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Found this Siberian Hamster on the fireroad this morning.
Was still breathing but curled up in a ball.
When I approached it it moved about a foot away and just sat there again.
Didn't look to have any injuries.
Was it just cold?
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Do Siberian hamsters live in the wild in the UK? Well I never!
Do Siberian hamsters live in the wild in the UK?
Only the Filigree Siberian Hamster
It's probably trying to figure out who stuck that tail on it
Maybe it's just depressed since Charlie retired 🤷🏼♂️
Are we all agreed that it is in fact a rat.
A fat rat at that infact
Poisoned and dying a slow painful death. Also probably the same fate of the bird or larger mammal that eats it.
Poisoned and dying a slow painful death
That did cross my mind but it was in the middle of the forest and miles from the nearest house so don't think it'd be that.
Was thinking about helping him on his way but couldn't do it.
Nope.
That's a rat. Hamsters don't have a long tail and it's the wrong colour.
Was thinking about helping him on his way but couldn’t do it.
That would have made it an x hamster .....
I am now dimly beginning to realise it's referencing a quite dated comedy sketch.
Didn't mean sketch.
I meant show. Christ I hate Faulty Towers.
Curiously, I happened across a closely related Derbyshirian Hamster last week, in a very similar state. It was in the middle of a step in my garden.
I'd assumed it was poisoned too. Had to dispatch it for its own good. Its now in the bottom on the bin.
We've building works going on in the (former) fields behind us so the alternative may have been that it had been walloped by something as part of that. Or they have bait boxes down amongst the piles of material.
(Lots of displaced mice around because of the fields being tarmacked over; many have tried to take refuge in my garage in recent weeks. Waaay more than normal autum/winter.
No signs of having been caught then dropped by a big raptor like a buzzard (quite a few of those nearby).