before i adopted my rats (Dee and Sammy, they’re a year old and doing very well), i was doing a lot of research, because that’s just what you’re meant to do, and i was horrified at every mention or story of these lovely creatures being abused for whatever reason. in the same vein, when we (me and my dad) bought the girls (i didn’t have them yet at the time) their food, water bottle, toys, litter, cage, ect. and i told the person at the counter that the rats would be safe in my hands because i’ve done a lot of research, the person *celebrated* me and said “that isn’t very common” and that was horrifying to hear as an 11 year old that only wanted the best for these creatures that i have to take care of for 3-5 *years*. i don’t think people understand how long of a time that is, just bc cats and dogs can live to 30-ish years old
I also have kept rats, none currently, my family did plenty of research before getting them so we could care for them as best we can. I’m not sure where you get the 3-5 year statistic from, as all of my rats lived at most 2 years despite being in good conditions and health.
about the “living for 3-5 years” thing, i got that from many professional websites, and a general estimate i made myself from the stories i’ve read that specified when the rat passed away
@@herrforehead Likely due to either not optimal care or poor genes or bloodlines from stores who just buy from Breeder Mills. People say the same thing about many fish; Bettas, Goldfish, etc. But it's the exact same reason but worse- as goldfish can live into their 30s with actual proper care.
Where do you get 30 years for cats let alone dogs? Even if you take good care of them and treat them like a pampered prince that will crumble to ash if they set a single paw on grass, the life expectancy of a cat is between 14-19 years and cats over 20 are increasingly rare. Medium to big sized dogs only have about 10-12, while small dogs can reach 18~ I have also not heard about fancy rats reaching even 3 years even with superb care, they only usually live to be 1.5-2 years old. The giant pouched rat used for sniffing out disease and bombs is a different species that easily lives to be 5-6 years old, and while I assume *you* yourself did not conflate the two, infographic panels easily do. A 30 year lifespan is more what you’l see in snakes and parrots
I remember that when I was little I had my typical "I want a hamster" phase, which my dad obliged to, the difference being he understood Cucumber was basically his responsibility now and I was just there to say he was supposedly mine, he was a good hamster, helped my dad a lot when dealing with divorce, taking his mind off of it with all the research he did on how to take care of a hamster properly, basically his second little kid, much love in heaven to Cucumber and my dad
I have this conspiracy theory that parents buy pets and do 0 care for them, so that it dies, and the heart broken kid learns to never ask for a pet again. Its a common story I see where kid begs for a dog, then the parents give them a pet that is 'socially disposable' like a hamster or a rat. It's really sad, cruel, and both child abuse (if done on purpose for the reason I think) and animal abuse at the same time. Already know my mom did this. She killed my cat when I finally got one too.
@@nettlebean Let them outside at 2-3am, where we have coyotes and live right next to a road that allows 55mph traffic, with a lot of semis using the route too. They were made to live in the garage or barn and wasn't allowed to take them inside unless it was literally below 0 degrees F.
This is no conspiracy theory, but a cycle of realisation after coming of age. When my pet betta fish died I never thought much of it until years later. I felt as if I never will take care of fish again because of how horribly I took care of my previous fish. It ain't a conspiracy theory if its proven to be true. After all there's a basic reason why flat Earth is still called a conspiracy theory, as because well, the Earth is proven to be round with physical evidence. Even if we create a massive supercomputer that creates alternate realities where people have the freedom to create worlds out of their imagination and theories whilist under their great overlords (which btw has probably already happened in the form of virtual reality and games that generate worlds), that doesn't prove that the Earth isn't round at all, just ideas being thrown around from our advanced ape brains in fetal bodies just wanting to be proven right.
5:38 even bugs. The amount of shit I’ve seen about bugs being tortured and killed makes me so sad. I have a special interest in bugs (I plan to also be an arachnologist + herpatologist hopefully!) but whenever I talk about them, people often talk about how much they wanna kill or harm them. It’s genuinley so triggering and upsetting for me, especially since I did have a pet jumping spider at one point. (his name was Gregory, he recently unfortunately. He was getting old though), I loved him very deeply, and it makes me so upset that some people are so cruel. I think the one animal that surpasses rats in hate it’s 200% arachnids and some other bugs (mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, ect)
i love bugs aswell and it also makes me upset when people mistreat the bugs just cause i love all kinds of bugs, i get they got their own lives n shit ofc i aint perfect, sometimes a bug will annoy me too much such as a mosquito or fruitfly, i may like to let ants crawl up to me cause the feeling is very fun really bugs are awesome and honestly more superior than us in some ways - from their population size, adaptations and how long they've been living such marvelous creatures
when i was 13, my parents refused to take me to the pet store to buy more food for my hamster and it ended up starving to death. i fed it whatever was in the house that was hamster friendly, but that obviously didn't make up for lost nutrients
I’m very happy to see people talk about this issue again. I had gotten two pet birds on a Christmas morning when I was 10 after begging my mom and doing as much research as i possibly could. Even after my research I realized that with school and other issues in the way, I wasn’t able to give them the amount of care they both deserve, especially with zero help from my family (since they were my responsibility and only mine.) I chose to surrender them to a friend who had been owning birds for years and it made me very happy to see how quickly their lives improved and to see them carefree. Im about to turn into an adult now and obviously know much better than what I did all those years ago. It’s okay to surrender your pets if it’s necessary, even if it’s hard for you to say goodbye to them
All three of my hamsters died peacefully from old age. And I consider that to be a major accomplishment for me considering all the horror stories I’ve heard from how other people treated their hamsters
My first childhood ham, according to the vet that had to examine his little corpse, died do to terrible pet store breeding that caused a buildup in his bowls, I remember thinking that I was responsible for his death because I startled him dropping something on my desk and he jolted, and simply passed away near on the spot, the timing was so terrible that I still feel bad to this day, he was a sweet little old man, pet stores need to do so much better by these little animals 😭
THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THUS OH MY GOD. It’s genuinely fucking insane that people just giggle about animal abuse and treat it as “dark humor” when these are literally living creatures in pain, and what’s worse is that even most people that don’t outright hurt their hamsters still neglect their needs as hamster abuse has been so widely normalized especially in million-dollar pet organizations, as most of the cages sold at pet stores aren’t even suitable for a healthy life, and it’s both disgusting and really depressing how much research goes undone by the majority of “casual” hamster owners
If I had a hamster and saw it have a fatal prolapse, I'd panick and get to emergency right away. Some people just don't realize or don't care of the extent of one's pain, especially for pets under stress or injury.
I’m horrified. I’ve never had a hamster but when I was in 3rd grade I got one dumped on me by my classmate. She wanted to breed hamsters but her mother said she can’t and can’t get another hamster… My classmate then lied to a few people from our class and she asked who wants to go with her to a pet store to pick out the hamster. I said that I could go and then asked if her mother allowed it and she said that she did. In fact she did not allowed it but she went to a pet store to buy the hamster anyway and they sold the hamster to her. When we were going home she told me to carry the hamster, I did and when we were infront of her house she said byee to me and wanted to leave. Obviously I stopped her to remind her that she forgot her hamster but she told me to take care of it. I’ve never had a hamster, so had no stuff for it. I told her that I can’t keep it because my parents won’t allow it and I don’t have anything for it. She told me to put the hamster into a box from shoes and no one is going to find out. Young and stupid I did it but I realized very quickly that’s not the solution. Thankfully my friend who had experience with hamster took the hamster the next day but my clasmate got so mad over it. She demanded me to pay her money or she will tell my parents, so I told them sooner than she had a chance and my mother called to her mother about it and my classmate had a talk with her mother about responsible animal keeping later. She had to apologize lol.
I think it all gets boiled down to the fact that the smaller or/and less human-like an animal is the more they are viewed as an object and not a living being. One of the many mentalities we,as a society, have towards animals that need to change but disappointingly don't see it happening soon...and it's exhausting.
Exactly as it’s noticeable in dog breeds alone. While at least in North America there are efforts from influencers to destigmatize pitbulls, doberman, rottweilers and the like, problems with shih tzus and chihuahuas are often chalked up to “small dog syndrome” when those breeds are actually fairly intelligent with the right training.
I feel extremely nauseous, thank you for talking about this. I’ve had so many traumatic pet deaths and to see people find it funny is repulsive. Animals are like children, they have the smarts of babies and instincts of primal hormonal creatures, they should be respected and loved with consideration to their individual needs. I hope these people never get to have another pet and cruel mass breeding operations become illegal so these creatures are less available. No child should even have a pet if you can’t trust them to be alone.
I absolutely despise when parents get their young children pets to teach them responsibility. Animals aren’t a “lesson” and there is no such thing as a kids pet! Often, fish or small rodents are marketed as kids pets. This leads to them living sad lives in a toy cage as a decoration in a child’s playroom. Parents should NEVER leave pets as a child’s full responsibility. They lose interest, they forget, it’s what they do, they cannot hold the full responsibility of caring for a living thing at a young age. Lazy parenting and horrible abuse of animals. When I was in high school, I did extensive research and got a hamster, not my first pet, but my first rodent. My father was very upset that I spent hundreds on bedding, a bin cage, toys, and high quality food on a “cheap animal.” Just because you spent less on it doesn’t mean the creature’s life is worth less, or that their quality of life should at all be lower
Exactly! There are great robotic toys that have teached me way more about responsibility than any pet would tbh, because they're more interactable than animals. But I would get disinterested a lot of times and stop caring about it. Now of that was a pet it would be horrific, as it would have died. If you want to teach your kid with a pet, fully care for that pet yourself and maybe show the kid what you do so that it gets interested in helping, but only with close supervision! I did the same with fish. Saved a lot of money to get a good setup for some guppies and checked on them every day. But a parent shouldn't force that on a child. I only cared for them so good because I actually wanted it.
I had a friend who really loved her hamster and I swear on my mama, it lived for 5 years. Which from what I know is really long for a hamster. She did also have a vet family member, so maybe she was extra aware of pet research and care.
Hamster abuse is so bad online, proper hamster care is one of my main interests and I've had two dwarf hamsters before so seeing those types of videos of people making fun of their hamsters deaths enrages me even more. What I can say is: Hamsters are fragile and need highly specific and at times very expensive care, they are NOT for children. Hamsters aren't toys, they often don't want anything to do with humans, let alone be played with. Thank you for calling out this abuse!
Not a hamster but I had this guinea pig named chubs when i was 16,I felt like that little guy was a piece of me i felt like I was his dad and when he died at the ripe age of 6 years and 7ish months I broke down and had to take the day off of school, I grieved for hours but before I buried him in the backyard I thought to myself and decided that chubs deserved a nice place to rest so I went out and spent my day hiking up too this nice little overlook I had passed before. I buried chubs up there and to this day I still recognize exactly where he lies. He was smart and a energetic little fellow and i know hamsters are a lot different than guinea pigs but I still feel like they deserve the same love and care that any pet gets
I remember having a similar panic over this one conversation I had with an ex-friend So, to preface, his GF is/was (idk i dont keep up with him anymore) a sociopath. Genuinely. Actually. Not hyperbole, a literal sociopath. One time I was hanging out with friend with a group of his friends and his girlfriends. We were just having fun and roleplaying and whatever until at some point the conversation rolls to the topic of rats. (I love rats, fucking fight me on that. They are small, cute, intelligent, and are amazing animals.) So my friend's GF admits that she, as a kid, picked up her pet rat and put in the microwave for 3 minutes and watched it pop. And I noted a how gross and cruel that is, of course being a tad more lenient on the matter because, well, she was a kid. Until she noted that she was fully aware of what she was doing. So, obviously, I freaked out a bit more, saying that they are extremely intelligent animals that can feel pain the same way we do. It's not even comparable to the fish where we're still unsure if they can perceive pain as, well pain. Friend jumps in and says "It's just an animal. It's a pest. We deal with pests however way we want to." And at that point I don't even give either of them the time of day. I told them straight up that they were both sick fucks for even trying to validate that sort of behavior and wiped both of them from contact. Later I learned he was also kinda fucked in the head so, lesson learned: casual animal abuse/ abuse validation is a MAJOR red flag. I dodged a tactical nuke with that one.
@@PlayerTenji95 Literally my thoughts exactly. Also now that I had time to think about it I remember why my friend's GF started talking about rats. We were in a Roleplaying game and another friend of said friend of the story was dressed to be a rat-man. I voiced how I loved rats, because I am just a general animal lover and then his GF piped up with said story in response.
Tiktok is a dumpster fire. There's literally no empathy about anything there, or instagram as well for that matter. People lack a ton of awareness unfortunately, including a majority of parents. I feel like the other side of this is pet birds like budgies because people get them as decoration because they don't know that they're actually very high maintainence so they're stuck in their cages 24/7 until they eventually die. At least I don't hear anyone making fun of their deaths like with hamsters but they are left without a voice and with no awareness. Pet stores should be regulated way more and people should be made aware of what you're actually getting into before buying just for a gift or because you saw one cute video or whatever. It's sad.
i have seen so many videos inside funny cat compilations of just antagonising the cat or straight up sitting there dying laughing with a f ing camera when there cat is stuck or provoking them when they are showing CLEAR signs that they arent having it, nothing worse then wanting to watch a funny cat video and its just a cat in a dangerous situation and a human dying of laughter as it dangles way too high like its gunna fall and is in distress
THIS, I saw a video of a woman who just let her cat around an open candle and laughed when it’s tail caught on fire. Like that’s so extremely dangerous, and it’s clear it was set up on purpose since most cat owners know, or i hope they know that they shouldn’t leave open candles in reach of cats, since they’re curious and will likely burn themselves or their fur. I’m glad most of the comments were people calling her out, but it’s just sad content like that is allowed cause it falls under the “cute cat video” category
I absolutely HATE when animals are treated as one-off toys instead of actual living beings. Hamsters, small dog breeds, fish, they're the most common to suffer from this. People will adopt them without prior research all because of their cute appearances, and then later forget about them after making very lazy and unprepared attempts at caring for such animals. The most common culprits of this act are celebrities, especially influencers and reality TV stars. They'll only adopt a pet just to boost fame, and then push them aside after a few videos, sometimes even making their fates unknown. What people need to know before they consider adoption is that pets aren't a toy or accessory you own to fit in with everyone else. They're a LIFE. When you own one, it's your job to make sure the animal lives a good healthy lifespan.
