Good Morning!
I have been enjoying my lil squirrel lady's company for the past 3 years, and watched her grow up as well as have a few babies along the way.
She always comes to the door when she wants her food and time sitting on her chair next to me.
Yesterday, a car came by and I gave her an alert call. She did her little prairie dog stance, and got out just in time to survive.
I had to collect her and take her to the vet after getting struct by a car.
Long story short, (too late)...
She has some fractures to her pelvis, a fracture at the base of her tail, a fracture to the 'mickey mouse ears' on the base of her spine... and about an inch at the tip of her tail was amputated.
I will be working with her, for the next 10 weeks +, before she can be released, as she needs ample healing time and PT before it's safe to be outside again.
Any information on cage setups, food selections, and best practices would be welcomed with open arms!
Since she's technically a wild squirrel, things are more complicated than non-wild.
Her :
Grey squirrel
At least 4 years old
she has 3 kids that are still here, outside. (they aren't babies)
Current Treatment :
partial tail amputation
Daily oral pain medication
2-week vet appointment for removing sutures from tail (may5th)
Monitoring her use of the tail (that she can still move it) since the vet said that if she loses the ability to wiggle it, then she will have to amputate the whole tail.
She was injured almost exactly 24hrs from this post.
Current tasks :
Building a rectangular enclosure this weekend, so that she has more room than the med/small dog carrier that was the biggest crate/carrier available at local pet store.
getting ensure (vet advice) for emergency feeding if she doesn't eat anything by end of day.
Research/get a variety of greens/nuts/berries/etc that can help gettign her a solid diet that doesn't consist of just black sunflower seeds (in shell) and rabbit pellets (only thing I could get fast).
If you're able to help with pushing me towards good information, that will cut my research time down a LOT, as the interwebs are filled with hot garbage, and I'm not making my squirrel lady suffer if I can help it!
Cheers!