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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-04-30 06:54 pm

[ SECRET POST #3039 ]


⌈ Secret Post #3039 ⌋

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Re: Most humane way to...

(Anonymous) 2015-05-01 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
na

That's a myth too. Your teacher (well, I assume it was a class pet since you mention elementary school, but I guess it doesn't really matter) might have THOUGHT they were telling you the truth but the baby hamsters likely died for some other reason (...or they were eaten by their mother, which is not at all unlikely, and your teacher thought that telling children their touch resulted in the deaths of hamsters was somehow less traumatizing than good old fashioned cannibalism)

Re: Most humane way to...

(Anonymous) 2015-05-01 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
AYRT - Looking back, my teacher wasn't that horrible, so my guess/recollection (keeping in mind I was so young) was that she said something like that COULD happen, and then when it did, the other kids were like "see?" I do remember it being another kind telling me that's why it happened, not the teacher.

Re: Most humane way to...

(Anonymous) 2015-05-01 07:06 am (UTC)(link)
rodents like hamsters eat their young because of stress, it's more than likely being in a classroom full of loud and handsy kids was the culprit

and if the hamster was a first-time mother or young, they often have a difficult time with their litters and it's not unheard of for a first-time rodent mom to panic and cull all of their pups