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Tue, Mar. 16th, 2004 10:51 pm
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So. 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.

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