A very sad week for me.

[Enn49]

It began a week ago today when the Cat's Protection League came to collect 2 of my 3 beloved cats. My son and I decided that due to us both suffering poor health it was best to rehome the 2 boys as they were too big and boisterous for us to cope with in our very small bungalow. We have kept the little female as she is calmer.
That same day my Phormictopus sp. full green, Amapa, moulted but sadly 3 days later she died, it appeared she never managed to pump herself up.
Then yesterday my good friend @ilovebrachys came and collected most of my collection of Ts. I now have just 3 Ts, my oldest girl the Lasiodora parahybana, Pip, Phormictopus atrichomatus, Amapa, and simply because my first ever T was an OBT Usambara I have kept a young one, Ziga.
I'm already missing them all terribly but hopefully my much smaller menagerie will be much easier to manage.
I do still have my 2 snakes though.

 

[Yvonne G]

Aw, geez! That's tough. But I know what you're going through. Last year I had to give up rescuing turtles and tortoises, then the beginning of this year I asked my tortoise partner to take most of the tortoises. I'm 86 and with the price of everything getting higher and higher I just couldn't afford feeding over 100 plus animals anymore. I now have a small group of U.S. turtles and tortoises that brumate, and the only exotic is a small group of Geochelone denticulata from South America.

What you had to do is hard, and you're going to miss them, but you still have us!

 

[Enn49]

Aw, geez! That's tough. But I know what you're going through. Last year I had to give up rescuing turtles and tortoises, then the beginning of this year I asked my tortoise partner to take most of the tortoises. I'm 86 and with the price of everything getting higher and higher I just couldn't afford feeding over 100 plus animals anymore. I now have a small group of U.S. turtles and tortoises that brumate, and the only exotic is a small group of Geochelone denticulata from South America.

What you had to do is hard, and you're going to miss them, but you still have us!

That must have been so hard for you, getting old is horrible especially when your brain tells you you can still do all the things you could 30 years ago.

You're right I still have all the great folks on here.

 

[Lawrence b]

I feel sorry for you and your son in that difficult situation I feel for you .

 

[x_raphael_xx]

It's a hard decision to make but it was best for you and the pets.
Ultimately your health comes first and if you'd kept them all you wouldn't have been able to care for them as they needed.

 

[m0lsx]

Sad new news. Sorry.

 

[Enn49]

It's a hard decision to make but it was best for you and the pets.
Ultimately your health comes first and if you'd kept them all you wouldn't have been able to care for them as they needed.

Very true, I have been struggling for a while but didn't really want to admit it to myself.

 

[WolfieKate]

That is really tough. We still have 3 cats but I think they are a bit much. We did have 4. I’m so sorry you have had to go through that.