Pasqual
02-17-2025, 04:06 PM
Hello all,
We rescued Pasqual during Hurricane Helene this past September. We believe he was about 7 weeks old at the time, and was soaking wet in the street, at midnight, before the storm blew in a few hours later. No visible injuries. A very tiny, sweet guy!
Our town was absolutely devastated for weeks (still recovering) and we did the best we could- he started eating apple sauce and moved to solid veggies relatively quickly. His diet, although varied the last few months, was lacking blocks and (I know now) an unhealthy amount of unsalted nuts.
Two weeks ago (2/2) during our morning playtime, I moved him from the top of his perch and down on his snuffle mat. When I stood up behind him, he stretched back while on his hind legs, pawed towards the ceiling for a second, made a little squeak, and then immediately covered his face and fell slowly forward. I thought something scared him, and scooped him up. He felt heavy and was hiding rolled up in my shirt, it eventually became apparent his legs were dragging.
We administered the MBD emergency treatment as soon as we found it. He wouldn't eat solids for a few days, and was being syringe fed tums with yogurt, and eventually started licking baby food. Once we received our order from Henry's, I was able to get calcium in baby food, which is still our method. He was only consistently eating sweet potato in the beginning, but, for the last five days, he is now eating two Henry's Wild Blocks, first thing in the AM, and today he finally nibbled on a little cabbage and raddichio. He isn't freely drinking water like I would like, but, he is peeing, and has had consistently plump, and healthy poops the last few days. I am currently giving him about 165-200mg of calcium carbonate throughout the day.
He appears to have some movement in his feet and his tail, but, is still dragging/ doesn't want to put pressure on them. He will often do a full body shake and kick his feet when I wipe to clean him, and today during a more successful urine cleaning he was comfortable belly up between my legs and chest, and had slight leg reactions and movements during wipes. I am still limiting his movements- he is in a tub with a hot water bottle and padding, but, just in the last two days he has had multiple frantic moments where has crawled up my sleeve and tried to make a break for it, which shows me how he's using/ not wanting to use his body.
Despite being two weeks out from the injury, we have finally gotten hold of 4 and a half old 20mg Prednisone that expire at the end of this month. I have read that it wouldn't hurt to try, right? I have ordered a scale to weigh him, and 1 ml syringes that will be here tomorrow morning. I know from reading other threads that dosing info gets PMed so we officially joined TSB today!
Thank you for this community. It has provided such a light of hope during this heartbreaking situation.
We rescued Pasqual during Hurricane Helene this past September. We believe he was about 7 weeks old at the time, and was soaking wet in the street, at midnight, before the storm blew in a few hours later. No visible injuries. A very tiny, sweet guy!
Our town was absolutely devastated for weeks (still recovering) and we did the best we could- he started eating apple sauce and moved to solid veggies relatively quickly. His diet, although varied the last few months, was lacking blocks and (I know now) an unhealthy amount of unsalted nuts.
Two weeks ago (2/2) during our morning playtime, I moved him from the top of his perch and down on his snuffle mat. When I stood up behind him, he stretched back while on his hind legs, pawed towards the ceiling for a second, made a little squeak, and then immediately covered his face and fell slowly forward. I thought something scared him, and scooped him up. He felt heavy and was hiding rolled up in my shirt, it eventually became apparent his legs were dragging.
We administered the MBD emergency treatment as soon as we found it. He wouldn't eat solids for a few days, and was being syringe fed tums with yogurt, and eventually started licking baby food. Once we received our order from Henry's, I was able to get calcium in baby food, which is still our method. He was only consistently eating sweet potato in the beginning, but, for the last five days, he is now eating two Henry's Wild Blocks, first thing in the AM, and today he finally nibbled on a little cabbage and raddichio. He isn't freely drinking water like I would like, but, he is peeing, and has had consistently plump, and healthy poops the last few days. I am currently giving him about 165-200mg of calcium carbonate throughout the day.
He appears to have some movement in his feet and his tail, but, is still dragging/ doesn't want to put pressure on them. He will often do a full body shake and kick his feet when I wipe to clean him, and today during a more successful urine cleaning he was comfortable belly up between my legs and chest, and had slight leg reactions and movements during wipes. I am still limiting his movements- he is in a tub with a hot water bottle and padding, but, just in the last two days he has had multiple frantic moments where has crawled up my sleeve and tried to make a break for it, which shows me how he's using/ not wanting to use his body.
Despite being two weeks out from the injury, we have finally gotten hold of 4 and a half old 20mg Prednisone that expire at the end of this month. I have read that it wouldn't hurt to try, right? I have ordered a scale to weigh him, and 1 ml syringes that will be here tomorrow morning. I know from reading other threads that dosing info gets PMed so we officially joined TSB today!
Thank you for this community. It has provided such a light of hope during this heartbreaking situation.