Bye Smokey
So Smokey died sometime during the night. He was still alive last night around midnight when I fed him by syringe. It's amazing what people do for pets. He stopped eating his pellet food sometime last week and during the weekend I noticed that he was not eating any of his favorite foods such as lettuce or hay. Nor was he drinking water. Monday morning I rushed him to the vet so that he could be looked at and all she said was to change his cage, change his type of bedding and give him vitamin C. Boom, $50+ for the upgrades. She also gave me food to force feed him through a syringe. The past two days I have been holding him up and squeezing food into his mouth. It stunk. It also didn't work. I was able to use an online question and answer vet (by the way, I'd recommend this to pet owners) to see what else could be done. I explained to her that he was gurgling and had eye and nose discharge. She was very helpful by saying that he probably had a respiratory infection and that he needed to go to the vet again for antibiotics. Well, that would have been the plan except...he did not make it. All is fine though. Just a downer
