One of her sisters had a pituitary tumor. The vet said it came down to, does she still seem to enjoy life?
I'm not getting female rats again unless I can afford to have them spayed right off. I can't justify buying breeder rats (although many breeders are wonderful people who do a lot for rescues, don't get me wrong), so any rats I adopt are likely to get cancers. Sammy had had a mammary tumor removed once before, even.
Even when I believed in a god, even when I was Christian, I thought the Rainbow Bridge idea was kinda weird. It's even weirder when you think of people with short-lived animals like rats...I have this mental image of someone getting to heaven only to be greeted by dozens of rats, which for some reason makes me laugh. That, and it implies that only animals that people love, go to heaven.
I know what you mean, though. I think that if our rats could talk, they'd ask to not be in pain, but it's so hard to make that decision for them when you that's it, it's over.
It's hard to believe that just a couple years ago I had six rats. Six! I'm never having that many at once again, I just couldn't give any of them enough attention, especially since I'm out of the house a lot. When I get rats again, I'm only going to have two or three at a time.
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I'm not getting female rats again unless I can afford to have them spayed right off. I can't justify buying breeder rats (although many breeders are wonderful people who do a lot for rescues, don't get me wrong), so any rats I adopt are likely to get cancers. Sammy had had a mammary tumor removed once before, even.
Even when I believed in a god, even when I was Christian, I thought the Rainbow Bridge idea was kinda weird. It's even weirder when you think of people with short-lived animals like rats...I have this mental image of someone getting to heaven only to be greeted by dozens of rats, which for some reason makes me laugh. That, and it implies that only animals that people love, go to heaven.
I know what you mean, though. I think that if our rats could talk, they'd ask to not be in pain, but it's so hard to make that decision for them when you that's it, it's over.
It's hard to believe that just a couple years ago I had six rats. Six! I'm never having that many at once again, I just couldn't give any of them enough attention, especially since I'm out of the house a lot. When I get rats again, I'm only going to have two or three at a time.