I am still baffled as to what happened to this beautiful boy in the week he went missing from us. He came back three days ago and when I saw him for the first time in seven days, my concern grew. He was coming back to me, but he was traveling backwards! I went to scoop him up carefully and when I turned him over- he was one contusion from his neck to his tail! I’ve never seen anything like it and I rushed him to the vet where they put him on steroids and painkillers and determined he had no broken bones just massive swelling in his underbelly and back by his legs. 🙁 They didn’t even want to attempt surgery, said he wouldn’t live through it if they anesthetized him.

I picked him up this morning and he is home but they want to see him again in a week. The swelling in his back legs, if you press it gently it sounds like fingernails on a blackboard. Ben said it is the fluid trapped within. I don’t know if he got hit by a car? Did someone just go to work with him with a baseball bat? I have no clue but we find ourselves with no answers and a $580.00 new vet bill. They have him on clindymycin and a pain killer and I have him isolated in the bedroom right now.

I was so worried about him last night until Ben called me at 8:00 and said I could come and bring him home if I kept him quiet. My sweet Pigeon- what in the world happened to you? If anyone can donate any monies right now, it would go immediately on the new vet bill. Thank you-