O.K. I.v been a slacker.....

I admit it I have slacked on my weasle updating. So here goes. Its been a month. The weasel is now about 2 months old. We have gone through the learning how to walk stage and are now at the moving so fast that pictures are hard to take. At least pictures that are not just a weasel blur! I can prove it(see pic)

Its been two weeks.....

Well here we are. Week number 2. Somethings have not changed. Still lots of sleeping and eating. Eyes still closed. Ears still closed too. Weasels do not open thier eye until they are about 26 days old. This is about two weeks longer then cats or dogs! Wow! He is becoming more active. I think he is trying to walk. Its either that or he is having convultions! It very funny! Also he likes to play with the hand. So far I have been able to take him. But as soon as his adult teeth come in we are going to stop that game!But for now its fun!

It's been 1 week...

I have decided that for now I will do a weekly weasel update. Why you may ask? Becuase at this point in the game its the same thing day after day. Eat sleep eat sleep eat sleep eat sleep. I think you get the point!
So far raising this little guy is similar to raising a human baby. I am feeding him about every 2-3 hours around the clock! Yikes! At least he doesen't wear a diaper! But I suppose I could make one for him!?! Or not;) All being said and done he seems to being doing well. He's still alive and very active. His hair is starting to grow in darker. And he seems longer!

A plagiarized description of my weasel.
Latin name:Mustela erminea
The Short-tailed Weasel, active day or night, may be fairly common at times but is seldom seen. Although it hunts mainly on the ground, often running on fallen logs, it can climb trees and occasionally pursues prey into water. This carnivore kills all that is available and stores the excess. Mice, particularly meadow voles, are its main food, but its diet also includes shrews, baby rabbits, birds, frogs, lizards, snakes, and many kinds of insects. This weasel captures prey several times its own weight, such as a young cottontail. Because of the danger in hunting much larger animals, however, it does so only if an excellent opportunity arises, or in times of scarcity. After a rapid dash, it pounces on its victim with all four feet, biting through the neck near the base of the skull. Weasels lick blood from their quarry before eating it, which is perhaps the source of the myth that they suck blood from prey. The Short-tailed Weasel’s den, which is sometimes appropriated from a chipmunk, may be found in or beneath a log, stump, roots, brush pile, or stone wall. The den usually has several entrances and contains a nest of vegetation mixed with hair and feathers of prey. Rather than curling into a ball the way most animals do, a weasel curls into a disk, thereby exposing more skin surface to the air; the insulation material in the nest compensates for this. Male and female Short-tailed Weasels remain separate most of the year, though male territories encompass those of several females. Territories are expanded when food is scarce. The weasel keeps several nests throughout the territory, using them when it is in the vicinity. The male Short-tailed Weasel does not mature and mate until its second year, but the female is sexually mature in June of her birth year, when spontaneous ovulation begins. Ovulation occurs monthly until the female is bred, often in July. The female remains passive while the male drags her around by the scruff of the neck during copulation. After the female gives birth, her annual estrus begins when her young are about six weeks old. At that time, the male breeds with the female adult and with her female progeny, who may not have their eyes open yet. Most likely, this male is not the newborn females’ father, because Short-tailed Weasels are not monogamous. Cared for by both parents, the young begin to kill prey at 10 to 12 weeks of age. Vocalizations of the Short-tailed Weasel include grunts, hisses, chatters, and a shrill call note. Its predators are hawks, owls, house cats, and other carnivorous mammals and snakes. Although the names "Ermine" and "Stoat" are sometimes used to describe the species in its white winter fur and its brown summer coat, respectively, these names are also given to the Long-tailed Weasel. Ermine was highly valued before the decline of the fur industry, and the black-tipped tails are the traditional trim on the robes of royalty.

description Elongated body. Dark brown above; white below. Tail brown with black tip. Legs short; feet white. In northern part of range in winter, fur entirely white except for black tail tip. Male almost twice as large as female. L 7 1/2 –13 1/2" (190–344 mm); T 1 5/8 –3 1/2" (42–90 mm); HF 1 1/8–1 3/4" (28–43 mm); Wt 1 3/4 –6 3/8 oz (45–182 g).

In the beginning......

On Saturday April 24, 2010 I was getting ready to got to a potluck at a co-workers barn. I was all ready to go, my lovely potato dish was done and I just needed to go take care of the chickens, chicks and turkeys. I gathered eggs, peeked at the peeps and moseyed on over to the turkey tent. As I approached the tent a small naked form on the ground caught my eye. "Awww poor little thing." I think to my self. Believing it to be deceased.
I reach down to confirm my thought and to dispose of the body. But to my surprise it utters a little mewl. So I scoop it up and bring it to my neck to warm it up( It was cold!) Then I stand there for 10 minutes thinking to myself again. " What in heck am I gonna do with this thing now?" At that time I had no idea what it was.
Well now to make this long story short it ends up being a infant weasel. And I go to town and get some milk kitten milk replacement powder and an eye dropper. Come on home and start my research on weasels! And my adventure into weasel rehab!