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Hamster dumped in garbage bin - Catherine - 08-06-2016
This is sad and all too common. When people tire of tiny pets like hamsters and guinea pigs they just throw them in the garbage bin.
This hamster was lucky. He was found in time.
https://www.google.com/url?rct=j&sa=t&url=http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14664807.Heartless__Tiny_hamster_cruelly_dumped_in_Glasgow_bin/&ct=ga&cd=CAEYACoTNjM1NTIwMjk2OTg0MTU1NDYyNDIaMWUyMzRiZDhjZmNjN2U5Njpjb206ZW46VVM&usg=AFQjCNG9w3kju4iSwko64RJKDXXHw1k1Xw
It does make me wonder if there were little pets who were not found and what happened to them. People are so cruel and heartless sometimes.
RE: Hamster dumped in garbage bin - Catslave. - 08-06-2016
Why can't they just hand them over to a shelter or give them to someone that wants them sometimes I don't like people very much.
RE: Hamster dumped in garbage bin - Catherine - 08-06-2016
It is so cruel to just dump an animal in the garbage. It is as if they were saying that once they are finished with something it is of no value.
They never saw the hamster as having its own life and being of value just because it is alive.
I wonder how they really feel about themselves.
RE: Hamster dumped in garbage bin - Tobi - 08-07-2016
Oh poor little Soul! That is heartbreaking. How could they treat this little creature like garbage? How could anyone do that? So glad he was found, and hope the people who did this are charged for animal cruelty. He is not a THING, he is a LIVING BEING!
RE: Hamster dumped in garbage bin - Catherine - 08-08-2016
Maybe someone will recognize the hamster and turn the people in. They should be charged. They need to be charged so that others will think twice about doing something like that.
That poor little hamster.
RE: Hamster dumped in garbage bin - LPC - 08-08-2016
My hunch would be that the hamster was bought as a pet for a child. The child probably quickly lost interest and couldn't be bothered to feed it. The parents couldn't be bothered to spend any time either feeding it, as they regarded it as the child's responsibility. So in the end, rather than spend their "valuable" time (spent watching TV or drinking beer?) on finding a new home or taking the hamster to a refuge, they took the "easy" way out of dumping the poor creature in a bin. Thank goodness the council worker spotted this hamster.
RE: Hamster dumped in garbage bin - Catherine - 08-09-2016
So many pets were bought for children and then discarded. It is just not as often that people actually discard them in the garbage bin.
People also get a pet then find that it is more work than they thought and so they want to dump it on someone else.
It is only the really lazy and heartless that actually take the word dump literally and use a garbage bin.