 Hi everyone. Welcome back to Apples and Tiaras. So today is the day after Christmas and today we're going to be taking Tempeltina, my one of my class pets, to the vet. So I realize I haven't checked in on YouTube in a really long time. Like I think it's been at least four months since I last posted. But I'll be completely honest, I haven't really felt inspired to vlog or posting things, especially school related just because work's kind of tough right now. And I think that's true for all teachers everywhere. So I don't need to explain because all of you are feeling the same things that I'm feeling. So I'm going to let that just rest. But an update on Tempeltina. So if you guys are new, Tempeltina was or is my class pet. She's a little rat and she's coming close to about three years of age. I've had her for two and a half years. But when I got her she was probably five months old. So that just means that she's pretty close to being three. And if you know much about rodents or rats, rats typically live between three to four years. Kind of just depending on like if they get any health problems or or just lots of different variables. So Tempeltina is pretty close to three years old and she has developed a few tumors. And I did lots of research and I've been kind of watching them. They have been growing and spreading. And if you know much about rats they are very prone to tumors or abscesses is what they call them. They're very common like 90% of female rats get them. They can be benign. They can live totally happy lives with tumors. It just depends on how big they get and or if they spread. So Tina has about five tumors, two of which are really large and are starting to like protrude. I don't really feel like I want to show them to you because they just look really bad. One of them is probably the size of a ping pong ball and it's like down by her back right leg. And then the other one is probably I would say about this big probably the size of a good sized line. And I've been hesitant to take her to a vet because one I just don't have the money to be spending on a rat for like surgery or like draining or anything like that. I just don't have the money for that. I'm a teacher and we already struggle financially. So I've been kind of not I've been not wanting to take her but it's getting to the point now where the tumors are so big that she's having a hard time walking. She can't really climb up into her little hammock anymore. She just looks really uncomfortable. So I'm thinking that today is the day to take her to the vet and because she's older I think it might be time for her to just go up to rat heaven if you know what I mean. So it's a really sad day. I don't know if that's going to be the outcome but I'm going to ask the vet to be completely honest with me if she's suffering and she's miserable then that's what we're going to do. You know she's lived a really really long happy loving life and for that I'm very grateful. So it is what it is but today is going to be kind of sad. I don't know why I put mascara on that was kind of stupid because I'm probably going to cry. So I'm going to take you guys with me. I'm going to show you temple Tina and we'll go from there. All right so Micah is here with me in the car and I've been crying because I'm sad but we've got both the girls loaded up and we're going to head that direction. Thanks Micah for coming with me. Micah just lost a little pet last week so she's going to be my rock today because you're a strong little person you know that. All right let's do it. All right so here's Tina you can kind of see over here her tumors this is two of them right here they've gotten really big. My baby girl she still seems to be in good spirits but we just don't know how much pain she's in oh my god. So we're just gonna we're gonna help her go peacefully. It's a humane thing to do and why you're holding her too it's nice scary. My mom came today as well in Micah. Rat stash. It's an emotional support team. Again rat stash. Yeah you guys can kind of see down here it's just it's just not good so we're just gonna do what's best for our little sweet girl. I got a rat stash now. Yeah. Please watch the monster peach. Look at see she's scratching them. I saw her doing that too. Probably get your skins pulled then. I'm not when she does this. That's toasty in here. Okay so we just saw the vet and we're gonna go ahead and let Tina go asleep today. The vet said that if we did medications or surgeries that we could prolong her life maybe a few weeks potentially like a couple more months but if we don't do surgery it's not going to be very long and the surgery is like probably close to $1,500 and I just don't have that so we're gonna send Tina across the Rainbow Bridge today. Living tips to extend your rat's life the way we did to you. All right so Tina's been sedated. She won't even open and close her eyes. They're just open. Take her back. The vet said that she'll be so sedated she won't even know. She won't feel it. She won't know that I'm there or not there. Her eyes are like they won't close. They're just stuck open. Yeah it's kind of weird. She's a little limp noodle. I'm gonna say goodbye to Tina. The doctor said she wouldn't feel anything. She wouldn't know that I wasn't with her because she was so sedated. They gave her to us in a little box so I sent her with my parents up to Prescott to bury her and then the next time we go up there we'll do something but we're going to bury her under the fruit trees at my mom and dad's new home. Peach is still kicking in there. I don't know that she understands yet but she's going to be lonely so I have to think about either getting another rat or what to do because Peach will probably be really sad if she's alone. So that's a really hard part about having pets. Little animals. Is that you do have to let them go when they suffer and I didn't want to see her suffering anymore so.