pepperrj
07-06-2014, 05:35 PM
Hi:
I have a small female squirrel with a problem of turning her head sideways 45 degrees when she is stressed (afraid, playing hard, agitated). We received her six weeks ago. She was following a lady around her yard for several days. She appeared to be from this year's first litter but she was definetely lost or ejected by the mother. She was a runt compared to the other squirrels in the area. We received her after she was caught by a cat. The cat had her by the tail. Other than the tail injury, which was infected, we could not find any other wounds. We did save the tail. Also, when we received her, she was starving and dehydrated to the point that she could not sit up and eat. We have taken care of all these problems. She is overprotective of her food (being the runt), so we named her Tazilla. She is now the same size as other local juviniles. We were hoping to release her except for the above problem.
To restate the problem, Tazilla turns her head to the left and she has problems moving the right front leg when the seizure occurs. Usually, it disappears within 30 seconds to a minute, except for last week, when she was ill for two days. During the two days, she continually had the head turned to the left (similar to a squirrel that is blind in one eye). Today, everything including her appetite and poop is normal and she has only displayed the head turn twice. Our problem is that we do not feel we can release her without solving this problem as she would be a sitting duck for any predator. She can not move well at all during the 30+ second seizure. I don't think it is an ear infection since she can run, jump and play 99% of the time. I am sure it is nothing here because she had the problem before we got her.
Hopefully, someone has an idea about getting this one into the trees.
Thanks,
pepperrj
I have a small female squirrel with a problem of turning her head sideways 45 degrees when she is stressed (afraid, playing hard, agitated). We received her six weeks ago. She was following a lady around her yard for several days. She appeared to be from this year's first litter but she was definetely lost or ejected by the mother. She was a runt compared to the other squirrels in the area. We received her after she was caught by a cat. The cat had her by the tail. Other than the tail injury, which was infected, we could not find any other wounds. We did save the tail. Also, when we received her, she was starving and dehydrated to the point that she could not sit up and eat. We have taken care of all these problems. She is overprotective of her food (being the runt), so we named her Tazilla. She is now the same size as other local juviniles. We were hoping to release her except for the above problem.
To restate the problem, Tazilla turns her head to the left and she has problems moving the right front leg when the seizure occurs. Usually, it disappears within 30 seconds to a minute, except for last week, when she was ill for two days. During the two days, she continually had the head turned to the left (similar to a squirrel that is blind in one eye). Today, everything including her appetite and poop is normal and she has only displayed the head turn twice. Our problem is that we do not feel we can release her without solving this problem as she would be a sitting duck for any predator. She can not move well at all during the 30+ second seizure. I don't think it is an ear infection since she can run, jump and play 99% of the time. I am sure it is nothing here because she had the problem before we got her.
Hopefully, someone has an idea about getting this one into the trees.
Thanks,
pepperrj