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Apr 22, 2009 Bad week Posted by: suggieluvrI found out yesterday that I will be laid off on 07/03/2009. It is crazy how the system works. But, my suggies saved me from a night of crying because they are so stinking cute! I have put new pictures up of them that I took last night. The first night in their wodent wheel! It was by far the funniest thing I have ever seen! Cameron wanted to sit on the center bar and Chase was running/gliding so fast I almost threw up!
Apr 21, 2009 Hi Posted by: sarahsmommyHi guys I'm so excited that there are people out there that love their suggies like i love mine. My baby is around 4 or 6 months i think. A wild little girl with an attitude. Her name is Sarah i dont know where tha name Sarah came from but some how it fits. This is my first time having a suggie in the family. I am learning new things every day and loving it. I am looking for her a partner or friend but there seems to be a shortage for suggies in NM. I live in NW corner of NM if any body knows where i might be able to find one please let me know. Sarah seems happy but kinda lonely.Thanks much Apr 18, 2009 necropsy results Posted by: JettThis is the email I resceived back from the vet at the sanctuary Health centre. Hi Sue, I had a chance to do the roo necropsy this morning and I found that it had a colonic intussusception. What this means is that the large intestine has telescoped inside of itself causing a section of it to die. Almost the entire LI was affected and this was the cause of the bloody diarrhoea. This can be a primary issue where the intussusception may occur spontaneously or may be secondary to another disease process such as diarrhoea. I think that it is unlikely to be an infectious process that resulted in this condition but have sent tissue to the lab just in case. Cheers, Franciscus. I feel better that it wasn't something that I had cause but then feel guilty that I let her live that extra couple of days and die in pain like she did. She had one runny poo one feed them the next ones were soild so this was very unexspected. All joeys seem to waver between runny to solid poo. I think being that the milk substitutes we use never really mimic their mother milk exactly. Now not only did Jack have the runs but Annie also has today. Last feed I just gave them Lactade and have given them some Nilsta as I suspect maybe some thrush from the stress of the last couple of days. Although the shelter i work through also has two pinkies with the same symptons so I am not sure what is going on. The last feed they both did seem better and there pouches weren't soiled. This si teh reason the necropsy of Maddison was so important and the follow up tests too. I do feel that this is just an adjustment to the milk. Not over feeding and trying to restore some gut fauna is very important. Now I picked up a very small Wallaby today that fits into the palm of my hand. I have named him Rocky because he seems to be a fighter. He has survived the first 24 hours but bruising has started to come out on one of his hindlegs this will be the result from the injuries his mother would have also resceived from being hit by a car. Will be praying that he still survives. He is feeding really well but it is hard to keep ones like this at a constant warm temperature. They have no weight to keep them in contact with the heat source. I am checking on him every 15 minutes to keep him warm and not over heat him, getting this right is most important at this stage. More to follow..... Apr 17, 2009 Raising Joeys frim the Bushfires Posted by: JettWell as many of you know i spent two weeks at some of the Bushfire areas doing rescuing. It was an emotional time with very few animals surviving the fires. Many areas we went into you could smell death in the air of wrotting animals and perhaps even people. many raod we went donw no one survivd along the street and the yellow ribbons tied to the properties contested to this. I returned home a couple of times and found it quite hard to cope with normal life however the last time I came home I brought with me three furless eastern Grey Kangaroos all of which we had to shoot there mothers due to how badly burned they were. I have learned to cope with just a couple of hours sleep a night but have loved waching these little ones grow. However on Tuesday night at midnight when I went to feed the eldest joey Maddison I found her heamorrhaging from her cloaca bright red blood. I rushed her to the emergency vet and got there around 2am. Not that there was much they could do but they said her colour was ok and the bleeding had eased a bit. I took her home and then after I had fed the joeys again in the morning I took her too the Healseville sanctuary health centre that specilaizes in Australian Native animals. They thought it might be Coccidiosis, however I think she had a burst bowl or tawn intestine. They gave me antibiotics and pain meds that i have had to inject just under the skin. Her blleding eased over the next two days and she was bright and feeding well. Then at 4am this morning her breathing was laboured and i could tell things had changed. This morning ealry I fed the other two roos and she was panting which ment she was dieing. I rushed to the vet at the sanctuary but she died just as I arrived. I have been very emotinal about loosing her as you all know we get so attached to aniamls and even though she was only in my care about 9 weeks she had really become a part of my life. To watch them bag her for a neropsy was a hard thing to watch although they were very reverant with her body. I am hopeing to hear about the results by Monday although they only had one vet on today so they wer no sure when they could get it done. The beauty of being wild life carer is that we don't have to pay for thisbut then it isnt a priority for them either. I told them how important it is for me to know if this was contagious as I still have two joeys in care. They did not touch each other but they were housed close to