zombie precious :(
we bought kenny on 30 April 2012. on 2 May, i succumbed to zombie's innocent looking face and irresistable fluffiness.
"what? it's tiring to be cute, you know?"
zombie was a white snowball, but very soon, he showed his fangs and turned out to be the complete opposite of how he looked - vicious and bitey!
roars!! i'm ferocious! nom nom
he was a fussy eater, and loved sunflower seeds the most. every time i refilled the bowl, he would grab a sunflower seed from the variety of grains and start munching on it skillfully. he also liked broccoli and pumpkin seeds.
he loved sitting in his food bowl when he was little. here's him trolling kenny.
"excuse meeee!"
his days of being buddies with kenny were short, but these were evidence of them being ok together.
just chilling.
his snowcoat gradually turned into a light grey colour. we were puzzled. he slowly turned into a dark grey and stayed that way ever since. luckily, zombie was beautiful even after turning grey.
he loved to sleep in the crampiest of places.
and the strangest but adorable sleeping positions.
doesn't he look like he was smiling in this picture?
there was no denying it. zombie was a fierce lil thing. he often tasted our blood, and even sank his fangs into kenny once. i had to take the poor bleeding kenny to the doc that fateful night. that lil furball nearly lost his life. then, we knew that these two lil fellas just couldn't live together.
separating them into two diff partitions of a tank was the best move, although that meant a life without a furry companion.
we always joked about how fat he was compared to kenny, but the later half of last year saw him turn skinnier than kenny. we didn't think much about it.
last night, there was this conversation about how the winter white hamsters have a life span of only one year. i didn't believe it, but the very next day, i returned home to him motionless next to the bowl, an unusual location for him to sleep in. sensing something amiss, i looked hard for his heaving chest, but it wasn't heaving today.
poking him with a cotton bud but he didn't respond at all.
yup. we have lost another dear hamster.
this one, so close to my heart.
i was still joking about how we had the slowest hamster on wheel. he'd been running the wheel a lot the past few days...and sleeping in his favourite position the past few months...
turned frail, huh...? should've known when he became skinny... :(
this is the last we saw of him, with an oblivious kenny digging into his food happily beside him.
we'll miss you, zombie. :,(