amputation – Page 2 – Dorset Hedgehog Rescue

Bilbo Baggins

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

8 June, 2019 No Comments

Duncan

Duncan is back from the vets now, having had his left hind leg amputated.

He will have a course of antibiotics to fight off any infection, and pain relief.

The notes from the vet state that he has been eating well, and has been to loo, which is important after an operation.

29 May, 2019 No Comments

Missing foot!

We have another victim of entrapment/constriction injury.

This hog was seen on cctv playback, and noticed there was something wrong with its back left leg.

We were sent the video by Neil, who told us that he would try and catch the hog that night, which luckily he was able to do, and we collected it straight away.

28 May, 2019 No Comments

Infected wound

We’ve had quite a busy weekend, with several injured hogs coming in, including this poor male. He was covered in flystrike and has a horribly infected wound.

The wound has been flushed out by the vet, and he is on strong antibiotics to (hopefully) clear up the infection.

26 May, 2019 No Comments

Bilbo update

Little Bilbo is doing well after his amputation, he is eating well, and has done the all important post op poo and wee.

We are keeping him in the incubator for another night, just to be safe, and then he will be moved into one of our hospital cages.

14 May, 2019 No Comments

Bilbo

We have had another hog brought in this evening, as it was noticed hobbling about during the day, and the finders also recognised that it was dehydrated.

We gave it a check over, and noticed that it’s back right leg had been cut almost through, and that broken bones were visible.

14 May, 2019 No Comments

Missing Leg

Another new entry, male hedgehog, 938g, found out during the day yesterday, seemed to be struggling to walk. Brought in to us at lunchtime today, query broken rear leg. On examination, there is no rear right leg this appears to be an old wound – there is a large flap of skin where the leg should be.

1 May, 2019 No Comments

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