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> "Sheldon" > wrote:
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>> Here's Jack and Jilly at about one week, just finished their eye
>> dropper feeding. I rescued them as newborns in my backyard, their
>> mother was too young and abandoned them. There were two others but
>> they were already goners, another few hours and Jack and Jilly would
>> not have made it either... was a LOT of work getting them to survive,
>> they were very sick, a LOT of money too. But was well worth it, I'd
>> not trade them for anything, they're priceless.
>>
>> http://tinypic.com/e6cei0.jpg
>
> Looks like the one on the left needed eye treatments? :-)
>
> We've bottle raised kittens from nearly newborn as well. Eyes still
> closed... A lot of work but OH so worth it!
>
> Sheldon, have you noted that bottle raised cats are exceptionally loving
> and attached to their humans, more so than others?
>
> Also, we always used KMR and every time ended up having to take the
> babies to the vet for constipation. She always gave us "Laxatone" and a
> little pea sized portion of that with each formula feeding always took
> care of it. Did you run into that problem?
>
> We've bottle raised 8 kittens total over the years. 3 orphaned litters.
>
> Also 3 litters of baby skunks that were later turned over to wildlife
> rescue after weaning. They were SO special:
>
> http://tinypic.com/e6soc6.jpg
> http://tinypic.com/e6soli.jpg
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> That is my little sister holding them, and this pair was about 6 weeks
> old in that picture. We took them out in the back yard for exercize. And
> no, they never sprayed us. We got them at less than a week old, eyes
> still closed. Baby skunks are raised on KMR kitten formula.
>
> I wish it was legal to keep them as pets in Texas. IMHO they are better
> than ferrets!

This is the first time I see a domestic skunk
Pan

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