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conuly
1. Call a vet. Do NOT ask your equally ignorant friends how to help this poor animal, call a vet. If it's a wild animal, tell the vet you need a wildlife center.
2. Search google. You can find useful information there, and it's generally more reliable than your friends, who probably know as much about baby animals as you do.
3. Did I tell you to call a vet? What are you waiting for?
4. Baby animals need to be kept constantly warm. However, overheating is as dangerous as hypothermia. The problem lies in their inability to regulate their own body heat.
5. The bigger threat is not hunger, but dehydration. Do NOT give this baby animal anything to eat until you have no only determined that it isn't dehydrated, but you have checked with a vet to see what's safe for them to eat.
6. Oh, yeah. Call a vet. You can't deal with this yourself unless you know what you're doing, which you probably do not.
7. No, seriously, what part of call a vet don't you understand? Because if you don't, well-meaning people like me are going to have to guilt-trip you by pointing out the myriad ways a baby animal could die in your care. The sad fact is you do NOT know what you're doing.
Seriously, I don't get that. In what world are your friends preferable to a licensed veterinarian? *screams incoherantly*
This isn't an attack at any one person, by the way, it's a subject that comes up far more often than one would hope.
2. Search google. You can find useful information there, and it's generally more reliable than your friends, who probably know as much about baby animals as you do.
3. Did I tell you to call a vet? What are you waiting for?
4. Baby animals need to be kept constantly warm. However, overheating is as dangerous as hypothermia. The problem lies in their inability to regulate their own body heat.
5. The bigger threat is not hunger, but dehydration. Do NOT give this baby animal anything to eat until you have no only determined that it isn't dehydrated, but you have checked with a vet to see what's safe for them to eat.
6. Oh, yeah. Call a vet. You can't deal with this yourself unless you know what you're doing, which you probably do not.
7. No, seriously, what part of call a vet don't you understand? Because if you don't, well-meaning people like me are going to have to guilt-trip you by pointing out the myriad ways a baby animal could die in your care. The sad fact is you do NOT know what you're doing.
Seriously, I don't get that. In what world are your friends preferable to a licensed veterinarian? *screams incoherantly*
This isn't an attack at any one person, by the way, it's a subject that comes up far more often than one would hope.
