hat night so I put her on a heating pad in a bowl
>  by our bed, offered breastmilk a few times and that baby slept
through
>  the night.  The next day, after another breastmilk feed I brought the
>  pup in, told 'em what I'd fed her and told them I didn't think their
>  suggestion of water only was a good idea.  The pup looked great by
then >>
>
> Your story really touched me.  How many people upon seeing a baby
rodent would
> actually care enough to try and take care of it, let alone offer it
their own
> milk?  That is one of the sweetest stories I have ever heard.  Pat
yourself on
> the back, you are one in a million!
>

Kim- I'm surprised.  WOuldn't everyone do that?  Really.  I dont' see
it as an issue.  I would no more let a baby rodent lie there as I
would a kitten or a baby person.  Doesn't everyone, when hearing about
another infanticide say "Hey- *I'll* take your baby if you dont' want
her!".

I still think about a squirrel I saw get hit by a car and needed to be
put out of it's misery, but it was at the intersection of two very
busy roads and I just couldn't get to it.  That was over 10 years ago.
 When I was in Tijuana I wanted to dose all the street dogs with
antibiotics to heal their abscesses.  Wouldn't you?

Just some thoughts I had when I read your response.


==

Kate Hallberg, mom to Ursula (wow! 4) and Sage (1.5)
http://www.cs.colorado.edu/~kolina
"It is the job of the physician to find health, anyone can find disease"
- A.T.Still, "Philosophy of Osteopathy",1886
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