Today, my husband was using the microwave when we suddenly hear a huge 'POP'. The good news is we found our daughter's missing hamster. FML
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Today, my daughter brought home her class hamster for the weekend. It escaped and we spent hours searching for it. We later found it in the fridge, eating our leftover pizza. I never knew hamsters had such a refined palate. FML
Today, I accidentally left my sister's hamster's cage open and it escaped. My dad recently put mouse traps down. Guess where I found her. FML
Today, I found a decomposing hamster deep in my closet. My daughter had hidden "Peach" after accidentally killing it and said it had ran away a month ago. And I'd believed her. FML
Today, my 8-year-old son microwaved his pet hamster. FML
Today, I found the family's pet hamster under my mattress, he's been missing for six months. FML
Today, I got a hamster against my wife's will. I can't wait until she wakes up and I have to tell her it's loose in the house. FML
Today, I found my pet hamster that escaped yesterday, wet and soggy, next to my pet dog. My dog chewed it. FML
Today, I was babysitting my neighbour's six hamsters. My cat got in the room and opened the cage. I came home to no hamsters in sight and a very satisfied looking cat. FML
Today, my sister brought her class hamster home from school. Somehow it escaped from its cage, and ran into my room. My boyfriend, thinking it was a mouse, stomped on it. I'm stuck cleaning hamster guts from my carpet, and have to explain to a kindergarten class what happened to their pet. FML
Today, I found my beloved hamster, Toofie. Toofie escaped from his cage. 4 years ago. FML
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lscottygl 5
he didn't notice the hamster in there when he put the food in?
Demon_of_Light 27
I'm not sure how you could not notice a frantic furry animal in your microwave.
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doodlesdork 7
Aside from the question of how the hamster wasn't seen when food was being put in, if she put the little guy in the microwave herself maybe your daughter is a bit too young for a hamster? I suppose its possible he escaped and somehow managed to get in there himself but I never understood how people lose hamsters so easily, I never lost mine. At least it wasn't a kitten or a puppy...
Anon E Muss 11
Could you imagine having to clean up the steaming... remains? Poor guy, the OP and hamster both. Though, I wouldn't place blame on the husband if he didn't know the hamster was missing, or if he was in a hurry. I shut the microwave without looking very often, it becomes a reflex, so I'm sure he didn't mean it. However, the question remains, how did the lil' critter get inside?
ZombieSazza 34
Cleaning the remains of a beloved pet is not fun. When I was about 9/10, my cat managed to get into my gerbils cage. We found the cat a few minutes later with the gerbil in the bushes he liked to hide in, eating my gerbil, Nippers. That was not fun. It's a horrid experience.
domolovesyoshi 33
I walked into my wash house to clean my rabbits age only to find the cage chewed open and my rabbit dead gutted and still twitching, we have some seriously massive rats whereas love it still haunts me I'm not petrified of rabbits
VictoriaT519 18
I call bullshit. There's no way a hamster can get into a microwave on its own, unless it's got superhamster strength. That, and the classic 'somebody put him in there' situation. There's a lot not matching up here.
RabbitOfAurora 28
Please tell me that the hamster had chewed something in the microwave that made the pop and that the hamster itself wasn't the thing to go pop!
ZombieSazza 34
This is horrible. I don't get upset when people die, when relatives have passed I've mourned without being hugely upset (emotional detachment isn't fun, I don't feel the same way everyone else does), I think of murder the same way I think of eating food, but the death of animals always upsets me, particularly this one. This would not have been a quick death to the poor wee hamster, it's blood would have boiled, it would have suffocated and burned inside, and thinking about how it suffered has greatly saddened me.
LyricaSilvan 30
Oh god...that's horrifying. That poor hamster, and your poor daughter. I hope you were able to console her. Losing a pet is hard enough, without it being in such an unfortunate and gruesome way...
FlutterLoud 29
How it got in the microwave is the real question, I have 4 hamsters and not only are they not good at climbing but they aren't very smart and cannot open doors. Also how did you not see it? I know they can be pretty small but I think a moving puff ball is noticeable in a place where you ware putting your food. Poor hamster :( it was probably quite painful for the poor little thing. So sad to read
jmtucker 6
Your husband is ******* stupid if he didn't notice the hamster in the microwave. Like are you kidding me? The stupidity is UNREAL.
ninipooh2 18
Good news?
PennyLane27 32
"Good news, everyone! I have some terrible news!"
alphasmartass93 21
Really hope you haven't taught your kid pop goes the weasel...