I have a mole with serious open wounds, what do I do???

Question

I need serious help. I found a small mole that my cat had been ‘playing’ with and at first I thought it was dead so I was just going to pick it up and bury it…but then it moved. I freaked out, picked it up with two big leaves and went to my mom for help. My cat had torn off its fur and a few layers of skin BUT there it still the last layer of thin skin covering its insides. Let me make this clear: the wounds are not bleeding. He is bleeding a tiny bit but more like a teeny tiny paper cut for humans…its hard to explain but there isn’t any blood because my cat didn’t bit him it just tore him up badly. The moles left back knee is fully exposed; on his left side, from his ribs about a centimeter and a half is exposed; and a chunk of his right side is exposed. My mom crushed up three pills, advile, vitamin b, and something else; mixed it with a bit of water, soaked a strip of clothe in it, and tied it around him. Well now he can/is moving around and I don’t think he can feel the wounds. I put saw dust in the box he’s in because it looked like he was trying to make a next by ripping up the paper in his box. He’s only eaten the inside of a sunflower seen since I found him. He started pooping a lot after he got the MEDS, in my experience that is a good thing but I know nothing about moles. My question is: what do I do next? How do wild moles act with domestic small animals (just in case he survives because I have a guinea pig and hamster that live together.) How are moles as pets? What should I do? What do they eat? Are moles as mean as they are said to be? HELP!!!

Answer 1

I don't want to sound cruel but ...... a mole is really just another vermin. and it sounds like yours seems to be near death. I suggest that you put it out of its misery. It doesn't look too good for its future anyway. Kill it and be done with it. Sorry  

Answer 2

If it's a native animal, which I'm assuming it is, you aren't legally allowed to keep it. It needs to be given to a wildlife rehabilitator.

I'm sure you also realise it needs to be seen by a vet as soon as possible. Of course it can feel the wounds. If it's not showing much sign of being in pain, it would only be because it's in shock. You also can't give human medication to animals.

I agree with the above poster that the kindest thing to do is just put it out of it's misery by killing it humanely. If you don't want to do that, it definitely needs to be seen by a vet as soon as possible, and then handed over to a wildlife rehabilitator.

Good luck.

Answer 3

Take it to do shelter have them help it put it in your house like in a tank if you don't have one get a big container put alot of dirt get worms and after it heals just put it back to a place you think he might have come from away from your cat and it'll be ok.

Answer 4

Take it to an animal shelter.

Answer 5

The wounds sound very serious, and cat bites will nearly always become infected because of the bacteria in the cat's mouth.  The mole probably won't survive without antibiotics.  And it appears that it would need stitches too.  I know it is hard, but I just don't think it will be possible to save it.  I think that if I were in your situation, I would kill it as humanely as possible, to end its suffering.  But I'm not there to see it, either.

If you do decide to try to save it, make sure the sawdust you use is not from plywood, which has toxic glues in it.

Moles (if you have a true mole, and not one of the gophers that people call moles) eat worms and insects; so perhaps you could feed it canned cat food.

If it has the typical rodent type teeth like 2 chisels in front, then it isn't a true mole, it's probably a gopher and would eat root vegetables and leaves and maybe some seeds and grain.  

Keeping a burrowing animal like a gopher or mole as a pet is problematic.  They need to live in dirt; they also pee and p**p in the dirt.  In the wild they range for considerable distances so the waste matter doesn't build up in one place, but in captivity you would probably need to change the dirt frequently.  

Oddly, some wild animals can be handled, but most will have their wild instincts; they will be afraid, and bite.  It is very difficult to overcome this instinctive behavior, though I have seen a wild gopher taking food from the hands of children, like a squirrel.  I don't know about the temperament of a true mole.