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Dy4205
05-14-2013, 09:54 PM
Hi All.

So I've been feeding This black squirrel in my backyard for about 6 months and I've noticed it has been progressively losing fur for about 2 months maybe. I feed it daily, sometimes skip a day or two but I'm pretty consistently. It seems to constantly eat and not be full. I've recently been putting organic coconut oil on the peanuts I deshell for it. About 2 months ago prior to losing this much hair (to my memory) it has acted spastic and ran all along my fence and tree and backyard for no apparent reason. I'm thinking it was when it started being attacked by ticks or something else. At the time I thought nothing of it, it took it to start losing this much fur for me to now put the piece of the puzzle together. Any idea of what it may be? Are their any medications that i should buy for it? I live in Michigan and we've had a rough winter.

Looking at it like this is killing me!

Pictures have been posted (hopefully successfully)

Thanks

SammysMom
05-14-2013, 09:57 PM
Any chance you could get a drop of Revolution on his back between his shoulder blades?

farrelli
05-15-2013, 01:26 AM
If this is mange, here's a thread currently going on which deals with treatment:

http://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/showthread.php?t=40563

Is the skin red and/or scaly?