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Articles: Today I burried a child. |
Posted by
bettie_x on Sunday, August 12, 2001 - 09:26 PM PST
Today I buried a child. I just wanted to inform you that my bloved rat stella was killed by my dog. I never thought that a death of something so small could wreck me so bad.
She was a skittish but loving member of the family and is survived by her sister Poppy, and two neices nico and lucy.
She wasn't just a rodent, a rat, an animal, and she'll be missed forever.
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Re: Today I burried a child.
by Schizo on Aug 13, 2001 - 05:45 AM
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My deepest condolences. And Stella is such a beautiful name!
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Re: Today I burried a child.
by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com)
on Aug 13, 2001 - 08:14 AM
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thank you....jeezus, I had no idea I would fall apart like that....but now my dog is acting funny, like she hit her head or is sick or something (serves her right) and I have to take her to the vet. I hope she'll be okay, I'm just so shocked that my fiance is giving her a second chance..>I didn't even ask, I just heard him tell her "this is your last chance, holly."
I wish I could make it all better too, but thank you. I'm still very very sad.
Stella is a pretty name, she was a pretty rat, just like her sister and the babies.
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Re: Today I burried a child. by NightSide (nightside@vampirefreeks.com) on Aug 13, 2001 - 11:59 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://hcgothic.iwarp.com/ | I totally understand.... Pets, be it a rat a dog or bird or what ever they all touch
us.... I still miss my last ol' dog and he died in Feb 89. Still can make me misty if
I see a old photo of the critter.... Some things are universal, I think the loss of a
loved pet is near as hard as the loss of a family member, sometimes harder as much
as I hate to admit it.... Time is the only cure for the grief words only go so far.... |
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Re: Today I burried a child. by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 14, 2001 - 12:10 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | thank you, you've all been so kind....
the neighbors must have thought I was crazy or something, crouched in the bushes sobbing like a baby trying to cut through tree roots with a hand shovel to give her a proper burial.......my fiance had put her body in a little paper coffin box we got at halloween, and I just literally lost it when I opened it and saw her poor little body...
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Re: Today I burried a child. by ickgirl on Aug 14, 2001 - 10:49 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://www.envy.nu/ickgirl | aw :( that sounds like when i buried my guinea pig last winter. i live downtown seattle and there is NO where to bury a guinea pig - so i packed him in a little carrier and took a boat out to devin's house - buried him in the COLD COLD ground (should have seen us trying to dig a hole in the near frozen dirt at 5am in the dark, out in the woods behind his house), when I opened up the box to say goodbye and put him in the hole, i began crying. didn't use the shovel, just covered him with the dirt and tears with my hands. even devin got teary. burying our kids is HARD
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Re: Today I burried a child.
by Rogue (judenouveau@yahoo.com)
on Aug 13, 2001 - 07:35 PM
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My sympathies go out to you. Used to raise rats for sale and selective breeding (nothing Mengele, just coat colours, patterns, hair types, etc) and despite having hundreds at a time it never got any easier losing one. Occasionally i had to euthanise a rat for a fibric breast tumour (only one, i was able to successfully operate on six of them who had benign breast tumours) or or a mouse for whirling disorder, or find a rat who had succombed while birthing her young, and each one received a proper burial with a hand-etched stone. Your compassion and strength of spirit are truly an inspiration for us all, and again i offer my deepest condolences.
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Re: Today I burried a child. by bettie_x (strangersangel@hotmail.com) on Aug 14, 2001 - 12:16 AM (User info | Send a Message) http://bettie_x.tripod.com/strangeasangels/ | at least now I know i'm not retarded in feeling so horridly guilt ridden that I didn't check the tank when I saw the top partially opened...sometimes they would open it and crawl out and lay on the screen to cool off when it was hot, but never left the top, so I didn't think anything of it.....she would sit on the top of this big bottle by the tank, and the only thing I can think of is that she fell and wasn't able to get back up.....all her family looks for her occasionally, digging up the sawdust and looking under the toilet paper tubes....oh jeezus, I'm gonna cry again....goddammit.
I feel so horribly guilty about it, but they have a big tube they hide in and they hate it when I shake them out to make sure they were all there, and it was hot out so I didn't want to bug them....
Like I said to rogue, the neighbors must think I'm insane now, I was crouched in the bushes sobbing like a baby while I burried her.
Very few people understood how much my rats and other animals mean to me, and it is literally, like losing a child. She was young when I bought her, and she had gotten so big and healthy.
she was a good ratty....I live in an apartment complex, so I cant' really give her a headstone, but I couldn't drive all the way to my parents to bury her....but she's where no body will bug her, and she is under our window so she is near......I'm such a goon....
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Re: Today I burried a child.
by StaticRat13 on Aug 16, 2001 - 04:00 PM
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my cat brought in a baby mouse about a week ago...it hadn't opened its eyes yet and we fed it for a couple days.....it must have gotten too cold cause it died. I hadn't even had it for two days and i still cryed. I hope my rat Kismet lives for a long time cause ill just flip when she goes.
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