Spiders can absolutely become addictive though! I got my first pet jumping spider a couple years ago. I fell down the rabbit hole inadvertently pulling my lifelong arachnophobe partner with me. Our collection now inlcludes hundreds of jumpers, about 60 tarantulas, and a handful of other true spiders. Spiders fuggin rock.

Have you tried a pet rock?

Jumping spiders make good low maintenance pets as well. They are intelligent, cute, and typically smaller than a tarantula.

They are weirdly fragile

Meanwhile, my childhood hamster would escape even with books holding the cage door down and once wandered all the way across the house to find us while we were watching TV.

Just make sure to put enrichment in their cases and make sure the case is big enough.

"This baby is easier to move as my own fat ass."

-Hamsters

I had a collegue who would always tell children running in front of cars: "You're faster reproduced than repaired."

I (and my siblings) had a total of 6 hamsters. 4 died of old age, 1 suddenly bled out overnight, and 1 died pretty young, but nothing was obviously wrong, so I dunno.

My neighbors had more than a dozen rodents (including 5 guinea pigs). They all died horrifically, including 4 that were killed by mouse traps. Because of course you should have mouse traps, and also keep small rodents that you allow to escape constantly. As an adult, I think the parents were seriously negligent in teaching their children, and then also negligent in buying more rodents for the grinder after the first two or three met horrible fates.

I've heard that hamsters will play dead so effectively, that they will convince their owners that they actually are dead.

So, assuming that's true, some hamsters die horribly in a small box underground.

Since we are on the hamster death topics,

• My first one's cage was left in the yard by my dad. In summer. I don't even need to tell you how this ended.

• We got a second one, went to grandma's house for like 2 days and when we were back he got a parasite on his stomach. The treatement didn't work. :(

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMs25XpjrAo

I had seen a Lemming die of old age, right before my eyes.

It never got smarter than trying to dig deeper holes.

What food do they need added to their diet?

technically better than having to deal with hamster babies....

how come b3 deficiecy leads them to want to eat other hamsters?

That is way more impressive. Any idiot can eat a baby.

Great band name.

My son is almost 30. Is it too late?

Hamsters out there reading Sun Tzu?