Gingerbread the Great

The New York Hamster House got to meet Gingerbread through Vicki and Katy, who loved her but who weren't able to take care of her. It was the early days of the NYHH, so we offered to keep her for them but not adopt her out (something we couldn't do later on as the volume of hamsters and adoptions increased dramatically). But for the past year and a half, the NYHH had the pleasure of taking care of Ms. Gingerbread, the sweetest, adorablest, FATTEST hamster ever. Ginger was not only huge, she was bigger than some Guinea Pigs. Heck, she was known to win arm-wrestling contests with small panda bears. Gingerbread was awesome.

But, she was well over two years old, perhaps even nearing three. She was old, losing her hair, going grey, and moving slowly, lumbering like a big brown bear. I made sure to take pictures of Gingerbread for my NYHH card this past Christmas, because I wasn't sure she'd be around in a year's time. She was very, very old. This past weekend, Gingerbread passed away in her sleep of old age. I will miss her very much, and I am sure Vicki and Katy will too. They were very good to her, and brought her snacks and presents throughout her time here. Gingerbread was a VERY loved hamster. Gingerbread always made me think of a line used to describe a fellow cute chubster (Winnie the Pooh). "Tubby little chubby all stuffed with fluff... willy-nilly sill old Bear!"



PS Here's a loving Ginger collage put together by Jody tonight: