Homeschooling is better than public school…would have preferred it myself. And being a conservative or devout person does NOT equal being a ‘nut’. have more respect.
Homeschooling is good if your parents are good teachers. Not all home schools are created equal. Plus you miss out on a lot of socializing that is important at that age. I know a family that has 5 kids all different ages being home schooled. I know they don’t get nearly enough personalized time and they end their day at 1. Home school doesn’t always mean a good education.
That used to be true. I sorta find it hard to believe these days, since half the parents who want to home school their children are some of the most narrow-minded rednecks I’ve ever seen.
What does homeschooling have to do with anything? And why the hate towards it? I find that extremely stereotypical and wrong. Most homeschoolers are more advanced then children in the public school system, and a good amount are able to graduate at an early age. In fact, as a homeschooler who previously went to public school, I have found that the teenagers my age in the public school are the ones that are farther behind. None of them can spell, most of them don’t know the Govenor of the state or even the Vice President. They are restricted in what they learn and are seldom allowed to do better than other students (by that I mean they arent allowed to be in advanced classes) because they dont want to hurt peoples feelings. Please. Do your homework and show a little less judgement until you actually have seen what homeschoolers do.
That may well be what the statistics show, but only a very low level of esposure to intelligent people could have raised a person who could produce the phrases “you should brought him” and “I would took him”.
Wow that was so clever! Wait….nope. Looks like someone is trying there bestest to share their opposition to something on a Failbook board. About a friggin hamster. Quite the stretch
Breeding should be a right that you have to apply for with a lengthy screening process, after which they give you a license. This girl would be a prime example of someone who would NOT get a license to breed and, in fact, should probably be supervised by someone more intelligent (like, say, a 12-year-old with Down’s Syndrome).
thank you for understandng lol ! *im the one in the pic lol* i put him in this little forest area in my backyard. and omg everyones making a big deal about it! it’s just a hamster! lol there’s an explanation video on youtube. It’s called “Nemo Come Home” lol (:
You know what else lives in places like that? Snakes, cats… but, hey, who cares? It’s just a stupid animal. It’s good to be at the top of the food chain, right?
and if you were left in the forest/woods with nothing but your own hands and feet would you survive lili? no. People like you know nothing about living in the wild and neither do domesticated animals like hamsters. Even if he is ‘just a hamster’ you should care about another creatures life. seriously people like you don’t deserve to have children.
It’s a creature’s life. It doesn’t matter if it’s a hamster or not. Everyone and everything only gets ONE life. (unless you are into reincarnation) Just because she could replace it for 10 bucks doesn’t make this any less stupid and cruel.
It’s like domesticating your cat and then setting him free in the wild- won’t work- “but you can get another cat at the pet store…..”
Don’t worry about Ryan – he’s the most constantly butt-hurt commentator on the site. Just say something about loving Obama, stand back and cover your ears…
The nacirema people, who’s native snipe bird is valued all over the world, spend all their time chasing after this illusive animal and so are slowly starving to death.
I once had a hamster.. it ran on that stupid squeeky wheel all night long and kept me up… I even taped the wheel, so it wouldn’t move and then it did other annoying things. After 6 months, I did the same thing. I really sympathize with this person.
You’re right. I solved my hamster problem by attaching my motorcycle’s chain to the wheel and letting ‘er rip. I’ve never seen one of dem rats move that fast.
How about not keeping the cage in your bedroom at night? SOrry that would be too much like thinking. I have had several hamsters,rats,sugar gliders, a rabbit. I also READ about them first. I hated the rabbit so I found a good home for her rather than offering her up to the wild-she would have lasted maybe a few days. Responsibility is so tough isn’t it?
That’s true.. whatever eats him will definitely enjoy the lil guy. Like finding a fat lil vole without stank glands. Or a very very oblivious chipmunk.
“The golden hamster or Syrian hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is a very well known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the hamsters.
In the wild they are now considered vulnerable. Their numbers have been in decline due to loss of habitat (caused by agriculture) and deliberate destruction by humans. [...] Their natural condition is a dry, hot desert climate.”
Exactly. The syrian gold (most common) hamster lives naturally in the desert. They DO live in the wild. However, if you release a pet into the wild, it will die. Not prepared.
Do you really think rodent’s parents teach their babies about predators? Most of them will die on their first encounter with a predator that’s why they have dozens of babies. Hamsters will run from a fox or a bird whether they are ‘domesticated’ or not.
The desert is part of the “wild”. Though it definitely will die in forested areas. Only truly domesticated pets can’t be released in the wild, most rodents, reptiles, and fish are perfectly fine to release. Cat’s, dogs, humans really can’t surivive if they had no exposure on a regular basis.
Why do people assume it would just die in a forested area?
Temperature – Syrian hamsters naturally live in a desert Where in the day it is one of the hottest places on earth and one of the coldest on a night. These little beasts can obviously withstand the temperature.
