I have a dead hamster in my freezer....

Yea. The title is pretty self explanitory. It's grossing me out. It died a few weeks ago when the ground was frozen and I still haven't had a chance to bury it. Anyone else have anything gross they'd like to share?

This morning I took my trash bag out of my kitchen trash and there was a dead mouse in a pool of brown trash liquid... EEEEWWW!  But I was proud of myself... Instead of getting my bf to dispose of it, I "was a man" and took care of it myself.  I love animals but honestly that's what happens when the mice go digging in my trash can.

Two dead frogs. We're also waiting to bury them. My husband insists they need a "proper burial".

What a deterrent from eating ice cream!  I should find a dead rhodent to put in my own freezer just to serve this purpose.

lol. I wasn't that attatched to my hamster, so if I could flush it I would. It kind of makes me feel bad, but it's the truth.

When I was in the aquarium hobby, I used to keep big and/or expensive fish that died in the freezer, that way they don't dry out. Then I would go to the store and replace them, then return a few days later with the dead one and get another replacement or something else with it (my mom wasn't too happy about that lol).

I'm new here, but I can identify with the frozen critters.... My husband used to breed a number of different reptiles, snakes included.  While he's finally over that part of his life now, we still have a few pet snakes he just couldn't seem to part with.  I have packages of frozen mice in my freezer; pinkies and small "hoppers".  Sometimes I get so frustrated having to dig around them to see what I can feed my family, I just give up and go to the store instead!

And that my dear is why I draw the line at snakes....

we had a hamster almost freeze to death one winter in the laundry room. I thought he was dead but wrapped him up in a towel and open the oven door turned it on and layed the towel on the open door and thawed him out in about 30mins he was okay. Pretty weird but it worked.

One of my friends plays jokes with snakes. We had a dead rattler laying across the side walk and her husband (hes blind I guess) stepped over it, so we tossed it the garbage can. A day or so later the garbage man came and we heard yelling and screaming outside the houses and ran out they tossed the can over to dump it and the rattlesnake was hanging over the side of the truck . It was a hoot.

Original Post by gypsierose:

we had a hamster almost freeze to death one winter in the laundry room. I thought he was dead but wrapped him up in a towel and open the oven door turned it on and layed the towel on the open door and thawed him out in about 30mins he was okay. Pretty weird but it worked.

 

When hubby and I were dating he found a kitten wrapped around my car engine when he went to give a jump start to a neighbor in the below zero nebraska winter He thought for sure it was dead froze stiff but he brought it into the apt and when I came home from work this kitten was alive- not moving much but alive-  a few days later I came home from work and saw the ktten playing with something batting it around went to pick it up and it was part of his tail -- guess the frost bite got to it and it just fell off at one of the joints-- that was pretty funny but gross too.  The cat was a little weird -- he probably was brain damaged from the freezing but lasted for many years.

I have mice in my freezer for my snake, they don't bother me at all. I have also had an iguana in my freezer after he died - that was sort of creepy.

The kitty story DEFINITELY creepy. Poor kitty tail. 

My hampster got loose when I was out of state.  My dad found him a few months later, buried in his hunting clothes in the basement.  Unfortunately it had flooded in our basement so my hampster drowned.  He left the remains of the carcass on the stairs for me to find when I got home from work.

OK, after reading this thread, all I can say is ...

EEEEEEEEEEEEEEK!!!!!!!

=^..^= MOLLY

all I can say is:

I feel for the poor family that may have owned that cat....

(p.s, I, nor anyone i know, did that. I found it online.)

 huh, the pic didn't show. never mind.

we had a hamster almost freeze to death one winter in the laundry room. I thought he was dead but wrapped him up in a towel and open the oven door turned it on and layed the towel on the open door and thawed him out in about 30mins he was okay. Pretty weird but it worked.


This is what I’ve heard: In the wild hamsters hibernate, but pet hamsters do not do this because indoors there is no dramatic change in the weather. But if they do get really cold (due to someone leaving the window open, etc) then they think they should be hibernating and go into a deep sleep. Usually just warming them up will wake them, as they think winter is over now. But apparently it is easy to confuse them hibernating with them dead.

We had a Siberian dwarf hamster that "died" from the waist down. They are supposed to live about a year and he was about twice that. He'd drag his little dead hairless legs behind him. It was just gross, and we debated euthanizing him, but we kept thinking, "Oh, surely he can't hang on for more than a day or so." Months later the poor little guy finally gave it up.

It is gross to admit but when I was little my cat had kittens. After a few weeks one little guy did't make it. It was January and we couldn't bury him. So he was entombed in our chest freezer in the garage till spring.

My Mom had a fit when I told the neighborhood kids about it and then showed them all.

A lady I know has squirrels (cause her hubby eats them), a cat, and hamsters.  We used to tease her about finding Ted Williams in there too. 

Ok, this is just sick and wrong. lol

I agree that dead rodents in my freezer would stop me from getting the ice cream.

our old apartment.....had roach problems.  wahoo. 

 

my husband caught one and put it in one of my tupperware containers, but he couldn't find the lid so he wrapped plastic wrap around it.  then put it on top of the fridge and said "i called the front office, when they send the exterminator YOU TELL HIM that this roach needs to be tested" (wtf, WHY?  we thought, on top of our roach problem, that we also had black mold.  swimming in gold baby, just like uncle scrooge, you bet).  

 

he left the next day for a six week work trip and left the roach almost hanging over the top of our short fridge, so it stared at me every day.  the exterminator never came, although my husband INSISTED that we wait, that this could be our proof of negligent owners and since we had so many problems, it could be a contract outtie.  

 

that roach stared at me.  everyday.  i didn't want to go into the kitchen.  he knows, of anything in the world, they freak me out the most.  

 

we ended up paying an exorbitant separation fee to get out of the contract early.

 

 

:)