Juvenile flying-fox has x-ray with Adrian: this is Foveaux on day 3.
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 30 เม.ย. 2024
- Foveaux is a juvenile female (around 17 weeks old) who crash landed on an internal balcony in an inner city apartment development.
She was stuck on the balcony because of its unfortunate architectural features, and was basically waiting to die; as a juvenile she has no real experience and bats can't fly out of enclosed spaces, partly because of their wingspan and also because they can't stand up to get in a wingstroke to get off the ground like birds can.
She has been in care for 3 days now; she has been incredibly passive and lacking in spark and mojo, however she is early days in care and a head injury and fear and inexperience will show the same affect and effect.
Bats who have hit their head often present like this; this kind of injury also may result in a clavicle (collarbone) fracture, so while I have the resources to get xrays, I try to xray them as soon after rescue as possible to rule out any fractures.
Because she was so hunched in her posture and hung so uneasily, I requested a pelvic and spinal x-ray as well; even when she was anaesthetised she had pelvic, spinal and leg stiffness.
Adrian couldn't find any issues on the x-rays; no fractures, no pelvic issues, nothing spinal, so I hoped her issues were stress related.
I asked a carer to take her overnight to see if proximity to other bats might improve her confidence. I've not been particularly well lately and needed to offload my overnight commitments if possible.
An hour later the carer send me some pix of her stuffing her face, hanging out with some of the other juvies in the cage and hanging in a more relaxed way. Stress can disguise many other issues and can make the bat's condition look worse than it is.
It's 5 days since she went to the other carer and she's doing really well now and acting like a normal batty. She's too young to just hard release within a week, so she'll go out to the release cage when she's ready, for a soft release with food support.
Thanks Adrian and SVES for your usual amazing care and dedication to our batties (and free service).
YAY Foveaux; you were a bit stressed but we figured it out in the end and you're doing just fine. YAY.
Tolga Bat Hospital takes donations for our batties. Tolga is an awesome place in Far North Queensland, which has charity status. By sending donations to them, they get a percentage (and deserve every cent) and they can allocate money to me for batty expenses without it becoming part of my income stream (which makes tax time difficult).
tolgabathospital.org/donate/
Mention Megabattie or Meg in the PayPal message box and the money will find its way to me.
If no message box appears, please email Jenny to tell her that the money is for me.
IMPORTANT: If you pay through the PayPal Giving Fund, can you please email Jenny with the AMOUNT DONATED and the name under which you have donated, OR just forward along the PP receipt.
The Giving Fund doesn’t charge any fees (so the bats get more money) but PP doesn’t itemise out the amount, they just send a total every month, and we don’t know if the money is for Tolga or for Megabattie.
Here’s Jenny’s email.
jenny@tolgabathospital.org
As a Registered Nurse I just love how you use your assessment skills and critical thinking in all your care and rescues!! Enjoy the depth of explanation about our beautiful little ones you share! ❤❤❤
I'm not really intuitive, especially with an animal who can't verbally tell me what is wrong with them and where it hurts, but I'm learning to be better at assessing the batties on their behaviour as well as the physical findings.
I am so very happy to hear Foveaux is doing well and no fractures were found!!👍😃🩶🦇🤗💓 Thank you amazing Meg, Dr. Adrian the wonderful Veterinarian & wood bender,😂 and the beautiful Carers. You are all a Bat's dream team!!🦇🥰
So glad that Foveaux is still with us! She is in the best care possible. May she thrive! To all - Thank you to all for helping this quiet one out!
Thank you to Adrian and all the carers as well as you, Meg! This is wonderful news . WOOHOO !😇❤️🖤🦇🖤❤️(Btw: Adrian ...I desperately need a chair to recline in! 😂)
LOL I don't expect Adrian takes orders (except from me, and I don't need any chairs)
Wonderful to hear that little Foveaux found her mojo and is on her way to living a good life.
Adrian is the best sort of Chairman.
LOL yes he is.
