Finn arrived yesterday. He's sleeping in a cardboard box in the living room right now. He's one month old and he still drinks milk, but we can't get him to drink any. In strict point of fact, we got
some milk inside him, and the rest of it over us. Please visualize this scenario.
Finn is inside his box, he starts yapping and whining and whimpering. We take him out. He doesn't go. We take him back in again. Still crying. We put him on the ground, heat up some milk, put it in a bottle, try to feed him. He won't open his mouth. He wanders about, yapping, sliding on the floor, licking the floor, the chair legs, the sofa, us. Occasionally he stops and whines, lifting his muzzle in a sort of baby howl. We change tactics, putting some of the milk in the bottle inside the syringe. This is a syringe of the type used to measure quantities of medicine. We lift his head, and put one finger in each corner of his mouth. He opens it. I hate doing this. I put the end of the syringe in his mouth and press the plunger, and the milk squirts inside. Quite a lot of it doesn't. We wipe the milk off us and repeat the procedure. Sometimes when we put him back in his box he stops yowling, curls up and goes to sleep.
I need to find a way to help him realize that the milk comes from the bottle.
