15 June, 2019
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The little hoglet who came in to us late on Monday afternoon has been named “Prosecco” by the ladies who found her. Although she took several hours in one of
Basil came to us 17 days ago in a right state, with deep bite wounds on his head and face, very deep infection and bad fly strike. His eye sockets
We collected this young hoglet recently from Kinson – A lady was clearing leaves in her garden when she inadvertently uncovered a nesting mother with babies. The mother ran off
Marian was so skinny when she came in that neither we, nor the vet realised she was pregnant. She was literally a bag of skin and bones. Here is a
Got that Monday blues thing going on? How about some pictures of hoglets to cheer you up? Here are pictures of 3 of the litters we currently have in care,
Cuteness alert!
We managed a quick peek at one of the litters of hoglets last night while changing their mum’s food and water bowl.
These hoglets are 6 days old. We think there is possibly a 4th hoglet under mum.
Bilbo Baggins had to pay a visit to the Vets today. She had one of her rear legs amputated by the emergency vets recently, due to having had it trapped somehow and in getting herself free had ripped part of the leg off.
The resulting wound was infected, despite a course of antibiotics, which has caused problems with the healing of the amputation wound.
Upton vets took her in today to clean up the wound and re-stitch it for us. The wound was flushed, debrided and lasered, then stitched up. Hopefully it will heal properly now, and Bilbo can get on with rehabilitation.
Thank you to Upton & Wareham Vets for taking care of Bilbo for us
This poor old fella came to us Friday afternoon, he was found wandering around in circles.
Upon examination, we found that both his eyes are missing, with small wounds around the area, which suggests that birds have pecked his eyes out .
He does have a respiratory infection, which could explain why he would have been out in daytime and was able to be attacked.
Hogs like this cause us ethical and moral issues – do we keep him alive to live in permanent captivity, all be it in an enclosed garden, or do we have him put to sleep.
We’ll have to sleep on this one, poor bugger.