#pet death mention //

[the-adventures-of-dave]

I thought there was a breed of short-legged cats where the trait wasn’t connected to anything harmful, but now you’re saying Munchkins are unhealthy. Is there some other breed I’m getting them mixed up with or do I need to completely bin my daydream of getting a stumpy lil’ cat?

I hate to be the bringer of bad news, but I'm referring to the same short-legged breed. All short legged cat breeds (napoleon, rughugger, scottish kilt, minuet, minskin, etc) all can be traced back to mixes with the Munchkin cat.

Physical health-wise Munchkins are better off than some other breeds, though due to their short legs they have a greater chance at developing things like osteoarthritis. There is some evidence munchkins also have deformations or malalignment of their limbs, though this hasn't been studied extensively. The gene that causes the short legs is also lethal when a cat has two copies, meaning like the burmese and bombay, poor breeding practices can lead to stillborn kittens.

Another issue that stems from Munchkins are the fact that their main breed trait (the short legs) prevents them from fulfilling usual cat behaviours like climbing, running, scratching, grooming, and jumping. Some Munchkins fare better than others, but research suggests cats of that breed will suffer some lower quality of life due to the limitations of their shorter legs on their ability to act like cats.

You can read more about Munchkins and their health here and here. I do have to note that Munchkins are not an extensively researched breed, so there may or may not be further underlying issues related to their short legs.

[achoirofcritters]

Rest in peace, Evelyn "Evie" January 29th 2014 - May 10th 2024

"And you showed me all the good, and you led me through the light, and you gave me the sun. It's time to free you... tonight."

In 2014, a little brown dog saved my life. In 2024, I couldn't save hers.

Here is my attempt to pick one photo for every year that I knew my Evie-bean, from 2014 to 2024. Within two months, my healthy, athletic 10 year old dog was gone.

I'm not okay. I miss her. We deserved to celebrate 10 years together this November, but we didn't get to. She deserved a longer life after everything she overcame. But I guess a mortal body can't contain all of that sunlight for very long.

[eternalglitch]

Ori 6/15/21 - 3/25/24

Unfortunately I made the call to put Ori to sleep yesterday after a two month fight against an infected abscess. Once she stopped being interested in any food over the weekend, I unfortunately knew it was time to let her go.

She was a very sweet rat; if someone wanted to hold one of my three I would always recommend her as the most easy going one. She had four accidental kittens (ratlets) when she was about nine weeks old, who I hope are still happy and healthy with their own homes. She was also a bit of a trouble maker in that most of the holes in my sweat pants are from her and she would often give the other rats bald patches... I'll miss her a lot 🖤

More photos of her under the read more :}

Thanks for a great almost three years, Ori.

[grumpytrans]

hi girlies -

so i started using Tumblr less and less earlier this year, but when my best friend forever kitty cat of 16 yrs passed away, i lost all of my motivation for almost everything, including this app.

[spinnysocks]

i don't know how else to say this but we as a society need to stop seeing small pet death as funny. in fact, we need to stop normalising putting them in danger for our entertainment. i have owned hamsters all my life; they are such beautiful little creatures. they are so fragile that it made me so anxious for them because i cared for them. yet, movies or tv shows present hamster death as a joke somehow. this must have had a knock-on effect on people's views because i have seen so many people making fun of a dead pet on social media. i have seen so many people laugh because somebody's pet hamster died/because someone is grieving it. is it funny because you see them as small and insignificant? because a hamster is seen as a stupid, tiny creature that holds no worth? so you laugh at its death? i genuinely cannot understand it. where is the joke. i feel genuine grief for hamsters who have been put in danger or died because of neglect, just to be recorded and laughed at by the same species who domesticated them. the same species who made them pets and are supposed to look after them. yeah maybe i'm sensitive but i think i should be. how could the death of a tiny, innocent, unknowing little animal we made our pets, an animal so fragile and reliant on us, be funny.

[opal-and-co]

My sweet sassy boy Minty very suddenly passed away just over a week ago today and I want to say a million things, but mostly I just want to share him with as many people as I can. He was very silly from the second I brought him home, up until he was last with us.

