And another one bites the dust ...

[crazylady1234]

Big Boss the bushy-tailed jird had an abcess.  Would have required eyedrops and oral antibiotics twice a day, and that might not even have helped.  You gotta understand, BTJs haven't been domesticated very many generations yet.  They're still very wild.  That medication regimine just wasn't gonna happen.  The meds would not have made it into his mouth, I would have spent all my time chasing him and being upset, and all the while he would have been suffering.  Not to mention the multiple bandaids I would have wound up with on my fingers.  Which, honestly, I would have put up with if it had made him better.

So I made the hard decision.  Okay, I know I wanted to let my rodent population reduce itself ... but I really didn't mean I wanted them to start dying one per day ...