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Post by thornclaw on Mar 24, 2006 21:32:48 GMT -5
Gosh, Adorito! I hardly know you; but sorry about your bird! Whenever my pets die I become hysterical and cry my eyes out; and everyone probably thinks I'm 'weak' 'cos I feel bad for even stray cats that go by my house. I hope you feel better!
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Post by |g.O.l.d.Y| on Mar 25, 2006 18:31:41 GMT -5
Ya I was crying most of the day and my sister was banging on the bathroom door telling me to open up... I'm mostly over it now, busy training Ember not to bite too hard (he's still a baby, doesn't know any better) ~:Goldy:~
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Post by //Cindy// l u n a on Mar 25, 2006 20:05:46 GMT -5
Swifty's hamester died in her hand... And someone who I knew once died, pretty awfully, but I don't want to talk about that. But I really think that if a pet dies, it's good to have another animal, not a replacement, though, to cheer you up.
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Post by |g.O.l.d.Y| on Mar 25, 2006 21:12:28 GMT -5
Aww poor Swifty, I'm sry...
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IT'S A CINDY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! ~:Goldy:~
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Post by Marly on Mar 26, 2006 0:06:08 GMT -5
(yeah, i've had many animals in the past, i love my pets dearly, and love sorrounding myself with them on like the couch) My Guniea Pig, Redgie died in my arms about a year ago, it was probley one of the hardest things for me because i loved him so much, he was my first guniea pig, and he use to be in my room, and anytime i walked in he'd always greet me, and start squeaking if i forgot to feed him, and when i would waterhim, he's play this sorta like game, where he would take the wire and lie take it behind his feeder, and i'd have to get it. I had had him for about 8 years(which is really old for a guinea pig since my BFF can only get hers to live 3?) i was like six when i got him. Though my BFF has had many guniea pigs, we'd always bring our guniea pigs to each other's houses and have little gunia pig sleepovers ^^ it was fun, good memories, though he was just so old that his body was shutting down, i came in from doing chores and he never greeted me, i looked in his cage and he looked like he was in a trance, i just got the worst feeling in my gut, and i was quite scared, i picked him up and he started making a bit of noise, and then i realized he couldn't see, i quickly called my mom, she didn't know what to do, so she came home. Then pig(that's what i always called him, usually just pig, i'd walk in and say "Hey pig") just started squealing, i tried to calm him down, becuase i didn't know what was wrong! I was crying already just becuase i was so scared, i tried petting him and everything, but it didn't matter, no longer could he feel me touching him, he couldn't see me either. And from there it just got worse! He started going into convulsions and sezures by the time my mom got home. i just grabbed a towel and cradeled him until he finally stopped moving, then he went limp.(Gosh....i had like almost forgotten about him, now i'm crying again! It has been a year or two)
I got my ferrets then though, Brody and Lexi(hopefully soon to be Lacey too ^^) shortly afterwards, so it seemed to help me get over it. We buried pig out by the clothseline, as in the summer while i was hanging clothes out on the line i'd take him with me and he's just sit happily munching on the grass, he planted a maple tree there a few weeks later, so that's another reminder i supose? Anyways, yeah, he was such a good pig though, i'd take him out, and cuddle with him on the couch, along with my dogs, and cats and they all kinda got along as long as we were on the couch watching t.v. Anyways, i've gone on long enough, good to think back on my pigger once again....
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Post by Marly on Mar 26, 2006 0:07:50 GMT -5
(whoa....yeah, that was longer then i intended, lol, sorry, i got to typing and i couldn't stop!)
