(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.

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.

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