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Old 03-12-2007, 04:18 PM   #1
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Nothing I can do about it now it has just been a depressing start of the week for me. I am not sure what went wrong but an experienced pair of suns with 4 babies with a differnce in age of 8 days decided to feed the tiny ones the same larger size food as the oldest baby. As a result I lost 3 babies today. They are usually such good parents taking care to give appropriate food to each baby. To make matters worse my kitty died yesterday of luekemia, so the loss of the babies is just the last straw.
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I'm sorry to hear about your cat and the babies! I hope things start looking up for you.
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Oh Angie, I am so sorry to hear you lost your cat and your babies. You've certainly had a rough couple of days.
Hang in there!!
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I'm sorry Angie. I hope things start looking up!
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Angie

We are so sorry for the bad start to your week. Hopefully things will get better as the week goes on.

So sorry to hear about the babies and the kitty.
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Oh gosh. I'm so sorry Angie. More then you can bear I'm sure. Things will get better. Hang in there.
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I am soo sorry Angie, things will get better though, keep your chin up
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Oh gosh. I'm so sorry about the babies and your kitty. Fly and run free little ones.
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"........experienced pair of suns with 4 babies with a differnce in age of 8 days decided to feed the tiny ones the same larger size food as the oldest baby. As a result I lost 3 babies today. They are usually such good parents taking care to give appropriate food to each baby......
So what were the parents feeding those babies that was too large for them?
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So what were the parents feeding those babies that was too large for them?
I was sort of wondering this as well! I don't have any experience with watching parents feed babies, but I just assumed they fed them regurgitated food. Wouldn't that just be runny? I figured it would be the same consistency of the formula Ollie ate as a baby. No?
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