Snowball's Sudden Passing

[Die Fledermaus]

She acted normally on Feb. 7th in her Habitrail, but did not appear on the 8th. I looked into the outpost, cage, and explorer, and found dried blood spotting her tissue bedding, although at first I was not sure what it was; when I was, I thought she might have broken a tooth chewing the bars. Sadly, I found her, still in the explorer, perhaps dead for a few hours. There was dried blood (not much) on her near the rear end. I can only assume a very sudden uterine hemorrhage.



I got her last July, 2004, from a tank where she was alone, and she was probably born in May.

I moved two new dwarfs, a mom and her daughter, into her Habitrail. Snowball is in the freezer with some others awaiting a nice thaw to facillitate burial.

[rasputin]

Have you considered a rock marker in a quiet spot of woods?

So sorry to hear of her passing.

[Die Fledermaus]

See my Memorial Photo Gallery in this forum, the last image, which is the burial site - a very secluded spot of the large (450 acres) Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. They will all be buried deep with twenty pound stones over them, then covered and the soil packed down. Racoons and squirrels smell so well I could bury them a yard down and they could smell it even through several thick plastic bags. The stones will secure things. The spot happens to be in the NYC firefighters' area, going back 160 years.

Has anyone had any animal die of a sudden uterine hemorrhage such as that??