{"id":7778,"date":"2020-10-15T09:05:04","date_gmt":"2020-10-15T09:05:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/?p=7778"},"modified":"2020-10-12T06:25:44","modified_gmt":"2020-10-12T06:25:44","slug":"flauco-de-lafuentes-the-opossum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/flauco-de-lafuentes-the-opossum\/","title":{"rendered":"Flauco De Lafuentes The Opossum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7780\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-2-201015-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"opossum with mouth injury\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-2-201015-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-2-201015-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-2-201015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-2-201015-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-2-201015.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>This story was shared with us by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/wildliferehabilitation2018\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Nay Nays Wildlife Rehabilitation<\/a> in Texas.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>It all started with an opossum I named Flauco De Lafuentes. It was late at night when I got a disturbing phone call. The caller, an employee at a store, stated she had found an injured, grown opossum behind the store. She said he was alive, but bleeding and breathing badly.<\/p>\n<p>When I arrived at the location and first laid eyes on Flauco, I realized he had been beaten with a blunt object. The look of defeat and sadness was in his eyes. My heart broke at this level of cruelty. I immediately took him home and got him stabilized for the night.<\/p>\n<p>The next day I got him to my veterinarian for X-rays. His jaw was broken and needed to be wired in two places, a <a href=\"https:\/\/vet.osu.edu\/vmc\/companion\/our-services\/internal-medicine\/frequently-asked-questions-about-feeding-tubes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">G-tube<\/a> (gastronomy tube) was placed because he was unable to eat for six weeks by mouth. I took him home on Meloxicam for pain and started the tube feedings using my <a href=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/emeraid-carnivore\/\">EmerAid Carnivore<\/a> supplement.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7785\" src=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-201015-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"opossum held in someone's arms\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-201015-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-201015-1024x1024.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-201015-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-201015-768x768.jpg 768w, https:\/\/emeraid.com\/vet\/wp-content\/uploads\/opossum-flauco-nay-nays-wildlife-rehab-201015.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>The EmerAid mixed well and completely dissolved. It moved easily through the G-tube. I fed Flauco four times a day, plus water and vitamins daily for six weeks until the wires were able to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>Flauco came in weighing 7 pounds. Once fully rehabilitated, he weighed in at 12 pounds. His growth was on point and the EmerAid supplied him with all his essential nutrients while he was healing.<\/p>\n<p>Even though he healed, he was deemed non-releasable due to blindness from being hit in the head.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Flauco the opossum was beaten and suffered severe head injuries, even going blind in one eye, but rehab at Nay Nays Wildlife Rehabilitation helped him gain weight and progress.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":7780,"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-7778","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 - 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