Hello. I have my pet squirrel, Bejo, a plaintain squirrel for almost five years. I'm from Indonesia.
Bejo's behavior suddenly changed overnight: He's avoidant, or even aggressive if we're getting too close to him. He also seems agitated, and refused to sleep. He's still eating and drinking, no noticeable changes in his feces and pee. Just yesterday he's still energetic and jumping around. When I found him this morning, he's very quiet and the behavioral changes I mentioned is already taking place. Just a few hours ago I noticed he's squeaking non-stop and very lethargic, but not the pneumonia click. I immediately took him to a vet and was given some vitamins, supplement, and antibiotics. After I took him home, it was such a hard effort to handling him as he's both very aggresive and avoidant when normally he's so calm, I could even give him a long belly rub. But I managed to give him a dose of his medicine. He's now frantically moving around in his cage -still lethargic, and his squeaking is more often now. He refused to go back to his bed. I decided to take him to his traveling cage and put it my room so I can constantly watch him. He's very agitated and refused to sleep, as this is way over his bed time.
His diet consists of fruit (as Henry's is practically unavailable in Indonesia), mostly avocados, banana, papaya, or other fruits, and greenery like peas and leafy vegetable. At times I give him treat (but in a small amount, a baby rusk) and also small insects. Drink consisted of coconut water or sometimes honey water.
His cage is on my porch, but still covered with roof and totally protected from weather (Indonesia is a tropical country so we have no cold weather here), and another cage, which is outside and usually I took him there during daylight, but not everyday. His bedding consisted of towels or old, thick fabric.
Two years ago I suspected him of MBD and three visit to vet -twice to regular vet and once to exotic vet, he managed to get better quickly. I don't think this time he's having another MBD as the symptoms are quite different compared to his condition now. And as his behavior changes, it is now become notoriously difficult to administer the medicine, I wish someone can give me some advices for this too.
I am quite helpless now as his condition appears very quickly- less than 24 hours and he's constantly squeaking, agitating, and lethargic. And to hear him like that is heartbreaking.
Thank you for the opportunity to become a part of this forum, and I hope he gets better very soon.