While I have never had any large pets, I have had many hamsters since we moved into this house. Most of them passed away when my DD was old enough to understand. We now have a hamster cemetary in our backyard. When the guinea pig dies, that's where she'll go as well. In fact right now I am starting to get myself and my DD prepared that one of our little chinese dwarf hamsters will be going soon. In a few more years, there won't be any more room around that big old pine tree to bury all our hamsters that died.