What do you feed a baby mouse whose eyes aren't open yet?

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Here's a good resource: http://mouseranch.com/FYI/orphans.shtml

Your first option is going to be to try and find a local pet store with a mother that's about to give birth, or has recently given birth so she's still lactating etc...

If that's not an option, you're on to hand caring for it.

One thing MICE CANNOT DIGEST COWS MILK. When you go to the pet store pick up some baby/kitten milk (premixed ($9/can) or the powder($?), but if you get powder make sure to dilute it twice as much as the directions say.) You'll want a heating pad too (around $30) if you can't afford that, a bottle of WARM NOT HOT water in one side of the cage will do, just keep it warm, keep it under the cage itself (for the heating pad), or under the blankets in the cage, ONLY PUT IT IN HALF THE CAGE, that way if it needs to get away from the heat it has somewhere to go. It's going to need to be fed once every 1 to 2 hours, if it's still a pinky (and I'm not sure if you need to do this after it starts growing hair or not, just wait some time and check to see if he goes on his own) you need to get a q-tip with warm water on it and rub it on it's stomach and around it's butt to get it to go to the bathroom, otherwise it will die from poison from it's own waste.

That's the basics, just checkout the site I linked above. It's sad to see them go, mine died just today and cried for about an hour. It's really sad =(, I wish I had found those sites earlier, I think he got too cold, I felt absolutely HORRIBLE.

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