Posted by Neese When she was a baby I fed her dry cat food that had been soaked overnight in water and made it really soupy so it easy to feed her. I added a little suet and to it too. I used a dropper and fed the formula to her every hour. She was so small that I took her with me to work in a little warmer, it was a small souvenir box and I went to WalMart and bought those warmer packets that heat on their own when you shake them. I put them in the bottom of the box and filled it with quilt stuffings. After about a month she would eat every couple of hours and the food did not have to be soupy just softened. I put about a half cup of dry Deli Cat in a sandwich bag, put in half that amount of water in it so the dry food would absorb it and each one would puff up. She loved it and I was able to feed her about 5-6 each feeding. She grew up and continued to eat that moistened puffed up Deli Cat food for the rest of her life. Once grown I fed her each morning a small hand full of the puffed cat food along with a vegetable or hulled peanuts, canned peas and things like that. She loved grapes and lima beans but we would have to remove the outer hull of the lima's and crack the grapes just a bit. Her beak was crooked too so she was challenged in that way as well. One of her favorite foods was diced potatoes and of course un-salted crackers. She loved to break them up and hid them under her little rug or in one of her many hiding spots in her enviroment we created for her. We made a bird bath and drinking pond for her out of a low kitty pan that had two sections, she loved taking her bath in the one and the other side was her drinking water. We named her Chipper, I taught her how to jump on her little stubby legs by manually lifting her and after several months she learned this was the best way to move around. She learned her name, you could call her and she would come hoping over. She knew how to turn on a little TV we had in her room where the special house was we had built for her to accomodate her shortcomings. She played with jax balls and the caps from pop bottles. Hiding them in special corners and under things along with her snack stashes. She was a bright light for us for over six years. She even could meow just like a cat because we had four and she heard them on the other side of her door. We installed a glass door on the room where her house was so she could see out and be part of the family and my office was in her room so I would take her out and let her sit on my shoulder when I was in there working. Along with making regular blue jay calls and songs she could make the sound of the fax machine and phone because she heard them in the office. Chipper lived for nearly 7-years and we loved her very, very much. She was a wonderful member of our family. Good Luck
on 7/26/2004, 12:30 am, in reply to "baby blue fell from nest"
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I raised a baby that was kicked out by its mother becuase it was deformed. It had only one wing and no feet, just stubs. I was only a few days old from what the vet told us. Our vet gave her antibiotics to safegaurd against infection and wished me the best at trying to help it. She said it was so small and defective it's chances of surviving the were small. I wanted to try to save her so I took her home after two days there.
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