Lulu was an extremely beautiful girl who we brought home with Virginia and was part of a group that originally included Clementine and Hilda.She was quite a lot of fun, always curious and quite the noisy one. She meeped and eeped all the time. When we first brought her home and she started being noisy, we thought one of the other rats were hurting her. We'd go to look and see nothing happening. Either another rat had gone to lie beside her, had walked past her or was just looking at her.
It was a lot of fun to just touch Lulu or put my hand on her and give a very gentle squeeze just to hear her eep. She had the softest fur that I have felt on a rat. Not sure why that was as we didn't do anything special for her in that regard.
She had hurt the ankle joint of her leg and we had taken her to the vet to have it looked at. She had a couple of x-rays done which were very traumatic for her. She cried and we could hear her screaming from the x-ray room. It wasn't broken, but the vet said it could be something like cancer or an infection. We took her home and gave her the antibiotics, but it didn't heal. We figured it was either sprained or it was cancer. She was still doing quite well moving around. Eventually, she started to lose weight and finally she left us.
Lulu has been greatly missed. We have felt the silence (relatively) from the cage and I miss the "they're looking at me" eeps. I'm sure she's giving an earful to someone at the Bridge.
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