Tag: death
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Another hamster death and the fox returns
Daisy our hamster is dead. After Bella died earlier this month I decided I wasn’t going to make the same mistake with Daisy and a few weeks ago I took her to the vet. It can be hard to tell when a hamster is unwell as they’re out at night when we’re asleep and both…
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Two deaths in one week
Bella, our hamster, died on the same day as Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, on the 8th September 2022. Bella’s death hit me harder than I was expecting. We haven’t had her for very long but I noticed over the past month that she was losing weight. I started to weigh her regularly to see…
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MikeM
Ben’s father died last night. He was only 72. I was very fond of him. I don’t think many can say they are as fond of their father-in-law as I was of mine. He always treated me well and was very supportive of me, so I’d like to write a post about him. He and…
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My Granny
I am in Scotland and so I was going to write about some of the things I have seen but I have just learnt that my grandmother died in the early hours of this morning Australian time, and so this post is for her. She had a beautiful name, my Granny, so beautiful, that I…
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Freud. 1999-2013
We said goodbye to a dear, old friend yesterday. Freud is gone. The vet euthanized him peacefully at our home. About a month ago he started going downhill again – off his tucker, nauseous and vomiting. So we decided not to send him to Australia to live with family after all (we leave for a…
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Goodbye, Zeki
Zeki is dead. We took him to the vet this afternoon and had him put to sleep. We had been thinking about it for a while but the final straw was him biting both Elizabeth and Ben yesterday. The wounds are minor but I would rather write about his finer moments and make this an…
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