Rest in Peace my little beautiful girl

[Sonny13]

Even in death she is absolutely stunning. She's as radiant as ever.

I don't think I've ever seen death symbolized so beautifully before. I hope my day is far off, but I find comfort in the post. As always, you and Cher continue to shape how I view the world. Her memory will live on in the people she touched.

Thanks my friend for kind words

Yes, she created a forever memory

 

[PlanetRemulak]

Cher was beyond precious. I so wish it had turned out differently for your sweet little girl, but I’m so glad she got to spend her last days with you. That last picture of her is especially sweet.

 

[Camiezone]

So sorry for your loss. It's so devastating to first feel so helpless when they begin their last fight and then finally having peace. She was a beautiful girl with such a sweet sparkle in her eyes. Love the pictures, its obvious that she loved you as well.

 

[Sonny13]

Cher was beyond precious. I so wish it had turned out differently for your sweet little girl, but I’m so glad she got to spend her last days with you. That last picture of her is especially sweet.

So sorry for your loss. It's so devastating to first feel so helpless when they begin their last fight and then finally having peace. She was a beautiful girl with such a sweet sparkle in her eyes. Love the pictures, its obvious that she loved you as well.

Thank you very much, we still mis her and I’m still having her picture on my desktop, so we keep reminder her.
I‘m so glad she made it to the chameleon calendar for 2023, it’s a honor and a great memorial

 

[Shauna_T]

Every evening I look out of the window, I’ll see my bright star

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I'm so sorry for your loss @Sonny13 Cher was beautiful. Prayers, good vibes and hugs for you and your family.

 

[Sonny13]

I'm so sorry for your loss @Sonny13 Cher was beautiful. Prayers, good vibes and hugs for you and your family.

Thank you Shauna, appreciated

 

[Germán Chams]

Yo llore mucho por la mia, era muy mansa y amigable

 

[Sonny13]

Yo llore mucho por la mia, era muy mansa y amigable

I‘m sorry for your lost as well, it just hurts loosing one of our precious ones.

 

[Charlottethechameleon]

Just can´t believe it, it was way too soon and too sudden. We´re devastated, heartbroken and completely confused. The horror stories you read on the forums happened to us as well, being alive and no indicator till suddenly retracting her eyes and slipping away from us. It´s just unbelievable how these things happen to them.

A brief history about Cher´s last weeks. Cher started to show receptive colors around the first week of March and this went on with restless behavior and everything what comes to it. This was her first clutch and as I witnessed this with Bella, this can be hard for them the first time. By the beginning of May, she still didn´t show any digging behavior and that was when I started to get restless. She never went to the bottom of her bioactive enclosure. By the time she started hiding and not basking I knew she was getting close, same as Bella´s first time. When she started to loosing interest in eating two weeks ago, I knew it was becoming critical and I made a rigorous decision, I swapped Neo and Cher from enclosure, because Neo´s enclosure has more foliage and hide outs at the bottom (and this was pure intuition). The next morning Cher went directly down to the bottom and we hadn´t seen her all day, that´s when we started to get a good feeling. In the evening just after lights went out, she sat all covered in dirt back up on the branch. And in the morning she was basking all wrinkled, skinny and covered in dirt. So later that day I swapped her back gave her a good long drink and lots of yummy, which she ate and drank, this was the 20th of May. I could see she was a bit dehydrated, and therefore I added the dripper for her, which she also used several days.

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As the days past she ate and drank normal, only her `gravid colors´ stayed (the black and pink). She did her normal routine and I even had put her in the olive tree outside for some fresh sun, which she enjoyed for hours. Then something happened which I noticed, after her last time outside, she didn´t bask anymore under the heat and UVB light and stayed underneath the led plant light. Therefore, she stayed dulled in color. I imaged that maybe because of the bright sunlight outside, she now was confused and choice the brightest light in her enclosure. This went on for the last week, but she was still eating and drinking and active. Then the last 2 days I noticed she was regularly closing her left eye, that´s what made thinking about a vit A deficiency or multivit overdosing. Have seen this with my Veiled and Jackson sometime, after giving them Respashy Calcium Plus (which I stopped using). And normally this goes away within 1 á 2 days. Monday she didn´t show interest in food, which made worried a bit and knew that maybe a vet appointment was needed within the following days. Then when I came home yesterday from work, I found her high in the enclosure not basking and with her eyes shut. When I took her out of the enclosure to check her, she had full grip and power, however she all the sudden grabbed her back leg with her tail and she laid down on a side on my hand, her colors where normal and no sunken eyes. Then I put her under the UVB and heat light and that´s when she suddenly rapidly declined. Retracted her eyes and saw her heavily breathing, colors stayed normal and 2 hours later she hang on her tail from the branch. This is when I tried to take her off, but she still had a firm tail grip. Eventually, I managed to get her of and laid her on a towel, to slowly slip away comfortly. She passed away this morning, but still has the most beautiful colors…….

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I´m confused and just don´t know what happened. Did she maybe retain an egg or some eggs? Was she already sick and the eggs laying was too much for her to recover from?

Fact is she was too young to go and we love her so much for the 5 months she was with us, R.I.P. my beautiful girl, we´ll mis your vail attitude

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Oh my God this just made me burst into tears how heart wrenching I'm sooooo very sorry hugs and prayers that your sadness will pass I feel your pain it hurt to read this blessings to you

 

[Sonny13]

Oh my God this just made me burst into tears how heart wrenching I'm sooooo very sorry hugs and prayers that your sadness will pass I feel your pain it hurt to read this blessings to you

Thank you we both know how it is