Luke is our newest piglet in the house. He is now 5 days old and doing great. Luke was discovered pushed away from the rest of the litter so he was brought into the house. We quickly discovered the problem. Luke is unable to suck so he grinds his teeth back and fourth on the nipple to get milk. Since we do not cut wolf teeth this is very painful to mom so she won't feed him.
We tried everything to get Luke to drink out of a bowl but he held out for 24 hours and eventully Dave gave into him and started bottle feeding him. Usually the three of us, me, Dan and Dave will take turns feeding the babies but Luke only wants Dave. He won't let Dan or I hold him. Dave stayed up till 2:30 am with him on Monday night and 1:30 am with him last night. Dan and I told him that we would go to bed and set our alarm for every hour and get up and feed and go back to bed but Dave is being as "pigheaded as Luke".
I bet Dave never imagined he would one day become a piggy mommy!
Aww..... so cute!
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