My Hammy passed away..
I would greatly appreciate any advice to deal with this loss.
This was the last photo I took of my sweet hammy. She was very young and suffered from bronchitis, she was very eager and happy every day despite her sickness. She passed away less than 2 hours ago. I'm not even sure how her sister is feeling, I changed everything in the cage to try to remove the scent so her sister isn't confused or sad. When I put her back in her cage she popcorned. I'll try to get a new guinea pig soon so she doesn't get depressed.
The moment I had walked to their cage I saw hammy just lying down facing the other side, I had an odd feeling and called her name because that's how she would lift her head and stand up and come to me, but she didn't, I pet her head and she still didn't respond so sadly after picking her up I knew she had died. Her sister was in front of her but I honestly didn't really pay attention to what her sister was doing.