Admittance date: 8th February 2023
We were recently alerted to a fox with a very nasty facial injury so we quickly got a trap in place the following day. Even with persistence and perseverance it took nearly two weeks to trap Tempura. After a visit to our a vets, a plan was formulated – there was some infection around the eye socket so Tempura was put on a course of antibiotics for a few days to minimise this before being admitted back into the vets for an exploratory surgical procedure. Tempura is a really big fox weighing over 7kg and as with all the really big foxes we’ve had in, is very easy to deal with. He is, however, very timid and frightened and as a result has had his head in the corner of his cage pretending he isn’t there.
During the second visit to our vet, Tempura had surgery to remove his damaged left eye and close the wound. The globe was ruptured as suspected so it wasn’t possible to save/repair his eye. Our vet was very pleased with how well the procedure went and that there was no longer any infection within the socket or the facial wound after the few days of antibiotics he’d had pre surgery.
A third visit to the vets, and they were very happy with his progress/he's left the eye alone. He has now finished on his antibiotic course, and we’ve monitored him for a couple of days after this to ensure infection isn’t going to return. So far so good, and at the time of writing this post, Tempura is due to be released back home tonight.