my mom switched out my hamster's bedding for a cheaper one that smelled weird and felt scratchy and when we realized angelica (the hamster) was allergic to it my mom said she wouldn't take her to the vet and that she would wait until tomorrow to get new bedding.
when we got home she was curled up in her food bowl, holding a piece of bedding she had been chewing on. her jaw was broken, she had vomit all down her stomach area, and she had been chewing on her feet.
i didn't wanna bury her in our apartment complex (neighborhood kids), and cremation is too expensive according to my mom, so we're preserving the body until we can find a good spot
the way you preserve bodies (temporarily) is by freezing them
meaning i have my dead hamster in my freezer
which is kinda weird but it's better than letting her body decay