A great sadness has entered our new little home. Sunday evening when the kids and I returned home, Madison noticed something wrong with our hamster, Phoebe. I had noticed over the past several days she was not eating much and she was not playing at night like she usually did. Madison said it looked like something was wrong with one of her front legs. When I reached in a picked her up she started SCREECHING. OMG – I have never heard anything of the like. Such a loud sound coming from a small little fur ball was unsettling. Phoebe also had a very bad odor to her. Yes, I know that most hamsters tend to have a smell but Phoebe had always been very clean so the stench that arose was surprising. When I calmed her down, I noticed the entire left side her body was very swollen and it was different from her stuffing her pouches.
I called the emergency vet and they asked a number of questions and then told me to go ahead and bring her in – but if there were kids in the house to prepare them because she would likely not be coming home. Turns out Phoebe had a huge tumor! The vet said they could grow in rodents (how dare he call my sweet Phoebe a rodent) very, very quickly. So, I had her put to sleep. They wrapped her in a little cloth and I took her home. Now Phoebe lies in burial in the front flowerbed.
The kids were upset for about 27 seconds before they asked if we could get a dog . . .
Sad :( poor Phoebe. My twin sis had a hamster when we were growing up and I think it also had a tumor - we had to watch it die and it was depressing.
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