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I bawled my head off and felt guilty as hell even though it was for the best... Im still freaked out about it.



This is the exact thing that is bugging me. I realize it was for the best and it would have been horrid to let him life just to suffer and die.

I'm freaked out about his young age though, 4 months even for a hamster is relatively short and I am second guessing myself about if i did something wrong. It could be as simple as not washing some broccoli pieces well enough or maybe he ate some of my medicine that I had accidentally dropped.

I just don't know and they are such delicate animals it's tough to tell something is even wrong till it's too late.

It took me forever to even find a vet who was willing to accept a hamster patient. And even then medical tools aren't made in the proper scale. When Eddie was getting gassed before his lethal injection the doctor had to put the whole gas mask over his body because, well, there just isn't one that is meant to fit a small animal.

A few people have asked me how much it costs to euthanize a hamster. At the regular vets office during normal hours it is about 80-90 dollars including the check up and cremation and so on. At the emergency vet the same thing cost 160 dollars plus a couple of taxi rides across the city.
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