Predators – There will be different predators in the forest to a desert, but the same basic survival instincts apply and hamsters have to deal with other mammals (rodents/foxes etc.), birds of prey, snakes, arachnids, and lizards in the desert. If this is the UK, only the birds & mammals will be any real threat.
Water – There is way more water in a forest than in their natural habitat.
Food – I find it hard to believe that there would be nothing in the way of seeds or berries in a wooded area like that. If it can forage successfully in the desert, it should be fine in a forest.
I think that if we released a few hundred hamsters into a British/American forest they would thrive fairly well, but probably die off slowly due to competition from the local rodents and small birds rather than being killed or just being unable to survive.
All captive golden hamsters ARE indeed domesticated animals. Pretty much all captive golden hamsters are descended from a female and her pups caught in 1930, so they’re inbred as hell too. That’s dozens or maybe even a couple hundred generations? They’re probably morons compared to wild golden hamsters. So I wouldn’t be too confident about them surviving in the wild. They have been known to survive and breed in people’s houses though, kind of like rats.
Your theory on almost all “golden hamsters” being descended from one hamster from the 1930s is highly suspect. Especially seeing as how thT is a Syrian hamster and they come in many colour variations.
Anyway, people should be hoping it does die. If it actually found another released hamster and they got funky it could mess up the ecosystem and kill off some local animals.
If hamsters were a competent invasive species, that would have happened already, given how ubiquitous they are as pets. I’ve read several people talking about how they “lost” their hamsters in their homes.
WILD Syrian hamsters, yes. Pet store born-and-bred Syrian hamsters, no. If the cold didn’t kill it (their instinct is to burrow but then again it probably wouldn’t be able to build a great one or invaded another animal’s), then it probably ate something it shouldn’t have, or something else ate it. Or another rodent tore it to shreds for invading its territory…
Fine for release? And this is why we have invasive species. *facepalm* Do not release pets. Especially exotic pets (like hamsters in the U.S., most snake species pretty much anywhere they’re sold as pets, almost all fish species, and most pet reptiles).
People like her shouldn’t be allowed to own animals. There needs to be some kind of IQ test necessary. Poor thing. At least an owl didn’t go hungry that night.
Don’t release your stupid pets into the wild! I hope she gets to witness Nemo being dismantled by a bird of prey, then said bird dies of complications from ingesting a domesticated animal and it’s corpse passes bird flu to the entire home she lives in and everyone ends up sterile after months of fighting infection.
On the other side of that, people often release animals with no natural predators in the environment which then breed and take over or otherwise pose a threat to the native population.
This is why people should be forced to pass some kind of test or be licensed to own a pet OR to procreate. She is not unique either. Trust me, I work at a pet product store. “Can I cuddle with the little birdie?” “What do you mean I have to feed my fish?!?!? Don’t they eat the water?”
“Puppies are a lot of work, I thought it was just potty training, and that’s it!”
“These fish flakes are really big, I don’t think my fish will eat them.”
“Crush them up, throw them in.”
“But they’re really big!”
“Just crush them up, throw them in. Trust me.”
animal abandonment & cruelty charges anyone? These kind of retards are the ones who keep me busy as a volunteer with animal rescue charities.
“If you don’t want it, dump it” mentality needs to be squashed, if you can’t keep it, contact a rescue who can rehome it to a HOMECHECKED & RESPONSIBLE new home. There are all sorts of animal rescues out there, from species or breed specific ones (eg german shepherd dog rescue, ferret rescue etc) to general rescues who take in whatever, whenever.
No excuse, and I want to pick her up in a helicopter, fly her out to the wildest depths of midwinter alaska and “free” her there – I’m sure she could eat the ice for water & gnaw on some lichen off the rocks, she’ll survive just fine.
Seriously!! When I worked the return desk at Meijer there was a lady who brought back a dead guinea pig. She was pissed, said she bought the aquarium and everything…..and filled it with water. The gpig swam for 3 days. I had never been so sickened.
A hamster is a glorified rat. Its life isn’t worth the human effort to bring charges. She can blend herself a milkshake with the furry little wretches for all I care.
Chill out FFS… It was a hamster, not a bear that she let loose. It will have survived for a while and then served as food to a bird or fox.
I have gerbils and they still don’t know whether I am something to be feared, something to be investigated or something to be eaten. I doubt the hamster will have fully grasped its situation…
There’s stupid on both sides. Stupid for releasing the hamster into the wild in an area where it isn’t native and when it’s been a pet its entire life and isn’t equipped. And stupidity on the replier. Hamsters DO live in the wild. Someone should take them to central Asia and show them a few. (again, not a excuse to release captive ones though.)
Hamsters don’t live in the wild just like your pet chiuaua doesn’t. They have wild/feral equivilants [dogs have wolves, cats have tigers] but they’re different enough that you can honestly say pets don’t live in the wild.
