EdUdE
09-21-2008, 10:02 PM
As many of you are aware Hurricane Ike hit the Texas coast about a week ago. All night long during the hurricane I heard horrific crying from some creature, I went out side with a flashlight to try and pinpoint it but the winds were strong and branches and debris were flying through the air so i had to go back inside. I could still hear crying continued through the night. Around 6 am when things started clearing up i went outside again to investigate (still screaming) and found a approximately 1 month old squirrel. He was shivering and severely dehydrated. Not wasting any more time i picked him up brought him inside and wrapped him in a warm towel. I didn't have power so i called a family member in California and asked her to give me emergency squirrel care. I put him in a open crate with a heating pad on bottom and a towel on top. I didn't have a syringe and everything was closed due to the hurricane, so i took a clean insulin syringe broke off the needle and used it to feed him warm pedialite. He made a good recovery for about 3 days then began having shakes. I used a friends cellphone to get to the internet and found that i should be feeding him Esbilac. EVERYTHING was closed and i spent a day going from store to store. Finally i found that Tomball feed was open. They told me that several people had come in to buy Esbilac for squirrels. They were all out of powdered and only had two cans of the premix and i got the last two. I also bought a more suitable syringe. He stopped having shakes but now I'm afraid hes having seizures. He is active and playful and today he opened just one eye (is that normal?) but whenever he goes to sleep he starts having terrible tremors and shakes sometimes so violent that it wakes him. He seems normal when hes awake. Today my power came back on :) and I was able to get to the net. I found several arguing reports that Esbilac was bad (e.g. http://users.hal-pc.org/~jbsum/squirrel.html ) And others saying that Scalded Milk was the bad one (e.g. http://www.squirreltales.org/sq-pics.htm ) with the former stating
Esbilac (puppy formula) -- literally thousands of squirrels have died needlessly in the hands of humans because of being fed commercial formulas recommended on those politically-motivated wildlife-group web pages whose members don't want the public to succeed. This particular formula takes longer than KMR for the harmful effects to set in. Has egg yolk (unborn chicken) in it, no magnesium, too many alien chemical additives and preservatives, and the ferrous sulfate blocks calcium, leading to broken bones, rickets, nervousness, convulsions, seizures, and sudden, unexpected death. And the later showing images like this http://squirreltales.org/sq-1.jpg Little Ike (hes probably the thousandth squirrel to be given that name in the Houston area this past week) seems to be growing and progressing rapidly I now have him in a large cage with low lying things to climb on (his balance isn't great) and his crate and heating pad in the corner.
So Little Ike seems to be happy- when awake. Whats the deal with the tremors? Is it normal for only one eye to open? Will the other eye open soon? And finally Scalded milk or Esbilac?
Esbilac (puppy formula) -- literally thousands of squirrels have died needlessly in the hands of humans because of being fed commercial formulas recommended on those politically-motivated wildlife-group web pages whose members don't want the public to succeed. This particular formula takes longer than KMR for the harmful effects to set in. Has egg yolk (unborn chicken) in it, no magnesium, too many alien chemical additives and preservatives, and the ferrous sulfate blocks calcium, leading to broken bones, rickets, nervousness, convulsions, seizures, and sudden, unexpected death. And the later showing images like this http://squirreltales.org/sq-1.jpg Little Ike (hes probably the thousandth squirrel to be given that name in the Houston area this past week) seems to be growing and progressing rapidly I now have him in a large cage with low lying things to climb on (his balance isn't great) and his crate and heating pad in the corner.
So Little Ike seems to be happy- when awake. Whats the deal with the tremors? Is it normal for only one eye to open? Will the other eye open soon? And finally Scalded milk or Esbilac?