#I assume hamsters are like. actually domesticated and not captured from the wild like I know a lot of lizards are | Explore Tumblr Posts and Blogs

rjalker · 2 years

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The Rogue: *turns around*

The nameless narrator:

[ID: A blurry screenshot of a hamster standing upright with its mouth open so that from an anthropomorphized perspective, it appears to be screaming loudly in fear. End ID.]

#described images #hamsters #rodents #ask to tag #I checked the origin of this meme and it's from someone videoing hamsters that are scared of them while they're changing their food bowl #I assume hamsters are like. actually domesticated and not captured from the wild like I know a lot of lizards are #or at least they're bred in captivity #so aside from the general 'why aren't those hamsters socialized to not be afraid of people' I don't really think there's anything you could #do to not make them afraid of you changing their food bowl #aside from actually socializing them properly #so assuming the video's the hamster equivalent of a feral kitten doing the back arch because y ou comitted the crime of #sitting a can of wet food down on the ground ten feet away in the same room #I'm going to assume the hamsters were mostly fine #assuming they were then properly socialized later #so they stop getting so stressed out from being given fresh food #this is why I really don't think animals that can't be handled without stress to them shouldn't be pets.#thankfully our mom never decided to get a pet hamster so I don't know how they work #please feel free to tell me if this meme is actually abusive to the hamsters in question #I can very easily find another reaction image

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