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re: Anyone have/had a hampster or guinea pig for their kids?

Posted on 9/22/19 at 8:31 pm to
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
45534 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 8:31 pm to
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My fiancée has a pair


She sure does buddy. Congrats.
Posted by soccerfüt
Location: A Series of Tubes
Member since May 2013
76148 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 8:33 pm to
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Herman slipped up and knocked up Gertrude. After Gertrude had her babies she ate Herman's head off. Then a few days later she killed all her babies, we got rid of Gertrude after that.
Sounds like a page from Little Rock high society.
Posted by pioneerbasketball
Team Bunchie
Member since Oct 2005
139098 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 8:38 pm to
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Sounds like a page from Little Rock high society.

Posted by chinese58
NELA. after 30 years in Dallas.
Member since Jun 2004
33956 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 8:40 pm to
Had hamsters as a kid. Don't worry about the cage being a problem. Your kids will probably lose them anyway. We lost ours a lot. We'd find them a week later after they'd chewed up socks or underwear in the chest of drawers. They do a lot of climbing.
Posted by LSUA 75
Colfax,La.
Member since Jan 2019
5119 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 8:46 pm to
Get guinea pigs,if you get tired of fooling with them you can eat them.
Posted by deaconjones35
Thibodaux
Member since Sep 2009
9900 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:04 pm to
My daughter has a hedgehog. Don’t do that. Get em a bearded dragon.
Posted by lnomm34
Louisiana
Member since Oct 2009
12702 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:06 pm to
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Posted by tigersownall
Thibodaux
Member since Sep 2011
17202 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:10 pm to
You like keeping rats in your house?
Posted by Thecoz
Member since Dec 2018
3965 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:13 pm to
Do not get a rodent!!!!!!
Went through them all when sons were kids.
Guinea pigs can smell! If you get a male as they get older their balls can get bigger than burrow’s
Nothing cute about a rodent dragging balls around the cage!
Had a gerbil for one day! Brought it home . Next morning son looked at it and it chewed it darn tail off! It was a little kangaroo one
Took it back that day
Mice are ok but what is the point
Had a housebroken rabbit but they chew stuff up
Just make the leap and get a dog you know you really want one and the kids do also
And dogs really are the best living things on this earth!
Posted by Pepperoni
Mar-a-Lago
Member since Aug 2013
4335 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:15 pm to
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Anyone have/had a hampster or guinea pig for their kids


I had a hamper once, but I lost it in the divorce settlement.
Now I just leave stuff on the floor.
Posted by Thecoz
Member since Dec 2018
3965 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:18 pm to
Also had a dwarf hamster. ....ok
But son asked if boy or girl. I only came home with one so I asked him what he wanted. He said a boy do I said yup he is a boy....
Month later son came downstairs and said I was wrong the hamster was a girl.... I said why do you say that.... darn thing was pregnant and we suddenly had a mess of hamsters!!!!!
Posted by OysterPoBoy
City of St. George
Member since Jul 2013
45534 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:21 pm to
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Month later son came downstairs and said I was wrong the hamster was a girl.... I said why do you say that.... darn thing was pregnant and we suddenly had a mess of hamsters!!!!!


Are you saying someone in your house got a hamster pregnant?
Posted by Thecoz
Member since Dec 2018
3965 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:23 pm to
No that would have had to be you and you were not here.your the only person with a pkr. That small
Haha
Posted by WITCH DOCTOR
Louisiana
Member since Mar 2009
3474 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:24 pm to
His name was Biaas....
Posted by flyingtexastiger
Southlake, TX
Member since Oct 2005
1790 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 9:53 pm to
"Hampster"........really???
Posted by gumbo2176
Member since May 2018
20377 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 10:13 pm to
Don't do it. The kids will not take care of it more than likely, and they require a fair amount of care. The cage needs to be cleaned very often, they go through water like there is no end, so the cage stays wet near the water bottle.

They crap as fast as they eat and love to be noisy at night.



Posted by CelticDog
Member since Apr 2015
42867 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 10:35 pm to
Guinea pigs are all work and no interaction.
I did it.

Dog can be a big plus.
Your home, location and time available say a lot.

Cat is easy and young kids can have home time with it.
Brush it.
Marvel at its killing skills.

Dog has big upside, requires the most.
Posted by mailman
Houston
Member since Jul 2009
6143 posts
Posted on 9/22/19 at 10:58 pm to
its not difference from having a dog or cat. You sill have to feed the thing, clean the cage, make sure its a live etc. You should get snake or spider that you can feed once every two weeks to a month.
Posted by dallastiger55
Jennings, LA
Member since Jan 2010
35072 posts
Posted on 9/23/19 at 7:57 am to
Yeah but if I’m going to have a rodent for 2-5 years I’d rather invest that time and money to a dog

Posted by Pelican fan99
Lafayette, Louisiana
Member since Jun 2013
39644 posts
Posted on 9/23/19 at 8:19 am to
We had some growing up. Don’t really see the point in them they don’t do anything and they smell
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