A dwarf hamster
Saw the weirdest thing on the trail tonight...
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Unfortunately it was dead. I didn't want to be morbid and whip out the camera so we took the little guy off the trail and laid him in the grass. Apparently he was alive this afternoon...another rider who was packing up when we got to the trail reported what he thought was a hamster running beside the trail.
I would have
:biggrin:
haha...of course you wouldI would have
Poor little hamster. 
I knowPoor little hamster.
I was very close to having another pet
they fake dead! or, if its real cold, they go to hibernation, anywhere. My hamster died once, because we went for a vaca., and forgot the window open a few inches. i had it in my hands, and was going downstairs, and it started to move! turns out it was just frozen, and when the heat of my hands warmed it, it came back alive!! but a few weeks later it escaped and i found it in my golf bag, 
Zombie Hamster!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You should have gotten there earlier.... you could have had a Hamster Fighting Machine!
You should have gotten there earlier.... you could have had a Hamster Fighting Machine!
Or a really big mouse?
That thing looks so f'ing scared.
And it was definitely a hamster. I thought the same when I heard someone say they saw it. Weird.
That picture makes me feel sad for hamsters everywhere.
On a side note, people still suck.
On a side note, people still suck.
vole was my first thought too.
a pet shop hamster would last about 1.8 hrs in the wild, and there'd be no trace of its existence.
a pet shop hamster would last about 1.8 hrs in the wild, and there'd be no trace of its existence.
Damn, Rob, you're a sensitive guy. :biggrin:
People DO suck, though. Not a pet person myself, but I think that's better than pretending to be a pet person when you're really just a baby animal person who dumps their charge in the closest park when it's moving time, relationship break-up time or the animal grows up.
People DO suck, though. Not a pet person myself, but I think that's better than pretending to be a pet person when you're really just a baby animal person who dumps their charge in the closest park when it's moving time, relationship break-up time or the animal grows up.
In my eyes:
Humans are not inherently innocent of anything.
Animals are inherently innocent of just about everything.
People who dump animals for the above reason would have it too good if they were drawn and quartered.
I was thinking along the same lines although your timeline (1.8 hours) was far more generous than my 20 minutes :biggrin:
Ever seen a baby(human) born? No sin there besides original sin.
Human capacity for cruelty exceeds that of animals in direct proportion to their increased cognitive ability and creativity. I have seen behavior in the animal kingdom nothing less than wicked, but of course, we should know better.
Why not let the punishment fit the crime? Perhaps dropping the pet abandoner off 100 miles south of Khartoum with naught but a compass, a roll of TP and a Captain America costume?
Good point on the newborn. Never really thought of it that way. You're right that the animal kingdom is a wicked place, but humans should know the difference between moral right and wrong. I wouldn't expect an animal (save for higher primates) to even have an inkling.
Who says they get a compass and roll of TP? :biggrin:
Plain and simple, humans are animals and behave as such. Morals are just ideas, not natural concepts. Psychopathic dolphins are a natural phenomenon observed around the world. Groups of chimps like to go on war campaigns and eat their enemies. There are some evolution explanations for such behavior and its not unique to humans.
Quite correct, and bottlenose dolphins have even been witnessed killing youth of their own kind and playing "volleyball" with the corpses. Intrinsic genetic dispersal drive causes usurping Alpha males of some species to kill all infants in their group that they did not specifically father. Additionally, physical features sometimes adapt over eons to facilitate such violence, e.g. exaggerated schlongs on donkeys which enable them to "rape" mares and induce miscarriage of foals fathered by other males. It's a violent world we live in and only your own formidability improves your survival statistics and those bearing your DNA.
You mean to tell me Walt Disney was lying to us :biggrin:
The bastard! Somebody should unplug his cryogenic coffin just for that.