"BABY" ITCHY IS SICK. Short of a miracle, she's dying. Itchy is my tiniest roborovski hamster. The illustration top left is not a picture of her, but it's nearest I could find online. I did a hamster-count yesterday because their tank was full of cut-out tea-boxes and other things in such crazy array they had a chocolate fingers box bridge over their wheel, a multistorey turreted castle-type thing, all cut open with little windows and doors. Because this brought the level of their home so high an enterprising roborovski could possibly clamber out the top, I have been extra careful, putting big books over the highest part, keeping them shut up in a cupboard (where they appreciate the dark anyhow) during the day... etc. I did a hamster-count yesterday and only two! I was convinced one had escaped.
The sadder truth emerged later that night, slumped exhausted under the water bottle. Fur unkempt, eyes shut. The backbone is protruding because she has lost weight. I've seen this happen before and there's little a vet could do. This means she is dying.
Today she sat in my hands, but there was nothing I could do to make her eat. Not even chopped up broccoli leaves, not even flour (which wild mice love ~ I once lost an entire pack in under a week in my scruffy old house where Evilstein was landlord...). She hobbles around but has very little energy. Bashful and Spherical tread all over her, oblivious.
Their bright-eyed enthusiasm makes Itchy seem all the sicker...I had to leave her bundled in a cardboard tube surrounded by hammyscones, seeds and vegetables to go to an antidrugs meeting, so I'm hoping she didn't go while I was out.
How perky-eared and pingy she used to be!...
TOTO: AFRICA
I don't know why, but this comes to my head...
11 comments:
I'm really sorry. What is the cause of her sickness? Is she just old? What about a little glucose in her mouth? I guess I don't want her to die. Very sad indeed.
So sorry to hear about baby itchy, losing an animal friend is always the worst. I'm still hoping beyond hope that she will rally and make it though.
I left you a comment on your previous post regarding the one you left me on mine. Wow, that was complicated.
~Melody
Oh no, not baby Itchy! Oh, gleds, I'm sorry. I'll pray for that miracle.
This post almost made me cry. Poor little girl :( I will keep my fingers and toes crossed that she will make a miraculous recovery. Keep her comfortable in the mean time.
Oh I'm so sorry to hear about itchy m'dear. I hope it's not as bad as you fear. x
Aww poor little Itchy. And poor little you . . That's the heartbreak of owning pets. .
Sorry about your little hammy - that's the hard part with pets - they get sick and it's so hard to know what to do
If she is so sick, I hope she goes quickly. Sounds awful to hear of her withering away.
That's so sad, I'm sorry your little robo is ill. My elder cat pookey is sick, coughing and sneezing she's almost eighteen.
It's sad to lose a pet, they are family even the tiny ones.
Janice~
That's the sad side of these little critters, they last not very long. 2 years at the most. We once had a guinea pig such a cute little guy. But after two years he died. It was so sad ! He was the boss in the house and the cats were afraid of him when he stood up on his hindlegs and rattled with his teeth !
thanks for these messages: she's gone now
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