And Foveaux is doing fine. I think I got some footage of her today but I wasn't sure it was her, since she was hanging long and loose so didn't look quite so podgy
That is good news! My friend predicted X-rays would not show anything but Foveaux's reaction in creche would. Yay! Your skill in handling the little ones is amazing, Meg! 🩶🩶🩶🩶
Anxiety can be crippling! I'm happy that Foveaux is doing much better. Wishing you better health Meg. ☮️💜🦇
Ich liebe die Zusammenarbeit von Dr. Meg und Dr. Adrian! 💕👍
I'm so glad she's not git any internal damage ❤ thank you Adrian and Meg. Sending love and prayers this beautiful girl gets stronger. I can't get over how quiet she is. Bless her ❤❤❤❤
Nice chair, Adrian you did a great job with the wood bender. And thank you for everything that you do for the bats! I sure hope Foveaux does well in care and thank goodness she had nothing broken. Hopefully she’ll get over her shyness or whatever it is that she’s got going on. Thank you Meg for everything you do! I really appreciate how you respond and answer questions. You don’t just answer questions you above and beyond with great detail, which is very educational and very appreciated. Thank you Meg you are an awesome person!
Thanks Dazy
I have some cut and paste shortcuts for commonly asked questions, just so I don't have to write it out again. If people do me the courtesy of watching my videos I do them the courtesy of answering their (genuine) questions
Good news indeed! Yaay!
Oh thank goodness she survived!!!☺️🥰❤️🦇🇨🇦
I’m so glad that Foveaux has a bright future. Thank you to Meg, Adrian and his team for always caring for the batties.
Meg, l hope you feel back to your old self soon
This was last week, and I was squidgy for a few days; I had a kidney stone over Easter and they put a stent in to drain the kidney; the stent is irritant and uncomfortable and I have a backache all the time, pee frequently and feel squidgy. It comes out in a week and I can't wait.
I' m sorry you 've been squidgy, I heard kidney stones are simply terrible! I hope you feel better now@@Megabattie
@@Megabattie ooh I sympathise Meg. I too suffer from kidney stones and those stents are awful. You will feel much better once it is out.
@@georgia19801 Can't come soon enough. One more week.
I’m so glad to hear that Fouveaux felt more at ease with the other kid bats. It sounds like she is on the road to recovery after that. I love the survivors too!!!
Cheers from Lynn in Hallsville, Missouri USA
Thanks Meg and Dr. Adrian, i' m so glad this girl is doing well, she met some buddies now and she' s recovering!!!
God bless you and thank you for helping the poor animal😊
Yay a survivor! Hope you feel better Meg!
Things are looking up for Ms. Podge 🙂 Dr. Adrien is a man of many talents! Wood bending is a long and tedious process. So sorry you were feeling a bit squidgy. May your nights have been royally restful as befits Princess Meg. 💖
Adrian is a master wood-bender (lol) now. He said it was really hard to make and there was lot of hand work in it.
I just needed a day or 2 without batties and tiny critters being needy.
Such good news for this little sweetie ❤
I guess anxiety can be just as bad in bats as it is for people. Fully anaesthetized and still tense, poor girl. Good that she turned around quickly when placed with other bats. Yay for a happy ending!
And on a completely separate note, that's a pretty great looking chair, Adrian!
I've got a lovely bentwood rocking chair from my grandparents, it's quite the skill! Protect your hands though Doc, the batties need you!
I can use Adrian even without his magic surgical hands - I need his brain more.
YAY!!! So glad you survived darlin girl!!!💕🦇💕🦇💕🦇💕
Great news about Foveaux❤. Hope you start feeling better. 🎉
This video was last week - maybe 10 days ago; I'm fine
Is Adrian going to go into business making furniture as a side hustle? 😂
I doubt it; they take too long to make and you need a workshop and tools, and he lives in a small apartment.
Great news, Meg. 💙 Yay!
I like how you MacGyvered the mask.
Six handmade bentwood chairs? Wouldn’t two do? Adrian has to take care of his hands.
LOL he's not going to make even one more; it's just a dream.
I asked how he got the chair home (on the plane) and he said he had to pull it apart to pack it flat. I said - couldn't you have gone to Bunnings (hardware chain) and bought some wheels and said it was your wheelchair? Or your service chair...
Well that's good.
I'm so glad this little one has a good outlook. Often animals (and people) struggle when they are stressed and in pain and lash out. This one had a good nature. Trusting and accepting of the help although stressed.
Foveaux was terrified and just paralysed with fear and indecision.
Yea...❤🦇🦇
Encouraging news for Foveaux. She seems to be taking food much better, too. Maybe before you rescued her, something came along and scared her so deeply, she was traumatized. With all the nursing and love you've shown her Meg, Foreaux will be good as new.
With batty company, she's doing fine now.
