Okay, so there's a new game plan. Aurora has an appointment on Wednesday to get her lump looked at, and possibly aspirated. I'm going to bring both her, and the baby, to get the baby checked out too, just to make sure it's healthy, and to find out its species and gender. While I'm there I'm going to ask for the number for the wild life rehabilitator, and give them a call MYSELF so I can make absolute sure that they know exactly what they're doing, and I can find out how they're going to do it.
Worst comes to worst, I'll just keep on keepin' on if I don't feel ABSOLUTELY one hundred percent about the rehab situation, but it sucks that this happened RIGHT NOW, because I'm officially leaving for school in September, and while I'm gone my parents are going to care for my rats. I'm trying my damn hardest not to get too close to the baby, and ABSOLUTELY only touch/handle it when necessary, but it's a little difficult to do that with frequent feedings. :wallbang: I just don't want to unload another rodent onto them when I leave, especially one who may have special needs considering it's a wildling and may not be that tame/friendly and therefore have specific handling needs. They're great with the rats.. but those are tame, chubby, social rodents who are all over a year old.
But to update on the baby itself, the little thing is moving around a LOT more now that I've gotten the feeding thing down, and it's getting situated into it's environment. Where, before, I could leave for work, come back on my lunch for a feeding, and the only giveaway that a rodent was in the cage at all was a little lump in the corner under a flap of fleece on the heating pad, NOW when I come home, the two plushies in there with it are tipped over, and the fleece is always disheveled. Baby has been going to the bathroom by itself! :dance: I still stimulate after feedings, but for the most part the baby seems to be able to use the potty on its own. Also, it seems to have taken a liking to lab blocks soaked in formula, I leave one in there in a Snapple cap as a make shift dish (I also leave one with some formula thickened with a bit of baby cereal) But the block is always noticably nibbled, where as the formula/cereal mixture isn't disturbed too much.