This afternoon a tragedy struck.
After I fed and played with Squee for a bit...
She jumped from my hand when I accidentally startled her. I was trying to put her in the cage, and open the food package with my spare hand..
Squee jumped and went running, and then jumped off the counter top.
She ran under the trash bin I use for recycling.. and then went running out from under it when I lifted it to get her. I was setting it down while trying to scoop her back up.. and... she ran under half way the exact moment one part touched down. Her front end went rigid and I panicked, pulling the bin away and scooping her up in my hands.
"Squee!" I cried and instantly.. I knew that there wasn't much hope. She looked at me, her front stiff and her breathing like crazy. "No no no baby, please move, please be okay!"
She clicked her tongue oddly in her mouth, like she was choking. I couldn't stop the tears and panic rose and I started to shake
I called loudly for the girls to call my ex, because someone had to be able to drive me in my teary panic to a vet!
I got in the car with Squee held in my hands on paper towels..
Just as blood came to her mouth... and she took her last breathes.
I'm not doing so well.
My little baby. My baby sent by the universe...
My little Squee... S'kee... Squee-rito... S'keetles. There, the color drained from her paws. There was nothing. No more life.
No prayers and begging her to wake up and hang on baby please... did a bit of difference.
All of the kids are sad, and I am... just... I don't even know anymore. I don't know.. but it hurts and I can hardly breathe.
It may not make the most of sense in the world to anyone else...
But my poor baby Squee is gone.
Buried in a grave in the back yard, in a wooden box with her name written on it. With her sock, and some of her favorite foods from the bag. We said out goodbyes... we cried... I sang part of Ayu's BRILLANT to her...
and I just couldn't handle being out there anymore.
29 days.
That is how long Squee was with us. 29 days, so many.. but far too few.
RIP baby Squee.
We'll always always love you.
Saturday, July 14, 2012
Tuesday, July 10, 2012
Waah >.>
I am so sorry I have sucked at updating this.
Squee is doing fantastic. Ears all the way open, eyes all the way open, super energetic and she loves to climb all over you.
Yesterday, she got her very first real cage! It's pink and pretty darn tall! Her first water bottle too. Though she still drinks half a dropper of the KMR, she seems to be weaning.
She loves pineapple, almond slivers, strawberry, apple, lettuce leaf, dried out bread pieces too!
Today I got a different wheel for her cage because she wasn't seeming to like the plastic one that came with it. It's purple and adorable, even if I was hoping for a pink one to match the cage. Ahhh well...
Today we bought her a companion too. A white mouse named Pikachu. Who... by size comparison is flipping HUGE compared to Squee... but she was still the second smallest one in the tank at Petco that was female.
The first smallest one was a jumper, we didn't realize until she jumped from my hand, ran under something, and when retrieved was acting really sickly.. didn't move.. and... had to be quarantined in the back :( I'm so sad that I couldn't catch her in time, and that something happened that made her... seem like she was going to die of a poor mousey heart attack!
Pika also doesn't seem to have much in the way of whiskers! Which is strange because Squee's whiskers are awesomely puffy! I wonder if that's the difference between field mouse and your standard bred mouse from a pet store?
I went to four different pet stores between Sunday and Today and didn't really find any that would work too well for Squee. Perhaps I should have gotten a smaller one from the place that had some where their eyes and ears were just starting to open... but.. I still had errands to do, and I didn't want to risk leaving a baby in a burning hot car or taking her into a clothes shop just to be asked to leave. -_-;
I was told by the Petco rodent lady that a drop of Vanilla on the back of their necks would help them not fight because then they'd "smell the same."
Squee went crazy trying to clean Pikachu a few times. Pika just mostly chilled and allowed it, but at other times walked away in a way that seemed 'yeah, whatever can I go explore now?'
Pika loves to climb all over the cage, even upside down up on the ceiling. Both of them love the plastic house that is on the third level (second platform up from the bottom of the cage,) but Squee still sleeps in her sock currently and Pika is asleep in the cardboard tube covered with a sock that my oldest made for Squee to play in.
I have their food on something on the 2nd level, water they can get from the main level, and aside from that there is tons of room for the two of them to play.
Pika is more calm to hold, but she is also an adult compared with Squee who is for sure not.
Squee will be calm to hold, when she isn't playing jungle gym that is. She'll eat, all nice and calm, then run around you like crazy and seems to have fun. She did lay down in my hand and just chill a bit while I pet her and sang to her this evening. It appears that Squee is a fan of Hamasaki Ayumi's "BRILLANTE."