I’m absolutely in love with this little girl Meg!❤️ I mean I love them all, but there is just something about her. I’m so happy she has no fractures!! 💕🦇
I'm really glad to hear that she relaxed and started acting normal when put in with the other bats. Even the young bats seem to have such a wide range of personalities. Such wonderful creatures.
Btw, due to a recent big volcanic eruption on a small island north of Sulawesi yesterday (or maybe two days ago, the International Date Line confuses me) you guys may get some exceptionally colourful sunrises and sunsets - SE Asia, Philippines, Indonesia, Australia. Even though it was a big eruption, everyone was evacuated well in advance, so there were no casualties, just property damage. So enjoy.
That sounds lovely that beautiful sunrises and sets will be gracing Australia. Unfortunate for the damaged properties, but grateful the evacuation saved lives. Mother Earth will do Her thing regardless of our wishes. She is still creating Herself it seems.🖤🇨🇦
Thanks B
I haven't noticed a difference but I don't generally watch the sunset (from my built up inner city apartment); the tree out the back which gives me privacy also blocks my view of the horizon.
I'm sorry you're still not up to snuff Meg. We keep getting sick here too. I guess partly for those getting older it's harder to fight it off. Even my daughter is no spring chicken anymore lol. Scares me when I really think about that. Hope you get some relief. Yay for the batties! Yay or YOU and the young man. Hope it all works out well. Thank you for all you'd🙏🏼🦇😇🐸
This was over a week ago. I'm fine now. Thanks
Meg please take good care of yourself!🥺💓
I will second that.🖤🇨🇦
As usual, you people are totally wonderful, incredible people ❤️
It makes sense that stress has affected her body in strange ways. Does the same thing in humans😮. So exciting that Foveaux improved with the support of other batties!
I think I found her in the aviary today when I put a new batty in, but since she was hanging long and loose, I couldn't be sure she was Miss Foveaux (ex) Podge.
So, Adrian went on a wood bender? I've done that! For interior design we had to build a chair and a table. Mine were both 5'/1m 50 long, the chaise longue with solid wood rails steamed and molded, and the console table with veneers glued together in the mold. Far from the refined elegance of Adrian's design, though. I'm quite impressed.
How nice that little Foveaux is relaxed and happier with her new friends. Sorry to hear you're not feeling up to snuff, though; maybe we should send you off to a carer until you're better?
Hope you feel better soon!
Poor lil sweetie, stress hunchies aren't comfy! Glad being amongst other batties has helped her relax and recuperate from a bashed noggin! Thanks to Adrian for squeezing her in for her xrays, he always seems rushed off his feet lol (nice chair too! but he is NOT allowed to become a master of bending just yet, we have too many batties to check first). Hope you're feeling brighter soon Meg, i know you hate hearing it (but tough luck i'm saying it anyways lol) please take care of yourself. If that means taking the weekend off or something, do it! much love
Sometimes he's busy doing nothing and he and the vet nurses dye Sage's tail (his partner's Papillon)... Some days it gets busy. Today I had another batty whom I rescued yesterday, and I was there for at least an hour, both waiting for the x-ray machine and other stuff till Adrian was clear. I had to deliver some more fur dye for Sage too because when he left for work at sparrow fart he forgot to bring along the dyes I had already given him.
Doc seemed to be pulled by a new passion..it’s hard when work..or anything.. interferes with a project you’re really excited about
I like that Adrian does other things in his life; he also climbs - he's a little bouldering monkey.
I hope you post the pictures you were sent. Would love to see her in the release aviary.
I would love that too.🖤🇨🇦
I won't see her in the release aviary; she'll be one of a crowd of other bats and I won't know who she is; I also don't work in the release aviary anymore (no time).
If they test fly her before she goes into the creche release cage (in another few weeks), and if someone notes her name and will video her flight for me, I may get footage.
But basically when they're one of the crowd you don't now who is whom so there won't be footage. It's only during the catchups and checks that you would see which one was which and I don't do those; the more people in the cage during catchup, the mores stressed they get so it's kept minimal.
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que loucura, eu do outro lado do planeta pensando nesse morceguinho assustado. e tantas outras coisas. Tks, Meg, beijos a todos 😺
Ela está muito melhor agora, depois que conseguiu uma companhia maluca
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Adrian is a man of many talents, that is a nice looking chair he built. I’m very glad to hear there are no damages to our little Podge, and that she is doing so much better with other batties to play with. I think she had her hips and legs tensed for so long they didn’t naturally relax down. Kind of like an Achilles tendon shortens when a woman only wears high heels for a long time.
