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So.. Last day of college.. May even miss the little blighters.. Hope they've learnt something from me in the last fortnight, although I dread to think what it might actually be..
I can't wait to go home.. Sugar (white rat, for anyone who's visited and been subjected to me and/or Ray in 'proud parent' mode) is poorly and I feel terrible about not being there.. Goodness knows how you lot with kids cope when your offspring are ill.. Well, I say she's poorly, actually she's fine in herself (still massively nosey, will eat anything she can get her paws on, etc) but she's got a lump on her hind leg.. I put her on a diet before I came south and when Ray dropped over to check on them she'd lost enough wait that it was evident.. I've handled her so much and I didn't even notice, what a bad mom I am.. Thing is with female rats, they're chronically prone to cancer, especially if they've been on the tubby side and Sugar's over 2 now- 2 years and one month yesterday, wow, where does time go!- so it's kind of expected that she's not going to last forever but I always assumed I'd just come down one morning and find that she'd sloped off to the great hammock in the sky overnight.. The vet told Ray it *might* just be a lymph infection but I think she was just being kind and trying to prepare us for the worst.. Sug's got a weeks antibiotics and if the lump hasn't decreased by thursday then it's not a lymph infection.. She's such a happy ratty, so utterly convinced that she's human/we're rats and so affectionate (as those of us who've been groomed by her will wincingly testify)..
I always said I'd get more rats but at the moment I can't even imagine doing so..
I can't wait to go home.. Sugar (white rat, for anyone who's visited and been subjected to me and/or Ray in 'proud parent' mode) is poorly and I feel terrible about not being there.. Goodness knows how you lot with kids cope when your offspring are ill.. Well, I say she's poorly, actually she's fine in herself (still massively nosey, will eat anything she can get her paws on, etc) but she's got a lump on her hind leg.. I put her on a diet before I came south and when Ray dropped over to check on them she'd lost enough wait that it was evident.. I've handled her so much and I didn't even notice, what a bad mom I am.. Thing is with female rats, they're chronically prone to cancer, especially if they've been on the tubby side and Sugar's over 2 now- 2 years and one month yesterday, wow, where does time go!- so it's kind of expected that she's not going to last forever but I always assumed I'd just come down one morning and find that she'd sloped off to the great hammock in the sky overnight.. The vet told Ray it *might* just be a lymph infection but I think she was just being kind and trying to prepare us for the worst.. Sug's got a weeks antibiotics and if the lump hasn't decreased by thursday then it's not a lymph infection.. She's such a happy ratty, so utterly convinced that she's human/we're rats and so affectionate (as those of us who've been groomed by her will wincingly testify)..
I always said I'd get more rats but at the moment I can't even imagine doing so..