HAMSTER! HAMSTER! Nom-nom-nom-nom! Newslink.

Police dog eats tasty treat. Fur & all.

So THAT’S why the SDMB has been having so much connectivity trouble lately!

Mystery solved!

The SDMB post eating hamster has beeneaten?

HAMSTER! HAMSTER! CRUNCHY WITH KETCHUP! Nom-nom-nom-nom!
HAMSTER! HAMSTER! GOOD WITH PIE! Nom-nom-nom-nom!
HAMSTER! HAMSTER! PASS THE DONUTS! Nom-nom-nom-nom! (A Police dog, after all.)

SNAKE! Ahhh, it’s a snake!

If the hamsters are looking like badgers, you may want to lay of the mushrooms.

No, but with one less hamster on the exercie wheel, how are the servers powered?

I heard they went green in the server room, making biofuel from the hamster droppings.

Why does the OP specify “fur and all”? It’s not like a police dog is going to peel the hamster first.

Was that in the UK? (Can’t read that site from here).

If it was US, well…that’s a part of the Fourth Amendment that got left out (it was on the back side of the paper, but during ratification, no one turned it over and noticed it): those with police powers may not eat a resident during searches of the premises.

Officer Rex claimed the hamster was reaching for a concealed vacuum cleaner.

It was a drug sniffing dog. It had the munchies.

Freddie Starr ate my hamster.