My mouse Bartok had a bump under one of his arms. I went into freak completely out mode, and we took him in as soon as possible to have it removed and to have him neutered. By the time we got him there it had disappeared. So that was good, and he is neutered to top it off. Even just a few days later it smells less in the rodent room! Now my other little boy Rasputin has a big bump on his back that showed up only a couple of days ago, and one of his paws and his face are swollen. He's going to the vet on Tuesday to figure out what the deal is. It's all happening at once!! And my very pretty, very sweet girl Chaminade passed away on the 26th. She'd been looking bad for a while and I had to hand feed her Pedialyte and keep a heating pad under her. She stayed as long as she could, and she appears to have died peacefully. She was just lying there in her favorite spot like always when I found her. I haven't visited here in a while so I thought I would post something. Here's a picture of Chaminade.

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Kadee Sedtal

home of old lady Lucy (boxer/lab/garbage disposal), pretty girl Fancy (beagle), the rats-Chopin, Tchaikovsky, Pachebel, Fillmore, Norbert, and baby Franz, the mice- Vivaldi, Brahms, Schubert, Bartok, Rasputin, Johann, Chaminade, Dorothy, Glenda, Em, and baby Rosa, and the wonderful winter white dwarf hamster- Feather
"I wish I had a dollar for every time I spent a dollar, because then, yahoo! I'd have all my money back." -Jack Handey