Post by babycakes0707 on Dec 30, 2010 21:50:36 GMT -5
I know I dont come on this board often at all, Ive been trying to keep busy and spend most of my time with my dog &my 2 ferrets Molson& Scratch. my boys were like identical twins, with a 2 year difference. My husband dropped me off at home last wednesday&left to go do christmas shopping. I found Scratch laying in the same place he was before i left and his 2 front paws just kind of swimming into nothingness,he had peed &everything on himself. Right away I freaked out and picked him up and he was just limp.
His lil body had no hold whatsoever,his head swung around and every move i made. I cleaned him up and called the vet. The clesest vet is about 20 minutes away and I was home alone&carless.Not to mention the vet was closing in 30 minutes and my husband was about just that, 30 min. away. The vet told me theyd wait for me and my husband came back to pick us up. I wrapped him up in abunch of warm towels, his lil paws were frozen. We showed up 5 minutes after closing time,but their whole team was there waiting for us and right away they took us to the office. His temp. had dropped 4C and he would randomly squeak. The vettold me she could refer us to the Er where they would put Scratch on a respirator and IV,but by the looks of it,it wouldnt do anything besides take over 1,000 bucks out of us,which we clearly didnt have...or she could euthanise him now.Either way we had to hurry,the poor guy was suffering so much there was nothing we could do,no explanation. He was only a year and a half.
Molson on the other hand still has no sign of illness what so ever...When I left with Scratch,he just watched me walk out the door with his lil brother. He spent all of thursday sleeping,not wanting to be held nor wanting to play...I feel AWFUL for him...but at least hes eating and hes getting back to the way he was before Scratch came along, hes more calm and cuddlier than he use to be...
I HATE euthanasia...I am totally against it when theres something you can do instead of that and if I would of had the money, I deffinately would have considered trying, assuming the vet could do something for the pain.although, if itwould have just stretched the pain over a longer period of time I wouldnt do it...I just wish I had an explanation...a reason...he ate normally,drank,played..it literally happened over night...
R.I.P my lil Scratch....
His lil body had no hold whatsoever,his head swung around and every move i made. I cleaned him up and called the vet. The clesest vet is about 20 minutes away and I was home alone&carless.Not to mention the vet was closing in 30 minutes and my husband was about just that, 30 min. away. The vet told me theyd wait for me and my husband came back to pick us up. I wrapped him up in abunch of warm towels, his lil paws were frozen. We showed up 5 minutes after closing time,but their whole team was there waiting for us and right away they took us to the office. His temp. had dropped 4C and he would randomly squeak. The vettold me she could refer us to the Er where they would put Scratch on a respirator and IV,but by the looks of it,it wouldnt do anything besides take over 1,000 bucks out of us,which we clearly didnt have...or she could euthanise him now.Either way we had to hurry,the poor guy was suffering so much there was nothing we could do,no explanation. He was only a year and a half.
Molson on the other hand still has no sign of illness what so ever...When I left with Scratch,he just watched me walk out the door with his lil brother. He spent all of thursday sleeping,not wanting to be held nor wanting to play...I feel AWFUL for him...but at least hes eating and hes getting back to the way he was before Scratch came along, hes more calm and cuddlier than he use to be...
I HATE euthanasia...I am totally against it when theres something you can do instead of that and if I would of had the money, I deffinately would have considered trying, assuming the vet could do something for the pain.although, if itwould have just stretched the pain over a longer period of time I wouldnt do it...I just wish I had an explanation...a reason...he ate normally,drank,played..it literally happened over night...
R.I.P my lil Scratch....