(You warm baby rodent formula in a water-bath to improve digestibility, but if you feed many babies often, the risk of absentmindedly drinking the "syringe water" increases to levels of inevitablility...)

They're so people oriented when you have to raise them as a single. This is Drip, one of my recent orphans.

We were Pandemic Bonded. Sometimes I feel like I'll never meet a rodent that clever again, but I know that's not true. Most of them are that clever- I just don't teach them to human. I teach them to be wild now.

Try another reader. I think Moon reader was a lot more direct about finding epub and pdf files and making them accessible from within the app. More download/less side-load. (This was from a bog standard android tablet or iPad, though.)

"If you want to wean a mouse, turn to page 14. If you want to wean a chipmunk, turn to page 15. If you want to wean a flying squirrel, come back in 4 weeks and turn to page 16 (It's gonna take FOREVER.)."

Heimdall had a dedicated snack drawer and water bottle on my desk and used to hide almonds in my hanging file. I still find them among my gas bills and car insurance records.

I had a deer mouse named Heimdall that I bonded to like that. I miss that little stinker. She just passed earlier this year.

pecan!

They crack me up so hard when they sleep like that with their head between their feets... <3

My babies that are less than a year old never go into torpor. I never really realized it was a thing until I had an older chipmunk in winter rather than a baby that wasn't old enough to be released before winter. (I do wildlife rehabilitation for native eastern chipmunks here.)

I'm always so paranoid about that when I transport eyes-open wilds. O_O ESPECIALLY the ones that are meant to be released in groups.

I don't generally see them LAND like that... They're usually more spread out like a sky-diver or a falling cat. HOWEVER they DO stretch in that pose when they're feeling relaxed - which probably makes them a lot easier to photograph that way.

I think all the chippies here started torpor in early October. I've barely seen or heard them since September.