Sonntag, 6. Mai 2012

Goodbye Bob

This is about something else for once. Or someone else. Today was a sad day because Bob, one of my two guinea pigs died today.

He wasn't the one I was worried about. I did realize that he seemed to develop some breathing issues during the last one or two weeks, but he seemed fine otherwise eating well and going about his guinea pig business. Yesterday he wasn't eating well and this morning he didn't want to eat at all and his breathing was very labored.

I took him to the emergency vet, he got a couple of injections but it was too late already. I think the visit to the vet was already too much for him. An hour later he died. It looked like a stroke or heart attack. It was quick.

He was old, almost 7 years but still, I'm very sad. It's always very hard when one of my guinea pigs dies and there never seems to be anyone around who can really relate. After all, it's just a guinea pig. People are always nice about it but still. They just don't really get it.

But I live with them, I interact with them daily, morning and night, I teach them little tricks and they are always, always there, every day for 6, 7 or more years until the end of their short little lifes. Of course I know that they are short-lived little creatures. But still I am devastated whenever I loose one...

So, goodbye Bob. It has been my pleasure having you and may the grass indeed be greener on the other side...