Ok - we will be having a hamster funeral this morning - I have a couple of sad children.....
Awww, that's sad.
remember to flush twice to avoid embarrasing situations...
Good luck with the funeral.
Completely unrelated...this weekend, my youngest son sat next to me as I was watching public television. He was making derogatory remarks about my lame choice of shows. I suggested that he watch a show with me and comment once he had actually experienced it.
The show was something about vet interns in England. My son was transfixed by the sight of a young blonde preparing to castrate a guinea pig. (He had been aggressive with other guinea pigs and needed to be calmed.) The voice over was the standard dry british inflection "...the guinea pig, though unconcious shows an amazing reflex for self defense." As we (and the intern) watch, the animal's testes are sucked into his abdominal cavity.
She asks the vet in charge what she should do and he tells her she'll have to coax them down again.
At this point, my fourteen year old son, the former dispassionate viewer shreiks--"Run, boy, run! Don't be fooled by the hand job- You're in danger."
Meanwhile, my husband and older son come into the living room to see what's so hilarious and the screen has switched to a shot of an entirely different vet suctioning bloody puss from an abcess on a cat. They looked at us as though we were insane, as we were literally howling with laughter.
So sorry to hear about the hamster.
Are you sorry to see the hamster go? They are notorious for being bad-tempered biters. Maybe because they are usually given to little kids too immature to handle them correctly.