Loss

Today we found L's hamster Luki dead in her cage. I don't know why she died, she was about a year and a half old.her sister Snuggers died some time last year. Snuggers was mean and bit any chance she got so we were not very sad when she died. Luki was always sweet, and got handled a lot more. She was loved, so this feels more like a real loss.

 M and P are not old enough to really understand about death, so I waited till I had them both down for a nap and L and I took Luki out of her cage and wrapped her in a strip of flannel from my fabric stash. Then I let L pick a place in the yard to bury her and we dug a small hole together. She told Luki Goodbye, and I placed her in the hole. then we filled the hole with dirt and found a nice sized rock to put on top. I wrote her name on the rock along with the words Rest in Peace, and the year she was born and the year she died. Then we surrounded the little grave with  flowers L picked from the yard. She collected some sticks and I placed them around the little grave and I picked a few forget me nots and some collumbine from my flowerbed to place right in front of the stone. We took a few pictures, and then came inside.

L has been wanting to get a cat for some time. I told her we could not have a cat because it would eat Luki. Now that Luki is gone she is already asking about getting a cat.