How do you care for a vampire?

* Your vampire may have a sensitivity to light. Have a 'room' prepared where they can hide from day-light or other powerful sources. Gradually expose your vampire to successively brighter sources of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet light until you determine the exact extent of your vampire's tolerance. He (or she) will tell you which colour and intensity of light he finds annoying. You may then plan his activities according to the time of day he finds tolerable.

* You will have to establish a reliable food source for your vampire. One person is not enough, it takes five in the most ideal conditions, up to forty for casually committed donors. If you let your vampire roam and hunt for himself you are asking for trouble. * You must engage your vampire in engaging and engrossing activities. All vampires have an unreasonable desire for blood and will become corpulent if you let them. They need to learn restraint and have something else to engage their thoughts in. * They will need a community of friends and supporters not only for blood but for a healthy social image. If you leave them to their own kind they may abandon you and form their own coven and, unsupervised, may become dangerous. * Vampires are incapable of emotional growth so don't go expecting them to change on that level. They are capable of intellectual growth and in the acquiring of knowledge. So you can expect them to become more and more capable and self-reliant and eventually they will provide you with a reliable income.