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Okay, so this was meant to just be a sweet drawing of Ramona and her chinchilla, Mabel - I mentioned that she has one in a few journals, but haven't spoken about her much. However, its backstory got kinda sad kinda fast, so take this as an advanced warning.

Mabel was a birthday gift from Michelle when Ramona turned 38; the year of the fiasco with Camille - i.e. getting shot, and subsequently almost sacked - which was evidently a pretty shitey year. She's the only one of their animals who isn't a family pet; she is considered to be exclusively Ramona's, as chinchillas are pretty high-maintenance, and nobody else has much knowledge of them (Ramona had one when she was a kid that she had to give away when she moved to the UK, which was named Muffy.) Ramona absolutely loved her to bits - she claimed otherwise, but out of the dogs and cats, Bel was probably her favourite pet; she was basically another child. However, then China happened, and she was away from home for the best part of a year and a half.

The scene depicted is Mona and Mabel seeing each other for the first time after she came home - hence the scars, crutches, and how short her hair is. They were both happy as hell to see each other again. But then Ramona's AIDS and subsequent cancer caused her to get sicker, and forced her to spend more and more time away from home in the hospital. Jed got kicked out on several occasions for trying to sneak Mabel into her room in a backpack - much like her owner, Mabel pretty much had an inability to sit still for any considerable length of time, so it wasn't difficult for the hospital staff to catch Jed, what with him having a squirming bag and all.

Mabel was with her, along with Michelle and her kids, when she died at home, 8 years after her release. After about six months when she worked out that Ramona wasn't coming back, Mabel herself started getting ill. Chins can actually die from depression - they stop eating, drinking, and sleeping until the exhaustion, starvation, thirst, or organ failure eventually kills them - and this is exactly what happened to Bel. She just gave up one day, and was put to sleep after going into renal failure. Michelle had her cremated, and scattered her ashes over Mona's grave.

Description
Okay, so this was meant to just be a sweet drawing of Ramona and her chinchilla, Mabel - I mentioned that she has one in a few journals, but haven't spoken about her much. However, its backstory got kinda sad kinda fast, so take this as an advanced warning.

Mabel was a birthday gift from Michelle when Ramona turned 38; the year of the fiasco with Camille - i.e. getting shot, and subsequently almost sacked - which was evidently a pretty shitey year. She's the only one of their animals who isn't a family pet; she is considered to be exclusively Ramona's, as chinchillas are pretty high-maintenance, and nobody else has much knowledge of them (Ramona had one when she was a kid that she had to give away when she moved to the UK, which was named Muffy.) Ramona absolutely loved her to bits - she claimed otherwise, but out of the dogs and cats, Bel was probably her favourite pet; she was basically another child. However, then China happened, and she was away from home for the best part of a year and a half.

The scene depicted is Mona and Mabel seeing each other for the first time after she came home - hence the scars, crutches, and how short her hair is. They were both happy as hell to see each other again. But then Ramona's AIDS and subsequent cancer caused her to get sicker, and forced her to spend more and more time away from home in the hospital. Jed got kicked out on several occasions for trying to sneak Mabel into her room in a backpack - much like her owner, Mabel pretty much had an inability to sit still for any considerable length of time, so it wasn't difficult for the hospital staff to catch Jed, what with him having a squirming bag and all.

Mabel was with her, along with Michelle and her kids, when she died at home, 8 years after her release. After about six months when she worked out that Ramona wasn't coming back, Mabel herself started getting ill. Chins can actually die from depression - they stop eating, drinking, and sleeping until the exhaustion, starvation, thirst, or organ failure eventually kills them - and this is exactly what happened to Bel. She just gave up one day, and was put to sleep after going into renal failure. Michelle had her cremated, and scattered her ashes over Mona's grave.