The totalitarian communist dictatorship in Soviet Russia caused death and misery for millions of people over several decades. If you wouldn’t us a swastika, don’t use a hammer and sickle. Nazi and Communist logos are despicable.
McDonald’s has caused death and misery to millions of people all over the world through deforestation to raise cattle and the selling of unhealthy foods. Therefore are the golden arches the same as a swastika?
Someone this stupid should not have been allowed to have a pagina. I feel sorry for her kids when she releases them into the wild. I am sure the police officer will not be amused when she tells them that there is plenty of water and berries out there in the forest for her babies.
Why are you reponding to a troll by falling for the bait. Furthermore you assume Christianity is the only religion in the world, there was no need for you to single it out. Either way you have fed the troll.
So what? It was really late! But if I wanted to I could easily write a whole article that everyone including you would react to in a mad and long comment.
My brother’s hamster once escaped from its cage and was missing for almost a year. We found it living in the atrium. It had been eating the bird food and plants all that time. He lived another 2 years (back in his cage, of course) and then one sad day my brother brought him in the kitchen not breathing. I tried CPR but was unable to revive him. R.I.P. Teddy the wonder-hamster.
And this is why invasive species take over. Somebody else just let go Dori and now Nemo and Dori are going to have 15 babies who will breed with themselves and take over the joint. Then those imbreed retarded babies will then destroy their fellow habitat and threatening-AIS-when will people think we evolved a bigger brain for a fudging reason.
Oh my god, everyone gets so angry over a little hamster. I bet this would get more comments than a picture of a starving child. Animals deserve respect sure, but some people seem to have no priorities!
Actually, given that some of the morons here are advocating ass@ult, disfigur♥ment, or mur♥er as appropriate penalties for this “crime”, her criticism is spot-on and YOU, sir are the moron here.
Actually hamsters are wild animals…. the ones we keep as pes are bred for the purpose of being domestic. But hamsters descended from wild animals and live naturally in the desert.
Don’t get me wrong, this girl is still clearly a twat.
Because it’s tame and has no more fears, it’s the perfect prey for any predator.
And if it doesn’t get eaten by an owl or hawk, it will probably starve to death, because the hamster will be used to having acces to food 24/7 and has never learnt to search food by itself.
Any frost will probably kill it too… since it hasn’t learned to hibernate and/or build a shelter for itself.
Basically it has 0 surival instincts and 0% chance of surviving in the wild. Lulz!!!!!! Sucks to be a hamster!
Actually, hamsters that have lived in heated buildings all their lives and for generations wouldn’t survive in the cold. Even if they did hibernate, despite their nature they wouldn’t be able to gather enough food to survive hibernation (which isn’t a total three-month sleep, they do wake up periodically).
Why would ANYONE do this? If you don’t want the little baby anymore, give him to a friend, or to the shelter or something. He was probably eaten by a bird of prey moments after the person went back inside to go rant about how ‘eco friendly’ they are, assuming they thought they were giving him a better life by doing this. People like this bother me. >.<
Wow, people are yards. The person in the picture left a comment saying that this was her backyard. And there is a YouTube video of this. She obviously didn’t let it go.
And calm down people. It’s a hamster, they aren’t exactly a threatened species. Animals die all the time. Say she had released it. It could have fed a starving fox or owl. Maybe that was the easy prey it needed to get some energy to get it’s next meal. What if the owl or fox was a mother and the hamster that fed it gave it energy to get more food to feed it’s babies so the babies didn’t die. If you really think about maybe she saved some animals life. Huh!! Ever think about that!!
Lol, people are tards. As am I
Nemo is off to the forest to get a finger in his butt hole then he’ll smell the finger.
…and so begins the tale of Fingering Nemo
Ain’t nothing like finger blasting Nemo.
Fingering nemo wOuld kill him look at his size …….. oh w8 he’s already dead ……. Carry on.
Dude, that joke is wack and old. So unoriginal.
DUDE U MADE ME LAUGH
PLEASE RESPOND TO ME I WUV U
WTF…People like her should be shot in the head…
No they should also be released into the wild….
And then there should be declared open season on them.
she is one of the people who look after this site.LOL
Really?
she’s still a fvcking moran.
…morOn
*facepalm*
*waits for banhammer*
If she is then we have nothing to worry about…
Wat?
Is that code for idiot?
I really hope you’re right…
the pictures really look too good to be “real”
Na, people should just be given an I.Q. test before buying/adopting animals.
*people should just be given an I.Q. test before replicating/adopting*
THIS!!! ^^^^^^
Looks like her friend in Florida was homeschooled.
You do realize that homeschoolers are usually smarter than those that attend public school, yes?
You must be forgetting the religious nuts.
