CSI Petaling Jaya

My nephew, AJ, is autistic. Sometime early this month, his therapists thought it would be a good idea to start a pet project at the centre where he and other children go for therapy. So they eagerly went out and bought 2 hamsters, the cage and other things the hamsters would need. They even bought the hamsters that were already in the same cage so that they would be used to each other.

Or so they thought.

Within 3 days of bringing them "home", one of the hamsters (Rex) had attacked and killed the other (Thomas). AJ and his therapist were the first on the scene to discover the body on a quiet Monday morning. It was quite obvious it was attacked by Rex because they were both in the same cage and, I was told, there were "no signs of forced entry". Plus, Rex had the opportunity although the motive is lost on us. AJ's dad had the unenviable task of cleaning up the mess and burying the body somewhere. Later he told us that it wasn't "spilt guts", it was Thomas' face. (Or Thomas' ex-face? Ex-Thomas' face? Ex-Thomas' ex-face?) There's another Eeww moment.

Although he didn't cry and claimed he was ok, AJ kept talking and talking and talking about it. Finally he said, "This is not a good day." My sister said if it were Cuz who saw all that spilled guts he would have definitely cried his lungs out, being quite the nature lover that he is.

Then, over the past weekend, Rex also died. My sister told me, "Rex died the other day. Undetermined COD." (CSI-watchers know that means cause of death.) Apparently he just died and nobody really knows why or how. My brother-in-law said, "Can't imagine what happened. No visible trauma."

CSI comes to PJ!

Incidentally, AJ celebrated his 8th birthday over the weekend. Happy birthday, AJ!