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Grey squirrel treatment and hand‐rearing
Author(s) -
Cousquer Glen
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
in practice
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.211
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 2042-7689
pISSN - 0263-841X
DOI - 10.1136/inp.e6272
Subject(s) - sciurus carolinensis , medicine , sciurus , veterinary medicine , zoology , biology , ecology , habitat
An adult female grey squirrel ( Sciurus carolinensis ) is brought into your veterinary practice together with her unweaned young after their drey was, apparently, blown from a tree. The member of the public who found the squirrels only did so because her dog caught and injured the mother. A brief clinical examination found the mother to be distressed, tachypnoeic and unable to stand; a conscious radiograph identifies a vertebral fracture. The kits are all lively, keen to suckle and one of your nurses is equally keen to hand‐rear them. How should you proceed?