[Gpdd] Rainbow bridge: Amelia (Agent Mouse)

[ANDREW SILL]

Dear Friends, 
Its with sadden heart I must tell you of our little "mouse" passing yesterday 
afternoon. Her story first:
Amelia came to live with the misfits on July 15,2008. She was a very tiny quiet 
broken piggie.
She came from a horrible breeder that put her in a cage of pigs he felt were 
unfit. He tried to create a black pig with perfect rings on it. She is what came 
out of that experiment. When we got her she had been badly beaten by other 
pigs... her ears were ripped up and sore and her body had sores all over it. 
After I washed her and gently put ointment on her ears and sores she seemed to 
relax a bit. She became cage mates with Alexandra. "Mouse" got her nickname due 
to she never ever said a word.. not a squeak, not a peep nothing... ever...so we 
called her Amelia the mouse as she was quiet as a mouse. 

This quiet tiny broken pig came down with a respiratory infection soon after she 
was home with us. We took her to the vet and the vet told us she had KIDNEY 
STONES! that needed immediate removal..I just couldnt believe it as she showed 
no signs of kidney stones so i said no... The vet even called me at home the 
next day and said it would be a death sentence to her if I didnt elect to do the 
surgery.. I still declined. Not due to the cost.. but due to my gut.. I just 
didnt see it..
after she was on her antibiotics for the infection she soon started to grow and 
become a cuddle pig. It two months after we had her that we soon realized those 
"kidney stones" were babies!!!  She delivered two little boys to us. Trigger and 
Ringer.  Trigger has passed due to a bad heart and his brother Ringer is still 
with us. Guess what Ringer turned out to be... a black pig with two very perfect 
full rings around his body! No we never took Ringer back to show the breeder. WE 
just think it was her way of saying " hey look I the worthless pig was the pig 
that carried what you so badly wanted to create!"
Amelia was the sweetest warmest piggie to hold. She never wanted to sit on your 
lap.. she wanted to curl up under your neck. She would put my husband to sleep 
this way. Such a sweet sweet girl.
I came home yesterday around 1 and found Amelia in the corner of her cage 
looking out and having what appeared to be hiccups.
I took her out and could tell right away that it was not hiccups at all. It was 
her heart. I held her to my ear and could hear the heart not beating correctly 
and when it jumped she also jerked like a hiccup move. I called the new vet 
right away. and they said to bring her in. so i got her carry case all ready 
and I took her in. The vet only lives in the next town over from us.So this was 
a matter of maybe 15 mins top. We put her on exam table and again she was 
jerking when the heart looked like it was missing a beat. dr listened to lungs 
and heart. The lungs were fine. but her heart was going crazy and Amelia was 
already turning blue in her lips and feet. She then had what looked  like a 
stroke on the table and the dr listened again to her heart and said it had 
slowed up and was baring beating.. I stroked her and told her what a beautiful 
girl she was indeed. and So brave and if she needed to leave me to go to her son 
Triggers that had passed  I fully understood. Amelia's heart stopped shortly 
after that. All during this she never made a sound or a peep. It is more a shock 
to me as Amelia has not been sick only that one time when we first brought her 
home with the respiratory infection. I did let her cage mate see her before I 
burried her with the other piggies that have passed. 

Again I stress this happened so sudden and fast its like its not real yet to 
me.. and as horrible as this sounds.. and I dont mean it to.. but I didnt cry... 

I always cry horrible when I lose a piggie, and I dont know why I didnt cry.. 
That bothers me as well. Thank you for reading my very long post.
Jean (misfits minus one)