I feel real sad whenever I think of my hamster's lifespan. They only will live up to 3 years only and I hope the day never comes to see them dead in the cage. Anyone here experience death of a hamster through old age?

that's a professional way of spamming..
giving the same info of others had said...

Eh uh, i wrongly read.

Soulx, spamming got alot of professional way, and that is so not one of them.

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This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Feb 24 2008, 09:13 PM

last time, i've never had one that died of old age. i've used to rare 4, 1 died while giving birth, 1 died of sickness. well, when those 2 died (they're females), the other 2 died of broken heart.

oh i c... thanks for info i personally prefer to buy from home breeders rather than pet shops.. so will wanna c if got more choices of hamsters here.. is she the only one selling?

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Added on February 24, 2008, 1:45 pmdied of broken heart ??
got such thing??

This post has been edited by crazymouse_yyh: Feb 24 2008, 09:12 PM

Not really. Hamsters can adapt to solitary life well. No such thing as broken heart leh.

This post has been edited by Reanne: Feb 24 2008, 01:46 PM

well, both of mine, the husbands la, never ate or drink. in the end died. almost same amount of food and water. dunno y, since u guys said not broken heart, i also dunno wat caused their deaths.

There could have been an underlying disease, could have been stress if they were living together, could have been anything, but it can't be heart break. Most animals do not love, there are some things they do may resemble it, but it's not love like how we experience it.

only humans can die of heart break

why people like to resembles animal with human emotion..
animals dont get married... no love or hatered.. they just have animal instict in order to survive..

Yups, animals breed in order to survive. Kinda worrying when people put human emotions together with animals. I see this happening to people buying on impulse from most petshops. For example, when I was at Petsmore to get my hamsters, the staff asked Reanne and I, "Do you want a male and female couple?" Wahhh.... that really was.... well, this would wrongly mislead alot of new hamster owners. They would think all hamsters have to be in an opposite sex pair. Worst is that the hamsters I bought were Syrians! Well, in the end I got a male and female but of course they are in their own cages

Wonder if hamster can love or hate, and they will recognise 'wife' or 'husband' like human do, then will they be any lesbian or gay hamster pairs?????? just like humans

Please stop putting human's emotion in animals..... they can never never never understand and know about emotions.

Human don't really die of heart broken as well. Maybe all the hamster suffered and died of the same disease which the owner not knowing....

This post has been edited by sangels: Feb 24 2008, 10:35 PM

thx for the lights up, guess i'm wrong at it. can't help it since i'm 12 tht time, anyways, i would still like to think bout them dying of broken heart.

Hmm.... think your emotions, feelings and thinking is stop at 12 also... it's your choice to think that way but please don't mislead others newbies with your info and personal feelings

lol.. i cant imagine if got lesbian or gay hamsters.. n if they got such thing as wife or husband, then when we breed them to other partners it means they commit adultry?? lol..
anyway human do die from heart broken.. by refusing to eat or sleep.. lol..

Human died of hunger, malnutrition and dehydration, therefore lead to organs failure resulting from refusing to eat or drink, it's all the complications of not eating and drinking, not heart broken. Heart broken is just a factor to cause mentally depression and lead to all these actions, and it's also a feeling not a disease or illness. Human who died from this 'reason' is because of depression. I'm sure hamsters don't have this problem as there are only vets, no vet psychiatrist out there cause animals don't need one That's why humans have wisdom that can think and be logic unlike animals. It's also why hamster can be kept by human but human can't be kept by animals. There's a reason for all the differentials between humans and animals.

This post has been edited by sangels: Feb 25 2008, 12:45 AM

lolx wat u explained is wat i meant..

my new hamster cage setup



got a house for them to stay in...

but they prefer it like this...



next stance... on top of one another...

Some animals does.....



This post has been edited by d100200: Feb 25 2008, 08:02 AM

sugar glider maybe have some emotional behaviour..