Cruel to be kindA couple of yearsago I inherited two rats from an old flatmate, unforutnately after only a few days Henry had some sort of stroke and lost hte use of his legs, after watching him drag/wriggle himself around the cage for 2 weeks, I finally got up the ocurage to put him in a carrier bag, and stove its head in with a brick. Not very nice but then again it didn't cost me £20 for a trip to the vets either. I ended up giving the other rat away to a young family who had plans to turn it inot Stud No 1 on a farm in Surrey. I like to think he was very happy in his twilight months.
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