Eric tasting my thumbnail - no OW!

Eric was found as a pink blob on the pavement - he looked like chewing gum but turned out to be a 7 day old field mouse that was reared on ground corn in water through a hypodermic syringe every two hours for 7 weeks.  He is now the gentle star of the show (see yesterday).  In the extras are a few more beasties  -  a bearded dragon from Australia, a tortoise, a giant African land snail and an aged  bantam that needed her head feathers washed as she gets them muddy!