chicky82
Well-Known Member
I always dreaded this day, I had to take a week before I could write this, it's been hard but here we go :sad3: sorry it's so long.
Coal, my sweet, lip sucking sewer rat (my mom's nickname for him as he loved kisses but pretended he didn't)
Chimo, my delicate, sensible PEW, he was happy to just eat and chill out, he was a very mellow boy
Their story:
A couple of years ago, I had decided I was done with pet rats, we had just lost the last of our girls due to a tumor removal surgery gone bad. I was up in Cochrane with my bf and on the regional classifieds called myzer.com I was just browsing the pet section and I saw an ad from this woman in Haileybury who I guess had an accidental litter the day after Christmas. I asked my bf what he thought if I got more rats, he said that it was up to me so I emailed the woman asking questions and I decided to try a couple of boys (I'd always had girls) I picked out a black boy with a stripe on his tummy and a pew (I had picked one out though pictures and the lady tried to make them to tell them apart but the color wore off and I still don't think I got the boy I picked :wink: ) . I got my mom to come with us to pick them up, she held the cage on the way home, it was a snowy, dark 2 hour drive to get my sweeties. :heart: they were so little
baby Chimo
baby Coal
Chimo was easy to name because he reminded me of the polar bear mascot of my bf's home town but Coal was harder, I ended up doing a poll on another rat forum and the name Coal won out.
Over the years, my boys traveled alot, they went to Cochrane countless times, they went camping in a tent trailer more times then I could count, they outlasted 2 of my bf's cars :lol2: and scared a 20 pound cat to the point that the cat still won't go into the room they stayed in :giggle: and I found Coal in my underwear drawer with a cookie in hand too many times to count.
We had many good times over the years and my bf says that they were the best rats we have ever had (he had rats on his own but were girls same as me) Coal loved to pee on my bf :lol: but not on me, I told him it was because Coal loved him more. :laugh4:
Coal kissing my bf
In the last 8 months or so, my guys started to slow down, Chimo developed a tooth issue that needed trimming and hated the vet so much that he had to be put under because he wouldn't co-operate and would scream (that sound scared the s*#! out of me the first time I heard it) Chimo also developed a spot that I first thought was an abcess (or I hoped it was) but it ended up being a tumor, I took him in but I knew that not a lot could be done. Coal on the other hand was slowly going on me without showing me he was. :cry: (they are too good at that) he had pt I think.
Over the preceding week, I had resigned myself to their end but was crying constantly and when not crying I was unable to sleep or get along with. I schedueled a vet appointment to help them pass because their quailty of life was getting lower, it was due to be on July 15.
The day before, I talked to my bf on the phone and told him I wished he could be with me but with work he could'nt. I gave me guys some strawberry ensure and went to cry some more. I came back to see them and they were curled up together with Coal with his little front paw on Chimo, they looked like they were sleeping but they left me together. :cry3:
I have never had that happen to me before, I was worried that one would pass before the other and leave the other alone but I guess they loved each other so much, they had to leave together :tearful:
I'll never forget my guys, they were my heart rats
I'm not going to get rats for a while, it hurts too much and my next few years are going to be really busy but I might get a tattoo in memory of them and I'll still be around, sorry about the big pics but they were all I had.
I really hope Rainbow Bridge exists so I can see them again someday, I miss you my sweet rattie boys, :roseopen: I hope you watch over me
Coal, my sweet, lip sucking sewer rat (my mom's nickname for him as he loved kisses but pretended he didn't)
Chimo, my delicate, sensible PEW, he was happy to just eat and chill out, he was a very mellow boy
Their story:
A couple of years ago, I had decided I was done with pet rats, we had just lost the last of our girls due to a tumor removal surgery gone bad. I was up in Cochrane with my bf and on the regional classifieds called myzer.com I was just browsing the pet section and I saw an ad from this woman in Haileybury who I guess had an accidental litter the day after Christmas. I asked my bf what he thought if I got more rats, he said that it was up to me so I emailed the woman asking questions and I decided to try a couple of boys (I'd always had girls) I picked out a black boy with a stripe on his tummy and a pew (I had picked one out though pictures and the lady tried to make them to tell them apart but the color wore off and I still don't think I got the boy I picked :wink: ) . I got my mom to come with us to pick them up, she held the cage on the way home, it was a snowy, dark 2 hour drive to get my sweeties. :heart: they were so little
Chimo was easy to name because he reminded me of the polar bear mascot of my bf's home town but Coal was harder, I ended up doing a poll on another rat forum and the name Coal won out.
Over the years, my boys traveled alot, they went to Cochrane countless times, they went camping in a tent trailer more times then I could count, they outlasted 2 of my bf's cars :lol2: and scared a 20 pound cat to the point that the cat still won't go into the room they stayed in :giggle: and I found Coal in my underwear drawer with a cookie in hand too many times to count.
We had many good times over the years and my bf says that they were the best rats we have ever had (he had rats on his own but were girls same as me) Coal loved to pee on my bf :lol: but not on me, I told him it was because Coal loved him more. :laugh4:
In the last 8 months or so, my guys started to slow down, Chimo developed a tooth issue that needed trimming and hated the vet so much that he had to be put under because he wouldn't co-operate and would scream (that sound scared the s*#! out of me the first time I heard it) Chimo also developed a spot that I first thought was an abcess (or I hoped it was) but it ended up being a tumor, I took him in but I knew that not a lot could be done. Coal on the other hand was slowly going on me without showing me he was. :cry: (they are too good at that) he had pt I think.
Over the preceding week, I had resigned myself to their end but was crying constantly and when not crying I was unable to sleep or get along with. I schedueled a vet appointment to help them pass because their quailty of life was getting lower, it was due to be on July 15.
The day before, I talked to my bf on the phone and told him I wished he could be with me but with work he could'nt. I gave me guys some strawberry ensure and went to cry some more. I came back to see them and they were curled up together with Coal with his little front paw on Chimo, they looked like they were sleeping but they left me together. :cry3:
I have never had that happen to me before, I was worried that one would pass before the other and leave the other alone but I guess they loved each other so much, they had to leave together :tearful:
I'll never forget my guys, they were my heart rats
I'm not going to get rats for a while, it hurts too much and my next few years are going to be really busy but I might get a tattoo in memory of them and I'll still be around, sorry about the big pics but they were all I had.
I really hope Rainbow Bridge exists so I can see them again someday, I miss you my sweet rattie boys, :roseopen: I hope you watch over me
