hamster euthanasia - an ethical question
Discussion
Munter said:
mybrainhurts said:
Ladies and gentlemen...
The word EUTHANIZE is Americanese, not English...
It appears in this thread on more than one occasion...
Kindly desist, or I will go round and microwave the bloody rodent...
Bit late. It's dead. Or were ya planning to fix a snack?The word EUTHANIZE is Americanese, not English...
It appears in this thread on more than one occasion...
Kindly desist, or I will go round and microwave the bloody rodent...
shadowninja said:
I'm going to bookmark this thread. Every time I read this post, I laugh. I know I shouldn't but I do.
A university friend had a hamster she loved dearly. It lived in a beautiful and large cage in her room in the house we shared at unversity. We all loved him, he was part of the family.One day she came bounding the stairs in tears shouting "Hammy's dead" (not his real name)
I was dispatched to the room to check out the blighter. He was very, very cold and not really moving, at all. I called it. Stop the CPR everyone. The hamster has slipped his mortal coil. Caput.
She was distraught, we all stopped watching Supermarket Sweep (student house remember) and started thinking about a fitting burial. It had be respectuful and somebody rustled up a shoebox. Christina was still very upset, we made sugary tea. (Supermarket Sweep back on)
I was again volunteered to wrap the ex-hamster up and lay him out in the shoe box. No probs, I'll do it in my room, I said. She was calmer, but had phoned her mum twice by now to help calm down. Never mind, move on, you can get other pets. etc etc
In my bedroom: Tissue paper in shoe-box, sellotape found in drawer. OH MY fkING GOD, THE HAMSTER'S MOVING AND BREATHING AGAIN! He's just warmed up.
What was I to do?
I'll tell you what, I killed the chap quickly with a ruler and put him in the box. Told none of the others. We buried him on the university campus. Owner in question was strong and told us what a great life the hamster had enjoyed.
NOT ANOTHER SOUL IN THE WORLD EVER KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
until........
Edited by The_Doc on Saturday 13th September 20:15
Edited by The_Doc on Sunday 14th September 10:09
putridp said:
okgo said:
LDNrevs said:
Are you so cheap that you won't take it to a vet? Bloody hell man, it's 30 quid to have him looked at and dealt with if need be.. you've left it over 2 days.. that's not on mate; not a good keeper of pets in my book.
Its a hamster, I have accidentally run over more important animals than that.Leaving an animal to die whilst suffering for over 2 days instead of having it euthanased obviously causes unnecessary suffering.
The OP is not capable of keeping animals.
Fatboy said:
putridp said:
okgo said:
LDNrevs said:
Are you so cheap that you won't take it to a vet? Bloody hell man, it's 30 quid to have him looked at and dealt with if need be.. you've left it over 2 days.. that's not on mate; not a good keeper of pets in my book.
Its a hamster, I have accidentally run over more important animals than that.Leaving an animal to die whilst suffering for over 2 days instead of having it euthanased obviously causes unnecessary suffering.
The OP is not capable of keeping animals.
The_Doc said:
shadowninja said:
I'm going to bookmark this thread. Every time I read this post, I laugh. I know I shouldn't but I do.
A university friend had a hamster she loved dearly. It lived in a beautiful and large cage in her room in the house we shared at unversity. We all loved him, he was part of the family.One day she came bounding the stairs in tears shouting "Hammy's dead" (not his real name)
I was dispatched to the room to check out the blighter. He was very, very cold and not really moving, at all. I called it. Stop the CPR everyone. The hamster has slipped his mortal coil. Caput.
She was distraught, we all stopped watching Supermarket Sweep (student house remember) and started thinking about a fitting burial. It had be respectuful and somebody rustled up a shoebox. Christina was still very upset, we made sugary tea. (Supermarket Sweep back on)
I was again volunteered to wrap the ex-hamster up and lay him out in the shoe box. No probs, I'll do it in my room, I said. She was calmer, but had phoned her mum twice by now to help calm down. Never mind, move on, you can get other pets. etc etc
In my bedroom: Tissue paper in shoe-box, sellotape found in drawer. OH MY fkING GOD, THE HAMSTER'S MOVING AND BREATHING AGAIN! He's just warmed up.
What was I to do?
I'll tell you what, I killed the chap quickly with a ruler and put him in the box. Told none of the others. We buried him on the university campus. Owner in question was strong and told us what a great life the hamster had enjoyed.
NOT ANOTHER SOLE IN THE WORLD EVER KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
until........
Edited by The_Doc on Saturday 13th September 20:15
We (little brother, and myself) buried our hamster, thinking it too was dead. Only for my uncle to dig it up again a few wks later, and find the box it had been in, chewed. Yes Paul had tried hard to escape his dark cold coffin
The_Doc said:
shadowninja said:
I'm going to bookmark this thread. Every time I read this post, I laugh. I know I shouldn't but I do.
