hamster euthanasia - an ethical question

hamster euthanasia - an ethical question

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anonymous-user

53 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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RIP Hammy

mybrainhurts

90,809 posts

254 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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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...

Munter

31,319 posts

240 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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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?

Shaw Tarse

31,543 posts

202 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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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?
Is MBH Freddie Starr?

The_Doc

4,856 posts

219 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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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

Fatboy

7,970 posts

271 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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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.
It's against the law to allow animals under your care to suffer unnecessarily.

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 OP is clearly thick as pigst - FFS sick animal = got to Vets, shouldn't take you 2.5 days to realise something's not quite right and perhaps you need to ask some advice rolleyes

LDNrevs

8,905 posts

202 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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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.
It's against the law to allow animals under your care to suffer unnecessarily.

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 OP is clearly thick as pigst - FFS sick animal = got to Vets, shouldn't take you 2.5 days to realise something's not quite right and perhaps you need to ask some advice rolleyes
Exactly.

Penny-lope

13,645 posts

192 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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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
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 frown

...Mole...

2,780 posts

190 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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I misread the title as "hammer euthanasia" thought it sound a bit of a brutal thing to do to a hamster, oops headache

LDNrevs

8,905 posts

202 months

Saturday 13th September 2008
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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?
ERRR, maybe give the hamster back to your mate??

Jeez; there are some real odd-bods on here...

GHW

1,294 posts

220 months

Sunday 14th September 2008
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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 frown
+1

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

4,856 posts

219 months

Sunday 14th September 2008
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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........
Chapter 2 of the story:
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?

otolith

55,899 posts

203 months

Sunday 14th September 2008
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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?

gary11

4,162 posts

200 months

Sunday 14th September 2008
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Give it to the cat (or dog) buy new one move on its a rodent!

LDNrevs

8,905 posts

202 months

Sunday 14th September 2008
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gary11 said:
Give it to the cat (or dog) buy new one move on its a rodent!
It's an ignorant mind that divides pets based on their 'classification' rolleyes

vehiclesystems

2,258 posts

213 months

Sunday 14th September 2008
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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.
What a waste of car. The bell end
Jesus yikes

His mrs deffo looks a bit scatty, not from Skipton is she? hehe

gary11

4,162 posts

200 months

Sunday 14th September 2008
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LDNrevs said:
gary11 said:
Give it to the cat (or dog) buy new one move on its a rodent!
It's an ignorant mind that divides pets based on their 'classification' rolleyes
I know I know was only a joke! (I am actually an animal lover)
rodent is clearly suffering though.

EDLT

15,421 posts

205 months

Sunday 14th September 2008
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There are alot of zombie hamsters in this thread, what if it spreads to humans?