Helene9
07-20-2012, 11:24 AM
Hello to the forum!
We are having an issue here with our squirrel...
The squirrel, an indian 3 strips red palm tree squirrel, had fallen apparently 3 weeks ago from the roof into the house of a friend. He passed it to us and since that we have been taking care of the baby.
The first 2 days he had troubel to eat but we managed to nurse him. Back then he had sometimes some miled seizures but at that time we thought maybe it was because of the shock of falling from a height.
3 days after coming to us he was all healthy and fine. He was eating banana, papaya and we gave him almond milk which he enjoyed. He was pooping and making his lakes like a healthy baby. yawning and sleeping much too, enjoying in the same time sleeping touching our skin (warmth). In the night we keep a warm water bottle under his cage. in the day he would roam in the house freely, but he mostly prefered to sleep then anything else.
Today morning we awoke with him crying/ peeping. It was as if he didnt recognize us. The day past and we realised he was having uncontrolable seizzures everynow and then. after each seizure he would fall asleep very tired. When those seizures happen we can not touch him and we can see that fear is all over his face, so we assume he must be having a lot of pain from inside. It looks like a epileptic seizure. His lower part of the body is jumping up and dragging him around. It looks like as if he has no control over his own self. sometimes he will scream when this happens. It takes around 1-2 minutes and then he relaxes again. After around 10 min. it starts again. We try to keep a warm water bottle next to him. He is very tired by now and full of fear since those seizures come without warning in his sleep.
He has no appetite and he is not drinking, neither pooping are peeing!
Yesterday night he was all fine.
We assume that problem started in the night.
What can we do?
What is happening to him?
It is horrifying, something we have never seen or heard of. As if an invisible force is pulling his lower body up and down and drags him backwards all over the floor.
We cant keep him on the bed or anywhere else, because the seizures are making him to jump off and we are afraid he might just break something accidently.
So right now he is sitting on the floor and we try to keep a warm water bottle around. Once the seizures are over we are able to calm it and pet it, which it is enjoying.
God I dont know if he will survive the night!
Any help is very appreciated!!
We are having an issue here with our squirrel...
The squirrel, an indian 3 strips red palm tree squirrel, had fallen apparently 3 weeks ago from the roof into the house of a friend. He passed it to us and since that we have been taking care of the baby.
The first 2 days he had troubel to eat but we managed to nurse him. Back then he had sometimes some miled seizures but at that time we thought maybe it was because of the shock of falling from a height.
3 days after coming to us he was all healthy and fine. He was eating banana, papaya and we gave him almond milk which he enjoyed. He was pooping and making his lakes like a healthy baby. yawning and sleeping much too, enjoying in the same time sleeping touching our skin (warmth). In the night we keep a warm water bottle under his cage. in the day he would roam in the house freely, but he mostly prefered to sleep then anything else.
Today morning we awoke with him crying/ peeping. It was as if he didnt recognize us. The day past and we realised he was having uncontrolable seizzures everynow and then. after each seizure he would fall asleep very tired. When those seizures happen we can not touch him and we can see that fear is all over his face, so we assume he must be having a lot of pain from inside. It looks like a epileptic seizure. His lower part of the body is jumping up and dragging him around. It looks like as if he has no control over his own self. sometimes he will scream when this happens. It takes around 1-2 minutes and then he relaxes again. After around 10 min. it starts again. We try to keep a warm water bottle next to him. He is very tired by now and full of fear since those seizures come without warning in his sleep.
He has no appetite and he is not drinking, neither pooping are peeing!
Yesterday night he was all fine.
We assume that problem started in the night.
What can we do?
What is happening to him?
It is horrifying, something we have never seen or heard of. As if an invisible force is pulling his lower body up and down and drags him backwards all over the floor.
We cant keep him on the bed or anywhere else, because the seizures are making him to jump off and we are afraid he might just break something accidently.
So right now he is sitting on the floor and we try to keep a warm water bottle around. Once the seizures are over we are able to calm it and pet it, which it is enjoying.
God I dont know if he will survive the night!
Any help is very appreciated!!