So heres the back story I just stared breeding rats for feeders I got like 5 litters worth of experiance as of now. Well a week ago my Blue hooded gave birth to her first litter of 9. . I got to noticing that one of the baby's was always out of the nest and looked much smaller than the others. I thought runt. Then I noticed that it wasn't eating that I could see. I have heard that sometimes moms will abandon a pup or tow if there are to many or its their first litter. So I have another mom with a litter the same size. So if figured try and stick that pup with the other mom. No luck same story.

well this morning I saw that the little girl was way skinny from not eating so I was going to feed her off tonight. I picked her up and gave it the once over and noticed something. Why wasn't it opening its mouth to squeak. Her litter mates would open theirs then it hit me. HER MOUTH IS FUSED!!!!.

Sure enough after gentle looking sure enough her lips were fused together so with a clean fresh exacto-knife and a steady hand I made a clean incision and open goes the mouth no blood and lots of smacking and squeaking. So I stuck her back in and with in 10 minutes she was nursing and then fell asleep with a nice big milk band.

I so proud of myself.

Thanks for listening