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they 
| | #1 posted October 28, 2009 at 9:49am (EST) |
Yesterday morning, I woke up at 5am to screaming from Mary's bedroom. The cats had caught a mouse and were torturing it in her room. She woke up to the sound of the mouse's screams.... so I guess we're even.
It was tiny, but I was tired and didn't see it very close. I chased the cats out, turned around to grab a box lid from one of her games, and turned back to the mouse. It was gone. I looked around for it and couldn't find it. I went back to bed...... feeling like he probably got away.
Fast forward to yesterday afternoon around 4:00. I am heading to the bathroom and as I pass Mare's room, there it is. Just sitting right in the middle of the floor. I thought it was dead.
I walk up to it and take a look and it's just barely breathing. I scooped it into the box lid from the night before.... and put it where the cats wouldn't bother it. I tossed in a squirrel peanut, in case it was hungry and went back to work for a couple hours. After work, I get a closer look.
It's a baby!! His eyes are still shut. One of them is seeping from a cat injury, but he has fur and is still breathing. I decided to see what I could do. I warmed some milk and with a small syringe, I tried to get him to drink. He drank!! He wrapped his tiny little baby paws around the tip and drank it. I washed his eye the best I could with warm water, and because he seemed to like the warmth of my hand, I tucked him into my bra while I did everything I needed to around the house. He just stayed curled in a sweet little ball.
I made him a nest in a box on a heating pad and I went to bed, hoping he would make it through the night.
I woke up in the middle of the night to see if he was breathing. He was a little more wiggly... and very hungry. He ate warm milk until he fell back asleep in my hand. This morning, he was still alive. He's moving around  He wasn't moving at all yesterday.
I just have to hope his eye will be okay and won't get infected, but I think I have him at least partially rehydrated. He's pooping even.
Yay  . Wishing for life.
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Wicksy
| #41 posted November 6, 2009 at 2:41pm (EST)
edited November 6, 2009 at 2:41pm (EST) |
They
How is mousey wousey??
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Irene007 
| | #42 posted November 12, 2009 at 4:04pm (EST) |
It's DEAD dammit...
Well at least I got to save 3 squirrels after that - I'll post some pics. |
Wicksy
| | #43 posted November 12, 2009 at 5:08pm (EST) |
They: How is your mouse??? |
Irene007
| #44 posted November 13, 2009 at 1:56am (EST)
edited November 13, 2009 at 2:00am (EST) |
labjog wrote:
> Aww, Irene looks so sad 
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...and fat...and sloshed... At least we still have our bathingsuits on at that moment!
We communed with our creator after the mouse had died and bathed naked to feel life; the freedom of life...
 Pour me another one Cloudy!!  |
Irene007
| | #45 posted November 13, 2009 at 7:38pm (EST) |
Here are the little ones we saved last year - One was found crying at the foot of one of the big maple trees in her yard, she called in a panic as they were getting ready for a BBQ and she didn't have time to deal with it (she saved one in the city a couple of years before) so I promised to take care of it. She called about an hour later telling me that they had found another one. She settled them in and gave them some pedialite to rehydrate them until I could mix some proper milk. I took them home that night and fed them, all was well until the next morning she calls again and tells me that she had found another hanging in the bush at the foot of another maple tree in her yard. They couldn't have been from the same nest - they weren't exactly the same size nor had the same colouring. This one was wounded and full of maggots, totally dehydrated and so pitiful. We kept her separate for a couple of days and here are some pictures of them all together. (She's the one on top)
This is one of the 2 healthy siblings...
This is the hurt one (all pictures were taken on the same day - you can see that she's not as vigorous yet)
And here she is just a week later, totally fit!
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labjog
| | #46 posted November 14, 2009 at 12:21am (EST) |
Irene, that is awsome! Did you let them go when they were old enough? If so did they come visit you? |
labjog
| | #47 posted November 14, 2009 at 10:52am (EST) |
This one was wounded and full of maggots, totally dehydrated and so pitiful. We kept her separate for a couple of days and here are some pictures of them all together. (She's the one on top)
It is so rewarding to save an animal in this shape. When I was a teen I found a Box turtle in a cow field. I think it got stepped on by a cow, its bottom shell was cracked and full of maggots. I took it home and nursed it back to health. I had that turtle for twenty years. I finally gave it to a petting zoo that had a crap load of box turtles and a nice outside area set up for them. I felt good leaving him there. |
Irene007
| | #48 posted November 14, 2009 at 8:32pm (EST) |
We let them go back in Jess' yard where they were found and they stuck around too! The one that she found in the city a few years before was released in the woods near our camp, that one too would come to visit. It didn't like when the cats came along with us and would jibber at them, it would go quiet when we sang the "squirrelly whirley" song (something Jess used to sing to soothe it). I know for sure that it was her because that species wasn't present in that part of the bush, only red ones... So she was lonely but alive!
