ladydrace | Life gives and life takes.

Yesterday I had the sad experience of losing one of my rattie girls quite suddenly. The really crappy thing about rats is that their survival instinct is so great even after hundreds of generations of domestication, that they show virtually no signs of illness until it's way too late.

So when I looked in the cage the day I came home from the hospital with Green Pea, Faye was looking healthy and happy. The following morning, I found her sick and dying. Since it's the weekend, there was nothing to do. Nowhere to go for help or even a humane termination. All I could do was watch as she drew in her last painful breaths. :'o(

She was a sweet, active girl, who never sat still for a moment. Which proved itself as I realized I have practically no pictures of her. So now her sister is alone until I can neuter our last 'equipped' male, and I miss her. She made sure life was never dull.

Goodnight my sweet Faye. I'll see you again at the Rainbow Bridge.

Here she is, 7 weeks old. The only picture I could find of her.