Beastie update: Sugar Glider
Mature female Sugar Glider found today on Saltwater Road near the new clearing on the way to Wallabi Point. Found on ground; weak, dehydrated, hypothermic, hungry, abscess behind left eye. Vet cleared abscess, and restored proper body temperature.
Ate earlier (loves apple!); normal urine & BMs. Now on 1/10th a tablet of Orbax 25mg b.i.d., also gets Ilium Opticillan 4 times per day in both eyes.
Prognosis: fair to middling chance of recovery.
She will stay with me for subcutaneous fluids (as needed, but I managed to get her to drink some glucose/H20 solution with a tiny syringe and some gentle handling), feeding, medicating and monitoring ‘til the antibiotics have run their course, will then be paired up with another adult sugar glider in care.
When I first brought her home she was very nervous and tried to escape- made a short hop and it looks as if she is fine other than the eye abscess. The “flight” membranes seem to be intact, and all the feet are strong and grasping tightly. She has a fair energy level, but nearly what it should be, even in the daytime. (Sugar Gliders are nocturnal.)
Her pouch is slightly distended so she’d had young at some point, but none were found with her. As she was found on the road in the new clearing, my fear is that her home & family were wiped out. Do we really need yet another housing development there?
Just got her to eat some more apple chunks and take her antibiotics. Put the medicated cream in her eyes which made her his and spit and snap at me, but she let me do it. Poor little thing, she must feel lousy.
Must remember to weigh her later in the evening.
Ate earlier (loves apple!); normal urine & BMs. Now on 1/10th a tablet of Orbax 25mg b.i.d., also gets Ilium Opticillan 4 times per day in both eyes.
Prognosis: fair to middling chance of recovery.
She will stay with me for subcutaneous fluids (as needed, but I managed to get her to drink some glucose/H20 solution with a tiny syringe and some gentle handling), feeding, medicating and monitoring ‘til the antibiotics have run their course, will then be paired up with another adult sugar glider in care.
When I first brought her home she was very nervous and tried to escape- made a short hop and it looks as if she is fine other than the eye abscess. The “flight” membranes seem to be intact, and all the feet are strong and grasping tightly. She has a fair energy level, but nearly what it should be, even in the daytime. (Sugar Gliders are nocturnal.)
Her pouch is slightly distended so she’d had young at some point, but none were found with her. As she was found on the road in the new clearing, my fear is that her home & family were wiped out. Do we really need yet another housing development there?
Just got her to eat some more apple chunks and take her antibiotics. Put the medicated cream in her eyes which made her his and spit and snap at me, but she let me do it. Poor little thing, she must feel lousy.
Must remember to weigh her later in the evening.
