Hamster mailed in British postFri Jun 24, 8:03 PM ET
LONDON (AFP) - A frightened hamster was mailed first class to a British address in an act slammed as "utterly cynical" and "very stupid," reports said.
A postman picked up a moving parcel, marked 'do not bend' from a post box in Cambridge, eastern England, and fearing it might contain a rat, rushed it to a local vet.
"The envelope was a bit gnawed and I just saw the grey fur first," vet Patrick von Heimendahl said in The Sun.
"The hamster is fine and I think she will survive," he added on the rodent, now named Postie, before blasting the perpetrators.
"I find this utterly cynical. It could have ended up in the post box with no water or food. It could have died."
Wendy Barry of the British Hamster Association said: "It is a very stupid thing to do. With letters raining down on it it would have been terrified."
People living at the Cambridge address the hamster had been mailed to were stunned and had no idea who was behind it, the Daily Express reported.
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