improving

things here are improving, just a little with mouse but leaps and bounds with Hope, Jimmy and Sabrina.

I started the other 3 on canned food yesterday, nobody really had any interest, so today I ran it through the bullet with some formula added to make it runny. I bottle fed it to them and between the 3 of them they drank an full 2 ounces. I was surprised at how much they took and how well they did. Litter training is going well, Hope has been the most successful of the 3, but I expect the other 2 will watch and follow her lead and be trained within a few days. They are out of their infant boxes thru the day but at night will be returning the boxes, simply b/c I can't stay up all night and watch keep her off of him. Perhaps now with the solids, she will feel the need to suck less. Sabrina is now starting to suck more than used to, so I am on top of it the best I can be and when i see it happening I move them away from him. Hope is stubborn though, no matter how many times I move her she goes right back to him and nothing deters her.

Mouse is doing just ok, his weight this morning was really disheartening, he gained only 3 measly grams in the 48hrs he has been here. I really want to see some bigger and better numbers soon. The older he gets without growing can have some serous issues for him. He needs to grow and he needs to start growing at a semi normal rate. I wonder if he has something genetic maybe and this is preventing the growth? I am gonna give it another few days before I go to the next step if there is one, and have no clue what that might even be. I hope I am not trying to keep him alive for nothing, I hope he does have a promising future. he had a huge poop today, that required a bath to get him looking good, he hated it but I will admit he smells pretty good now :)

Their weights are as follows

Jimmy - 363G an increase of 25G

Hope - 336G a small gain of 15G

Sabrina - a gain of 23G

Jimmy - 136G, you all know how i feel about this, so I won't bore you with my sadness.