In memorium

[Guest]

This morning, my daughter found that her hamster, Tommy, had croaked. Distraught but a bit less than unhappy, she led me to his cage where i poked the dead furball...gently. no movement.
After removing him from his cage and placing him in a delux godiva candy box, there was a short, water-side service.
"Mom, i'd like to say a word."
"Sure, honey, what did you want to say."
"Tommy, was a good hampster."
The box was then summarily released so that Tommy could swim with da fishies.
Fair well, my little furball friend... may you find food in heaven, since im fairly certain you didnt find it here.

 

[cheerful_deviant]

Fair well, my little furball friend... may you find food in heaven, since im fairly certain you didnt find it here.

Aaaahhhh, the joys of kids and rodents. *HUGS* for your little girl.

 

[SensualCealy]

Awe, Vella, you know how to bring tears to someones eyes now dont you?

I had a hamster when I was 12ish, a white one, he was so cute I called him Charles, no not after our future king, but named after my mom's cousin, they both had white hair! lol

It's amazing how kids can bounce back if they are told the truth from the get go, everything has its purpose. Now it's time for someone else to be her best friend.

Hugs and kisses,
C

 

[lucky-E-leven]

for Tommy
A clean cage every day.
All the hamster pellets you can cram into those cheeks at a time...forever.

~lucky

I suck. I'd have had a helluva time not laughing when that box hit the water.

 

[scheherazade_79]

Awwww.... Poor Tommy I had an Albino Russian dwarf hamster called Harry when I was 18. He had bright red eyes and was so bad tempered that I started getting scared of him. Sometimes I'd wake him up by accident by playing loud music or getting too close to the cage, and he'd come storming out of his little house and stand by the bars giving me the nastiest looks. I was always kind to him, but he bit so regularly and so hard that I had to wear gardening gloves every time I handled him. I still cried when he died, so you and your family have my sympathy, Vella.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

"Tommy, was a good hampster."

What a lovely eulogy!

I have known a few people who would have been several steps higher on the evolutionary scale if that could have been said of them.


If you are smart, you will replace Tommy with a dog or a cat.

With luck, it should live long enough to see a kid close enough to adulthood for its death not to be such a childhood trauma.

It will then be an adult trauma, but that is another story.

 

[Goldie Munro]

awww how did I miss this thread??

Hamsters don't live long do they? Great learning curve for the kids (really I'm not being cruel!)

My friends hamster died while he was on a world tour - we kept the news from him till he got home and he was 32 - he took it badly!

 

[alyxen]

My condolences for your loss.


I had a guinea pig when I was a kid that didn't last too long. Think it was the lack of food/water that did it.

 

[Goldie Munro]

I had a goldfish when I was 3 - I thought you could take it out the bowl and play with it - couldn't understand why it just floated on the top when I put it back

 

[pop_54]

I was distraught when my last parrot croaked, well he hadn't made a sound for years, it came as a shock.

On a more sombre note, we have a garden full of little faded wooden crosses located above various pet plantings over the years, the kids take this kind of thing seriously, even now they're grown I dare not so much as disturb one of those little crosses without risking a bollocking.

The saddest of all was Archie a Jack Russell Terrier, he lived to 16 and saw all of the kids born and grow, he was part of their growing up, another member of the family... There were many tears when he turned his toes up of old age one night a few years back... He does have the biggest cross though.

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Even though I hate those fecking little cannibalistic rats from hell....as a mom and mortician for numerous pets...I sympathize.

I'm sure heaven is now filled with billions of those little bastards now since they fuck and reproduce in 15 minutes, yes, I'm sure he's living it large, stuffing his little rat face and sending virtual poop down on you.

Jewish mom #1: Was he sick?

Jewish mom#2: I should know this? He didn't look sick.

Jewish mom#1: He was too skinny.

Jewish mom#2: It should have been me.

Both moms now beating breasts in lamentation and making enough food for three counties, questions about who gets the wheel and the water dish arise, others suggest renting the cage, one off comment about murder or suicide....I hate when pets die.

Hugs to the little daughter......get her a snake.

 

[nikkijames]

Hugs to your little one.

I know what the death of a pet can mean to a little one. We had a hampster that died last year and it was the first time that my daughter, who was 4 at the time, had to deal with death. She picke dit up out if its cage and petted it and we put it in a little shoebox and buried it outside. She bawled for 2 hours, I finally had to call my mother to have my mother try to calm her down.
We just recently buried (yes buried) her goldfish. We have two guinea pigs right now and thank goodness both seem to be in good health.

 

[doormouse]

Awww *hugs* for your little girl.

Umm... as we don't have hampsters or gerbils here...

What's the difference between a guinea pig, a hampster and a gerbil??

 

[Liar]

"Mom, i'd like to say a word."
"Sure, honey, what did you want to say."
"Tommy, was a good hampster."

Aww.

Since you didn't specify, I will assume that this was your younger daughter?

 

[Liar]

What's the difference between a guinea pig, a hampster and a gerbil??

Cheek size.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

. . . What's the difference between a guinea pig, a hampster and a gerbil??

OUTPUT!

 

[Guest]

to your little one, though it does sound as if she's handling things quite well.

Our daughter received a small fish tank for Christmas. Yesterday we picked out some fancy guppies to fill it: cheap, prettily-colored, all male, fairly sturdy. *grin*

She's a science buff so her gifts tend to reflect that. Chemistry sets, a telescope, last year an ant farm . . . And *shudder* we're not going there ever again!!!

Sweet story, vella - hugs to your daughter!

 

[Bridget69]

Fish and rodents never make good pets considering the brief life expectancy.

 

[RebeccaLeah]

My sympathies and *hugs* to the hamsterless daughter.
We actually have a dwarf hamster visiting from school over winter break, oddly enough she was sick this morning, my mom diagnosis was pink eye. I am happy to report that after 2 treatments of antibacterial ointment, she seems to be getting better.......Now she's just shaking uncontrolably because the true carnivore of our two cats has been watching her all day.

 

[Guest]

thanks all for the well wishes/condolences.
youngest is just fine. i think shes become calloused...seeing as this is the fourth hampster shes lost. one per year since weve been here.
(i should add, i must be just as callous since i have been keeping gold godiva chocolate boxes for just such occassions.)
"mom, i think i need to take a break from hampsters."
"good idea." says me.
"i really want a cat."
"bad idea." says me, "i dont have boxes big enough."

 

[shereads]

Poor little fuzzball.

As a former child and former serial-owner of hamsters, I think I can safely guess that Tommy is happier in the next life than he was in this one. Can anything on earth be more nightmarish than being a hamster in the loving care of a small child? Hamsters, to their dismay, are not only cute but chubby, relatively slow-moving, and exactly the right size to be carried around in a moist fist with only the face showing. God rest your little rodent soul, Tommy. Say hello to Strawberry & W.C. Fields for me, okay? And tell them I'm sorry for all those times I forgot to feed them and give them water. Also the time I dropped Strawberry on the driveway.

 

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