5-2-09 to 7-18-09

[Roaming Reptiles]

This is one of my babies that I had to put down. She was born with a really bad hump where her neck is. She was born weighing 1 gram and was slowly gaining weight she got up to 4 grams. She is a special gecko to me becuase she was a fighter. She would always miss the food the first but she never stopped trying and she would work and work until she finally got it. This was the first gecko that I ever had to put down and it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I know I sound like a baby but this trully was hard to do. I feel like I ended a life. I took it away. And it is killing me.

 

[ElapidSVT]

sorry to hear it, man.
i have a hard time with it too.

 

[mainelygeckos]

I'm so sorry Brandon

 

[Golden Gate Geckos]

Brandon, I know what a difficult decision it is to end the life of something you love. I know that you realize that sometimes it is the most loving thing you can do. Yet even justifying it in your mind doesn't always work for the heart. I'm so sorry...

 

[Roaming Reptiles]

Thank you everyone. Thank you Marcia for calling and making sure everything was ok. You are the best.

 

[Adinar]

This is one of my babies that I had to put down. She was born with a really bad hump where her neck is. She was born weighing 1 gram and was slowly gaining weight she got up to 4 grams. She is a special gecko to me becuase she was a fighter. She would always miss the food the first but she never stopped trying and she would work and work until she finally got it. This was the first gecko that I ever had to put down and it was the hardest thing I have ever had to do. I know I sound like a baby but this trully was hard to do. I feel like I ended a life. I took it away. And it is killing me.

I know exactally what you're going thru. I'm currently trying to make up my mind if I should put one down or not. He stopped eatting in the beginning of April, started feeding him banana baby food in May, then slurry shortly there after. Then all the sudden he started eatting on his own again, he was even up to 4 crickets a day and gaining weight fairly fast. I thought we finally beat it. This was last month. Last night I weighed him and he's down to 5 grams. His spine is sticking out, his ribs are showing, and his hip bones look razor sharp against his taunt skin. Not to mention how scrawny and twig-like his tail is. It kills me to have to make a decision like that, but which is worse? Giving him ever chance and hope he'll pull through? He's been a fighter this long, where as his cagemate gave up a little over a month after not eatting. Or decide to do it and not have to worry if he's in pain and finally find out what's been making him and two other so incredably sick. :cry: Between having pets growing up, and even volunteering at an animal shelter for a number of years I thought this wouldn't be so difficult. But it is. Sadly, it just one of the things owners will have to deal with eventually. Unforunetally sometimes eariler rather than later.

 

[Kristi23]

I am so sorry.

 

[mariex4]

so sorry for your loss but you did do the best thing thats one thing pets cant do is tell us there in paid so they rely on us to make that choice , and even though its so hard remember what the leo might be thinking .and adinar , i know its going to be hard but we will all be here for you but maybe the right choice would be is to put him to sleep i know its easy for me to say but 1 day i might be in the same situation im here for ya what ever you decide

 

[ariana]

if you hadnt of done it she wouldve suffered.
you are responsible for saving her from a painful and hard life. not for ending it.

 

[emmagecko]

I'm so sorry :sad:. these thing's happen don't beat you're self up u did what was best. she wouldn't have lasted long.