As I was cleaning WaiWai this morning I broke through a ayer of fat and I found maggots growing under the last flap of skin from the deepest wound. This area just refuses to let go of that hard fatty dead scab. And the flies found a way in.
Lovely Saturday discussion isn’t it!
I have been working on and off all morning removing some of the dead stuff and all of the maggots. They are burrowing straight into the good skin and spreading. Maggots will eat rotton skin but when they run out they just keep on going into the good stuff. It must be very painful for him. No wonder he was grumpy.
He is fighting me like a frightened dog, growling and running away and jamming his side into the wall and snapping at my hands. He has not bit me yet but he wants to. So I am taking it slow. Picking every single wriggly out and pouring iodine into each hole. Then dried with a blow drier and on with his creams. He hates me today. 
It is a long process but I cannot give in this time – he has to be fully cleaned up now, all the dead fatty tissue has to be cleaned off. The flies are terrible.
Poor bastard.
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64 responses to “A Set Back”
Given how poorly WaiWai was doing, I am not surprised the maggots found their way in. That’s their niche, isn’t it? But sounds like you are on course, and I daresay Mr. Wai will continue plodding forward with the same determination we’ve seen him exhibit so far. Brave little (big!) guy, isn’t he. XOXO
Poor Wai. You are good people, Cecilia. That is a hard thing to do. From every perspective. Physically hard to manage a fighting pig, disgusting dealing with rotting flesh and maggots, and mentally exhausting to have to do it an animal you love who doesn’t completely understand why you are hurting him. I hope this wound heals cleanly this time.
Y’know, there is one bright spot with this maggoty invasion… While that last nasty piece of rind has been hanging on forever and would not let go; now they’ve loosened things up enough to finally allow the healing to continue…
Poor little man and poor you but I know you’re not giving up. Stick with it dear miss c.
No! I can’t believe it after all this time. Damned horrid flies and their offspring. I’ve seen fly strike in sheep here that is pretty ghastly .. best of luck
Poor wee piggeen. He is fighting so hard, and we both know how hard it can be to be the ‘bad guy’ when doing good. I’m proud of him that he’s kept his tusks to himself despite every Piggy reason not to!
Oh no, poor Wai. Thank you for taking on such an odious task – thinking only of what’s best for him.