Casper
03-16-2009, 05:02 PM
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My all-time favorite picture of my little gal. :love: Taken back when she was just a wee one.
With a very heavy heart I am here to report that my little Ophie passed on this morning. Last night (or rather super early this morning) before I headed to bed I did my normal check-up on the rats and ferrets. I usually give out treats during this time and noticed that Ophelia would not eat hers. She took it from me but was disinterested in it. I did not think too awfully much about it, thinking she had probably just finished eating, and I said goodnight.
Before heading off to school today I popped in to say goodbye to the critters to find that Ophelia had peacefully passed on. For those who are not familiar, she had recently been diagnosed with a walnut-sized tumor on her ovaries. She did not have much longer, but we celebrated her life up to the very last moment.
She would have been 3 years old at the end of this month.
I am very tempted to say that she was my heart rat. From day one I was just totally submerged with fondness for this little gal. If you would have met her in person you would understand. I could trust letting little kids hold her because she had such a phenomenal temperment. She was fearless, too! She climbed curtains, showerhead nozzle attachments, pant legs... just about anything. She was very much like a little dog in the way she acted. I always used her when converting others into rat-lovers.
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu247/Biscuits_and_Tea/Ratties009.jpg
The last picture taken of her. You could see how the blood clots ceased part of the circulation in her tail. No matter what, she still had the will to live.
:love: Rest Easy, my little Ophie! :love: I know you are having a blast up at the RB with all of the rat-pack that has gone before you. Don't get into too much trouble!
My all-time favorite picture of my little gal. :love: Taken back when she was just a wee one.
With a very heavy heart I am here to report that my little Ophie passed on this morning. Last night (or rather super early this morning) before I headed to bed I did my normal check-up on the rats and ferrets. I usually give out treats during this time and noticed that Ophelia would not eat hers. She took it from me but was disinterested in it. I did not think too awfully much about it, thinking she had probably just finished eating, and I said goodnight.
Before heading off to school today I popped in to say goodbye to the critters to find that Ophelia had peacefully passed on. For those who are not familiar, she had recently been diagnosed with a walnut-sized tumor on her ovaries. She did not have much longer, but we celebrated her life up to the very last moment.
She would have been 3 years old at the end of this month.
I am very tempted to say that she was my heart rat. From day one I was just totally submerged with fondness for this little gal. If you would have met her in person you would understand. I could trust letting little kids hold her because she had such a phenomenal temperment. She was fearless, too! She climbed curtains, showerhead nozzle attachments, pant legs... just about anything. She was very much like a little dog in the way she acted. I always used her when converting others into rat-lovers.
http://i652.photobucket.com/albums/uu247/Biscuits_and_Tea/Ratties009.jpg
The last picture taken of her. You could see how the blood clots ceased part of the circulation in her tail. No matter what, she still had the will to live.
:love: Rest Easy, my little Ophie! :love: I know you are having a blast up at the RB with all of the rat-pack that has gone before you. Don't get into too much trouble!