I Brought an Injured Lake Goose Home! ^_^

Snowy in da house ❤

My sweet White Chinese boy, Snowy, had to come back home with me this evening for another rehab of his infected and swollen foot. 😞

He last had to come here for the same thing at Christmas 2018, and he stayed into January until he was good enough to send back out to the lake. I've been monitoring his foot recently because it looked like it was swelling up again, but he was moving well on it, and it didn't appear to be getting worse. But I went to see my Sikes geese last night for the first time in a few days, and it was swollen slightly larger than last time I saw him, and he is starting to limp a little. I hate to have to confine him, and I scantly have enough room to make him comfortable for as long as he will probably have to stay again, but I had to go out there and get him and bring him back. Can't risk him loosing his foot or getting sepsis, and it's not really something that can be treated well with him remaining at the lake. I knew it might come back, but two years is a long delay for it to come back up again. No doubt some infectious material was left behind in the foot because I opted not to treat it surgically, because of the risks of excessive bleeding and having to sedate him was too risky, but it made it more likely that the same infection would return.

So, YAY! Now I'm gunna have a disgruntled Chinese goose back in the house for rehab and trying to keep him from causing a noise complaint. LOL

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