RIP Piggy
My hamster (formally known as Kapoku) passed away today. I'm quite sad about this because we aren't sure what happened. Yesterday he was running around like crazy, hanging off the roof of his cage. I thought he was acting quite odd, but I just thought he was more hyper than usual. I came down today to clean his cage and he was curled up in a ball in his usual spot and I opened it and stroked him. I felt every rib in his tiny body and he felt extremely lifeless. I grabbed his cage and showed my mom. He wasn't dead yet, but was gasping for air and just lay there. He finally passed away while my mom tried to comfort him as best she could. His bottem was gross...but I'm not sure it was wet tail, it just happened so fast and I wished I would have come down sooner so I could have saved him. I scrubbed and cleaned his cage and broke down when I had to clean his wheel, because he loved to run in that thing so much. I feel just terrible about the whole thing. He was only about 6-7 months old...
His water bottle always leaked and I had to fill it all the time, I blame that partly because it was empty when I went down there today, which means he could have lived if the stupid thing hadn't leaked all the time. I filled it every night, I just feel like it's my fault and I could have prevented it somehow. What happened here?
His water bottle always leaked and I had to fill it all the time, I blame that partly because it was empty when I went down there today, which means he could have lived if the stupid thing hadn't leaked all the time. I filled it every night, I just feel like it's my fault and I could have prevented it somehow. What happened here?