I needed to stretch mine after years of modelling, as I had no flat shoes at all. Dance exercises did it, but for the first while I hobbled around like a much older woman than I was. I’m very happy she is going to make it, such a young little girl so late in the season. You need to give a talk to the architecture students, so they stop designing bat traps. I’d love to see her being a real bat with the others, and stuffing her solemn little face.🥂🖤🇨🇦
As far as shoes go, I fall off anything higher than my own feet
@@Megabattie Heels take getting accustomed to.🖤🇨🇦
@@tamarrajames3590 Maybe, but I don't really need to get accustomed; like I don't get manicures, because I can't be a princess with my hands; I'm a practical girl and I need to be functional, not eye (!!!) candy and helpless.
@@Megabattie I get that completely, although I did discover you could do pretty much anything in heels that you could in flats. I guess whatever you get used to doesn’t get in your way unless you effectively crippled yourself. Because my job required me to be graceful in rather silly shoes, I thought of it like learning a balancing act in a circus. Fortunately I haven’t had to do that for ages, I’m barefoot more often than shod.🖤🇨🇦
Not sure I could climb trees and ladders in heels...
I like barefoot; I'm generally barefoot around the apartment; in winter I just add socks.
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I see there is a University of Notre Dame in Sydney.
It could be that Foveaux is the Hunched Bat of that institution.
Ow ow ow!
LOL😂 Well quipped.🖤🇨🇦
We had Prophecy, remember? She was rescued from Notre Dame Uni in the inner city.
@@Megabattie We did have Prophecy …but did she say anything about Foveaux?🖤🇨🇦
@@Megabattie My goldfish memory fails me
You made an interesting comment - that humans have knee caps, because our legs are weight bearing. But bats have scapulas on their elbows - because their wings are their means of propulsion and thus the weightbearing limbs.
Bats have elbow caps, not scapulae on their elbows. I think they need a proper name like patella is the anatomical name for the knee cap.
Yes, bats have elbow caps because their arms/wings are their weight bearing limbs.
@@Megabattie Ah yes, my silly mistake calling it a scapula. I have these brain farts. 🙂
Anyway, it is totally interesting - that the knee cap is there because your legs are weight-bearing. I twisted my knee a few years ago (fighting back when a guy grabbed my bag). And it still bothers me. The physio never explained the purpose of the knee cap. I'll explore that sometime.
@@annatanneberger1 I didn't realise that the kneecap makes the tendon elongated, which makes the joint more powerful for the same amount of energy.
I love finding fascinating things like that. The elbow cap doesn't seem to have another name either (like the kneecap is the patella)
I have brain farts all the time.
Ah ha! A while ago I asked about the bat flies. While I had already found the ones the flying foxes in Australia have were Nycteribidae, I was looking to learn about the species specific to the bats Meg works with. I searched again and found them! For any animal nerd like me, the ones that prefer grey headed flying foxes and blacks are Cyclopodia albertisii, while Cylopodia australis prefers the little reds.
Thanks for that; for me it's enough to know that they're nycteribiidae, and that them who like finding out cool stuff about bugs say they're individual to each bat species (microbats have their own species of nycteribiidae too)
@@Megabattie I wanted to see what they looked like up close. But searching without exact names came up with ones for the micro bats that didn’t seem like the ones you quickly pick off. However, since the images were enlarged, I could not be sure. Now I have more of an idea when I see you and Batzilla dealing with them.
@@dewdropdesigns90 they're just squirmy little bug(ger)s with hard carapaces like fleas. They can burrow so fast and squirm around at the base of the fur. And if they end up on me they just squirm around and you don't know until you see it somewhere what you're feeling
make sure you try and get plenty of rest and hydration. Vitamin c and zinc.
I don't need vitamin C and zinc.
Please refrain from advising me specifically what I should do.
I can manage my squidginess; this was over a week ago.
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So our little girl just needed a few BFFs to hang out with. Was that Adrian 's first experience with batflies? Maybe he can bend some bat wings into his chairs. Hope you get some rest,Meg.
I showed him a bat fly with Foveaux and there was a bat fly again today on the girl I rescued yesterday.
Lydia, a vet from another practice is perfectly happy to see icky things and deal with dog poo, however any tiny multi legged bug sends her into hysterics.