Dear GM,
I am sad to report the little squirrel didn't make it. She died the two days after the last post. She had doubled her weight and seemed to be coming along fine. Her sister had started to try to climb things and the little one couldn't do it. I helped her to climb and told her it was OK if she couldn't walk because we could figure out some way to accommodate her handicap. But she immediately stopped eating and developed a clicking sound with each breath and died within 12 hours. Aren't animals amazing?

I want to inquire about the clicking noise, if you have the time. It seems to happen shortly before losing the little baby squirrels. On one occasion, I accidentally aspirated a baby when feeding him (I've gotten a lot better and don't do this anymore) and he died very rapidly. He had the clicking noise when breathing before he died. We also get a lot of pneumonia with the babies and they click when breathing before they die. They go quite quickly when this happens. I have been using Ant T 12 and/or 30C. Sometimes the pneumonia cases that seem to involve sneezing fluids from the nose and rales but without the clicking noise, will clear with that. If not, I have gone to Phos 30C. (I use one pellet dissolved in a tiny amount of water.) But it seems that once the clicking sound appears, nothing is of help. Do you have any suggestions what I might do for them? Should I start with Phos and go to Ant T if not improved or would another remedy be more appropriate? Should I be using higher potencies (or 3 pellets per dose) even though they are quite sick at this point? It is always fast going for them and there isn't much time from when they show symptoms to losing them. We have had so many of these cases this fall and it's unusual to be losing so many.

I ask so much of you.