It is an ex-hamster

I just laid our hamster to rest. Her name was Sarah Butterscotch because my daughter couldn't decide which of those two names she liked better 2 years ago. She was very cute, but had seemed increasingly sluggish this past week, and this afternoon she made what my daughter referred to as "a really weird noise" and by this evening she had expired.

She lead a typical hamster life- most of it in the cage with a week-long break to live one in my closet behind my pants when we were away on vacation plus 48 hours behind my daughter's bed. She was 2 years and 2 months old, which is equivalent to about 75 human years, making me about 19 months old in hamster years.