urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:magic_lilybean magic_lilybean magic_lilybean 2007-06-05T23:47:32Z urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:magic_lilybean:1696 2007-06-05T23:47:32Z 2007-06-05T23:47:32Z At 5:30 Phil went in to feed her. She went into a seizure and died. RIP, little gal.<br /><br />As we were trying to figure out what to do, I called the animal rescue people one more time. I got a woman we'd already talked to, and she helped a lot. She tells me that when the pups are that small, there's a 50/50 chance of survival - if they're in the care of an expert. She'd talked with experienced rehabers about our little rat after she got off the phone with us and one man said he'd *never* been successful with pups this young.<br /><br />We took her into the yard and found a nice spot under some beautiful flowers. urn:lj:livejournal.com:atom1:magic_lilybean:1195 2007-06-04T01:43:53Z 2007-06-04T01:43:53Z He was feeding a rat baby with an eyedropper, hunkered down on the floor making squeaky noises. I measured the little bugger, wanting to see if I could find a site that gives sizes for rat and mouse pups. We'd had an Animal Rescue woman tell us she thought our orphan was a vole (field mouse), based on the photos.<br /><br />Well, based on size she still comes out rat. We couldn't find but one picture of a vole pup, so it's hard to say based on photographic evidence. But by size, she's rat, not mouse. Sadly, I found this out on a site that sells frozen rat and mouse babies as food. Sponsored by "ratsicles.com." We... may have laughed pretty hard when we saw their logo. At any rate, a mouse at the same size would be weaned. Figure there may be some differences due to domestication, but you'd think the domestic pups would be bigger, not smaller.<br /><br />So.... yeah. Rat.