Undertheradar
10-27-2017, 11:55 AM
For all the great information on this site! Lucy fell (literally!) into our lives 6 weeks ago when my wife’s coworker brought her to us after watching her fall out of a 30 foot palm tree and into the mouth of a cat. She ran out and rescued her, and kept her for a few days, expecting her to be dead every day she came home from work...but somehow she held on, even though all she got was condensed milk and mashed bananas! Calls to animal rescue places were not returned.
Knowing we are a very animal friendly household, she brought her to us to take care of.
I jumped into action after researching the forum here, gave her a warm bath, and put her on a heating pad while we started her on Ebsilac and some pedialyte. Based on her size and weight, we guessed she was 6-7 weeks old. She responded to the love immediately and put on weight, and started to show improvement in her mobility, which was comforting because we thought she might have had some neuro issues from the fall. In a house full of 3 kids and several other animals, we realized she was more than likely going to be a lifelong member of the family. We just don’t live in an area that that would give her a good chance at a long life if released and she’s quite attached!
Well, she’s about 12 weeks today and doing fantastic. She has a great enclosure, eats her blocks, veggies and lots of treats, and spends hours of supervised playtime with the family. We even took her on a weekend road trip to Arizona with us recently. :). She usually falls asleep at night on one of us, and wakes up squeezing and grunting to get out and be held.
Here’s some pictures in mostly chronological order.
https://i.imgur.com/Sl1DKDll.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XFR1Gbrl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/zJfyykPl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Y03GlRml.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jTB7KyIl.jpg
https://ephmedia.giphy.com/f0bb0e3f-8794-4667-b123-96caa4337ee3.gif
Knowing we are a very animal friendly household, she brought her to us to take care of.
I jumped into action after researching the forum here, gave her a warm bath, and put her on a heating pad while we started her on Ebsilac and some pedialyte. Based on her size and weight, we guessed she was 6-7 weeks old. She responded to the love immediately and put on weight, and started to show improvement in her mobility, which was comforting because we thought she might have had some neuro issues from the fall. In a house full of 3 kids and several other animals, we realized she was more than likely going to be a lifelong member of the family. We just don’t live in an area that that would give her a good chance at a long life if released and she’s quite attached!
Well, she’s about 12 weeks today and doing fantastic. She has a great enclosure, eats her blocks, veggies and lots of treats, and spends hours of supervised playtime with the family. We even took her on a weekend road trip to Arizona with us recently. :). She usually falls asleep at night on one of us, and wakes up squeezing and grunting to get out and be held.
Here’s some pictures in mostly chronological order.
https://i.imgur.com/Sl1DKDll.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/XFR1Gbrl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/zJfyykPl.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/Y03GlRml.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/jTB7KyIl.jpg
https://ephmedia.giphy.com/f0bb0e3f-8794-4667-b123-96caa4337ee3.gif