littledevils
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Does anybody here have experience with that?
We have a little girl in rescue right now... She was found as a stray, lost an eye, bite wound on the back leg that later turned into a nasty abscess that won't heal. 2 days after she was found she gave birth to a litter.
We tried flushing it, packing it, compresses, different antibiotics, had it surgically removed, ran a bacterial culture that showed we have the right antibiotics etc. She used to be so patient and now she hates it and is fighting the meds and compresses etc.
Essentially we've tried everything we could think off and it's now at the point where we decide that she'll either live with it or amputate the leg. The source of it is in the bone, the bite went through the flesh into the bone. The bacterial culture showed that it most likely was a cat which we suspected all along. The vets think chances the infection will spread is low but we can't see how it can be comfortable if your knee area is about twice the normal size. It drains, fills up again, drains, sometimes ok for 2 days then it fills up again...
It's really frustrating and breaks our heart, she's a special little girl who has been trhough so much and we just want her to be better.
If you did an amputation of a hind leg, how did the rat adjust?
We have a little girl in rescue right now... She was found as a stray, lost an eye, bite wound on the back leg that later turned into a nasty abscess that won't heal. 2 days after she was found she gave birth to a litter.
We tried flushing it, packing it, compresses, different antibiotics, had it surgically removed, ran a bacterial culture that showed we have the right antibiotics etc. She used to be so patient and now she hates it and is fighting the meds and compresses etc.
Essentially we've tried everything we could think off and it's now at the point where we decide that she'll either live with it or amputate the leg. The source of it is in the bone, the bite went through the flesh into the bone. The bacterial culture showed that it most likely was a cat which we suspected all along. The vets think chances the infection will spread is low but we can't see how it can be comfortable if your knee area is about twice the normal size. It drains, fills up again, drains, sometimes ok for 2 days then it fills up again...
It's really frustrating and breaks our heart, she's a special little girl who has been trhough so much and we just want her to be better.
If you did an amputation of a hind leg, how did the rat adjust?
