Orphaned wildlings need help ASAP
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breakthenight
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We made it through another night! it's hard because I am so very attached now, and I still know their survival chances are so very slim.
I would say they are 7 days today. They got more fur overnight. They aren't gaining much weight but they are developing and energetic.
I would say they are 7 days today. They got more fur overnight. They aren't gaining much weight but they are developing and energetic.
Orphaned babies tend to remain on the thin side until they start solids, if they're eating well and still being active squirmy babies I would try to stay optimistic!
breakthenight
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breakthenight
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I don't have any pics from day one, but even the pics from day two to now I can see massive changes (but that might just be me!) Took this about an hour ago
Hehe!! They're getting so fuzzy!
breakthenight
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Made it through another night! The brown hair banding is now showing an they are very brown especially over the head and shoulders.
Lise Patterson
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Well done. They are quite adorable.
breakthenight
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Their mouths are officially too big for the little nurser bottle I made. trying them on a regular syringe tip next feed, as they were putting the WHOLE NIPPLE in their mouth all the way down and around the syringe tip and I kept having to stop and pull them back.
EDIT: They hate it. back to the DIY bottle
EDIT: They hate it. back to the DIY bottle
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breakthenight
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Flakey babies from getting fur in, lol
breakthenight
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LoFi ritten feeding. Both made it through another night. day 9 now. They are very small but active and developing still.
breakthenight
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Had an amazing feeding session tonight, Both babies did amazing, Despite being blind and deaf still, they have started giving me kisses and attempting to boggle , brux and groom their tiny faces. I am using the licking/kisses to help them experiment with lapping up milk off my hand and they did very well. They are extremely sweet and cuddly. it is absolutely wild to see the teeniest little helpless beings completely trusting me, and believing I am their mother. I have officially had them longer than their rat mama did,
I still know they may very well die at any moment. I will not name them. But it has been an exhausting gift to raise them this far.
I still know they may very well die at any moment. I will not name them. But it has been an exhausting gift to raise them this far.
breakthenight
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10 days old. We made it through another night! Babies are tiny tiny for their age, but have now grown fur on their feet and a little is coming in on the bellies.
breakthenight
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My spouse takes the worst pictures, but here are the babies today.
They're so fuzzy!!
breakthenight
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breakthenight
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Survived another night! Babies are approximately 11 days old today. Their ears seem to be "thinning out" so I think they may open tomorrow or next day.
breakthenight
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Busy babies
breakthenight
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We survived another night. They babies are developing individual personalities. They groom milk droplets off their paws and face and lick my hands constantly, and are learning to lap milk drips off of my hands. They take the bottle eagerly. They fall asleep "milk drunk" in my hands after a good feed. They have soft, light fur covering their bellies, but it is still thin enough to see skin. Their ears are thinning out and are starting to develop a cup like structure. They are still closed, but look close to opening, and the babies scratch at them pretty often with hind paws so I think stuff must be happening inside the developing ear canals. I estimated them as 4 days old when I found them, which would make them 12 days old today. If ears open today, I was likely right in my estimate. Which would make us about T-2 days until eyes open. If not, they may be a day younger, but I can not imagine they were any younger than that given the pale gray pigment and facial features when I found them. I'll try and get some pictures later.
breakthenight
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Just after 8pm and no open ears, so we are probably 11 days not 12 today. I know it probably sounds petty, but I am sort of gutted about it. Every day is an absolute miracle with these guys making it through, and knowing that the survival chances will increase when their eyes open and they can start solids(ie. day 14) has felt like a bit of a light at the end of the tunnel... so even one day set back feels immense and tough. They are desperately cute though, and i'll cry like crazy if they don't make it.
