Current mood:

nauseated

Soggy Bottomed Poo Factories (aka hamsters)
ok, so I was never a fan of hamsters to begin with, but my job at pet store has really convinced me that these are horrible little creatures...
Already knew about the eating their own babies thing. could deal with that... hey! they're smaller, therefore, food! but wow... learning more about them at work and nothing good. got in some hamsters the other day, most of them had this common sickness known as wet tail.... well, they really get a wet tail.... it's stinky and gross and they tend to leak all over everything. not to mention the dementia... yes, a wet tail means yer hamster's demented! they run into things and fall over alot and have a complete inability to get up again so they roll in their soggy tail mess. it's really sad to watch! to make things worse, it's not just the babies that become snacks! I was medicating the soggy bottomed poo factories today when I noticed a very large (for hamsters) pool of blood in the bedding... I pulled the mass of nasty demented rodents away from it to find an especially sickly looking one in the middle of it. picked her up to give her meds and found her stomach had been chewed open and the other demented hamsters were snacking on her intestines! almost made my coworker and manager hurl... I just put it in a separate cage for the vet in the morning... yeah right. dead hamster. icky nasty little things.
so someone tell me.... why are these so popular with children????????