About a year ago today, I lost my beloved dwarf hamster Nancy Delilah. I was never sure if she died on the 24th or the 25th, because I had gone to my moms for christmas dinner on the 24th and returned the afternoon of the 25th, so it could have been either day...
She was 2 and a half years old, only had one eye, and she couldnt see out of that eye after a while. She was deaf as well, and during her last weeks she started getting really grumpy and nippy ):
Since you lovely people never got to meet my Nancy, I'm going to tell you about her now.
On July 8th, 2007, my 11th birthday, when I was going into 6th grade, I bought Nancy at PetCo. The day we brought her home, she escaped her carrying box and was loose in my dads truck. For 2 hours we looked for her, and finally my dad took the carpet off the floor of the truck and she under there, looking at us like HI! For all of 6th grade and part of 7th, she lived in a small crittertrail cage. Small, I know, but she was happy.
If I walked past her cage, or called her name, no matter what she was doing, she'd run up to the door of the cage and climb on the bars waiting for me to take her out. I would hand her a sunflower seed and she'd grab it and fall backwards onto her back in excitement!
One day, I came home from my moms and went to check on her, and she poked her head out of her nest... and her eye was bulging out of her head. I screamed and freaked out, told my dad, and we took her to the vet right away. The only option we had was to have her eye removed ): The surgery went well though, and Nancy was still happy.
For a while, I thought she had stabbed her eye on a sharp part of her cage that had been broken, and I immediatly threw the cage away and bought her the Crittertrail Discovery. She lived in there for a while happily. Then I saw Dewey on an ad on craigslist, and bought him and put him in a small bin. After he grew out of that, and placed him in a larger one (his current one), I placed Nancy in the small bin.
At this point, Nancy was entirely deaf, and wouldn't come to the cage door anymore when I called her because of this. Then I noticed her remaining eye was starting to get rather cloudy, and I realized she was totally blind.
That Christmas (2009), I had just gotten a brand new camera, and when I got to my dads, I ran in my room to take a picture of her! Then I realized she had passed away in her sleep ): I was totally distraught and crying for hours, I couldn't even bury her, and I had to have my dad do it.
Nancy will never be forgotten<3 she was the best and most tame hamster I've ever owned, and she will always have a special place in my heart.
1 year ago today... RIP
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