Wiggles

Tonight we had to have Wiggles put down. Earlier this week Stacy noticed that one of his eyes was starting to cloud over a bit. Then on Thursday, we noticed that he wasn't looking too good and was having a little bit of a hard time getting around. So we took him out of his cage and let him motivate around the kitchen for a while. Later on in the day, it looked like he was having a hard time standing. When we got up this morning, he could not hold his back end up and was scooting himself around with his front end. We put a call into the vet this morning and was told that she was out on farm calls today but she would would stop by the office on her way in tonight just to take a look. So when she finally got back (slow driving out today, we got between 4" and 6" of snow today) I brought him in. The vet couldn't pinpoint the exact cause but it was obvious that he was in real pain and wasn't likely to get much better. Although it was a hard decision, there wasn't really any choice.















Ever since we've been here on the farm, he's been my constant work companion. Not one to be afraid of the cats, he used to have a good time chasing Chip around. He was a bit leery of the cattledog tho. Every time someone would come to the house, Laredo would run over to Wiggle's cage and bark at him. Tonight when I got home from the vet, Laredo went over to bark at the rabbit but just stopped and stared when he got to the empty cage.

Of late, Wiggles was known amongst family and friends as "the sleep wrecker". Whenever someone would sleep over, Wiggles would make a ton of noise during the middle of the night - pushing his ever-present tissue box around, drinking extra water, and stomping his back feet.

The rest of the family is doing OK with it. Everyone misses him but all understand he's in a better way.