Puggle

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Snorkle died. Bugger.

The zoovets did everything they could and he still died. They asked everyone they could get hold of and the prognosis for puggles under 150g is very poor. Snorkle weighed 90g when I got him. Dr Ben did a post mortem but there was nothing wrong as such, just everything was very immature. He said the first person to raise a puggle this small will be writing the book on How To Raise Tiny Puggles, because there is nothing out there now.


poop.

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Another unique aspect of puggles is there connection to the ground (both echinas who are buried and platypii who are in dens close to the water table). I read a website speculating on why monostremes are in eggs and milk in skin patches and the high humidity of the dirt and fight against dehydration was part of that speculation. Keeping the puggle close to 100% humidity might be a factor to increase the survival chances. I found my baby rodents did much better in a high humidity environment while nursing as long as there was low ammonia which having a dirt base to their litter helped to achieve the high humidity without ammonia production.