Happy #Baturday!

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

Happy #Baturday! I have an extra special introduction this week.

🥹 Please meet Una.

She is this season’s first orphaned bat, and she is the very first neonate I’ve rehabbed.

Una’s origin story is murky and sad but I will post that down thread behind a CW.
#BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry

[cheeseness@mastodon.social]

@mycrowgirl Thank you for being a friend to bats

[cliphead@social.cologne]

@mycrowgirl
Awwww! 🤩

[catsalad@infosec.exchange]

@mycrowgirl
I was looking at the little one thinking, "oh she's so tiny"... Then I notice the fingers holding her.

She REALLY tiny!!!

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

All we know about Una’s origin story is that two very kind young dudes drove almost an hour to bring her to me on Monday after they found her while out on a walk.

She still had a fresh placenta and umbilical cord attached, and she was at least a little premature. Her mother was nowhere in sight and we know there wasn’t an active colony in the immediate vicinity. That makes it likely that the mother was snagged by a predator in the predawn hours and Una came out in the ensuing struggle.

Which is very sad!

But despite that, Una arrived at my house absolutely shouting at me to feed and take care of her. And so I do!

Neonates require round the clock care and have to be fed every couple of hours and stimulated to empty their bladder and bowels. They also need to be kept warm and engaged. These are social creatures and actively seek their mama.

Their nutritional needs mean a constant adjustments to the ingredients we compound to make their formula. Because they are so very tiny and have such a high metabolism it’s incredibly easy for them to crash if even on thing gets out of whack.

A challenge that Una had apparently decided I’m up for tackling.

Even though Una has decided that I’m her parent now, these bats don’t “imprint” on their caregivers, so if she makes it through she will be fully releasable by late summer.

Caveat: Don’t try this at home. I’m trained, licensed, and vaccinated!

[chillybot@infosec.exchange]

@mycrowgirl
Lisa is Una's adoptive momma

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

@catsalad she was just over 1.3 grams when she arrived 🥺

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

@chillybot it me 🥹

[ainsleylowbeer@mastodon.social]

@mycrowgirl

@batkaren they found your child.

[eetschrijver@mastodon.social]

@mycrowgirl Oh, my heart!

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

More Una for this #Baturday!
Volume up for shouty baby.
#BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry

[chillybot@infosec.exchange]

@mycrowgirl
The squeaks means she lovvess yoouuu

[chip_unicorn@im-in.space]

@mycrowgirl
squeeeees so high that only Una can hear their voice

Hi Una!

Drink lots of milk so you can grow strong and catch lots and lots of bugs!

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

OK, brace yourself.

I don’t know if you can handle the cute levels in this picture.
#Baturday #BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry

[friscolala@sfba.social]

@mycrowgirl 🥹

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

@Chip_Unicorn i should tell folx that I’m growing my own winged tiny nano-demon army to fight the hordes of vampire insects plaguing my bog

[realsimon@mastodon.green]

@mycrowgirl for such a small thing she has a lot to say

[nosirrahsec@infosec.exchange]

@mycrowgirl oh. my. god.

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

@NosirrahSec 🥹 so smol 🤏

[mycrowgirl@flipping.rocks]

Another volume-up for squeaks 🥹.

She was hunting for finger nipples
#Baturday #BatsInBlankets #BatsInMyBelfry