Lizfried

(You warm baby rodent formula in a water-bath to improve digestibility, but if you feed many babies often, the risk of absentmindedly drinking the "syringe water" increases to levels of inevitablility...)

... Wonder if a bit of whiskey would improve the flavor of syringe water? #wildlife #rodent

They're so people oriented when you have to raise them as a single. This is Drip, one of my recent orphans.

We were Pandemic Bonded. Sometimes I feel like I'll never meet a rodent that clever again, but I know that's not true. Most of them are that clever- I just don't teach them to human. I teach them to be wild now.

Try another reader. I think Moon reader was a lot more direct about finding epub and pdf files and making them accessible from within the app. More download/less side-load. (This was from a bog standard android tablet or iPad, though.)

"If you want to wean a mouse, turn to page 14. If you want to wean a chipmunk, turn to page 15. If you want to wean a flying squirrel, come back in 4 weeks and turn to page 16 (It's gonna take FOREVER.)."

I need to rewrite the orphan mouse manual to cover all the new protocols I've developed in the last two years, but I also don't have a detailed ground squirrel or flyer manual.

They're so very similar that I'm kind of tempted to write them up as a single choose-your-own-adventure manual.

Heimdall had a dedicated snack drawer and water bottle on my desk and used to hide almonds in my hanging file. I still find them among my gas bills and car insurance records.

I had a deer mouse named Heimdall that I bonded to like that. I miss that little stinker. She just passed earlier this year.

You can tell I'm dedicated to my little wildlife poopsies because I have 8 HOURS of peopling scheduled today to wrap up a season of sleeplessness.

You can tell I'm dedicated to making Pennsic happen because I drove 10 hours each way to attend 8+ hours of peopling in another state, LAST weekend.

pecan!

They crack me up so hard when they sleep like that with their head between their feets... <3

My babies that are less than a year old never go into torpor. I never really realized it was a thing until I had an older chipmunk in winter rather than a baby that wasn't old enough to be released before winter. (I do wildlife rehabilitation for native eastern chipmunks here.)

Deer mouse standing against the glass on the inside of a tank.

For the second time since I started over-wintering wild mice, I found a random deer mouse trying to get INTO the over-winter cage.

Been a minute since I grabbed a mouse bare handed, but now she's on the other side of the tank lid where the snax and the frens are.

#rodent #mouse

I'm always so paranoid about that when I transport eyes-open wilds. O_O ESPECIALLY the ones that are meant to be released in groups.

I don't generally see them LAND like that... They're usually more spread out like a sky-diver or a falling cat. HOWEVER they DO stretch in that pose when they're feeling relaxed - which probably makes them a lot easier to photograph that way.

I think all the chippies here started torpor in early October. I've barely seen or heard them since September.