{"id":7069,"date":"2020-03-12T17:08:22","date_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:08:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=7069"},"modified":"2020-03-12T17:08:22","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T17:08:22","slug":"virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones"},"content":{"rendered":"

The following story was shared with us by Amy Stevens, a home-based wildlife rehabber in southern Ohio.<\/em><\/p>\n

\"VrginiaIn our rehab experience, the use of EmerAid has been the deciding factor on whether an animal survives or not. A young, male Virginia opossum, about 7 months old, came to us severely emaciated with both broken ribs and femur.<\/p>\n

The young male came into us after being found barely able to survive on the finder\u2019s property. We guessed he was hit by a car, and his broken bones prevented him from traveling far to forage for food.<\/p>\n

Upon intake, we immediately provided warmed SubQ fluids and rehydrated him. On the second day, we started with syringe-feeding both EmerAid Intensive Care Carnivore<\/a> and EmerAid Intensive Care Omnivore<\/a>.<\/p>\n

He was getting the nutrition he needed so desperately by using this product. He was able to digest and process this solution much quicker than normal food. Because he was too weak to process solid food, we would not have been able to provide the necessary nutrition quick enough without EmerAid.<\/p>\n

As seen in the attached picture, we are syringe-feeding him the EmerAid solution.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Broken bones likely suffered after being hit by a car prevent a Virginia opossum from finding food, so he nearly starved before being rescued and rehabbed by a home-care wildlife rehabber.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7072,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7069","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nVirginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones - EmerAidVet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A Virginia Opossum faces starvation when broken bones prevent him from finding food, until he gets help from a home-based wildlife rehabber.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones - EmerAidVet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A Virginia Opossum faces starvation when broken bones prevent him from finding food, until he gets help from a home-based wildlife rehabber.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"EmerAidVet\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2020-03-12T17:08:22+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"780\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Marylou Zarbock\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Marylou Zarbock\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Marylou Zarbock\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#\/schema\/person\/63d8629f8ef085b129e7375d424f0725\"},\"headline\":\"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-12T17:08:22+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/\"},\"wordCount\":196,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg\",\"articleSection\":[\"Wildlife Rehabilitation Stories\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/\",\"name\":\"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones - EmerAidVet\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2020-03-12T17:08:22+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#\/schema\/person\/63d8629f8ef085b129e7375d424f0725\"},\"description\":\"A Virginia Opossum faces starvation when broken bones prevent him from finding food, until he gets help from a home-based wildlife rehabber.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg\",\"width\":780,\"height\":780,\"caption\":\"Vrginia opossum being syringe-fed\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/\",\"name\":\"EmerAidVet\",\"description\":\"Life saving nutrition for animals\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#\/schema\/person\/63d8629f8ef085b129e7375d424f0725\",\"name\":\"Marylou Zarbock\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0a68ee9b3ae67eb5579909689508ac40e2b8f4e1619fb9e61d20ac27ebfaa55?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0a68ee9b3ae67eb5579909689508ac40e2b8f4e1619fb9e61d20ac27ebfaa55?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Marylou Zarbock\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/author\/marylou\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones - EmerAidVet","description":"A Virginia Opossum faces starvation when broken bones prevent him from finding food, until he gets help from a home-based wildlife rehabber.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones - EmerAidVet","og_description":"A Virginia Opossum faces starvation when broken bones prevent him from finding food, until he gets help from a home-based wildlife rehabber.","og_url":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/","og_site_name":"EmerAidVet","article_published_time":"2020-03-12T17:08:22+00:00","og_image":[{"width":780,"height":780,"url":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Marylou Zarbock","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Marylou Zarbock","Est. reading time":"1 minute"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/"},"author":{"name":"Marylou Zarbock","@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#\/schema\/person\/63d8629f8ef085b129e7375d424f0725"},"headline":"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones","datePublished":"2020-03-12T17:08:22+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/"},"wordCount":196,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg","articleSection":["Wildlife Rehabilitation Stories"],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/","url":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/","name":"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones - EmerAidVet","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg","datePublished":"2020-03-12T17:08:22+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#\/schema\/person\/63d8629f8ef085b129e7375d424f0725"},"description":"A Virginia Opossum faces starvation when broken bones prevent him from finding food, until he gets help from a home-based wildlife rehabber.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virigina-opossum-amy-stevens-200312.jpg","width":780,"height":780,"caption":"Vrginia opossum being syringe-fed"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/virginia-opossum-nearly-starves-after-suffering-broken-bones\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Virginia Opossum Nearly Starves After Suffering Broken Bones"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#website","url":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/","name":"EmerAidVet","description":"Life saving nutrition for animals","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#\/schema\/person\/63d8629f8ef085b129e7375d424f0725","name":"Marylou Zarbock","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0a68ee9b3ae67eb5579909689508ac40e2b8f4e1619fb9e61d20ac27ebfaa55?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c0a68ee9b3ae67eb5579909689508ac40e2b8f4e1619fb9e61d20ac27ebfaa55?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Marylou Zarbock"},"url":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/author\/marylou\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7069"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7069\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7069"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7069"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7069"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}