immanuelle: Hey Cap'n......Oh, you brought back some bad memories.
I used to have 7 hamsters in 2 large cages some years back. Used to clean out their cages once a week. I'd sometimes get lazy and not empty the cage of the hamsters prior to vacuuming out the crap. I had a central vacuuming system. All vacuumed stuff would be sucked through the hose which went into the wall and came out in a large storage container in the garage.
Well......I guess you can probably see where the story is going. Little hammy was there one minute and gone the next. I started screaming into the end of the hose. My husband - at the time - ran in and yelled, 'Well, shut the damn thing off'...und I did.
We trudged out to the garage and opened the storage container and there was little hammy, a very quiet unmoving hammy. We (well he) put it into a plastic bag and put it in a corner of the garage to wait for garbage day. The next day, out of guilt I went to look in the bag and little hammy was alive. He must have just been knocked out. He seemed fine, but for a little limp. I put him back in the hamster cage. Unfortunately he died a few days later.
I have a hamster and a guinea pig now. I don't vacuum their cages.
Oh, Imma, I am sorry, I am laughing.
Actually, I had a friend who had guinea pigs, and she told me that they need human contact. Is this correct?
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