Re: HELP! Squirrel dragging along legs without paralysis
Originally Posted by
squirrel_love_germany
But please be careful: he is not a grey squirrel. He is an European squirrel - they are different. They need special food (seeds of special trees and fruits or fungi, no animal proteins - only in emergerncy cases) and are not such versatilely like grey squirrels (that is the "problem" in GB, because the Britain cleared the woods and planted wrong trees. European squirrels need special trees ans their seeds. And grey squirrels are more versatilely in food and have another immune system
(immune to parapox virus, the European is dying of it).
That's certinally not true with our greys in this part of the country, I could only wish it were....
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