Sometimes it just sucks to be a pet lover. Today we had to take our magnificent hamster Smock (aka Destroyer of Worlds) to the vet. She quickly became very ill yesterday and since you can't do much surgery on a hamster we had to put her to sleep :-( Way too early.

She spent her last minutes happily munching away on the lettuce we brought in the little transport cage. At that moment it was hard to see how ill she really was and it felt bloody unfair that we had to do this to her. When the vet came to give her the shot her cheek pouches were stuffed full and you could even see some green leaves sticking out of her mouth as her life was fading away. At least she died doing what she loved the most - eating.

Now two of our three hamsters have passed away in less than a week. It sucks and we miss them :((( We'll probably get another one once the festival season is over but we'll never find a hamster as big and bold as Smock. She really was something special and we regret that we didn't have babies from her.

Bye Smock and thanks.

/d & e.