Okay, this is officially one of the oddest things that’s ever happened to me 😉 I went to bed last night and just before I woke up this morning I had a dream that mum came in and told me they were pretty sure Cookie (my hamster, whom I got as an adult and have had for 2yrs 3mths) had passed away in his sleep. I went to check him and he wasn’t dead, nearly but not quite.

Imagine my surprise when upon waking up mum comes in and says exactly that, in exactly the same words she used in my dream. I take a look at him (part of him is sticking out of his house) and can’t see him breathing, I can’t bare to explore further yet so I say to mum “just leave him in peace for the moment.” Which, I admit, is probably a strange thing to say about something that’s no longer alive.

A couple of hours later I pluck up courage and go over to his house and stroke him down the bit of his back that’s sticking out of his house. He doesn’t move but I think I can feel some pulsating, so I lift some of the bedding off and blow me if he doesn’t move!

He’s definitely dying and I know I’ll lose him later today, but still. It’s really weird! Not only did it happen exactly as I drempt it but the same words were used in RL as in the dream too…

Tomorrow is also five years to the day since I lost Bob, my first mouse and pet.