Really weird baby...

[Egapal]

Alright, you can say what you like, that is fine. The facts are that it ate very well but did not grow. It did not die of starvation, it died from being fed and i find it rather funny that you try to twist the words to make it seem like it starved to death. Like I have said, there was no suffering for this animal. I have seen puppies born small and stay smaller and thin up until about 4 months old. They ate just fine, but stayed smaller and thinner than the littermates. They all turned out healthy and happy, just a little smaller. This was not a puppy, it was a feeder and after not making as much progress as I had wanted, it was fed. I have had my fair share of fail to thrive babies. They are listless, separated from the group, sometimes abandoned by the mother, cant hold their own with their siblings etc. There was no evidence of that here. No I do not feel I made the wrong decision by letting it have a decent chance to grow being that there was no discomfort for it. Just because something is small doesnt mean it's in pain. And you're right, more ASFs will suffer the fate of being eaten while in my care. Curse on me!

You really don't understand starvation. You can be eating and still starve. Weight gain is very very simple. Its a matter of mass in minus mass out equals weight gained. There are only three major ways to lose mass normally. Respirate, urinate, or defecate. Mass does not simply disappear. If the animal was eating most of its food was passing straight through or else it would have gained mass. If the animal was not growing the animal was starving. I understand that you have seen runt puppies. The point is that you had never seen an ASF that looked like that. If you had a puppy that didn't grow to the point that its mother gave birth again and her new pups had reached the same size anyone would tell you that your runt is not just a runt. There is something seriously wrong. You can't compare ASF's to puppies or people. They are very different.