I lost another one
Athena just died. I woke up to lots of moving noises coming from her cage which suddenly stopped. I knew what it was, but was still too asleep to do anything. My last two rats I was able to hold while they died, and while it's such a horrible death to watch, I feel horrible that Athena had to do it alone. I don't know. Maybe animals usually like dying alone. But I still feel...I just lost another one of my little ones. She was getting old for a rat, and I knew it would be soon, but whenever it happens, I still feel this way.
