Squee Updates!

Sometimes I think maybe I should just title posts with the day I'm writing about. Hmmm... maybe that wouldn't be a bad idea?

I know I'm behind on Squee updates, between Squee, two cats and four kids... I hardly remember to write for my main blog let alone this one. @_@

Here's the video I promised of my 8 year old enjoying some Squee time! <3

Squee's eyes are getting more and more open at this point! Actually as of Today I think his/er eyes are almost able to fully open! S/he also began to start chewing on things like the paper towels we had down in her little home as bedding along with socks.

So a run to the pet store was in order, and Squee is now very happy with proper Aspen bedding... but still a sock to be sure that there is something to cuddle under.

I'm writing this at 1:06AM PST right after getting done with a feeding. 

Hopefully tomorrow I can get up one of the more recent pictures, where you can see Squee's eyes.

Hmm... for some reason s/he is squeaking a fair bit in the nest. I'm going to go see what's up.

Promise I'll get better pictures ASAP! Ones where you can see eyes and all!

They grow so fast!

Just last Friday when Squee was found, there were hardly any signs of life.
Yesterday, Squee was able to clean his/er own face with its hands, and use a back foot to scratch at an ear!

It's as adorable as it sounds, and I have a video that I will post later.
On top of it, Squee's eyes and ears are starting to open some!! I'm so excited every time I see a tiny little sliver of Squee's eyes instead of just closed lids!

Sadly, I can't manage a good picture of that due to Squee's small size.
Yesterday the girls, well my two oldest, were a big help in keeping an eye on Squee.

Squee even looks so tiny being fed by my 8 year old!

She's enjoying being a big sister to the Squee. 

Like we could blame her right?

It's positively hard not to love every last bit of this teeny Squee.

I am looking forward to even more open eye-ness soon! I can't wait to be able to take pictures of Squee with his/er eyes AND ears open!! 

Squee's Goes on an Trip!

Aka, I had to go pick up the kids out of state at my ex-husbands house. I couldn't imagine the idea of leaving Squee home THAT long.

We were gone for nearly 3 hours total. Squee had gotten hungry and ate about 25 minutes before we had to eave, so armed with the car heat turned on and Squee's food we set out to get the kids.


No, I didn't drive and attempt to care for Squee. My ex (not ex-h) did the drive, while I kept Squee's home/nest on my knee close to one of the vents so s/he had warmth.


yesterday was a miserably cold and rainy day here, even made the house cold and had Squee crying! Awwwww :( )

It just wasn't happening to leave Squee alone knowing that we'd be gone awhile and all that. 

The photo above is Squee in his/er home. The little squished thing at the bottom is yes, Squee! You can see his/er little hand there too right near his/er head!

Squee didn't appear to mind the trip at all. Once s/he's bigger I'll be able to have him/er in a proper cage in order to stay at home because s/he'll be able to eat on his/er own then.

I really can't wait to be able to use the correct gender instead of having to write s/he and him/er! 

My oldest two really wanted to spend some time caring for Squee. So once I went to bed for the night, I left Squee, some prepared food, the cleaned eye-dropper and the heating pad down with them as they slept on the sofa's in the tv room. 

Aside from needing a bit more of a bath than they knew to give, Squee fared fine under the care of his/er big sisters! <3

Squee's third day.

Was actually on the 25th.
I feel like maybe I should go and redate all the posts so that I can do a day by day instead of playing catch up. Or maybe I should just post a couple more posts today just to get everything up to date!

Anyway!

The third day with Squee was the day after our adventure to PetCo to buy powdered KMR. Which was expensive, the smallest can they had was $23! Yikes! But our first day with Squee we'd bought the already liquid KMR. $7 for a can that we could only use for 48 hrs and hardly used any of. >.> Yikes!

One of the cats takes particular interest to watching Squee in his/er tupperware container of a nest. Indeed he managed to bat the container onto it's top end before I startled awake to check on Squee! Thankfully Squee was fine, fast asleep like s/he hadn't even noticed the upset.

Squee gets more energetic and lively each day! Forgive my sitting around in my pajama pants in this video, it was raining that night and so the house was cold. Squee is yes, a Squee-rito ((like a baby gets to be a baby burrito when bundled, Squee becomes Squee-rito!)) while I fed him/er.