This video was taken not too long after I brought my parakeets home, and I thought it was entirely too precious that this darling baby bird was...spinning. For fun. He grew out of this behavior, much like an adolescent might stop spinning for the hell of it even though it was the funniest thing ever when they were 6.

Adding some additional info under the read more. Nothing heavy, just some stuff I'd like to share in memory of my little guy.

Parakeets are a common "first pet" for kids, or seen as easy, especially with their throwaway price tag in pet stores. When you bring home a parakeet (or any parrot really), you're bringing home a 10+ year commitment to an animal that isn't even largely considered domesticated. These amazing little animals are known for their charismatic personalities and charming tricks. They can talk! They'll do all kinds of things! They'll be your best friend! While true sometimes, Minty never really wanted to be friends with me in the two years I knew him. Cornflower (the blue blob behind him in the video) does not care to be friends with me and probably never will. They vastly preferred each others company, as well as the company of my cockatiel who, while isn't a parakeet, is another bird like them. All my birds like me and my partner well enough that we know we're part of their "flock," but my parakeets will never ask for snuggles or head scritches. I'm almost certain they will never learn to speak simply because they don't want to. They don't want to sit on my shoulder and be my best buddy. That's okay. They're not domesticated animals like a dog or a cat who might be actively interested in a person's company. Parakeets are small and delicate and complex. They are messy and they bite and they scream and these are not behaviors you can train away. Small birds with high metabolisms poop every 5-8 minutes. That's a lot of mess, even if it's not all in one go!

So when you look at my darling Minty, or when you look at any other funny parrot video or picture online, please remember that is nearly a wild animal that should be enjoying the company of its own kind. I ask you kindly not to purchase birds from pet stores and seek to rescue whenever possible if you truly think your home is right for a parrot. I ask you to know that your bird may never do the things the birds online do, and you need to be okay with that. Your bird will bite and scream and make a mess, and you need to be okay with that. If you know someone considering bringing a bird home, please gently try to inform them of the ugly that comes along with that.

At this point, this is word soup and I thank you for reading this far. I am not a beakon of all bird knowledge, but I think myself knowledgeable enough that my DMs are open for questions, and if I don't feel comfortable answering something, I can find you a resource.

[tulipscomeinallsortsofcolors]

My cat died today so I'm a little silly (intoxicated in his honor) and I wanted to thank you for the beautiful fic today!!!!! Mwah!!!

im glad i could brighten your day a little nonnie <3

[kedreeva]

I attended a pretty big reptile expo yesterday and today, my first time at this expo, because a friend of mine invited me along to her vend her stall with her. I brought some mice, and a few other odds and ends, and mostly chilled with her and watched the table when she needed a break.

Today, as we were cleaning and packing up, the guy that ran the show came over to talk, he purchased one of @teameagleworks dragon pens I had brought with me, and ten minutes later he returned with this:

And asked me if I wanted it for free. He explained it was a Solomon Islands monkey tailed skink he had purchased alive for $1500, kept as a pet for years, and donated to science post mortem. "Science just returned him to me," he said, and went on to explain that it made him too sad to see his buddy like this, but that I seemed like I would give him a good home. And also that if he didn't give him to me, he would be putting him in the basement, "for the next owners of my house to find."

So, Pothos came home with me, and I will be driving him to the east coast sometime this summer to give him to a curiosities collector I'm friends with out there. She's already making him a plaque that reads "Pothos- donated to science and science donated him back."

I want to be clear I met this man yesterday for just a minute while he collected table money, and talked to him for maybe 10 minutes today. Also he wasn't wrong. He took one look at me, in my boring jeans and regular hoodie, and went "yeah that one's into weird shit" and he wasn't even wrong.

Anyway, looking forward to the next expo already.

[cafe-mouse]

New friend! Everyone meet Applesauce ♡

(more about Applesauce below cut)

-Applesauce's former owner was evicted from their home recently and abandoned her at their old house along with her gerbil roommate (they were in the same cage together, which is most likely the reason why the end of her tail is missing). I was able to adopt her from my local shelter just last night and she already made fast friends with my other female mouse Sweetpea, who is 2.5 years old (she had a couple cagemates but her last friend that was even older than her passed recently). They've been snuggling and sleeping together under a hide most of this morning and I'm so happy that they're getting along so well despite how much more energetic Applesauce is than her

-Very hyper adventurous little mouse that loves digging and climbing

[the-adventures-of-dave]

my cat died yesterday. she had lymphoma. I can barely remember a time without this cat in my life.

her name is dora

Oh no, my heart goes out to you. It is such a shame that pets are only with us for such a short time! Dora sounds like she was very loved in the time she had. I’m afraid I don’t have any advice because I’ve never lost a cat before, but I hope you are doing okay.

