Duckie wrote:
What happened to Yofi?! Poor thing.
I feel bad for him even though he looks hilarious in the cone!
Yofi developed an abcess in the middle of his chest back in March. After some treatment and meds, it cleared up. But then in early June an infection developed not far from where the abcess had been. And ever since then it's been back and forth, back and forth...the infection would clear up only to reappear in another area of his chest. Finally had the site biopsied and it turned out he had a deep-seated infection that is not commonly seen. But one reason why he was developing extremely nasty open gashes at the infection site (from the vet's best guess) is that Yofi was tearing his skin open during the night. Hence the cone.
As an update, on Friday he finished his 3rd round of antibiotics and had the cone removed. Remarkably, his chest/leg area looks completely healed, with the fur grown over the site. Now it's a waiting game to see if he will leave the area alone this time.
Actually I will share one of Yofi's funnier stories here; this particular one took place a couple of years ago. Late one evening I was sitting in the living room watching tv, and Yofi, as usual, was running around the house. He had access to his room, the kitchen, and the living room, but that particular night he was just going back and forth between the kitchen and his room (*sploring*, as a Yofi will do).
As I sat watching tv I would catch glimpses of my boy hopping about, passing the doorway between the living room and kitchen. I wasn't worried about him, as there wasn't anything he could really get into. He was having fun it seemed, so I ignored him and focused on the program I was watching.
About 10 minutes later I heard a strange noise coming from the kitchen. It was sort of a rolling, shuffling sound, not very loud, but it was unusual. So I glanced over just in time to see Yofi amble once again past the doorway. Only this time he was erect, walking on his two hind legs, his front paws wrapped around the top of a small wire cart I kept in the kitchen. He strolled by so casually, pushing the cart on its little wheels, and headed toward his room...looking all the world like a shopper on his way out for groceries. And he made it all the way to his room too, before I stopped him. I discovered later that the reason Yofi was doing this was because I'd left a banana on the top tier of the cart, and in his attempt to reach it (and obviously steal the forbidden fruit) the wheels on the cart began moving, and so he went with it.
But I have to tell you, in all my years of owning rabbits, I've never quite been so stunned - or laughed so hard - as the evening that Yofi decided to go grocery shopping. :biggrin2:
