Lauren&Tommy (GA)
Member Since 2010
Yesterday
Good afternoon everyone!
As you can see by the photo, another interesting morning in wild kingdom. First Tommy decided to give me a huge bounce after last nights greens, but he continues to do well and his numbers have come down quite nicely this afternoon
Last night around 6pm Charlie got up to go potty and we noticed a very large swollen area on his left leg. We kept cold compress on it throughout the night and first thing this morning we took him too the vet to see what was going on. It seems that there's a good chance that with all the poking around on his hip the other day could have irritated the area enough where some fluid broke through and just made it's way down his leg.. Our vet said to keep an ace wrap on it for 48 hours or so to help the swelling go down and absorb back into his body..It's not a free flowing fluid so there was nothing to drain. He does seem to be walking a bit better today, but the arthritis in his back legs is pretty painful, so he does his duty and then comes back in and lays down.. He is eating and drinking on his own and right now is resting comfortably.. I took the photograph about a half hour ago!
Unfortunately last night before dusk the baby bluebirds decided to try and fly again and a predator got one of them :sad: .. We managed to rescue the other one again and put him back in his home and when we went to bed, checked on him and he was still doing fine.. He went to look in on him this morning and still he was doing fine. When we got back from the vets, he checked on him again and he was gone, but no sign of him on the ground any where around and we saw no feathers.. So think good thoughts that he finally learned how to fly and he's going to be just fine..
Thank you all again for the prayers and words of encouragement on yesterdays condo.. DH doesn't go back to work until tomorrow, but I am making time to visit condos today to say hello and thank you and to see how all of your babies are doing!
Big Hugs from me and my Family :YMHUG:
Good afternoon everyone!
As you can see by the photo, another interesting morning in wild kingdom. First Tommy decided to give me a huge bounce after last nights greens, but he continues to do well and his numbers have come down quite nicely this afternoon
Last night around 6pm Charlie got up to go potty and we noticed a very large swollen area on his left leg. We kept cold compress on it throughout the night and first thing this morning we took him too the vet to see what was going on. It seems that there's a good chance that with all the poking around on his hip the other day could have irritated the area enough where some fluid broke through and just made it's way down his leg.. Our vet said to keep an ace wrap on it for 48 hours or so to help the swelling go down and absorb back into his body..It's not a free flowing fluid so there was nothing to drain. He does seem to be walking a bit better today, but the arthritis in his back legs is pretty painful, so he does his duty and then comes back in and lays down.. He is eating and drinking on his own and right now is resting comfortably.. I took the photograph about a half hour ago!
Unfortunately last night before dusk the baby bluebirds decided to try and fly again and a predator got one of them :sad: .. We managed to rescue the other one again and put him back in his home and when we went to bed, checked on him and he was still doing fine.. He went to look in on him this morning and still he was doing fine. When we got back from the vets, he checked on him again and he was gone, but no sign of him on the ground any where around and we saw no feathers.. So think good thoughts that he finally learned how to fly and he's going to be just fine..
Thank you all again for the prayers and words of encouragement on yesterdays condo.. DH doesn't go back to work until tomorrow, but I am making time to visit condos today to say hello and thank you and to see how all of your babies are doing!
Big Hugs from me and my Family :YMHUG: