Gromit Update

[den]

Last night I forced him to self-feed. Previous attempts had him give up and I had to hand the worms to him one at a time. They went in like logs into a wood-chipper: as one vanished I shoved another in, and so on until I had a very full bat in my hand. He'd sit still for a long while, squeeking happily and grunting every time he tried to move.

Last night I simply piled about 25 worms onto the dish, shoved his nose in and zipped the tent shut. When I checked this morning all the worms were gone. This means I can cut my handling back to a minimum.

Tonight I'll lock us in the spare room and try to get some flight time in.

Comments

[weyrdbird.livejournal.com]

" No matter what I may say or do- Do NOT open this door! Or you can spend the next period of time catching the little bugger!":D

Sounds like Gromit is well on the mend and not so terrribly ratchet.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

The notion of a fat little bat grunting whenever he tries to move is so pathetically cute that it hurts. Go, Gromit! Eat them wormies!

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

In the wild they can easily eat their own body weight every night, but they have to work at catching them. Gromit just sits there and stuffs them in over a fifteen minute period.

He still won't drink water. funny, that.

[http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/]

Can he get enough water from his food?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

I think so. But during really hot weather they will drink water. I'm worried he'll become dehydrated.

[fledchen.livejournal.com]

Could you possibly get him a bit wet, and then he'd ingest some water by grooming himself?