Feeding Time

[den]

We have tongue movement.

We have milk vanishing.

We have a fed puggle.

Comments

[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.