Obituary for a hamster

Our beloved Butterscotch

Butterscotch Nowak, Dexter, MI Age 8 months. Butterscotch passed away peacefully surrounded by family on July 21, 2010 after an extended battle with some weird tumor the size of a baseball. He was born sometime in November somewhere in a hamster breeding facility somewhere in Michigan (probably). Not clear on who his parents might have been but they obviously had some bad genes. Butterscotch didn’t really have a job, mostly because he was a hamster, but he did work really hard to escape his cage every chance he got, so I guess that counts for something. Butterscotch never really got a chance to marry or reproduce (thank goodness) but we’ll count his survivors as Max and Zoe and, I suppose, Joe and Julie Nowak. We will miss his twitchy little hamster face and his genuine love for all of us. Even at the end of his life he did his best to comfort those of us he was leaving behind. The family will receive friends if they happen to stop by for whatever reason from 2 - 4 p.m. and 6 - 8 p.m. on Thursday, July 22, 2010 and again on Friday, July 23, 2010 from 9 a.m. until the time of funeral service out by the garden. Internment to follow in a hole near the garden. In lieu of flowers memorial contributions may be made to “Let’s get Zoe a New Hamster That Isn’t Diseased” fund. (Just don’t contribute too much because they only cost about $10 bucks). He will be deeply missed.