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    Default Re: Possible abscess, bot or what?

    Well, I'm thinking bot just because it's weeping like a bot....and it's shaped like a bot...the little hole stays open and when I squeeze nothing comes out she's still on the Clavamox.....she did have some diarrhea this morning it was firmer this afternoon...I am giving her the probiotics....I will continue the abs until I'm 100% sure it's a bot. Here's some pics...not much good tho...but you can see her cuteness she's still loving her daddy's pockets
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    Default Re: Possible abscess, bot or what?

    Precious little peanut.
    I LOVE those pocket pictures.

    Whatever this is, I know you will
    take care of it one way or the other.

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    Now this is a great pic....I just finished feeding her and was cleaning her up...poor lil bub....looks like a bot to me so this means she had a bot present itself at 5 weeks that's upsetting
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    The Peace of Wild Things
    BY WENDELL BERRY
    When despair for the world grows in me
    and I wake in the night at the least sound
    in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
    I go and lie down where the wood drake
    rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
    And I feel above me the day-blind stars
    waiting with their light. For a time
    I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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    Default Re: Possible abscess, bot or what?

    Oh yeah, that is definitely a bot! Ugh, poor little girl. Hopefully it won't linger too long before it makes an exit - I hate those awful things!
    But just look at that adorable little face!
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    Now that's a picture is right! Now you know what you're dealing with.
    Poor little girl.
    I love love love that last picture.....just precious~

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    Poor girl! To have a bot so young

    You'll patch her up in no time!!

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    Agghh...I've been silently lurking and shcheeeeeving about bots here.....UGH! Well, at least you know what it is, now. I have had cat-caught babies develop abcesses from unseen scratch and puncture wounds up to 10 days later, so that's what I thought you were dealing with. But....those who know bots are far more expert than I. All I can say is you're doing a super job with this adorable girl.
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    Default Re: Possible abscess, bot or what?

    If you want to know for sure that it's a bot. Put a layer of vaseline over the hole and watch it. It will take up to 5 min. sometimes but you will get to see the Bot stick his head thru the vaseline….lol Thats the test for a bot.

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    Poor baby, those things are just nasty looking. She's just precious. I want to come babysit, and put her in my pocket!!

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    Yeah I don't know whether to be relieved it's a bot and not an infection...or upset that such a young one would fall prey to these nasty bots

    I have had experience with bots before.... I don't know if anyone remembers the bot Baby had on her head and also Sweet P had one after she was released....I did do the Vaseline trick with Baby, Farm mom it was like a horror movie
    Thanks for your votes of confidence Nancy, LM, DL and IR....she is quite a personality....hopefully the winter will be a peaceful one...no sass from lil Fluffy
    She is doing well tho...and CSL here's some more pocket pics....hubby is spoiling her rotten
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    The Peace of Wild Things
    BY WENDELL BERRY
    When despair for the world grows in me
    and I wake in the night at the least sound
    in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be,
    I go and lie down where the wood drake
    rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds.
    I come into the peace of wild things
    who do not tax their lives with forethought
    of grief. I come into the presence of still water.
    And I feel above me the day-blind stars
    waiting with their light. For a time
    I rest in the grace of the world, and am free.

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    Default Re: Possible abscess, bot or what?

    I LOVE these pockets shots!
    Pretty soon Harold will need larger pockets!



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    Default Re: Possible abscess, bot or what?

    Whoa boy Sweeps, looks like we are both going to have spoiled little girls on our hands over the winter. And it would seem our hubbys are contributing to the situation. Oh well, nothing cuter then seeing a grown man smitten with a little squirrel.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nancy in New York View Post
    I LOVE these pockets shots!
    Pretty soon Harold will need larger pockets!


    Oh Nancy, I need to know where to get one of those!
    Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away.

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    Sweet little baby

    Bots make me sooooo

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    Quote Originally Posted by lennysmom View Post
    Oh Nancy, I need to know where to get one of those!
    The squirrel store! Where else? j/k

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