On Sun, 1 Apr 2001 16:02:57 -0700, ABCgerbils wrote:
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>Hi Katie, I think we may have steered you wrong!!
>Nine is way too big of a litter size!! If I were you
>I would return the pup and two more to the original
>mother, if she has not been too long without the pup.
>Usually in a litter of nine you will have some losses.
>
>
>What do other people think on this!
>
Yep, like I said before, nine is a lot, and gives you a rather high change
of loosing one or more pups. When you want to save all the pups, best would
be to foster one or two pups from the 8-pups litter to the mother of the
single pup. She obviously did have enough milk so far, so she will surely
have milk for three as well!
>> So far the mom of the lone pup is going crazy
>> looking for her pup---I put
>> some cardboard tubes in to try and distract her, but
>> she is looking around
>> like crazy.
Yes, because she already nursed her pup, it can be rather painful for her
not to be able to nurse any more, the milk will continue coming, and this
might really disturb her.
Good luck!
Karin.
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