I saw a tiktok of a hamster that the owner let walk around their apartment then the hamster went on the owners hand (the owner held it out and the hamster got onto it out of their own will) and everyone was so suprised that the hamster trusted the owner animals are supposed to trust their owner it shouldent be a suprise
Why can't people just Handle animals properly? My baby girl I named Monster because she bit me was so lively and I loved her, my mum doing the research and helping me, and her death was because my step dad had stressed her out one night I miss my baby, and it hurts how people can't treat hamsters correctly :(
finally someone is talking about this!! i've been bothered by this by years now, and nobody seemed to be paying attention to this. hamsters are fragile animals and even though i never had one, seeing those people laughing at their deaths its just hearthbreaking to be honest.
It's also the pet stores fault as well (assuming most of these people get their hamsters from big chain pet stores like PetSmart and Petco), because most big chain pet stores don't care about the welfare of the animals and don't have very strict background checks meaning people like this can get animals just to abuse them, and the stores feed you bad care, and sell stuff unusable or sometimes out right dangerous It's really sad tbh
my hamster was about to go throught torpor (hibernation) but i caught him in the act, wrapped him up in a blanket and gave him a banana, that was it. Everything changed after that and he got to live a better life because of reasearch
Hamsters are animals that I have had all my life. I've always been annoyed by how people treat these little creatures. Every hamster I had I treated with a lot of respect and they all lived to be 3 years old (normal lifespan of a hamster)
when i lost my two pet snakes (long story, wanted one the breeder talked my parents into buying 2, snakes are solitary, so i basically put a large wooden divider into the middle of the therrarium to have essentially 2 seperate ones, but the door was one door so if it was open the whole thing was) i cried for days, and i still blame myself for forgetting the door that day. i went to refill the water bowls and in between coming back with water they had both escaped. i was fucking 17, like i wasnt young and i still cried like a bitch. i couldnt imagine just casually admitting to burying my fucking hamster alive on accident and then laughing it off what is wrong with these people.
i had rats from when i was 10 to about when i was 13, and unfortunately hadn’t treated them the nicest in the beginning since i was a child. one of them had died early due to improper care which absolutely crushed me. from then on i vowed to give my rats the best life they could have ever had and the rest of them lived regular lives of over two years (excluding a few that i had gotten later from a shitty breeder but that’s a whole other conversation in itself)
I'm still really glad 5-year old me walked in the pet store, saw baby gerbils, and said "Ew! I don't want that!" because she wasn't ready to take care of a pet. In the present, I have a pet frog along with the experience and research behind me to ensure he lives a happy, healthy life! I couldn't agree more that doing your research, being responsible, and allocating the space and resources are essential to being a pet owner.
I really don't understand the normalization of animal cruelty or animal abuse in general, the fact that people just laugh at hampsters or small animals having absolutely brutal or gruesome deaths is like, really gross???
NO FOR REAL. And people say it isn't happening to, like the fact i was able to in, literally less than 5 minutes, find the screenshots i took on tiktok is baffling because why is it so common people think its funny versus tragic
as someone who's had a hamster, and deeply cared for her and her wellbeing, i was distraught when she died. she had to be put down because of the tumor she scratched open, so she didn't die horrifically thank god, but it was just really traumatic for me to lose her. if anyone laughed at me telling that to them i'd be disturbed, disgusted and upset as hell. i LOVED that hamster so for someone to just laugh at that??? i could not imagine what's going through someone's head to have that type of reaction
I had bunnies growing up and although they were approved by the adoption place, had hay and proper food, my parent was taking care of them and weren't giving them the best care (never took them to a vet, handled them horribly and aggressively, fed them bread and even refused to get them meds for their arthritis). After they passed away, I have had nightmares since then about bunnies and felt guilt I couldn't do more despite I was a kid back then. Idk how you can just have a pet horrifically die on you and just think its funny.
Real. I have nightmares all the time about accidentally mistreating my fish, I can't imagine you having that and it actually happened :( I mean you didn't mistreat them, but you couldn't help them being mistreated or change it because of your parents So sad. I don't get it, I'm always scared of doing something wrong with my animals. I don't get how people can just do that to them
I feel like this is one of the only cases where saying ‘you wouldn’t do x if it were a dog!’ Is valid. People wouldn’t laugh it someone said ‘I drowned my dog in the bathtub’, ‘I forgot my dog somewhere while on vacation and never looked for it’ or ‘My dog had a horrible, painful death’
Thank you for shedding light on this topic. I had a hamster and her name was Bella. I was 10 when I got her and boy I did months of research I. Was DETERMINED. She lived to be about four years before resting easy due to a lung infection. She was the sweetest hamster and I wouldn’t trade her for the world. Miss you Bella.❤
god i wish more people could understand this. like just because an animal is small it doesn’t matter?????? what. all creature lives matter NO MATTER the size or how you perceive it. i’m a bird owner and OH MY GOSH i have heard so many awful stories about what people have done to their birds, especially budgies. budgies are small, cute, and relatively inexpensive AT FIRST. And a lot of the times they are purchased by parents for their child. people regard budgies as a “beginner bird or pet” and it drives me up the WALL because how could give an EXOTIC ANIMAL to a child to care for?? like tell me you don’t care about animal lives without telling me. budgies as well as other so called “beginner birds” are often neglected and abused. don’t even get me started on wing clipping. ugh. great video, these things need to be talked about more.
I’m actually saving up to get a bird, I’ve been doing mass research and I’m probably getting a pigeon! I would never abuse an animal and I would never clip a bird’s wings, like, why get a flying animal if you don’t want it to fly? And I am personally disgusted by the animal abuse to animals, it makes me feel ill when people talk about abusing their pets, it’s so sad honestly.
@ omg, that’s so exciting!!!!! i love pigeons! I have a green cheek conure myself :D it’s so refreshing seeing someone do good research before purchasing an animal. and yeah, wing clipping is awful. people who do it claim it protects birds, when in reality it can cause awful injuries and health problems. i’m so thrilled for you, good luck with your pigeon!!
@@simpletti2017 thanks! I’m probably not going to get the pigeon soon, but once I have enough funds and room, I’m either getting a frog or a pigeon! It depends in what is available :) And honestly, who would clip a bird’s wing, like, if you want a bird but don’t want it to fly, get a feather duster
I had a hamster growing up that died of natural causes ( She was almost 3.) And I remember blaming myself for it for years because I loved her so much. Seeing people comment about how funny it is when they die has always bothered me. I have a mouse now named Fat Nugget that I rescued when a woman brought him into petsmart because her son got an F. I've had him nearly a year now and he is the sweetest little dude ever. Just because they are a rodent does not mean they don't love us. Nugget adores giving kisses will run up my arm to snuggle into my hair and will let all new people touch him. To think someone was going to have him killed because of a grade is so soul crushing to me.
2:47 The wave of anxiety that fell over me when you said this. Can someone explain how this happened? The fact that it has no explanation to why it did that is making it more disturbing for some reason.
I wish people were more aware that it's crucial not to interact with abusive content. It has to be reported to the platform and if you can, report it to local authorities. I also think it would be beneficial, if it doesn't already exist, to have a space, be it Reddit or another website, where people could signal to others a problematic user to ask for people to help identify them or the area where to live to report them to the local authorities.
quick correction!! hamsters do not go into hibernation, though they do go into torpor, which is an emergency state that occurs bc of them being too cold for too long. if your hamster is in torpor, that means something has gone horribly wrong and you need to carefully warm them up NOW. also the microwave one... you shouldn't be bathing your hamster at all!! the oils in their fur can't handle it, and giving them access to a sandbath (chinchilla SAND, not dust, works great) will let them keep comfortable and clean! (rant starts) also WHY DOES A FOUR YEAR OLD HAVE A HAMSTER, they should be kept by adults/older teens :p anyway otherwise I agree completely, hamsters are so mistreated :(( i got mine at 8 after i begged my parents for years, but thankfully i got curious and started researching proper care. sure, it still took a while to get to the level i am at now (thinking the standards of my local rescue are far too low and writing a thesis paper thingy on the little guys) but like just because they're 15€ at the pet shop and are cute and fluffy doesn't mean they are appropriate for kids to "learn responsibility", no living creature is!! the parent should be responsible for any pet in a household with kids. thank you for empathising with their struggles (which is the bare minimum that many somehow don't reach??), when i tell people i keep hamsters their response, as it often is, shouldn't be "hahah when i was a kid my hamster died bc it was stupid enough to jump off my hand a metre from the ground" (which by the way, isn't them being stupid!! they just have garbage vision and depth perceptipn since you know... in the wild they are burrowers and ground dwellers, and crepuscular/nocturnal?? why would they need to those skills in the wild?? it would be more stupid to evolve those skills despite never having a use for them in the wild imo 🙄) like if i told you i had a dog you wouldn't laugh about your childhood pet's tragic demise?? why is it okay to do for a hamster?? ugh. (rant over) anyway i am trying to make a difference, and i am planning to be a foster home for my country's hamster rescue when i have the resources/finances needed. if anyone needs tips or has questions about these furry potatos, I am always happy to help :D
I used to be extremely hyperfixated on hamsters when I was 11-13 and any was obsessed with researching about their natural habitat and enclosure size and all of that so it really irks me how someone can have a pet and just not care.
Something that I think is weirdly common with small animals is putting the animal in a microwave. Where is the supervision? Better yet, WHY ARE PARENTS ALLOWING KIDS
plus aren’t microwaves usually mounted high to a wall? don’t know if this is all people but all houses i grew up in had them *if* the microwave was mounted up, how would the child be able to get up?
@@Allister_TheGhostin the "defense" of the children here They ain't that dumb They can just get a chair and get on top of it to open the microwave right? I mean I used to use chairs to reach higher places when I was a child.
Sadly I think most people would rather laugh off a death of an animal raaather than accept that they couldn't provide basic care to an animal. They'll use different ways to save their self perception, but in doing so, dismiss their mistakes and cruelty leading to the continuing ignorance. Unwillingness to accept responsibility in abuse cases mixed with the elevated feeling of control that comes with being a provider to anything, especially living creatures leads too the making of a very cruel person.
When I was a kid I got like really hyperfixated on hamster care and fish keeping despite never intending to own either fish or hampsters and even now if I hear that someone is intending to buy a hamster or fish I will infodump for at minimum 30 minutes and then point them to hamster/fish TH-camrs that I like. (I love munchie i still occasionally watch her videos.) This did come in handy when my grandmother was given goldfish because I was able to convince her to stop keeping the three tiny goldies in a vase (with no filter or heater or pump mind you.) and (sadly one passed away.) I got her to keep them in an actual tank I think the first one was like 10 gallons? But the fish got bigger so I convinced her to get a 25 gallon. Sadly one of the fish passed away recently and they don’t know enough about aquatic plants to liveplant the tank but one now huge goldfish in a 25 gallon is so much better than three tiny ones in a vase. Also my grandma talks to her fish like people and has inadvertently taught the living one to slap the surface of the water when he wants food. Idk how he does it but I’ve heard it. (Assuming it’s a male because it would chase the other fish around pressing on its belly which is like a thing goldfish do to help push eggs out of the other one. We just let them lay any possible eggs in the tank and eat them because we dint want baby goldies. I think they’re feeder goldfish? Also her fish like playing with toys, she got them glow in the dark stones (made for aquariums) and the two fish would like push them around, we also got them a fake anemone and they would pick it up and move it around. It was cool to watch I didn’t know goldfish liked to play I’ve only ever seen them be kept in abusive setups for kids beforehand.) Also we got them 1 snail (yes I know they’re like horrible in the tank hobby because they’ll multiply a lot but we got 1 and figured if it got out of hand we could put the snails in the old tank we had for the fish.) and they are them. Good enrichment for the fish I guess? The living fish is around 5-6 years old now and my grandma is surprised but like when you don’t abuse fish they’ll live a lot longer. I wish I could get her to liveplant it though. 2:59 the only time I’ve laughed is like the ‘oh my god that’s awful why did you do that’ uncomfortable laugh. It’s really sad when these things happen but sometimes it’s just like so absurd that I laugh just like out of ‘what how and why why did you think that was a good idea.’ I hope none of these people laugh from the knowledge of the pain the animal went through that’s evil. I hunt and I’d never laugh at a deer I shot i have respect for the animals. I feel like people just don’t view small animals as like equally living and conscious. I’ve seen far more negative reactions to the concept of me hunting and eating an animal (you get like 50 pounds of meat minimum that you don’ have to buy especially if you butcher it yourself so like why wouldn’t I do that deer will also just straight up destroy the freshwater ecosystem and overgraze because colonists hunted their predators so like people where I live should hunt to make sure the population stays in check. Also the taxes from hunting supplies, weapons, ect. go to animal conservation which is a good system. Also in hunters safety which you’re required by law to take it teaches you a lot of survival skills in case you get lost. And a bunch of other useful info so like I would personally say that shooting a deer is way way more ethical than causing a horrific and gruesome death of a small animal for literally no reason. When it could easily be avoided by doing research on the animal.) than I have from hamsters in abusive setups/that have died in a horrible manner irl. It concerns me, is it because deer are large?? I’ve also heard people irl talk about how it doesn’t matter their treatment of the animal because it only lives for two maybe 3 years and that makes me more sad, like your life is short and you have to live it in a horrible situation?? I think it living for a short amount of time would give you and excuse to treat the animal even better and splurge extra money on it more often. 5:26 this reminds me of recently when retics became illegal in Florida and police decided they had to k*ll this guy’s snakes when he wanted to move them out of the state and into homes where they were allowed (he had them before they became illegal.) the way they disbatched the animals was so graphic and horrifying and in the police cam footage you can see and then they take this guy’s clearly labeled (he also pointed out that it was legal for them not to hurt it) legal snake that he raised from a baby and they dispatched it. It makes me so angry I don’t think those officers got punished either. The man who owned the facility was also straight up crying (which yeah the just killed your beloved pet.) like way more people would be upset if this happened to a bunch of puppies they used a mf nail gun on DOCILE HUMAN RAISED snakes and didn’t even bother to scramble them after to prevent suffering. I hate cops so much Imve only ever had bad experiences with them. The dudes also turned their mics off before going in which is super suspicious. New England reptile group has a good video on it. I love snakes so much and it’s disgusting that people get away with blatant animal cruelty. (Mind you even if the snakes had to be k*led which imo they most certainly didn’t there are so many more ethical ways to do it. You can see the snakes writhing around on the floor after they stuck them. Also the mother legal snake had about 2500 dollars worth of babies in her because she was pregnant so that at least should get like repercussions because even ignoring the snake abuse that’s so much money. Also I met a guy with (snake was super friendly I held him a bunch) an illegal in Maine (dude was transporting him to a reptile show they were legal in NH where he bought the snake, he bought it as a rescue because the og person could no longer care for it he lives in NH) snake and openly admitted he didn’t have a problem with me holding it in broad daylight because (a the snake was super friendly and was raised by people and was handled since it was a baby so it had no problems with people and was used to help people who are afraid of snakes get over their fear.) cops have no clue how to identify snakes properly. Also the two baby pythons he was also bringing to the show were super cute they were just 2 feet long and one of them was named Linguini super fun to hold and learn about the species. (He was the driver of the bus on a college tour btw lol. That’s why he was in Maine with his snakes. Whenever we would stop and have off time he would let us hold the snakes. Big friendly snake was 10 feet long! Which sounds big but not really tbh when he’s on u. Holding big snakes is fun it feels like getting a big hug because they hold onto you. Also snake scales feel super cool.) Absolutely love your art btw! You’ve got a really cool style this is the first time seeing one of your videos! I shall watch more! I’d love to see you cover more animal related stuff! Like a video dedicated to fish abuse because that’s also super common or bird abuse because that’s also super common. The most tragic pet death I think my household has experienced was a cat we kept separate from my sisters pet budgies. We had to temporarily put the birds downstairs but figured they would be fine temporarily. I was the only one home and I had noise canceling headphones on and the first thing that happened when my sister got back was my sister yelling at me about why I’d opened the cadge, I hadn’t even gone downstairs. We ended up figuring out that the cat named Sadness had figured out how to open the cadge. I was around 12. My sister got back right as the cat had managed to catch her second bird and she held him as he passed away. :( it was really sad me and my sister buried them under a willow tree out back. She kept some of their old feathers from the cadge to remember them. I blame myself a lot since if I just went downstairs even once I could have prevented it. This cat was also insane once she fell into a thing of antifreeze(my dad was working on the truck) and before he could catch her so we could give her an emergency bath she ran off into the woods and disappeared for a couple days. We think she must have licked a bunch off of her because when she got back her sclera were bright yellow luckily she lived and was well enough that in a year she had some kittens but that was very scary. She was pregnant again when she killed my sisters birds and my sister was super angry at the cat (I personally don’t blame the cat for anything because it’s a cat, I wish we knew beforehand that she could figure out how to open it, you had to push down and then pull to open it. It was weird. The cadge was on the floor but it shouldn’t have been knocked open like that.) we knew a guy who’s barn cat had passed so my parents gave the cat to him. (This isn’t a euphemism I live in a small farming town) A couple years later she got budgies again and we kept them in her room (the cats were not allowed in) and we made sure to put a carabiner that you had to unscrew to open the cage to unlock it. Sadly the budgies never warmed up to my sister despite her attempts to befriend them and she didn’t want to keep them locked up in a cadge forever instead of letting them out to give them enrichment so we ended up rejoining them. (Mind you me and my mom are also super allergic to birds so we couldn’t even go in her room which was another reason she ended up agreeing to rehoming them.) I’m glad we found a better home for the birds I think the person we gave them too also had a couple other budgies so they have more than just each other now.
