New PCF

[Moonfall]

He gulped down a pinhead from my hand. PCFs are so incredible- adapting to captivity and human hands that way just seems remarkable to me.

So, he's eating, too. <3 I think he will make it unless there's a wound I cannot see that gets infected.

[Badger]

Good, make sure he's not losing any weight (indicative of parasites).

[Moonfall]

How do you even tell? He's huge and fat now, but having more water in his body makes him larger, less makes him "shrink". Yesterday he looked awful.

I have a gram scale (for my mice!), am I crazy to try to weigh him if I notice a change in appearance?

[artes]

Join the club Moonfall. Animals always know how to find the people with "SUCKER" tattooed on their forehead. That's how I ended up with 7 cats (all rescues) and that's just the tip of the iceberg.

Edit: As for roaches, you could do what I'm going to do with my colony - earmark the parents as "pets", and call the babies "lunch".

[Badger]

Lol @artes ,and no, weighing is actually a good idea.

[Moonfall]

They are great at picking out the suckers. One of my favorite bratmonsters is out playing with me- an ex-feeder mouse. He showed his cute face in the feeder tank- he knew what he was doing. I obsessed about how he was going to die, and went back to save him the next day. Now he's running around on my brand new fancy (and not cheap, it was a gift) bathrobe. Probably going to mark it and then it'll smell like skunk butt.

Oh, and the three roosters? Yeah, they knew what they were doing, too. All of my creatures pulled the right cards, either the show up hurt/in distress card, the I'm-gonna-die-soon card, or the I'M CUTE card. I don't know how they find me. I don't. But I'm the biggest sucker ever and I -love- to have my creatures and take care of them. They're lucky I love them, the late-night vet trips, working my butt off to make money, and cage cleaning get really old sometimes.

And, okay. :3 I will see what I can do about that. I have to find the scale first, it's vanished. It has to be here somewhere. I haven't used it since August, when I had an orphaned baby deer mouse. Poor thing, she had internal stuff, opened her eyes while she looked like a week old pup, she had bloat that recurred, and she died the day after her little eyes opened.

Anyway. Off topic, sorry.