Today, I was happily pottering around at work when I saw my colleague coming in with something pinkish in her hands.
*GASP*Â
RAT BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Apparently, a little boy found the baby sizzling like teppanyaki near a wall of the coffeehouse near my workplace.
My boss told me to get Evaporated Milk.
While we were syringe feeding the lil’ fella (he’s a boy), the boy (the human one) ran in and shouted that there were more.
So my colleague and I rushed to the crime scene where the boy was and true enough, there was ANOTHER rat baby against the wall!
We picked that one up and *PLOP* came another! It was like a Rat Baby Dispensing Machine! We figured that the wall was hollow and Rat Mommy must have built her not-so-secure nest behind that wall.
Sigh. In total, we have FOUR Rat Babies. They are about only a day old.
They squirm and screech in their high pitched voices. They have to be fed every two hours.
I found out that rats (as well as other rodents, cats and dogs) would lick their babies to stimulate their pooping and peeing. As foster moms, we have to do that to the foursome too.
‘Cept that we don’t lick their genitals. We have to use wet cotton buds to rub their tummies and bummies.
They are with me for the night. I don’t think they’d survive though. Very slim chances of them surviving. Will try anyhow.
There goes my beauty sleep.
Will take more pictures later. They’re not exactly photogenic though.
SnooooozzeeeeÂ
