My DUCK GOT ATTACKED BY MY DOG!! HELP PLEASE!!!*PICS INCLUDE

[azygous]

This experience should give you confidence that you can handle any emergency. All you need to remember is to take things one step at a time. Don't let yourself be panicked into unfocused thinking.

 

[Karlam231]

I already called my brother and he can’t come right now because he has all his kids and they are sick

 

[Karlam231]

Just my luck so I can’t do nothing anymore

 

[TheOddOneOut]

I'm so sorry. Do they have Covid?
Can you call someone to help start your car? Does anyone else have a car you could borrow? A friend? A neighbor?

 

[Painted Calls]

Just breathe. Apply the ointment and that should last for a few hours. You have time on your side. Just keep thinking about how to get to the store. No need to rush anymore.

 

[azygous]

Sometime today, you can whip yourself up a bottle of antibiotic wound cleaning spray. Yep. You can make it yourself using ingredients in the kitchen.

Boil four cups of water, distilled if you have some in the laundry closet, tap water will do. Add two teaspoons of salt, not the kind with iodine. Add a whole bunch of oregano to it and boil it for one minute.

Cool and strain out the oregano and put it into a sterilized quart spray bottle. Use this every single day to flush Clover's wounds. Air dry and apply the antibiotic ointment you will have bought by tomorrow. Do this every single day until his wounds have healed. Don't skip a day or allow his wounds to dry up.

What you'll see after several days is "granulation", a swelling of new tissue growth like the lip of a volcanic crater around the outer edge of the wound. This will be a sign that new skin is growing to eventually cover the wound. It could take six to eight weeks. Maybe less.

 

[azygous]

Do not go defeatist on us. You are almost an adult. There is a lot you can do yourself. Look at all you've already accomplished. You've stabilized your patient. That's a huge thing.

 

[Painted Calls]

You got this!


Plus I lost sleep over this cute Clover duck.

 

[Little Parrot]

Ribbit, how is he doing right now?

 

[casportpony]

Ribbit, I'm not a professional so correct me if I'm wrong , but the wound looks like it's at the crop???

The crop should be on the duck's right side, and I think this wound is on the left, so I think the crop and esophagus are okay.