after being
asked a multitude of times to react
to the netflix documentary tiny
creatures
specifically episode two i'm finally
doing it for you guys i did have to
figure out a way around it because it is
a netflix
series and you can't just
show a whole netflix episode on youtube
because you will get copyrighted even if
i'm reacting to it i'm not taking the
risk so
we're going to do things a little bit
different i went ahead and watched the
episode
and i've taken down some notes and we're
going to go over the summary of it and
then i'm going to give you my thoughts
on this episode
so episode
2 is in new york the narrator starts off
by telling us that
new york is home to more than 8 million
inhabitants
and we're already off to a bad start
when the camera pans in to
introduce the "golden hamster" which is
living
in what i found on google to be the
lazy bones three-story hamster cage
which is
16 inches by 10 inches giving us a total
of 160 square
inches of floor space and yes it does
have three levels
but essentially that does nothing for
the hamster the narrator proceeds to
tell us that
this pet lives a pampered life and that
he's happy to trade his freedom for security
there's a chihuahua he likes staring at
the hamster
the owner leaves and this is when
the hamster just pops out the top door
he makes a break for it and escapes down
the entire cage
and then falls down the two foot drop
unscathed
and he goes crazy exploring he crawls up
onto the couch
and then he uh finds some tissue
in a purse and he proceeds to pouch it
and then
go all the way back somehow magically
climb
this two foot table that's made out of
wood and is smooth
climb up his cage and then go back into
his house and make himself
a cozy nest and then he goes to sleep
because as the narrator actually says
hamsters sleep during the day next thing
you know a child busts through the door
and
literally claws him out of his nest
while he's trying to sleep then she
proceeds to put him
in the hamster ball during the day
the hamster is
knocking into tables and apparently
purposely tormenting the dog by chasing
it around in the ball
the hamster then proceeds to knock into
the table which then
leads to a glass vase smashing on the
ground
framing the dog so the dog goes to doggy
jail
the owner then proceeds to clean up the
glass
and then she walks out the front door
and she leaves her front door open
uh so the hamster just happens to stroll
on out the door to the elevator next to
a man
who still who does not notice this
hamster, door's open
hamster rolls in man still does not
notice hamster
uh but elevator doors open
the hamster rolls out onto a
construction
site no one still does not see this
hamster in a ball
he's literally rolling on the edge of a
building
the hamster runs into a pigeon pigeon
flies away
the hamster rolls still onto the
construction scene
with people literally walking by him and
is unseen
he dramatically falls down a shoot this
either had to be a stuffed animal or
cgi because this hamster 100%
would have been dead by now and then the
hamster's just rolling around
new york still nobody is noticing a
hamster in a hamster ball he's
literally going across a crosswalk with
people
and they are doing nothing they're like
oh this happens every day
the hamster then rolls into an alley
with a cat and the cat obviously wants
to eat him and the cat smacks him
which then the ball finally pops open
which i'm shocked it didn't open
sooner the hamster then
escapes down the sewer from the cat he's
tight rope walking across
a pipe which he's in the sewer now he
goes into a random pipe next thing you
know
it's raining and the sewer is filling up
and
now there's like 30 rats coming out of a
pipe
so the hamster's running away the
narrator
proceeds to say he risks drowning
when in reality
the hamster would actually just risk
being killed by
the rats who would 100 percent kill him
before he even ended up drowning
then luckily the hamster escapes into
yet another pipe
and he almost just barely in the nick of
time almost gets
washed away he sees a piece of debris
floating by
so he decides to climb on and just take
a little raft boat ride across
the sewer and then he's free from the
sewer and you think it's all good
but it's not we meet a falcon who is
built
for speed and then the falcon laser
beam spots this hamster the hamster is
unaware he
clearly is just eating some dirt he
would have a 100% died once
again but somehow
drain steam saves him from the falcon
swooping down and
the falcon takes off the narrator
proceeds to tell us
the hamster notices a familiar sight
when in reality a hamster can't even see
six inches in front of their face
so he would never be able to actually
see his
what looks like to be his hamster cage
when in fact it's not
so the hamster sneaks into the pet shop
