My family's chubby, lazy, greedy but always clean HamHam died yesterday. It was hard to accept especially when we saw how it continued to live, eat and clean itself despite the lumps and hunchback. Such a strong warrior, chose to die in its favourite orange ball with its back facing us. Maybe it knew we will be sad / scared seeing it with the lumps on its tummy and neck thus dying in that position? Come to think of it, Pudding was running around frantically the night before, as though it wanted to tell me something. I sensed it was about Ham but didn't have the courage to check although I told my sister about it.
Ham was never much a hassle and it never bite. It never "complained" and cooperated every time we cleaned its cage. It is a miracle as we never tried to tempt but it naturally didn't bite us, as quoted from my sister.
We called over the cremation service officer who was nice enough to travel down despite being after collection hours and didn't charge extra. It was really hard to believe that Ham Ham is really gone. Bye, my fluffy little friend and I am really sorry to not be around during your last few hours. In fact, I should have noticed the weather and provided u with wool and more food earlier... :'(