Posted By: Anonymous
Self mutilation??? - 03/21/07 12:23 AM
ok... I'm [censored] out!
I really thought that all of my girls injuries were dure to her previous cagemates... A bonded couple. She was beat up on a nightly basis and when I brought her home she had fresh wounds on her face and tail... Well her face is healing wonderfully! The tail...not so much! It was looking good one day and then pink the next, then scabbed over then more fresh... like she is picking at it! It just looks like she is doing more damage to it! I'm really afraid that she is chewing on it! It looks worse then when I brought her home! its not open wounds, but its pretty pink and its the scabbs are just not staying in place! she is pulling them off or just not letting them form. It looks just awful!
Should I be [censored] out??? She is grooming fine, eating well, loving her little man, and being social with me. So she seems ok... but I can't help but think that her tail is going to be a MAJOR issue for her! OH!!! and It was broken at some point! It has a serious kink in the end, about an inch away from the tip. do you think she could be trying to chew her tail off?? Gosh I hope not!!! She was very abused by her cage mates prior to coming home with me from the breeder. She's only 9 months old.
Oh and I don't have a vet near that has seen SG's So I would be taking her to a Gen Vet who sees cats and dogs mostly. But I do need to get the tail checked out... Should she be in a collar?? She could still get her tail... She's chewing at the end of it.... about and inch and a half from the end.
Kathryn
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I really thought that all of my girls injuries were dure to her previous cagemates... A bonded couple. She was beat up on a nightly basis and when I brought her home she had fresh wounds on her face and tail... Well her face is healing wonderfully! The tail...not so much! It was looking good one day and then pink the next, then scabbed over then more fresh... like she is picking at it! It just looks like she is doing more damage to it! I'm really afraid that she is chewing on it! It looks worse then when I brought her home! its not open wounds, but its pretty pink and its the scabbs are just not staying in place! she is pulling them off or just not letting them form. It looks just awful!
Should I be [censored] out??? She is grooming fine, eating well, loving her little man, and being social with me. So she seems ok... but I can't help but think that her tail is going to be a MAJOR issue for her! OH!!! and It was broken at some point! It has a serious kink in the end, about an inch away from the tip. do you think she could be trying to chew her tail off?? Gosh I hope not!!! She was very abused by her cage mates prior to coming home with me from the breeder. She's only 9 months old.
Oh and I don't have a vet near that has seen SG's So I would be taking her to a Gen Vet who sees cats and dogs mostly. But I do need to get the tail checked out... Should she be in a collar?? She could still get her tail... She's chewing at the end of it.... about and inch and a half from the end.
Kathryn
k