tragic abandoned baby mouse

My cat dropped this baby mouse on my porch. His eyes are not even open yet. It's tragic. I cannot feed him - cow or goat milk will bloat & kill him. I tried to put him back in the forest & he broke my heart as he tried to move around, unable to see. I have him in a box & will have to decide what to do. I think a one in a million chance to find his mom would be better than dying in my home. What a devastating thing to wake up to. I cannot bear to see abandoned babies, especially when I'm unable to do anything about it.

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Pets & Animals

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• mouse
• cat
• sad
• tragic
• tears
• abandoned

[mariesadler]

I found a baby deer mouse that was about 10 days old. I fed her kitten formula every couple hrs from an eyedropper. I kept her cage warm with a heating pad set on low. I still have her almost 2 yrs later. You can feed baby mice kitten formula and they will do fine.

[jzathey]

Thank you Marie. i will remember for next time.  Rodents are quite amazing creatures.

[twifan1011]

My friend found a field mouse on his doorstep and we made a nest for him but he looked quite week and shocked. We were told that budgie seeds were good to feed him so we gave him some seed and chees and bread and we pippetted water into his mouth if he wanted a drink.His back left leg kept giving in. We kept him warm but he didnt make it.We buried him under the big tree in the field in a little round boz which said on it "R.I.P Tiny" We but some tissue in and a flower in his box too. R.I.P Tiny

[jzathey]

Sweet story. Thank you for sharing.

[pdonyin0]

I have weak spot for rodents, even though they are considered vermin. I truely understand that all babies deserve a chance in life, even if they were just parasites. I know we don't feel like it's a big deal when we exterminate all the bugs and rodents that's in our living space, but somehow when we are faced to face with a hurt and injured animal, we can't help it but let our compassion take over. It's only human that we're such hypocrites.

[jzathey]

Yeah, it's a tough call. I have a video about saving a snake, devastated when it died. Find it on my site. Further to your thoughts, bad karma must certainly come when we pump our cancer stricken humans with chemo drugs & radiation & render their bodies unfit for animal consumption, totally toxic. No wonder they put them in coffins. It's why I am vegan and why I live in peace with the world. One day I save a rodent, one day a spider, one day a human, and hopefully, one day myself. Hugs.

[ZachariasLePuertre]

@jzathey It's not really "good karma" - save a mouse, starve a snake. If nature sees it as "bad" for a snake to eat a mouse, it sure has a strange way of showing it. So go ahead, try accruing "good karma" by saving a mouse from being fed to a snake. It will all be undone by your simultaneous attempt to starve a snake. Not good either way. ;-)

[RetroNun]

I just found a baby mouse abandoned in my living room. I am keeping him warm and actually gave him a q-tip with cow milk (hey...at least it's something) and he sucked a little. I hope he lives. But I have tried to help baby mice before and they died ;/

[zookeeper2345]

@mariesadler iom taking care of one and feeding him puppy formula he loves it!

[TheVictoriaChick]

.is that thing barking.

[DarkAngelAzreil]

Get kitten milk replacment not puppy milk. The puppy milk is not good for them. Once mice have grown their fur in they are a lot easyer to hand raise. It is very hard however to handraise babies who are still hairless since they need extra extra care and attention. Don't forget to whip their bums with a VERY damp cloth to help them use the bathroom after feeding.

[MultiGemmiee]

OMG That i so sweet of you but the dog barking may scare him/she to death cause that can happen and cause it is only a baby lets hope he/she makes it

[hannahmoonvirginnet]

r bless thats SO cute well done :0) it must have been in shock poor little thing aftre its ordeal!! bless!! i LOVE mice, thats so sweet u kept him/her i bet it loved u coz it looked like it was trying to nestle against your hand, thinks ur its mum now :0) i have 3 mice (used to be 4:( ) will post vid soon :0) x what was this one's name? x

[1996bambi]

@TheYellowtulip the reason i sed he was in a better place was because i no how it felt when my orphaned mouse died n it was horrible having the only thing worth living for ( to help it live ) sundenly go for ever rips a hole out off you .depression is an awfull thing n suddenly having something worth living for can pull you out off the deepest sadness i had no meening i was thinking of leaving this earth if u understand but then i had something that needed me n i didnt give up