Claire and Rey are gone

[Catherine]

Quote: It really does feel like the rainbow bridge has a permanent link here.  I'd much rather find a leprechaun's pot of gold if we are talking about rainbows.

I  hear you. I was at the end of a rainbow once and I guess it was the wrong end because there was no gold.

Bullet is being a real treasure. I never expected a dog to bond with a rat.  Bullet came to you at the right time. Rats don't like to be alone. Leia  will know he is there when you lose Padme. Give her all the treats she wants. When they are old like that you want to do anything possible to make your pet happy.

You did everything you could for Claire. Reptiles are not easy to treat. When they start to decline sometimes there is nothing you can do to stop them from dying. They also don't show any symptoms. They hide things very well until they are close to death.
Then they just slip away. That is one of the hard things about having reptiles. We also don't know how old they are when we get them. Unless you saw the reptile come from the egg, you don't really know how old it is. I am finding a lot of estimates are way off. 

All the 3 year old corn snakes I took in a number of years ago I now know were not three years old. They were much older so I suddenly find myself with a set of geriatric snakes. Even Jake Krinkle Snake is past ten. Some of them are probably past 15. They certainly look it.