The vXboy’s African hedgehog Clarence passed away, sometime between the Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon just after Thanksgiving.
I didn’t post about this because I couldn’t find these photographs:
We don’t know what Clarence died of, but he could have lived to between 6 and 8, but he only made it to three-and-a-half. Perhaps it was the tumor/abscesses/cysts he started developing, the worst of which led to this surgery:
That’s Cam and Erin from Color Country Animal Hospital. They’d never operated on an African hedgehog before, so they did their best (and he lived for close to two years after this).
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Poor Clarence. He was destined to live in a cage. We used to keep it on a rarely used dining room table. Then we got Big Buddy. He was a rescue dog, street savvy, and not that young. And he was way too curious about whether that thing on the table was edible.
So I built a shelf up on the wall, high enough for a big dog to never reach (over 5 feet up). Clarence lived up there over his half his days. He was never very social to begin with, but the surgery made him less so.
Even so, the vXboy was pretty upset about his demise.
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