24/10/2024
Well this is not one story I really want to tell but I must to tell you the reason I havent been on Facebook this past week.
Last Monday morning at 1.30 a.m. I awoke to Linda yelling that Shelby is having her babies! I flew out of bed and was thinking on the way down 2 flights of stairs she is not due for at least another seven days but who can stop mother nature. I got down stairs to see Shelby with her first little man we named Alfie! Tiny but that is what happens when they are premature. An hour later we had the arrival of little Brock who was even smaller but they are both doing well. Well then things changed for the worst possible outcome. Shelby was to have 8-9 even 10 babies! The next two were deceased when born and without going into really gruesome conditions we were trying to find an emergency Vet at that time on a Monday morning that was within driving with a mom that was starting to pass black and red blood. I couldn’t believe that we couldn’t get an ER open! And the once upon-a-time vets that used to be 24 hour service now don’t exist anymore that actually cared about animals. In fact one of the vets that used to have the service, that has a vet clinic 15 minutes from here sure they had an after hour answering service but when I told the telephonist what was happening and how desperate we are to get her to a vet her reply sorry we don’t have after hour service for small animals only large animals and I would have to wait till 7.45 am till the staff pick up their messages and they would contact me then! Well my comment wasn’t ladylike at all but I bit my tongue for what I really wanted to say to her but unfortunately she wasn’t the one that should get the tongue lashing. And by the way I am glad I wasn’t holding my breath for the emergency phone call because they didn’t have the decency to call showing us we are so glad we are no longer attending their clinic.
To cut out everything that happened Princess Shelby Grace passed over the rainbow bridge. I tried everything even CPR to revive her but it wasn’t meant to be. We lost the remaining babies but we would have given anything to have her back. We don’t know what happened but even if we did it wouldn’t bring her back. We are now raising around the clock every two hours feeding these two little munchkins that are fighting to stay on this earth. I was always told that if they get past the first three days of life they should make it and we keep thinking this. They are not gaining very well but they are not loosing much either, we are putting this down to the fact of them being so early. We are hoping that Angel who is actually in labor with her four will adopt them and help them nourish so they can have a mommy to care for them.
Princess Shelby Grace was such a good girl loved to play and so oved to give kisses she will be dearly missed by Linda and I along with her sister Madison and daughter Missy and the rest of our babies here at Charmed Onz. She was taken from us far too soon at only three years of age! Run free our sweet baby girl with your family over the rainbow bridge.