Homeschooling is better than public school…would have preferred it myself. And being a conservative or devout person does NOT equal being a ‘nut’. have more respect.
They never said being a conservative or devout person equaled being a ‘nut.’ They were referring to those who were nuts.
Clearly, there were some issues with your education, such as literacy.
Yo, educated person.
Go to dictionary.
Look up the word “imply”.
Learn the concept.
Go kill yourself for your stupidity.
Fun Sponge, you are really growing on me.
While I know it takes a while to get past the “i’s” why don’t you take a jump and look up “presumptuous.”
I know it’s a scary big word, but live vicariously.
While you’re at it, go even further to the v’s and look up “Vicariously”
I’m not presuming. He… and you… really ARE that stupid.
*Imp Fly
No one respects you because you don’t respect anyone else’s beliefs. Go f*** yourself.
‘homeschooling is better’ erm lol maybe it depends on the quality of homeschooling??
Homeschooling is good if your parents are good teachers. Not all home schools are created equal. Plus you miss out on a lot of socializing that is important at that age. I know a family that has 5 kids all different ages being home schooled. I know they don’t get nearly enough personalized time and they end their day at 1. Home school doesn’t always mean a good education.
Around here the smartest kids are homeschooled Catholics.
That used to be true. I sorta find it hard to believe these days, since half the parents who want to home school their children are some of the most narrow-minded rednecks I’ve ever seen.
How does it feel to be a bigot?
Who is being a bigot? Bigot =racist…
Get a dictionary.
What does homeschooling have to do with anything? And why the hate towards it? I find that extremely stereotypical and wrong. Most homeschoolers are more advanced then children in the public school system, and a good amount are able to graduate at an early age. In fact, as a homeschooler who previously went to public school, I have found that the teenagers my age in the public school are the ones that are farther behind. None of them can spell, most of them don’t know the Govenor of the state or even the Vice President. They are restricted in what they learn and are seldom allowed to do better than other students (by that I mean they arent allowed to be in advanced classes) because they dont want to hurt peoples feelings. Please. Do your homework and show a little less judgement until you actually have seen what homeschoolers do.
Governor*
If you want “less judgement”?
‘Tiz the bra calling the panty pink, my dear.
I seriously doubt they are as socially developed.
That may well be what the statistics show, but only a very low level of esposure to intelligent people could have raised a person who could produce the phrases “you should brought him” and “I would took him”.
*exposure
Wow that was so clever! Wait….nope. Looks like someone is trying there bestest to share their opposition to something on a Failbook board. About a friggin hamster. Quite the stretch
Wat?
THANK YOU!!! You get a jillion internets for having a brain and not going off-topic
My dh was homeschooled; he has a better grasp of grammar than a lot of people who I went to school with.
What’s a dh?
Designated hitter.
I assume Dy is a manager for an independent league baseball team.
Couldn’t agree more.
hear, hear!
They should be given a test of SOME sort, that’s for sure. What a stupid idiot this girl was.
^super regular.
*doing anything
Breeding should be a right that you have to apply for with a lengthy screening process, after which they give you a license. This girl would be a prime example of someone who would NOT get a license to breed and, in fact, should probably be supervised by someone more intelligent (like, say, a 12-year-old with Down’s Syndrome).
I’d put money on this being a joke. It looks like she let him run around in the backyard.
I doubt she actually released her hamster into the “wild”, and even if she did the question remains:
Does anyone care? It’s a hamster. You can buy one for $10 at petsmart.
Like your mother.
thank you for understandng lol ! *im the one in the pic lol* i put him in this little forest area in my backyard. and omg everyones making a big deal about it! it’s just a hamster!
lol there’s an explanation video on youtube. It’s called “Nemo Come Home” lol (:
You know what else lives in places like that? Snakes, cats… but, hey, who cares? It’s just a stupid animal. It’s good to be at the top of the food chain, right?
and if you were left in the forest/woods with nothing but your own hands and feet would you survive lili? no. People like you know nothing about living in the wild and neither do domesticated animals like hamsters. Even if he is ‘just a hamster’ you should care about another creatures life. seriously people like you don’t deserve to have children.
It’s a creature’s life. It doesn’t matter if it’s a hamster or not. Everyone and everything only gets ONE life. (unless you are into reincarnation) Just because she could replace it for 10 bucks doesn’t make this any less stupid and cruel.
It’s like domesticating your cat and then setting him free in the wild- won’t work- “but you can get another cat at the pet store…..”
AMEN to that! F**king A$$
I remember back in the day… when herds of wild hamsters used to roam this land.
Ah yes…back in the day. Then the white man came along and now they’re nearly extinct.
Damn whitey
reminds me of that movie “Dances with Hamsters”
They say Hamster Bill Cody killed over 6 billion hamsters, only taking the skins, leaving the carcass to rot.
