Hello and Happy Holidays to all. It has been a while since I posted. But you see it has been a sad place here. Our little boy Herman lost his battle with cancer between Thanksgiving and Christmas. It has been such a difficult thing to get through. I still cannot bear to put his cage away. We buried him in the little cemetary with his buddies that went to the bridge before him. Losing Herman has been terrible, he was the baby that we bought because we realized that our own boys were all about the same age and I was afraid that we would lose them all at around the same time. So we bought little Herman, he was so cute as a baby, he would lay in the food bowl and protect the food from everyone else. Ironic that he would end his little life unable to eat because of the tumor growing in his tummy. He endured a lot of sickness before his passing. This past year he had a speenectomy that reduced his overall weight by 1/3. The nasty tumor was not even evident at that time and we thought we were on the road to recovery. 6 weeks later he was not bouncing back the way a young man should and we went back for an ultrasound that showed the tumor. He could not tolerate surgery again and so we chose to medicate for comfort and let nature take its course. I prayed that he would miraculously get better but it was not to be. He passed away around 430 in the morning, in his favorite snuggy with his little red alien toy beside him. (His alien was buried with him). I miss him so much and realize how easily he taught me that one cannot replace the other. I hope that he is having a wonderful Christmas on the other side of the bridge with his buddies, and I hope that he knows how much his Mom misses him everyday. Kim and the Gang at Coffee Creek Missing Stinky,Sable,Faith,Paco,John,Polly,Rosie and now little Herman [Posted in FML 5470]