Oh dear...less than 24 hours..

[gbb]

and my 10 year old grandsons hamsters dead...while in our care
Daughter, her husband and grandson have JUST gone on holiday for a week, leaving the hamster at ours.
FFS....he's going to be so upset .

Now i've got to stop decorating to deal with him...burial maybe..FFS

To be fair, it's 3 years old...not a bad age for a hamster...but why me.

 

[jonesy]

Can't you just say nothing and get him another one?

 

[Joe24]

Not a bad age, mine only lasted till they were about 2
Cant get a new one then and disguise it
Damn was beaten to it

 

[buggi]

that's a really good age for a hamster! don't buy a new one, be honest. He's 10 not 4 and he will know the difference. best thing to do is freeze it and then he can bury it when he comes home.

 

[tdr1nka]

Ah yes, the (hamster)wheel of life, but what a responsibility.
I envy you not.

Whatever you do, don't try to flush it down the loo!!

 

[Night Train]

I'd say get a matching repalcement but make it a young one so they will eventually think they have a 6 year old hamster!

 

[mondobongo]

I think 10 years old are a bit too savvy to fall for the replacement lookalike.

 

[Joe24]

that's a really good age for a hamster! don't buy a new one, be honest. He's 10 not 4 and he will know the difference. best thing to do is freeze it and then he can bury it when he comes home.

My auntie did that with a cat i think. She wanted to wait till we could go because we had also known the cat for a long time.
We all declined the ice cream when she offerred

 

[tdr1nka]

.......best thing to do is freeze it....

*Imagines hamster waking up in the year 2250 to world being run by
by gerbils*

 

[mondobongo]

Freeze it, remove from freezer just before Grandson comes to collect him place hamster in his little house, whistle nonchalantly.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

Put it in the freezer, then on the day he returns cook it and serve it up to him with chips. A good meal will soften the blow when you tell him afterwards.

 

[Joe24]

Freeze it, remove from freezer just before Grandson comes to collect him place hamster in his little house, whistle nonchalantly.

Yeh, and put it in the microwave to warm it up slightly, so it looks like he has just gone.

 

[Mr Pig]

...but why me.

Don't complain. Everyone knows that hamsters always die when left with relatives whilst their owners go on holiday.

What is not known is why. Personally, I think they are spiteful little b******* and do it to get back at their owners for daring to go away without them.

Buy the kid a Wii. 'Your hamster died, but I got you a Wii'. I promise you the rat will be totally forgotten about by the time they've got it out of the box.

 

[Joe24]

My first hamster died the day after i got back from holiday actually. I was very young then, just got back from america, picked the hamster up from next door, played with it then the day after, or the day after that it was dead when i got up.

 

[Mr Pig]

..played with it then the day after it was dead.

Told you. Vindictive little rats.