hamsters

[suekwalt]

does anybody know the kindest way to put a very poorly hamster out of his misery?

[woofgang]

take hin to the vet

[woofgang]

PS doing it yourself might be illegal. If you don't want to go to the vet at least phone them for advice

[WendyS]

Definitely the vet. In an absolute emergency my husband once tried to put a dying injured water rat out of its misery by hitting it hard with a spade. it worked but he was so distressed by what he'd had to do that he couldn't stop vomiting afterwards. Do the decent thing and let the vet do it humanel.

[maggie01]

Definately the vet. We had to take ours to the vet to be put to sleep. It's never pleasant, but at least we know he didn't suffer. I could never have done it myself.

[qapmoc]

We had exactly this situation with my sons hampster recently and we don't have simple access to what you would call a vet without major hassle (no I am not joking, not the UK), so we made a small compartment from a cut down drinks bottle and put soft stuff for a bed and then filled it with carbon dioxide from a soda stream type gas bottle, everybody said goodbye and then my son placed him inside, after a few seconds he just went to sleep and didn't wake up again.
He got a nice space under our mango tree, with flowers around it.

[no nmes left]

take him to the vets! have himput to sleep, its only usually about 5 pounds. i wouldnt do anything else but that.