Mr. Mouse RIP
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inulroWhat the title says.
Mr. Mouse started being non-specifically unwell a couple weeks back. With small rodents, the first sign is that they start sleeping in the wrong place. This is usually terribly cute, but it's still a bad sign. With Mr Mouse, first it was his dish, then his wheel. Then they get a characteristic hunched-up posture.
In the case of mice, the next step is that they start to scratch incessantly like they have mites[1], which makes them very miserable little characters indeed. He was obviously pretty distressed despite still being lively and interested in his surroundings, so unfortunately he had to go on a one-way trip to the vet. I didn't notice till we got him in there that he'd also lost some weight.
We didn't have him long, but he was a very sweet little character who quite quickly went from being very scared of us to very tame & friendly (even after the incident with the kitten). He will be missed.
[1] The vet just told me that most of the time it's not actually mites, but some weird systemic thing that makes them itch.
Mr. Mouse started being non-specifically unwell a couple weeks back. With small rodents, the first sign is that they start sleeping in the wrong place. This is usually terribly cute, but it's still a bad sign. With Mr Mouse, first it was his dish, then his wheel. Then they get a characteristic hunched-up posture.
In the case of mice, the next step is that they start to scratch incessantly like they have mites[1], which makes them very miserable little characters indeed. He was obviously pretty distressed despite still being lively and interested in his surroundings, so unfortunately he had to go on a one-way trip to the vet. I didn't notice till we got him in there that he'd also lost some weight.
We didn't have him long, but he was a very sweet little character who quite quickly went from being very scared of us to very tame & friendly (even after the incident with the kitten). He will be missed.
[1] The vet just told me that most of the time it's not actually mites, but some weird systemic thing that makes them itch.
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Date: 2005-01-06 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2005-01-06 09:10 pm (UTC)I tend to differentiate between the ones that are properly "my pets" and the ones that I bring home from the shelter because no one else would ever want them, to do the best that I can for them in the short time they have left, in that I get a lot less attached to the latter. Mr Mouse was a bit of an exception. Maybe it was because I've not had a mouse before & didn't know about all the cute things mice do.
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Date: 2005-01-06 11:18 pm (UTC)