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Post by rex. on Mar 26, 2006 11:21:56 GMT -5
beautiful memoir, Mar when i was still in elementary school, my two sisters and me each got a guinea pig. Alice's was snowy (aka poopy butt though because she was all white but for a part of brown on her dare'are' -sp-), Haley's was Tiger, and mine was Dusty. they were all from the same litter, so thats why we got them all.after about a year of having them, dusty and tiger started to fight alot and they all went after snowy >>... so we had to move them into separate cages. a while later, snowy had two piglets -tesla and coco, both of which we gave away to friends at school. when dusty died, it was in the middle of the night, and he was squeeling. i got up and he was laying on his side. i think he died just as i got there, because his pulse was got almost as i got to him...my mum got me a dwarf hampster a while later...horrible little thing...everytime i put my finger in his cage he was slap me with his paws so fast, and then he'd bite me. i named him 'sugarfeet'.... snowy died a while later, and alice got a gerbal named angelgrey, and i accidently assisted in an accident that involved ripping off half his tail....>_> aaaand switching back to sugarfeet... angelgrey got along pretty good with sugarfeet and they all got along great with tiger. in the night, sugarfeet would crawl through the bars of his cage and climb into Tigers and they would see together. every night. it was so cute. tiger died about a year later...sugarfeet caught a mite called demodex, that was on his skin and he was itchy alot of the time. the vet gave us a stinky stuff to wash him in and medicine that we had to make him drink. he hated us so much i bet. in the end, the stink bath...kinda...worked, but he got a tumor in his belly. the bulbous thing was like a huge ugly belly button and we again took him to the vet, and we left him there over night for them to remove it. i had sugar feet for about another year before he died...that was about...6 years? :/ sorry that was just my little guinea pig/dwarf hampster/gerbal/...oh yeah bird story we used to have two birds curly and blue, but curly was like 15 when he got him from my aunt so he died in like 2 years. wow. old sucker. blue learned how to bite people from him and he always makes this sound like he is being strangled when we touch him...grr. the end sorry!! it was on the topic^^;
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Post by |g.O.l.d.Y| on Mar 26, 2006 15:27:42 GMT -5
I'm sooo sorry Marly and Kashy. It really does help having another pet though, right? (u know u love Blue Kashy lol I hated Boo up till this year cause I could stand biting)
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Post by Marly on Mar 26, 2006 17:45:45 GMT -5
yeah, i think we're all sorry for one anothers losses, and i do believe that getting a new pet helps you get over it better, i mean, i had totally like forgotten about pig!(which i now feel guilty for sinc ei had him a long time) but yes, Dwarf hamsters are EVIL!!!! We've had thme in the past, i use to have a teddybear hamster, and she was realy soft, and cuddle, i loved her alot too...Sophie, she was about a year old when she just started getting liek lazy, and wouldn't clean herself, or come out or anytihng? I Don;'t have a clue why, my friend said thsat happened to her old hamster and it just duied...and i was worried, we took her to the vet, they said she was just in heat (And we're like...yeah...whatever...she smelled terrible) well, later that week she died...but my bro still has his teddybear hamster, which another really long funny story i'll post later today if i have time ^^
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Post by rex. on Mar 27, 2006 9:31:57 GMT -5
lol. my cousins used to breed teddy bear hampsters! they had like 15 cages piled up in their room and in about half of them there were either couples or a mom and like 7 babies :3 they sold them to pet stores, and then they got tired of taking care of some 20+ hampsters so they just sold them all....thats why they're so rich maybe :/
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Post by {//.Ð € SS Î €.\\} on Mar 27, 2006 16:50:28 GMT -5
lol xD
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Post by Marly on Mar 27, 2006 18:32:12 GMT -5
OMG! I could never do that! Mostly just because now we only have like 1 teddy bear hamster, and it reeks!!! Hamster pee smells soooo bad! But yeah, i doubt they got rich off off of them, unless their more expensive at your pet store? At ours you can get an adult for $6 and a baby for $10 (i asked why they babies were more expensive, they said b/c most people want babies more, since thier cuter and smaller, but they need to get rid of the adults faster b/c same sex hamsters don't get along i guess?') lol, $6 doesn't seem like alot, but then again if you had like 20....
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Post by {//.Ð € SS Î €.\\} on Mar 27, 2006 18:34:18 GMT -5
ewww you making me remind me of something. One week when I took care of Cookie's black hamster Oreo, it peed on me!!! Then it bit me xD.
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Post by Marly on Mar 27, 2006 18:51:30 GMT -5
lol! Yeah...that's kinda of the hamsterly way to do things no, it was really funny, ok, so my brothers hamster had gotten out sometime around Nov. welll, we looked and looked for the dumb thing, and we couldn't find it, well, as the days went by, we just figured it was getting more and more hopeless, and my brother assumed one of the cats had eated him(becuase our cats are mousers, and thier always staring at the hamster) so now a month has gone by, and we assume the hamster is dead, as what could it live on, right? So yeah, for christmas, i bought my brother a new hamster (A $40 dollar one! It's called like a blackbear hamster, He was really cute, he was extremely soft, and not fluffy like teddys, but like velvety, and I named his Arcamedies(well, my brother couldn't come up with any kewl names so he asked me to help him) and he was a black hamster with a small white chest, and pink nose and feet, really cute!) Well, we brought him home, And remeber, the other hamster had been missing for like over a month! well, the morning hafter we had the new hamster, my brother woke up and heard something in his trash can, beside his bed? He looked down, and saw his old hamster eating paper from his garbage can!!! Ironically this was the day after he had gotten the new hamster, and his old one was still alive! It was unbelieveable to me, but yeah, thne aobut after a week that my bro had his new hamster, they cat jumped up on his cage...and poor Arcamedies had a heart attack ;_; he was my favourite hamster out of all of the oens i've seen, he was like one of the only ones who didn't bite....and he died...and he was only a baby! But yeah....my brother still has the first one....jsut an outrages incident!
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Post by |g.O.l.d.Y| on Mar 29, 2006 2:00:08 GMT -5
Awww poor Arc! Bad kitty! Funyn first hamster! *giggles at Dessie then puts on a serious look when she looks* poor u! O:-) ~:Goldy:~
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