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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Pet Island > Stories about how you accidentally killed your pet
 
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Parts Kit
Jun 9, 2006

durr
i have a hole in my head
durr
Soooooooo many tetras.

Fraction posted:

my worst pet death (I have had small animals, so I've had a lot) was when one of my chipmunks killed (?) and ate half of the other. I went in to feed them and found a pair of back legs and tail in the nest box.
Similarly when I was a young kid I occasionally would forget to feed my gerbils thanks to all the distractions of elementary school and Super Nintendo. They had a couple of litters, or whatever you call it for gerbils, and a couple of times the babies would be gone when I got back from school. Parents just told me they died, no specifics. For a while the male and female were separated into two cages, but eventually were put back into one. Later the female gerbil 'disappeared' in the same manner, and I was told she died. As you've undoubtedly guessed by now the male was eating the other ones and they were cleaning the mess up before I got home. I finally found out the truth when I was like 20 or so.

The best part of this story was after 2 litters being eaten my dad got mad enough about the whole thing that he managed to convince our dogs' vet to neuter the gerbil. I have never heard of anyone else doing this in my life, nor do I have any loving idea how you anesthetize a gerbil. But the vet did it.

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