[achoirofcritters]

I unexpectedly lost my heart cat this week and I just want the world to know that he was the very best kitty.

[snowdrop-wolf]

warning⚠️: pet death mentioned

hello, how is everybody?

I'm here to inform you of how special today is for me

see this puppy?

this is my first dog, Blink

my family had pet fish before her but she was special

she was a pit bull/black lab

now why is this important?

because today is the day Blink passed away, I'm here to just share my precious puppy

she unfortunately died at a young age which is sad

I miss her dearly

thank you for listening to me and thank you for any kind of interaction you give

[sycamorality]

i had a dream today. not unusual for me, of course, but the dream itself was. i don't think i've ever had anything like it.

unlike... every dream within the last month i can remember, i was home. in the house we live in currently. it's nothing more than an afterthought that yeah, this is dream is meant to take place in current time, sometime today. so i'm just walking around, i see something out the window in the sky, and make a wish. a wish for wings - for freedom, if anything. ... of course i don't really get what i want. but a minute later, a cat appears. my childhood cat, lula, a gray cat with white paws and light green eyes. i stare at her. ....she's not meant to be here. she died 6 years ago. why is she here? why can i hear her purr and why can i pet her? this isn't meant to happen. she's gone. she has been for a while. but i still pet her. i get to per her again. i get to cherish her again. like i'd wanted to for so long. it felt so melancholic. it's been so long since i've been able to do this. she's warm and soft and she's laying with me, and made bisuits like she'd never done before, almost as if she was telling me everything would be okay, and then i woke up.

i think in a sense it was grief. of course i'm still processing it. she'd been with me for my entire life up until that point, when she passed. but something about this dream felt so.... different. maybe she really did come back, even if for just a moment. just to let me know she's okay and that i'll be too. maybe it's a bit of closure. i'm so glad i got to hold her, just one last time. i think i needed it.

[likesplatterpaint]

This is a really hard post to write, but I know she is very loved by many on here and I don’t want to blindside anyone.

Vet today was much more serious than I thought. Nunu likely has squamous cell cancer on her foot. I finally came to grips today with the fact it’s probably time. I could go into all the signs she’s given us but it’s not really necessary.

We will spend the next week loving on her and giving her all her favorites before giving her the last gift I can: freedom from the pain.

I am breaking. She is a piece of me, my constant through many tumultuous years of grief, change, trauma and success. She is the angel mom unknowingly picked to stay with me.

She is my bananu, my nunu, our bumble.

We love her, so, so much.

And she loves us.

And bagels.

[naomiknight-17]

I've had to hand feed Billi twice a day for like three days now and my hands and fingertips are so so sore and tired from using the feeding syringe

These veterinary devices were NOT designed with disabled pet owners in mind, holy shit

The vet is supposed to call today so we can figure out what to do moving forward, whether we continue hand-feeding but with diabetic formula wet food, or try the appetite stimulant again, or what

I've already had to set in my mind, "If her condition gets to X point, then we'll have to let her go" but she isn't there yet. The vets have said that, even if we figured out what was wrong (besides the diabetes and arthritis which we already know about) there isn't much we could do about it at this point.

So I guess I'm just making this post to let y'all know that Billi is now in what I would consider palliative care. We can't cure her, but we're doing all we can to keep her comfortable and happy. Well, as happy as a cat titled "the Belligerent" can be

[pastrygeckos]

Eclair, my little marzipan baby~ It's been 8 years since we got her, and although we didn't get as much time with her as we'd hoped, I thought it's about time we focus on celebrating her life more often than we mourn her loss. So I'd appreciate it if you had a look through her tag (here), and liked/reblogged/commented on your favourite photo or video posts of her 🥰