Today was Kasimir's last trip. After having a big, literally bloody tumor in his breast for about a week the veterinarian sent him to sleep forever...

We got him, when he was something above one year old and gave him the name just because we liked it and only afterwards found out, that it means "The destroyer of peace". Well, that he truely was! ;)
He used his wheel so much, that he wore it out in only some weeks and after that it held a terrible noise at night, so that we could barely sleep. After we fixed the wheel, he found another way to keep us awake, he began to gnaw on a bar of his cage. Only one bar and only on one special place. My girlfriend then taped a paper tunnel on that bar reaching inside the cage, so that he could crawl through it, but couldn't gnaw on the bar. Well, seemed like this was really the only interesting bar for him, the gnawing stopped. :)

Our littel beloved furball was also known as the daredevil. Once we built the tunnels of his cage in a way, that a 30 cm long part reached straight up into the air. He really managed to climb up there and then he slid down again. That seemed to be that much fun for him, that he immediately climbed up again, but this time just jumped down and again - and again... well, we didn't leave the cage in this shape! ;) And when we had a cat here to take care of, Kasimir didn't fear her at all.. brave and tough little pal.

May you have a lot of fun with all the hamster girls in hamster heaven! We won't forget you! :)

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Kasimir during TikiFest Argentina 2005

R.I.P.
Kasimir
early 2003 - 25.08.2005