So, some sad pet news. It hasn't happened yet, as of this moment, but it's coming soon. Tucked behind a cut for people who don't need bad pet health news in their day.
Crystal, our eldest mouse, is dying. The pet store estimated her at a year old when we got her in February, and it's looking like their estimate was right; two years is about what to expect from a domesticated mouse. She'd been moving slower, but this week ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bunnyhugger noticed her moving wobbly And yeah, she walks with this uncertain gait, like she hasn't quite got the pain-free joints she once had.
She's also this strange combination of skinny and lumpy. Since mice almost invariably die from cancer if they live long enough probably something's been growing and finally reached the point it's not hidden by her natural fat or generally lumpy shape.
bunnyhugger has an appointment with the vet to have her seen, but they didn't have anyone free before Tuesday. But the best news I could expect from that is having something for pain management, and I suppose I'm preparing for a mercy euthanasia for the sweet little mouse.
On a cheerier note, how about some Plopsaland pictures? Still on the train ride here.
Nice view of the outside of Heidi: The Ride that the train offers. This sort of banked turn is a signature move of maker Great Coasters International.
Goats! Or goat statues, anyway. We're getting near the Heidi launch station.
And here's the train stop for Heidiland. The train you'll note is billed as an 'Express' even though it makes every stop.
T-rex statue visible from the train ride.
And the tail end of that brontosaurus you might have seen in other pictures. (I forget if I included one that showed it at all.)
There's a dinosaur threatening people who go down the log flume, which is a great way to juice a log flume up a bit.
Trivia: Toyland, Fred Thompson's amusement-park project for the Panama-Pacific International Exposition of 1915, was not complete until six weeks after the Exposition opened, and ran to something like $278,000 in cost, despite meeting almost none of Thompson's design goals for the site. Less than a week after its opening other investors were ready to close it. Source: The Kid of Coney Island: Fred Thompson and the Rise of American Amusements, Woody Register.
Currently Reading: A Call to Arms: Mobilizing America for World War II, Maury Klein.
