Dear Sandee: Well I can't believe this is happening.....I just wrote to you last week Monday when our sweet little princess Maxine passed away and now her long time cagemate Maxi is gone to be with her......he missed her so terribly that he just couldn't imagine life without her we tired to help him.... we went to see the vet today which is a little over a 4 hour drive during the winter months because Maxi went down hill really fast this past weekend so I called the vet yesterday and made arrangements to see her today (Jan. 14) well she thinks his adrenal turned to cancer and she could see that he was giving up and just wanted to be with his Maxine.....so the vet suggested and said that we would be doing the right thing by having him put down she said there was no hope and nothing she could do.....she felt that he was just giving up and that so many other things were going wrong with his body......so his dad and I felt we were doing the right thing to let him be with Maxine...... Sandee could you please make sure that Maxine and Booger are both there to greet him along with Jubilee Spirit and Harley 'Bear' and please tell him how sorry his mom and dad are and how much we love him and miss him terribly.....we know how close him and Maxine were and knew that one day should one pass away the other would not be too far behind. My sweet little boy has been through so much this past year with having his right adrenal problem and since my vet knew that it would be a tricky surgery and she has never done it before she suggested putting him on Lupron shots once every 3 months which we did since last year April 2002 after he had is insulinoma surgery......he crashed just out of the blue so quickly about two weeks after Booger passed away in Jan. 2002 and we had him diagnosed as having insulinoma.....so he was on pred for a couple months and then the vet said that he should have surgery and so he did she removed all the tumors and he's been fine ever since and about a couple weeks after having his lupron shot in November 2002 he started to grow his fur back but I noticed he seemed to be making weird sounds while going to the bathroom so I mentioned it to the vet when he had his lupron shot and she said that the pancreas will enlarge due to the adrenal gland and that was probably why he was having a bit of a hard time and she said that if things started to get worse to let her know but they didn't and while Maxine ended up sick so suddenly over the holidays.....I noticed that he might be going into a depression while she was sick he had good days and bad days and since she passed away last week Monday he started to go down hill and was just giving up and then when he got really sick and lethargic and started to have diahrea over the weekend we called the vet and made an appointment for today.....unfortunately she couldn't see us Monday so we had to go today only to find out that we had to let our sweet boy go to Rainbow Bridge......he is missed by his brother's Buddy, Star, Prince, Shark, Bear and his sister's Lady, Pepper and Snowball. Much love, Rosie [Posted in FML issue 4028]