Adia was from a group of rats that had been left behind by someone’s girlfriend after the relationship went south. The sister who had rats of her own, took in the rats but was only able to keep them until she left for England for her studies. She put up a post and I offered to help her rehome them. There were 5 girls and 5 boys, and through her and my efforts we got 5 of them adopted before the cutoff. I ended up taking in the remainder of them on July 24/06 before they ended up in a high-kill shelter.
Sadly they hadn’t been cared for well and reeked. I never bathe a rat if I can help it, but I gave in when these girls were making me feel very sick and kept running under my face.
There were 2 black hoodie girls, 2 hoodie boys and a sweet blazed lilac(?) boy as well.
Mamarat took the lovely boys into her heart and I decided to just keep the girls since there was an influx of rats in the area and no one would want black hoodies. :(
I named them Asha and Adia.
Adia was sweet from the beginning, unlike her sister who has been a bit of a challenge
Asha started to grow but Adia stayed petite
The 2 got introduced to the Horde where they were the bottom of the ranks and Adia was fine with that, but downtrodden Asha would go into these strange occasional rages and would harass the other rats…Adia would get pinned and powergroomed along with her sister when she didn’t deserve it.
At 2 years old poor Adia had a toe bitten and had to have the toe amputated but was soon back in the thick of things again.
Adia loved gentle Brie and Lucine most of all, and of course those 2 left her and no one replaced them in her affections.
Sadly my lovely little gal developed a tumour in an awkward place. It was joined to her right forearm and really hindered her with her grooming so I had to help out a lot. The tumour never grew very big but you could tell she hated it. :(
When the Horde started ignoring her I ended up taking her out and she ended up with my 2 young neutered boys Bagel and Goliath…where she seemed happier.
I kept thinking she was unhappy, but what I missed was her acceptance and I kept seeing the sad frustrated little girl and when she started having neuro symptoms I decided she was to go in with Lisbet on Thursday morning to be pts (she had an appointment for Saturday already). I was syringing Ensure into Lisbet when Adia decided to go MIA on the floor (she would fall off the couch so you couldn't leave her there). The girl couldn’t really walk but she disappeared. I was frantic! I looked for her most of the night. I put down water for her just in case and sadly took Lisbet in to Dr. Munn’s that morning.
I finally found Adia filthy, bright-eyed, hungry but mostly pleased with herself that evening. I warmed up Ensure and started feeding a hungry girl…she did get a bath after this pic.
Last night I fed and stroked Adia goodnight while she bruxxed for me, this morning I found a cold and stiff girl. I was shocked, I just don’t find my rats like that anymore, I am usually very aware that they are going to leave and will hold them (if they want) until they go. She really fooled me. My thoughts are that she felt Bagel leave and maybe he told her how wonderful it was to leave behind those defective bodies of theirs, so she did.
I will not cry for my little gal, its what she wanted and she wouldn’t like me feeling sorry for her.
I hope she and Bagel can take care of each other until I get there. I can see those 2 bouncing around causing havoc right now. :heart:
Adia the littlest girl right in the middle of everything
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