So how big was the turtle after 20 years?? |
labjog
| | #49 posted November 14, 2009 at 10:55pm (EST) |
It stayed the same size, it was full grown when I found it.It did get heavier though, he loved raw hamburger, strawberries and bananas. |
Irene007
| | #50 posted November 15, 2009 at 3:38am (EST) |
So how big is a full grown Box Turtle?
Strawberries and bananas eh? *takes mental note in case a turtle case comes around* |
labjog
| | #51 posted November 15, 2009 at 10:38am (EST) |
Irene007 wrote:
> So how big is a full grown Box Turtle?
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> Strawberries and bananas eh? *takes mental note in case a turtle
> case comes around*
The closest comparison I can think of is to cut a large grapefruit in half, thats about how big his shell is. Don't forget the beef! |
they
| | #52 posted November 15, 2009 at 10:50am (EST) |
Irene: OMG skwerls. I you for saving them. I want to be a skwerl when I grow up.
Wicksy: He's okay. He was perfect when he went in his cage - perfect balance, perfect health. Something happened (infection set in?).... and he lost his balance. He seems to be getting it back, but for about a week there... he was falling over sideways and walking in circles. Something neurological I'm guessing?
He's finally a little more normal, but still, less balanced than he was. |
cprasky 
| | #53 posted November 15, 2009 at 2:29pm (EST) |
I'm always less balanced than I was before. |
they
| | #54 posted November 15, 2009 at 2:33pm (EST) |
Actually, right after I posted that, I was looking at the mouse at juuust the right angle, and found a white spot on the eye that was not mangled. It appears, he may have gone completely blind.
It's interesting tho, that he was fine for a couple of days after he became strong again.... and then this came on. |
labjog
| | #55 posted November 15, 2009 at 9:41pm (EST) |
Oh no, one of the three blind mice! |
Wicksy
| | #56 posted November 17, 2009 at 5:08pm (EST) |
They:
What can we do??? |
Moogie
| | #57 posted November 18, 2009 at 8:07pm (EST) |
I raised a squirrel. I had it on a harness but it got off, my mom tried to grab it and she ripped its tail off!!!!! eww it was so gross |
labjog
| | #58 posted November 18, 2009 at 10:30pm (EST) |
Morgy, you're not supposed to tell people that!! I felt horrible, the little tip of the tail skin came off in my hand, I almost puked. |
Irene007
| | #59 posted November 19, 2009 at 4:06pm (EST) |
You really shouldn't be keeping wild animals anyway - they make horrible pets. As cute as squirrels are; they can get right nasty! |
Moogie
| | #60 posted November 19, 2009 at 10:35pm (EST) |
Yeah she was a physco dog! she never bit me but she didn't like me, she was the meanest wild animal I have ever had. |
FauxLo
| | #61 posted November 20, 2009 at 2:23am (EST) |
Squirrel Torturers on SC! I it. |
Irene007
| | #62 posted November 20, 2009 at 7:46am (EST) |
Squirrels... Cute and nasty. Sounds like me!!  |
they
| | #63 posted November 20, 2009 at 9:47am (EST) |
This thread sucks now.  |
Irene007
| | #64 posted November 20, 2009 at 11:03am (EST) |
Fudge off dog!
(See?) |
labjog
| | #65 posted November 20, 2009 at 12:16pm (EST) |
FauxLo wrote:
> Squirrel Torturers on SC! I it.
WAAAAAAAAAAA I didn't mean it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! See what you started Morgy! To the naughty corner for you. |
Moogie
| | #66 posted November 20, 2009 at 4:17pm (EST) |
NOOO don't start the british imitation, it's soooo annoying when you do it lol. |
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