I didn't read your whole comment but so far I agree soo much. Ty for caring so much about animals! And the hunting part is soo true. People will quickly hate hunters (idk if they all think they are doing it for fun?), but not take one second to think about the meat they eat from farmed animals. Hunting animals for meat (if populatuon control is the main goal too imo) is 100 times better than most of the meat from farms (with pigs it's like literally 99% factory farmed and with chickens it's not much better). Like most meat that you can buy comes from literal places of neglect and often torture, but people will come at a hunter for shooting an animal that has lived a free and way better life, for population control, instead... some people really need to set priorities. I'm not counting trophy hunting, but most hunters don't do that and I'm sure they're not happy about killing animals.
@SmurfieDurfie yeah the way pigs are killed en mass in farms is also pretty horrific, a lot of the meat industry is pretty awful I usually try to do research on where a company gets it’s meat before I’ll buy it.
@SmurfieDurfieI’ve heard of a story where a policeman *attempted* to shoot a dog without cause. I heard of another story where a policeman ended up actually shooting a dog, only because it barked at him. People are sick…
I'm absolutely shocked and baffled that this is even a thing. I had a hamster when I was a teenager and while I don't claim to be the world's best hamster owner, I adored that little guy and did my best to make sure he lived a happy life, even if it was naturally much shorter than I would have liked to have him. They're such smart, loving little creatures if you give them even half a chance to get to know you, so it's hard to think of people treating them so poorly. :(
I hate how common ‘funny hampster death!’ Stories are because they are never funny and just literally ab^se. The only time one hamptster was Vaugely amusing was a rare case of a story not involving ab^se but rather a hammy getting scared when someone farted really loud and it passed. I get why people can find that specific one funny it funny, but it is just really sad to loose an animal. Especially one so small and fragile that is depending on you.
Thankfully I’ve never had any traumatic pet death experience, anytime I felt I couldn’t take care of a pet I had, I’d tell my mom and she’d find someone who’s better fit to take care of it. I’d much rather lose any creature as a pet than it lose its life to unnatural causes under my care. I wish more people would do this, rather than just neglecting their pets.
Sadly all my childhood hamsters had tragic deaths and even though it happened while I was between 4-8, I still feel awful about it over a decade later. I was terrified of these little fluffballs bc I got bit once (that's surprisingly very traumatising for a 4 year old) so I was always scared to go near them. I would never clean their cage or interact with them bc I was scared they'd attack me again. I still don't understand why my mom kept buying new ones even though I was insisting that I can't care for them. Rest in peace - Max, Yuki, Reita, Chan-Chan and Fussel. Sorry I couldn't take better care of you.
It disgusts me how much people mistreat these kinds of pets. I keep bettas and I’m really new to it, my first one died and pretty young at that and I was quite heartbroken and felt very responsible for it, I ended up making slight vent art over it. I think the reason people don’t care as much is because these small animals like fish, rodents, hamsters, etc. are nowhere near as human-like and interactive as larger pets such as dogs or cats. I think it creates a disconnect and with the way their gruesome deaths are normalized creates a cycle where we as a society care less and less and find it funnier and funnier when horrible things happen(or worse, when we cause these things). We need to work together to end this normalization so thank you for addressing this topic.
I did my research when I got my hamster. She lived a happy healthy life and it shocks me how irresponsible some people can be. I understand how some of these ppl were young but jeez It’s sad how small animals(such as hamsters in this case) get abused so often and no one does anything about it.
Ohh god hamsters. I had one as a kid, I got her at like 7 and I think she died when I was 8 or 9. She didn’t have the best cage sadly(it was one of those cages from like petco) but we did clean and feed her often. She had her little purple ball she’d roll around the house in, I loved hammy. She died via consuming toxic fumes, she stayed in my mom’s room and mom spray painted her closet doors without taking her cage out. I found her later on cold, and stiff, and was so scared I did something wrong. My mom wouldn’t even come into the room to help, and burry her because she knew it was her fault, and pretended to not know how she died(she told me this years later). I thought her death was my fault for YEARS(I esp thought this after I found out her cage could’ve been better n stuff), and seeing ppl laugh about their hamsters dying is insane to me. It was not funny when she died to kid me, and it still isn’t today. Rest in peace hammy.
I used to rehome 'free to a good home, the kids got bored of it' hamsters on FB as a teen (don't currently, due to being at uni), and honestly it was sad how much I really could not trust people to take care of them. Two died of illness due to incorrect housing/diet when I went on holiday, from people who had had hamsters in past...... and another potentially buried him alive before they told me he was dead (also had had hamsters, if they ever get another I'm gonna tell them although they i think were pushed into burying asap so not really on them). It's great to see someone talking about this because as a hamster lover it saddens me how little people care to research these guys. It's so easy to find information, and you can straight up just as your vet, as a vet student I can confirm vets are happy to provide care info, but people really do not care and its so fucked. Really highlights to me how we should maybe make it harder to go and buy a whole living feeling sentient being than it is
I’d like to add to this, I’ve been the owner of a pair of bearded dragons for about two years now, for most of it I was an attentive owner and I cared about them a lot, BUT, I started high school and had more and more responsibilities that took my attention from them, making me forget to feed them, soak them, forget to clean their tank, and you know what I’m doing? I’m dropping them off at Ash Hill’s reptiles today, he takes in reptiles who need homes and eventually finds one for them, like a shelter for reptiles!! They don’t have a good life here, so I’m taking action to give them better ones, that is how you handle smth like this
I had two guinea pigs, and me and my mom loved them both. One was named munchkin, and the other was named loki. My brother is autistic, and he shouts a lot. After 3 weeks, me and my mom decided to give it to one of our family members so they wouldn't die of stress from the shouting. Also, we have dogs so obviously that was another factor that could've stressed them out. They are now living happy, quiet lives in the house of the family member we gave loki and munchkin to.
Jeez, when I turned 11 and surprised with a baby budgie (yep.. from my cousins on my birthday) I was lucky enough that my mother had a friend who kept birds and told me it was ill so we got it checked up on at the vet and treated. I proceeded to do lots of research on budgies and now I am a crazy bird lady at 21 (pfp is of my current birbies I care for them so much). I really wish they didn't surprise me with a pet like I knew so little that I always got scared when my bird would hide her feet to sleep lmao I kept thinking she was missing feet but yeah she was well cared for she died when I turned 17 as the vet had to put her down because she could barely lay eggs anymore at that elderly age so she lived a long life considering she was on deaths door when my cousins got her malnourished from some crappy breeder. It was nice having a sister during the rough growth periods of my life as an only child caring for her helped me feel way less alone. (she had a hunch back all her life from that breeder's lack of care I am mad my cousins paid whoever made her but she was so sweet I am glad I got to give her a good life, I often cry because I wasn't there when we had her put down I was too much of a mess to watch it I just hope she knew how much she meant to me that I still have a picture of her framed for my current birds to say hi to) Am happy my dad has taken an interest in helping me care for these two cute birbs, he researches everything even if I say there's a mark on them somewhere he assists me in checking it out and feeding them the right food and clean drinking water.
Honestly kids shouldn't be in charge of any animal Especially a small little creature Genuinely these people need help if you think any animal dying in any situation is funny "Haha my hamster exploded in the microwave so funny" No its not funny you need help Even a 2-3 year old should know that a living animal doesn't go in the microwave
I was literally wincing in pain and in shock as I listened to the "funny hamster death stories." Like if you're laughing over the death of a pet, I agree you're very much a concerning individual.
I was on TikTok and I found a video of this girl STANDING and holding her DWARF hamster with one hand. As you can guess,the hamster walked off of her hand because they DO NOT have depth perception and it fell from that height to her floor. She didn’t bother to save it, she just looked shocked. People were trying to justify it in the comments saying the hamster is fine. One thing people should know is hamster should be handled closer to the floor, not STANDING HUMAN HEIGHT.
The only time one of my hams died too early was my first one. At it wasn't some gruesome freak incident. He just got sick. We tried to treat him, but such small animals as hamsters are not easy to treat (especially back when we didn't know there are specialized vets. I was only 8 and this was my first ham). Unfortunately, the illness killed him. Other four ones lived until rightful, elderly age.
This too but with fish. So many people take care of fish improperly and it makes me so sad. Especially with goldfish and beta fish, they’ve gotten the worst of it. It saddens me.
Honestly, abuse of ALL pets is way, way too normalised. Especially smaller ones as explained in the video, but also cats and dogs. Backyard breeders, "accidental" litters putting an often young mama in danger becaise people dont spay and neuter ant then let their animal escape. Designer breeds. Improper training. Lack of enrichment. Everytime I go outside I see someone walking an un-brushed longhair dog. Everywhere, doodles, merle frenchies, munchkin cats, pugs that wheeze with every breath and people think its normal. On tiktok, "help my pet is sick what do I do" TAKE IT TO THE VET. Birds also. People trying to hand raise baby budgies though they require expert care. Small cages. And don't even get me started on exotic/ wild animals like big Floppa or Peanut the squirrel (rip). Ugh I could rant about this for hourssss
Minor correction: we *don’t know* what’s really up with Munchkin cats, and deeper scientific research is sorely needed. Trying to find any real source concerning the welfare of munchkin cats besides «trust me bro» is insanely difficult and inflamed to hell and back because part of the cat fancy pretty much utterly lost it’s shit over the cats being ugly and spreading unfound rumours about it’s health, similiar to how people kept perpetuating the idea that blue and isabella dogs had health issues when that notion had no actual real basis. The Scottish Fold also originally got excluded from one of the major show rings because it was assumed without any testing that it must hear bad due to it’s ear shape. The Fold hears fine, it’s innate health issues even in heterozygous individuals is completly unrelated to it’s hearing. TLDR: The animal breeding hobby is completly nuts, but for other reasons you’d think and alot of shit just gets assumed. It’s also kinda insane that for the amount of concern the munchkin generates, there haven’t been any real conclusive investigations yet. As for exotic animals, that’s a whole lot of other can of worms. What does even count as an exotic animal?
i’m someone who commonly calls people out for hamster, guinea pig, and rabbit abuse. a lot of channels hate me. i got my first guinea pig as a birthday present, i will admit she was abused, and i am forever disappointed in myself for it. she died when someone left my door open and my dog got in and grabbed her, she had a heart attack and it was traumatizing. i can’t believe anyone could laugh at the death of these animals.
Firstly, well constructed video! Excellent talking points. People need to do research on animals no matter what species, but ESPECIALLY with rodents, fish, and birds in my opinion. Hamsters and Parakeets/Budgies get the ESPECIALLY short end of the stick... Hence why they tend to pass in horrid ways, or WAY before they naturally would. The amount of people I've met that were SHOCKED that parakeet lifespans are WAY past 2-3 years is SO disheartening. Regardless of lifespan length, I think giving a living creature a high quality of life should ALWAYS be the goal. Parents also need to stop giving children animals and basically going "figure it out, good luck!" Like... Your kid is freshly outta diapers, and you're gonna put em in charge of another living being??? That's how I got my first two rats, actually... Parent got their kids rats, the kids neglected them, the parents rehomed them when the duo were on death's door. (They lived VERY happy lives, I'm proud to say. Lived to their full life expectancy, happy and unburdened, even with one having developed cancer late in life.) I'm always happy to see more people talking about the difference between finding humor in something grim, and uh... Whatever laughing at the horrendous demise of these critters would be called....... Like I understand that humor is nuanced, and sometimes when you're in shock or traumatized that the best you can do is laugh. The amount of trauma-bonding and jokes my best friends and I have exchanged about things we've gone through or seen, lol.... Even then, that's situational. Time and place, ya know? And I don't think, in all the jokes we've cracked, that we've ever LAUGHED about the things the level of messed up that a lot of folks cackle about. The UTI turning kidney failure one is a good example for me. I sure don't find it funny that an animal had to go out like that. Yet I DO find humor in the exact same thing nearly happening to ME... UTI turned very near kidney failure about 3 years ago, now. I can laugh about that... Because it didn't end badly. It wasn't a tragedy in the end. I wasn't laughing at the time, for sure, but now? I find it hysterical because I went from literally HOURS from being put on dialysis after almost a week of unsuccessfully getting my kidneys to work again, to my kidneys abruptly going "OH WE HAVE A JOB TO DO" and functioning normally. Like???? Hello????? My close friends and I laugh about it, now, and I crack jokes about it sometimes... But I'd like to think that if I HAD met my end that way that nobody would've cracked jokes and laughed about it.
