Sorry to necro the thread but shit fucking blew up. I have a headache and I'm very emotional but I need to just get it out.
I took ^him off my relatives hands. The poor baby has really bad metabolic bone disease, he just started being able to move maybe a millimeter every few hours (if that, but it's something) and the only way I can get him to eat is to shove a bit of food into his mouth as he twitches. I let him soak a bit in the morning and at night, and I've been trying my best to make sure he's as comfortable as possible. I've taken him to two pet stores and a vet to get their opinions on him (I trust all the people involved), it's unlikely he'll be able to walk normally but he's improving. He's been getting better and I'm proud of the little guy, he's such a little trooper... but the relative I took him from doesn't think he's that bad, that I'm doing anything special, that she can do it better than I can, and has even told me. Multiple. Fucking. Times.
I was gonna stop at that, I had it all typed up yesterday, I got scared off of posting but then shit hit the fan.
I'd almost lost him about five days in, I'm pretty sure the MBD and the stress of a new environment just got the best of him. I told her this, she said "Maybe it's because you took him out of my house", her house is disgusting, she has emphysema and can't even breathe in the damn thing because she never fucking cleans. She's said that she can do shit just as well as I can, when all she's done is pinch at his (by a vet's own admission) "atrophying" legs instead of working them and making him stand up on them, as well as hanging him by his front feet at the top of his cage.
She's been trying to tell me that he's been doing so well for her, he was standing and everything was fine, trying to rub it in my face that she can do what I've been doing, even though she's had him for 3 years, he's had to go in for two different rounds of calcium shots btw (and it was only after my insistence that she even took him to the vet).
My family is going through a war, everyone's fighting with each other over the stupidest of shit (this relative is in the middle of it, instigating it all) and today she texted me, called me insensitive for taking him "under the guise that she was gonna get him back" and it hurt her, he's been in her family for three years now. She claimed it not to be a money thing but when I got on the phone with her she threatened to sue me, I told her to go ahead. I told her I'd pay her for him, she said $800, I said what ever it took, she then refused. We struck up an agreement after we calmed down a bit (I was crying), I'd get to keep him for two weeks and we'd take him to the vet to let them decide.
A few hours later I decided I couldn't do, I was way too stressed, if he was just going to relapse it would be better to not have to suffer for much longer, so I called her up and told her to come get him. She brought her neighbor (who's father just passed away two days ago and shouldn't be dealing with this shit) and blamed me, "I was just starting to find a positive him being with you, but you couldn't even give me a day."
I feel like shit, but I'm done with her.
