Meet Biff

Here’s our newest kitten, Biff (baby mice are called kittens). We found him, abandoned, in our yard over the weekend. I didn’t want to blog about him until I was certain that he was going to survive. This photo is from a video capture taken last night. I apologize for the poor quality, but I wanted to give you an idea of his size compared to DH’s thumb. And he’s already much bigger than he was when we first found him. His eyes are still unopened.

At first, we tried to feed him regular milk – he hated that. We bought KMR (kitten milk) at the pet store. He hated that. Back to the pet store we went and picked up ESBILAC (puppy milk) – BINGO! He loves it!!! He seems to be thriving. We get up every few hours to feed him – we both get up because it’s a two man operation, trust me. We figure we have at least $50.00 invested in him already and we haven’t even bought him housing, yet. Right now, he is living in a shredded tissue nest we made for him in a plastic lazy susan in a cardboard box on top of a heating pad – so he is toasty warm. We are both quite smitten with him. DH can’t wait to buy him his first car.

Biff