Quote Originally Posted by TomahawkFlyers View Post
A thought - not Gospel - Seizures take quite a toll on nerves. As I recall from the biology course I never took, neurons travel through nerves through the spinal cord to and from the brain. If the nerves (highway upon which neurons travel) have been disturbed, information to and from the brain is also being disturbed. This may be resulting in garbled messaging and a confused and frightened squirrel. I would think that there is a good chance that the disruption will calm down and normal behavior will return. Or, it could be wilding. Or, it could be that he associates you with the trauma he's experienced and is, for the moment, afraid of you.

I'll issue my mea culpa now. When Sam the Squirrel sees this he will undoubtedly have a good chuckle (spit his coffee through his nose) and then step in to provide a great answer without making me seem like an imbecile. Simon's been on my mind quite a bit. I hope all continues to improve.

By the way, Simon appears to have been startled in the video. I wouldn't call that aggression. He is surely still discombobulated and not thinking straight. He's probably still in some pain - sore muscles from the seizures. In fact, it could actually still hurt just to be touched. If so, he's associating that pain with you. I'd hold off on touching for awhile.

Jamie
Here is the first part of the video that cut off.

https://youtu.be/Trfo6BWk8vg?si=gLEDg3YoFbEiTdiK

Right before this we had been trying to open his cage to get his new water bottle attached. But he was doing that same sound and climbing all over his cage like he wanted to attack me. I grabbed my phone to see of he would do it again. But it was just this small instance.

We have a camera set up in his room and I did see him start wrestling with his little stuffed animal squirrel buddy.

I am mainly concerned about his water consumption. He hasn't actively tried drinking from his water and I am concerned about his hydration if he will not allow us to handle him.

He had 20ccs of formula throughtout the day yesterday, and then just a couple sips of formula and about 2ccs of water this morning which he did allow handling. But this evening he was a completely different squirrel.