Haru

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I thought Haru would be my last rat, since he'd been doing just fine, but Saturday night, he was having trouble breathing and his legs wouldn't really hold him up. I took him in to the vet yesterday, and he spent the night there with oxygen, but he was still having trouble breathing today, and he hadn't eaten and wasn't very active.

I got to hold him and scritch him for a while before deciding to let him go, and hold him through all the vet examinations yesterday, so I hope that helped a little.

He was a fun, cheerful rat. When I first got him and Momo, he was the one who would run around exploring while Momo hid behind my neck, and he immediately latched on to Ed-rat when they met. He also figured out how to escape the cage, and the only way I could get him out of the various nooks and crannies he hid in was to bring out Ed-rat. He was super fond of piling things on top of the igloo and the food bowl, which I exploited for my entertainment by dismantling his piles and watching him go about assembling them again. He loved having a blanket over the rat cage and always managed to pull pieces of it in, so much so that a queen-sized blanket was gradually reduced to a one-foot square by the time he was done with it.

I hope he is making giant piles of stuff and having fun chasing Ed-rat around now.