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She came down with some mystery illness. Much more info and graphic photos on my flickr account and once I get around to it my blog. In short she did not eat for 3 weeks and needed fed my syringe. In the end none of the modern meds really worked and I got her eating again with appetite stimulating herbs. She is still getting a dose one in the evenings but will soon start weaning them down and hope she keeps her appetite.
In some other photos you will notice a belly bruise. She had some bleeding issues, swollen lip, funky looking lungs, on x-ray and wonky blood values. Really nothing conclusive on what went wrong.
In some other photos you will notice a belly bruise. She had some bleeding issues, swollen lip, funky looking lungs, on x-ray and wonky blood values. Really nothing conclusive on what went wrong.
Image size
2453x1784px 1.94 MB
Make
EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY
Model
KODAK EASYSHARE Z1012 IS Digital Camera
Shutter Speed
1/32 second
Aperture
F/3.2
Focal Length
16 mm
ISO Speed
200
Date Taken
Sep 25, 2012, 5:20:36 PM
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Well, I might have a cause after all.
I'm gonna be lazy and just paste Pua's FB status
"...Mom saw an obvious scar now under her jaw a bit past her "lip" area. So maybe this WAS all caused by a mouth wound and everyone missed the obvious. The vet did say it's possible the lungs were incidental as sometimes in old domestics they just have funky looking lungs sometimes and nothing really wrong. Or maybe as someone else theorized she did have pneumonia but from inhaling saliva and blood. We would only know with another x-ray to see if her lungs are now clear but that would be a lot of stress for no benefit"
Me again: Never saw a wound and don't think I missed it, just the swollen lip/jaw. So Spider bite? Maybe black widow, we have those, or something else seemingly not bad but anteaters react to it, hmm. Could be Pua accidentally clawed her but don't think so. A claw wound would be obvious. Think spider bite is the most likely, venom could do all kinds of things to a delicate anteater's system. It's just a round scar, smaller than a dime bit bigger than a pee(though flat). It's white with a darker center.
I'm gonna be lazy and just paste Pua's FB status
"...Mom saw an obvious scar now under her jaw a bit past her "lip" area. So maybe this WAS all caused by a mouth wound and everyone missed the obvious. The vet did say it's possible the lungs were incidental as sometimes in old domestics they just have funky looking lungs sometimes and nothing really wrong. Or maybe as someone else theorized she did have pneumonia but from inhaling saliva and blood. We would only know with another x-ray to see if her lungs are now clear but that would be a lot of stress for no benefit"
Me again: Never saw a wound and don't think I missed it, just the swollen lip/jaw. So Spider bite? Maybe black widow, we have those, or something else seemingly not bad but anteaters react to it, hmm. Could be Pua accidentally clawed her but don't think so. A claw wound would be obvious. Think spider bite is the most likely, venom could do all kinds of things to a delicate anteater's system. It's just a round scar, smaller than a dime bit bigger than a pee(though flat). It's white with a darker center.