Tag: pets
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Goodbye Chocolate Eclair
Despite my hopes to the contrary, Savannah texted me today to let me know that Chocolate Eclair had died. While this saddens me I take comfort in the fact that we gave her so much love over the last few weeks. I think she spent a good deal of time comfortable and happy. In some…
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Goodbye Pumpkin Spice
I forgot to record yesterday that Pumpkin Spice died. I had thought that Chocolate Eclaire looked weaker of the two of them but I realize that Pumpkin was more sedentary. Yesterday while Mariah was cleaning her room she saw that Pumpkin was having difficulty breathing or moving. Eventually Pumpkin stopped breathing. Mariah told me later…
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Periwinkle passing
I felt tonight that I should record the death of yet another guinea pig. It happened last Friday with our youngest little sweetheart. Mariah has noticed her getting sick and had diligently called for her for a while and it had seemed recently that she was getting more active but then Friday afternoon Mariah asked…
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Coconut is back
We finally got Coconut home. I got a fence set up in the East side yard. It’s nice, sturdy, decorative, and relatively subtle. She’s got a decent little area to live in and we can open the back gate to let her into the back yard when we choose. I might even make it so…
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Jasper-dini
When I checked on the hamsters this morning I found that Jasper had escaped again. Thankfully there’s no way for him to leave the condo since the air vents are in the ceiling. I found him hiding behind buckets in the pantry and then insisted that the girls put him in a cage with a…
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Goodbye Willow (and Sugar)
Soon after I came upstairs in the morning Marsha said she had to show me something in the garage. My first thought was to wonder if Jasper has escaped into Andy’s truck bed. Instead, as I should have known after the stress of yesterday, she showed me that Willow had died in the night. She…
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Jasper returns
Before we sold the house Isaac dropped Jasper in the garage and he stayed hidden for several days before we found him when cleaning out for our house inspection. Within a couple of days Jasper got out of his cage (we can’t be sure how) and has been missing every since. (Apparently Savannah had seen…
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Goodbye Elliot
Sometime in the middle of the morning Savannah asked me to come downstairs and there she showed me Elliot who was hardly moving, obviously bloated, and looking very fragile. We both agreed that there was not likely anything to be done for him except try to make him comfortable and pray for him. I told…
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Goodbye Ellis
In the middle of work today Mariah called but I couldn’t take her call. When I texted to ask what she needed she said she would tell me when I got home. I immediately began to worry about the guinea pigs. Ellis has been in pain for a couple of weeks and had been losing…