bettie_x
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posted on 16/9/2002 at 06:38 PM |
Hey all.
I didn´t want to bug everyone with ANOTHER main page post about my animals,
so I´m doing my crying here.
Poppy is my special girl, the sweetest and friendliest of all the rats I´ve
ever had in my life.
The vet commented on what a sweet and friendly rat she was...that he´s
never seen a rat so ready to be held and that would sit still for him
during an exam, let alone something like an xray, or when he insterted a
syringe into her abdomen to remove two full vials of the fluid that has
built up within her little tummy.
Poppy is dying.
Either tonight or no later than tomorrow.
I´m saying the goodbyes I hate the most yet again.
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Alugarde
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posted on 16/9/2002 at 06:45 PM |
I´m so sorry bettie *hugs* ____________________ l33t is the bastard cousin of contractions. |
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DarkMistress
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posted on 16/9/2002 at 07:01 PM |
*hugs* yes I too am sorry, Bettie. *prays for Poppy* I DO believe animals
have souls... ____________________ "Pity no one was there
No angels in the air
And the morning paper ran
One more suicide" |
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Monolycus
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posted on 16/9/2002 at 09:32 PM |
I am extremely sorry to hear this, Bettie. You have my deepest and most
profound condolences. *hug* ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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bettie_x
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posted on 16/9/2002 at 10:10 PM |
Thanks guys...I mean fuck, lucy just died, and now poppy? Yeah, she´s
getting up there in rat years..they only live to about 3 or 4. But she´s
been the healthiest one out of all the ones I´ve had.
Just all of a sudden she´s not dead, but DYING which is worse because
there´s not a goddamned thing I can do. No false hope. Nothing to ease
her if she´s in pain, nothing to give her to make her more comfortable
until the end. They took an xray and didn´t see tumors, only fluid filling
her body cavity. I am hoping against all that she dies in her sleep
tonight so she won´t be in pain...and that I won´t have to drive her to a
vet and have them do the deed for me. The vet was very very kind, tho.
I´ve noticed that the most compassionate vets are the ones that deal with
small animals. Strange, isn´t it?
I´m going to have to go find a sister for nico...she´s the only one left.
:sad: ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 16/9/2002 at 10:41 PM |
I am so sorry. There is no way I can even say how really sorry I am. ____________________ Okay, dazzle me. |
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KatB
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posted on 17/9/2002 at 12:44 AM |
There are some things you just never can get used to Very sorry... ____________________ All stressed out and no one to choke...
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Ianthe99
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posted on 17/9/2002 at 12:20 PM |
Aww.. poor Poppy. I´m sorry Bettie! ____________________ She who dies with the most toys wins! |
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AloneSoul
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posted on 17/9/2002 at 02:45 PM |
I´m terribly sorry to hear this. Her time to go is approaching, like so
many others before. Still, any loss of a loved one is a burden we should
never have to bear. Again I say, you have my deepest sympathies. ____________________ but at least you know, just how much pain there is in living |
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dead_cry
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posted on 17/9/2002 at 06:09 PM |
ah i am so sorry to hear those bad news i am rellay sorry , but another day may
come and the ones we love and have gone may be in a beter place ____________________
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bettie_x
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posted on 17/9/2002 at 06:41 PM |
I"m going to have to do it friday I think...she´s still eating and drinking
and making her way around the cage, but her abdomen will only get larger
until she can´t move. She wants to be held but its hard to get her out of
the cage because her top half is so small and her bottom half is so
heavy..it´s so SAD! :cry:
I don´t want to have her put down, but I know I´ll have to. I don´t want
her in pain, but I selfishly don´t want her gone.
I´ll be alright, as always, and thank you guys for the sentiments. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Lenore
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posted on 18/9/2002 at 03:21 PM |
It´s those small things in life that means so much.... Really sorry....
Losing friends, human or annimal, is awful. Hope you´ve got someone there
to make some hot chocolate for you, give you hugs and say it´ll be ok... ____________________ "The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the
human mind to correlate its contents." - H.P.Lovecraft |
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bettie_x
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posted on 18/9/2002 at 06:34 PM |
Yeah, I do...I have the best husband in the world
She doen´t seem to be in pain, so I´m going to hold onto her as long as I
can.
She´s been wanting to be held a lot lately, so I´m going to be spending as
much time with her as I can. Make my days with her left worthwhile and
stuff. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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grimlore
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posted on 21/9/2002 at 03:53 PM |
Hi Bettie..so sorry to hear about poppy. I have no pets of my own..but I
understand how sad it must be to lose one. You have my sympathies. ____________________
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bettie_x
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posted on 22/9/2002 at 11:35 PM |
Thank you grim. I´ve been holding onto her all week long, and I just took
her out to pet her and I noticed she´s got pnemonia again.
I´m sick of seeing her suffer.
I´m sick of being so fucking helpless.
I´m sick of all my babies leaving me.
I don´t want her to hurt anymore and I´m so glad my vacation starts
tomorrow because I know that I have to finally have her put to sleep.
All I know is that I´ll have to pay for the euthanasia ahead of time
because after being given the grim news over a week ago, I could barely
hold it together enough to write a fucking check and I felt like a fucking
moron. Getting "that look" from other people waiting with their puppies
getting their first shots, cats getting declawed, innoculated, whatever. I
saw a weinerdog puppy, just like my dog was when she was young, and I
realised how old she is now.
I´m in a fine fit of self pity here, folks. Death and alcohol go hand in
hand, and right now we´re joined at the hip.
This is just so fucking wretched. SO fucking wretched I fucking hate it.
I want this year over with.
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bettie_x
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posted on 23/9/2002 at 07:17 PM |
I took her in today.
No more curly whiskers.
No more mad scientist fur.
No more sleeve stowaway.
No more nose nibbles.
No more noisy bananna chip crunching.
No more curly grey face to greet me when I come home.
No more chase around the cage.
Nico is motherless.
I am heartbroken. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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DarkMistress
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posted on 23/9/2002 at 07:25 PM |
*hugs bettie* rats are a girls best friend. I´m sorry for your loss :cry: ____________________ "Pity no one was there
No angels in the air
And the morning paper ran
One more suicide" |
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Monolycus
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posted on 23/9/2002 at 07:45 PM |
*hug* I am very sorry, Bettie. That is never easy. ____________________ "I believe that woman is planning to shoot me again." |
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bettie_x
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posted on 23/9/2002 at 09:22 PM |
knew you guys´d understand.
My daddy helped me bury her. He seems hard but he´s not especially with
animals he took the shovel away and dug the hole fo rme because the ground
is hard and he didn´t have his usual standard animal burying backhoe.
Daddy´s kno when their little girls hurt and can´t dig.
She´s gone. I´ve never signed away a life before it makes you sick. ____________________ Trapped in time. Surrounded by evil. Low on gas. |
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Merry_Widow
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posted on 25/9/2002 at 10:38 PM |
This is a few days late, but I´m sorry. It sucks when you have to decide
when to say good bye. ____________________ Okay, dazzle me. |
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