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Mange, fur loss

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From: Paul Spychalski
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Norridge, IL
I have black squirrel's and grey that are itching their fur off. Can something be put in their drinking water to help them, some are bleeding.

Please help Paul S.

 
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From: Laura Kammin
Visiting Extension Specialist, Pollution Prevention
Extension-Illinois-Indiana Sea Grant College Program
lkammin@illinois.edu
To medicate them, you'd need to know what you are dealing with. And without testing, you don't know if the itching is coming from mange, fungal infection, or some other cause. The best thing to do is thoroughly clean any bird or squirrel feeders, try to spread out feeding stations to minimize the contact the squirrels have with each other. They will likely recover from a fungal infection and the fur will grow back in. If it is mange, there isn't much you can do for them.

 
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