Introducing fur farm rescue fox Skye. She only has a couple options with her current life circumstance, which I will explain within this post.
Option 1: Spent 10k on surgery
Option 2: Euthanasia. If this ends up being her only option. We will give her a chance at freedom with a large run of a fox yard before having to put her down 😔
Option 3: Find a sanctuary that can take her on along with the expense...this may be hard to find. We currently are having a hard time even placing healthy fur farm rescues in sanctuaries.
We can't afford the surgery with so many animals still at the fur farm that we are raising funds to get out. Unless we magically get a huge donor, but even so the surgery isn't always a 100% success.
Skye has suspected Keratoconjunctivitis. There are two types, one where the inflammation and discharge from the eyes essentially forms a pretty solid crust over them entirely, and the other where it presents the way Skye currently is - with little to no tear production, discharge, massive inflammation and excessive pressure to one or both eyes.
Skye had a 0 on her Schirmer tear test for her right eye & 3mm on her left eye.
She has lots of inflammation in both eyes, including the sclera
Treatment options: Twice daily topical eye medications; this would not work for her, as she is not handleable unless under anesthesia. The stress of daily handling without it would not be a good quality of life.
Salivary gland transposition surgery, can have complications, including calcification which requires reversal
Implants placed in both eyes, which again can require replacement, and/or removal from complications.
The salivary gland surgery is typically the more successful and long term of the two in canines.
They want to recheck her tear test at minimum in two weeks.
She has also had one (likely) stress induced focal seizure.
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Introducing fur farm rescue fox Skye.
She only has a couple options with her current life circumstance, which I will explain within this post.
Option 1: Spent 10k on surgery
Option 2: Euthanasia. If this ends up being her only option. We will give her a chance at freedom with a large run of a fox yard before having to put her down 😔
Option 3: Find a sanctuary that can take her on along with the expense...this may be hard to find. We currently are having a hard time even placing healthy fur farm rescues in sanctuaries.
We can't afford the surgery with so many animals still at the fur farm that we are raising funds to get out. Unless we magically get a huge donor, but even so the surgery isn't always a 100% success.
Skye has suspected Keratoconjunctivitis. There are two types, one where the inflammation and discharge from the eyes essentially forms a pretty solid crust over them entirely, and the other where it presents the way Skye currently is - with little to no tear production, discharge, massive inflammation and excessive pressure to one or both eyes.
Skye had a 0 on her Schirmer tear test for her right eye & 3mm on her left eye.
She has lots of inflammation in both eyes, including the sclera
Treatment options:
Twice daily topical eye medications; this would not work for her, as she is not handleable unless under anesthesia. The stress of daily handling without it would not be a good quality of life.
Salivary gland transposition surgery, can have complications, including calcification which requires reversal
Implants placed in both eyes, which again can require replacement, and/or removal from complications.
The salivary gland surgery is typically the more successful and long term of the two in canines.
They want to recheck her tear test at minimum in two weeks.
She has also had one (likely) stress induced focal seizure.
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