A Mouse a Day

Lincoln had his 4-month well-baby visit about 2 weeks ago. He had a couple of shots and is doing quite well overall. Last week, I brought him in for another vaccination (All his vaccinations are imported so I had to decide early on which vaccines I wanted to give him and then place an order for them. They are stored at the clinic as are the vaccines for all the children treated there. This particular vaccine didn't get ordered with the rest so I had to place a special order for it.). So, he is all caught up for now with his immunizations. Yesterday morning, I noticed that he had a bit of blood from one of his inoculation sites so I brought him in yet again. Just to be sure. The doctor checked it out and pronounced everything as being tip top and just fine. While we were there, the nurses weighed him. Over the course of those two weeks, Lincoln gained about 350g or about 25g a day. Just to put it really concrete terms, I did a google search of what is equivalent to 25g. A mouse.


It turns out that the average size mouse is about 20-25g. So Lincoln is gaining a mouse a day. He weighs about 308-385 mice now. Think about that this winter when there are little visitors in your bread drawer.