Huh.....

A sad pet story

My best friend Lizzy's hamster just died. The question came up about what to do with him now? Do you bury him?

This reminds me of a pet I once had....

Back in 1999 Eric bought me a pet hamster. He surprised me with it one day after work. I had the happy little hamster (whose name escapes me at this moment) for a week or so when he started acting a little odd. He wouldn't drink or eat & he wasn't moving much. One night Eric and I came home (I was living in a house with him and a bunch of dudes at the time) after a concert and when I went to my room I noticed him deadishly lying there on the floor of his cage. When I touched him he flinched and sucked in air very shallow like, so I knew he wasn't quite dead yet.

Conveniently there was a raging keg party going on at the house and Allison, a vet hospital receptionist, was there on the scene. Allison immediately diagnosed him with "wet tail". (The hamster squirts.) Shortly there after there was talk of putting him out of his misery and how. Suggestions such as, "Just put him in a sock and smack him against the wall. It will kill him instantly! That's what we did when I worked a Pet Co!" came from an assortment of drunk friends. As it turned out, no one had the balls to murder the poor hamster via sock. Allison kindly volunteered to drive my little rodent pet to the animal hospital, at 3am, and IMMEDIATELY put him to sleep with gas. She promised to return with the body so that we could have a proper burial the next day.

Nine sheets to the wind I was when she returned and some how or another the hamster body ended up in the glove compartment of my car. I am fairly certain that I put him there with the intent to bury him at my Mothers house under the willow tree. THREE DAYS LATER I remembered his stiff, not yet stinking, body was in there and had to bury him behind Eric's house instead. Using a dirty fork to dig his sad little grave I buried the little creature of God next to some keg cups in the back yard.

To this day I think about him and the courage it took Allison to risk her license and drive down to the Animal Hospital, drunk, and put my hamster out of his misery. A moment of silence please....

posted by Jessiedc28 @ 5:24 PM