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One of our dwarf hamsters died today.
We've had them for about three years... It was Gir, the brown one.
After she had first started looking sickly, we tried to bathe her with chinchilla dust bath powder, which they showed was also used on hamsters. We checked up on her often... she dragged one of her back legs when she walked, it was losing hair and limp. One of her eyes was swollen, and her back had started to look hunched. I had removed the white piping shown to make more room for comfort for her. Yesterday, mum bought a new cage at a yard sale with a food dish on the side of the house they could eat out of instead of in the house where they could sit in it. Despite our best efforts, we no longer have Gir.
After mum goes to bed tonight and dad goes to work, I'm going to... "dispose of" the body. Hopefully I'll be able to find a jewelry box the right size. I imagine I'll be able to dig a foot into the ground for her grave.
Edit: I found a jewelry box and some white ribbon. I came downstairs and while mum was still sleeping on the couch, I opened the cage and retrieved the body. Rigor mortis had already set in. I placed her in the jewelry box, along with the bedding that had surrounded her where she had went to sleep before she died.
Any suggestions where I should make the grave? I'm not sure if I should make it in the back yard, as it's trampled upon often and mum may try to level the yard again with the leveller of doom, and end up digging up and shredding Gir. I'm thinking about making it in the front garden or in V-park... but I'd rather have her in the front garden.
We've had them for about three years... It was Gir, the brown one.
After she had first started looking sickly, we tried to bathe her with chinchilla dust bath powder, which they showed was also used on hamsters. We checked up on her often... she dragged one of her back legs when she walked, it was losing hair and limp. One of her eyes was swollen, and her back had started to look hunched. I had removed the white piping shown to make more room for comfort for her. Yesterday, mum bought a new cage at a yard sale with a food dish on the side of the house they could eat out of instead of in the house where they could sit in it. Despite our best efforts, we no longer have Gir.
After mum goes to bed tonight and dad goes to work, I'm going to... "dispose of" the body. Hopefully I'll be able to find a jewelry box the right size. I imagine I'll be able to dig a foot into the ground for her grave.
Edit: I found a jewelry box and some white ribbon. I came downstairs and while mum was still sleeping on the couch, I opened the cage and retrieved the body. Rigor mortis had already set in. I placed her in the jewelry box, along with the bedding that had surrounded her where she had went to sleep before she died.
Any suggestions where I should make the grave? I'm not sure if I should make it in the back yard, as it's trampled upon often and mum may try to level the yard again with the leveller of doom, and end up digging up and shredding Gir. I'm thinking about making it in the front garden or in V-park... but I'd rather have her in the front garden.