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So, we're just on our way to a rescue right now. Somebody's called in about a fox that's entangled in barbed wire around the rear legs. So, we're on our way to hopefully cut this one free and bring back to the center. On arrival, it was not what we expected. Doing as well as he was in the video earlier. Um I can't see him tangled in anything here. That barbed wire looks sound. It doesn't look like it's dragging or trailing. So, I wonder actually as if this might not be an entangled one at all. Maybe it's been hit.
Good luck. We're going to approach this casualty as potentially entangled. I can't see that it is tangled. Buried quite tightly in all those brambles as well. So, that'll be tricky to get him out of there without causing further stress. So, So, just going to go To get to the fox, we needed to cut through all of the brambles. Clear access cuz it's going to be difficult for us to get and also difficult to get them out. So, So, I definitely can't see her entangled. So, we originally called because she was entangled in barbed wire. We definitely got a female. Um She's lactating, so she's going to have some cubs somewhere, but she definitely needs help in the meantime.
Good girl, let me take you. Good girl. Ah. Ah, no. Oh. Yeah. Oh, you need some help. So, actually her belly's quite full. Okay, so we obviously we need to take her back. Um I'm not entirely sure what's up. Her stomach's is bloated. So, it doesn't look like she's in labor, but it could be something bloat related maybe. I don't know. Um but that's for the vet to check her over. She's a little dehydrated. All right, sweetheart. I don't want to be poking and prodding you.
Okay, so we went in for one thing and we've got something completely different. Her symptoms were puzzling, so we got her straight back to our vet, Raul. Low calcium usually. Sometimes low glucose as well when they are lactating. And they can develop hypothermia because of that and that's what maybe the reason why it's something. Raul diagnosed that she was calcium deficient from feeding her cubs milk. But she was extremely weak and hypothermic also. After giving her glucose and calcium supplements, only time would tell whether she would improve or not.
Incredibly, after 24 hours, she made a full recovery. And we needed to get her straight back out into the wild to tend to her young cubs. So we're on route now to release back to the wild. She's got cubs somewhere, so hopefully we're going to pop her close to the set that we found yesterday and get her back as soon as possible. [snorts] After just 24 hours, she was back in the wild and reunited with her cubs.
