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I really hate to admit this but as time goes by and the symptoms are just staring right back at you in the face, you have to resign to fate. 

Happy is diabetic. 

The first night I got her, she was shivering. I thought she must be cold 

And I gave her a small towel and promptly dismissed the incident. 

Then one day, I found patches of her fur on her front missing and they never grew back 

Definitely frowned upon this. This is not how a normal hamster should be.

After some time, she began getting skinnier and skinnier though she ate a lot and the last straw came when her tank were infested with ants barely 3 days after I cleaned the tank. 

I have to accept it, I have a diabetic hamster. 

Her breed is most prone to have diabetes so I took care in giving her certain food but I guess it was too late, she got diabetes when she was in the pet shop. 

Doesn't mean that she is going to die though. 

She's still eating and all but she gets cold easily and I have to pick out the sunflower seeds, peanuts and corn from her mix. 

It's no one's fault. Her parents could be of poor background with tons of health problems, happened to a lot of hamsters. That's one of the cons for buying hamsters from a pet shop, you never knew who the parents are and their health problems.

If she eats something wrong, she might go into coma and die.

Check out the pic above. 

She's the size of a three month old hamster 

Pretty damn skinny for her breed. 

Puddings are suppose to be fat. 

And her head is the size of my thumb. Heartbreaking. 

I don't know why such a tiny hamster has to go through so much. First she was blind and crippled back when she was still in the shop and now she gets diabetes. It's not fair. She hasn't done anything bad )':

 Used my spec to gauge how big she actually is. 

Using my fat, stubby finger to gauge. I was appalled seeing this. Why? I read that there is basically nothing you can do even if you bring the hamster to a vet because there are no cure and vets will advise to have a change in diet. So basically it's all back to me making her as comfortable as can be for the rest of her life.