Sad baby story

[dpastern]

Rather sad story, found it our near the bird cage on the ground. I nearly trod on it by accident before I noticed it. Ants were all around, mum was nowhere to be seen, so I picked it up. I knew that as soon as I picked it up, it was doom, but I didn't expect mum to come get it, and the ants would have finished it off quickly.

I don't have any girl mice anymore, so I tried to coax one of my girl ratties who's had a litter before, Buffy, to see if she'd try and rear it. She was interested, picked it up and moved it around but lost interest quickly. I left it in the ratties cage, they didn't hurt it, and I found it in the food bowl this morning, it had obviously been put there by Buffy I'd say. It wasn't doing very well, and was very cold and I knew it wasn't going to make it, but at least it lasted longer than it would have on the ground, and died not being someones meal. I came home from work tonight to find its tiny body cold and lifeless :(

Image below was taken with it well and truly alive.

http://www.macro-images.com/web/_DN_2866.jpg

it's the first "pinkie" I've ever seen and was adorable. It kept reaching its little legs out towards my fingers, wanting to be looked after. When it's little legs touched my finger, it seemed content. I'll bury the poor little thing tomorrow.

Yes, it's a baby wild mouse, but it's still a living thing and deserved to be treated with respect and maybe a bit of love before it passed on.

Dave

[Octane]

What a great picture, and a sad and touching story. :(

Good on you for doing everything you could for the little fella.

Regards,
Humayun

[matt]

That's sad.

And you did the right thing, David. You gave it a chance. :thumbsup:

[dpastern]

It had very little chance of surviving. If I'd still had female mice as pets, and one had a litter, it might have stood a chance. Might have. As it was, it had no chance, despite my attempts to try and see if my only pet rodents would possibly respond (very highly unlikely). At least it died peacefully. It seems like it was less than a day old. Such a short and sad life :(

Dave

[leon]

Well David you gave it it's best chance of survival, you are obviously a very caring person.

Leon

[dpastern]

Thanks Leon. It wasn't hurting me, and it wasn't going to hurt me trying to at least give it a happier and safer final hours of life. Yes, it was a "vermin", but I tend to treat animals the same way I treat humans. I find most other humans are callous and uncaring - if it isn't human, the attitude is "who cares", and it's very sad. Life is life, whether it's human or not.

Dave

[ving]

poor lil' bugger.