Thu 26 Feb 2009
Dead Hamster
Cathy’s sister, Kristen, arrived today for a visit and was getting a tour of things that had changed since her last time here.
“Oh, Kristen, you have to see our new hamster!” said Cathy as she led her to the little rodent’s cage in our family room.
“Oh look, Kristen. He’s dead!”
Followed by three minutes of laughter where they can’t talk because they’re laughing so hard.
Andrew had found this hamster a few weeks ago wandering outside in our driveway (!), so Cathy and Audrey took it in and borrowed a cage for it. A couple days later we learned that our neighbors had found another hamster wandering around in their driveway and had also taken it in. We tried convincing them that their hamster was the sibling of ours and that it was only right to keep this little hamster family together – at their house – but they didn’t buy it.
And it was strangely coincidental when our white hamster died today, because we learned its brown sibling died just last weekend. Maybe they’re together now running on that big wheel in the sky.
February 26th, 2009 at 7:18 pm
That reaction to unexpectedly finding the deceased hamster sounds SO like Cathy!!