So...this past week hasn't been terribly great for my Lion Head Kizzy and her litter. It started with the moving of her and her litter out of the hutch and into a wire cage. Her broken blue female fell out one night, crawled into the cage of my Lion Head female Hera, where she was attached by Hera and sadly, killed. Then one of the albino females fell out as well - after I hung up baby proof wire all around! I found her in the food dish, inside of my Giant Flemish male Chuck's cage. Luckily, he didn't harm her at all.
I put her back after examining the cage, finding no spots or holes where she could have slipped through. The next day, I found her underneath a hutch, with her nose ripped up. I put her back with her litter mates and Kizzy licked her nose clean. The next few days I kept a close eye on her, and she always stayed in her cage. Then I went out yesterday so see her lying dead...squished. Kizzy had accidentally sat on her during the night.
I was beyond crushed to see what had happened...and especially to lose 2 unbelievably sweet and adorable little females. So Kizzy now has 3 babies left.
Above, her black/white male and below, her black VM female.
And here's her albino female.
Hopefully these 3 will do much better. Ever since Kizzy gave birth to these 5, the broken blue and the one albino female were always much smaller. Small enough to possibly even of been peanuts. So while it was devastating to lose them, I think these remaining 3 will be perfectly fine, as they have always been bigger and stronger.
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