Thriving vs surviving...

[Cheesenugget]

I had rehomed a cat that I really wanted to keep a few years ago. He was a fat boy but cute, 8 year old tuxedo cat who was given up at the shelter because his dad was going to a nursing home and could not take him. I really wanted it to work out between him and my resident cat, who was about 11-12 years at the time. Both were fixed, had similar personalities, and we tried introducing them several times but my resident cat was a bully. He kept harassing him to no end for a year and no one in the house was at peace. I could not rehome the resident cat due to his age, health and temperament. There is a happy ending though: the 8 year old was rehomed a week later after I had to give him up. They still have him as of last year (My resident cat is now gone to the big catnip in the sky).

It is a heartbreaking decision to give up a beloved pet. I would try every way you can to make it work. Think about it, sleep on it some more. Once he is gone, he is gone. You could later down the line get a similar personality snake or better, which is a good possibility. For now, because choices haunts us all, do your best and eventually your heart and mind will come to one agreement, and that decision will be a lot easier to make then.

On the side note, feeding live does suck butt. I hate it when I had to do it. Recently my husband bought 4 live mouse pinkies for his spiders to eat. They refused. I forced my husband to call a local vet for advice because killing them in any way seems so cruel, but dying without warmth and food is just as bad. The vet recommend the most humans method to put them down was by freezing. I don't know how much of that is true, but I have my husband the ultimatum to never feed live again if he could offer insect feeders to his spiders instead.