Hi all,
I recently had the opportunity to help a baby squirrel that had been orphaned. I started out to just raise Darcy until she was old enough to be re-released. However I have run into alot of complications in the past couple weeks. Up until recently she was a normal, strong, active squirrel, but recently she has lost her appetite and become very lethargic. Not to mention she has started having seizures (3 that I know of.) I have brought her to a vet that specialized in exotic/small animals since the beginning and have been following her direction as to what to feed her and so on. Now, since reading the information on this site, I am almost positive that she is suffering from MBD, even though the vet is hesitant to diagnose her (which in all honesty is making me extremely upset, my poor Darcy is in pain!) Her back right leg seems to be swollen and she can't walk on it properly, this happened yesterday morning. She also has lost her appetite. I can't get her to eat anything other than a grape here and there, but I have been able to get here to take some of the mothers milk I feed her when she was still a baby. I followed the directions on this site and gave her 500mg of calcium over the span of the day and night yesterday, and she seems to be coming out of the lethargic stage, but she still is off. Not to mention her leg! Since the beginning, the vet has said to keep the majority of her diet nuts and seeds. She said that Squirrel feed was fine, I have also been giving her fruits and veggies and she seems to like radishes, grapes, bell peppers and strawberries. My question is what can I do to help her? I am bringing her to the vet again this morning to look at her leg and to see what else the vet says. My faith in this vet is waning, but I don't know what else to do. There are no other vets in the area that I can find to treat poor Darcy.
She is about 12 weeks old and is a Eastern Grey Squirrel. Please help!