Poofypuffin
Strolling the yard
- Joined
- 5/16/17
- Messages
- 146
- Real Name
- Ásrún
My heart is aching as I type this, and I grieve having to announce that Mundi the puffin has passed away.
It happened so suddenly which is why I guess I am still in bit of a shock. At the beginning of the week he started to lose his appetite - which wasn’t highly unusual, there came times where he was a very finicky eater. But I guess this was different. On Wednesday he took a turn for the worse; didn’t keep anything down, slept a lot and by the end of the day he just slipped away.
In a way it is a blessing that it all happened so fast. That way he didn’t suffer, though I miss him terribly and wish that there was something more I could have done for him. But I did all that I could and sometimes that just isn’t enough: The end comes for all of us, and it is highly probable that he was an elderly fella. We were never able to confirm his age.
We can rejoice in the fact that that Mundi survived a year longer than he would have if he hadn’t been taken in. He was nursed back to health after a bad accident and even though he was unable to return to the wild I like to think he had a wonderful year with us.
He was the only puffin in the world to swim in a hot tub, to go to a summer cabin and take car rides, which he seemed to enjoy. He was more than a simple seabird, he was more than a pet. He was a friend, a companion and an inspiration to so many.
Having Mundi was a real adventure for me and through him I got to know so many great people who I now consider friends.
Thank you for everything Mundi!
Now fly free little buddy, fly and dive and swim and do all the puffin things in the great beyond.
You will be missed dearly
It happened so suddenly which is why I guess I am still in bit of a shock. At the beginning of the week he started to lose his appetite - which wasn’t highly unusual, there came times where he was a very finicky eater. But I guess this was different. On Wednesday he took a turn for the worse; didn’t keep anything down, slept a lot and by the end of the day he just slipped away.
In a way it is a blessing that it all happened so fast. That way he didn’t suffer, though I miss him terribly and wish that there was something more I could have done for him. But I did all that I could and sometimes that just isn’t enough: The end comes for all of us, and it is highly probable that he was an elderly fella. We were never able to confirm his age.
We can rejoice in the fact that that Mundi survived a year longer than he would have if he hadn’t been taken in. He was nursed back to health after a bad accident and even though he was unable to return to the wild I like to think he had a wonderful year with us.
He was the only puffin in the world to swim in a hot tub, to go to a summer cabin and take car rides, which he seemed to enjoy. He was more than a simple seabird, he was more than a pet. He was a friend, a companion and an inspiration to so many.
Having Mundi was a real adventure for me and through him I got to know so many great people who I now consider friends.
Thank you for everything Mundi!
Now fly free little buddy, fly and dive and swim and do all the puffin things in the great beyond.
You will be missed dearly
