August 08, 2025

Sort of let this fall to the awyside, huh?
Let's see... what kind of updates do I have for you...

The month before last (or was it last month...) I love Onion the to an innoporable malignany tumor on his hind leg. It was attached to too much internally for a safe removal and he'd been on medication to manage it until everything started to finally get to be too much and I had to make the decision to send him on to be with his brother Beans.

And unfortunately, this month, I'm having to do much the same. It's been almost exactly a year since Peanut had his mammary tumor removed and two days ago or so I woke up to find him completely listless. One emergency vet visit and $200 later, I find out he's likely had a major stroke and more are to come. We tried to manage it with medication, tasty food, and more accessibility in the cage... but he's still going downhill, so tomorrow at 10:30 AM he'll be sent on to Beans and Onion. They'd have all been two this December.

This is going to leave me with only one brother left of the set; Allan.
He won't be alone, of course. He'll have the younger boys (Pumpkin, Persimmon, and Terry) to keep him company, but when his brother Beans passed he went into a depression and after Onion passed he started to isolate himself, outside of having Peanut snuggled up with him. These four brothers were so close that the girl I got them from said they'd all stopped eating when they were separated into groups of two for adoption, so it was a tiny miracle that the other adopter backed out and I had the space for all four.

Anyway, I'm worried Allan won't take this well. He's been staying by Peanut's side this entire time, which he also did for Beans and Onion when their health declines, and Terry has taken to bullying him. There's been no major fights (Peanut generally keeps- or, kept Terry in his place) but I'm worried he'll just isolate himself entirely from the other boys. He's a snuggly little guy, though, so if I notice anything like that I'll be sure to get out the snuggle scarf for him to ride in with me.

I'd talk about our trip to Myrtle Beach at the beginning of last month or the local furry convention next weekend, but I'm just not feeling it. Would it be in poor taste to put a tiny link to a kofi or something on the index page to help with the vet and cremation costs I've dealt with these past couple months? I have savings I use for my trips and emergencies like these, but everything at once can be worrying... bah, oh well.