What happened to the Cuticle scissors?

Have you ever communicated to WW that her regret and remorse is necessary to you if she wants to recover your marriage with you?

Well I had the scissors clean and sharp, had the hamster out and under the light. I felt I should use anesthetic so I decided to use some ether. After I woke up, the hamster had gotten away. This was a different hamster and, because it exhibits clear anti-social behavior, it has been in the death row bucket all by itself for weeks. I have no explanation for the pregnancy. How can the female get pregnant with no male around? This is almost (but not quite) unprecedented. Could it be Christmas?

No I have not told WW. For reasons already explained. I'm fresh out of horses but I think I have a dead mule you could whack on if you like. <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Well I have a new method for naming baby hamsters. The old way with pepito, chuchito, etc. was too stressful. Now I just name them all "tongue". I have tongue1, tongue2, etc. It is just easier to call them tongue and, besides, the way WW treats them, sooner or later the cat is going to get them anyway.

Pio,
I think you could have sent the unedited version...I don't think you are harsh; just honest and that is what I want.

You are correct on all points. I told kids today that if they want to speak to or text WH that his # is posted on refrigerator with his pic and they could feel free to call/text whenever they wanted to...



I was guilty of this entire M; one of his biggest complaints; guess I should have let natural consequences happen and he may have learned.

Don't think I will be resolving that in M but through D. I will try not repeat if there is another M at some point.

I am so aggravated and need to detach now. Neighbor just called to report WH siting with an OW at shopping plaza with OW ducking but spotted before she could hide. Although I don't ask questions or think about WH actions while separated between kids and neighbors it is unavoidable. I guess I need to tell them not to provide any unasked for info if I am seriously going to detach and D.

Thanks for the honest feedback. If there is more bring it on.

Pio, we had a few immaculate conceptions ourselves with the hamsters. I knew you weren't taking me seriously.

Edited to remove the word snake.

When mom and pop were taken in their prime by the neighborhood cat, I had hoped the problem was solved. Guess not. Now, with the new babies, the cat is back and he brought a friend. I'm sure he is thinking "mmmmmm! hors d'oeuvres!!!"

I am going to rename this "Pio's hamster-eating snake free thread".I really want to hear advice from people on here on how to deal with my excess hamsters. I think there are a lot of ideas that I can really benefit from. The trouble is, the really useful ideas to me, are getting drowned out in the flood of people who keep saying nothing much more than, "Snakes! You need to feed your hamsters to the snakes now!." Or an only slightly different, "you need to set a date for snake-feeding now!" <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

How about, "Snakes on a Plane"?

My 8 month old kitten would eat them in short order. Put one in the bath tub with the cat and see how long it takes. I've bought small mice (cute, they were) for my kitten. The mice were being sold at the pet store as snake food. Cats like them too. Now I feed him snacks of frozen/defrosted mice which I buy in bulk from rodentpro. Definitely his favorite food.

Rodentpro?Okay I am totally depressed right now. It really gets me down that I go to school, I slave and toil, I suffer the aggravation of working for idiot bosses to try to provide for my family and now I find this? Someone making millions fed-exing frozen mice? Why couldn't I have thought outside the box? How do people even come up with these ideas? Probably some kid cleaning out the garage, moving boxes, finding dead mice and thinking "Eureka!". I feel somehow diminished.:'(

I wanted to get a pair of mice and breed our own, then humanely kill the offspring, but alas, my husband said, "no". He was afraid they'd get loose. It sure would have been cheaper.

When our kids were young we had our share of gerbils, hampsters, guinea pigs, and rabbits.

We also had hampsters that had babies. A couple of times the hampsters would get loose and be difficult to find and they'd cause damage...once one got ino a new sofabed mattress. I had to lure him out then sew up the big hole it had made.

Once one got under the couch. My husband was holding up the couch and thought they had it...dropped it down and killed the hampster under the leg of the couch.

Once my husband disected a dead gerbil with our sons.

Memories...

