The Rabid Hampster

[alonesoldier]

I went to work today and saw my boss with a hampster cage on her desk, she was watching it for a friend. This hampster attacks the glass when you get close to the cage and to show me how mean it was she stuck her finger in the hampster home and it jumped up and began mauling her finger. She didn't think that it was actually going to get a hold of her but it drew blood. Now that's one mean hampster.

-Nick

 

[fieldmouse3]

Wow...I think the little guy has some issues he needs to work through.

 

[Tsaxgurl317]

i got bit once....it hurt, but nothing serious...he just wanted to be left alone...

 

[onecrazycowgirl]

Wow - sounds like the poor little guy has some personal issues to work out.

My brother once got a hampster that would bite you and hang off your finger by her teeth.

 

[Dawn Marie]

We had a dwarf hamster once. It was little and cute and grey. We called him Jaws...

He bit a lot. And he used to stand up on his back legs and attack anyone who put their hand in the cage - with his little paws. He'd hit us. It was funny.

 

[urbanfaerie]

i used to have a hamster named chubbles..
hee! he was a cutie.

but he never bit..
u can tame ur hamster.. it just takes a lot of effort.

 

[alonesoldier]

I suggested she feed the hampster to the Vipor company Mascot, a large snake. But thats just me.

 

[psycmajor]

I don't know much about animal behavior, but is that hamster being taken care of properly by its original owner??

 

[CeCe]

I don't know much about animal behavior, but is that hamster being taken care of properly by its original owner??

It could just be that the owner doesn't interact with the hamster. They may only feed it and clean the cage. Mine have always gotten used to being held just as soon as they were no longer in danger of "hamstercide" from the mother. They are extremely tame. When I put food in the cage, they crawl up into my hand. They're not like dogs or cats, but they do like attention.

 

[CeCe]

We had a dwarf hamster once. It was little and cute and grey. We called him Jaws...

He bit a lot. And he used to stand up on his back legs and attack anyone who put their hand in the cage - with his little paws. He'd hit us. It was funny.

They are so funny. Those little guys have no depth perception at all.

 

[hiz_child]

Buying a hampster is just the luck of the draw. Even with the best owner and training they can still be mean. My bro and I both got our own hampsters once. He never paid his any attention and I gave mine a lot of attention. However my hampster was the one that would attack and his was a gentle little teddy bear.

 

[Animals_Obsessed]

My hamster is so friendly that I sometime call her Quincy, Queen of Hamster Niceness/Kindness! The first day I got her in I put my hand in, I knew it was wrong. But whenever I get a pet, my knowledge of how to take care of it just flies away! Anyways, she came and sniffed it. Then I offered food from my hand and took it, as much as you poke her bottom, back, side, she won't do anything to you! Maybe shrink back but she won't bite. She won't bite when you wake her up in the middle of the day, except she bit me once hard that made me bleed because I woke her up when I just got her...She's a golden hamster.

It's seems that dwarf hamsters are the ones that often bite! My friend has a djungarian hamster, often called a dwarf because of it's size. It has a black stripe along her back, she's a furry-footed hamster! I came up with the name because of her grey fur. She has an arch and is overly aggressive! When my friend got her she did everything that a good owner would do. She fed it (a little to much, the little girls chubby!), groomed it, gave it human interaction, gave it clean water and all! But whenever you put you hand in without a bunch of seeds she'll run to you and grab your finger with her tiny paws and bite. Even if you just put your finger near the cage bars. She'll run to you and stick her small muzzle threw the bars and open her mouth to try and bite you! Maybe if she had boughten 2 dwarf hamsters Pepper wouldn't be like that...