Or just me singing. Hard to tell really.
Ohhh my goodness!!
I just went to check on them and .... Squee is sleeping with Pika!! They're cuddled up together in the tube!! AHH!! It's so cute! I'm so happy that Squee seems more lively now with a friend!
^_^;; it's almost 1 AM! Ohhh.
I will get pictures/video up tomorrow of Pika and Squee so people can see. >.> Sorry for being a slacker!
Squee is doing fantastic. Ears all the way open, eyes all the way open, super energetic and she loves to climb all over you.
Yesterday, she got her very first real cage! It's pink and pretty darn tall! Her first water bottle too. Though she still drinks half a dropper of the KMR, she seems to be weaning.
She loves pineapple, almond slivers, strawberry, apple, lettuce leaf, dried out bread pieces too!
Today I got a different wheel for her cage because she wasn't seeming to like the plastic one that came with it. It's purple and adorable, even if I was hoping for a pink one to match the cage. Ahhh well...
Today we bought her a companion too. A white mouse named Pikachu. Who... by size comparison is flipping HUGE compared to Squee... but she was still the second smallest one in the tank at Petco that was female.
The first smallest one was a jumper, we didn't realize until she jumped from my hand, ran under something, and when retrieved was acting really sickly.. didn't move.. and... had to be quarantined in the back :( I'm so sad that I couldn't catch her in time, and that something happened that made her... seem like she was going to die of a poor mousey heart attack!
Pika also doesn't seem to have much in the way of whiskers! Which is strange because Squee's whiskers are awesomely puffy! I wonder if that's the difference between field mouse and your standard bred mouse from a pet store?
I went to four different pet stores between Sunday and Today and didn't really find any that would work too well for Squee. Perhaps I should have gotten a smaller one from the place that had some where their eyes and ears were just starting to open... but.. I still had errands to do, and I didn't want to risk leaving a baby in a burning hot car or taking her into a clothes shop just to be asked to leave. -_-;
I was told by the Petco rodent lady that a drop of Vanilla on the back of their necks would help them not fight because then they'd "smell the same."
Squee went crazy trying to clean Pikachu a few times. Pika just mostly chilled and allowed it, but at other times walked away in a way that seemed 'yeah, whatever can I go explore now?'
Pika loves to climb all over the cage, even upside down up on the ceiling. Both of them love the plastic house that is on the third level (second platform up from the bottom of the cage,) but Squee still sleeps in her sock currently and Pika is asleep in the cardboard tube covered with a sock that my oldest made for Squee to play in.
I have their food on something on the 2nd level, water they can get from the main level, and aside from that there is tons of room for the two of them to play.
Pika is more calm to hold, but she is also an adult compared with Squee who is for sure not.
Squee will be calm to hold, when she isn't playing jungle gym that is. She'll eat, all nice and calm, then run around you like crazy and seems to have fun. She did lay down in my hand and just chill a bit while I pet her and sang to her this evening. It appears that Squee is a fan of Hamasaki Ayumi's "BRILLANTE."
Or just me singing. Hard to tell really.
Ohhh my goodness!!
I just went to check on them and .... Squee is sleeping with Pika!! They're cuddled up together in the tube!! AHH!! It's so cute! I'm so happy that Squee seems more lively now with a friend!
^_^;; it's almost 1 AM! Ohhh.
I will get pictures/video up tomorrow of Pika and Squee so people can see. >.> Sorry for being a slacker!
Monday, July 2, 2012
Squeeness!
Squee's eyes are completely open! Not only that but her ears are opening up too!
Since she's started to nibble at my a little bit I went ahead and put some almond slivers and gluten free graham cracker pieces into a teeny dish. I'm not sure yet if she is nibbling, but it's there just in case.
She's also in a bigger but still temporary home until I can trust she's big enough for a typical cage without having issues... like running away.
Also, I've determined that yes Squee is a girl. At least based on a website that helps to determine gender!
She's gotten a fair bit active lately! She cleans her hands, scratches at itches with her feet, and does her best to clean herself. It's absolutely adorable! I'll hopefully manage a decent video of that soon~
The picture above is small, sorry, it's from my oldest daughter's phone, because I was busy holding Squee.
She's gotten so super fluffy, furry on her stomach area too which makes it harder to see if she is full tummied like I could before. She's so sweet, soft, and adorable, with whiskers that seem to go forever.
Not too much to update other than that. I have offered Squee some carrot sliver, but she nibbled just the smallest bit of it here and there. Then again I doubt her teeth are that fantastically strong just yet!
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