Mouse Poison.

[Laidly Worm]

My friend's squirrel has accidentally eaten some mouse poison. Please tell me what to do.

[CritterMom]

Flush her out with water- as much as she can get in her. Is the poison warfarin? If so, she needs Vitamin K NOW. Any way you need to get it in her.

[Jackie in Tampa]

administer peroxide orally NOW. Sqs can vomit and this needs to be done asap...
make her vomit until stomach is empty and sq is wretching...
call poison control also and tell them what mouse poison she ate...if there is an antidot they will know.
Also activated charcoal needs to be used or aquarium charcoal..grind/crush it add water and force feed it with syringe.
if vet is possible, go now...
if not start pushing fluids after vomitting is over...lots of water
this does not usually end well.. a vet is best chance...
bless them both...dang it...
I hate poison of any kind..:shakehead
only a vet will have vit K to the best of my knowledge.

[Laidly Worm]

My account was deleted, without explanation. I have re-registered, and hope I will not be banned again.

My friend's squirrel is called Dread. After three days, he is still looking perfectly normal, but I have read that it can take upto two weeks for poison to take effect. We are just hoping that he will be lucky.

[Laidly Worm]

We were told by a vet that if Dread was going to be affected, he would have shown some signs of illness by now, and he hasn't, so he will probably be all right. But I fear the vet may not have known what he was talking about.

We tried to get the vitamin K injection, but they refused to do it, saying that there was "no point," because it should have been done immediately and was too late now, something else I am suspecting may not have been true.

[Jackie in Tampa]

My account was deleted, without explanation. I have re-registered, and hope I will not be banned again.

My friend's squirrel is called Dread. After three days, he is still looking perfectly normal, but I have read that it can take upto two weeks for poison to take effect. We are just hoping that he will be lucky.
this is true...
Continue good support and glad to hear, so far so good!:thumbsup

[island rehabber]

hi LaidlyWorm....I do hope your little one is ok. I also have been told that if VitK is not administered immediately it's pretty much useless. Also heard the same about activated charcoal in poisoning cases.

Re your account: you weren't banned. The system kicked out your registration because you did not fill in the "Biography" space. This is one of the ways the system determines that a new prospective member is a real person and not a spambot (computers that invade message boards and spam them out of existence). Now that I know you indeed are a real person I will activate your full membership.