jsteffan
09-13-2008, 12:09 PM
We found a baby squirrel by a tree in the back yard one day. He was about 6 feet away from three other babies that had already passed away and he was on his way there as well. We took him in. He was about 3 to 4 weeks at the time from what I had read. I kept him on a warming pad and started hydrating him with some fruit flavord pedialyte. After hydration, I then started him on 2 parts water, one part KMR (that's all I had at the time) and 1/2 part heavy whipping cream. He's been doing great. He is about 6 to 7 weeks now. we started weining with second step KMR and cream and introducing shelled and non shelled unsalted peanuts, pumpkin seeds, walnut meats and raisins. Everything seemed to have been going well until today. He was all active and squirrly as usual this morning. I started making his milk mixture and he got into the can and started eating the milk powder. I pulled him away from it and started giving him the mixture I had just made. He gulped most of it down very eagerly but then all of a sudden he just stopped and didn't want anymore, that's fine but the problem is he started acting VERY lethargic and started to breath very rapidly!! He then would start to fall over and looked extremely sick. I've been watching him closely now for a couple of hours, He's sitting up now and moving around slightly but is still brathing strange and still seems a bit lethargic. Any advice please?!!!:dono