Sadly, today both the hulsey chick that was staying in my room, and the boy-squirrel Nuts have passed away.
The hulsey I lost to this new strain of disease early this morning, the poor little feller is no longer ill, and went warm with a full belly.
The boy-squirrel has been fighting for a while now---though I can't recall if I've blogged about his struggles here before. He broke his toe in his cage, getting hung between wires, and it got infected. He was eating for a while, the ceased to do so. We began treating him with some pain medications, and antibiotics. He seemed to improve slightly---perking up, and drinking his puppy formula (which was the only thing we could get down him) more readily. He hung in their for two more days, and only a little bit ago today Dad noticed the bone sticking out of his toe---a tiny little fracture, but what was hurting him. Dad said he couldn't heal with that sticking out, so we laid out a little squirrel-surgery zone, and were going to cut the infected, and broken toe off. The squirrel went into some form of shock before we could do more then bundle him, and he passed away. He's not hurting anymore.
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