My hamster died an awful death last night. His cage is 2 tiered and metal bars because he ate his plastic cage away, anyways he came out of his house on the 2 tier and he fell off the ledge, and sometimes he's so hyper he does this, so I laughed. Well then he just laid there on his side not moving and I pushed at him and his back was clearly broken as were his 2 back legs. That happened at like 8:30. Finally, at 9 after begging Jacob he called the vet and obviously we knew there'd really be nothing you can do for an almost 4 year old hamster with broken back and legs. The vet said if he hadn't died by this morning to bring him in and for $15 they'd 'take care of him.' Thank God he passed away over night, I didn't have the heart to take him in. So now we just don't know what to do with him and his cage, left over food, and ball. Throw it away I guess - how weird that it's upseting that a rodent died.