Another sad one. Little Porthos, my rat buddy, was killed last night by another rat.
It started about a week ago when some kinda screaming screeching woke me up. I looked around and saw nothing. The next night it woke me up again. Sounded more liek a puppy whimpering loudly. I snuck to the door and looked and it was a rat. It was bouncing on and climbing on Porthos' cage. Was freaking him out. I ran it off 2 or 3 times but it would return over and over.
Starting about 4 days ago I set a large rat trap beside Porthos' cage. For the last 4 days it has kept returning and I kept being woken up by it. It never did seem to touch the rat trap. The last couple nights Ive had to put a pillow over my head to get back to sleep.
But I thought Id finally catch it. I told Porthos I would. At bedtime I looked his cage over well because I was actually worried with that rat climbing on it it could open Porthos' door. I even thought about wiring the doors shut with bread ties. But after considering it I thought about how Porthos has never gotten them open in a year and a half and the wild rat hasn't in a week so they are ok.
DUMBASS me. My fault little ratman is dead. I coulda wired the damn doors. Also last night was the same screeching and I got woke up but instead of trying to do something about it I put that damn pillow over my head again. Fuck me.
When I got up the top cage door was open and Porthos was gone. I thought he'd gotten away for a min then I saw al the blood in his little cage. Wasn't sure then. Then I headed to the bathroom and when I went into the back bedroom there was my little Porthos laying in the middle of the hardwood floor. He was barely alive. I snatched him up and held him to my chest to get him warm. He lived about 20 minutes. Never moved more than a whisker and made a couple little tiny quiet squeaks. He started to take better breaths but then passed away in a few more min.
he had bite marks all over him but the worst was one behind his left ear and one near that on his neck. I think that got him.
Im going to do all out war on that rat. Buying poison today and maybe another trap if I can. My BB gun is ready too.Asshole. I know its just being a rat but Porthos was so sweet. The cutest little guy. Never even tried to nip me in all this time. Thought I was his mom I reckon. Last night he gave me our normal night kiss.
This morning was awful as I passed his cage with him there where I put him. I didn't get to feed him his bite of dog food he was ALWAYS waiting for every morning. I have an appt this morning and cant bury him until I get back. Im running late now after typing this but had to do it. Going to miss him. Gonna blame myself forever. Im still in tears. Bet the energy assistance place will think Im on drugs with my eyes this way.
I dont have a huge amount of pics of him. The last one I took was months ago.
Him as a little tyke with Buster in the background.
Porthos a little older in his last box. He could jump 2 feet back then.
And finally the last pic of him I have. Butt pic
