Mr. Jones
We got home from work today and noticed Jones was limping. He wasn’t putting any weight on his back right leg at all. Since he’s still young, and we don’t know what kind of issues his dwarfism is going to present, we booked him in at the vet right away. And we learned some interesting things about our little Jones.
As we all know, he’s a dwarf. (but a cute one, look):
After a good long exam from the vet and some xrays, she thinks his leg is possibly fractured, but more than likely just a ligament issue. He’s on codeine for the pain, and the swelling should be gone in a few days, and hopefully he’ll be walking on it fully in a couple weeks. Until then, though, it’s cage rest, and no rough-housing with the other monsters.
I asked her about his teeth, because he’s got four fangs. His adult teeth came in and never pushed his baby teeth out. While checking them out, she said it looks like his jaw has been broken in the past. Poor dude! Now we know why his jaw is crooked and possibly why his tongue always sticks out. We’ll probably never know how it happened, since he was trapped and pulled out of a feral colony when he was a few months old. That’s all the history we know of him.
Turn out Mr. Jones also has an abdominal hernia – which means on the left side of his body, he’s got no abdominal wall! I always wondered why he felt a little ’squishy’ on that side. It’s because the muscles that hold all his organs in is not there, so they flop around and kind of drag!
The GOOD news, however, is that his FILV/FEV tests came back NEGATIVE.
Ah, Jones. You certainly make life interesting.
