Emergency with older squirell

[Dwmarie]

Lethargic, not moving, breathing heavy. Half of a henrys block every morning and night and free feed on rat block. Usually gets mixed veggies but I haven't been home so bf might be feeding less of those. Forced some tum in her before he left for work. Please help. We love her so much. I have a video it won't let me upload but I will asap.

[Dwmarie]

She's about a year old. No previous issues. Was 100% fine just last night and eating, drinking & playing!

[Dwmarie]

Our sweet babe.

[CritterMom]

Oh dear. I am so sorry. Could she have fallen? Have you checked her over - gently press all over her to see if she responds somewhere.

I would start by mixing up some sugar water - enough that you can taste it - warm it up and see if she will take some - if not voluntarily, try with a syringe.

Then run to the drug store and get some infant ibuprofen. Do NOT get infant acetaminophen. You want baby Motrin basically. It is a fruit liquid. Don't get the clear sugar free - they like the fruit stuff.

We need a weight on her to dose the infant ibuprofen. And you will need a 1ml syringe - hopefully you have leftovers from her infancy if she is only a year old.

She is acting like something hurts and the infant ibuprofen is quite effective for that. I have no idea what is happening with her - these are just quick things - sugar water to hydrate and prevent blood sugar from dropping since she likely isn't eating and pain relief. Once you can see what happens after that it will hopefully guide further care.

[Dwmarie]

Okay, the bf is home and giving her sugar water and more tums. He said this am she was very weak and wouldn't have been able to remove herself from her box. He gave her tums, went to work, and when he got home she DID remove herself from her home/box and went to the otherside of her cage. This being said, I think the tums made a difference. We are now pushing tums & hydration. Please please if you are reading this should I get formula again to keep her satisfied until feeling better? She's willing drinking water and tums from a syringe. What about pedialite? Anything and everything you can suggest I would appreciate if this is metabolic bone disease HOW? AND WHY?! She gets henrys blocks morning and night and rat blocks and mixed veggies?? Is this not enough??
She is acting like she's in pain, we will also be dosing with ibuprofen as said above. How do I find the dosing chart based on weight until we can get to the right vet?

[Dwmarie]

We have also decided maybe shes not in pain but instead freaking out because she can't move (she's trying very hard!) We will determine this after dosed with medication and monitoring behavior before/after

[Dwmarie]

She weighs about 30-32 grams!

[CritterMom]

Nope, weigh again. That would be a pinkie. 320 grams maybe?

[CritterMom]

Instead of buying formula, I would grind some Henry's blocks up and get a container of a good, flavored yogurt preferably with some milkfat in it - Chobani makes a 2% coconut greek yogurt my squirrel is nuts for. Mix the yogurt and ground blocks into a sloppy goo and warm it up and offer it on the tip of a spoon. You can look for things she likes fruit and veggie wise in the baby food, too.

Hopefully she is going to want to eat "real" food soon.

Do you feed a lot of nuts? How about corn? Can you describe everything she consumes in addition to the Henry's?

[Dwmarie]

Instead of buying formula, I would grind some Henry's blocks up and get a container of a good, flavored yogurt preferably with some milkfat in it - Chobani makes a 2% coconut greek yogurt my squirrel is nuts for. Mix the yogurt and ground blocks into a sloppy goo and warm it up and offer it on the tip of a spoon. You can look for things she likes fruit and veggie wise in the baby food, too.

Hopefully she is going to want to eat "real" food soon.

Do you feed a lot of nuts? How about corn? Can you describe everything she consumes in addition to the Henry's?

You are correct, I apologize. He said between 350-370 and that's a round about because she's "flopping". She's moving around the best she can and is scared because she can't so it's a bit hard. We don't ever do nuts but she gets frozen corn?. We do free feeding of rat blocks, she gets a half a squirrel block every morning and night and we get bags of mixed vegetables which includes corn. Should I have not been letting her have corn? It's never the dried corn or bird seed kind, always fresh but frozen if that makes sense. She's never ever bitten unless playing but she really got my bf tonight. He doesn't mind and we really just feel so bad that she's so scared. We thought that Henry's blocks was supposed to stop this? Moving forward, if she recovers and we are back on track, how do I up her calcium intake so nothing like this happens again? We are not worried about money when it comes to her and what she needs so please let me know! �� Also thank you for your replies! I'll have him start feeds this way and see if she's interested ♡

Also, I cut her down on Henry block a few weeks ago actually. She was getting an entire block morning and night, I left for a few weeks and noticed she gained a lot of weight and my bf said she stopped touching the rat block 100% and instead tossing them out of her enclosure. Maybe I caused this by cutting her down on them? �� She gets exercise & love & plays like a cat so I thought that it was best to cut her down.

[Dwmarie]

Nope, weigh again. That would be a pinkie. 320 grams maybe?

Also I apologize if I get confusing at any point I'm trying to send things to him and make sure he's doing everything needed while also explaining things correctly. We have just been scared when it comes to her diet to give her much else. She's had avacado but then you hear the skin and seed is poisonous and I get so many conflicting options for other snacks for her that it's just tough to know what's "safe" anymore! 😐

[CritterMom]

So she is really only getting 1 Henry's block per day? Don't count the rat block. How much corn? A teaspoon? A tablespoon?

She needs to be eating 2 Henry's a day at this point and if she increases in size I would add a third. The Henry's are fortified to basically "help prevent" MBD but you need to have them consume enough of them. They are sort of vitamins AND food. Which is how they can help mitigate problems we create with their diet.

They ideally need a diet that not only has plenty of calcium in it, they also need a diet with relatively little phosphorus. Ideally, their entire diet as a whole would have 2 parts of calcium for every 1 part of phosphorus. There are a ton of things that squirrels love that are high in phosphorus - corn is, nuts are, seeds are.

https://thesquirrelboard.com/forums/...-Pet-Squirrels

I sent you dosing for the infant ibuprofen by private message.