Wild fox cub saved from menacing wheel, given drugs.

May 6, 2020 7:48 PM

Wild fox cub saved from menacing wheel, given drugs.
posted by Evilspork (14 comments total)

Aww. I'm glad that worked out.
posted by NotLost at 8:04 PM on May 6, 2020 [2 favorites]

Man, did I empathize. Will someone please come along now and get our head out of the wheel?
posted by praemunire at 8:05 PM on May 6, 2020 [8 favorites]

Goodness, that was not easy even with all those clever tricks.
posted by jamjam at 8:48 PM on May 6, 2020

Bloody hell. How did it get so dusty in here?
posted by Multicellular Exothermic at 9:11 PM on May 6, 2020 [1 favorite]

Wow, good call on them. I would have gone straight for the cutting tools to work on opening the hole as soon as the animal was under anesthesia, which probably would have taken longer in the end. Sounds like that's the direction the vet was leaning, too, before the other guy (vet tech?) managed to get his method working.

I miss getting to work with vets.
posted by biogeo at 12:16 AM on May 7, 2020 [3 favorites]

This year they had a fox that got its head stuck even worse.
posted by reynaert at 1:55 AM on May 7, 2020 [4 favorites]

This is an almost too-perfect metaphor: calm, competent people methodically using medicine, experience and technology to extract a frightened predator from a ridiculous self-induced predicament.
posted by chavenet at 3:14 AM on May 7, 2020 [12 favorites]

aaaawww
posted by mumimor at 4:56 AM on May 7, 2020

A++ would watch again. One time just for the ink on that dude. <3
posted by allthinky at 6:18 AM on May 7, 2020 [1 favorite]

Nothing quite as sweet as a big, tough old bloke being all caring and tender around a poor helpless animal.
posted by MartinWisse at 6:48 AM on May 7, 2020 [4 favorites]

Nature is healing.
posted by Slarty Bartfast at 10:04 AM on May 7, 2020 [2 favorites]

reyneart, that one is fantastic. I think taking the angle grinder to the cast iron right next to the fox's neck is actually probably a lot less dangerous than it looks or felt, but I'm glad they had the presence of mind to turn off the oxygen and anesthesia while they were generating sparks.

I wonder why they didn't go for an injectable anesthetic like ketamine+dexdomitor instead of sticking with the gas? Any vets out there know? Do foxes not tolerate ketamine well or something?
posted by biogeo at 12:18 PM on May 7, 2020

MetaFilter: can be quite bitey; covering in cooking oil doesn't do any good at all
posted by The Bellman at 2:30 PM on May 7, 2020

"he is quite bitey, isn't he?"
loved this, thank you
posted by FirstMateKate at 9:10 AM on May 8, 2020