There is a mouse in my house!!!

My 8 year old got up this morning and was snooping around. She came across the basket that was housing last nights arrival. I was awake but dozing on the chair where I had been all night with the kitten. I her her come to me and I feel her poke me and say "mommy there is a mouse in the house" when I asked her where she saw a mouse, she said "in the basket, you know the basket where the fed kittens go til they are all done"...I laughed, she was less than impressed by me laughing. The "Mouse" she was talking about was the new arrival....so thats how Mouse got his name!

was a very long night, Mouse refused to eat, I spent most of the night with him laying on my chest while I rested in the chair, I tried to feed him every hour without much if any success at all. Finally at 5:30 I put him back in his basket. He has finally managed to eat a tiny amount, and pee a small amount. He is currently at the vet's with Mary to get him looked over and see if there is another cause of his smallness.

The 3 other babies are in a room today and so far so good. I have started stretching their feeds to every 4 hrs in the day in hopes they will digress and try the food I have set out for them. these 3 are all stubborn little babies...Hope still is sucking but I am having some success with giving her a small shake and a growl or hiss when I catch her, she won't give up but she does leave him alone for a few mins.

Sabrina is also at the vet's with mary and Mouse, as she is still very bloated and I wanted her to be looked at to determine if there is a reason why, she is only eating abou 10-15lms at a time, most times, but will expand a bit up to 16 or 17 if she is in the mood.

Their weights are as follows

Hope : 321G an increase of 20G

Jimmy : 338G qn increase of 22G

Sabrina - 315G an increase of 31G

Mouse - 133G an increase of 3G

I will post vet updates when I know what they are.

***VET update*** Both Sabrina and Mouse have been returned to me (yay). Sabrina is healthy and the vet agrees that she is a bit bloated, they gave her a hot of something that will hopefully help with that. Other than that her report was awesome, good weight, looks good, meeting milestones etc etc.

Mouse was given a/b which I expected, they also opened his eye and they said there is a film over top of the eyeball (a membrane) not sure if that membrane will clear or if he will even have an actual eye behind that. Time will tell. He is about 2 week sold by their best guess but is VERY tiny, he weighs as much as a newborn kitten should weigh. I am to keep him separated from the others, not b/c they think he is contagious but because he will need to rest more than the others will and he needs to grow a bit.

So thats the latest update, things are well or seem to be and all 4 babies are home with me where they belong for now. I have asked for either Hope or Jimmy to be rehomed, Hope just will not stop sucking on him and I really fear the damage that she could be causing, it may be invisable damage now, but later in life could be terrible. So Mary is working on finding someone who will take him and continue supplementing him with his bottles...I think it will be easier to place him than it will Hope, given the fact that she is the issue and she will be an issue anywhere she goes at this point. She will probably be a blanket sucker for the rest of her life.

I wanted to add some new pics of Mouse and the rest, so you can see just how tiny he is. Keep in mind he is just a few days at best behind Sabrina (the grey one), and Jimmy (the darker tabby)

This is Mouse, the littlest one there


This gives a better idea of his minature size.


Mouse and Sabrina snuggled up after their visit to the vet