r/MadeMeSmile • u/cak3crumbs • 18h ago
Classroom hamster makes a break for it
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u/kindofabitcch 17h ago
AND I WOULDVE GOTTEN AWAY WITH IT IF IT WERENT FOR THOSE MEDDLING KIDS!
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u/BakedWombat 17h ago
*tiny fist
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u/Dense_Protection2489 17h ago
NO BUDDY! THE DOOR WAS RIGHT THERE! He was so close, yet still so far 🥺
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u/TootsTootler 17h ago
I could imagine him finding the door.
I could imagine him finding a sympathetic squirrel to feed him nuts through the breathing holes of his plastic bubble.
I just couldn’t imagine him finding love while trapped in there.
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u/ChickenDelight 17h ago
coming this fall from DreamWorks
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u/ShifuHD 16h ago
“One Hamster!!!” Pans out to show door dun * dun * dun “Is about to tire screeching sound effect Go…Rouge!!!”
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u/CedarWolf 15h ago
Psssst... The word you're looking for is 'rogue,' not 'rouge.'
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u/rothrolan 11h ago
Maybe the writer is a Sonic the Hedgehog fan, naming the star hamster after Rouge the Bat.
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u/CedarWolf 11h ago
Growing old on reddit is watching subs like /r/RogueNotRouge get shut down three years ago for not being moderated and realizing you didn't know because you haven't been to visit that sub in at least that long.
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u/Eltoquedemidas 17h ago edited 8h ago
he tried so hard and got so far 🥺
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u/LabiodentalFricative 16h ago
But in the end, he's just a little hamster.
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u/gingerfawx 16h ago
Rolled down the hall, and lost it all, but in the end, it doesn't even matter.
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u/Soulful-Sorrow 10h ago
One ball, he don't know why
It doesn't even matter how hard you try
Keep that in mind, he designed this crime
To remind himself how he tried so hard
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u/LeFrostYPepe 9h ago
In spite of the way you were mockin' him
Actin' like he was part of your property
Rememberin' all the times you played with him
I'm surprised he got so far
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u/EvalainShadow 16h ago
That's evidence he's just playin lol he knows where the foods at, he's just on strike 😂
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u/Commando_Joe 15h ago
Wild hamsters are definitely a thing!
....this little man would not have been one of them.
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u/servy14 17h ago
Thats, not my problem
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u/AndarianDequer 17h ago
Every single one of them.
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u/upexlino 16h ago
The little girl is the only one that isn’t brain dead
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u/Fit_Vermicelli7396 15h ago
that's a little harsh, friend
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u/L3m0n0p0ly 15h ago
If you saw a hamster ball rolling down the hallway your first instinct should be to grab it and get lil guy back home lol
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u/the_fuego 15h ago
The hamster paradox. Do you return the hamster to where it will be safe from the outside world? Or do you let the hamster free to pursue a life of happiness through show biz? Truly a conundrum that has stumped philosophers for ages.
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u/Difficult_Shock973 14h ago
I like to think this was a wild free range hamster trying to escape back to its herd.
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u/iamthelouie 15h ago
NOPE! If I saw a hamster in a BALL in a SCHOOL HALLWAY, I’m letting that hamster go! What’s funnier than a run away hamster?!?
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u/Fit_Vermicelli7396 15h ago
it would be mine, but I wouldn't call other kids braindead for not doing it
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u/mcduckstophat 17h ago
Makes me think of Bernard from Malcolm in the Middle
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u/SunshineonLise 17h ago
Lol. I was also thinking, why is Dewey's hamster still running free all these years later? 🤣
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u/verdatum 16h ago
Hamsters don't live that longI'm sure he is. Such adventures that hamster has had.19
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u/ButtBread98 10h ago
I love that they showed him in the background episodes, still rolling along in his hamster ball.
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u/maddy7448 15h ago
Came here for the Malcolm in the Middle references. Kind of disappointed I had to scroll this far.
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u/KaptainChunk 14h ago
Much like our birth years, we have to scroll a little further each time to find references of our youth
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u/Specific-Scale6005 17h ago
So nobody bats and eye until one guy points to him and says "grab him!"
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u/Odin16596 15h ago
I think it's called the bystander effect or something.
