Thx, everyone!


Just like Smudge and Happy, it's still VERY hard, and ppl here at work just don't understand that they're family.

I think the hardest part is that he'd look and say "Heeeeeeeelp Meeeeeee" when he couldn't breathe. It looked as if he couldn't understand why there wasn't any air.

They're such intelligent, loving creatures. I don't care what anyone else will say...they're NOT just "dumb animals". Snakes have personalities and quirks like ppl, but the rats are something else entirely! Scabbers wasn't a lap rat, but he was a lover and the last time at the vet, he hugged and stayed in my arms. When the vet tech had him, he kept trying to get away from her and come to me....so I just held him while the tech did the necessary stuff.

I stayed in town and got him back from the lab. When Robin gets home, we'll have a funeral for him and put him out in the back pasture with Butterscotch, say goodbye. I won't let Robin SEE him, but she can at least see the bundle for the goodbyes.

Now the poem The Rainbow Bridge is even MORE poignant, but ***, my heart HURTS!!!! I miss him soooooooo much. What a 18 months! Stripe, Smudge, Happy and Scabbers.

Now Stewie is big man on campus, and unfortunately he's snuffly too. If necessary, I'll have radiographs done this next week to see if he has an abcess too. I don't think so, tho. He hasn't lost wt. like Scabbers did. We'll have to see how things go. I don't know what I'll do if I lose him too.


Thanks again, for the "e-shoulders"!

RuLyn