{"id":3359,"date":"2010-05-10T17:23:51","date_gmt":"2010-05-10T23:23:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3359"},"modified":"2010-05-10T17:26:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T23:26:48","slug":"r-i-p-oreo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3359","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Oreo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oreo passed away sometime between last night and this morning, so we took her to vet after work to be cremated.<\/p>\n<p>Her passing didn&#8217;t come as a surprise as her abdomen had been swelling for weeks. I took her to the vet two weeks ago and she had to be put under anesthesia just to be examined. I warned the vet she didn&#8217;t like to be picked up&#8230; and I don&#8217;t think she took me seriously until Oreo got a hold of her finger and gave her a good bite. She was literally hanging from the vet&#8217;s finger she had such a good grip and the vet had to shake her off! The vet&#8217;s finger was bleeding pretty good but she took it all in stride. I&#8217;m not sure why they don&#8217;t have gloves to handle the animals. Heck, I won&#8217;t even pick up Nutter Butter without gloves and he doesn&#8217;t even bite, but he does hate being picked up and struggles fiercely, scratching the hell out of you with his nails in the process.<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/2346039215\/\" title=\"Oreo Loves Her Wheel by halo969, on Flickr\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm3.static.flickr.com\/2012\/2346039215_8d3d9b01b6.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"333\" alt=\"Oreo Loves Her Wheel\" \/><\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Oreo won&#8217;t be terribly missed. I know that sounds terrible, but as adorable as she was, and she <strong>was<\/strong> quite cute, she wasn&#8217;t a sweetheart like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/halo969\/sets\/72157594171359498\/\">Peanut<\/a> so we didn&#8217;t interact very much. It&#8217;s true when they say the good die young &#8211; Peanut only lived a year and a half whereas Oreo was with us since February 2008 making her over two years old. I did feel kinda sad seeing her all scrunched up in a ball with her eyes tightly shut this morning, though.<\/p>\n<p>For now we&#8217;re not getting another hamster. I finally get my decoration space back on my CD case where Oreo&#8217;s cage was kept. Plus I&#8217;ve got the rats who are far more fun to interact with than any hamster. I even trained Templeton to give me a kiss in exchange for a treat. I need to start taking more photos of him. He can be devious, but he&#8217;s got personality.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oreo passed away sometime between last night and this morning, so we took her to vet after work to be cremated. Her passing didn&#8217;t come as a surprise as her abdomen had been swelling for weeks. I took her to the vet two weeks ago and she had to be put under anesthesia just to be examined. I warned the vet she didn&#8217;t like to be picked up&#8230; and I don&#8217;t think she took me seriously until Oreo got a hold of her finger and gave her a good bite. She was literally hanging from the vet&#8217;s finger she had such a good grip and the vet had to shake her off! The vet&#8217;s finger was bleeding pretty good but she took it all in stride. I&#8217;m not sure why they don&#8217;t have gloves to handle the animals. Heck, I won&#8217;t even pick up Nutter Butter without gloves and he <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/?p=3359\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pets","category-photos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3359"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3363,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3359\/revisions\/3363"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicole.sleepyfroggie.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}