Hi guys,  I don't really know how to start but right now,
I felt as if I had fought and lost a battle.
How utterly cheated I felt. My hamster just passed
away on 18 March

Just the day before, she suddenly became her old
self...active & so full of life after 4 days of continuous sleep
without eating & drinking. No words can describe how
happy I was. I told everyone about it. I thought the injection
 the Vet had given her that day had worked and I even thanked
God for the miracle. But my happiness did not last for
she died the following day.

I had planned to go to the market to buy her some veggie.
I had wanted to send a thank-you card to the vet. But it was
all wishful thinking on my part. I could not believe that I'll never
hold her, stroke her & tease her again.

Even as I buried her, I had hoped she was playing with me.
I wanted to dig her out again...I just couldn't accept the fact.
Something in my head told me she's still alive and I  had buried
her alive though my heart knew it was not so.

I really love her, I really do...more than anything else in the world.
I often tell pen pals how much they're gonna like her if they ever
 clap eyes on her. And I often wonder what was going through her mind
 whenever I look into those round dark eyes of her.
She always looks so daft...so cute, really she's the cutest in the world!
Below is a poem I wrote on the day she left me. It's a tribute to
someone
( I'll never see her as just an animal...she was like a baby sis to
me)who had made my life so full for the past 2 yrs.

For Jo Jo

I really thought you had pulled through
And that you are gonna stay with me for another day or 2
Never had I thought after your night of energetic outburst
I was going to have my hopes bust
You were still fine when I left you
Gone you were when I next held you
I had wanted to say 'I Love You'
And how much I am going to miss you
I prayed and I wished and I hoped
That you were only pretending, faking death as I see it
Even when you were tucked safely under
All the intimate moments we had together
Now, memories I will treasure
The pain so raw, the loss so deep
How I wish it was a dream gone bad
And that when I finally did awake
You will still be right here beside me.

Please do me a favor, forward this to as many pen pals
 you know. I want the whole world to know that she existed...a
 lovely creature of such sweet nature.

We had watched countless soccer matches together. And she is
a rubbish bin;) she eats almost anything...rice, candies, chocolate,
ice-cream, strawberries, apples, bananas but never oranges.
I think her favor food must be durians. Typical Singapore...even
when she was so sick in her last days. She woke at the smell of
durians. ;)how much I'm gonna miss her.

Love,
Candy

 

Written by Candy Poon, with her permission
To anyone who has lost a beloved pet