Rollo's ears & the blood trail.

Well Rollo has another hematoma....in his other ear now! He's looking more and more like a puppy dog every day with his floppy ears! At least we'll be able to identify him easily after his release. Very odd. Never had a coonie get one before and now I've got one that got 2 of them! I'll get him out when the weather gets better and check his ears again, but there was nothing inside causing a problem last time so I don't expect one this time.

I went out at 5:30 this morning before work to collect the coon cam. Whoever was hurt doesn't seem to be all that bothered by it. There was a VERY slight trail of blood.....(a tiny drop here and there that would never even be noticed if it wasn't on the bright white snow).....on the well traveled path across the pond right to one of the feeders. I can't wait to get out of work and check out the video......

Brief update.

Over at Mary's last night (in the pouring rain I might add!) ran into Teddy, Sugar, Buster, Clover, Winny & Bear. The rest were smart enough to stay out of the rain! (unlike myself!)

Out back at my house ran into Feisty, Brownie, Ringer, Silly, Popeye, Fuzzball and Red. Red's jowels are pretty much back to normal now. Wonder what the heck that was all about!

Poor Rollo's ear was so swollen it sealed up his ear canal. I thought it was going to pop! So Laurie came over and stuck a syringe in there and drained out most of the blood to make him a little more comfortable! If I remember correctly she got at least 12 cc's out of there! He was a trooper through it all though! He let me restrain him and kept his head still for the procedure and I guarantee he is a lot more comfortable now. Hopefully it will not continue to overfill like that and will just start to resolve itself.....keeping my eye on it with fingers crossed!! With my luck he'll have to have some sort of strange and unusual surgery to fix it!! ha!

Funny looking Rollo!

Well here's poor Rollo with his hematoma! He's starting to look more like a puppy dog than a raccoon! Haha! It sure makes it easy to pick him out in the crowd!

This would have been the CUTEST picture of Quinny.....if Tosser hadn't foiled it by sticking his paw in front of the camera!

A new and exciting tree was added to the pen also! The kids are THRILLED!!! Tosser had to be the first to give it a test drive.

I can't call him my "little" Toto anymore! He's looking like a big boy now!

But he loves to play with the baby of the family, Quinny! Those 2 are quite a pair!

Had to work until 2am last night so I didn't get a chance to head over to Mary's to check on the released gang. But Laurie did and she gave me the play by play. She said there were raccoon's everywhere and was able to ID Sugar, Clover, Buster, Seeker and Roxy for sure.