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jamesmark

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Went out with Sarah today and she fell in love with a Hamster, the look on her face I bought it straight away for her.

 

After getting it home we noticed a lump and it is a bit big between it's shoulder and ear, we never saw it in the shop as we were looking up at the Hamster.

 

Going to keep a close eye on it cause if I take it back all the shop will do is ring it's neck.

 

Anyone had them with similar lump? It is larger than a petit pois.

 

Cheers guys.

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How about going to the RSPCA and pointing it out?... They might try and sort the little fella out, and give you some pointers with regard to the shop, and a new one or something?...

 

Its a hamster...they cost about 6 quid for a new one!!

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hmmm...rekon you could post a pic up? our little hamster died a few years back with a tumor but couldnt see it, id get him checked out asap just to make sure its not serious, if it goes down over night, nothing to worry abt, as they like to smuggle food into their small houses!

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How about going to the RSPCA and pointing it out?... They might try and sort the little fella out, and give you some pointers with regard to the shop, and a new one or something?...

 

RSPCA won't do anything about such a small creature. We rang them about a dog we'd taken in as a stray. Never got a phone call back or anything!!

 

H.

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  • 2 weeks later...

Well the lump has fell off, but it started weeping pus, so it went to the :(

 

The vet took a look at it and got very pissed off very quickly, the hamster is 9 weeks old and it has had a fight (as we forst thought) however the way it has healed ie the lump it looks like the pet shop done fuck all about caring for it. also it has a few stiches and the stiches she described as being done by someone that only just knows how to do stiches, not even a first year student would do such a poor job. They were not disposible nor even proper stiches she said so it looks like the stiches were put in by someone at the pet shop.

 

So have been sold a hamster that was in a bad way the vet gave it 10 days to live if we had not come in with it, however it has had a bath with some solution and is on antibiotics that we have to give it through a shringe, and thats a hard thing to do.

 

Its wound looks like a raw steak.

 

£43.17 for something that cost only a few but I am glad as every single penny of that £43.17 is worth it knowing that if it does die then it has had the best life out of that pet shop.

 

The vet is also writing it all down, her proffessional opinion and I am going up with reciept and all to make some noise at the pet shop and get my money back and also advise that failure to do so will make me hand the letter to relavent bodies.

 

If I do get a refund I am STILL reporting them to the RSPCA and anyother bodies.

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Well the lump has fell off, but it started weeping pus, so it went to the :(

 

The vet took a look at it and got very pissed off very quickly, the hamster is 9 weeks old and it has had a fight (as we forst thought) however the way it has healed ie the lump it looks like the pet shop done fuck all about caring for it. also it has a few stiches and the stiches she described as being done by someone that only just knows how to do stiches, not even a first year student would do such a poor job. They were not disposible nor even proper stiches she said so it looks like the stiches were put in by someone at the pet shop.

 

So have been sold a hamster that was in a bad way the vet gave it 10 days to live if we had not come in with it, however it has had a bath with some solution and is on antibiotics that we have to give it through a shringe, and thats a hard thing to do.

 

Its wound looks like a raw steak.

 

£43.17 for something that cost only a few but I am glad as every single penny of that £43.17 is worth it knowing that if it does die then it has had the best life out of that pet shop.

 

The vet is also writing it all down, her proffessional opinion and I am going up with reciept and all to make some noise at the pet shop and get my money back and also advise that failure to do so will make me hand the letter to relavent bodies.

 

If I do get a refund I am STILL reporting them to the RSPCA and anyother bodies.

 

 

i bought the girlfriend a pair of canaries a couple of months ago, and one of them deleloped a problem only a few days after, we took it to the vets and the diognosed the problem and gave some medication to put in the water.

 

i called the pet shop and had a right go at them, they refunded the cost of both birds and covered the vets bills.

 

 

caneries are doing fine now (noisey little feckers)

 

hope it all works out made :)

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I went to the vet as I had a frogs head growing out of my temple.

 

The vet asked how did this all start

 

and the frog said

 

with a wart on my arse

 

 

 

Hope hammy gets well soon.

 

Get him a wheel and he'll soon improve they do like to run some miles.

 

BTW.. Good on you mate for going to the vet. I know a few who would have just given him to the cat!

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it will be worth it in a week or so when is is running arround in his little wheel. At 3am and all you can hear is squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek, squeek. And then there is the noise the hamster makes...

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