It’s a shame really, a hamster skin would make a great iPhone case…
The wild hamsters were descended from the fabled sabre-toothed hamsters, weren’t they? They’d bite your ankles off as soon as look at you.
My people had respect for the hamster. We used all the parts of the hamster and gave their spirit back to the earth so it could forever be with Eywa.
…someone has seen Avatar too many times.
You made me laugh. +3 internetz to you Chief Smoking Bear
Same here. Smoking bear, pass the peace pipe over here and take 3 more internetz. From me, to you.
Hey, you ethnocentric idiot.
I guess that means your country is in the middle east, where hamsters are from, right?
Yes, there ARE other countries out there, you ignorant fool. Some of them even have different native species! Imagine that!
Interestingly, a lot of those places still can blame a lot of their problems on white people of some type.
Also, warring tribes, natural disasters, and general mismanagement of resources. Which ALSO applies here.
Don’t worry about Ryan – he’s the most constantly butt-hurt commentator on the site. Just say something about loving Obama, stand back and cover your ears…
If you were playing less games you’d have noticed that his “response” doesn’t even match what I said. He probably misplaced his reply.
But then, reading comp isn’t your strong suit, is it?
go away mooslim!
Can’t tell if trolling…
The nacirema people, who’s native snipe bird is valued all over the world, spend all their time chasing after this illusive animal and so are slowly starving to death.
I refuse to believe you’re not trolling.
There’s no way you can take a joke seriously.
I once had a hamster.. it ran on that stupid squeeky wheel all night long and kept me up… I even taped the wheel, so it wouldn’t move and then it did other annoying things. After 6 months, I did the same thing. I really sympathize with this person.
I guess you didn’t know that hamsters are nocturnal.
also, hamsters have feelings, too.
Taste like game hen.
maybe you should have learned a bit about hamsters before getting one, genius. Taping the wheel is just mean.
especially as there are better wheels around that won’t make a lot of noise
oh no! 1st world problem right here!
You’re right. I solved my hamster problem by attaching my motorcycle’s chain to the wheel and letting ‘er rip. I’ve never seen one of dem rats move that fast.
Couldn’t you have just kept the hamster cage outside your bedroom?
Why are you telling everyone about your unfathomable level of idiocy as if it’s normal?
Then YOU, too, are an ignorant F&cking waste of air and space. Somebody needs to kick you a few times in the head as well. What a f&cking cruel jerk.
Lol yes, someone is a waste of air and needs to suffer permanent brain damage because they taped a hamster wheel. Chill the f*ck out, son.
How about not keeping the cage in your bedroom at night? SOrry that would be too much like thinking. I have had several hamsters,rats,sugar gliders, a rabbit. I also READ about them first. I hated the rabbit so I found a good home for her rather than offering her up to the wild-she would have lasted maybe a few days. Responsibility is so tough isn’t it?
You know you can change your hamster’s internal clock by putting it’s cage in the dark during the day?
People like this just should not have pets in the first place, or for that matter reproduce.
Releeeeaaaase the hamster!!!!!
Completely right. I would only add . . . shouldn’t be allowed to live themselves either.
It was very kind of her to feed the owls.
That’s true.. whatever eats him will definitely enjoy the lil guy. Like finding a fat lil vole without stank glands. Or a very very oblivious chipmunk.
And the cats.
Daniel Dreiberg thanks you.
“The golden hamster or Syrian hamster, Mesocricetus auratus, is a very well known member of the rodent subfamily Cricetinae, the hamsters.
In the wild they are now considered vulnerable. Their numbers have been in decline due to loss of habitat (caused by agriculture) and deliberate destruction by humans. [...] Their natural condition is a dry, hot desert climate.”
Exactly. The syrian gold (most common) hamster lives naturally in the desert. They DO live in the wild. However, if you release a pet into the wild, it will die. Not prepared.
Rodents don’t need training before releasing, they just sniff out food, eat it, and eventually get eaten by a bird.
If they are domesticated they don’t know about natural predators. Finding food isn’t the only thing needed for survival.
Do you really think rodent’s parents teach their babies about predators? Most of them will die on their first encounter with a predator that’s why they have dozens of babies. Hamsters will run from a fox or a bird whether they are ‘domesticated’ or not.
The desert is part of the “wild”. Though it definitely will die in forested areas. Only truly domesticated pets can’t be released in the wild, most rodents, reptiles, and fish are perfectly fine to release. Cat’s, dogs, humans really can’t surivive if they had no exposure on a regular basis.
Why do people assume it would just die in a forested area?
Temperature – Syrian hamsters naturally live in a desert Where in the day it is one of the hottest places on earth and one of the coldest on a night. These little beasts can obviously withstand the temperature.
Predators – There will be different predators in the forest to a desert, but the same basic survival instincts apply and hamsters have to deal with other mammals (rodents/foxes etc.), birds of prey, snakes, arachnids, and lizards in the desert. If this is the UK, only the birds & mammals will be any real threat.
