Pet owner nearly dies after his HAMSTER attacked him with frantic partner forced to pry it off his flesh

A PET proprietor astir died aft being attacked by his hamster - with his frantic spouse forced to prise the rodent disconnected his flesh.

Nathan Halliday, 34, went into anaphylactic daze aft Mochi, his Syrian hamster, savagely clamped down connected his hand.

After Mochi, who was successful the midst of a deathly seizure, refused to budge, woman Rebecca rushed to rip the favored distant from Nathan's hand.

Recalling the incident, Nathan said: "[Mochi] rested her hands connected my thumb and abruptly she spot close done my hand.

"She clamped down and wouldn't fto spell - I deliberation from having a seizure - and my spouse Rebecca had to pry her disconnected me.

"Just a mates of minutes afterwards, I started to get a spot itchy."

A fewer minutes later, Nathan recovered helium was incapable to respire arsenic his full assemblage became swollen and covered successful hives.

The dad-of-one, who is asthmatic, took a mates of puffs of his inhaler earlier helium realised thing was earnestly wrong.

Although Nathan is allergic to horses and suffers from hay fever, helium said helium had ne'er experienced thing adjacent to this reaction.

He said: "It was perfectly horrendous particularly arsenic I had nary thought a hamster wound could origin thing similar this.

"My full assemblage felt swollen and my pharynx wounded - I couldn't adjacent talk and it was similar breathing done a straw. I was covered successful hives.

"We've got an oxygen metre and the levels had dropped to 84 per cent. It was similar my full assemblage had swollen and was each choky truthful we dialled 999.

"I couldn't breathe. My pharynx had swollen and I was covered successful hives connected my back, thorax and arms.

"I've been bitten by hamsters successful the past and thing similar this has ever happened. It was rather scary."

The ambulance arrived wrong 4 minutes and Nathan was rushed to Aintree University Hospital wherever helium was enactment connected oxygen and had 2 shots of adrenaline.

He was besides fixed an antihistamine and a tetanus jab.

After the contiguous menace to beingness was dealt with, Nathan said helium and the doctors had a bully laugh.

The lawman manager astatine a children's location said 1 of the paramedics adjacent dubbed him "Freddie Starr" - aft the comedian who was famously accused of eating a hamster.

He added: "I was decidedly the dullest feline successful large trauma. I did effort to alteration the communicative to a scorpion but I deliberation the paramedics preferred hamster.

"One of the paramedics asked maine if I was Freddie Starr."

Mochi died conscionable a fewer seconds aft biting Nathan, who added: "Mochi is present successful a fancy cracker container successful the plot - I don't blasted her."

But, helium said that contempt the freak accident, helium and Rebecca weren't enactment disconnected their emotion for hamsters.

He said: "We rescue hamsters from radical who different wouldn't privation them and I'd ne'er accidental nary to different one."

The mates noticed that Mochi, who was a twelvemonth and 8 months old, was looking sick earlier than evening connected November 17.

Nathan's daughter, three-year-old Evelyn, had already said her goodbyes to the household favored by the clip the incidental occurred.

Anaphylactic daze from hamster bites is precise uncommon but successful 2007, a antheral from Redditch, Worcs, died aft being bitten.