he almost gets smooshed by a mouse trap
he's climbing super high uh narrator
says they're surprisingly
good climbers when actually they're
really terrible climbers because they
have
basically no tail unlike a mouse and a
rat the hamster is eating a mealworm
living his best
life he still manages not to be seen
when he's literally in plain sight he is
a syrian hamster so he
is physically you would see him
he gets packed into a box with insects
and then he chews out of the box and he
literally jumps out of the vehicle still
not being seen now we're panning over
central park
and the hamster is wandering around the
park wondering if this is a good home
and next thing you know he's in a train
station and then
apparently life goes on in new york city
which were then shown the hamster's cage
replaced with a tiny rabbit cage stuffed
with two rabbits
and we finish off with as for the
hamster
the journey has only just begun which is
false because he'd be dead
this episode actually had a lot of
potential to educate people on hamsters
and help them learn a little bit more
about them
they did touch on a couple of things
about hamsters such as
hamsters being solitary uh how they have
cheek pouches and they can put stuff in
there to keep it dry
as well as they talked about how they
sleep during the day
but there's a lot more they could have
included
they also did not give a good example of
proper hamster care
because they didn't show a good example
of how to properly care for a hamster
instead they used
your basic pet store cage they didn't
have any bedding in the enclosure
the wheels were way too small for the
syrian if you noticed
the syrian was pretty much half the
size of the cage
they also had no accessories in there or
anything else for the hamster to get any
enrichment out of which would explain
actually why the hamster
escaped the enclosure to begin with
now showing a bad example of hamster
care to
thousands possibly millions of people
watching
really spreads more misinformation
when somebody who is uneducated on
hamsters watches this episode and sees
like the cage and everything
perhaps they're watching with their
family they have kids their kids all of
a sudden get the idea that they want a
hamster which is totally normal for
a child to see something on tv and then
also like hey i want one of those
it then gives them that the idea that
everything shown in the video is
suitable and safe for the hamster
for example the cage um as well as the
hamster ball the girl puts the hamster
in
hamster balls are unsafe for for a
multitude of reasons
they are very uncomfortable to walk in
if you notice the hamster
running in it he does not look
comfortable
the hamster ball has very poor
ventilation
the ventilation slits can get a toe or
paw caught in there which can very
easily break them and hurt them
um they're just overall not a
safe toy they can also pop open as shown
in the episode so they are not
a safe product to use
also
showing a child run in just directly
claw in there and pull the hamster out
of its nest when they clearly just had
stated that
hamsters sleep during the day so why
would it make it okay for
somebody to wake them up
and then she woke him up and then
proceeds to just put him
in the hamster ball and then she's
nowhere else to be seen so what was the
point of that
i'm sure the hamster rather would have
been sleeping
than running in this hamster ball
it also gets me a little that they just
went and
showed that the family who owned the
hamster just went and replaced
the hamster with a new pet as if
it's just a replaceable animal
and they proceeded to replace the
hamster with
two rabbits in a cage that i would have
rather seen the hamster
live in i'm also hoping that this
doesn't give people
the idea that hamsters could just like
perfectly survive
if they got out or that you can just set
your hamster free
please don't ever set your domesticated
animal out into the wild it causes a lot
of issues with the ecosystem as well as
that is a
death sentence to your pet if you no
longer want your pet please re-home them
to either
a responsible pet owner or a shelter who
can find them a better home
do not release your domesticated pet
into the wild
in conclusion i did think the episode
was cute
uh and interesting but
they missed out on a huge opportunity to
actually
properly educate about hamsters and
honestly i would have been happy if they
would have just
went with a suitable enclosure and had
some like a good
hamster cage set up going and
avoided using the hamster ball they
could have made the episode still
without a lot of the factors in there
i hope you guys have enjoyed this video
it was very difficult for me to
make trying to get around not actually
showing
the episode on camera so i hope you guys
have enjoyed this video
thank you for watching bye
