Pet Obituary II

[devi]

Jack is gone. I came home today and found her.

With Meg I was more or less expecting it. She was frail and going barmy and I knew she was on the way out, and that all I could do was try and make her comfortable. But Jack, okay, she'd lost a bit of weight and was slowing down, but she was pottering round the cage last night quite happily, she wasn't wheezing like she's sometimes done in the past, a few weeks ago we'd changed her bedding to a kind that was supposed to be better for her breathing, she was nibbling things... and today she died.

I had a premonition with Meg, I had a chance to arrange some words in my head for her in advance, not really admitting to myself what I was doing. But now I'm just stunned. And even though Jack got vicious in her old age and we never really had a relationship as such, I'm wondering if I should have seen something. Done something.

Other people have bigger sorrows tonight which I don't want to belittle, but still... sigh. Goodbye, Jack. Tomorrow I'll bury you next to Meg in the flowerbed.

Comments

[gothwalk.livejournal.com]

Never easy, one way or other. Consider yourself hugged, and appropriate drinks poured into you.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I bought wine and chocolate on my way home. I must be psychic.

But thanks.

[kesstrel.livejournal.com]

Oh hun I'm so sorry.

Want me to come over earlier tomorrow to help send her off?
*huggles*

[tubewalker.livejournal.com]

I'm drunk and mid-toast...

To Jack *clink*

Cheers hunni x x x

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

*reciprocal clink*

Thank goodness for the aforementioned wine and chocolate.

[lozette.livejournal.com]

:-( Sorry to hear that. Losing pets is hard :-/

[ratmmjess.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry for your loss. We're losing some now, and it sucks.

[verlaine.livejournal.com]

:(

Symbolic I guess.

[offensive-mango.livejournal.com]

Oh, sorry :( poor things (Jack and you!).

[blueskycomplex.livejournal.com]

=hugs=

[geeveecatullus.livejournal.com]

aw, no :-(

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Aw. Sorry.

[the-elyan.livejournal.com]

I was away when both the cats I had grown up with left the party, but I know how it hurts.

Perhaps one day an appropriate flower will spring from the flowerbed - at the risk of sounding like Joyce Grenfell, what flower (or plant, if you prefer) do you think?

In the meantime, my condolences and better thoughts...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Hmmm... Meg's would have to be a rather pretty sort of poison ivy. Jack's... maybe a peach-coloured tea rose, but still with thorns.

[miss-newham.livejournal.com]

Oh Jack! I believed you when you said she was doing all right now, so I'm pretty sad. She convinced me that rats were really quite cool, and we had some good evenings together. Best wishes.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I believed me when I thought she was doing all right :/

But thanks.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I trust the Goddess of Magic is hale and hearty?

[mooism.livejournal.com]

:-(

I was thinking the other day that I’d not been round your place in ages, and so not seen her in ages. Even if she wasn’t as easy to get on with recently as she used to be. Oh well.

*hug*

[juliet]

I'm sorry to hear that :-(

It sounds very much like how Arwen went - lost a bit of weight, slowed down - & then suddenly just died. On the upside - it's a far better way to go than to have to do the taking-to-vet thing.

[hugs] & sympathy.

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

Thanks. And agreed that sudden was good. Meg had a harder, slower time of it - the last few days, she'd run round the cage banging into walls, and I only found out too late that this was what rats did when they panicked because they couldn't breathe. :(

[nicbone.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry.

[rainsinger.livejournal.com]

i'm sorry :(
*hugs and much sympathy*

[jiggery-pokery.livejournal.com]

I add my condolences.

[ultraruby.livejournal.com]

Aw, no. I'm really sorry.

[philipstorry.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

Sorry to hear that the place is now emptier. It seems like lots of people knew Jack - or had been worried about their fingers by her, at least.

It sounds to me like Jack was somewhat curmudgeonly. Which must mean that she was happy, of course. So she was probably happy at a life lived well, and certainly managed a ripe old age. I suppose that makes her life a good one...

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

I hope she was happy. She was certainly self-sufficient.

Meeting julietk's friendly, affectionate rats was an eye-opener, though. It made me realise I'd never really got through to her.

[rowan-leigh.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that.

[plasticsturgeon.livejournal.com]

I wish I could think of something better to say than "I'm sorry"...

[ki.livejournal.com]

*hugs*

[caescarna.livejournal.com]

Big hugs - very sorry to hear of your loss :(

[bluedevi.livejournal.com]

What gets to me isn't so much the loss, as the fact that she had a pretty shit life due to being treated badly when she was little and never getting used to humans. If those people in the pet shop had treated her like a creature rather than a product, I might be grieving more now, but in a good way - having lost a small friend. As things stand it just seems like a waste.

[stiofan.livejournal.com]

I'm very sorry :(
*hugs*

[inskauldrak.livejournal.com]

Sorry to hear that - I still remember patchy (my first proper pet - a gerbil) being taken to the Vets : (

[primavera.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry to hear that..

[dyddgu.livejournal.com]

Oh, I'm so, so sorry... :'-(

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

You have all my sympathy...

I'm going to call you tonight and we'll make a date for you to come visit, okay? It's been too long.

[strange-powers.livejournal.com]

I'm sure Jack and Meg are enjoying the weird sibling/spouse mixed-up blues rock lifestyle in the rat afterlife. Chocolate and wine seem like a very good idea.

Thinking about you.
x

[carbonunit.livejournal.com]

So long Jack. You had an human who truly loved you.

[smiorgan.livejournal.com]

Sorry for hear this :(

[dr-f-dellamorte.livejournal.com]

I'm really sorry to hear that hun. Wishing you the best. x

[kauket.livejournal.com]

I think that they are both now in ratty heaven, and Meg is biting Jack a lot and nicking all her food, before attacking anything else that comes near her. Jack is just sitting there sighing and thinking 'oh for godsake Meg'

Incidently, the video to Hotel Yorba, has Meg playing with a rat a bit like Jack at the end of it. Cooo, spooky ;)

[kyte.livejournal.com]

*huggles*

[holzfallen.livejournal.com]

I'm so sorry to hear of your loss. Please take good care of yourself.

[crystal-claire.livejournal.com]

*big hugs*

[accasha.livejournal.com]

*hug* don't beat yourself up - sometimes there's nothing you can do.... perhaps that the saddest thing..