The loss of our best boy to a sudden cancer diagnosis after a long period of decline in QOL has been devastating. It came close on the heels of the loss of the crowd favorite, Bramble. Brambles death was incredibly sudden and unexpected, with no suffering. He appears to have curled up to sleep on a pile of food in his favorite corner and never got back up in the morning. Dameon lingered and every moment we helped him get to food or washed off his incontinence or sat with him late at night was bittersweet. Dameon was the boyfriends first rat, had lived with me for longer than BF in fact, was so sweet we never had training or behavior issues. He’d push into your hand for a scratch. His last day was full of French fries and petting, and naps in a sweater. He went under the anaesthetic being petted by 4 people at once and being told how good of a boy he was. My only regret is not easing him along sooner; had we known about the tumors pressing on his spine and replacing his lung tissue we would have loved him and let him go a month earlier. Sleep well, my best boy. At the end of his life Dameon was not alone with Blackberry however, after the loss of bramble, much thought, and a cage upgrade we introduced 2 young pups from Bramble’s breeder. BF named them Grimgrin and Gruul. They took to Dameon especially and joined him in his frequent naps. BlackBerry has someone to wrestle with once again. Pups are 7 weeks old and growing fast, still learning their house manners.
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