Thankyou for your sentiments guys. I plan to bury him tomorrow beside Iris, a wee female hamster I had for only a few days last year as she was a very eldery old lady when she came here from Morag (Babyboos) and died within a week due to old age.
Scooby was the first hamster I owned for many years and I can truly say that he was the friendliest little hamster you would wish to meet. Even over the last few days when I was syringe feeding him, he just let me gently grasp him and wipe his little mouth after I tried to drip feed him some food.
I could`nt wait until Monday because he started to roll over and look as though he was quite uncomfortable and I did`nt know if he was suffering pain, so I had to make the final decision. Poor wee darling. x