Smoothie's Story

It’s true that we feel for every animal that comes through our front doors. We try not to anthropomorphise them but occasionally an animal may have a problem that doesn’t bother it but that we, as humans, truly feel.

One such case with us at the moment is “Smoothie” a very proud and, as usual, irascible squirrel. His problem? He is completely bald. Not a hair on his head, legs or body and just a smattering on that normally wonderfully bushy tail. But he doesn’t seem to bother and still tucks into his pecan nuts and tries to bite the hand that feeds him.

John Lewis the vet had ideas of what caused the baldness but he took a skin biopsy that we could send to a specialised animal pathologist to try for a more specific diagnosis.

Needless to say “Smoothie” did not
co-operate in having his photograph taken both for the Pathologist and for our records and Newsletter. But I did manage to get a couple before he sped off to hide in all the stones.

We have now set him up a special pen, on his own, until we can encourage his fine fur coat to grow back.

We’ll keep you up to date with progress as he eats us “out of house and home” of
pecan nut