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A 5-year-old is equivalent to 110 hamster years!
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bros hittin’ the treadmill at 110 years old
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I could be wrong but that might his favorite thing of all things.
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It certainly reads wrong.
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I had a hamster that lived to be over 4 and he was wheel running, cage climbing and tube running every day up to his last. RIP Rocky.
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The fact that the fella is still committed to be active is inspirational.
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He got more steps in than I did today.
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its for the granny hampter
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My dude looks like he died two years ago and just doesn’t know it yet.
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Looks like the hamster you find under the refrigerator 2 years after he goes missing!
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When I was 6, the class hamster had babies and my parents let me have one. It escaped 3 days after we brought it home. You’re giving me hope Fuzzball is still out there.
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I hate to break it to you, but the hamster under the fridge is dead. Dried up hamster jerky.
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Now that sounds tasty!
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Why did I open this post while I’m eating…
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When I was in middle school my gerbil had babies. Then she ate them. I came home from school one day to her eating the back legs of one of her babies. I lost it and fed her to the neighbors dog, kept the baby, named him stumpy and he somehow managed to survive. He just didn’t have the lower part of his back legs. All the other babies were dead. My tank looked like a crime scene. There was bloody marks all over the place. The whole thing was pretty awful tbh.
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Bruh I know you were a child, but mother gerbs didn’t deserve to be Ramsay Bolton’d for doing what they do.
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I agree. I regret doing that. I didn’t know that was a thing gerbils did at the time. All I knew was a mother was eating her babies. Which seemed pretty fkd up to me at the time. I still think it’s a messed up thing to do but wouldn’t handle it the same way now. I get why they do it but that doesn’t make it any more palatable I guess.
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There are a lot of things we wouldn’t do again when we become adults.
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There’s a reason kids aren’t tried the same way as adults and for the same reason the subreddit KidsAreFuckingStupid exists. Cut the kids some slack so long as they said they understand it was fucked up and won’t do it again I say it’s all good.
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plot twist: /u/djluminol was a 23-year-old middle-schooler.
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When I was 9 I woke up in the middle of the night to a similar scene of carnage. Mama hamster was eating the heads off of her babies. We had to separate them at night because that infanticidal sadist couldn’t help herself.
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Mine killed and ate her adult male counterpart.
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Did you have a hamster/guinea pig or a black widow spider/preying mantis?
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Crazy don’t care. Hunger don’t take of itself.
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The true WTF is always in the comments
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Holy shit, you went medieval on that hamster just for doing hamster things…
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I got one at around the same age, but she was pregnant and we didn’t realize it. We tried to give away the babies but couldn’t find anyone, so we just wound up with 7 hamsters. They were impressive escape artists though, we wound up losing a few of them. One found his way into the snake’s enclosure (boa constrictor, we heard the squeaking but by the time we got to the tank he already was wrapped up and dead, so there wasn’t really anything we could do to stop him from being eaten at that point). Another we found the remains of three years later behind a bookshelf when we went to move. The last one, we never figured out where he went but I’m sure he was behind/under the refrigerator or stove.
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Oh god. This reminds me of my first hamster. I named him Halloween and a couple days after I got him he was running around in his ball and ended up getting out somehow. Unfortunately, he ran under the mini fridge in our basement and when my dad tipped it to check underneath he go smashed. RIP Halloween.
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He’s the ~~formally~~ formerly known actor from “My Pet Cemetery” Good to see some of the cast is still around!
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Sometimes dead is betta
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ayuh
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*formerly
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He died 3 times while you watched the video
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You know, I resonate with this guy. “No, I don’t think it’s my time yet. Better keep going!”
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Hamster running off internet explorer
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That’s because the owner challenged the grim reaper to a game of limbo and won, instead of taking the hamster’s life the grim reaper is forced to be the owner’s best friend forever.
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Master splinter!
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Right? Dude needs a cane and some teenage turtles to train.
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Wasn’t there… a comic? Oh yeah – **Adolescent Radioactive Black Belt Hamsters** (1986) as well as **Hamster Vice**, and **Clint: The Hamster Triumphant**
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[Holy shit it’s fuckin real](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adolescent_Radioactive_Black_Belt_Hamsters)
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Training to fight Oroku Saki
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That’s not master splinter. That’s Master Split my brain open and put me out of my misery.
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This post made me realize that the only animals that I’ve seen really-elderly versions of are basically only dogs & cats. Edit: that also look their age (grey & fragile)
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Nature is brutal. Lots of squirrel species have lifespans of 12-20 years but the usual life expectancy is closer to 2 years.
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I found out recently octopuses only live 3-5 years. Similar lifespan as a hamster. Doesn’t really seem fair for such unique creatures.
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What’s even more cruel is they don’t usually die of old age/disease/being prey. Once a male mates they just stop eating and die of starvation. Once a female lays her eggs they stop eating too but they hang around long enough protect the eggs before they hatch. Sad.
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You gonna just drop that without any explanation as to why huh?
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Semelparity is just a different kind of reproductive strategy. Salmon, some lizards, even some small mammals do it. It allows a female to put all her energy that she would otherwise use for living into producing better quality offspring. Natural selection upholds it because of this factor.
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I assume it also helps the species because it creates less competition for resources for the offspring
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I think this is especially true for salmon, given the limited capacity of the spawning grounds. They also stop eating during their spawning runs so aren’t interested in eating their eggs. Then their corpses fertilize the whole river basin, promoting food availability for their fry and competing species which might otherwise eat the fry.
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