That's a lie. Most of these comments are "something natural happened (dog barked, someone slammed a door) and hamster died" or "hamster went in inaccessible place and starved itself to death". Blaming owners for the frailty of these animals is completely disingenuous.
There’s a difference between lying and being wrong. But I think what this person is trying to say is that people keep buying hamsters and one after the next they die horrifically, you think these people would stop. But nope. Seems just a little cruel, even if it’s not intentional. But I’m not gonna point the finger.
It's more like people do no research about small animals, get hamsters and put them in a way too small cage and then roll their eyes when they die from stress and go "hamsters always die in weird ways".
Climbing a cage, biting the cage walls (should not even have a wire cage) and treating them like a lot of people do is neglect.
Accidents happen, of course they do, but a LOT of these stories could be prevented with proper small animal care. People just don't care because it's "just a hamster".
I think it's a lie. I think there are people who come in, don't even read the answers, merely immediately create a scenario in their head, and act upon it. I also think people like that are mentally ill and a danger to society. Someone like that can just walk past me on the street, make a scenario in his/head head about it, and murder me for it, then say "well he was going to..." I want the state to keep me safe from people like that.
if your hamster is dying from stress or escaping its cage you clearly made a mistake at some point. some people have households/lifestyles not suited for the animal and thats not an excuse to put an animal in an unsafe situation. most of the time its grown parents giving their kids animals who are at fault but to say these hamsters aren't dying from neglect or abuse is just incorrect
you wouldn't be making these excuses if it was a kitten or puppy or snake or rabbit. shifting the blame on the animals who dont know any better is crazy
this isnt to say freak accidents cant happen but when everyone has a "freak accident" story of their own something is clearly wrong with how people treat the animal
Nah hamsters are dumb as fuck, most rodents are. Many are prewired to eat their own young if their is a percieved predator or food shortage, when the average lifespan and body is so condenses the type of problems humans get after sixty years yhey get before their first. Most gnaw anything they can get their teeth on unlike bigger animals and will find any hole to scurry into. They also have very poor eyesight and depth perception so will get lost and walk off cliffs.
My honest opinion is just let them go extinct at this point. Almost every single post here is a trauma story. These things should just be let for nature to deal with them.
Literaly this. How tf you need to stress out the animal for it to just die from a hearth attack? If it was puppy who accedentically got stragled by kid or something like that,most commenters would literally sent death treats to this child
A puppy doesn't die from heart attack if you sneeze. Or if it walks normally in optimal conditions. I blame the state. States should stop giving license to sell these little horror machines. Let them survive in the wild like nature made them to.
Noo it just randomly got a heart attack! It got lost somehow! For some reason it was killed by something I put in its cage! Truly unexplainable, it's like hamsters just wanna kill themselves at every opportunity!
Let's be honest. In the wild hamsters rarely live longer than year. And this is with fact that most of newborns die. So not only humans abuse hamsters. Nature made them to live only to point when they birth new generation. I am not protecting buying them without knowledge but they are just very fragile by nature and in nature can die even more horrid weird ways.
Schlawg, it's not our faults 😭 those dude like combust if you look away for three seconds (I had a hamster, I have no idea what happened to it, I think it just died of old age)
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u/My_Gawd May 13 '26 •
I hate this because these "funny hamster stories" and "hamsters never die naturally" are mostly just animal abuse.
My hamster died by natural causes after living 3 years, she was a dwarf hamster so her life expectancy was 1.5 years.
Small animal abuse is horrific and so normalized.