The day before Thanksgiving (Nov 23, 2011), I discovered Teddy “asleep” in the smaller of his two houses. After wrapping him in tissue, we buried him in one of our flower beds. As sad as his passing was, if Teddy really was a year old when I got him, then he lived three years — a long life for a hamster. And he was very pampered the two years he lived with me.
R.I.P. Teddy.
Fang and Bruno were about two months old when I adopted them on February 16, 2010. On May 29, 2012, I noticed that Fang wasn’t as alert as usual and the next morning, when I looked in the wooden house he and Bruno slept in, it was quite apparent he had died during the night.
Bruno now lives alone, is active, appears healthy, and is eating well. Bruno and Fang, being very social creatures, were virtually inseparable. Gerbils need interaction with others of their kind. The problem is that they are also very territorial and introducing another gerbil to Bruno now could mean more stress than he could bear or a fight leading to the death of Bruno or the new gerbil.
R.I.P. Fang.