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| 05/04/2008-28/10/2013 |
Tiny passed away on the 28th of November. This is how I found her when I came home after school, it was quite a shock for me, but now that I look at it ts was so clear, all those subtle signs. I noticed she started getting thinner a few months ago (in the beginning of October I think), but I didn't really pay attention to it. Then she had a horrible swelling on her eye that didn't go away, I think it started at the end of September, but we couldn't go to the vet until 31st October, it seems like such a stretch and it's probably why the swelling never went away completely, even when she got medicine, it was probably too bad to be helped anymore. When we were at the vet there was also a swelling discovered under her chin, but because Tiny was so old an operation couldn't be risked. It's weird because on November 3th in the evening she was acting very strange, it looked like she was between life and death, I was really worried, but the next day she was just fine. She didn't want to eat or drink anymore on the 27th November I wanted to try force-feeding, but I was scared and I didn't even have the proper stuff to it. In the morning on the 28th she was breathing very heavily and she was pretty limp. When I came home and found her like this I was devastated and it seems like she died around 10-12 pm because she was still warm and very limp.
It's sad this happened so quickly (well, 8 months) after Miny's death, but now they're together at last. Tiny's funeral was held on December 1st.
We did make a mistake that I didn't know about back then, I should've let Tiny in the cage with Milky until Milky discovered that she was dead, because she was really attached to Tiny and couldn't handle being alone very well. I was very sad that I had to do such a thing, but I went searching for a 'sister' for Milky and I found a really small guinea pig (barely 1 month at the time) that I named Winnie; she'll have her introduction post soon. The reason why I mention her here is that she is currently suffering of the same thing Tiny suffered: a closed eye (not swollen like Tiny) with icky stuff coming out of it, and she has trouble breathing. We went to the vet with her on the 17th and she got her medicine for both her problems and it looks like she's slowly recovering.
At last Tiny and Miny are together again.
