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Denizens of Lemmy, how did your hamster die? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 day ago by TheCynicalSaint@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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The point for this post is to start several (hopefully) interesting threads of weird hamster death stories because apparently these things never die naturally?

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[–] serfraser@sopuli.xyz 37 points 1 day ago

She escaped into the ceiling and refused to come back out. We left food out for her, and she would eat it, but we never saw her again. We heard her though, yipping and scuttling about on various ceiling adventures. Rest well Frank Zappa the Second.

She was a replacement for my son because his other one (Frank Zappa the First) got sick and died while he was on holiday. His mum swapped them before he found out, but when she did so she forgot what colour the original hamster was (mix of dark/light brown). We had to convince my son that hamsters shed their baby fur and grow back a completely new colour (ginger/white).