Wingle [RIP]

We brought this boy home on March 4th, 2007, after seeing him in a pet store with his brothers. He was the biggest in the litter, but he never really grew very much and ended up being our smallest hamster. Even smaller than Little Boy ever was.

We started by calling him "White Boy" or "Whitey," with the intention of changing his name later. Eventually we got to calling him "Wingle," and it just stuck.

He had a sort of shark-like frown to his face, but was very excitable and liked to play. He liked to run back and forth underneath his water bottle, or all around the room. He was always a very nice boy and didn't mind being petted. He even learned to jump between our two couches.

Towards the end of his life, he started breathing a bit harder and seemed to get tired easily. We took him to the vet twice, and after the second visit, it was discovered that he had an enlargened heart. They gave us some medicine to treat it, but he died two days later, on October 19, 2008.