each other. I am proberly parenoid now but Jack the little boy has the runs so I am treating him with some yoghurt in his milk as this can help restore their gut fauna if used for a limited time.I do have antibiotics to give to him but thsi can alo give them teh runs so I will monitor him throughout the night for any change. So today has been a very emotinla day and I keep bursting into tears. However it has made me more determined to do the right things and raise these joeys the best I can. Then tonight the shelter I work with rang me to say a 130gram pinkie wallaby has come in do I want to take it on. It makes me know she has confidence in me so if it survives the night I will pick it up in the morning. When you are doing rehabilaltion you need to keep moving forward as there will always be those we loose but then another one alwasy seem to come in that needs us just as much. For some reason we are coming into a busy time of year. Summer saw us with heat stressed animals with soaring temps into the 100 degrees and then the bushfires. Then now we are getting many roos and wallabys hit by cars so joeys are coming in a coule each day. Luckliy we have many shelters out this way with great experience with furless joeys from Wombats, wallabys to roos and even small gliders of all kinds. will give you an update soon......The wallaby also died this morning, bruising continued to come out on his leg so he must have also sustained injuires we didn't realize. I also found out that he had been left in his mothers pouch till he had gotten wuite cold so he really didn't have much hope. Apr 15, 2009 Day 2 and nothing but good news! Posted by: suggieluvrYesterday went just as well as Monday. However I was crabbed at by Cameron when I went to get her out. At first it scare the poo out of me because she has never crabbed that loud! But, I didn't pull my hand out until she hopped on. She ran right up my arm to my neck and decided that this was now her spot and no one else could come over. Poor Chase! He decided to just hang out in my bra! They were with me for about 4 and a half hours. They ate very well again last night so I couldn't be happier. Apr 14, 2009 Day one, 2 babies Posted by: suggieluvrWell, yesterday I picked up my first glider pair. A male and female who are around 8 weeks oop. I love the TV show House, so their names are Chase and Cameron. Both are very adorable, but still hard to tell apart. They ate like little piggies last night and there was no crabbing or crying! The person I got them from must have handled them at least daily because they are so loving and want to climb right on you! I can not thank everyone enough, especially Ahsaehr, you have made me one of the proudest mother's ever!! Poor Chase is going to the doctor to have his pre-exam (Cameron is going to get her check up too)for his neuter. I will let everyone know how things go. I think I am more scared than he is! Apr 13, 2009 feels like a waste..? Posted by: meggledzzl1124sooo....i just bought a cage for my suggies like a week or 2 ago for $100. of course i get it and when i get it all set up, i'm kinda dissappointed. i had it made for me, and it looks like crap. buh. i guess i shoulda seen that coming. but i start to think "well it'll do for now because i plan on building my own 6 and a half footer anyways". well today i found one for $90, on wheels, with 6 food dishes, and like 2 or 3 doors on it...bigger than the one i have and it's from an actual STORE. the kicker? FREE SHIPPING! ugh. now i want it really bad and i'm kinda irritated because i feel like i wasted $100 and now about to spend another $90. i guess if i end up getting another suggie that will be the quarantine home. buh! lol just wanted to let it all out. Apr 13, 2009 the bond is as strong for humans as it is for gliders Posted by: jbsgirl1423i never even realized it but the bond that you read that gliders form is the same for humans as it is for gliders i miss my guy so much and i've only been away from him for one day i wish i could see him! Apr 11, 2009 Loose nuts can cause problems Posted by: kazkoI was washing cages the other day and noticed that my newest cage had a problem. The screw and nut that hinge the bottom of the cage door had worked themselves very loose. As a matter of fact, I could just pull out on the door and it came off. So, if you have one of the cage types that have screw-hinge doors, be sure to check on them once in awhile and make sure they are tight against the nut. It might not even hurt to add in two small washers on the bottom to act as a low-friction plate so that the nut wont be working loose. 
Apr 11, 2009 Small change to journal Posted by: Eric CMade a change to the landing journal page. Instead of just displaying titles and links to recent journal entries, the actual entries are displayed. It's like a big community type blog thing. Apr 11, 2009 ahhh how sweet it is to be loved by you! Posted by: jbsgirl1423ah how sweet it is to be loved by a glider i love him so much even though i've only had him for about 3 days he is probably one of the top 4 important things to me God, family, friends, Apollo. I feel like he is my kid even though im waaay to young to have a kid hes my version of one. I had originally saved up around two hundred dollars to go shopping for new school clothes but ended up spending most of it on him and im not even close to being done i love the guts out of my little guy! Apr 10, 2009 New Mommy! Posted by: samanthaLast sunday i got my first sugar glider for my birthday! I was so excited! I've been doing research forever on these guys and i'm so happy i finally got one! Even though it's already been a week i still haven't decided on a name for her. I was thinking that since sugar gliders are from australia i would name her something that has to do with australia, like a name of a flower or plant or soemthing...however i also like the name mitzi..totally random i know :). So let me know what you think i'm open for any suggestions! |
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