budgie with a huge tumor in its abdomen.

very old rat. so sweet, so kind. he licked me. i kissed him. he smelled like disease and dying. his kidneys had probably failed. his paws were covered in blood. he made me cry. i whispered to him.

iguana with calcium deficiency.

the most beautiful veiled chameleon i'd ever seen. metabolic bone disease.

All of these happened within 45 minutes of eachother. None of us could understand.