Dumped hamster gnawed feet off

A HAMSTER without any feet found dumped outside a block of flats may have chewed all four of them off.

Vets were shocked to discover the rodent acting strangely and had its leg bones exposed.

Scottish SPCA ambulance driver Jennifer Hamilton said: "It's very sad when animals are abandoned, but this was particularly shocking when we discovered that she did not have any feet.

"The vet who examined her said that she may have chewed them off, but we don't know what would have driven her to do this.

"Whatever has happened, she must have been in a great deal of pain and her owner should have taken her for vet treatment."

The hamster was found in a wire cage in Grangemouth.