I think that among the pets that get commonly abused/mistreated are also definitely dogs. People say 'oh dogs are really low maintenance/easy to take care of' or that they're easier to take care of than cats, but the reality is that they aren't and people just have a tendency to mistreat them more so it's normalized [i.e not taking them outside to play/for walks, leaving them locked in a cage while at work for hours on end, getting physical with them etc] I do think that it's a little understandable to hear a crazy story about a hamster's death and give a shocked kind of laugh but actively saying like 'LMFAOOO THAT'S SO FUNNY' is kind of insane,, like no that was a living, breathing animal that died due to neglect or terrible circumstances
I hear many people say that “If you can hurt animals and find injuring them entertaining, you can feel the same way about the killing or the death of a human”. I believe that so much. Can’t believe we live in such a society where death of animals like this aren’t cared about as much as they should be.
This video beings me back at how horribly I cared for my blue betta fish in 2015.I was once the kind of kid who kept putting sea animals in hot water in fear of them getting cold, so when my teacher gave me the Wal-Mart bought betta fish (fishes in supermarkets are also a hell of a rabbit hole), I never knew much of how to take care of my new pet afterwards. That betta fish only lived for five months in a poorly lit tank the size of what I can say is like a water bottle compared to any fish tank out there, no filter as well, and it was all thanks to my fear of my fish dying. I decided that the "best" option was to take the fish out of its tank, clean the tank and replace the tank with clean freshwater, which alongside my germy hands, resulted in the betta fish's demise from what I can remember under five hours. To this day when I look back at my betta fish, I feel bad as to how horrible I took care of it, and I should've known better as to how to take care that betta fish. One thing though, that fish tought me something, and is when you're taking care of fish, know your research, and have a proper fish tank with the right necessities.
As someone who has owned hamsters for many years it really sickens me how casually some people will talk about their hamsters getting hurt or dying in gruesome ways. I'm sorry, but if you think a animal dying or injuring itself is somehow funny you're just a psycho. One thing that also pisses me off is people calling hamsters dumb and stupid because they tend to jump or walk off of high places. This has NOTHING to do with hamsters being dumb, it has to do with the fact that hamsters simply can't see depth very well and it's your job as the OWNER to make sure they can't walk off high places and injure themselves. Hamsters are great animals and deserve to live good lives. Just because they have short lifespans doesn't mean you can just treat them like crap. Animal cruelty on Tiktok is so normalized it's actually scary.
I really think places that sell pets should be responsible in educating buyers properly, main chain stores like petsmart n stuff usually have all the wrong kinds of care for any animal that isnt a dog or a cat, like their guinea pig cages being TOO small and overpriced. they market these animals to become impulse purchases and then they suffer as a result.
Thank you! People don't take animal abuse seriously when it's not one of the typical fluffy and cute ones people care about, like dogs /cats. All animals matter!
When I tell that my 2 hamsters I died of old age ( The first 3 year old and the second 2 ), I am always called a liar. Why ? Because obviously nobody had an hamster dying of old age. So two , it is just an impossible flex. And then I heard a lot of stories about how their hamsters died because hamster are so ''stupide''. It is just making me angry each time I heard them. Now I have my third hamster andI will assure you that little Mondo will have the same death as the other two. A peacefull one after a life full of enrichissement in his big cage and his secure hamster park. Because I know how to take care of an animal.
Lovely fursona and I agree soo much! People qre extremely hypocritical about animal abuse and will often just call you a ,,snowflake or partypooper" if you call stuff like that out. I can't understand it, it's absolutely disgusting and insane!
5:26 unfortunately not even thats the case as there is so much chihuahua ab_se that is so normalized most think that they naturally are aggressive dogs when in reality the stereotyped behavior of them is actually just a chihuahuas response to years of mistreatment and ab_se. This also happens with Pitbulls, Pitbulls were actually nanny dogs in the past. Now they're treated as these terrible creatures that 'deserve the ab_se'. Even my grandmother who's deeply against animal ab_se tries to constantly excuse the ab_se of them. It sucks
the tiktok live streams where there are like 10+ hamsters running on wheels with rave music and lights that go on for hours severely piss me off. and everyone in the comments is like "LOL HAHAH" "awww so cute" And the OP, to avoid backlash, claims that their "type" of hamster lives in packs in the wild, and people believe it is CRAZY. Hamsters should NEVER be housed with another hamster, let alone multiple.
Some relative got me a rat as a pet as a little kid. I felt bad for it afterwards, but I hated the thing then. I was scared of it, it wasn't a pet to me, it was a vermin in a cage I was forced to keep in my room. I threw it some food and named it after a Naruto character or something, but I could never pet or hold it bc it always tried to bite me. (Wonder if it was even from a pet store or just something they caught in their barn... 9_9) It kept me up at night making all kinds of noise. I still felt really bad after it eventually died though. Just... Ask if a kid actually wants a pet and if they tell you they want one, make sure both of you read up on the animal before you get it. But like, even if you think a lil mouse/rat/hamster is cute, there's a chance the kid won't think it's cute at all. I have ALL the love in my heart now for my weenie dogs but NO to rodents, they still freak me out. Not sorry, I prefer dogs, and the best cat IMO is a good Mouser...
Tbh i believe hampsters should be illegal to own and be a protected animal because HOLY SHIT THEY'RE BEING ABUSED TOO OFTEN Btw yes wild hampsters exists
imaging saying this to a disabled person "nah it doesn't matter that they died due to someone else! they would only live for a year or two!" hamsters are in fact...alive, wow, people! shocker.
Unfortunately my sister was allowed to get parakeets once, and she treated them pretty well for awhile. But after that, she suddenly began neglecting them forcing me to feed and water them l the time because apparently she couldn't take care of her own birds and they all died except one. We got more to accompany her and then every single one died because she refused to get a heater or try to warm them up and they froze to death. She says she still hates herself for how she treated them and she was like 15 but thankfully she learned from it (unfortunately at the cost of the poor birds lives) and knows what she's doing now and takes very very good care of her snake where she lives in her apartment with her partner. Which is relieving to hear.
My mom had hamsters when she was a kid in the '60s, two male Syrians who "didn't get along." There was also a female who died in childbirth, Despite her and her sister's ineptitude, the hamsters warmed up to them, stopped biting their fingers, and showed eagerness to be taken out of their little cage for playtime. Sometimes one would be lost for a while but it always got found again. Looking back, my mom and my aunt didn't know what they should have known about the care of these delicate little rodents. The males died of natural causes; I wonder, since all pet Syrians are descended from a single brother and sister, is this the reason hamsters are now notorious for bizarre deaths? That genetic drift can't be good for them.
One of my favorite animals are bettas, and it's just. So awful how they get treated, and fish in general. Bettas can live up to 5 years, goldfish for 30. People plop them in too small of tanks, no water filtering, no heating, and awful diet, poorly conditoned and mantained water and wonder why they dont live very long. Its sad
Yeah, I have fish, three dwarf gouramis, a group of cardinal tetras, a bristlenose pleco and a female betta named Doll. I'm always constantly trying to learn new things about how to better take care of my animals even on top of the research I did before even getting them, and I'm amazed at how some people just have no regard for living fish. I'm setting them up a new 100 litre tank today, so they're going to like that.
Honestly I feel the same this topic. It's so awful when people just brag about how abusive they were to a smaller animal. The thing is that for parents its the cheapest thing to buy a hamster and "keep it". Parents won't educate their children about the animal cause often than not they just want their kid distracted or fill the kids "need" of owning a puppy/kitten. Dogs or cats seem to be harder to take care of (plus they are a more beloved and liked) so kids first experience is with a hamster or fish. AND with fish (often beta and goldfish) it's another rabbithole of abuse. I personally have seen some trends or fish used for videos for example goldfish getting frozen alive, fish getting fake thrown away basicly suffocating during a video. People are just lazy and "will figure it out" how to take care of an animal. If it's cheap it cannot PoSsbiLY mean that it's harder to keep one. Proper equipment,nutrition and vet visits are expensive so many owners of such animals with opt out for the cheapest stuff. Guinea pigs and hamster suffer too from the same problems they are just less commonly picked because of their size. I think that children should firstly start propetly taking care of a delicate plant before having any kind of pet, as of to show their commitment but i don't thing many of parents have the same way of thinking.
Tiktok is literally a hell scape. People not reading up on what goes into taking an animal, or what it’s habits are, is one of my biggest pet peeves and it’s such a problem on that fucking app. I refuse to use Tiktok cause so many people on there are cruel as shit and I just can’t have that on my heart. I still feel horrible about dropping my hampster when I was 5, he was okay, but I literally cried about for a week, cause I felt so horrible and was terrified he was hurt hurt, they’re small, even though he was only a foot above the ground when I dropped his ball all I could think of is he could die. Hearing about people putting them in microwaves, popping what was probably their fucking balls, and all of these other horrific stories, it fuckin hurts my heart. But makes me thankful that I was a safe home to a total of 3 hammies. This also makes me think about Isabella janke, she did some of the most horrific things to hers.. I hate that women.
And I wish more daycares functioned like the one I went to/my mom worked at when I was a kid, they had multiple small animals at the school, cockatiel, lizards, hampsters, guniepigs, rats, mice, lots of fish too. These animals were never taken out of their cages without a teacher present of which they averaged 3-4, ms.Amanda always showed the kids how to properly handle these small animals, how to hold them, not to squeeze, it was therapeutic for a lot for some of the kids, and also was so fuckin needed. Cause so many parents don’t teach their kids about how to have nice hands. They think it’s funny when the kid pulls the cats tail, and then gets smacked by the cat. They think small animals lives mean nothing and when Billy throws his Guinea pig like a football it’s funny. but we had a black mouse named Silly (one of the kids named him) and bro lived to be like.. 7?? If you take proper care of an animal they can have a longer life, shocker right?? And no animal should be brought into a house that isn’t properly prepared to take the best care of the animal.
Then again parents not teaching their kids in general is a problem. Or even caring for them, idk if you’ve seen 17 diapers lady, but holy shit. I feel like so many people especially on social media only have kids to take pictures and get likes. Forgetting that they need to be taken care of, clothed, fed, LOVED, for a minimum of 18 years. They aren’t accessories, don’t get an animal or have a kid Willy nilly, that’s literally a whole ass life
Same I agree. Tysm for caging about animals like that! I was also super sad and distraught after I took in an injured baby bird. It died sadly and I felt horrible that I couldn't safe it, but most people didn't get it. I don't know how people don't feel bad about ,,small life".
I’ve wanted nothing more than a hamster since I first saw hamtaro when I was like 4-6? But was always told no growing up. I’m 29, still don’t have my own hamster yet. But I’m doing full blown back to back research into everything I can about hamster care, because I want to be the best hammie momma I can be! People laughing at the pain and suffering of the little babies makes me so angry! Their lives are meaningful!
unpopular opinion: save one from petsmart/petco not forced or anything and yeah it's shitty to support the company but that's where everyone who mistreats small animals go to grab one. you could be saving the sweetest lil guy. but alas, it's good to get from a rescue as well. gl!
Honestly love it when people talk about this and more should flood the feeds with more awareness of terrible pet owners. The sad thing is that this has been a growing concern for YEARS, like 2008, where kids brain rot channels would get a bunch of tiny animals and make em do the stupidest things, specially putting them in water which is the easiest way to get them sick. Hamsters have been mistreated for so long and it's only been getting worse. Same with fish or lizards. Some don't even realize that those teeny tiny hamster cages are NOT enough for them and they actually need GIANT tanks to be happy, along with the proper set up and chew toys. Also they're nocturnal and the amount of people who don't know that but still owns them is extremely concerning. Specially when they are fully domesticated and cannot survive in the wild they genuinely need us to survive because we made them this way. The least we can do is give them a good life. There's also been a growing concern for chinchillas becoming popular too, which I effing hate cause surface level research lets you know how DELICATE they are, they are 100% not for kids, they are advance level rodent imo. I can't in good faith own one because I wouldn't be able to keep in a safe and comfortable environment that I can regulate to keep it from overheating! People need to stop owning animals if they can't even google the basics of taking care of it just get your kid a pet rock, chia pet or robot pet please 😭
Unfortunately, when I was little, me and my brother, also too young to understand, would spend our days after elementary school in my grandma’s classroom. She had a “class pet”. A hamster. I’m sure you all know where this is going. The poor thing was used and abused and looking back, I feel sick because of the way we all treated it. Thankfully it went missing one day, escaped from its tiny cage and never returned. I hope to god that hamster is in pet Heaven now. It’s so sad. So sad. I cry sometimes thinking about it. No idea where my grandma was during all the abuse. Rest in peace baby.
before i adopted my rats (Dee and Sammy, they’re a year old and doing very well), i was doing a lot of research, because that’s just what you’re meant to do, and i was horrified at every mention or story of these lovely creatures being abused for whatever reason. in the same vein, when we (me and my dad) bought the girls (i didn’t have them yet at the time) their food, water bottle, toys, litter, cage, ect. and i told the person at the counter that the rats would be safe in my hands because i’ve done a lot of research, the person *celebrated* me and said “that isn’t very common” and that was horrifying to hear as an 11 year old that only wanted the best for these creatures that i have to take care of for 3-5 *years*. i don’t think people understand how long of a time that is, just bc cats and dogs can live to 30-ish years old
I also have kept rats, none currently, my family did plenty of research before getting them so we could care for them as best we can. I’m not sure where you get the 3-5 year statistic from, as all of my rats lived at most 2 years despite being in good conditions and health.
about the “living for 3-5 years” thing, i got that from many professional websites, and a general estimate i made myself from the stories i’ve read that specified when the rat passed away
I didn't realise rats lived that long, most make it to two at best
@@herrforehead Likely due to either not optimal care or poor genes or bloodlines from stores who just buy from Breeder Mills.
People say the same thing about many fish; Bettas, Goldfish, etc. But it's the exact same reason but worse- as goldfish can live into their 30s with actual proper care.
Where do you get 30 years for cats let alone dogs?
