell-hamster.

Then it went missing. Somehow the cage got left open and the mental rodent made a run for it. We searched high and low - no hamster. Gone.
Two nights later, bottle of wine and a film on the T.V, I kept hearing this scratching. Muted the sound and tried to follow the noise. Turns out the thing is in the wall, between two sheets of plasterboard. So I grabbed a stanley knife and cut a hole for it to escape. It just went even more mental and ran further along the wall (I suppose being trapped is scarey for a hamster, but being trapped and huge stanley blades cutting into a wall just above your head is scarier). Cue an even bigger hole. Eventually got the thing out with the help of a carrot. The smelly plaster covered rodent still bit me.

So we went back to the pet shop and replaced it with another hamster.
( HSDriver was probably still at work on, Sat 4 Dec 2004, 19:55, Reply)