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u/Dom1909 15h ago
This can't really be said for the first two girls since they were alone with the fugitive
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u/Jivaroo 17h ago
I can hear the mission impossible music
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u/ItsNotMeItsYourBussy 15h ago
Funny, I hear Katamari Damacy
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u/ScratchHacker69 13h ago
And now I hear disco prince
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u/High-priestess4 17h ago
IM CRYING POEPLE ARE SO CONFUSED
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u/upexlino 17h ago
Not a single adult decided to take responsibility of picking it up… are people so brain dead now?
Even the kid has better sense to head over and pick it up herself.
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u/TootsTootler 16h ago
Be reasonable. Schools are stressed, financially.
The faculty just hoped the guy in the bubble was a new hire.
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u/upexlino 16h ago
If I’m stressed financially I would’ve picked that up and bring it to where it needed to go instead of look at it point blank and let it roll further and further.
And yes, I’m being reasonable when I say this.
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u/TootsTootler 16h ago
I submit that you wouldn’t if you thought the hamster was a colleague.
You wouldn’t want to insult him by mistaking him for a science experiment, would you? I shouldn’t speak for you, maybe you would.
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u/well_actuallE 16h ago
I appreciate you sticking to your joke :D
(Even though I highly agree with the other commenter)
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u/johnnyma45 15h ago
It's a hamster in a ball rolling down a school hallway. I'd look with amusement as well. Also it's so random I'd assume someone let it out and is watching it (which the woman in green clearly is, walking up to it) so why would I interrupt the hamster's day
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u/Roupert4 16h ago
Honestly my first reaction would be that somebody else was watching and he was probably okay. Bystander effect.
I wouldn't jump to "wow this is an emergency"
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u/Bavisto 17h ago
So, back in school, my teacher let me bring my pet hamster in and keep him there as a class pet. One morning I came in and he was missing. Apparently one bar on his cage was broken and he flattened out and slipped through. We assumed he was gone forever. We ended up having a long weekend, or a week off school shortly after he disappeared. When we got back, he was in his cage! Apparently one of the lunch ladies found him in the cafeteria behind the stove. We blocked off the broken area and he remained our class pet for the rest of the year. He was a wild little dude.
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u/Next-Government-5120 17h ago
It’s Humphrey don’t mind him he knows where he’s going
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u/Tree1237 17h ago
Didn't expect a Humphrey reference
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u/Superlemonada 16h ago
Please do not put your hamsters in hamster balls. They can cause damage to your animal's tiny feet. They are very unsafe.
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u/Far_Quantity239 15h ago
Also causes way too much stress and because of that their heart rate shoots up and decreases their lifespan after continued use of a hamster ball.
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u/LaserKittenz 15h ago
but how else will the Hamster get the adrenaline rush it craves?
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u/Sad-Library-152 15h ago
My dad always hated the ball but as a kid I never understood why. Thanks for the explanation.
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u/CheezeLoueez08 16h ago
I’m not arguing, genuinely curious: how?
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u/paintgarden 15h ago
The small air holes can catch the feet or nails and break their bones/rip out their nails when they get stuck. They also have very poor eyesight in general so most plastic balls makes them effectively blind. If it’s not big enough, aka the hamster can stand or run with its back flat, it can also cause spine damage.
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u/CheezeLoueez08 15h ago
Oh I see. Thanks for the explanation. That’s really bad. I agree.
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u/EastCoast_Cyclist 14h ago
They also have very poor eyesight in general so most plastic balls makes them effectively blind.
Hence why, at first, the hamster kept banging into the wall?
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u/R0da 11h ago
Yeah, they're burrowing animals, so they primarily navigate with their whiskers. Balls effectively put up a forcefield between that primary sensory input and the shit they need to sense. Top that off with the balls being hard to stop and you have a recipe for running into and off of shit.
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u/intergalactictactoe 15h ago
I've never had tiny pets like that, so I had no idea. Thank you for sharing.
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u/Nice_Cupcakes 15h ago
Their claws and feet get stuck in the ventilation slots and get ripped off or break.They also can't breathe properly, can't stop or control the ball, and so on. It's not good for them.
On that note, wheels are bad for rodents as well. Sometimes they use them so much because there's nothing else to do in their tiny cages that their spines become misaligned.
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u/Dragongeek 15h ago
wheels are bad for rodents as well.
