No time to say goodbye...

Oh gods, days like today are days that I dread the most. Last night before bed, LaVaughn noticed that Leo was breathing really hard and semi lethargic. We were all out of Doxy, so I gave him a nice sized dose of prednisone and went to bed. When I got up today around noon, he had deteriorated even more. He was moving around the cage quite a bit, which made me feel a little better, but he was still in really bad shape.

I got him out, wrapped him in some fleece and fed him half of a yoggie. That's really all he would eat. After I woke LaVaughn up, she helped me get a Baytril pill down him, but it never really went all the way down. He mainly just held it in his mouth. I was waiting to hear from the vet on whether we should meet her at the clinic tonight, or wait until tomorrow.

I sat in the living room, holding him in my arms for about 5 minutes. That's when he started open mouth breathing -- this is when they're in extreme respiratory distress. It wasn't two minutes later that he started really gasping for air. He was opening his mouth and really throwing his head back, it was awful. At that moment I knew I had to prepare myself for what was coming next.

I started back towards the bedroom, barely able to see due to the tears I was shedding. I didn't even make it to the bed before he drew one last breath, then he stiffened up and stopped moving. I was hysterical at that point. LaVaughn rushed into the bedroom and asked what was wrong, which I began to tell her. She lost it after that and the two of us held him and cried for another 30 minutes.

They may just be rodents or "nasty" animals to most, but to us they're sweet, loving, gentile, and kind animals that we call our babies. I'm still at a loss and can't honestly believe that he's gone.

I'm not going to be much use for anything other type of content in this blog, so I'm going to end it here. We're trying to spend as much time with Louie as we can.

-Megan

RIP Leo...

November 2014 - April 2016

Here are some pictures of Louie, getting lots of snuggles:

Bug Out Bag Essentials...

I don't normally post on the days that I work -- it's just creepy to blog so late at night. This is something that I didn't really want to put off and felt the need to share my excitement with everyone!

Last week, LaVaughn and I started going through a list of things that we actually NEED in our B.O.B. instead of things that we WANTED! There's a fine line there, because there are so many neat little gadgets that people make you believe that you need to survive any type of disaster.

Just a few MUST have items are: Water, Food, Shelter, Weapons.

Of course, there are other things you need as well, like warm clothes, hunting/fishing supplies, and medical supplies. We have quite a few medical supplies, but aside from water, ammo, and knives, we're lacking. Well, we were, anyways. :)

We paid First Aid Product a visit a little over a week ago and quickly racked up $80 worth of stuff. This isn't too much and shipping was nearly $15, so it's not as bad as it sounds. And for some reason half of our shit was back-ordered, but we still got a decent amount of loot.

I'll leave it at that and let the pictures do the talking...

Love & Peace

-Megan

I see the light coming through my window...

After I finished sewing up a cage set (and cutting some out, bleh) I decided to take some pictures of Nubbins -- the rarely seen or talked about 3-legged joey.

I'll start by saying that he is doing super well. He's getting big, he's gorgeous, and he's pretty damn sweet. He can be crabby at times, but that's just because he's a tad pouch protective, but nothing serious. He also hasn't ventured outside his pouch yet, which is starting to worry me. He's surpassed the curiosity stage and should be venturing outside the pouch already.

He's having to learn everything in a completely different way from all of our other joeys, so I guess he just needs time to adapt.

Like I said, he's super sweet, gorgeous, and healthy -- can't really ask for more than that. And the pictures I got of him today are 50 shades of adorable! Some of my absolute favorites so far.

I guess that's all for now. Until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Cage set:

Woodpecker:

Nubbins:

The rarely seen...

Una is one of those animals that you never see pictures of. Unless of course she's sitting on my lap or posing in an inappropriate way. She actually sat still for like 16.45776 seconds today, which allowed me to get some decent pictures of her.

They're nothing super special, just her sitting in front of the bathroom door.

It's a nice change, though. It's usually Zoe or Cersie, our super flirty outside cat. I just realized how sad my life can be at certain times. Here I am, in my prime blogging about my cat. Sigh...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Here's miss Una:

Random updates to keep you entertained...

I would like to start with some actual GOOD news -- Pip is doing SO much better! The swelling on his nose has practically vanished and the swelling on his cheek is at a minimum, Looks like the antibiotics are doing the trick (knock wood), so he shouldn't have to go back to the vet anytime soon.

This is glider related, so I'll go ahead and share. The 1000 mealworms that I ordered earlier this week came with a few bonus worms. So not only did we get mealworms, but we got dermestid beetles as well. Yeah, no thanks. Definitely the last time I'll be ordering from them. Insert cringe face here...

As most of you know, the season 2 premiere of Fear The Walking Dead is on tonight. I'm finding it hard to reach the same level of excitement excitement as I do with The Walking Dead. I know that's probably never going to happen, but I DO want to watch it, so I'm not going to talk myself out of it. Although, Dying Light does sound rather appealing at the moment.

In other news, LaVaughn and I have really gotten into "survival" mode lately and starting rotating everything in our bug out bags, or 3-day survival kits, whatever you want to call them. We just ordered some more stuff from First Aid Product last night (food bars, water, portable stove, tube tent, etc). We should have it by the end of the week and, of course, I'll post about it. Should be exciting! It's only a matter of time before we'll be ordering more.

This coming week seems to be rather boring, so there's a good chance this will be my last blog for a few days. I have lots of stuff to sew and cut out, so that's going to occupy the majority of my time. So, until next time...

Love & Peace

-Megan

Pics from the past few days:

Hmm... would could that be!

A sack of worms, maybe?

Pip picture update:

Doesn't he look SO much better?? Wait, did I post a before picture here? I think that was on my Instagram account.

Zoe giving me the stank eye while I was eating dinner.

She's such a begger.

Bug damn she's cute!