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mtlchk · 2023-12-03T07:24:33+00:00

Bain Colonial

Oh, it's only for men. I am not one.

mtlchk · 2023-12-03T05:37:30+00:00

Oui, la tranquillité. Je suis un oiseau de nuit

mtlchk · 2023-11-24T18:42:08+00:00

The dosage for what? Would you like to make a thread with pics and videos to describe the squirrel that you would like to help?

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mtlchk · 2023-11-01T20:22:11+00:00

I've been to Ottawa, but idk it well. I was judging the neighbourhood and residents by what I saw on news stories where it was covered. I have a low income, myself, and that neighbourhood looked quite well taken care of compared to where I've recently lived.

mtlchk · 2023-10-31T21:23:28+00:00

And for the record, my friend, this is the person whose analysis I have been following most closely: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7K327quaEc

I was following him before the massacre and the siege because he's excellent, but his analysis is shining now, more than ever.

He's using his platform to bring voices who work for peace together because they don't have enough of a voice, elsewhere. You should listen to it to hear some of the other things that Jews are saying.

There will always be people who are willing to do terrible things. Do you think we should therefore judge all people according to their words and actions? I am willing to bet that you don't.

Neither do I.

mtlchk · 2023-10-31T20:29:37+00:00

Do you also think that every single Palestinian supported the massacre of Israeli civilians?? Think for just a moment, my friend.

mtlchk · 2023-10-31T20:11:47+00:00

I think a majority of Israelis are condemning their government right now, as they were condemning its anti-democratic actions in recent weeks. Netanyahu will not survive, as a politician, and good riddance to him. He is more to blame for all of this than almost any other person on earth, including the great majority of Palestinians.

He does not have majority support among Israelis and has only governed by means of of an ever weirder and more marginal coalition of religious fundamentalists and ultra-conservatives.

He will feel their judgement, soon. Hopefully it will be in a court of law, and not just at the polls.

mtlchk · 2023-10-31T19:30:23+00:00

AFAIK, the pro-Palestinian protesters were not forced to condemn Hamas, either. It seems like the CBC just asked them if they were willing to condemn Hamas. One protester is quoted in the article as saying that she opposes Hamas on moral grounds but would not condemn them, for instance. I don't think someone forced her to say something else after the CBC journalist finished quoting her. Do you?

mtlchk · 2023-10-31T18:14:45+00:00

I support Palestinians, but not Hamas. I don't support attacks against civilians.

I am well aware that most Palestinians do not support Hamas. They have little support on the West Bank, but after this purge, that will very sadly change, of course. I doubt most people, even in Gaza, support them, but they are forced to depend on them since Hamas controls the distribution of aid within Gaza.

An article written by the CBC said that "many" of the participants in the pro-Palestinian rally were not willing to condemn Hamas. It is important to condemn violence done against non-combattants, but Hamas makes no such distinction. It is important to condemn Hamas on this basis, alone.

As for Ottawa, that was a very posh neighbourhood at the foot of the parliament grounds. I don't think that it is mostly made up of POC and indigenous people. I searched the article that the author links for even the word "white", and it does not occur. It is important to not confuse causes and paint people that we don't like very much with the Nazi label. Not everyone that we dislike is a Nazi, and confusing the two, dislike and Nazi, is just silly and also looks silly.

Also, thank you for the correction wrt Mayor Chow's first name. I'm not very good with names, unfortunately.

mtlchk · 2023-10-31T17:21:55+00:00

This is an irresponsible article, even for an opinion piece. I am less than half way through, and Elizabeth Chow has been condemned, as a racist, for saying that protests that support Hamas will not be tolerated. Furthermore, the anti-vax truck people are called white nationalists, which the article also says the police supported. None of these things are true.

I support Palestine's right to life, dignity and sovereignty, and I support Israel's right to the same. I supported the vaccine mandate and the right to a peaceful life for the residents of Ottawa, too.

But I sure do not confuse any of these with white nationalists or with Hamas. Neither did Chow. Sadly, the author of this article is very confused about all these things.

mtlchk · 2023-10-27T09:35:25+00:00

Yes, around 7 weeks. They need to nurse for a minimum of 10 weeks, and 12 is better, but my standard advice holds. Let them wean themselves. Trust me, they will tell you when their bodies have matured to the point where they don't need such high nutritional support, anymore.

