Rural Gardening: Yet another pet death , 0 by smedgekles

smedgekles wrote:
We have lost 6 pets in the last few weeks. First my husbands horse died. He was old, probably about 28 years old, but still hard to take. Then we lost a pet roo, then my daughters cat, then another pet roo, then another pet roo, and now my sons gerbil Chewy. Chewy was about 3 years old and that is about the average length of life for one of those. He had a tumor though on his neck. Usually small animals like him would die quickly from an illness but Chewy had this tumor for a long long time and survived for much longer than most would. My son was putting collodial silver in his water. He ate, chewed and ran around. The last couple of days he started looking like the tumor was getting the better of him. He died this morning.
Though we expected he would die soon, it is still not easy. He was a loved little pet.