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On Sunday, November 4, 2012, I noticed my cream female hamster, Sassy breathing rapidly.  Recalling the same symptom in past hamsters, I suspected pneumonia, and that is what the vet diagnosed, too.  I've been giving her antibiotics everyday as instructed, but today, I found her still a...

 There have been things I've wanted to mention, but haven't gotten around to them.  Sorry if it's wrong to mention things that are so out-of-date.  That was one thing that has made me put off posting entries, comments, and replies: fear of you and others being mad at me for writing...

I'm all alone, so I figured I should write. I don't remember what we did Thursday and Friday last week. I think Ellen and I went to the laundromat on Friday, very exciting stuff that. Thursday may have just been lazy day? I think that was possibly the day I was slouched on the couch the…

Someone is somewhere, hammering. I THINK they are on the roof, but the usual telltale sign that someone is on the roof (a ladder by our front door leading to the overhang over said door) is not there and it is confusing. Also, the hammering sounds like it is coming from below the bathtub hal...

Oh, the stretched-out-kitty cuteness. Last Saturday, Jake and I had lunch with his Dad and stepmother. We went to the chinese buffet again. I hate eating there. We were there from 12:30 to 3, although eating was done by 1:30 (probably even 1...). The rest of the time was us sitting there lis...

Noticing Gigabyte's rapid breathing, I took her to the vet on Thursday, April 28, 2011.  The possibilities were pneumonia or other lung problems, such as abscess and tumors, so the vet prescribed antibiotics, and asked me to bring the Syrian hamster back two weeks later. After a few days, he...

My two hamsters, Gigabyte and Kilobyte, have been becoming less active and eating less due to old age.  However, as February ended, Kilobyte didn't eat much, and I found him breathing rapidly Saturday night, February 26, 2011.  I thought he had pneumonia, because that was the cause of S...

Yesterday we began a 3-day feeding of Nick and Stacy's cats. They are off at a wedding and needed someone to feed the cats. Of course, I was more than happy to help out, it means I get to see cats! And as long as they don't hiss at me, pat the cats too! So…

Terabyte was still active on September 26, 2009.  However, the following night, September 27, I found her body still, showing death.  I've only had her for a few months.

On Tuesday, May 12, 2009, I found my male hamster cold and still.  He had been sleeping a lot for the past two days, and now he was dead. I replaced him with a new male hamster on Thursday, May 14.  Everytime I tried to touch him, he would curl up, hide, or run away. …