Water – There is way more water in a forest than in their natural habitat.
Food – I find it hard to believe that there would be nothing in the way of seeds or berries in a wooded area like that. If it can forage successfully in the desert, it should be fine in a forest.
I think that if we released a few hundred hamsters into a British/American forest they would thrive fairly well, but probably die off slowly due to competition from the local rodents and small birds rather than being killed or just being unable to survive.
All captive golden hamsters ARE indeed domesticated animals. Pretty much all captive golden hamsters are descended from a female and her pups caught in 1930, so they’re inbred as hell too. That’s dozens or maybe even a couple hundred generations? They’re probably morons compared to wild golden hamsters. So I wouldn’t be too confident about them surviving in the wild. They have been known to survive and breed in people’s houses though, kind of like rats.
Your theory on almost all “golden hamsters” being descended from one hamster from the 1930s is highly suspect. Especially seeing as how thT is a Syrian hamster and they come in many colour variations.
Because assuming that it would live wouldn’t allow them to care-troll.
Anyway, people should be hoping it does die. If it actually found another released hamster and they got funky it could mess up the ecosystem and kill off some local animals.
If hamsters were a competent invasive species, that would have happened already, given how ubiquitous they are as pets. I’ve read several people talking about how they “lost” their hamsters in their homes.
Kinda like people do?
The reason it would die would be because it is domesticated and being given food and water has diminished its instinct to forage.
Generation after generation of breeding also means their genetic built-up defenses to climate has diminished as well.
You are talking as if this animals natural habitat is a cage inside a human home. Syrian hamsters naturally come from Syrian deserts.
WILD Syrian hamsters, yes. Pet store born-and-bred Syrian hamsters, no. If the cold didn’t kill it (their instinct is to burrow but then again it probably wouldn’t be able to build a great one or invaded another animal’s), then it probably ate something it shouldn’t have, or something else ate it. Or another rodent tore it to shreds for invading its territory…
Cats? Cats can’t survive? What kind of retarded cats do you hang out with, man? Cats can survive anywhere.
NO, Penny, you brainless idiot, not all can.
Right! Like the ones with one leg!
Penny, you monster, think of the plight of the one-legged cats who can’t survive on the street!
Life expectancy of outdoor cats = 2yrs
Life expectancy of indoor cats >10 years
Its a jungle out there.
Stats smell better when you aren’t pulling them straight out of your a♥ss
Feral cats can-not Fluffy the fancy feast cat though…
Fine for release? And this is why we have invasive species. *facepalm* Do not release pets. Especially exotic pets (like hamsters in the U.S., most snake species pretty much anywhere they’re sold as pets, almost all fish species, and most pet reptiles).
Tigers run in the wild but you don’t see me letting my cat out in the safari.
People like her shouldn’t be allowed to own animals. There needs to be some kind of IQ test necessary. Poor thing. At least an owl didn’t go hungry that night.
Exactly. This bloody idiot should be tied to a tree in a cage full of bears, and doused in honey.
RIP English language
Must find and kill her.
I’ll help you.
Who names hamsters Nemo? Nemo is a parrot’s name.
I thought it was a fi-… oh I see what you’re doing.
*quickly zips pants back up*
OHAI! I didn’t you were there.
Did you accidentally the whole thing and don’t want anyone to know?
I bet Richard Simmon would have given him a warm place to live. Until asxphyiation happened.
A warm place in nature idiot, perhaps?
Pray to god she has no children, imagine what would happen when she got tired of them?
No kidding. Kinda hoping she’s already been lynched.
RELEASE THEM INTO THE WILD!!!
it’s illegal to release non-indigenous animals into the wild. not that this wee guy is gonna last long enough to matter. what a twonk.
Nemo spelt backwards is Omen….coincidence?
Otto spelled backwards is Otto…coincidence?
Dog spelled backwards is… NVM.
Sausage?
?egasuaS
Orange spelled backwards is Gullible.
schafter is right.
Hooray for palindromes!
*down syndrome
!DammitimmaD!
No it’s a palindrome.
Poor little guy. What misguided compassion.
It would be nice had he done it with a goat.
it was a she look at the teets.
If, by “compassion”, you mean “f&cking useless excuse for a human being”, then yes.
Don’t release your stupid pets into the wild! I hope she gets to witness Nemo being dismantled by a bird of prey, then said bird dies of complications from ingesting a domesticated animal and it’s corpse passes bird flu to the entire home she lives in and everyone ends up sterile after months of fighting infection.
That would be fun.
Don’t even release the smart ones.
On the other side of that, people often release animals with no natural predators in the environment which then breed and take over or otherwise pose a threat to the native population.
Native copulation??? That’s racist
Thanks for that mental image…
*feeds Apia some chill pills*
Don’t worry, the neighbour’s cat ate Nemo before any bird could touch it.
