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[–] Fizz@lemmy.nz 30 points 4 days ago (9 children)

Huge parenting failure. Getting a kid an animal without teaching them the respect needed. I was so careful with my pets as a kid because I respected them as living creatures and I understood how big and scary a human can be.

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[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 51 points 4 days ago (7 children)

At first i wondered how shitty the parachute must've been, but then I remembered that I had dwarf hamsters as a kid, not normal ones.

Also for some reason my mom made the mistake of getting a boy and a girl and they did exactly what you'd think. Except that the cage was too small for that many critters and the momma started eating the babies out of stress....

[–] blockheadjt@sh.itjust.works 17 points 4 days ago

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Oh! The hamster mom. Not your mom.

Ok, that's a bit less horrifying.

[–] tetris11@feddit.uk 10 points 4 days ago

I had that parachute action man, and I remember chucking him down a flight of stairs. Shitty, shitty parachute. The doll itself was surprisingly well made (I guess it was drop tested a lot during production?) but weighed a ton and the parachute was hilariously too small for it

We had one pet rat then my mom let me get another one of the opposite sex. Anyways we had really bad rat infestation before we sold that house.

[–] some_kind_of_guy@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Yeah rodents have interesting behavior like that. They have absolutely no qualms eating a friend or their own offspring if they need the resources.

I once had two mice. The next morning, I still had two mice, but one of them was missing its head.

[–] Alfredolin@sopuli.xyz 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)
[–] TheSlad@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 days ago

Dont worry she didnt eat all of them! I think we had like 3 or 4 generations of inbred hamsters before we finally got a second cage and segregated them.

.... as an adult i am staunchly against any "pet" that has to be kept in a cage or enclosure.

[–] TootSweet@lemmy.world 5 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (1 children)

I witnessed the other side of that phenomenon. The babies ate the mom.

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[–] MapleFawn@lemmy.blahaj.zone 61 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (8 children)

Pretty sure the Hamster would be fine, didn’t Kurzgesagt have a video on this kinda stuff where they tossed a mouse of a skyscraper but due to the mass and size of the mouse it doesn’t reach a speed in which it dies on impact?

[–] jrs100000@lemmy.world 66 points 4 days ago

You can drop a mouse down a mineshaft and it can survive the landing, but a skyscraper has cross winds, which could easily get it moving laterally too fast to survive. A hamster is considerably larger than a mouse though, and just because a mouse could survive doesnt mean a hamster would.

[–] Kazumara@discuss.tchncs.de 39 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago) (2 children)

Hamsters are way heavier, around 150g, unless we're talking pups or dwarf breeds. That's around 6 - 10 times the weight of a mouse.

And they are a more compact shape with stubby legs and tails, which I imagine has negative implications for terminal velocity.

[–] samus12345@sh.itjust.works 11 points 4 days ago

Size comparison:

[–] speakupattheback@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago

There's only one way to settle this

[–] Johanno@feddit.org 26 points 4 days ago

Our hamster died from a 50 cm fall. I don't think they are as durable as mice

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 4 days ago

Hamsters will die from looking at them wrong. I also know three childhood friends who had hamsters that died from it just walking off the bed

They are very fragile

[–] wopalopa@lemmy.world 21 points 4 days ago (1 children)

i had a hamster when i was a kid it was put inside a glass aquarium. my lil bro took it to our granma house couple blocks away. idk how but he lost his grip and fell to the ground. the tank glass shattered and the hamster died on the spot. im sure its not a height thing and more of a shock and stress thing

[–] SillyDude@lemmy.zip 14 points 4 days ago

The US military has been collecting all the munitions grade hamster due to a shortage of depleted uranium.

[–] ricecake@sh.itjust.works 2 points 3 days ago

A wise man once said:

You can drop a mouse down a thousand-yard mine shaft; and, on arriving at the bottom, it gets a slight shock and walks away, provided that the ground is fairly soft. A rat is killed, a man is broken, a horse splashes

[–] Honytawk@feddit.nl 3 points 4 days ago

Mark Rober's squirrel videos also talked about it a lot.

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[–] B0rax@feddit.org 30 points 4 days ago (5 children)

Kids shouldn’t have rodents as pets.

And I had one as a kid…

[–] SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 4 days ago

Rats are great kid pets. But as any pet should be primarily be taken care off by adults, not the kids themselves

[–] village604@adultswim.fan 5 points 4 days ago

How else are they going to learn about cannibalism?

[–] BlaestEgnen@feddit.dk 1 points 3 days ago

We caught the mouse on our attic, by luring them into a moveable plastic bath tub. Then we apparently overfed them, so most of them ended up dieing because they got stuck in the toys, which mainly was cardboard rolls from paper towel

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[–] MutantTailThing@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

This comment section is a trip.

[–] Raiderkev@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

There is a ride called drop zone at the local theme park. When I was a kid, we'd win prizes in the arcade next to it, and often I'd get a parachute man and put him on my knee and watch him fall like 10 stories. No hamsters were murdered in my childhood parachute man antics though..

[–] remon@ani.social 2 points 4 days ago

Reminds me when we build the hamster colosseum out of Jenga blocks.

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