Erin Loves Dwarf Hamsters
01-20-2012, 03:07 PM
Galaxy Cookie Crumble 29/09/10 - 20/01/12
29th December 2010
Me and Dan walked into P@H in mass excitement, we were buying our first hamsters! We knew exactly what we wanted, two roborovski females, we had already bought all of their toys and their cage days before in preperation and had been researching their care for weeks.
Catching the attention of a shop assistant we asked to purchase two female robos only to be told that the shop never stocked females only males. That didnt bother us, the assistant opened up a tank at the bottom of the shelf and lifted up a bendy log hideaway. Six tiny fluffs whizzed out in all directions! He caught one of them and put it in the travel box - this was Truffle. Then he asked which of the others we wanted.
"The smallest one there!" was our reply.
There was one which fit that description perfectly. So tiny and fluffy, with a strange shaped face. Cookie looked much more like a mouse than a hamster. We took them both home that day and it changed our lives forever.
Nine months later we would find out that they were both girls.
(Cookie the day we brought her home - back before we knew about F.bedding)
http://www.hamstercentral.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=7660&stc=1&d=1327093204
It didnt take long for their personalities to show, Truffle was very quiet and relaxed but Cookie was something else! Hyper and playful and always doing something nutty. Never wanting to be tamed but always friendly. She was soon labled with the theme tune "Flight of the Bumble Bees" for good reason.
The more we got to know her the more we loved her. Nicknames began springing up every day, Little Cook, Tiny, Wookie... but she was always my Galaxy Cookie Crumble, named after my favourite chocolate bar.
I fell in love with robos because of her and Truffle, and plans soon began to start breeding robos. Three more robos were rescued by us in the following year all because of them... all because of her.
(My favourite photo of Cookie.)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6494780831_ed2a9d6299_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6494780831/)
Cookie Hiding (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6494780831/) by TheDwarfHamster (http://www.flickr.com/people/bobtailhams/), on Flickr
September 2011
We celebrated their first birthday, and the day we fell in love with this new world.
October 2011
We rushed Cookie to the vets with after finding a lump under her left, front leg.
(Cookie's Lump Day 1)
http://www.hamstercentral.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=7661&stc=1&d=1327094213
At only 13 months old Cookie had a tumor that was unable to be removed. She took medication for 2 weeks but to no effect. Our world suddenly became a nightmare. How could our baby be so ill at such a young age? It wasnt fair.
Fearing that Truffle would suffer when it was time for Cookie to leave us we made the decision to move the two of them in with a yonger pair of female robos we had rescued. The coloney was a huge success and they lived together very happily for two and a half months. (My avatar picture is of the four together)
(Cookie's Lump in December)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6656189583_3f2b1b1dfa_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6656189583/)
14 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6656189583/) by TheDwarfHamster (http://www.flickr.com/people/bobtailhams/), on Flickr
December 2011
As Cookie grew progressively weaker the coloney forced her out and she was moved into a hospice cage to see out her last weeks.
With no robo family around her Cookie began to give up, she stopped leaving her bed, wouldn't eat or drink and showed no fear of people picking her up anymore. It seemed as though she bearly wanted to live. Nevertheless, new year came and went and she was still with us. She had dropped from 26g to 20g in a matter of months, her tumor was now larger than her and she could barely walk.
(The lump on her last day - Click to view)
7662
January 20th 2012
We knew it was time.
Booking in an appointment Dan and myself spent the few hours we had left with Cookie making our last memories. Truffle was placed with her sister for a last goodbye and the two snuggled up together as if they had never been separated.
09:30am, we left for the vets.
09:50am Cookie passed away.
I couldnt be in the room when they did it so we sat in the waiting room holding close and biting back tears, After a few minuted the vet came out with a small cardboard box. Cookie was inside, asleep for the last time.
We went back to the car and opened to box to see her one more time. She looked sound asleep, her eyes were closed and she was lying on her side, still warm. Her Daddy broke first, and then so did I. It was never the way we expected to say goodbye to her.
We burried her at the top of the garden in a large wooden barrel next to the pond, she will have a lovely view come spring time and when the bulbs over her grave flower.
We stood saying our goodbyes for a long time. It was so hard realising that the tiny little fuzz ball with so much personality and strength, the one who has brought us to where we are today, was gone.
Cookie, I wanted your memorial to be a memory of the sixteen months of happiness you brought us. This was your life, these were the greatest moments we shared, this is how we will always remember you. Take care at the bridge little Wookie, we'll come and find you one day I promise. Sweet dreams little angel.
Love forever from Mummy, Daddy and Truffle xxxxxxxxxx
(Our last goodbye)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6732783581_4faaa5a5a1_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6732783581/)
The Last Goodbye (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6732783581/) by TheDwarfHamster (http://www.flickr.com/people/bobtailhams/), on Flickr
Goodbye May Seem Forever
We met, it seems, such a short time ago
You looked at me - needing me so
Yet from your sadness
Our happiness grew
And I found out I needed you too
I remember how we used to play
I recall those rainy days
The fire's glow
That kept us warm
And now I find - we're both alone
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart is a memory
And there you'll always be
29th December 2010
Me and Dan walked into P@H in mass excitement, we were buying our first hamsters! We knew exactly what we wanted, two roborovski females, we had already bought all of their toys and their cage days before in preperation and had been researching their care for weeks.