Even if you take good care of them and treat them like a pampered prince that will crumble to ash if they set a single paw on grass, the life expectancy of a cat is between 14-19 years and cats over 20 are increasingly rare.
Medium to big sized dogs only have about 10-12, while small dogs can reach 18~
I have also not heard about fancy rats reaching even 3 years even with superb care, they only usually live to be 1.5-2 years old.
The giant pouched rat used for sniffing out disease and bombs is a different species that easily lives to be 5-6 years old, and while I assume *you* yourself did not conflate the two, infographic panels easily do.
A 30 year lifespan is more what you’l see in snakes and parrots
The amount of times people would send me graphic videos of hamster abuse after I'd tell them I had a hamster myself was....alarming and disgusting !
Hamster abuse has been so normalized (especially where I live) that it makes me sick to my stomach
I remember that when I was little I had my typical "I want a hamster" phase, which my dad obliged to, the difference being he understood Cucumber was basically his responsibility now and I was just there to say he was supposedly mine, he was a good hamster, helped my dad a lot when dealing with divorce, taking his mind off of it with all the research he did on how to take care of a hamster properly, basically his second little kid, much love in heaven to Cucumber and my dad
I have this conspiracy theory that parents buy pets and do 0 care for them, so that it dies, and the heart broken kid learns to never ask for a pet again. Its a common story I see where kid begs for a dog, then the parents give them a pet that is 'socially disposable' like a hamster or a rat. It's really sad, cruel, and both child abuse (if done on purpose for the reason I think) and animal abuse at the same time. Already know my mom did this. She killed my cat when I finally got one too.
If you don’t mind me asking how did she ‘kill your cats’? Like did she miss treat it?
They also do it with goldfish.
@@nettlebean Let them outside at 2-3am, where we have coyotes and live right next to a road that allows 55mph traffic, with a lot of semis using the route too. They were made to live in the garage or barn and wasn't allowed to take them inside unless it was literally below 0 degrees F.
@@dotdedogoodness, that’s so cruel. I’m sorry.
This is no conspiracy theory, but a cycle of realisation after coming of age. When my pet betta fish died I never thought much of it until years later. I felt as if I never will take care of fish again because of how horribly I took care of my previous fish.
It ain't a conspiracy theory if its proven to be true. After all there's a basic reason why flat Earth is still called a conspiracy theory, as because well, the Earth is proven to be round with physical evidence. Even if we create a massive supercomputer that creates alternate realities where people have the freedom to create worlds out of their imagination and theories whilist under their great overlords (which btw has probably already happened in the form of virtual reality and games that generate worlds), that doesn't prove that the Earth isn't round at all, just ideas being thrown around from our advanced ape brains in fetal bodies just wanting to be proven right.
5:38 even bugs. The amount of shit I’ve seen about bugs being tortured and killed makes me so sad. I have a special interest in bugs (I plan to also be an arachnologist + herpatologist hopefully!) but whenever I talk about them, people often talk about how much they wanna kill or harm them. It’s genuinley so triggering and upsetting for me, especially since I did have a pet jumping spider at one point. (his name was Gregory, he recently unfortunately. He was getting old though), I loved him very deeply, and it makes me so upset that some people are so cruel. I think the one animal that surpasses rats in hate it’s 200% arachnids and some other bugs (mosquitoes, cockroaches, flies, ect)
i love bugs aswell and it also makes me upset when people mistreat the bugs just cause
i love all kinds of bugs, i get they got their own lives n shit
ofc i aint perfect, sometimes a bug will annoy me too much such as a mosquito or fruitfly, i may like to let ants crawl up to me cause the feeling is very fun
really bugs are awesome and honestly more superior than us in some ways - from their population size, adaptations and how long they've been living
such marvelous creatures
when i was 13, my parents refused to take me to the pet store to buy more food for my hamster and it ended up starving to death. i fed it whatever was in the house that was hamster friendly, but that obviously didn't make up for lost nutrients
You can go to Hamster, mouse, or any tiny animal reddit, and when they try to correct a bad owner, they get defensive. It's disgusting
I’m very happy to see people talk about this issue again. I had gotten two pet birds on a Christmas morning when I was 10 after begging my mom and doing as much research as i possibly could. Even after my research I realized that with school and other issues in the way, I wasn’t able to give them the amount of care they both deserve, especially with zero help from my family (since they were my responsibility and only mine.) I chose to surrender them to a friend who had been owning birds for years and it made me very happy to see how quickly their lives improved and to see them carefree. Im about to turn into an adult now and obviously know much better than what I did all those years ago. It’s okay to surrender your pets if it’s necessary, even if it’s hard for you to say goodbye to them
All three of my hamsters died peacefully from old age. And I consider that to be a major accomplishment for me considering all the horror stories I’ve heard from how other people treated their hamsters
My first childhood ham, according to the vet that had to examine his little corpse, died do to terrible pet store breeding that caused a buildup in his bowls, I remember thinking that I was responsible for his death because I startled him dropping something on my desk and he jolted, and simply passed away near on the spot, the timing was so terrible that I still feel bad to this day, he was a sweet little old man, pet stores need to do so much better by these little animals 😭
THANK YOU FOR TALKING ABOUT THUS OH MY GOD. It’s genuinely fucking insane that people just giggle about animal abuse and treat it as “dark humor” when these are literally living creatures in pain, and what’s worse is that even most people that don’t outright hurt their hamsters still neglect their needs as hamster abuse has been so widely normalized especially in million-dollar pet organizations, as most of the cages sold at pet stores aren’t even suitable for a healthy life, and it’s both disgusting and really depressing how much research goes undone by the majority of “casual” hamster owners
How the heck do you laugh at a hamster pooping out it's organs wtf?????
mae borowski
it’s psychopathic behavior ngl
If I had a hamster and saw it have a fatal prolapse, I'd panick and get to emergency right away. Some people just don't realize or don't care of the extent of one's pain, especially for pets under stress or injury.
The smaller a life is, the less it matters to humans.
REAL
I’m horrified.
I’ve never had a hamster but when I was in 3rd grade I got one dumped on me by my classmate. She wanted to breed hamsters but her mother said she can’t and can’t get another hamster… My classmate then lied to a few people from our class and she asked who wants to go with her to a pet store to pick out the hamster. I said that I could go and then asked if her mother allowed it and she said that she did. In fact she did not allowed it but she went to a pet store to buy the hamster anyway and they sold the hamster to her.
When we were going home she told me to carry the hamster, I did and when we were infront of her house she said byee to me and wanted to leave. Obviously I stopped her to remind her that she forgot her hamster but she told me to take care of it. I’ve never had a hamster, so had no stuff for it. I told her that I can’t keep it because my parents won’t allow it and I don’t have anything for it. She told me to put the hamster into a box from shoes and no one is going to find out. Young and stupid I did it but I realized very quickly that’s not the solution. Thankfully my friend who had experience with hamster took the hamster the next day but my clasmate got so mad over it. She demanded me to pay her money or she will tell my parents, so I told them sooner than she had a chance and my mother called to her mother about it and my classmate had a talk with her mother about responsible animal keeping later. She had to apologize lol.
I think it all gets boiled down to the fact that the smaller or/and less human-like an animal is the more they are viewed as an object and not a living being.
One of the many mentalities we,as a society, have towards animals that need to change but disappointingly don't see it happening soon...and it's exhausting.
Exactly as it’s noticeable in dog breeds alone. While at least in North America there are efforts from influencers to destigmatize pitbulls, doberman, rottweilers and the like, problems with shih tzus and chihuahuas are often chalked up to “small dog syndrome” when those breeds are actually fairly intelligent with the right training.
I feel extremely nauseous, thank you for talking about this. I’ve had so many traumatic pet deaths and to see people find it funny is repulsive. Animals are like children, they have the smarts of babies and instincts of primal hormonal creatures, they should be respected and loved with consideration to their individual needs. I hope these people never get to have another pet and cruel mass breeding operations become illegal so these creatures are less available. No child should even have a pet if you can’t trust them to be alone.
I absolutely despise when parents get their young children pets to teach them responsibility. Animals aren’t a “lesson” and there is no such thing as a kids pet! Often, fish or small rodents are marketed as kids pets. This leads to them living sad lives in a toy cage as a decoration in a child’s playroom. Parents should NEVER leave pets as a child’s full responsibility. They lose interest, they forget, it’s what they do, they cannot hold the full responsibility of caring for a living thing at a young age. Lazy parenting and horrible abuse of animals. When I was in high school, I did extensive research and got a hamster, not my first pet, but my first rodent. My father was very upset that I spent hundreds on bedding, a bin cage, toys, and high quality food on a “cheap animal.” Just because you spent less on it doesn’t mean the creature’s life is worth less, or that their quality of life should at all be lower
Exactly! There are great robotic toys that have teached me way more about responsibility than any pet would tbh, because they're more interactable than animals. But I would get disinterested a lot of times and stop caring about it. Now of that was a pet it would be horrific, as it would have died.
If you want to teach your kid with a pet, fully care for that pet yourself and maybe show the kid what you do so that it gets interested in helping, but only with close supervision!
I did the same with fish. Saved a lot of money to get a good setup for some guppies and checked on them every day. But a parent shouldn't force that on a child. I only cared for them so good because I actually wanted it.
The smaller the animal, the less...care people seem to have for it atleast for most small animals
I had a friend who really loved her hamster and I swear on my mama, it lived for 5 years. Which from what I know is really long for a hamster. She did also have a vet family member, so maybe she was extra aware of pet research and care.
That's like an unseen elder hamster 😭
Hamster abuse is so bad online, proper hamster care is one of my main interests and I've had two dwarf hamsters before so seeing those types of videos of people making fun of their hamsters deaths enrages me even more. What I can say is: Hamsters are fragile and need highly specific and at times very expensive care, they are NOT for children. Hamsters aren't toys, they often don't want anything to do with humans, let alone be played with.
Thank you for calling out this abuse!
Not a hamster but I had this guinea pig named chubs when i was 16,I felt like that little guy was a piece of me i felt like I was his dad and when he died at the ripe age of 6 years and
7ish months I broke down and had to take the day off of school, I grieved for hours but before I buried him in the backyard I thought to myself and decided that chubs deserved a nice place to rest so I went out and spent my day hiking up too this nice little overlook I had passed before. I buried chubs up there and to this day I still recognize exactly where he lies. He was smart and a energetic little fellow and i know hamsters are a lot different than guinea pigs but I still feel like they deserve the same love and care that any pet gets
I remember having a similar panic over this one conversation I had with an ex-friend
So, to preface, his GF is/was (idk i dont keep up with him anymore) a sociopath. Genuinely. Actually. Not hyperbole, a literal sociopath.
One time I was hanging out with friend with a group of his friends and his girlfriends. We were just having fun and roleplaying and whatever until at some point the conversation rolls to the topic of rats. (I love rats, fucking fight me on that. They are small, cute, intelligent, and are amazing animals.)
So my friend's GF admits that she, as a kid, picked up her pet rat and put in the microwave for 3 minutes and watched it pop. And I noted a how gross and cruel that is, of course being a tad more lenient on the matter because, well, she was a kid.
Until she noted that she was fully aware of what she was doing.
So, obviously, I freaked out a bit more, saying that they are extremely intelligent animals that can feel pain the same way we do. It's not even comparable to the fish where we're still unsure if they can perceive pain as, well pain.
Friend jumps in and says "It's just an animal. It's a pest. We deal with pests however way we want to."
And at that point I don't even give either of them the time of day. I told them straight up that they were both sick fucks for even trying to validate that sort of behavior and wiped both of them from contact.
Later I learned he was also kinda fucked in the head so, lesson learned: casual animal abuse/ abuse validation is a MAJOR red flag. I dodged a tactical nuke with that one.
That’s HORRIFYING, what the fuck?!
@@PlayerTenji95 Literally my thoughts exactly.
Also now that I had time to think about it I remember why my friend's GF started talking about rats.
We were in a Roleplaying game and another friend of said friend of the story was dressed to be a rat-man. I voiced how I loved rats, because I am just a general animal lover and then his GF piped up with said story in response.
Tiktok is a dumpster fire. There's literally no empathy about anything there, or instagram as well for that matter. People lack a ton of awareness unfortunately, including a majority of parents. I feel like the other side of this is pet birds like budgies because people get them as decoration because they don't know that they're actually very high maintainence so they're stuck in their cages 24/7 until they eventually die. At least I don't hear anyone making fun of their deaths like with hamsters but they are left without a voice and with no awareness. Pet stores should be regulated way more and people should be made aware of what you're actually getting into before buying just for a gift or because you saw one cute video or whatever. It's sad.
i have seen so many videos inside funny cat compilations of just antagonising the cat or straight up sitting there dying laughing with a f ing camera when there cat is stuck or provoking them when they are showing CLEAR signs that they arent having it, nothing worse then wanting to watch a funny cat video and its just a cat in a dangerous situation and a human dying of laughter as it dangles way too high like its gunna fall and is in distress
THIS, I saw a video of a woman who just let her cat around an open candle and laughed when it’s tail caught on fire. Like that’s so extremely dangerous, and it’s clear it was set up on purpose since most cat owners know, or i hope they know that they shouldn’t leave open candles in reach of cats, since they’re curious and will likely burn themselves or their fur. I’m glad most of the comments were people calling her out, but it’s just sad content like that is allowed cause it falls under the “cute cat video” category
I was a zoo keeper for a pet store. Hamsters from hamster farms almost always get sick and wet tail is such a tragic way to go
“They put the hamster into the microwave and it *exploded* “
……….
That shook me to my *core* , LIKE WTF-
I absolutely HATE when animals are treated as one-off toys instead of actual living beings.
Hamsters, small dog breeds, fish, they're the most common to suffer from this.
People will adopt them without prior research all because of their cute appearances, and then later forget about them after making very lazy and unprepared attempts at caring for such animals.
The most common culprits of this act are celebrities, especially influencers and reality TV stars. They'll only adopt a pet just to boost fame, and then push them aside after a few videos, sometimes even making their fates unknown.
What people need to know before they consider adoption is that pets aren't a toy or accessory you own to fit in with everyone else. They're a LIFE.
When you own one, it's your job to make sure the animal lives a good healthy lifespan.
I saw a tiktok of a hamster that the owner let walk around their apartment
then the hamster went on the owners hand (the owner held it out and the hamster got onto it out of their own will) and everyone was so suprised that the hamster trusted the owner
animals are supposed to trust their owner it shouldent be a suprise
Why can't people just
Handle animals properly?
