(As I state on all my threads/posts. I'm only 16 and not a parent. I'm in the middle of my GCSEs currently and I find the support threads helpful)
Yesterday at around 5:50pm I had my beautiful syrian put to sleep. She wasn't right for a week or so and had been on Baytril for a suspected bladder infection. She was a fighter and I thought she'd make it. But she lost so much weight and after a revision session at school I came home to find she'd had a prolapse of around 2 inches. She was covered in blood and weak but she was still walking, although not much. She livened up on the way to the vets (not her usual as they couldn't fit her in for hours). I found her at around 2 and she was like this until I left the house with her at 5:20pm. She came to her name and was climbing the stairs until last week. Her record was 9.48 seconds for 12 stairs- She was fast when she wanted to be.
I nearly lost her last year to a uterine infection but Baytril and gently warmed ,but diluted, milk helped to pull her through (and the fact that I'd over-indulged her at Christmas and he'd started getting podgy).
She was such a princess and the first hamster that was 'mine'. I lost one in 2013 to a tumour after having him only a few weeks (he was an adoption though) and that hurt but nothing like this.
My friends seem to think it's nothing because I still have a Russian dwarf, 2 Peruvian × abyssinian guineas and a dog (plus a family dog but the rest are 'mine'). She was 2.5 and I loved her dearly yet I forgot to tell her on the way to end her life. I just kept kissing her but I forgot to say I loved her. I've lost many pets before (due to illness and old age. I haven't mistreated them) but this is different and I deeply regret spending less time with her in her final weeks due to revision.
I loved her. I watched her die. But the vet didn't give her gas before the injection and that's the standard practice for hamsters [As far as I am aware] (aspiring vet) as the needle can't got straight into the blood stream, instead it goes into the heart or stomach. It hurts them without gas. I put her through pain in her final moments. She went so quickly, it usually takes a few minutes. She didn't fight it at all and the vet said she was ready but it all feels so wrong. I knew it had to be done but I can't stop thinking about it whilst I'm sat alone at home 'revising' (Nothing is going in and my history/worst subject exam is on Monday)
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I had my hamster put to sleep
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RainBearr · 29/05/2015 13:22
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