Riyo
Pet Human
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- Indianapolis, IN
I really just need to get this off my chest.. so I apologize ahead of time for the wall of text and the whining that is about to commence.
So, things haven't been going so hot for me lately. I found out dad has to get a total knee replacement and it's probably going to cost him his job (and all of us are already extremely tight on money). Mom has a full blown disease in her intestines and colon and is doing terribly on the medication she has to take for it.. there are a lot of other things going on with my family that I'm not going to even touch.
What keeps me from going absolutely nuts between the stress of full time school, working nearly full time in retail, and the general chaos that seems to be occuring with my family, is of course my animals. I care for each of them very deeply and they're about all that I look forward to right now.
Which us to the icing of the cake, so to speak. The rescue (Quasimodo) that I've been working so hard to save and I thought was finally beginning to turn around has taken a turn for the worst. I have come to the decision that the most humane thing for him now is to put him to sleep.
The day before last I found that the heat pad on my male sand boa's tank had malfunctioned and was incredibly hot. He is alive and unburned, but is acting very strangely.
Pandora, my little enigma baby, has abruptly began showing extreme 'enigma syndrome'. She can hardly walk, and when she does she almost always ends up falling over or circling tightly. She attacks anything that moves (outside of her tub), so she ends up beating her head against things. She wasn't like this at all a few months ago, it was shocking to see how quickly this cropped up. At this point I am not sure what I should do about her, but it only seems to be getting worse.
This morning, I woke up and walked into my living room (where my rack is) and found that my cat had pulled open two of the tubs some how. Both geckos were gone. After a frantic search I found one... I have spent the rest of the day searching for the other and I have turned the house upside down. There is no sign of him. I don't think the cat got him.. I haven't found any evidence of that.
He was one of my favorites -- Loki, my huge mack snow male that I adopted.. he was my second gecko. I am absolutely devastated. I remain hopeful that he will turn up..
..
So, things haven't been going so hot for me lately. I found out dad has to get a total knee replacement and it's probably going to cost him his job (and all of us are already extremely tight on money). Mom has a full blown disease in her intestines and colon and is doing terribly on the medication she has to take for it.. there are a lot of other things going on with my family that I'm not going to even touch.
What keeps me from going absolutely nuts between the stress of full time school, working nearly full time in retail, and the general chaos that seems to be occuring with my family, is of course my animals. I care for each of them very deeply and they're about all that I look forward to right now.
Which us to the icing of the cake, so to speak. The rescue (Quasimodo) that I've been working so hard to save and I thought was finally beginning to turn around has taken a turn for the worst. I have come to the decision that the most humane thing for him now is to put him to sleep.
The day before last I found that the heat pad on my male sand boa's tank had malfunctioned and was incredibly hot. He is alive and unburned, but is acting very strangely.
Pandora, my little enigma baby, has abruptly began showing extreme 'enigma syndrome'. She can hardly walk, and when she does she almost always ends up falling over or circling tightly. She attacks anything that moves (outside of her tub), so she ends up beating her head against things. She wasn't like this at all a few months ago, it was shocking to see how quickly this cropped up. At this point I am not sure what I should do about her, but it only seems to be getting worse.
This morning, I woke up and walked into my living room (where my rack is) and found that my cat had pulled open two of the tubs some how. Both geckos were gone. After a frantic search I found one... I have spent the rest of the day searching for the other and I have turned the house upside down. There is no sign of him. I don't think the cat got him.. I haven't found any evidence of that.
He was one of my favorites -- Loki, my huge mack snow male that I adopted.. he was my second gecko. I am absolutely devastated. I remain hopeful that he will turn up..
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