My baby girl I named Monster because she bit me was so lively and I loved her, my mum doing the research and helping me, and her death was because my step dad had stressed her out one night
I miss my baby, and it hurts how people can't treat hamsters correctly :(
Oh my god. these ppl who are laughing at gruesome deaths should go to therapy.
I made a stupid reply before watching the full video, I retract my statement
finally someone is talking about this!! i've been bothered by this by years now, and nobody seemed to be paying attention to this. hamsters are fragile animals and even though i never had one, seeing those people laughing at their deaths its just hearthbreaking to be honest.
It's also the pet stores fault as well (assuming most of these people get their hamsters from big chain pet stores like PetSmart and Petco), because most big chain pet stores don't care about the welfare of the animals and don't have very strict background checks meaning people like this can get animals just to abuse them, and the stores feed you bad care, and sell stuff unusable or sometimes out right dangerous
It's really sad tbh
my hamster was about to go throught torpor (hibernation) but i caught him in the act, wrapped him up in a blanket and gave him a banana, that was it. Everything changed after that and he got to live a better life because of reasearch
Hamsters are animals that I have had all my life. I've always been annoyed by how people treat these little creatures. Every hamster I had I treated with a lot of respect and they all lived to be 3 years old (normal lifespan of a hamster)
when i lost my two pet snakes (long story, wanted one the breeder talked my parents into buying 2, snakes are solitary, so i basically put a large wooden divider into the middle of the therrarium to have essentially 2 seperate ones, but the door was one door so if it was open the whole thing was) i cried for days, and i still blame myself for forgetting the door that day. i went to refill the water bowls and in between coming back with water they had both escaped. i was fucking 17, like i wasnt young and i still cried like a bitch. i couldnt imagine just casually admitting to burying my fucking hamster alive on accident and then laughing it off what is wrong with these people.
i had rats from when i was 10 to about when i was 13, and unfortunately hadn’t treated them the nicest in the beginning since i was a child. one of them had died early due to improper care which absolutely crushed me. from then on i vowed to give my rats the best life they could have ever had and the rest of them lived regular lives of over two years (excluding a few that i had gotten later from a shitty breeder but that’s a whole other conversation in itself)
I'm still really glad 5-year old me walked in the pet store, saw baby gerbils, and said "Ew! I don't want that!" because she wasn't ready to take care of a pet.
In the present, I have a pet frog along with the experience and research behind me to ensure he lives a happy, healthy life! I couldn't agree more that doing your research, being responsible, and allocating the space and resources are essential to being a pet owner.
I really don't understand the normalization of animal cruelty or animal abuse in general, the fact that people just laugh at hampsters or small animals having absolutely brutal or gruesome deaths is like, really gross???
NO FOR REAL. And people say it isn't happening to, like the fact i was able to in, literally less than 5 minutes, find the screenshots i took on tiktok is baffling because why is it so common people think its funny versus tragic
as someone who's had a hamster, and deeply cared for her and her wellbeing, i was distraught when she died. she had to be put down because of the tumor she scratched open, so she didn't die horrifically thank god, but it was just really traumatic for me to lose her. if anyone laughed at me telling that to them i'd be disturbed, disgusted and upset as hell. i LOVED that hamster so for someone to just laugh at that??? i could not imagine what's going through someone's head to have that type of reaction
I had bunnies growing up and although they were approved by the adoption place, had hay and proper food, my parent was taking care of them and weren't giving them the best care (never took them to a vet, handled them horribly and aggressively, fed them bread and even refused to get them meds for their arthritis). After they passed away, I have had nightmares since then about bunnies and felt guilt I couldn't do more despite I was a kid back then. Idk how you can just have a pet horrifically die on you and just think its funny.
Real. I have nightmares all the time about accidentally mistreating my fish, I can't imagine you having that and it actually happened :(
I mean you didn't mistreat them, but you couldn't help them being mistreated or change it because of your parents
So sad. I don't get it, I'm always scared of doing something wrong with my animals. I don't get how people can just do that to them
as a longtime hamster owner i cant say anything without looking like a nerd emoji. thank you
I feel you im like that with fish
Real asf lmfao I be like “erm actually☝🏻🤓”
I feel like this is one of the only cases where saying ‘you wouldn’t do x if it were a dog!’ Is valid. People wouldn’t laugh it someone said ‘I drowned my dog in the bathtub’, ‘I forgot my dog somewhere while on vacation and never looked for it’ or ‘My dog had a horrible, painful death’
Thank you for shedding light on this topic. I had a hamster and her name was Bella. I was 10 when I got her and boy I did months of research I. Was DETERMINED. She lived to be about four years before resting easy due to a lung infection. She was the sweetest hamster and I wouldn’t trade her for the world. Miss you Bella.❤
god i wish more people could understand this. like just because an animal is small it doesn’t matter?????? what. all creature lives matter NO MATTER the size or how you perceive it. i’m a bird owner and OH MY GOSH i have heard so many awful stories about what people have done to their birds, especially budgies. budgies are small, cute, and relatively inexpensive AT FIRST. And a lot of the times they are purchased by parents for their child. people regard budgies as a “beginner bird or pet” and it drives me up the WALL because how could give an EXOTIC ANIMAL to a child to care for?? like tell me you don’t care about animal lives without telling me. budgies as well as other so called “beginner birds” are often neglected and abused. don’t even get me started on wing clipping. ugh. great video, these things need to be talked about more.
I’m actually saving up to get a bird, I’ve been doing mass research and I’m probably getting a pigeon! I would never abuse an animal and I would never clip a bird’s wings, like, why get a flying animal if you don’t want it to fly? And I am personally disgusted by the animal abuse to animals, it makes me feel ill when people talk about abusing their pets, it’s so sad honestly.
@ omg, that’s so exciting!!!!! i love pigeons! I have a green cheek conure myself :D it’s so refreshing seeing someone do good research before purchasing an animal. and yeah, wing clipping is awful. people who do it claim it protects birds, when in reality it can cause awful injuries and health problems. i’m so thrilled for you, good luck with your pigeon!!
@@simpletti2017 thanks! I’m probably not going to get the pigeon soon, but once I have enough funds and room, I’m either getting a frog or a pigeon! It depends in what is available :)
And honestly, who would clip a bird’s wing, like, if you want a bird but don’t want it to fly, get a feather duster
I had a hamster growing up that died of natural causes ( She was almost 3.) And I remember blaming myself for it for years because I loved her so much. Seeing people comment about how funny it is when they die has always bothered me. I have a mouse now named Fat Nugget that I rescued when a woman brought him into petsmart because her son got an F. I've had him nearly a year now and he is the sweetest little dude ever. Just because they are a rodent does not mean they don't love us. Nugget adores giving kisses will run up my arm to snuggle into my hair and will let all new people touch him. To think someone was going to have him killed because of a grade is so soul crushing to me.
2:47 The wave of anxiety that fell over me when you said this. Can someone explain how this happened? The fact that it has no explanation to why it did that is making it more disturbing for some reason.
The "pimple" might have been the hamster's testicle
I wish people were more aware that it's crucial not to interact with abusive content. It has to be reported to the platform and if you can, report it to local authorities. I also think it would be beneficial, if it doesn't already exist, to have a space, be it Reddit or another website, where people could signal to others a problematic user to ask for people to help identify them or the area where to live to report them to the local authorities.
quick correction!! hamsters do not go into hibernation, though they do go into torpor, which is an emergency state that occurs bc of them being too cold for too long. if your hamster is in torpor, that means something has gone horribly wrong and you need to carefully warm them up NOW. also the microwave one... you shouldn't be bathing your hamster at all!! the oils in their fur can't handle it, and giving them access to a sandbath (chinchilla SAND, not dust, works great) will let them keep comfortable and clean!
(rant starts) also WHY DOES A FOUR YEAR OLD HAVE A HAMSTER, they should be kept by adults/older teens :p anyway otherwise I agree completely, hamsters are so mistreated :(( i got mine at 8 after i begged my parents for years, but thankfully i got curious and started researching proper care. sure, it still took a while to get to the level i am at now (thinking the standards of my local rescue are far too low and writing a thesis paper thingy on the little guys) but like just because they're 15€ at the pet shop and are cute and fluffy doesn't mean they are appropriate for kids to "learn responsibility", no living creature is!! the parent should be responsible for any pet in a household with kids. thank you for empathising with their struggles (which is the bare minimum that many somehow don't reach??), when i tell people i keep hamsters their response, as it often is, shouldn't be "hahah when i was a kid my hamster died bc it was stupid enough to jump off my hand a metre from the ground" (which by the way, isn't them being stupid!! they just have garbage vision and depth perceptipn since you know... in the wild they are burrowers and ground dwellers, and crepuscular/nocturnal?? why would they need to those skills in the wild?? it would be more stupid to evolve those skills despite never having a use for them in the wild imo 🙄) like if i told you i had a dog you wouldn't laugh about your childhood pet's tragic demise?? why is it okay to do for a hamster?? ugh. (rant over) anyway i am trying to make a difference, and i am planning to be a foster home for my country's hamster rescue when i have the resources/finances needed. if anyone needs tips or has questions about these furry potatos, I am always happy to help :D
I used to be extremely hyperfixated on hamsters when I was 11-13 and any was obsessed with researching about their natural habitat and enclosure size and all of that so it really irks me how someone can have a pet and just not care.
Something that I think is weirdly common with small animals is putting the animal in a microwave. Where is the supervision? Better yet, WHY ARE PARENTS ALLOWING KIDS
plus aren’t microwaves usually mounted high to a wall? don’t know if this is all people but all houses i grew up in had them
*if* the microwave was mounted up, how would the child be able to get up?
@@Allister_TheGhostin the "defense" of the children here
They ain't that dumb
They can just get a chair and get on top of it to open the microwave right? I mean I used to use chairs to reach higher places when I was a child.
@ That’s actually a really good point
Sadly I think most people would rather laugh off a death of an animal raaather than accept that they couldn't provide basic care to an animal. They'll use different ways to save their self perception, but in doing so, dismiss their mistakes and cruelty leading to the continuing ignorance.
Unwillingness to accept responsibility in abuse cases mixed with the elevated feeling of control that comes with being a provider to anything, especially living creatures leads too the making of a very cruel person.
When I was a kid I got like really hyperfixated on hamster care and fish keeping despite never intending to own either fish or hampsters and even now if I hear that someone is intending to buy a hamster or fish I will infodump for at minimum 30 minutes and then point them to hamster/fish TH-camrs that I like. (I love munchie i still occasionally watch her videos.)
This did come in handy when my grandmother was given goldfish because I was able to convince her to stop keeping the three tiny goldies in a vase (with no filter or heater or pump mind you.) and (sadly one passed away.) I got her to keep them in an actual tank I think the first one was like 10 gallons? But the fish got bigger so I convinced her to get a 25 gallon. Sadly one of the fish passed away recently and they don’t know enough about aquatic plants to liveplant the tank but one now huge goldfish in a 25 gallon is so much better than three tiny ones in a vase.
Also my grandma talks to her fish like people and has inadvertently taught the living one to slap the surface of the water when he wants food. Idk how he does it but I’ve heard it. (Assuming it’s a male because it would chase the other fish around pressing on its belly which is like a thing goldfish do to help push eggs out of the other one. We just let them lay any possible eggs in the tank and eat them because we dint want baby goldies. I think they’re feeder goldfish? Also her fish like playing with toys, she got them glow in the dark stones (made for aquariums) and the two fish would like push them around, we also got them a fake anemone and they would pick it up and move it around. It was cool to watch I didn’t know goldfish liked to play I’ve only ever seen them be kept in abusive setups for kids beforehand.)
Also we got them 1 snail (yes I know they’re like horrible in the tank hobby because they’ll multiply a lot but we got 1 and figured if it got out of hand we could put the snails in the old tank we had for the fish.) and they are them. Good enrichment for the fish I guess? The living fish is around 5-6 years old now and my grandma is surprised but like when you don’t abuse fish they’ll live a lot longer. I wish I could get her to liveplant it though.
2:59 the only time I’ve laughed is like the ‘oh my god that’s awful why did you do that’ uncomfortable laugh. It’s really sad when these things happen but sometimes it’s just like so absurd that I laugh just like out of ‘what how and why why did you think that was a good idea.’
I hope none of these people laugh from the knowledge of the pain the animal went through that’s evil. I hunt and I’d never laugh at a deer I shot i have respect for the animals.
I feel like people just don’t view small animals as like equally living and conscious. I’ve seen far more negative reactions to the concept of me hunting and eating an animal (you get like 50 pounds of meat minimum that you don’ have to buy especially if you butcher it yourself so like why wouldn’t I do that deer will also just straight up destroy the freshwater ecosystem and overgraze because colonists hunted their predators so like people where I live should hunt to make sure the population stays in check. Also the taxes from hunting supplies, weapons, ect. go to animal conservation which is a good system. Also in hunters safety which you’re required by law to take it teaches you a lot of survival skills in case you get lost. And a bunch of other useful info so like I would personally say that shooting a deer is way way more ethical than causing a horrific and gruesome death of a small animal for literally no reason. When it could easily be avoided by doing research on the animal.) than I have from hamsters in abusive setups/that have died in a horrible manner irl. It concerns me, is it because deer are large??
I’ve also heard people irl talk about how it doesn’t matter their treatment of the animal because it only lives for two maybe 3 years and that makes me more sad, like your life is short and you have to live it in a horrible situation?? I think it living for a short amount of time would give you and excuse to treat the animal even better and splurge extra money on it more often.
5:26 this reminds me of recently when retics became illegal in Florida and police decided they had to k*ll this guy’s snakes when he wanted to move them out of the state and into homes where they were allowed (he had them before they became illegal.) the way they disbatched the animals was so graphic and horrifying and in the police cam footage you can see and then they take this guy’s clearly labeled (he also pointed out that it was legal for them not to hurt it) legal snake that he raised from a baby and they dispatched it. It makes me so angry I don’t think those officers got punished either. The man who owned the facility was also straight up crying (which yeah the just killed your beloved pet.) like way more people would be upset if this happened to a bunch of puppies they used a mf nail gun on DOCILE HUMAN RAISED snakes and didn’t even bother to scramble them after to prevent suffering. I hate cops so much Imve only ever had bad experiences with them. The dudes also turned their mics off before going in which is super suspicious. New England reptile group has a good video on it.
I love snakes so much and it’s disgusting that people get away with blatant animal cruelty. (Mind you even if the snakes had to be k*led which imo they most certainly didn’t there are so many more ethical ways to do it. You can see the snakes writhing around on the floor after they stuck them.
Also the mother legal snake had about 2500 dollars worth of babies in her because she was pregnant so that at least should get like repercussions because even ignoring the snake abuse that’s so much money.
