- I write this with a heavy heart; my darling rats are both dreadfully ill, but one is much more sick than the other and as much as it pains me to say this, I fully expect him to pass in the next day {I'm afraid I cannot get him to a vet for another 16 hours since my father is the only one who can drive and has work}. They both have respiratory infections {I'm afraid I cannot be any more accurate since I was not at their vet appointment and my mother didn't specify}, but it's clearly affected the younger one much worse than it has the older one, the younger one {Nugget} would take some of the medicine given to him when mixed into some yoghurt but struggled to eat much of it, which was a distressing sight, and the older one {Nut} refused to eat any of it until I had left him alone for a long period of time. {They are both afraid of humans, I got them from a rescue and they've always been like this - biting whenever I put my hands near them} Nugget is so ill that he doesn't even flinch or move whenever I pet him. I am obviously deeply upset about Nugget right now, but I'm so, so worried about Nut. He will lose the only partner he's ever had, and not only that, I don't think I'll be able to get him {a} new partner{s}, and I'm deathly afraid since without any contact he will likely spiral downhill fast but with my contact he might spiral much quicker.
It seems very unfair to have Nut put down just because Nugget passed away, but I fear this will be the eventuality unless he somehow decides to bond to me after being afraid of me.
I know this is very rambly, but it's 2 am and I can't sleep and my rats are ill, and I begin college in a day, and I just have no idea what to do.
