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and it just doesn't stop.
last night we lost one of my favorite girls though not to the sickness spreading through the rescue. we got her when she was already 2 years old. She'd had this ulcered tumor on her abdomen that her previous owner couldn't afford to have her operated on so we took her in. Her cagemate died the first week we had them but once we had her tumor taken off, she was having a very good life, albeit a solo one. I couldn't put her in any other cage because it would never fail that at least one rat in each cage would beat on her. she had to live by herself so she got lots of extra attention from me daily. I think she finally got too old and died about 20 minutes before I got home from work.
Just now, another of our perm residents named Quark, who was from an oops litter during our first months as a rescue, died in my wifes lap. He didn't show any signs of sickness until two nights ago.
I've got two more rats, a girl and a boy, who have been on the couch and chair with us for 3 nights and I have no idea how they are hanging on still. they are so weak though that I may take them to the vet and have them put to sleep tomorrow. If they make it through this night.
I've got 20 left in my colony that don't appear to be sick......yet.
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