Today Luna… who just recently became cage mate to Kofi, suddenly died.
Earlier this morning she seemed fine. Then I saw her napping with her face in the crawl tube, 20 minutes later I found her at the bottom level of the cage laying on her side… just weakly. I knew something was wrong.
Scared, I scooped her up and tried to get her to breathe again, she was having little seizures as I held her. I couldn’t tell if she could breathe, but I can’t do mouth to mouth on a mouse even though I did my best to try and clear her airway just in case.
I called Max (aka the ex, but now calling him by name so it’s not taken as a negative, we’re good friends still) over video chat on msn. Showing Wuwu (Luna) to him.
He rushed here as fast as he could, but the second he got to the door Luna took her final breath and all color drained. We were going to go to the emergency vet anyway… but decided it was best to just bury her and allow her to truly rest in peace.
After her burial in a small wooden box with bedding in the back yard we cleaned the cage she shared with Kofi completely… a just in case you know?
I’ve been obsessively checking all the mice since then, but there are multiple things she could have died from.
Luna was our shiny white mouse, she had a gleam to her coat that reminded us of moonlight, thus her name. Luna. Our Lulu… Wuwu, whatever nickname she had… she was still one of our beloved babies.
Var mourns her as his favorite mouse, Lisi cried buckets, Kat and Sis found out after Max and I picked them up from their sleep over. I didn’t want to give them the news over text. They’ve cried as well.
There are no plans to replace Luna anytime soon, as we want to keep our love to the 14 mice we have… because we know how soon that life can be taken from us.
Eventually though, I did promise the girls we’d get a Gerbil or as I call them being silly a “Gerbie.” Yeah.. I’m strange like that. Someday I was a Furrit (Ferret :P) too…
Not yet though, the loss of Squee was hard enough, now the loss of Luna is sitting heavy on us. I can just pray that we don’t lose another one anytime soon, but I do realize how short a life such little creatures do lead.
I hope everyone had an okay weekend, perhaps better than okay. Ours was great aside from Luna.. which is put a damper on my Sunday for sure.
We love you Wuwu, you are up in the great mousey place in the universe… getting to meet our sweet Squee-ree.
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