Sweet Pokey

I made the hard decision at the vet to let Pokey be free from his pain and suffering. Poor little guy. The vet found a hard mass in his belly which also appeared to be filled with blood. :( Pokey can't eat or move much on his own and only weighed in at 7 grams.

There was not much hope for him. So we let him go.

I've had the opportunity to watch multiple euthanasias of sickly reptiles in the last four years and I have *never* seen one die as quickly as Pokey did. Within a second or two of being injected, he was gone. Poor thing was SO ready to go.

Sorry baby. I wish we could have saved you. Had we gotten you a month ago, we would have had more hope. But we had to wait for your owner to realize they couldn't get $30 for you. :( By then it was too late to undo what had been done.

Tragic.