Singer/Songwriter Laura Cohn Pays Tribute To Her Deceased Rats In Her Website Blog

Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Laura Cohn took a personal turn in her daily blog to pay homage to her pet rats that she recently had to put to sleep. Cohn said she rescued the animals, two white female rats, when she was on a television shoot for a non-union dream show. “The rats were going to be snake food or “set free” in Hollywood’s Nicholas Canyon in the freezing cold rain. Either way they would be dead. I couldn’t leave them, so I took them with me in a box, drove to a pet store, bought them a cage, bedding, food, and toys and brought them home,” Cohn explained, “My neighbor named them Nicole and Carole since I got them in Nicholas Canyon.”

(PRWEB) October 14, 2006 -- Los Angeles based singer/songwriter Laura Cohn took a personal turn in her daily blog to pay homage to her pet rats that she recently had to put to sleep. Cohn said she rescued the animals, two white female rats, when she was on a television shoot for a non-union dream show. “The rats were going to be snake food or “set free” in Hollywood’s Nicholas Canyon in the freezing cold rain. Either way they would be dead. I couldn’t leave them, so I took them with me in a box, drove to a pet store, bought them a cage, bedding, food, and toys and brought them home,” Cohn explained, “My neighbor named them Nicole and Carole since I got them in Nicholas Canyon.”

Since the time Laura Cohn rescued the animals, Cohn said she would write blogs about her “little girls” every so often because “they were just the most loving adorable little animals and I thought it would be fun for people to read about them.” Laura Cohn has a picture of her with her rats on her website, www.LauraCohnMusic.com, and also on her myspace artist page, www.myspace.com/lauracohnmusic. In her October 8th blog titled “Part Of Life,” Cohn first let it be known that her rats were not well. “Rats don’t live very long. Many of them don’t live more than 2-3 years.” Cohn wrote, “My little girls are around 2 ½ years old now. Nicole has gotten very weak and isn’t able to move around much anymore. She looks sad because she’s not feeling good. Carole has a tumor on her side.”

Cohn said that she thought letting her readers know that her rats were sick was the right thing to do, not knowing that she would be putting them to sleep 2 days later. In Cohn’s next blog, October 9th, “Saying Good-Bye”, Cohn describes her phone call to the vet, crying, and making the appointment to take her rats in the next day. On October 10th, her blog, “Rest in Peace Little Girls”, Cohn wrote about coming home, getting ready to take her little girls to the vet, being given a box to take them in after the appointment and burying them without going into details. “I just couldn’t write very much about it. It was so hard and upsetting. I cried so much and I’m still crying everyday,” Cohn explained, “I rescued them in a box and then took them to be buried in a box, like a full circle.”

In her next two blogs, October 11th,“Loss” and October 12th, “Adjustment”, Cohn openly wrote about her grieving. “I woke up crying today. I miss my little rats. When I come home to my apartment and they’re not here I start to cry again…I feel like a bucket of tears. My place seems empty without my little animals here. I cry every time I walk into my apartment. Lots of very kind people have told me that it takes awhile to get over losing pets. I’ve never had to put an animal to sleep before and I put two down. As one friend told me; it’s gut wrenching. This change in my life is very hard…Raw emotion is really something. If I had to put a word to what I feel now it would be 'SAD'."

Laura Cohn said she will be getting back to writing about performing, recording her new CD and other things that show up in her life as an artist in LA, but needed to express what she was feeling in this situation. Cohn also said this experience changed her view of relationships. Cohn finished her October 12th blog “Adjustment” with what probably explains the reason why she was moved so deeply. “I’m very lucky that I had Carole and Nicole, my two little rats, in my life because not everyone gets to receive that kind of pure love everyday. Some people may not think of rats as loving. My little girls were the most loving.”

For information, visit www.LauraCohnMusic.com.

About Laura Cohn:
Laura Cohn is an advocate of social kindness. She became a private pilot at 17. Cohn began writing music after she graduated from Tulane University with a degree in Political Science. Laura Cohn writes a daily blog at www.lacohnzone.blogspot.com. Laura Cohn is currently performing around LA.

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