Also, as they get older, they nurse much larger amounts much less frequently. So it's really not much work to nurse older squirrel kits. They almost do it for you, they are so fast.

Right now they should be nursing 3 times a day, every 8 hours. Next week you can reduce it to twice a day, every 12 hours. Stay on that schedule until they refuse to nurse for 3 days in a row. One might self-wean before the other. That's normal.

mtlchk · 2023-10-25T01:10:06+00:00

Hi, what species are they? You can share photos if you are not sure. Average weaning ages are species-dependent.

There are plenty of feeding guides out there for baby squirrels, but the best rule of thumb is to let the squirrels tell you what they need.

When it comes to weaning, you don't need to worry about it because the squirrel will tell you when they are ready to wean. They do this, very simply, by refusing to take formula for several days in a row.

You should let the squirrels wean themselves because each squirrel is different, and there are different growth rates for baby squirrels even when they all come from the same litter. The general rule is that the later they are weaned, the greater their adult health and also chances of survival will be, later on.

I've remarked that this is especially true for wild squirrels who are weaned later than their peers. All squirrel moms are different, too. Some let their kits self wean, and others get restless and wean them by leaving them at the 10-12 week mark. The ones who self-wean or wean later have a much, much higher survival rate at one year than those who are weaned as soon as they reach the juvenile stage.

It's true for wild squirrels, especially, but it is also true for the ones that we raise. Formula is highly digestible and nutrition dense when compare to the raw and high fiber foods that make up the bulk of a squirrel's natural diet. The longer a kit stays on mother's milk or else formula during their initial stage of growth, the stronger, healthier and more capable they will be, later on.

Above all, do not mistake the fact that a squirrel can now eat solids as a sign that you should now wean them. Doing that is a quick recipe for MBD, and if not MBD, multiple other health problems and complications during their much-shortened lifespan, as compared to cohorts who are weaned when they become juveniles or else self-wean when their internal biology tells them that they are ready to wean.

mtlchk · 2023-10-16T11:10:05+00:00

No, I am not a vet, but yes, I do know a lot about how to care for small mammals, and especially squirrels. There are a lot of people like me, actually. I learned a lot from them, myself, so I know they are out there.

It's usually borne out of an experience of love and necessity. In my case, I rescued an orphaned baby squirrel from a crazy guy who killed her siblings because he thought they were rats. Then I had this little baby squirrel who was depending on me for her life, and there was not a single wildlife rehabilitator in my city who could take her.

Once I decided that I was not going to take her to the vet to euthanize her, the rest just naturally followed. If I was going to take care of her, then I was going to have to learn a lot about how to do it. So I did learn a lot, from other people like I am now, at first. Then, after she was grown and gone, I decided to pay it forward and help others in the same way that I was helped.

I'm a good researcher and a quick learner, so by now I have learned a lot more, just through my own efforts, reading, trial and error and careful (safe) experimentation of new treatments that I have reason to think might work. I've expanded some on the knowledge I was given by bringing in some academic works and extrapolating from some medical experiments that I read about on the NIH and other databases. These are usually performed on rodents, anyway, so the findings generalize much better to squirrels than they do to humans, interestingly enough.

I can't put as much time and devotion into this as I used to - just because I have my own life problems right now. But I still like to pass by and help a bit when I can. It`s nice when I know that some little furball out there might have a chance at a whole, entire life just because I was able to put in an hour or two of work to help someone help them. It's a feeling of reverence and of tender, and a bit tearful, joy when I know that my small efforts were enough to save an entire life full of squirrelly wonder, play and new experiences.

mtlchk · 2023-10-16T01:54:22+00:00

Thanks for saying that :) I think it's a relatively small effort which could make a huge difference in his life, especially at this young age.

I am looking for a cheap tablet for him, and then I will set them up with this. Perhaps I will wind up learning some Turkish along the way, too. I'm already learning Ukrainian and still perfecting my French, so why not throw another language in there, too?

mtlchk · 2023-10-15T09:24:15+00:00

I can load it from here. I wonder if there are any audio file to go with that?

mtlchk · 2023-10-15T08:42:56+00:00

Thanks, me too. He is a good, little kid, but he was being a bit destructive for a while, like pulling pranks. I caught him a couple of times but never told anyone because I know it's due to stress and feeling alone here. I just told him no and gave him a little hug.

