> One of the 4 pups that I've been nursing has died. She was so tiny and
>when I found her in the nest I thought she was dead, but she started to
>slightly move her feet. I wraped her up in a blanket and kept her warm
>until she died in my arms around 9:40pm Thursday night, June 13, 2000.
Bummer. Condolences.
> The other pups are fine and eating well. They need to learn how to groom
>themselves better though. I feed them cream of wheat mixed with kitten
>replacer milk and they get it all over their paws and fur. I'm going to
>start having to cut their fur in places from all the dried cream of wheat
on
>them and every night I have to take it off their paws. Except for the
>grooming they are doing fine- all 3 of them :(
Don't cut their fur. I had this problem with a kitten I had to
foster-raise.
She'd set up like stucco....(KMR & baby pablum, after that got in her
fur, she'd have her lesson in litterbox training which was a pan of sand...
she'd get sand on the goop and it would literally set up like that. :p)
A little bit of wiping them off right after they eat with a damp soft paper
towel and dry them off after goes a long ways. You might have to work
on it a bit with the damp towel to soften the concrete and get it off, but
it will come. Just be most careful that they don't get chilled and that
they
are totally dry afterwards..
My kitten got one to three baths a day in the bathroom sink, with careful
dryings off, from 2 1/2 to six weeks old...to this day she has *no* fear
of 'dreaded *CAT SOLVENT*' (water). Don't bathe your gerbil babies,
just use patience and the damp towel/dry towel bit.