A university friend had a hamster she loved dearly. It lived in a beautiful and large cage in her room in the house we shared at unversity. We all loved him, he was part of the family.One day she came bounding the stairs in tears shouting "Hammy's dead" (not his real name)
I was dispatched to the room to check out the blighter. He was very, very cold and not really moving, at all. I called it. Stop the CPR everyone. The hamster has slipped his mortal coil. Caput.
She was distraught, we all stopped watching Supermarket Sweep (student house remember) and started thinking about a fitting burial. It had be respectuful and somebody rustled up a shoebox. Christina was still very upset, we made sugary tea. (Supermarket Sweep back on)
I was again volunteered to wrap the ex-hamster up and lay him out in the shoe box. No probs, I'll do it in my room, I said. She was calmer, but had phoned her mum twice by now to help calm down. Never mind, move on, you can get other pets. etc etc
In my bedroom: Tissue paper in shoe-box, sellotape found in drawer. OH MY fkING GOD, THE HAMSTER'S MOVING AND BREATHING AGAIN! He's just warmed up.
What was I to do?
Jeez; there are some real odd-bods on here...
Penny-lope said:
Now I too will confess
We (little brother, and myself) buried our hamster, thinking it too was dead. Only for my uncle to dig it up again a few wks later, and find the box it had been in, chewed. Yes Paul had tried hard to escape his dark cold coffin
+1We (little brother, and myself) buried our hamster, thinking it too was dead. Only for my uncle to dig it up again a few wks later, and find the box it had been in, chewed. Yes Paul had tried hard to escape his dark cold coffin
Little sister's hamster did the not-moving thing. She buried it in the back garden. The dog dug it back up again and brought it back in the house to play with, whereupon the sneaky little bd came back to life and scurried away under the furniture.
The_Doc said:
shadowninja said:
I'm going to bookmark this thread. Every time I read this post, I laugh. I know I shouldn't but I do.
A university friend had a hamster she loved dearly. It lived in a beautiful and large cage in her room in the house we shared at unversity. We all loved him, he was part of the family.One day she came bounding the stairs in tears shouting "Hammy's dead" (not his real name)
I was dispatched to the room to check out the blighter. He was very, very cold and not really moving, at all. I called it. Stop the CPR everyone. The hamster has slipped his mortal coil. Caput.
She was distraught, we all stopped watching Supermarket Sweep (student house remember) and started thinking about a fitting burial. It had be respectuful and somebody rustled up a shoebox. Christina was still very upset, we made sugary tea. (Supermarket Sweep back on)
I was again volunteered to wrap the ex-hamster up and lay him out in the shoe box. No probs, I'll do it in my room, I said. She was calmer, but had phoned her mum twice by now to help calm down. Never mind, move on, you can get other pets. etc etc
In my bedroom: Tissue paper in shoe-box, sellotape found in drawer. OH MY fkING GOD, THE HAMSTER'S MOVING AND BREATHING AGAIN! He's just warmed up.
What was I to do?
I'll tell you what, I killed the chap quickly with a ruler and put him in the box. Told none of the others. We buried him on the university campus. Owner in question was strong and told us what a great life the hamster had enjoyed.
NOT ANOTHER SOUL IN THE WORLD EVER KNEW ANYTHING ABOUT IT.
until........
Aforementioned Hamster Owner moved away and we all got on with our lives. About 4 years later I got an invitation to her wedding ceremony; we'd been keeping in touch, but busy lives and geography kept us apart. Strangley one of the other guys I shared with had organised his wedding the week before. So it was going to be sequential weddings on two weekends.
First wedding (his) was great, much booze and a right knees-up. So much booze that I confessed the hamster-killing story to all of the guests that were at the bar. Not including Christina though, who was elsewhere. Then I fell over, 18 more shots of vodka and woke the next day with total amnesia of my delayed confession.
Zoom forward 6 days to Christina's wedding, another smashing do, mucho wine, and a sickening feeling of recollection half way through when I realised last week's drunken confession.
Obviously she got to hear of it, and as it was about 4 years doen the line, thought the whole thing was hilarious.
Live and learn eh?
GHW said:
Little sister's hamster did the not-moving thing. She buried it in the back garden. The dog dug it back up again and brought it back in the house to play with, whereupon the sneaky little bd came back to life and scurried away under the furniture.
Your house wasn't on an ancient Red Indian burial site, was it?Bonnie and Clyde said:
zcacogp said:
carter711 said:
Or just do the same thing that guy did in his AM DB7 ragtop a few weeks ago ( http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1042676/Bu... )
Tasteful!Mind you, she looks worrying
Oli.
His mrs deffo looks a bit scatty, not from Skipton is she?
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