Notes From Damn Near Canada
No. 15
1/25/09
21:45
Managed to get some decent pictures of my injured buck. Futter's his name. He showed up a few weeks ago with a bullet wound right above his rear passenger-side knee. He was limping pretty badly, and we didn't have a whole hell of a lotta hope for his chances. I mean, a three-legged deer is about as useful as that jackass who tries to sell me ShamWows all the time on TV.
Anyway, Futter kept showing up, and his wound kept getting worse. He was always picking at it, and I wondered if he was actually trying to chew the damned leg off. At one point, a big hunk of skin was just flapping around and I was pretty sure I could see some bone. He stopped putting any pressure at all on that quadrant, he was doing erratic deer-things, and it looked like he was gonna die. And then he disappeared.
This weekend, almost three weeks later, he showed up. The wound looks just as bad as it did weeks ago, but he hasn't gnawed it off or anything. Hell, he's barely even limping. Other than the gaping axe-wound in his ass-end, you'd never guess he was hurt. I have about 50 pictures of the little guy munching on some complimentary deer-corn. Not exactly a happy ending yet, but we're working on it.
Anyway, here's Futter, in all his gory. Nyuk.
1 comment:
remeber catso or was it that other ill manner puss that mom took in. wasn't his leg damn near falling off and he survived to adminster many bone deep clawings.
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