Pepper Two

Catherine is currently in her room with tears running down her face as she cradles tiny Pepper Two, who appears to be dying. She is decorating a wooden box for Pepper's burial; on the lid she wrote: "Pepper Two is in here". Pepper Two wasn't well when we got her but I had hoped she might get better. Today, however, she won't even move, just sits shivering in the cage or on Catherine's palm. Part of our motivation in letting her have mice as pets was that she would eventually have to learn to cope with their death - we just hadn't counted on it being so soon! Poor kid - it's hard watching her deal with this, even though she is doing so beautifully. Anyway, it looks as though my next post about the Adventures of Salt and Pepper will be about a mouse funeral.