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Thread #72415 Message #1248954
Posted By: ranger1
16-Aug-04 - 06:43 PM
Thread Name: BS: Hamster tossing - not an Olympic event
Subject: RE: BS: Hamster tossing - not an Olympic event
Never having owned (or known anyone who has owned) lemmings for pets, I can't vouch for their suicidal tendencies. However, having worked in a pet shop, I do know that hamsters are most definitely suidcidal. They escape from their little penthouses and leap into the jaws of cats and dogs, run under any sort of heavy items that are being set down (usually too late for the horrified owner to do anything about it) and get trapped in duct work, found only when their little corpses start to stink up the place.
So, my question is still: Did they jump or were they pushed? And how much influence did they have on the poor hapless guinea pig?