The End Of The Line

by Brynne Wed 05 Oct 2016, 3:23 am

My dearest Lorca made it to her thirty month birthday, and died. Her death marks the very end of the family of mice that I started back in 2010 with 'Crazy' Marzipan and sweet, mellow Vladimir. It had always been a dream of mine to enjoy a long line of succeeding generations of mice. Watching them grow from pregnancy to newborn wiggly worms to small mice to old mice.

Here was Lorca's mother, a gorgeous Siamese named Ursula. She was an unrelated mouse I brought in. She was the happiest of smooshaflumps, and Lorca just so happened to become the happiest of all her sextuplets. I LOVE happy mice!

Lorca is the dark mouse in this photo. Her sisters died before they got very old, so I introduced her to the lab mouse, Sarah Jane, for the second half of her life:

Baby Lorca and her 5 littermates, in no particular order:

Her sister, Gemima:

Her brother, Isidor:

All six:

Her brother, Norris:

Her brother, Tyrone:

by Brynne Wed 05 Oct 2016, 3:44 am

Lorca herself as a youth:

by CallaLily Wed 05 Oct 2016, 7:33 am

Awww, what a beautiful mouse family. I'm so sorry to hear about Lorca. But what a great long life she had with you! Heart

by scaredymouse Wed 05 Oct 2016, 5:26 pm

I'm so sorry about Lorca. Every time I look at Furgie, I think about Lorca... I'm sad to hear she has passed. I lost Gilly not too long ago and while Furgie is still doing well, she is quite elderly. I love that you had her beginning to end, what a blessing.

by MesaMouse Wed 05 Oct 2016, 5:27 pm

So sorry to read about Lorca's passing. 30 months is an amazing age! What a long and wonderful life Lorca had with you as I remember pictures of her on TFM going back a few years.