The miracle Diamond

This is all true.
Every bit.
Not pretty,or flattering in any way but true.

2 years ago Haley was showing her off her hamster Diamond to her Uncle David. When David left, Haley put Diamond back in her cage and went downstairs to watch TV. About 10 min later Lucy and Ruby came down the stairs and Ruby said "Mom, Lucy keeps dunking and dunking her". I looked at Ruby's hands and there was a soaking wet, drowned hamster with her eyes bulging out of her head. Ruby said they were just trying to give her a bath in the sink.

I lost it. My mind was racing. How could my child have Killed an animal? They did this to get back at Haley for showing off her pet! They know better! I started screaming ERIC!!!!!!! I needed him keep me from hurting someone. I handed him the hamster and tried to get control of myself to talk to the girls. Haley was crying, I was furious and sick to my stomach and Eric just disappeared. After a while of calming Haley down and trying to figure out exactly what happened. I went into the kitchen and found Eric bent over the sink blowing air in the hamsters nose. "What are you doing?!!! Eric said "trying to save my daughter from having this on her conscience for the rest of her life". The thing was dead and had been for at least 2 min.

Eric kept blowing on it and I figured he was trying to show the girls that life is valuable and you try to save it. After a few more minutes you could actually see the heart beating. After a few more minutes you could see the lungs moving. After a while longer it started to move. He dried it, I cleaned out the cage and put some fresh fruit in it. Eric said she would probably would not make it through the night, but at least the girls saw her moving.

The next day she was still alive. I expected to see her running into the wall or trying to put food into her ear with brain damage, but she was eating fine and acting fine. All our family/friends were giving Eric a hard time about giving a rodent mouth to mouth and calling him Dr. Doolittle. I Just couldn't believe that Diamond was alive and all was well.
****EDIT**** I should clarify- Eric never touched the mouth, he just blew air in it's nose.

Jump forward about 9 months. One of the girls asked me to get Diamond out of her cage. When I tried to get her, she bit me SOO hard I whipped my finger out of her cage as fast as I could. Unfortunately she still had her little teeth stuck in my finger so she came flying out of the cage and smacked the wall behind me and slid down. "Oh, no...I just killed Diamond" I thought. But no, she started walking around after she hit the ground. I seriously thought "This animal is indestructible".

Move forward to today. Lucy was holding Diamond playing as she often does...

(Photo from last week)

...when she says to me "look Mom, Diamond is sleeping in my hand". I quickly realized that she was dead. "Oh no... what happened?" I asked her. Lucy said "she just fell asleep". "Let's put her in her cage to sleep" I said. Later in the day when Haley came home from school I took her to Diamond's cage(without Diamond) to tell her what happened. Lucy came in and said "Diamond's dead, she was biting me so I squished her". I thought to myself "You have got to be kidding me, you killed this poor animal twice?"

This time, no yelling, no real reaction even. I'm just sad.

No more hamsters for us, ever.