Potential Spine Injury

[Rocky1]

My first batch of questions are:

1. Does anyone know of an excellent (or very good) wildlife rehabilitator in Massachusetts for squirrels other than Claudia Biddle Travis?

2. Any reassuring information about Tufts Wildlife in Grafton, MA?

3. Is a 70 degree room too warm to have a heating pad on low underneath a squirrel that cannot move very much?

[Rocky1]

Next questions:

4. Has anyone seen anything like this before? Photo below. What is it?

5. When I found her she was sort of stiff, but could move everything, tail, feet, etc. Any idea why?

Photo:
Genital area. Left is toward head. Right is toward tail.

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[Rocky1]

6.

Found this on the back of neck.

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[Chirps]

Can't speak to the first pic but the second is fly eggs. Remove them immediately because they will hatch quickly and the tiny maggots will start feeding on her flesh. Check elsewhere too. You might be lucky and it's an isolated patch, but those flies tend to each claim a spot to lay, so you may have them in several or more other places, unless you've been able to give her a thorough exam already and have determined that is the only place that has them.

[Rocky1]

Can't speak to the first pic but the second is fly eggs. Remove them immediately because they will hatch quickly and the tiny maggots will start feeding on her flesh. Check elsewhere too. You might be lucky and it's an isolated patch, but those flies tend to each claim a spot to lay, so you may have them in several or more other places, unless you've been able to give her a thorough exam already and have determined that is the only place that has them.

Thanks!

Unfortunately she passed away probably due to poisoning. There was a container of water for animals next to where I found her and unlike usual, something that smelled fuel-like was in it.

My next question is whether or not she was a nursing mother?

[Rocky1]

QUESTION: Is this squirrel a nursing mother?


Top photo is of upper nipples closest to head.
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The next photo is of something, maybe nipples?, in genital area.
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