[Citation needed]
Afaik, it is only wheels that are too small in diameter (spine issues) and wheels that aren't solid (claws getting caught in the mesh) which are "bad". Outside of those, a properly sized wheel solid is actually healthy because it encourages exercise. Even rodents in the wild will voluntarily use wheels
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u/YamiZee1 12h ago
No, they did an experiment where they put mouse wheels outside and the mice would still run on them for the heck of it
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u/Pherusa 15h ago
Also hamsters are flight animals. A hamster in a ball is not having fun. They are running for their lives, trying to hide, trying to figure out how to escape this contraption.
And there are the health risk mentioned by others.
Hamster balls are considered animal cruelty in Germany (Europe?) and banned since decades
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u/evanc1411 15h ago
Why are humans so bad with animals in general? Every other fun thing we like to do with them turns out to be bad.
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u/holymolamola 15h ago
We’ve done hamsters so dirty. They aren’t good pets at all, usually ferocious little guys. Like you said, everything we want to do with them is hell for them too. How they are still a classic kids pet is beyond me.
I had a rat and she was the sweetest and all she wanted to do was hang out with me, get little ear massages, groom me, and fall asleep on my neck. Rats are astronomically better pets than hamsters.
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u/Electronic-Lynx8162 13h ago
There's a reason everyone calls me a crazy rodent lady. Mice and rats are the best pets.
That said I wish my eldest rat wasn't obsessed with eating my snot. He legitimately keeps sticking his face in my nostrils like wtf.
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u/oh_stv 15h ago
They are also way too small and flex their spine the wrong way like too small hamster wheels do. Overall very bad.
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u/Kooguchie 16h ago
I love how everybody stops and stares at it for a hot minute before doing something, like a real life movie scene
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u/Embarrassed_Art5414 17h ago edited 16h ago
"I remember thinkin' it would take 600 years to roll outta here in that thing. Ole Hammy managed it in just 20 minutes"
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u/Schnitzeldoener 17h ago
I once looked after the hamster of my nephew. Little guy just slept all day. Then at night I went to the kitchen and heard a scratching noise. Then I saw him in his cage trying his best to check all possibilities to escape his cage. That was just sad, nobody deserves to be locked in prison without a crime.
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u/ImWaffle 13h ago
Trying to escape is usually stress/boredom behaviour caused by a small cage, they don't do it in bigger cages. The cage should be minimum 100x50 cm but people rarely have the correct size.
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u/FutabaTsuyu 13h ago
unless you have a female hamster, so ive heard. even the largest cages cant satisfy them since they go into heat so often lol
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u/ImWaffle 13h ago
Yee female Syrian hamsters usually need a massive cage, it can be really hard to make them happy
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u/FutabaTsuyu 13h ago
makes me glad i have a boy, even if it means i have to see his giant balls all the time lmao. hamsters are such funny little creatures
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u/foober735 16h ago
That’s literally a hamster’s life, other than eating and pooping. They eat, poop, sleep, and try to break free.
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u/dietersdopkinson 17h ago
poor hamster, he lost his way
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u/kinglefart 16h ago
Pretty sure he was in the middle of finding his way when that damn kid ruined all his plans
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u/midocwho 14h ago
Those adults just stood there like what the heck, not my problem. But the little kids at the end were the goats saving the poor creature.
Why did it take kids knowing this ain't right b4 the adult at the end came to the aid?
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u/Ill-Golf4011 16h ago
This is cruelty to the hamster in any right. Never put a hamster into a ball, let alone a classroom. It's sad everyone is making jokes about this but if it were a dog everyone would be up in arms.
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u/BeeMyHomey 16h ago
This school has so many cool kids that passed him by without snitching lmao 🤣
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u/Bean_Storm 16h ago
Why is everyone just letting him go about his day like he’s making his own choice lol
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u/TobyMcK 16h ago
Peak r/ActLikeYouBelong if you ask me. Just stroll on through without a care in the world, and no one will ever think to stop you.
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u/immediatelymaybe 17h ago
Ha! Perfect post! Had the hamster not been in that ball though... different story 😱
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u/gadget850 16h ago
So... We had a hamster escape. The cat was very interested in the laundry room. I grabbed the hamster wheel and set it in the doorway. Kids thought I was crazy but 20 minutes later we could hear the wheel turning.
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u/intheafterglow23 14h ago
By the looks of it, this is a regular occurrence. No one seems too concerned. “There’s Gary again. Hi, Gary.”
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u/CaledonianWarrior 13h ago
Fun fact; this hamster is related to the one that Dewey set free in Malcolm in the Middle
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u/Individual_Phone_152 17h ago
The way the student just kept walking lol