Animal Experimentation

It turns out that my husband’s meatloaf recipe reminds our hamster of death.

Last night, for dinner, we had meatloaf with a really yummy mustard sauce. As is our habit, we fed the dogs a small slice, since it seems rather cruel to subject them to the meat-scented air for an hour while it cooks, followed by the sight/sound of us eating the meat, and then not share a little with them. (We are all members of the same pack around here.) The moose (as we are calling our plural mice) had a little as well, being as they are omnivores.

And then came the question: do hamsters eat meat?

We did a quick Google search (all hail!) and discovered that hamsters do, on occasion, eat live crickets and mealworms and other meaty creatures. We placed a tiny chunk of meat into Weet’s cage and watched. He approached, sniffed, tentatively licked, and then got exceptionally manic and buried the meat with two quick kicks of his feet before running away VERY quickly to his wheel.

We stood there for a second, and then started laughing (and uncovered the meat and removed it, of course, before it became a stinkymeat experiment in a hamster cage).

Poor Weets. First we refuse to get him a female hamster so he can get his freak on, and now we’re tossing carcasses in.
I wonder how we can torture him next.