Rescue - 16th May, 2024
Rehabilitation - 18th May, 2024
Rescue
The first photo, here, is the face you pull when the vet is coming towards you with an Otoscope to check why both your ears are filled with blood.
The second photo is the face you pull when the vet sees the large bone carcass precariously sitting in your stomach on an X-ray.
"Jam" was rescued by the RSPCA, after he was reported stumbling around with blood around his head. Vet, Paddy, and volunteer vet, Daniel, set to work trying to diagnose and stabilise him.
Rehabilitation
With both of the cub’s ear canals containing pools of blood, our vets were bewildered as to where the blood was coming from, due to the lack of obvious injuries inside the ears or signs of a head trauma.
When observed walking, Jam also showed discomfort around his hips. An X-ray was carried out, which, thankfully, revealed no sinister reasons for the bleeding ears, however, the discovery of a large bone in his stomach that appeared to have a sharp end, caused more concern.
After rehydrating Jam, it became a precarious waiting game to see if the bone would degrade and digest on its own, as he was other ways eating fine and passing other foods, well.
With Jam's ears clearing a week after arrival, the chicken carcass also, thankfully passed, with no internal damage caused on its way.
Sadly, unable to return back to where she found, Jam joined our final fox cub group, alongside siblings Mavis & Sully, the trio with the rest of their gang, are now just a week away from heading out to their soft-release site.
The group can be regularly seen sunbathing and playing via our live webcams!