Geez, what a stupid and heartless b*tch.
Botch?
Butch
Batches? We don’t need no steenking batches.
This is why people should be forced to pass some kind of test or be licensed to own a pet OR to procreate. She is not unique either. Trust me, I work at a pet product store. “Can I cuddle with the little birdie?” “What do you mean I have to feed my fish?!?!? Don’t they eat the water?”
My second job is at a pet store:
“Is it important for my dog to drink water?”
“Puppies are a lot of work, I thought it was just potty training, and that’s it!”
“These fish flakes are really big, I don’t think my fish will eat them.”
“Crush them up, throw them in.”
“But they’re really big!”
“Just crush them up, throw them in. Trust me.”
Hey, my little birdie loved to cuddle…
Of course, she was a rescued, spoiled, hand-raised little princess, so… XD
This is a joke, right?
*I am
Yes.
Who releases a hamster into the wild rofl.
Is that Danielle from Danielle Ate the Sandwich?
No, it’s the sаndwich.
animal abandonment & cruelty charges anyone? These kind of retards are the ones who keep me busy as a volunteer with animal rescue charities.
“If you don’t want it, dump it” mentality needs to be squashed, if you can’t keep it, contact a rescue who can rehome it to a HOMECHECKED & RESPONSIBLE new home. There are all sorts of animal rescues out there, from species or breed specific ones (eg german shepherd dog rescue, ferret rescue etc) to general rescues who take in whatever, whenever.
No excuse, and I want to pick her up in a helicopter, fly her out to the wildest depths of midwinter alaska and “free” her there – I’m sure she could eat the ice for water & gnaw on some lichen off the rocks, she’ll survive just fine.
Nah, seems too much trouble. I’m setting it free
Seriously!!
When I worked the return desk at Meijer there was a lady who brought back a dead guinea pig. She was pissed, said she bought the aquarium and everything…..and filled it with water. The gpig swam for 3 days. I had never been so sickened.
What the…? How does this person even manage to care for themselves?
Clearly she forgot to change the filter.
WHAT????
why would anyone think a guinea pig lives in water, shouldnt she have known that when she saw them in the pet shop?
Please tell me you gave this person a good verbal beating.
Did this happen in a German speaking country? Guinea pig is called “Meerschweinchen” (Sea piglet) here.
A hamster is a glorified rat. Its life isn’t worth the human effort to bring charges. She can blend herself a milkshake with the furry little wretches for all I care.
Chill out FFS… It was a hamster, not a bear that she let loose. It will have survived for a while and then served as food to a bird or fox.
I have gerbils and they still don’t know whether I am something to be feared, something to be investigated or something to be eaten. I doubt the hamster will have fully grasped its situation…
Amen to that – can I help?
Hispter Doofus.
my dad this to one of my hamsters!!!!!
That’s horrible, not funny.
This is the bestest thing I’ve ever ever seen on this here website…except for when the hare was eaten by the lion, ha ha ha….that was a good one.
She should have just eaten the thing. That would have been the most human thing to do.
He’ll be fine. I’ve seen Hamtaro.
There’s stupid on both sides. Stupid for releasing the hamster into the wild in an area where it isn’t native and when it’s been a pet its entire life and isn’t equipped. And stupidity on the replier. Hamsters DO live in the wild. Someone should take them to central Asia and show them a few. (again, not a excuse to release captive ones though.)
Hamsters don’t live in the wild just like your pet chiuaua doesn’t. They have wild/feral equivilants [dogs have wolves, cats have tigers] but they’re different enough that you can honestly say pets don’t live in the wild.
Hey Scarbro,
Your hammer and sickle photo is repulsive.
The totalitarian communist dictatorship in Soviet Russia caused death and misery for millions of people over several decades. If you wouldn’t us a swastika, don’t use a hammer and sickle. Nazi and Communist logos are despicable.
*Looks around for Scarbro, can’t see him anywhere. Confuzzled…
Are you seeing commies everywhere? Your full name isn’t Yuck McCarthy, is it?
McDonald’s has caused death and misery to millions of people all over the world through deforestation to raise cattle and the selling of unhealthy foods. Therefore are the golden arches the same as a swastika?
I don’t like the Adidas logo myself.
It’s actually illegal to release domesticated animals into the wild. This girl should be found and fined to the full extent.
It’s actually illegal to be stupid to that extent. You should be found, confined to a perfectly round rubber room, and told to pee in the corner.
And beaten. Don’t forget beaten.
With glasses that thick why is she so stupid?
Clearly, she’s a “hipster,” commonly known as species Wasteof Oxygenus.
The pageantry, the giant (possibly lenseless) hipster glasses… this has to be a joke, right?
