GO GO Jasmine!

[quietann]

It's nearly 2 days since Jasmine took on Eva's babies, and...

ALL 17 babies are still alive! A few are very, very small, and they are all a bit skinnier than I'd like, but Jasmine is feeding them about 20 hours per day and they are definitely growing.

Telling who came from which litter will be... interesting. There are 3 rexes, a girl and 2 boys, and I know they are Jasmine's. The ones with red eyes are 99% surely Eva's, as are the American blues. Everyone else... well, we'll see.



Here are the boys, 6 of Jasmine's and 4 of Eva's:


And the girls, 3 of Jasmine's and 4 of Eva's. The teeny tiny light colored girl had a very nice milk tummy, and she's gotten quite a bit bigger:


And here is SuperMom Jasmine in her nest, very suspicious of what we might be up to:

Comments

[sarahshevett.livejournal.com]

Can you mark them when they're little? Like a snip off of their tail or a cut in their ear?

[ratgrl.livejournal.com]

GO Jasmine! What an awesome momma. Such a good girl! Those babies look great, all those tums. Still thinking good thoughts for her!

[sweetmmeblue.livejournal.com]

How much is supermom getting to eat and sleep?

[quietann.livejournal.com]

I normally use a Sharpie marker but it has to be redone almost every day; mama rats clean their kids a LOT.

And I really should have done it, or at least taken a photo, *before* I put the two litters together. But it was 1:30 in the morning and I was panicking, so that just got lost in the shuffle.

[quietann.livejournal.com]

When she's not on her nest, she's eating, or guarding the nest. She actually sleeps a lot while she's nursing them.

[daynavon.livejournal.com]

She does look extremely suspicious.

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

go go supermom! and yay for more rat cuteness! :-)

(that pic of Jasmine makes me want to photoshopgimp up a "rat macro".)

[thespian.livejournal.com]

[quietann.livejournal.com]

***cracks up***

[bikergeek.livejournal.com]

[halleyscomet.livejournal.com]

I foresee a few submissions to icanhascheezburger.com coming from this thread...

[gingicat]

Yay healthy adopted and not-adopted rat babies! Go Jasmine!

[tinyankletbells.livejournal.com]

(Hi! I wandered in from bikergeek's lj. Jasmine's pic was irresistible.)

[quietann.livejournal.com]

thanks! She was really more concerned about her babies than her nest, but yes, paperrrr