Pio, my uncle lived in Saudi for a while. Working for US air industry contractor. Went over there about 1975. Stayed about 5 years.

So rodentpro may have the key. My problem is not in manufacturing but in distribution. My costs would be quite high compared to rodentpro's due to location. I doubt many Saudi's would actually pay money for dead hamsters so I need to go global. I know there is a law against transporting live animals into the USA but what about dead animals? What if the hamsters are breathing but have no brain function? How can we decide when a hamster is really dead or not? I'm not sure it is illegal to transport dead animals into the USA but, just to be safe, I think I'll hire third country nationals to "conceal" the dead hamsters in their bodies to sneak them past customs. Of course, to get my shipping costs down, I would need to hire really large TCN's. Any ideas on which state is the best to incorporate in? I seem to remember that Delaware used to be popular. But wait...I need a cathcy name! I need a URL! Any ideas?

Are there any USDA regulations for dead hamsters? I guess I would need to keep a USDA inspector here. I could convert the office to a bedroom I suppose...

Marketing...hmmm...maybe I could get a show on cable. A cooking show! I get a chef with personality to show different ways to prepare hamster. Hamster hocks and beans, baked hamster with honey glaze, deviled hamster...

My mind is racing! Thanks Trix!!!

"...then humanely kill the offspring..."

Trix,

How would you have humanely killed the offspring? And for the record, shouldn't it be micely killed the offspring?

As for the service which freezes the mice, it would seem more micely to let the snake do his thang than to put them in a freezer. Poor mice probably scratched at the freezer door for a long time before surrendering to the cold air.

Todd,

Since you seem to be lurking, I have a question. I was watching a James Bond DVD this AM and I saw something that made me curious. I know you are good with physics and math so maybe you can help.

Let's say you have a 0.357 hollow point bullet that weighs 158 grains. You fire that bullet at a man standing 20 feet away (but ignore windage losses anyway). For the sake of simplicity (and although erroneous), let's assume there is no exit wound so that all momentum is transferred to the man who happens to weigh 180 lbs. When the man is hit by the bullet, he gets thrown back 23 feet in the air before landing. At what muzzle velocity would that bullet have to have been fired? I have tried to do the calculation but don't get the same answer twice. Is it 2.7 times the speed of light or 34.3 times the speed of light?

OMG! <img src="/ubbt/images/graemlins/eek.gif" alt="" />

I thought I had reached the peak of depression but after having read all of the surpless hamster offspring ideas have concluded that I was wrong!

Pio, you have created a breeding circle that can only be broken by removing all hamsters from your home environment. You need to stage a mass exodus for benefit of DD's or explain the harsh reality...you can tell them about Santa, the Tooth Fairy and Easter Bunny at the same time! Which reminds me of when DD1 demanded to know the truth about Santa 2 yr ago and WH broke down and gave her the facts...when she broke down in tears and pleaded that she didn't want to know and wanted to be a kid, WH with quick thinking and manipulative savvy turned around and shouted..."you've been punked" and then reassured her that Santa was still real and so was Tooth Fairy. She discovered last year the truth and this year sat with me while I ordered her gifts and she picked them out. She was excited today when UPS dropped off boxes and asked how we managed to get all the gifts under the tree by morning. Sad but she is growing up in more ways than one!

Back to the hamsters...American Girl dolls are very popular...perhaps you can farm them out for Hamster fur throws or winter coats for the dolls??? You could start a hamster research lab at the local elementary school. You could have a scout project that included hamsters...you could give them as Christmas gifts to people that annoy you...make hamster village and display with Christmas village at local mall and then run fast the opposite direction...

Funny you mention the village. WW went down to a local tailor ahd had Santa and elf suits made to order for the little guys. Now they are scurrying about around the gingerbread house. She superglued small twigs to some of the babies's heads and tied them up to the miniature sleigh. They are so cute. Feel sorry for the one who got his nose painted red though.

11,285,714 km per second.

Is it because all the other hamsters laugh and call him names? Or perhaps they won't let him join in any hamster games?