Basil
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
13 June, 2019
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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
We collected this young hoglet recently from Kinson – A lady was clearing leaves in her garden when she inadvertently uncovered a nesting mother with
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
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
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
Sad news – we had this adult male hog brought in by Sally, one of Wildlife in Need’s volunteer drivers, this evening. He had been found laying under a car late this afternoon.
He had a very deep bite wound just in front of his right ear, and one under his jaw. He was bleeding from his nostrils and was actually groaning in pain when touched.
Little Pikachu, in his incubator, pretending to be shy. He is not taking very much formula now, preferring to eat the Hills a/d and formula mix, and first stage kitten biscuits.
Little Sweet pea, who came to us only about 3 weeks old, is growing nicely and eats just about any food presented to her.
She was moved out of an incubator onto a heated mat, but is now in an ordinary crate, and doing really well.
Once she has gained another 100g or so, she will be ready for release.
We had this adult male hog dropped off to us on Tuesday morning from Blandford, it had been found laying out on the drive, not moving and did not roll up when poked.
It was dehydrated and had some bite wounds on it’s right side, just above the skirt.
We gave it subcut fluids for the dehydration and shock, cleaned and treated his wounds and placed him in one of the ICU’s , but he sadly passed away an hour later.
It had dehydration and some bite wounds on it’s right side, just above the skirt.
We have given it subcut fluids for the dehydration and shock, cleaned and treated his wounds and placed him in one of the ICU’s , but he sadly passed away an hour later.