We had to say goodbye to Nelson today. His ear infection was too far gone and he was suffering too much to justify prolonging his life. He just wasn't our little buddy anymore.
For a rat that was free there was nothing cheap about him. He won over Tom straight away when he saw him in the rescue part of Pets at Home in Coatbridge. Nelson had a winning personality and charmed his way into everyone's heart.
Nelson has stolen more food than any of the others, quick to pounce on anything left unguarded (even pinching Kirk's medicine the other day).
Despite being deaf and blind in one eye nothing stoped him, he had odd little habits that made us laugh and a determination and faith that he could manage just fine. When asleep, with his good eye down, he was almost impossible to waken but awake he'd never stop moving.
The best little white, one-eyed rat in the world.
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