Asheka
Well-Known Member
Well, my plans for setting up the CN tonight have been thwarted by a nasty injury :cry:
I brought the boys upstairs in their travel cage, set them down on the bed in it, and went to grab my other bags from downstairs and talked with my roommate for maybe 20min. The boys had had a fine time. They didn't fight much at all other than when I tossed some of their 'leftover' nummies into the cage and it was more Smeagol and Hoggle than anything. They slept pretty much the entire time up and back in the car, and while you could tell they were happy to be home, they were perfectly behaved the entire trip. I was ecstatic and borrowed a rubber mallet from my dad to put the CN together straight away tonight....
Well, I come back upstairs after chatting with the roommate and figure the best thing, for now, was to put all three of them into the cage Smeagol and hoggle have been living in (the two big rabbit cages all meshed and frakencaged up) so it's easier to move things around while building the CN and so they weren't stuck in the travel cage the entire time...I go in to grab to food dishes and brushed up against Trouble and had blood on me...I immediately picked him up and noticed blood on his fur on his chest and nearly panicked thinking they fought or something...Couldn't find a source for the blood and there was NONE on Smeagol and Hoggle....I was utterly confused so went to investigate Trouble's body again (holding him the entire time) and feel something dripping down my arm...I hold him up, and he whips his tail in a circle as he always does and blood spatters on me, the walls, the floor....I thought I was going to have a heart attack :thud:
I freak out, yell at my roommate to put her dog into the crate and come down covered in blood...Thank everyone up there that she had a container of styptic powder....It took a lot to get it to clot up and stop bleeding...I was so scared...I had no idea what had happened...I jumped on chat and luckily Zooy was on and calmed my nerves for the time being...It looked like it had just been a random cut...There's a couple zip ties on the travel cage and he could've managed to get his tail across one of the sharper edges...
I went upstairs to clean out the travel cage to make into his 'med cage' for the time being since it's smaller and less climbing, etc. for him right now and pulled the fleece off the levels to find this:
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Somehow he managed to get his tail between a couple of the bars of the level and side (I honestly do NOT know how, there is no gaps big enough for it to fit...) and pulled it to a pinch point where there also happened to be a zip tie that had come up...so it cut him and I assume he must've pulled hard...I freaked...Literally...I have not had an anxiety/panic attack in at least two years and instantly went into one. I got the cage cleaned up and put him in and went downstairs feeling quite numb...Luckily Zooy was still in chat and Pink jumped on. Apparently the long 'string' is a tendon....Somehow he managed to not only rip off the tip of his poor tails, but pulled a tendon full out! :sad3: I feel horrible!!! (Before anyone attacks, I have wrapped the bar edges and clipped fleece so there is no chance of it happening again while he's recovering!) After some discussion I ran to Shoppers and got him some baby advil (liquid) and after a long discussion with Moon and Julien, figured out the dosages. On the upside, I now know 100% that Trouble is 365g....
He's sleeping pretty soundly right now, but you can tell he's still pretty uncomfortable. It took three shots to get the meds into him, so I'm going to have to try and mask them with something, but after him refusing peas (all of their mad favourite veggie) and only eating 1/4 of the cheerios I gave him in the cage...although he oddly ate a couple pieces of oxbow after pretty much refusing the last month or so...I'm unsure of what he'll take it in. He keeps waking back up but it's only been a couple hours and I don't want to give him any more unless he seems to really need it before the 6hr mark I was given for rough timings...
My poor boy! :cry4:
I brought the boys upstairs in their travel cage, set them down on the bed in it, and went to grab my other bags from downstairs and talked with my roommate for maybe 20min. The boys had had a fine time. They didn't fight much at all other than when I tossed some of their 'leftover' nummies into the cage and it was more Smeagol and Hoggle than anything. They slept pretty much the entire time up and back in the car, and while you could tell they were happy to be home, they were perfectly behaved the entire trip. I was ecstatic and borrowed a rubber mallet from my dad to put the CN together straight away tonight....
Well, I come back upstairs after chatting with the roommate and figure the best thing, for now, was to put all three of them into the cage Smeagol and hoggle have been living in (the two big rabbit cages all meshed and frakencaged up) so it's easier to move things around while building the CN and so they weren't stuck in the travel cage the entire time...I go in to grab to food dishes and brushed up against Trouble and had blood on me...I immediately picked him up and noticed blood on his fur on his chest and nearly panicked thinking they fought or something...Couldn't find a source for the blood and there was NONE on Smeagol and Hoggle....I was utterly confused so went to investigate Trouble's body again (holding him the entire time) and feel something dripping down my arm...I hold him up, and he whips his tail in a circle as he always does and blood spatters on me, the walls, the floor....I thought I was going to have a heart attack :thud:
I freak out, yell at my roommate to put her dog into the crate and come down covered in blood...Thank everyone up there that she had a container of styptic powder....It took a lot to get it to clot up and stop bleeding...I was so scared...I had no idea what had happened...I jumped on chat and luckily Zooy was on and calmed my nerves for the time being...It looked like it had just been a random cut...There's a couple zip ties on the travel cage and he could've managed to get his tail across one of the sharper edges...
I went upstairs to clean out the travel cage to make into his 'med cage' for the time being since it's smaller and less climbing, etc. for him right now and pulled the fleece off the levels to find this:
[spoiler:3l0di089]
Somehow he managed to get his tail between a couple of the bars of the level and side (I honestly do NOT know how, there is no gaps big enough for it to fit...) and pulled it to a pinch point where there also happened to be a zip tie that had come up...so it cut him and I assume he must've pulled hard...I freaked...Literally...I have not had an anxiety/panic attack in at least two years and instantly went into one. I got the cage cleaned up and put him in and went downstairs feeling quite numb...Luckily Zooy was still in chat and Pink jumped on. Apparently the long 'string' is a tendon....Somehow he managed to not only rip off the tip of his poor tails, but pulled a tendon full out! :sad3: I feel horrible!!! (Before anyone attacks, I have wrapped the bar edges and clipped fleece so there is no chance of it happening again while he's recovering!) After some discussion I ran to Shoppers and got him some baby advil (liquid) and after a long discussion with Moon and Julien, figured out the dosages. On the upside, I now know 100% that Trouble is 365g....
He's sleeping pretty soundly right now, but you can tell he's still pretty uncomfortable. It took three shots to get the meds into him, so I'm going to have to try and mask them with something, but after him refusing peas (all of their mad favourite veggie) and only eating 1/4 of the cheerios I gave him in the cage...although he oddly ate a couple pieces of oxbow after pretty much refusing the last month or so...I'm unsure of what he'll take it in. He keeps waking back up but it's only been a couple hours and I don't want to give him any more unless he seems to really need it before the 6hr mark I was given for rough timings...
My poor boy! :cry4:
