Feeding Time

[den]

We have tongue movement.

We have milk vanishing.

We have a fed puggle.

Comments

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

Not yet, but when it grows a little and the tongue gets some strength, then it'll tickle.

[acelightning.livejournal.com]

[tropism.livejournal.com]

Be sure to give us more pics of the little scrote. ;)

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

they'll come.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you have a viable puggle there - go you!

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Go puggle! Go puggle! Drink that milk! Woo!

I'm sure this question has been asked before, but I've forgotten--do you have special PuggleBrand I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Echidna-Milk, or does some other species substitute?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

It's a mix of specialist masupial milk called Di-vetalact, some canola oil and some thickened cream. No one makes off the shelf I-Can't-Belive-It's-Not-Echidna-Milk so I have to blend my own. Later on I'll have to mix up some I-Can't-Believe-It's-Not-Termites-Or-Ant-Puepe, but I don't want to plan too far ahead because... you know.

[ursulav.livejournal.com]

Oh, absolutely. Err...what's the general survival rate on puggles this young? I've been hearing that young orphaned wombats seem to manage pretty well, if they don't get respiratory infections or whatever, but I have no knowledge of monotremes. (Obviously you're the Pugglemeister, and if anybody can coax that cuddly little scrotum along, it's you!) Are you in for a month of edge-of-the-seat terror, though, or are they a little tougher than that?

[dewhitton.livejournal.com]

My gut feeling is that there is a size limit. Below that and there is little chance of raising one. A friend tried to raise 2 puggles the same size as Spook; one died and the other survived. I think Spook has a 50/50 chance, and if he grows a little more then it gets better. I sort of feel okay about this because I know the vets at the zoo lost a puggle that was smaller, and if THEY fail then an enthusiastic amature can expect failures.

I head off to Europe next friday, so Spook will have to go to someone else. I'll be worrying all the time I'm there. At least I'll feel better if I get him to eat more.

[silmaril.livejournal.com]

Hehehehehe. Now I'm happy, too.

[klishnor.livejournal.com]

That IS good news.

I was a bit worried that a puggle that young might not be able to accept milk from someone/thing that didn't smell like mommy.

You realise, obviously, that when this puggle does open its eyes it's going to fixate on you and think it's a human being. :)

[kayshapero]

Yay, puggle!