Heartbroken ... ...

... ... 5 years have passed in an instance ... you shouldn't be dying this fast ... Not for another 30 years ...

My buddy, a terrapin known as Red Ear Slider (RES) is dying of lung infection. It is one of its kind, being intelligent and responsive to its favourite owner. It is also the most playful and energetic terrapin I have ever seen. Now, it is lying there cold as rock, its once energetic legs and forearms were limp and still.

I was full of guilt and frustration. Why didn't I stop feeding them their pellets and fed them something else instead ? My terrapin, Jade was a beautiful terrapin, always hungry for more food. It ate a lot of things like cauliflower, carrot shreds, prawns, bread, dried shrimps and fish. However, as humans, we often assume what our actions are right and beneficial to others. Those food were not meant for terrapins as those food were like junk food to them, equilivant to us eating hamburgers for every meal of our lives.

It was not right ... I should have known it soon. Things came worse when it fell into the toliet bowl head first. It drowned and almost died. We saved it and took it to the doc. It soon became more healthier. Sometimes later, it fell into the toliet bowl again and never recover. It didn't eat for days, weeks, even months.

We brought it to the vet and the vet gave it injections but state her situation was not good. She was dying. I was devastated. Now, as i am typing the blog, i peer into my kitchen toilet, hoping it to rejuvernate and crawl around as usual. But again, it was just the darkness and the limp body of my RES. Rest well, my friend. I will always miss you.