Someone this stupid should not have been allowed to have a pagina. I feel sorry for her kids when she releases them into the wild. I am sure the police officer will not be amused when she tells them that there is plenty of water and berries out there in the forest for her babies.
To all evolution retards, this hamster proves evolution does not exist.
Yea, evolusion is retart, this world wud be so much betta if peple join Christianity
Why are you reponding to a troll by falling for the bait. Furthermore you assume Christianity is the only religion in the world, there was no need for you to single it out. Either way you have fed the troll.
Eh?
Troll harder, your comment is far too stupid to incite anger and kick off an argument.
So what? It was really late! But if I wanted to I could easily write a whole article that everyone including you would react to in a mad and long comment.
Umm. wow dumb. Poor thing was probably eaten that night
Only in USA, people are this dumb.
Troll fail.
Actually I was serious.
The next day: Finding Nemo.
Am I the only one thinking about how there’s actually TWO stupid people here? The girl and the person taking the pictures? Seriously…
That is, of course, if she’s using a shutter release cable or a timer, which based on the situation, I highly doubt.
This implies intelligence. A very suspect thought, given the nature of this incident.
My brother’s hamster once escaped from its cage and was missing for almost a year. We found it living in the atrium. It had been eating the bird food and plants all that time. He lived another 2 years (back in his cage, of course) and then one sad day my brother brought him in the kitchen not breathing. I tried CPR but was unable to revive him. R.I.P. Teddy the wonder-hamster.
And this is why invasive species take over. Somebody else just let go Dori and now Nemo and Dori are going to have 15 babies who will breed with themselves and take over the joint. Then those imbreed retarded babies will then destroy their fellow habitat and threatening-AIS-when will people think we evolved a bigger brain for a fudging reason.
Poor Nemo.
Speaking of invasive species, you should castrate yourself.
Posthaste.
One generation of care trolls is enough.
Nemo is Bantha Poodoo!
Oh my god, everyone gets so angry over a little hamster. I bet this would get more comments than a picture of a starving child. Animals deserve respect sure, but some people seem to have no priorities!
In the context of this post, priorities between a child and this poor hamster are completely irrelevant, you bloody moron.
Actually, given that some of the morons here are advocating ass@ult, disfigur♥ment, or mur♥er as appropriate penalties for this “crime”, her criticism is spot-on and YOU, sir are the moron here.
Theyre not angry because of the hamster, they’re disgusted that someone is still so stupid to believe it would live happily in the backyard.
Actually hamsters are wild animals…. the ones we keep as pes are bred for the purpose of being domestic. But hamsters descended from wild animals and live naturally in the desert.
Don’t get me wrong, this girl is still clearly a twat.
This^
Also I believe they’re native to Syria.
There are European ones too. And Dwarf breeds are native to the Steppes, Khazakstan, Mongolia, China and that general area.
Because it’s tame and has no more fears, it’s the perfect prey for any predator.
And if it doesn’t get eaten by an owl or hawk, it will probably starve to death, because the hamster will be used to having acces to food 24/7 and has never learnt to search food by itself.
Any frost will probably kill it too… since it hasn’t learned to hibernate and/or build a shelter for itself.
Basically it has 0 surival instincts and 0% chance of surviving in the wild. Lulz!!!!!! Sucks to be a hamster!
You’re right!
Because hamsters that haven’t gone to hamster school don’t know how to hibernate!
Were you born that stupid or do you have to practice daily?
Actually, hamsters that have lived in heated buildings all their lives and for generations wouldn’t survive in the cold. Even if they did hibernate, despite their nature they wouldn’t be able to gather enough food to survive hibernation (which isn’t a total three-month sleep, they do wake up periodically).
*Sigh* I guess it’s time to go into the forest and get started on Finding Nemo.
You do that. Don’t come back without him.
Disgusting and heartless.
I once drove 2 hours to pick up a hamster I found on Craigslist that someone didn’t want. I THANKED her for NOT turning her loose in the backyard.
Douchebag.
Ah, the birth of invasive species issues, finally witnessed.
Why would ANYONE do this? If you don’t want the little baby anymore, give him to a friend, or to the shelter or something. He was probably eaten by a bird of prey moments after the person went back inside to go rant about how ‘eco friendly’ they are, assuming they thought they were giving him a better life by doing this. People like this bother me. >.<
Wow, people are yards. The person in the picture left a comment saying that this was her backyard. And there is a YouTube video of this. She obviously didn’t let it go.
And calm down people. It’s a hamster, they aren’t exactly a threatened species. Animals die all the time. Say she had released it. It could have fed a starving fox or owl. Maybe that was the easy prey it needed to get some energy to get it’s next meal. What if the owl or fox was a mother and the hamster that fed it gave it energy to get more food to feed it’s babies so the babies didn’t die. If you really think about maybe she saved some animals life. Huh!! Ever think about that!!
Lol, people are tards. As am I
True dat