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Tue, Mar. 16th, 2004 10:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oyceterSo. The hamster has not been moving around much for about a week now. Yesterday he was breathing incredibly slow for a hamster. Today, I can't even tell if he is breathing.
The boy says when hamsters hibernate, their hearts beat 4 times a minute. He has also read that some people have actually buried hamsters, thinking them dead, only to have them claw their way out of the grave.
So I have a potentially dead hamster in my house. It's almost like Schrodinger's cat, but not. The boy is madly busy this week with tests and can't take him to a vet to actually make sure. I refuse to touch him, because the last time I did, he bit me. That would be the hamster, not the boy.
This is one of those things that I feel is more fiction than real life. This is something that should be in a Stephanie Plum book, not my apartment.
But right now, I'm kind of freaked out about the fact that I have a potentially dead hamster in my apartment and that it will continue to be here in this strange state of unknowing for four more days.
The boy says when hamsters hibernate, their hearts beat 4 times a minute. He has also read that some people have actually buried hamsters, thinking them dead, only to have them claw their way out of the grave.
So I have a potentially dead hamster in my house. It's almost like Schrodinger's cat, but not. The boy is madly busy this week with tests and can't take him to a vet to actually make sure. I refuse to touch him, because the last time I did, he bit me. That would be the hamster, not the boy.
This is one of those things that I feel is more fiction than real life. This is something that should be in a Stephanie Plum book, not my apartment.
But right now, I'm kind of freaked out about the fact that I have a potentially dead hamster in my apartment and that it will continue to be here in this strange state of unknowing for four more days.
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