Shadow the Sweet Aug. 2005 to May 12, 2008 :(
Shadow was a rehome who was coming up to 2 when I got her. Notamuised had run into trouble and had to rehome most of her rats so 2 of her old ladies came home with me along with 4 more Wildgirls that I had originally adopted out to her. No regrets with taking in these 2 extra ladies LOL
Shadow was a bit confused when I first got her home and was a bit antsy but then settled down, lay her head on my hand and asked me with her eyes “Are you my new mom?”
Very quickly she became a very content little girl :)
She loved her old cagemate Maddy…Maddy made a great pillow!
Sadly much older Maddy ended succumbing to a throat abscess that we fought, but she was too old and weak…she left Shadow and I 1 ½ months after she arrived.
So Shadow was alone. I introduced her to a nicer group of girls and even they just took her for granted and ostracized her a little. Shadow being the sweet passive girl never seemed to really notice, but I always did. I just wanted my Shadow girl to be happy and have real friends.
She met my big girl Selene who weirdly enough became her big sister/protector until Selene passed.
Then after Maddy and Selene left, it was only Portia and Rennie who were already bonded to each other. Rennie was not kind to Shadow and would make her scream every once in awhile, which I hated but Shadow forgave her every time and I knew she would be miserable on her own. My little girl just wanted to be loved but it wasn't happening with these other girls. :(
Next came sweet tiny older Mattie, but sadly Mattie was only with us for a short while as well. A bad vet had OD’d her on ivermectin and the first of her strokes hit her a couple of weeks after she came home.
And then it happened!! I introduced sweet old Shadow to 2 new rescue boys (now neutered) that I had taken in. It was love!!!
Here with Wilbur and her other Main Man Otto
After this more rats got added to the happy group :D
Shadow even as an elderly girl just kept going happily, clambering up her 4 ' Martin's cage, she was wobbly and scruffy and happy as a clam until she started gasping last week for a part of the night. But she bounced back until this weekend. She wanted to be with me all the time, it was an odd weekend, I didn’t get much done except a lot of loving. :D She lay on me and I stroked her while she slept. I actually managed to re-watch the entire first season of Buffy
When she decided this morning she could not gobble down her syringes of Ensure like usual, I knew it was time and I took her to my vet and dropped her off to be pts.
I hope my Shadow has too many friends now, she deserves them and it’s all she has ever wanted. And I hope she finds her Maddy and her Mattie as well.
Shadow was a rehome who was coming up to 2 when I got her. Notamuised had run into trouble and had to rehome most of her rats so 2 of her old ladies came home with me along with 4 more Wildgirls that I had originally adopted out to her. No regrets with taking in these 2 extra ladies LOL
Shadow was a bit confused when I first got her home and was a bit antsy but then settled down, lay her head on my hand and asked me with her eyes “Are you my new mom?”
Very quickly she became a very content little girl :)
She loved her old cagemate Maddy…Maddy made a great pillow!
Sadly much older Maddy ended succumbing to a throat abscess that we fought, but she was too old and weak…she left Shadow and I 1 ½ months after she arrived.
So Shadow was alone. I introduced her to a nicer group of girls and even they just took her for granted and ostracized her a little. Shadow being the sweet passive girl never seemed to really notice, but I always did. I just wanted my Shadow girl to be happy and have real friends.
She met my big girl Selene who weirdly enough became her big sister/protector until Selene passed.
Then after Maddy and Selene left, it was only Portia and Rennie who were already bonded to each other. Rennie was not kind to Shadow and would make her scream every once in awhile, which I hated but Shadow forgave her every time and I knew she would be miserable on her own. My little girl just wanted to be loved but it wasn't happening with these other girls. :(
Next came sweet tiny older Mattie, but sadly Mattie was only with us for a short while as well. A bad vet had OD’d her on ivermectin and the first of her strokes hit her a couple of weeks after she came home.
And then it happened!! I introduced sweet old Shadow to 2 new rescue boys (now neutered) that I had taken in. It was love!!!
Here with Wilbur and her other Main Man Otto
After this more rats got added to the happy group :DShadow even as an elderly girl just kept going happily, clambering up her 4 ' Martin's cage, she was wobbly and scruffy and happy as a clam until she started gasping last week for a part of the night. But she bounced back until this weekend. She wanted to be with me all the time, it was an odd weekend, I didn’t get much done except a lot of loving. :D She lay on me and I stroked her while she slept. I actually managed to re-watch the entire first season of Buffy
When she decided this morning she could not gobble down her syringes of Ensure like usual, I knew it was time and I took her to my vet and dropped her off to be pts.
I hope my Shadow has too many friends now, she deserves them and it’s all she has ever wanted. And I hope she finds her Maddy and her Mattie as well.
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