I did research last night over if Squee is really a mouse and attempted to figure out Squee's gender.

What I did find/figure out is that Squee is a field mouse, but gender I'm still unsure of. It's hard to tell when they're so teeny!

Once I know of course I will update so everyone else can know too.

Not much that day with Squee. A simple day at home, eating, getting bathed, walking around my hands and being super cute.

Stay tuned for more cuteness, pictures, videos and notes on Squee!

Squee squeaking

I meant to update yesterday, I really really did.
But... that ended up not happening to well huh?

Squee didn't show too many signs of life his/her first day alive until later in the evening at a feeding. I'd been trying to feed him/her and instead, I got this! So I figured I would take a quick video because my ex kept wanting video and... it was too cute not to share!

Right after I managed to get Squee to eat and then given a 'bath'. Squee gets cleaned after each feeding. A warm paper towel and then a dry one to help him/her dry off.

According to the man who works the rodent section of the local PetCo (Petco? petco? PetCO?) Squee appears to be a mouse, at least based off of photos.. @_@ I guess we'll see, I may just have to take Squee in and actually have him take a better look.

We bought Squee powdered KMR. Since it's less expensive to make a little at a time than it is to buy a can and have it go bad 72hrs after you open it. Yeesh.

Squee continues to do well, lively and cute. Took a nap in my hand again the other day because s/he didn't seem to be very settled in the nesting box. Poor baby. :(

Hopefully the video doesn't look as bad as the preview does! IF so.. I may just have to move it over to YouTube and embed it. Ewww...

Well, I will write again. Of course! So much more Squee-tracking to do!

Introducing - Squee

This is Squee. Squee is a teeny baby rat (we think), who was found abandoned on the ground of the Lowes parking lot not far from my house. In fact, poor Squee nearly got stepped on!

Had my ex not done the "oh noo... aww" sound he does when he notices a dead animal on the road, I wouldn't have looked back. Usually I try not to look, but he also did the "what's that?" before it. So of course, I had to examine the situation.

"Oh noo.... poor little...." wait, did I see movement? It was faint, but the poor baby was breathing!

My ex protested as I carefully scooped the little one into my hands. I argue I'll wash my hands, and get shots if I really need to. "Do you think the vet is open?" I'm feeling oddly emotional over the tiny creature, but I can't help it. I couldn't leave it in that parking spot just to get run over by a car, or someones shoe!

Thankfully the vet was open, even if an appointment would have cost a decent chunk of change.

They gave me little hope, but said, if I wanted, I could attempt kitten milk in a medicine dropper and keeping it warm. Done. I was crying because the only other option was leave it to die all alone.

How could I do that? If Squee is going to die, at least I will do everything in my power to see to it that at least its tummy is full and its body is warm so it doesn't die alone.

Or crushed by a car, perhaps maybe even spared. Just to be caught in the storm we had later that night.
Not on my watch darn it.

The day before I'd spent time with my new niece Sarah. She's 6 days old and cute  as can be, teeny, snuggly, and she's suckled on one of my fingers for comfort instead of a pacifier. Just like my kids used to do as babies.

I felt that internal twinge 'have another one!' nope, not happening body.
I had to leave feeling those twinges only to remind myself over and over. No more babies, the youngest just turned 6. You don't need that.

Enter Squee the next day. A tiny baby, all alone in the world. Somehow alive there on the pavement despite everything?

Thank you Universe, I have my 'baby.'
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I have no idea how old Squee is, my current guess is someone bought feeder rats (Squee would be considered a 'fuzzy' according to my research), and one (Squee) got free of the package.

All I know is it has been 32 hours so far since we found Squee. I've washed my hands what feels like a million times. I've been up every 2-3 hours to feed it and bathe it with a warm wash cloth. I've used more Clorox wipes than I can count.

But I don't care, because I've watched this tiny baby go from barely able to twitch and breathe in my hand to being able to walk around my hand, squeak, and feed oh so happily.

Hopefully, s/he survives the long fight and all goes well at a vet appointment so we can keep him/her!

Pictures and video's of Squee's progress will be posted here daily. :)