On Monday our little girl Poppy, our hamster who we utterly loved, died. I was driving home from late shift at 10pm when my frantic fiance called saying she had found her dead. God it so heart breaking. I dont think weve ever loved anything as much as we loved her.

She's our second hamster and unfortunately our first had to be put down, so this experience is new to us. Its only a few weeks ago now that i posted about our other hamster Nora being ill. (luckily shes all better now)

We were both, and still are shocked by the experience. She wasnt just a hamster... she was like our child, we had her for 1 year and 9 months. , so when you spend all that time with them, interacting with them daily, caring for them and playing, snuggles, kisses, hugs, and when theyre so comfortable around you. she would even lye on us and in our hands and fall asleep she was so relaxed and felt safe. she would get excitied when we came to open the cage and get her out to play and have snuggles etc... she never bit once.

As you can probably tell im finding it a bit hard. Its not just a sadness, but a grieving. I know she had a great life, but whats troubling me is the shock of it.

Since we have never experiance a natural hamster death, is it normall for a hamster to be fine the night before and even in the morning , moving normally, eating normally etc then be found 'Unexpectidly' dead? It was a total shock as she seemed fine and had been normall.

It looked like she died in her sleep, from how we found her, she looked as if she was sleeping, and thats what my fiance thought first till she wouldnt respond, but then she felt cold and stiff

We really do miss her terribly. And it is the shock thats the worst, going from fine one day being totally normall to dead the next. I know we had her 1 year 9 months.... so that would make her pretty much 2 years old which i guess for a Syrian is a good age...

But anyways, sorry, my point was to just simply ask... anyone that has experianced natural master deaths.... is it normall to find them unexpectidly dead? you'd think you'd see some signs before it happens etc... Just want some reassurance i guess that its normal and she probably just simply slipped away peacefully in her sleep becuase of her age etc

any replies would be much appreciated. Many Thanks

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So sorry for your loss. I don't mean this the wrong way but are you aware that sometimes they go into hibernation mode if it is too cold and appear dead, so best to leave them somewhere warm just in case. We had this happen to one of ours many years ago.

Awww she was so cute. I also wanted to say that i had a hamster yrs ago when i was a kid and we thought he had died. He was cold and stiff. Even his little feet looked blue/purple. We had discoverd him in the morning after my mam had said he hadn't come out last night. I put him back in his little house and we were going to bury him when i got home from school. When i got back i held him in my hand as i just wanted to say goodbye. Then, i thought i saw is nose twitch!! I told my parents and we just watched for ages. My mam thought id imagined it. But then, after a while he started to move more and within an hour he was wide awke!! Turns out he had hybinated. He was 3 yrs old and lived for another yr which is very old for a hamster.