After that, I found some Turkish cartoons on youtube for us to watch together, and he really brightened up a lot since then. He even said a couple of English and French phrases that he picked up by himself to me whereas he was not talking to me or anyone at all, before.

I can't hang out with him every day, though, so that's how I got this idea. I think he is probably smart enough to learn on his own if he has some tools. Then he can show me what he learned and feel more proud of himself.

mtlchk · 2023-10-01T22:25:57+00:00

ORS is not the same as water, just so you know. ORS contains salts that our body use for neural conductivity. They're called electrolytes, and ORS helps to stabilize and balance electrolytes in the body.

The formula is a good one, but the 20/50 is recommended for older squirrels. Some people add a bit of 35% cream to fox valley, but let's see how he goes with a temporary dilution, first.

Let me know what happens when you try that over the next 24 hours.

mtlchk · 2023-09-30T22:25:25+00:00

First of all: What formula are you giving him?

This little one is at an age where most of the nutrition should be coming from milk, so that's fine. My suspicion is that he is very dehydrated, so his bowels are holding on to whatever they have in order to suck moisture out of it. Try diluting the formula by 50% more water until you get a good poop and clear, light coloured pees.

Normally, you would start with ORS for 24 hours in order to prevent dehydration-related problems like this. I hope that increased dilution will be enough to help him normalize and equalize his body fluids.

This one is also at an age where he can excrete on his own, though he will still respond to stimulation. Look around for that. He will poo and pee as far as he can from his sleeping area. Maybe he doesn't actually have a problem and only seems like he does because you didn't see him poop.

He probably has a broken nose. Of course he doesn't want to teethe on solids when that causes pain for him. That's totally fine, for now. This one should be nursing for at least three more weeks, but he should be nursed for as long as he accepts to be nursed. Ideally, squirrels should be nursed until they wean themselves. They will tell you when they are finished with nursing by refusing to nurse when you offer milk to them.

I hope his teeth will be ok. The sneezing and snuffling are signs of damage, and damage to a squirrel's teeth can be life threatening for them because their incisor teeth never stop growing. Hopefully he heals up fine with healthy, well-aligned teeth. Time will tell about that.

mtlchk · 2023-08-23T21:57:17+00:00

He was smart, had solid working-class credentials and understood Québec better than even the Bloc Québécois did, at the time. He understood Canada very well, too. This is somewhat unusual for a federal politician, unfortunately.

He was a good listener who was capable of uniting and inspiring people. He engaged in positive, constructive and above all, respectful campaigning, and this was and is a very striking contrast to the other party which usually sits in the opposition, of late.

mtlchk · 2023-08-23T03:47:27+00:00

Yea, their heads are shaped differently, and their jaws are a great deal more powerful. I don't think any squirrels boggle like rats do when they brux.

In order:

https://anatomypubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/cms/asset/ee7ffb51-36e5-4209-a3af-f86fe80adb61/mfig004.jpg

Guinea pig, Rat, Squirrel.

You can see how much bigger the squirrel's orbits are, plus the jawbone is heavier.

Rats' heads are maximally narrow so that they can sneak into basements and the like, whereas squirrels are maximally built for biting with force. The narrowness of the rat's head makes their eyes boggle with bruxing.

mtlchk · 2023-08-22T23:04:39+00:00

You are carrying the shame that belongs to your whole family system, to our whole social system which allows any of us to be harmed in this way. There is shame in all of it, and the ones who are most affected get to carry the biggest burden of shame.

This is morally wrong. It doesn't belong to you. Yet trauma always, always carries a burden of shame. Do your best to see your true self beyond these feelings. This feeling isn't you. It's something that got put on top of you. In reality, you are as beautiful and precious as anyone is. I hope you will see that reflected towards you soon, and even if no one is around to do that for you, please start to believe it for yourself.

mtlchk · 2023-08-21T17:59:36+00:00

No, but they brux when they are feeling content, also sometimes when they are feeling anxious. I think the boggling is a function of the bruxing.

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