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Originally Posted by Nico29  Oh- forgot to say that the pic of (his mom?) watching over him made me cry. Thank you for sharing pictures of your beautiful family. |
Zaccheus eats dry kibble and drinks water from a bottle hanging on his cage.
Cricket and Roxy are sisters from other litters.
Roxy was his guardian angel. She helped me foster him. She licked him to get him to eliminate when I didn't know how to help him. Since then, she has gone to her forever family.
My sister, the breeder, didn't breed another litter after his. She never wanted to go through another ordeal like Zacchie. When he was five days old, she and the vet didn't think he had any chance. He was literally dying in my sister's hands. They were going to put him down because it seemed like the gracious thing to do.
But I begged to see if I could save him.
I had no idea what it would take.
I also had no idea how much I would love him.
I love Cricket with my whole heart, but since Zacchie came into our lives, he IS my heart.
I did it all blindly, without any idea what I was doing.
I nearly lost him several times. He had sinus infection after sinus infection, and pneumonia twice.
I can't tell you how many times I wondered if my stubbornness to let him go was selfishness on my part.
I'm glad I held on.