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

[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. :(