RIP Hammies
I first saw Lemmi and Winks at a Petco in Mountain View. Lemmi ran up to the window and put his little paw on the window as if to say Hello! I was smitten from there on out. Chris and I came back the next day and he adopted both of them. He built them a pretty spectacular space themed cage. They were little dwarf hamsters so they had some trouble climbing the tubes but overall they loved it.
Having the two of them was hours of entertainment, as they would do silly things to each other like sit on each others heads, bite each others tummys and squeek loudly as they got into little pissy fights. Chris even sang their own little hamster song to them. Lemmi passed away over Christmas, we still don't know why. He seemed so spunky and healthy and he was by far the nicest one. He never bit us and was always happy and bright eyed. He probably died from old age since they both seemed older when we got them and hamsters don't live long as it is.
Today Winks (the grumpy one) passed on... he was doing poorly... one eye was squinty, he had a bad case of mites, and one little paw had very long nails on it. He also drank too much water, much more than necessary for a hamster his size. I took him to the vet and learned that he had an upper respiratory infection and most likely kidney failure. We decided to have him put to sleep. I accompanied him to the "back room" where he was put in a little plastic box and they gassed him to sleep. They then took him out of the box and injected something into his heart. It killed him instantly. It was the saddest thing I've seen in a very long time. I still get choked up thinking about it.
RIP Little Guys!
(I'll post some pics later)
Having the two of them was hours of entertainment, as they would do silly things to each other like sit on each others heads, bite each others tummys and squeek loudly as they got into little pissy fights. Chris even sang their own little hamster song to them. Lemmi passed away over Christmas, we still don't know why. He seemed so spunky and healthy and he was by far the nicest one. He never bit us and was always happy and bright eyed. He probably died from old age since they both seemed older when we got them and hamsters don't live long as it is.
Today Winks (the grumpy one) passed on... he was doing poorly... one eye was squinty, he had a bad case of mites, and one little paw had very long nails on it. He also drank too much water, much more than necessary for a hamster his size. I took him to the vet and learned that he had an upper respiratory infection and most likely kidney failure. We decided to have him put to sleep. I accompanied him to the "back room" where he was put in a little plastic box and they gassed him to sleep. They then took him out of the box and injected something into his heart. It killed him instantly. It was the saddest thing I've seen in a very long time. I still get choked up thinking about it.
RIP Little Guys!
(I'll post some pics later)