Catching the attention of a shop assistant we asked to purchase two female robos only to be told that the shop never stocked females only males. That didnt bother us, the assistant opened up a tank at the bottom of the shelf and lifted up a bendy log hideaway. Six tiny fluffs whizzed out in all directions! He caught one of them and put it in the travel box - this was Truffle. Then he asked which of the others we wanted.
"The smallest one there!" was our reply.
There was one which fit that description perfectly. So tiny and fluffy, with a strange shaped face. Cookie looked much more like a mouse than a hamster. We took them both home that day and it changed our lives forever.
Nine months later we would find out that they were both girls.
(Cookie the day we brought her home - back before we knew about F.bedding)
http://www.hamstercentral.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=7660&stc=1&d=1327093204
It didnt take long for their personalities to show, Truffle was very quiet and relaxed but Cookie was something else! Hyper and playful and always doing something nutty. Never wanting to be tamed but always friendly. She was soon labled with the theme tune "Flight of the Bumble Bees" for good reason.
The more we got to know her the more we loved her. Nicknames began springing up every day, Little Cook, Tiny, Wookie... but she was always my Galaxy Cookie Crumble, named after my favourite chocolate bar.
I fell in love with robos because of her and Truffle, and plans soon began to start breeding robos. Three more robos were rescued by us in the following year all because of them... all because of her.
(My favourite photo of Cookie.)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7035/6494780831_ed2a9d6299_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6494780831/)
Cookie Hiding (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6494780831/) by TheDwarfHamster (http://www.flickr.com/people/bobtailhams/), on Flickr
September 2011
We celebrated their first birthday, and the day we fell in love with this new world.
October 2011
We rushed Cookie to the vets with after finding a lump under her left, front leg.
(Cookie's Lump Day 1)
http://www.hamstercentral.com/community/attachment.php?attachmentid=7661&stc=1&d=1327094213
At only 13 months old Cookie had a tumor that was unable to be removed. She took medication for 2 weeks but to no effect. Our world suddenly became a nightmare. How could our baby be so ill at such a young age? It wasnt fair.
Fearing that Truffle would suffer when it was time for Cookie to leave us we made the decision to move the two of them in with a yonger pair of female robos we had rescued. The coloney was a huge success and they lived together very happily for two and a half months. (My avatar picture is of the four together)
(Cookie's Lump in December)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7018/6656189583_3f2b1b1dfa_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6656189583/)
14 (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6656189583/) by TheDwarfHamster (http://www.flickr.com/people/bobtailhams/), on Flickr
December 2011
As Cookie grew progressively weaker the coloney forced her out and she was moved into a hospice cage to see out her last weeks.
With no robo family around her Cookie began to give up, she stopped leaving her bed, wouldn't eat or drink and showed no fear of people picking her up anymore. It seemed as though she bearly wanted to live. Nevertheless, new year came and went and she was still with us. She had dropped from 26g to 20g in a matter of months, her tumor was now larger than her and she could barely walk.
(The lump on her last day - Click to view)
7662
January 20th 2012
We knew it was time.
Booking in an appointment Dan and myself spent the few hours we had left with Cookie making our last memories. Truffle was placed with her sister for a last goodbye and the two snuggled up together as if they had never been separated.
09:30am, we left for the vets.
09:50am Cookie passed away.
I couldnt be in the room when they did it so we sat in the waiting room holding close and biting back tears, After a few minuted the vet came out with a small cardboard box. Cookie was inside, asleep for the last time.
We went back to the car and opened to box to see her one more time. She looked sound asleep, her eyes were closed and she was lying on her side, still warm. Her Daddy broke first, and then so did I. It was never the way we expected to say goodbye to her.
We burried her at the top of the garden in a large wooden barrel next to the pond, she will have a lovely view come spring time and when the bulbs over her grave flower.
We stood saying our goodbyes for a long time. It was so hard realising that the tiny little fuzz ball with so much personality and strength, the one who has brought us to where we are today, was gone.
Cookie, I wanted your memorial to be a memory of the sixteen months of happiness you brought us. This was your life, these were the greatest moments we shared, this is how we will always remember you. Take care at the bridge little Wookie, we'll come and find you one day I promise. Sweet dreams little angel.
Love forever from Mummy, Daddy and Truffle xxxxxxxxxx
(Our last goodbye)
http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7007/6732783581_4faaa5a5a1_z.jpg (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6732783581/)
The Last Goodbye (http://www.flickr.com/photos/bobtailhams/6732783581/) by TheDwarfHamster (http://www.flickr.com/people/bobtailhams/), on Flickr
Goodbye May Seem Forever
We met, it seems, such a short time ago
You looked at me - needing me so
Yet from your sadness
Our happiness grew
And I found out I needed you too
I remember how we used to play
I recall those rainy days
The fire's glow
That kept us warm
And now I find - we're both alone
Goodbye may seem forever
Farewell is like the end
But in my heart is a memory
And there you'll always be