# Office hamster **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 23, 2000, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965 "2000-12-23T04:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Snooooopy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ee7513/32.png) [@Snooooopy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Snooooopy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/1 "2000-12-23T04:27:43Z")
We have an office hamster. Every office should have a hamster. I like to take her out of her little palace and pat her repeatedly while reassuring her what a good hamster she is (although I know it’s awful hard to be a BAD hamster), then put her in her ball so she can run around on the floor. It’s very relaxing. ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/2 "2000-12-23T04:32:58Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > **…(although I know it’s awful hard to be a BAD hamster)** Obviously, you have never been bitten by a Hamster! ---
**Author:** ![jaimest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/48db29/32.png) [@jaimest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaimest)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/3 "2000-12-23T04:38:57Z")
Does OSHA know about this? I hope you don’t practice anything in violation of hamster-labor laws! ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/4 "2000-12-23T04:48:11Z")
I have been bitten by my daughter’s hamster, and I’m still very fond of the little guy. Did you know you can get a hamster leash? ---
**Author:** ![Just\_A\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/5daacb/32.png) [@Just\_A\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Just_A_Girl)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/5 "2000-12-23T05:16:35Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Zenster \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Snooooopy \* > > **…(although I know it’s awful hard to be a BAD hamster)** > > Obviously, you have never been bitten by a Hamster! > \*\* …or been peed on by one :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Zenster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/cdc98d/32.png) [@Zenster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zenster)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 5:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/6 "2000-12-23T05:20:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by InternetLegend \* > \*\*…Did you know you can get a hamster leash? \*\* A leash made out of hamster leather? I am so there! [sup]ACTUALLY, I LUBS THE LITTLE RODENTS.[/sup] ---
**Author:** ![McKenna](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/db5fbb/32.png) [@McKenna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/McKenna)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/7 "2000-12-23T06:15:53Z")
…was Willoughby the Hamster in his little plastic ball running down the corridors of Shafer Hall at Wellesley (meaning it’s all girls). Said girls running after him making various culturally and regionally appropriate exclamations of cuteness. ---
**Author:** ![Rasa](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rasa/32/3578_2.png) [@Rasa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rasa)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 6:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/8 "2000-12-23T06:30:44Z")
Damn. And here I was thinking we were lucky because we had a mouse that lived under my neighbor’s cube wall. ---
**Author:** ![InternetLegend](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/internetlegend/32/13154_2.png) [@InternetLegend](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/InternetLegend)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 10:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/9 "2000-12-23T10:11:18Z")
Okay, I’ll confess that I used to hate rodents. I tried to talk my daughter into getting a kitten instead. They’re messy, smelly, and nocturnal. Bah. But wook at this widdle [FACE](http://photo.starblvd.net/DeadbeatKids/4-1-5.jpg?m=1&pg=3)! Yeah, yeah, the dog’s cute too (she belongs to a friend and just loves cage animals). ---
**Author:** ![Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/df705f/32.png) [@Fairy\_Princess\_Kitty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fairy_Princess_Kitty)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 10:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/10 "2000-12-23T10:14:35Z")
All rodents are adorable, can you keep an office bunny rabbit? That would be the sweetest little thing. Kitty ---
**Author:** ![AndYrAStar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8edcca/32.png) [@AndYrAStar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndYrAStar)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 10:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/11 "2000-12-23T10:16:58Z")
Hamsters are devil spawn. ---
**Author:** ![Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bosda_di_chi_of_tricor/32/16845_2.png) [@Bosda\_Di\_Chi\_of\_Tricor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bosda_Di_Chi_of_Tricor)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 3:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/12 "2000-12-23T15:40:07Z")
\*\*Obviously, you have never been bitten by a Hamster! \*\* [/QUOTE] I was bitten by a hamster, once. Now, every full moon, I get dizzy & black out. The next day, the newspapers describe these horrible mass _gnawings_. Do you think there could be some, well, connection? ---
**Author:** ![hypergirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/49beb7/32.png) [@hypergirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hypergirl)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 9:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/13 "2000-12-23T21:06:31Z")
Once, my science class had a pet hamster named Phoebe and I got to keep it over Spring Break. That was the closest I ever came to having a pet, unless you count the fish that I won at a carnival that my mom flushed while it was still alive. ---
**Author:** ![monkeylucifer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f05b48/32.png) [@monkeylucifer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monkeylucifer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/14 "2000-12-23T21:23:25Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by InternetLegend \* > \*\* > Yeah, yeah, the dog’s cute too (she belongs to a friend and just loves cage animals). \*\* Looks like the dog loves cage animals for dinner…I would swear that picture is the prelude to an akward explanation to the kids of where their hamster is, followed by a very involved discussion about whether or not hamster go to the same heaven as people. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Odieman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a87d85/32.png) [@Odieman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odieman)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2000, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/15 "2000-12-23T21:34:15Z")
Now why am I having Wally flashbacks now… Keith ---
**Author:** ![Sassy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47c2d/32.png) [@Sassy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sassy)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 12:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/16 "2000-12-24T00:38:43Z")
for the roll of duct tape behind the hamster. Hmm? ---
**Author:** ![Skelji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b38774/32.png) [@Skelji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skelji)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/17 "2000-12-24T01:26:38Z")
Besides the duct tape, I’d like to know if that hamster is double-jointed or something. And did it just have a bath? 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Lissa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/85f322/32.png) [@Lissa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lissa)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/18 "2000-12-24T02:53:42Z")
Every office should have a pet. It relieves so much stress. When my dog was a puppy, I used to bring her to work in her carrier. It looked like a big blue bird cage. Very casual office, and no one minded, so I always took her to work with me. “Puppy breaks” took over for cigarette breaks. The entire atmosphere of that place changed overnight. It was like everyone took a happy pill! ---
**Author:** ![TVeblen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/4bbf92/32.png) [@TVeblen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVeblen)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 5:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/19 "2000-12-24T05:12:40Z")
What’s with this cuteness overload stuff? Rodents are nice little critters! Hamsters are great, but I love gerbils. They’re more active. And actually they’re very clean (translation: being desert critters they don’t poop and pee as noticeably). My contraband college pet was a gerbil. When he wasn’t scampering around in his ball, he sometimes tucked into my shirt pocket and went to classes w/ me. Yes, it did look a bit strange, but they were small grad classes and he was quite popular w/ everyone. And yes, he was a funny, endearing spirit lifter. Being a sociable little soul, he quite willingly went to sleep in other people’s pockets when they wanted to borrow him. Veb ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2000, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965/20 "2000-12-24T05:28:38Z")
An office hamster would be great. A nice change of pace from the more common office sharks. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/office-hamster/46965.md?page=2)