Sleep tight Jasper 27/04/16-09/06/18

chesca_27 · 08-03-2018, 04:07 PM

I just want to inform you all Jasper passed away on Saturday June 9th. I went to my Dad's house that weekend and left him with my Mum. She put some fresh food out for him on Saturday night and he never came out to eat it. I found him curled up in his nest on the Sunday. It seems he passed peacefully in his sleep at just over 2 years old. He didn't really age until the week before he passed where he looked a bit thin, but I put that down to old age.

I've sort of made peace with his passing now so I don't really want to write a memorial about how much he means to me and how much I love him because I think that was already known. I don't want this to be a sad thread.

Since it has been a couple of months, I think I am ready for another hamster and I plan to adopt one from the P@H adoption centre when I return from holiday in a few weeks. I realise this seems a bit insensitive in his memorial post but now I've fully mourned, I am quite excited for another hamster and I miss having one. I plan on adopting another dwarf hamster, probably a Russian unless they magically have a Chinese to adopt. I'm currently going through the process of cleaning the toys I can reuse and binning the ones I can't. I need to disinfect the cage and buy a new wheel, bottle and some essential toys but other than that I think I have everything already.

All the dogs are doing well as is Pemba (guinea pig), but Oreo (guinea pig) has unfortunately been ill on and off since May. At the moment he has conjunctivitis but it has cleared up significantly since last week when we collected him from the pet sitter (where it seems he became ill). Hopefully after this, he will be completely better and can gain some weight (he is extremely underweight from all the times he has been ill). I know it seems weird including all these updates but I don't really want to use Jasper's thread or start a new one. Anyway that's the key things since I've last posted. I realise it's been a long time since I've been active on here but I'm just so busy.