Last Sat I was picking up a newer male shelter stray who I named Cadbury and felt a huge lump on his underside. I turned him over and discovered a large sac in the area of the testicle with a hole underneath. The whole thing looked infected so I showed it to some of the caretakers. One of them thought it was a very strange looking bot fly. We called the vet on call (happens to be my rabbit vet) and met him at the clinic.
It was a botfly on his testicle and it was extremely infected..the testicle was just full of pus which the vet repeatededly flushed with saline. Instructions were to flush the hole 2x per day and then squirt antibiotic ointment in the sac and massage the area. By the 2nd day Cadbury would not allow me to do the flushing so I applied ointment to the fly hole. It is now July5th about 12AM and I am up looking at Cadbury feeling pleased that he is healing and also feeling proud that the shelter let me take him home.
The shelter won't let a volunteer foster a pet but the funny part is that I was the only one in the place (except one employee) who even knows how to handle a rabbit. They let me take him home because no one else could do the procedures.
Anyway I feel quite good about myself and decide to pick Cadbury up and pet him for awhile.I felt a lump under his neck and I KNEW HE HAD ANOTHER BOTFLY. So it is 1 AM and I am struggling with him as with this one he didn't want me near it. I got a look at the larvae, saw it was brown and big (mature one) and immediately remembered how Lissa lost Lenci. I tried for half the night to get the larvae out myself as I had observed the doctor. No luck it just went further into the hole.
I really stressed out Cadbury but (I am confessing this) i almost could not stand having that thing in him and almost could not stop myself from repeated attemps to get the sucker out. I went to bed about 4AM and got up at 6am as I had him at the vet when they opened at 7:30 Am. They got it out and put it in formaldyhyde. It is huge. I wish so much I could post a picture of it.It is about as long as that string of dots and extremely thick. The vet put him on Baytril just in case more show up. Anyway he is just fine tonight and I am very very tired.
Sorry this is so long. I will be keeping Cadbury for at least another week and am frightened of falling in love.
It was a botfly on his testicle and it was extremely infected..the testicle was just full of pus which the vet repeatededly flushed with saline. Instructions were to flush the hole 2x per day and then squirt antibiotic ointment in the sac and massage the area. By the 2nd day Cadbury would not allow me to do the flushing so I applied ointment to the fly hole. It is now July5th about 12AM and I am up looking at Cadbury feeling pleased that he is healing and also feeling proud that the shelter let me take him home.
The shelter won't let a volunteer foster a pet but the funny part is that I was the only one in the place (except one employee) who even knows how to handle a rabbit. They let me take him home because no one else could do the procedures.
Anyway I feel quite good about myself and decide to pick Cadbury up and pet him for awhile.I felt a lump under his neck and I KNEW HE HAD ANOTHER BOTFLY. So it is 1 AM and I am struggling with him as with this one he didn't want me near it. I got a look at the larvae, saw it was brown and big (mature one) and immediately remembered how Lissa lost Lenci. I tried for half the night to get the larvae out myself as I had observed the doctor. No luck it just went further into the hole. I really stressed out Cadbury but (I am confessing this) i almost could not stand having that thing in him and almost could not stop myself from repeated attemps to get the sucker out. I went to bed about 4AM and got up at 6am as I had him at the vet when they opened at 7:30 Am. They got it out and put it in formaldyhyde. It is huge. I wish so much I could post a picture of it.It is about as long as that string of dots and extremely thick. The vet put him on Baytril just in case more show up. Anyway he is just fine tonight and I am very very tired.
Sorry this is so long. I will be keeping Cadbury for at least another week and am frightened of falling in love.
