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Making the choice to let your rat go peacefully is extremely difficult. Isis was gasping over a month ago. She seen a vet and had a very bad heart. I put her on meds and sadly it has only kept her going. She has always ran to the cage when I called her name tonight, she didnt. With a very heavy heart I have to take her in tomorrow.

My daughter had a rat, we got her a buddy a baby. Well she was stingy and would let me hold her. :) So i went and got Skittles and Isis. Isis has been a work of art, bit me as a baby like a craze lunatic. Didnt trust me for over a year to pick her up. She watches my daughter like she is a intruder and will bite her and only her if she tries to pet her.

This is hard, extremely hard on me. The tears wont stop flowing even though I know she has had a good life with me. She is about 28 months old now and I have had her since she was about 5 weeks old. Every day for the last 27 months I have seen this girl, we have grown together, she has helped blossom my love for these guys and she has helped open my home to ALOT of rats.

I am trying really hard to enjoy old age but I lose mine so fast when they start to show the signs that it makes it really difficult to enjoy.

I have secretly hoped she would go in her sleep, so I wouldnt have to make this choice but it is time.
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I held her last night and I told her it was ok to go. I loved her and she has changed my life and the lives of many other rats that have been brought here because of my first girls. I just dont know how to do this one.............. I know as the one who loves her, that I have to..... It is so hard though.
 
I am so sorry Peggy, I know how much it hurts. It was my pleasure to meet this lovely lady earlier this month. She will forever have a place in your aching heart. :heart:
 
Oh Peggy its soo hard to lose your Originals, no matter how feisty and bloody they made you...a very special place in your heart for this little soul, and you are doing the loving thing for her. I am so sorry your heart aches like this. :cuddle:
 
It's so hard to lose our special ones.
Hugs to you Peggy... feel our strength and Isis' love... this is one final gift you can give her. Set her free.
 
I will have to do it tomorrow I got called into work early. She is ok she just has labored breathing she still eats and she was back to the cage door this morning so she isnt gasping, It is still really doing a number on me.
 
I have been asking for a sign from her that it was time for a month. I think she knew it would haunt me if i didnt see it, she gave me that sign today. She was so tired today, her body was giving up she wouldn't make it through the weekend. I dont even think she would make it through the night. I put that little thing on the couch and she still tried to explore and look around, her mind was ready but her body was not. I told the vet that she is harder than the others she was the first girl. Skittles and her. Thankfully my Skittles is still as strong as ever but poor isis just couldnt last.

Isis was never sick, she never sneezed never sounded awful nothing. It was a shock to see it hit her so fast and hard. She was blessed her whole life then a sickness she couldnt fight hit her. The only real problem she had was from that stupid botched neuter and templeton made her bleed.

She came home with me because I was unable to chose between her and skittles.........and managed to live out over two years. I cant handle to run over her life for her memorial tonight, I have rats to let out and meds to do and I cannot make myself a train wreck writing that so hopefully sunday I will be ready to do the final memorial for my girl.
 
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