Also I met a guy with (snake was super friendly I held him a bunch) an illegal in Maine (dude was transporting him to a reptile show they were legal in NH where he bought the snake, he bought it as a rescue because the og person could no longer care for it he lives in NH) snake and openly admitted he didn’t have a problem with me holding it in broad daylight because (a the snake was super friendly and was raised by people and was handled since it was a baby so it had no problems with people and was used to help people who are afraid of snakes get over their fear.) cops have no clue how to identify snakes properly.
Also the two baby pythons he was also bringing to the show were super cute they were just 2 feet long and one of them was named Linguini super fun to hold and learn about the species. (He was the driver of the bus on a college tour btw lol. That’s why he was in Maine with his snakes. Whenever we would stop and have off time he would let us hold the snakes. Big friendly snake was 10 feet long! Which sounds big but not really tbh when he’s on u. Holding big snakes is fun it feels like getting a big hug because they hold onto you. Also snake scales feel super cool.)
Absolutely love your art btw! You’ve got a really cool style this is the first time seeing one of your videos! I shall watch more!
I’d love to see you cover more animal related stuff! Like a video dedicated to fish abuse because that’s also super common or bird abuse because that’s also super common.
The most tragic pet death I think my household has experienced was a cat we kept separate from my sisters pet budgies. We had to temporarily put the birds downstairs but figured they would be fine temporarily. I was the only one home and I had noise canceling headphones on and the first thing that happened when my sister got back was my sister yelling at me about why I’d opened the cadge, I hadn’t even gone downstairs. We ended up figuring out that the cat named Sadness had figured out how to open the cadge. I was around 12. My sister got back right as the cat had managed to catch her second bird and she held him as he passed away. :( it was really sad me and my sister buried them under a willow tree out back. She kept some of their old feathers from the cadge to remember them. I blame myself a lot since if I just went downstairs even once I could have prevented it.
This cat was also insane once she fell into a thing of antifreeze(my dad was working on the truck) and before he could catch her so we could give her an emergency bath she ran off into the woods and disappeared for a couple days. We think she must have licked a bunch off of her because when she got back her sclera were bright yellow luckily she lived and was well enough that in a year she had some kittens but that was very scary. She was pregnant again when she killed my sisters birds and my sister was super angry at the cat (I personally don’t blame the cat for anything because it’s a cat, I wish we knew beforehand that she could figure out how to open it, you had to push down and then pull to open it. It was weird. The cadge was on the floor but it shouldn’t have been knocked open like that.) we knew a guy who’s barn cat had passed so my parents gave the cat to him. (This isn’t a euphemism I live in a small farming town)
A couple years later she got budgies again and we kept them in her room (the cats were not allowed in) and we made sure to put a carabiner that you had to unscrew to open the cage to unlock it. Sadly the budgies never warmed up to my sister despite her attempts to befriend them and she didn’t want to keep them locked up in a cadge forever instead of letting them out to give them enrichment so we ended up rejoining them. (Mind you me and my mom are also super allergic to birds so we couldn’t even go in her room which was another reason she ended up agreeing to rehoming them.) I’m glad we found a better home for the birds I think the person we gave them too also had a couple other budgies so they have more than just each other now.
I didn't read your whole comment but so far I agree soo much. Ty for caring so much about animals!
And the hunting part is soo true. People will quickly hate hunters (idk if they all think they are doing it for fun?), but not take one second to think about the meat they eat from farmed animals. Hunting animals for meat (if populatuon control is the main goal too imo) is 100 times better than most of the meat from farms (with pigs it's like literally 99% factory farmed and with chickens it's not much better). Like most meat that you can buy comes from literal places of neglect and often torture, but people will come at a hunter for shooting an animal that has lived a free and way better life, for population control, instead... some people really need to set priorities.
I'm not counting trophy hunting, but most hunters don't do that and I'm sure they're not happy about killing animals.
Also that snake story with the police is horrific. What disgusting ,,people"... I don't get how someone can be that disgusting and vile
@SmurfieDurfie yeah the way pigs are killed en mass in farms is also pretty horrific, a lot of the meat industry is pretty awful I usually try to do research on where a company gets it’s meat before I’ll buy it.
@SmurfieDurfieI’ve heard of a story where a policeman *attempted* to shoot a dog without cause. I heard of another story where a policeman ended up actually shooting a dog, only because it barked at him.
People are sick…
I'm absolutely shocked and baffled that this is even a thing. I had a hamster when I was a teenager and while I don't claim to be the world's best hamster owner, I adored that little guy and did my best to make sure he lived a happy life, even if it was naturally much shorter than I would have liked to have him. They're such smart, loving little creatures if you give them even half a chance to get to know you, so it's hard to think of people treating them so poorly. :(
I hate how common ‘funny hampster death!’ Stories are because they are never funny and just literally ab^se. The only time one hamptster was Vaugely amusing was a rare case of a story not involving ab^se but rather a hammy getting scared when someone farted really loud and it passed. I get why people can find that specific one funny it funny, but it is just really sad to loose an animal. Especially one so small and fragile that is depending on you.
Its traumatizing..i would never own a hampster i dont do good with small animals unless its a dog and its so sad people laugh at it :(
Thankfully I’ve never had any traumatic pet death experience, anytime I felt I couldn’t take care of a pet I had, I’d tell my mom and she’d find someone who’s better fit to take care of it. I’d much rather lose any creature as a pet than it lose its life to unnatural causes under my care. I wish more people would do this, rather than just neglecting their pets.
Sadly all my childhood hamsters had tragic deaths and even though it happened while I was between 4-8, I still feel awful about it over a decade later.
I was terrified of these little fluffballs bc I got bit once (that's surprisingly very traumatising for a 4 year old) so I was always scared to go near them. I would never clean their cage or interact with them bc I was scared they'd attack me again. I still don't understand why my mom kept buying new ones even though I was insisting that I can't care for them.
Rest in peace - Max, Yuki, Reita, Chan-Chan and Fussel. Sorry I couldn't take better care of you.
It disgusts me how much people mistreat these kinds of pets. I keep bettas and I’m really new to it, my first one died and pretty young at that and I was quite heartbroken and felt very responsible for it, I ended up making slight vent art over it. I think the reason people don’t care as much is because these small animals like fish, rodents, hamsters, etc. are nowhere near as human-like and interactive as larger pets such as dogs or cats. I think it creates a disconnect and with the way their gruesome deaths are normalized creates a cycle where we as a society care less and less and find it funnier and funnier when horrible things happen(or worse, when we cause these things). We need to work together to end this normalization so thank you for addressing this topic.
I did my research when I got my hamster. She lived a happy healthy life and it shocks me how irresponsible some people can be. I understand how some of these ppl were young but jeez It’s sad how small animals(such as hamsters in this case) get abused so often and no one does anything about it.
Ohh god hamsters. I had one as a kid, I got her at like 7 and I think she died when I was 8 or 9. She didn’t have the best cage sadly(it was one of those cages from like petco) but we did clean and feed her often. She had her little purple ball she’d roll around the house in, I loved hammy.
She died via consuming toxic fumes, she stayed in my mom’s room and mom spray painted her closet doors without taking her cage out. I found her later on cold, and stiff, and was so scared I did something wrong. My mom wouldn’t even come into the room to help, and burry her because she knew it was her fault, and pretended to not know how she died(she told me this years later).
I thought her death was my fault for YEARS(I esp thought this after I found out her cage could’ve been better n stuff), and seeing ppl laugh about their hamsters dying is insane to me. It was not funny when she died to kid me, and it still isn’t today. Rest in peace hammy.
I used to rehome 'free to a good home, the kids got bored of it' hamsters on FB as a teen (don't currently, due to being at uni), and honestly it was sad how much I really could not trust people to take care of them. Two died of illness due to incorrect housing/diet when I went on holiday, from people who had had hamsters in past...... and another potentially buried him alive before they told me he was dead (also had had hamsters, if they ever get another I'm gonna tell them although they i think were pushed into burying asap so not really on them). It's great to see someone talking about this because as a hamster lover it saddens me how little people care to research these guys. It's so easy to find information, and you can straight up just as your vet, as a vet student I can confirm vets are happy to provide care info, but people really do not care and its so fucked. Really highlights to me how we should maybe make it harder to go and buy a whole living feeling sentient being than it is
I’d like to add to this, I’ve been the owner of a pair of bearded dragons for about two years now, for most of it I was an attentive owner and I cared about them a lot, BUT, I started high school and had more and more responsibilities that took my attention from them, making me forget to feed them, soak them, forget to clean their tank, and you know what I’m doing? I’m dropping them off at Ash Hill’s reptiles today, he takes in reptiles who need homes and eventually finds one for them, like a shelter for reptiles!! They don’t have a good life here, so I’m taking action to give them better ones, that is how you handle smth like this
I had two guinea pigs, and me and my mom loved them both. One was named munchkin, and the other was named loki. My brother is autistic, and he shouts a lot. After 3 weeks, me and my mom decided to give it to one of our family members so they wouldn't die of stress from the shouting. Also, we have dogs so obviously that was another factor that could've stressed them out. They are now living happy, quiet lives in the house of the family member we gave loki and munchkin to.
Jeez, when I turned 11 and surprised with a baby budgie (yep.. from my cousins on my birthday) I was lucky enough that my mother had a friend who kept birds and told me it was ill so we got it checked up on at the vet and treated. I proceeded to do lots of research on budgies and now I am a crazy bird lady at 21 (pfp is of my current birbies I care for them so much).
I really wish they didn't surprise me with a pet like I knew so little that I always got scared when my bird would hide her feet to sleep lmao I kept thinking she was missing feet but yeah she was well cared for she died when I turned 17 as the vet had to put her down because she could barely lay eggs anymore at that elderly age so she lived a long life considering she was on deaths door when my cousins got her malnourished from some crappy breeder. It was nice having a sister during the rough growth periods of my life as an only child caring for her helped me feel way less alone.
(she had a hunch back all her life from that breeder's lack of care I am mad my cousins paid whoever made her but she was so sweet I am glad I got to give her a good life, I often cry because I wasn't there when we had her put down I was too much of a mess to watch it I just hope she knew how much she meant to me that I still have a picture of her framed for my current birds to say hi to)
Am happy my dad has taken an interest in helping me care for these two cute birbs, he researches everything even if I say there's a mark on them somewhere he assists me in checking it out and feeding them the right food and clean drinking water.
I dont even like hamsters but how can you let a living creature go through some of these things.
Honestly kids shouldn't be in charge of any animal
Especially a small little creature
Genuinely these people need help if you think any animal dying in any situation is funny
"Haha my hamster exploded in the microwave so funny"
No its not funny you need help Even a 2-3 year old should know that a living animal doesn't go in the microwave
I was literally wincing in pain and in shock as I listened to the "funny hamster death stories." Like if you're laughing over the death of a pet, I agree you're very much a concerning individual.
Hamsters deserve respect
I was on TikTok and I found a video of this girl STANDING and holding her DWARF hamster with one hand. As you can guess,the hamster walked off of her hand because they DO NOT have depth perception and it fell from that height to her floor. She didn’t bother to save it, she just looked shocked. People were trying to justify it in the comments saying the hamster is fine. One thing people should know is hamster should be handled closer to the floor, not STANDING HUMAN HEIGHT.
I hate Tiktok because of Tiktok, I have no faith in humanity anymore, since when is animal abuse funny?! Disgusting
The only time one of my hams died too early was my first one. At it wasn't some gruesome freak incident. He just got sick. We tried to treat him, but such small animals as hamsters are not easy to treat (especially back when we didn't know there are specialized vets. I was only 8 and this was my first ham). Unfortunately, the illness killed him. Other four ones lived until rightful, elderly age.
This too but with fish. So many people take care of fish improperly and it makes me so sad. Especially with goldfish and beta fish, they’ve gotten the worst of it. It saddens me.
Honestly, abuse of ALL pets is way, way too normalised. Especially smaller ones as explained in the video, but also cats and dogs.
Backyard breeders, "accidental" litters putting an often young mama in danger becaise people dont spay and neuter ant then let their animal escape. Designer breeds. Improper training. Lack of enrichment. Everytime I go outside I see someone walking an un-brushed longhair dog. Everywhere, doodles, merle frenchies, munchkin cats, pugs that wheeze with every breath and people think its normal. On tiktok, "help my pet is sick what do I do" TAKE IT TO THE VET.
Birds also. People trying to hand raise baby budgies though they require expert care. Small cages.
And don't even get me started on exotic/ wild animals like big Floppa or Peanut the squirrel (rip).
Ugh I could rant about this for hourssss
Minor correction: we *don’t know* what’s really up with Munchkin cats, and deeper scientific research is sorely needed. Trying to find any real source concerning the welfare of munchkin cats besides «trust me bro» is insanely difficult and inflamed to hell and back because part of the cat fancy pretty much utterly lost it’s shit over the cats being ugly and spreading unfound rumours about it’s health, similiar to how people kept perpetuating the idea that blue and isabella dogs had health issues when that notion had no actual real basis.
The Scottish Fold also originally got excluded from one of the major show rings because it was assumed without any testing that it must hear bad due to it’s ear shape.
The Fold hears fine, it’s innate health issues even in heterozygous individuals is completly unrelated to it’s hearing.
TLDR: The animal breeding hobby is completly nuts, but for other reasons you’d think and alot of shit just gets assumed.
It’s also kinda insane that for the amount of concern the munchkin generates, there haven’t been any real conclusive investigations yet.
As for exotic animals, that’s a whole lot of other can of worms. What does even count as an exotic animal?
This a depressing thing to find at nearly 11:30 on January 1 2025
I don’t like mistreatment of any living being. Don’t have much else to say, I just want the algorithm to share this
My parents often enabled this behaviour and it's been the source of some of my biggest childhood nightmares and regrets
i’m someone who commonly calls people out for hamster, guinea pig, and rabbit abuse. a lot of channels hate me.
i got my first guinea pig as a birthday present, i will admit she was abused, and i am forever disappointed in myself for it. she died when someone left my door open and my dog got in and grabbed her, she had a heart attack and it was traumatizing. i can’t believe anyone could laugh at the death of these animals.
Firstly, well constructed video! Excellent talking points.
People need to do research on animals no matter what species, but ESPECIALLY with rodents, fish, and birds in my opinion. Hamsters and Parakeets/Budgies get the ESPECIALLY short end of the stick... Hence why they tend to pass in horrid ways, or WAY before they naturally would. The amount of people I've met that were SHOCKED that parakeet lifespans are WAY past 2-3 years is SO disheartening.
Regardless of lifespan length, I think giving a living creature a high quality of life should ALWAYS be the goal.
