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Pet regrets

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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 11:54 am

Has anyone else ever had to say goodbye to a pet under difficult circumstances?

Yesterday, I surrendered my three pet rats back to the rescue where I adopted them 3 years ago. Even though I felt incredibly unsettled about it, I knew that the only way for my one of my rats to get the tumor in her leg removed was to ask the rescue to take them back since they have better access to resources...

In December, I had to go to Taiwan to visit relatives for a month and left my rats in my dad’s care. When I came back, I realized one of my rats had the tumor. I couldn’t take her to have it removed because of the cost. A visit to the vet costs $67 and surgery can easily reach $500…there was no way that I could pay for it myself and asking my parents to pay for it was out of the question.

Then I started thinking a lot about how my rats are getting old (their ages are equivalent to a 70yo human) and how it would be too difficult watching them pass away in pain because I can’t have them euthanized due to the cost. I read somewhere that when a rat dies, the other rats may tear apart the corpse and hide the parts so that predators can’t find the body. That is something that would be incredibly difficult for me to see as well (I couldn’t sleep for an entire night after watching the lizard-mouse kill another mouse in The Amazing Spiderman >_<).

Even though I know I did what was best for them, I still feel so many regrets. Like how in the end I never really got my neutered male rat to like me as much as the other two girls. He barely left the cage during playtime even when I bribed him with treats. And how I feel that I should have just returned them a couple years ago when I broke up with my ex-bf who gave them to me instead of waiting until it was difficult to let go. And how I’m such a horrible mother for even thinking such thoughts. I worry so much about how my rats are doing because it was really hard to introduce the rats to each other and took awhile for them to get along.

I’m going to miss them so much. I’ll miss squeaky Raisin who always bounced around while looking at me with those greedy eyes asking for treats. I’ll miss smart Prune who made me feel so honored by marking me with piss whenever she walked over me. I’ll miss handsome Cashew who smells and looks like a loaf of bread. crying

Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:43 pm

It's tough to say goodbye to a pet, especially ones with such interesting personalities like rats. They stop being animals and become little family members.

You did the best you could under the circumstances. That's all anyone can do.

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Posted: Sun Jan 27, 2013 12:57 pm

You are the apple...

You did what you could, and Im sure all three of them have loved you like any other pet would. It's always hard to say goodbye, especially when one has to give up a pet rather than when it dies, but with time it gets easier. They will always be in your heart and mind = )

and I am your core.

Posted: Sat Feb 09, 2013 2:13 pm

You're a good pet owner. Simple as that. ^ ^ You did what was best for them. As for me...I have the biggest regret on my shoulder....

My rabbit was bitten by a bot fly on her stomach.
I always liked putting my hand on my rabbit's belly and giving it an incredibly gentle squeeze just so I could see my rabbit give me the "WTF was that for retard? o___o" look everytime. However...I felt the little bump there, as it showed there was a bot-fly there.
Though I didn't know what it was, and yet I knew it was there and I never bothered to tell anybody about it. I was truly a retard...

Because of that, the bot fly bite worsened, and the bot fly put my rabbit in pain and I had to put my bunny down....
Biggest regret of my life. I truly am a retard, aren't I? >.<

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Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:12 pm

I used to have two dogs, one female named Xena and a male named Van Helsing and they have been with us for over 8 years, ever since they were puppies. We still have Helsing, but we lost Xena in 2010.

While I was at school, Xena was killed by some retard in a hit and run. I think my biggest regret was not petting her one last time. I hardly had time to say goodbye to my dogs whenever I went to class, and that day was no different. I didn't that day, and that was probably the last time I saw that dog. My dad and my brother and sister had buried Xena in our back yard by the time I came home. I really cried too crying

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2013 8:31 pm

sad

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Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2013 10:23 pm

:<

I have alot of pet regrets. But this one sticks out the most to me.

My Boyfriend and I had a puppy that we found with the rest of her siblings on the side of the road. We named her Rosie, and his father kept one of her brothers and named him Hank. The yard at my bf's old place wasn't fenced in, and I felt insanely guilty knowing the only place they could freely run around in was the down stairs patio/garden. (despite the fact we took them almost every day to the dog park and every so often to the dog beach). However my Bf's dad lost his house due to gambling with the morgage, and essentially he tried moving to Michigan. He took both dogs because we believed they would be happier out there. He ended up getting out there to essentially turn around in a span of 3 months, leaving our Dog with apparently very annoying family members.

If I had known he was just going to ditch my dog with people I do not know, I would have asked for him to bring her back. Especially after getting an message on facebook saying that they painted her nails red :IIIIIIIII (I am very much against humanizing animals, i.e pushing them in strollers and painting their nails.)

And even more so when my dad said he would have taken them in.

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