{"id":7741,"date":"2020-10-01T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-01T09:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=7741"},"modified":"2020-09-29T00:02:03","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T00:02:03","slug":"car-accident-leaves-virginia-opossum-unable-to-eat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/car-accident-leaves-virginia-opossum-unable-to-eat\/","title":{"rendered":"Car Accident Leaves Virginia Opossum Unable To Eat"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7743\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virginia-opossum-appalachian-wildlife-refuge-202009-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"face of Virginia opossum\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virginia-opossum-appalachian-wildlife-refuge-202009-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virginia-opossum-appalachian-wildlife-refuge-202009-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virginia-opossum-appalachian-wildlife-refuge-202009-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virginia-opossum-appalachian-wildlife-refuge-202009-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/virginia-opossum-appalachian-wildlife-refuge-202009.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The following story was shared with us by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.appalachianwild.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Appalachian Wildlife Refuge<\/a> in North Carolina.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A Virginia opossum arrived at the Appalachian Wild facility at the end of January 2020 after being found after he was hit by a car. While he was lucky enough to avoid major trauma, he did have significant damage to his mouth. He suffered broken teeth and damage to the tongue and gum lines. He was also emaciated and dehydrated upon arrival.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the damage to the teeth, he was unable to eat anything that required chewing. He was started on the EmerAid Intensive care diets with 2 parts <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-omnivore\/\">Omnivore<\/a> and 1 part <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-carnivore\/\">Carnivore<\/a>. The consistency of the diet made it easy for him to lick up, and he loved it! This made it easy for our animal care team to ensure we were meeting his nutritional needs as well as helping boost his hydration levels.<\/p>\n<p>After two weeks in care, he had healed enough to slowly transition him from the intensive care diets to other soft foods. He continues to improve and gain weight. We are looking forward to a release date for him in the coming warmer weather.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broken teeth and damage to the mouth prevent a Virginia opossum from eating until people at the Appalachian Wildlife Refuge step in with EmerAid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7743,"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-7741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Car Accident Leaves Virginia Opossum Unable To Eat - 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