Parents also need to stop giving children animals and basically going "figure it out, good luck!"
Like... Your kid is freshly outta diapers, and you're gonna put em in charge of another living being??? That's how I got my first two rats, actually... Parent got their kids rats, the kids neglected them, the parents rehomed them when the duo were on death's door. (They lived VERY happy lives, I'm proud to say. Lived to their full life expectancy, happy and unburdened, even with one having developed cancer late in life.)
I'm always happy to see more people talking about the difference between finding humor in something grim, and uh... Whatever laughing at the horrendous demise of these critters would be called.......
Like I understand that humor is nuanced, and sometimes when you're in shock or traumatized that the best you can do is laugh. The amount of trauma-bonding and jokes my best friends and I have exchanged about things we've gone through or seen, lol....
Even then, that's situational. Time and place, ya know? And I don't think, in all the jokes we've cracked, that we've ever LAUGHED about the things the level of messed up that a lot of folks cackle about.
The UTI turning kidney failure one is a good example for me. I sure don't find it funny that an animal had to go out like that.
Yet I DO find humor in the exact same thing nearly happening to ME... UTI turned very near kidney failure about 3 years ago, now.
I can laugh about that... Because it didn't end badly. It wasn't a tragedy in the end. I wasn't laughing at the time, for sure, but now? I find it hysterical because I went from literally HOURS from being put on dialysis after almost a week of unsuccessfully getting my kidneys to work again, to my kidneys abruptly going "OH WE HAVE A JOB TO DO" and functioning normally. Like???? Hello?????
My close friends and I laugh about it, now, and I crack jokes about it sometimes... But I'd like to think that if I HAD met my end that way that nobody would've cracked jokes and laughed about it.
I think that among the pets that get commonly abused/mistreated are also definitely dogs. People say 'oh dogs are really low maintenance/easy to take care of' or that they're easier to take care of than cats, but the reality is that they aren't and people just have a tendency to mistreat them more so it's normalized [i.e not taking them outside to play/for walks, leaving them locked in a cage while at work for hours on end, getting physical with them etc]
I do think that it's a little understandable to hear a crazy story about a hamster's death and give a shocked kind of laugh but actively saying like 'LMFAOOO THAT'S SO FUNNY' is kind of insane,, like no that was a living, breathing animal that died due to neglect or terrible circumstances
I hear many people say that “If you can hurt animals and find injuring them entertaining, you can feel the same way about the killing or the death of a human”. I believe that so much. Can’t believe we live in such a society where death of animals like this aren’t cared about as much as they should be.
This video beings me back at how horribly I cared for my blue betta fish in 2015.I was once the kind of kid who kept putting sea animals in hot water in fear of them getting cold, so when my teacher gave me the Wal-Mart bought betta fish (fishes in supermarkets are also a hell of a rabbit hole), I never knew much of how to take care of my new pet afterwards.
That betta fish only lived for five months in a poorly lit tank the size of what I can say is like a water bottle compared to any fish tank out there, no filter as well, and it was all thanks to my fear of my fish dying. I decided that the "best" option was to take the fish out of its tank, clean the tank and replace the tank with clean freshwater, which alongside my germy hands, resulted in the betta fish's demise from what I can remember under five hours.
To this day when I look back at my betta fish, I feel bad as to how horrible I took care of it, and I should've known better as to how to take care that betta fish. One thing though, that fish tought me something, and is when you're taking care of fish, know your research, and have a proper fish tank with the right necessities.
As someone who has owned hamsters for many years it really sickens me how casually some people will talk about their hamsters getting hurt or dying in gruesome ways.
I'm sorry, but if you think a animal dying or injuring itself is somehow funny you're just a psycho.
One thing that also pisses me off is people calling hamsters dumb and stupid because they tend to jump or walk off of high places. This has NOTHING to do with hamsters being dumb, it has to do with the fact that hamsters simply can't see depth very well and it's your job as the OWNER to make sure they can't walk off high places and injure themselves.
Hamsters are great animals and deserve to live good lives. Just because they have short lifespans doesn't mean you can just treat them like crap.
Animal cruelty on Tiktok is so normalized it's actually scary.
I really think places that sell pets should be responsible in educating buyers properly, main chain stores like petsmart n stuff usually have all the wrong kinds of care for any animal that isnt a dog or a cat, like their guinea pig cages being TOO small and overpriced. they market these animals to become impulse purchases and then they suffer as a result.
Thank you! People don't take animal abuse seriously when it's not one of the typical fluffy and cute ones people care about, like dogs /cats. All animals matter!
When I tell that my 2 hamsters I died of old age ( The first 3 year old and the second 2 ), I am always called a liar. Why ? Because obviously nobody had an hamster dying of old age. So two , it is just an impossible flex.
And then I heard a lot of stories about how their hamsters died because hamster are so ''stupide''. It is just making me angry each time I heard them.
Now I have my third hamster andI will assure you that little Mondo will have the same death as the other two. A peacefull one after a life full of enrichissement in his big cage and his secure hamster park. Because I know how to take care of an animal.
Lovely fursona and I agree soo much! People qre extremely hypocritical about animal abuse and will often just call you a ,,snowflake or partypooper" if you call stuff like that out. I can't understand it, it's absolutely disgusting and insane!
5:26 unfortunately not even thats the case as there is so much chihuahua ab_se that is so normalized most think that they naturally are aggressive dogs when in reality the stereotyped behavior of them is actually just a chihuahuas response to years of mistreatment and ab_se. This also happens with Pitbulls, Pitbulls were actually nanny dogs in the past. Now they're treated as these terrible creatures that 'deserve the ab_se'. Even my grandmother who's deeply against animal ab_se tries to constantly excuse the ab_se of them. It sucks
the tiktok live streams where there are like 10+ hamsters running on wheels with rave music and lights that go on for hours severely piss me off. and everyone in the comments is like "LOL HAHAH" "awww so cute"
And the OP, to avoid backlash, claims that their "type" of hamster lives in packs in the wild, and people believe it is CRAZY. Hamsters should NEVER be housed with another hamster, let alone multiple.
Some relative got me a rat as a pet as a little kid. I felt bad for it afterwards, but I hated the thing then. I was scared of it, it wasn't a pet to me, it was a vermin in a cage I was forced to keep in my room. I threw it some food and named it after a Naruto character or something, but I could never pet or hold it bc it always tried to bite me. (Wonder if it was even from a pet store or just something they caught in their barn... 9_9) It kept me up at night making all kinds of noise. I still felt really bad after it eventually died though. Just... Ask if a kid actually wants a pet and if they tell you they want one, make sure both of you read up on the animal before you get it. But like, even if you think a lil mouse/rat/hamster is cute, there's a chance the kid won't think it's cute at all. I have ALL the love in my heart now for my weenie dogs but NO to rodents, they still freak me out. Not sorry, I prefer dogs, and the best cat IMO is a good Mouser...
Tbh i believe hampsters should be illegal to own and be a protected animal because HOLY SHIT THEY'RE BEING ABUSED TOO OFTEN
Btw yes wild hampsters exists
imaging saying this to a disabled person "nah it doesn't matter that they died due to someone else! they would only live for a year or two!" hamsters are in fact...alive, wow, people! shocker.
Unfortunately my sister was allowed to get parakeets once, and she treated them pretty well for awhile. But after that, she suddenly began neglecting them forcing me to feed and water them l the time because apparently she couldn't take care of her own birds and they all died except one. We got more to accompany her and then every single one died because she refused to get a heater or try to warm them up and they froze to death. She says she still hates herself for how she treated them and she was like 15 but thankfully she learned from it (unfortunately at the cost of the poor birds lives) and knows what she's doing now and takes very very good care of her snake where she lives in her apartment with her partner. Which is relieving to hear.
My mom had hamsters when she was a kid in the '60s, two male Syrians who "didn't get along." There was also a female who died in childbirth,
Despite her and her sister's ineptitude, the hamsters warmed up to them, stopped biting their fingers, and showed eagerness to be taken out of their little cage for playtime. Sometimes one would be lost for a while but it always got found again.
Looking back, my mom and my aunt didn't know what they should have known about the care of these delicate little rodents. The males died of natural causes; I wonder, since all pet Syrians are descended from a single brother and sister, is this the reason hamsters are now notorious for bizarre deaths? That genetic drift can't be good for them.
One of my favorite animals are bettas, and it's just. So awful how they get treated, and fish in general. Bettas can live up to 5 years, goldfish for 30. People plop them in too small of tanks, no water filtering, no heating, and awful diet, poorly conditoned and mantained water and wonder why they dont live very long. Its sad
Omg I love bettas they are so beautiful fishes like so gorgeous it’s sad small fishes are just mistreat like this
Yeah, I have fish, three dwarf gouramis, a group of cardinal tetras, a bristlenose pleco and a female betta named Doll. I'm always constantly trying to learn new things about how to better take care of my animals even on top of the research I did before even getting them, and I'm amazed at how some people just have no regard for living fish.
I'm setting them up a new 100 litre tank today, so they're going to like that.
I had a dwarf hamster. He lived for 4 years 😭 ITS NOT THAT HARD TO KEEP SOMETHING ALIVE
Also, he died when I was like eleven I think? I was 7 when we got him
Honestly I feel the same this topic. It's so awful when people just brag about how abusive they were to a smaller animal. The thing is that for parents its the cheapest thing to buy a hamster and "keep it". Parents won't educate their children about the animal cause often than not they just want their kid distracted or fill the kids "need" of owning a puppy/kitten. Dogs or cats seem to be harder to take care of (plus they are a more beloved and liked) so kids first experience is with a hamster or fish. AND with fish (often beta and goldfish) it's another rabbithole of abuse. I personally have seen some trends or fish used for videos for example goldfish getting frozen alive, fish getting fake thrown away basicly suffocating during a video. People are just lazy and "will figure it out" how to take care of an animal. If it's cheap it cannot PoSsbiLY mean that it's harder to keep one. Proper equipment,nutrition and vet visits are expensive so many owners of such animals with opt out for the cheapest stuff. Guinea pigs and hamster suffer too from the same problems they are just less commonly picked because of their size. I think that children should firstly start propetly taking care of a delicate plant before having any kind of pet, as of to show their commitment but i don't thing many of parents have the same way of thinking.
Tiktok is literally a hell scape. People not reading up on what goes into taking an animal, or what it’s habits are, is one of my biggest pet peeves and it’s such a problem on that fucking app. I refuse to use Tiktok cause so many people on there are cruel as shit and I just can’t have that on my heart. I still feel horrible about dropping my hampster when I was 5, he was okay, but I literally cried about for a week, cause I felt so horrible and was terrified he was hurt hurt, they’re small, even though he was only a foot above the ground when I dropped his ball all I could think of is he could die. Hearing about people putting them in microwaves, popping what was probably their fucking balls, and all of these other horrific stories, it fuckin hurts my heart. But makes me thankful that I was a safe home to a total of 3 hammies. This also makes me think about Isabella janke, she did some of the most horrific things to hers.. I hate that women.
And I wish more daycares functioned like the one I went to/my mom worked at when I was a kid, they had multiple small animals at the school, cockatiel, lizards, hampsters, guniepigs, rats, mice, lots of fish too. These animals were never taken out of their cages without a teacher present of which they averaged 3-4, ms.Amanda always showed the kids how to properly handle these small animals, how to hold them, not to squeeze, it was therapeutic for a lot for some of the kids, and also was so fuckin needed. Cause so many parents don’t teach their kids about how to have nice hands. They think it’s funny when the kid pulls the cats tail, and then gets smacked by the cat. They think small animals lives mean nothing and when Billy throws his Guinea pig like a football it’s funny. but we had a black mouse named Silly (one of the kids named him) and bro lived to be like.. 7?? If you take proper care of an animal they can have a longer life, shocker right?? And no animal should be brought into a house that isn’t properly prepared to take the best care of the animal.
Then again parents not teaching their kids in general is a problem. Or even caring for them, idk if you’ve seen 17 diapers lady, but holy shit. I feel like so many people especially on social media only have kids to take pictures and get likes. Forgetting that they need to be taken care of, clothed, fed, LOVED, for a minimum of 18 years. They aren’t accessories, don’t get an animal or have a kid Willy nilly, that’s literally a whole ass life
Same I agree. Tysm for caging about animals like that!
I was also super sad and distraught after I took in an injured baby bird. It died sadly and I felt horrible that I couldn't safe it, but most people didn't get it.
I don't know how people don't feel bad about ,,small life".
I’ve wanted nothing more than a hamster since I first saw hamtaro when I was like 4-6? But was always told no growing up. I’m 29, still don’t have my own hamster yet. But I’m doing full blown back to back research into everything I can about hamster care, because I want to be the best hammie momma I can be! People laughing at the pain and suffering of the little babies makes me so angry! Their lives are meaningful!
unpopular opinion: save one from petsmart/petco
not forced or anything and yeah it's shitty to support the company but that's where everyone who mistreats small animals go to grab one. you could be saving the sweetest lil guy. but alas, it's good to get from a rescue as well. gl!
Honestly love it when people talk about this and more should flood the feeds with more awareness of terrible pet owners.
The sad thing is that this has been a growing concern for YEARS, like 2008, where kids brain rot channels would get a bunch of tiny animals and make em do the stupidest things, specially putting them in water which is the easiest way to get them sick. Hamsters have been mistreated for so long and it's only been getting worse.
Same with fish or lizards. Some don't even realize that those teeny tiny hamster cages are NOT enough for them and they actually need GIANT tanks to be happy, along with the proper set up and chew toys. Also they're nocturnal and the amount of people who don't know that but still owns them is extremely concerning. Specially when they are fully domesticated and cannot survive in the wild they genuinely need us to survive because we made them this way. The least we can do is give them a good life.
There's also been a growing concern for chinchillas becoming popular too, which I effing hate cause surface level research lets you know how DELICATE they are, they are 100% not for kids, they are advance level rodent imo. I can't in good faith own one because I wouldn't be able to keep in a safe and comfortable environment that I can regulate to keep it from overheating!
People need to stop owning animals if they can't even google the basics of taking care of it just get your kid a pet rock, chia pet or robot pet please 😭
Unfortunately, when I was little, me and my brother, also too young to understand, would spend our days after elementary school in my grandma’s classroom. She had a “class pet”. A hamster. I’m sure you all know where this is going. The poor thing was used and abused and looking back, I feel sick because of the way we all treated it. Thankfully it went missing one day, escaped from its tiny cage and never returned. I hope to god that hamster is in pet Heaven now. It’s so sad. So sad. I cry sometimes thinking about it. No idea where my grandma was during all the abuse. Rest in peace baby.