Hello everyone,
I have a baby squirrel. The guy I got him from told me he were 1 month and a few days old, 2 days ago he was playing and climbing my bedroom curtain as always when he tried jumping on my back, he slipped and fell on the floor, there was no cry of pain or anything but he seemed paralysed right after that, as when he started to move he would use his front claws to drag himself on the ground, I panicked, and took him to a vet immediately fearing something horrible might have happened, the vet told me (after taking radiograph(?) photos - sorry I live in Iran and my English isn't perfect - ) that there is nothing wrong with his bones and either there is an inflammation near his spinal cord or he has spinal cord which can only be diagnosed with (MRI or X-ray I don't remember exactly, but which one or two hospitals here only had the equipment to do it and he didn't know where). He prescribed some anti-inflammation medicine plus calcium and vitamin A and D, I took him home, tried giving him the medicine which he didn't do voluntarily so I had to force feed him a portion of it until I gave up cause I didn't want to stress him too much.
Then I began searching the internet for the causes of paralysis in squirrels and came upon the definition of MBD, now I fear this may be his case, I am not sure though, but since yesterday when I force fed him the drugs he has lost appetite, or at least when I'm near him he doesn't eat, so I took the advice of one of the posts on treatment of MBD and took a calcium pill and mixed it with water and force fed him a portion of it, no improvement yet. And the worst part is he doesn't seem to know he has problems with his legs as he still likes to climb on things, so I have put him in a small box and only let him out when I'm around and I have to monitor him so when he gets close to the curtains or sheets or stuff he can climb from I pick him up and put him far, I don't want him to go up there and fall down and injure himself.
unfortunately where I live there are no rehab centers or specialists from squirrels, or at least there is none to my knowledge,
even today in 2 hours I'm taking him to another vet whom a friend who has a squirrel introduced, but I'm so worried for him, is there anyone here who has a good advice on what I can do to improve his condition given the location I live in and the limited options of help I can get?