OUR RAT ROCKY WAS VERY MUCH LOVED WE MISS HIM EVERYDAY WE WERE SADDENED BY HIS PASSING
THE DAY STARTED OUT LIKE A NORMIAL DAY WITH US GETTING UP AND GIVING EACH PET IN OUR HOUSE THEIR OWN ATENTION AND LOVE
ROCKY WAS FINE IN THE MORNING AND PLAYED IN THE TANK WITH 1 OF HIS OTHER RAT BUDDIES HER NAME IS SAFFIRE THEY DID EVERYTHING TOGETHER INCLUDING PLAYING WITH US
OUR FRIENDS CAME OVER WITH THEIR 2 KIDS AND ASKED IF THEY COULD PLAY WITH THE RATS OUR RATS ARE VERY TAME SO WE FELT IT WOULD BE OK WE GAVE THEM SAFETY INSTRUCTION FOR PLAYING WITH THEM THEY PLAYED WITH THEM FOR A WHILE AND THEN ASKED IF THEY COULD GO OUT AND PLAY WELL WE HAVE A LITTLE CARRY PET CONTAINER FOR OUR RATS WHEN WE TAKE THEM OUT OF THE BIG TANK WE TOLD THEM IF THEY WERE DONE TO PUT THEM BACK IN THERE BIG TANK
WE HAVE BEEN HAVING REAL HOT SUMMER TEMPS AND I WENT UP TO MY ROOM TO CHECK ON THE RATS TO MAKE SURE THEIR TANK WAS NOT GETTING TO HOT AND DISCOVERED THAT THE KIDS HAD LEFT THE RATS IN SMALL TANK ON OUR BED AND IN THE DIRECT SUN LIGHT THIS WAS VERY UPSETTING WHEN WE TOOK THEM OUT AND EXAMINED THEM SAFFIRE SEEMED TO BE OK BUT ROCKY WAS IN DISTRESS AND WE DID EVERYTHING WE COULD TO SAVE HIM EVEN AS GOING FAR AS GETTING HIM TO THE VET OUR VET SAID IT WAS HEAT STROKE AND HE WAS ALREADY TO FAR GONE SO WE WERE FORCED TO PUT HIM TO SLEEP I CARRY ALOT OF GUILT I FEEL IF I HAD ONLY CHECK RIGHT WHEN THEY WENT UP STAIR MAYBE THIS TRAGIC THING COULD OF BEEN AVOIDED SAFFIRE WAS LONEY SO WE WENT TO THE PET SHOP AND GOT HER A FRIEND BUT NONE COULD EVER REPLACE THE LOVE AND JOY ROCKY GAVE US ROCKY WE LOVE YOU AND MISS YOU
WE LOVE YOU ROCKY AND ARE TRUELY SORRY FOR YOUR PASSING
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| STACEY CADARET |