A death notice for a beloved pet
Nov. 10th, 2006 11:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jaala[Adapted from message board post]
I regret to inform you all that Grace [pet rat] passed away some time during the night of November 8-9, 2006. Mum found her in the cage with Sophie. My parents, who have been taking attentive care of the two of them for the past couple of weeks since I left for the UK, had been keeping me up to date on the situation. From what I've heard, she showed continual improvement in her health up until a couple days ago, at which point she basically stopped eating and suddenly lost a lot of weight. (She'd been having Boost and mushed up Nutri-Blocks before.) The specialist vet in Toronto wasn't able to suggest anything and she died soon after.
It's a shock because she'd been doing so well, but it sounds like she had a good quality of life pretty much until the end. On November 8, her breathing was shallow but not laboured and Mum left her lying comfortably in the part of the cage over the heating pad. I'm sad I wasn't there with her, but it's better that it happened this way rather than having to make decisions about euthanasia from afar.
I regret to inform you all that Grace [pet rat] passed away some time during the night of November 8-9, 2006. Mum found her in the cage with Sophie. My parents, who have been taking attentive care of the two of them for the past couple of weeks since I left for the UK, had been keeping me up to date on the situation. From what I've heard, she showed continual improvement in her health up until a couple days ago, at which point she basically stopped eating and suddenly lost a lot of weight. (She'd been having Boost and mushed up Nutri-Blocks before.) The specialist vet in Toronto wasn't able to suggest anything and she died soon after.
It's a shock because she'd been doing so well, but it sounds like she had a good quality of life pretty much until the end. On November 8, her breathing was shallow but not laboured and Mum left her lying comfortably in the part of the cage over the heating pad. I'm sad I wasn't there with her, but it's better that it happened this way rather than having to make decisions about euthanasia from afar.
