awww jenna, decrepit hamsters, we had one called Tommy, belonged to my son Luc, who was like Methusalah. It was really sad to have him from a baby, see him all young and playing on his wheel at every opportunity only to age, slow down and end up very very frail and obviously ancient. I'm trying to think exactly how old he was when he died, but he was way older than their usual life span as predicted in hamster books. I found it really mortalising to observe an animals entire existance, he was a great little chap.