Healing well (fox wound update)

Back at the end of May I made a couple of posts about a wound Roofy appeared to have sustained on his head. The original posts are here and here.

For those who haven't been following this, Roofy (the adult fox) had sustained two quite severe cuts on his head. They appeared to be circular, quite unlike mange) and had small amounts of dried blood around them. He seemed quite oblivious to them, and his behaviour was much the same as usual. The clearest shot of the two wounds, 31st May 2007

Having dismissed mange as a cause we speculated on here whether it might have been caused by ticks. He'd had an encounter with a hedgehog and their ticks can cause quite significant lesions. The ticks also manage to detach themselves (and re-attach), so you may not actually see the tick even when still active. The other possibility is that he sustained an airborne attack by the local seagulls (possible as they were preparing nests and may have had eggs). I'm still entirely undecided which is the more likely.
6th June 2007

So 'cause unknown', and I kept as close an eye as I could on Roofy to make sure the wounds stayed clean and healed up. We didn't intervene, just monitored. Finally, over the weekend, I was able to get two more good close-ups showing how well the healing process had gone. The patches are all but vanished, as you can see in these two photos.

Rear view of the healing wound

Top view, showing both sites nearly fully recovered

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This Post Has 5 Comments

  1. SittingFox

    3 Jul 2007

    Oh, that's good news :yes: Those were pretty large wounds but he looks in splendid condition now.

  2. Words

    3 Jul 2007

    Yes, they looked pretty nasty but fortunately the wounds were very clean.

  3. weightlosspro

    3 Jul 2007

    I am not so familiar with the story, but when I see a wounded animal I feel terrible. Now I see that the thing are going well.:)

  4. Flying Red Fox Blog

    3 Jul 2007

    Thats good Roofy is healed, he probably is more cautious of Seagulls now i think:) They have very sharp beaks then!

  5. ALLY_G

    3 Jul 2007

    Wow, that is a good news. :up: Congratulations to you (for the good observation) and Roofy (for the recovery). 🙂

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