Nature Space (And Yelling)

We got in a transport today from our rural shelter partners (history: pups abandoned on person's property) and one was a 9 week old puppy with "a swollen face and unable to use his legs." They thought she was sick with something.

The face is because she is a shar-pei mix

Though I admit she does look like she ate a spicy sky raisin, but she's been like this for a week. It's just her face.

The legs however...

I palpated one limb and felt a very thickened, broken femur, and on the other the femur as a whole had gone walkabout so I thought dislocated.

Vet agreed with me so we took rads.

I mean, that left leg is *technically* not dislocated. Technically. The break on the right is so old there's nothing we can do.

Puppy is going to foster for a month to build muscle in the right leg to, and I quote my vet, "to give her a leg to stand on" since we will be amputating the left.

Also, how long do you think it will take the algorithm to incorrectly flag this?

She... she fucking rebuilt her femurs??? The one floating off into nowhere, the dog built a whole new femur and even a whole new greater trochanter????

Original rad on the left, most recent on the right.

Our vet sent the rads to her orthopedic surgery mentor and he responded with " I believe in God now"

Abnormal Roe Deer Skull.

I read somewhere that antlers are essentially a type of modified, domesticated bone cancer. Guess this is what happens when your domesticated bone cancer goes feral. 

A lot of those projections don’t appear to have the normal texture and separation that antlers do, particularly those pale white areas on the right. Does anyone know, would those have shed along with the normal antlers, or are they probably permanent? 

Some of the projections seem like they might still have been covered in skin at the time of death. I wonder what this poor thing looked like alive. 

*waves* So these happens when the base of the antler is injured, the part where the antlers grow from each year. Because this is where the cells proliferate from, and they can be pushed to other parts of the skull when there is an injury. This is why you see antlers growing directly from the bone, as bone, especially on the right there. Damage to the testicles and fluctuations in the production of testosterone, as infection with papillomavirus are also a seemingly common source of this. It might also happen because of an infection, and these antlers keep their velvet, which makes them grow constantly. And because trauma caused them to get out of bonds, there is no clear way in which they will grow. They can grow like tree branches, or turn into something looking like moss. Because they stay in velvet, they are also prone to more injury. Velvet is bloodvessel rich, so no chance for the stag/buck to properly fight for mating rights. As the antlers are also used to get stuff out of the way, another part of where this becomes a problem. Sometimes these antlers can overgrow the whole head, and they are also heavy. Warning for animal death and such

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