00:01Good teeth guys. Look at the love.
00:19Good morning everyone. Today we've got Dr. Caldwell coming out to look at Icarus.
00:28So Icarus, firstly I noticed his claws starting to look like they're getting
00:35really close to the paw pad which is obviously going to then start
00:41growing into the paw pad if we don't clip them and that can cause all sorts of
00:45infections and obviously then it's painful to walk on. As these lions get
00:51older these kind of things do happen and we need to keep an eye out for
00:55clipping the nails and then the second thing that I've asked Dr. Caldwell to
01:01come out and look at is Icarus's hind leg. He has a big lump. Now the lump I've been
01:08monitoring it and the lump wasn't it was just a normal little lump which I
01:12thought was like a fatty kind of growth or nothing to worry about but now all of a
01:21sudden it suddenly got big and so that's a worry for me when something gets big
01:26quickly. Something to just let's make sure. Ikki is getting old. Sure he is
01:35struggling. He has been struggling a bit. A little bit wobbly on the feet you know
01:41and it's always a tough it's always a tough thing to watch these lions getting
01:47old. The sad part is if Ikki does eventually leave us which he will I mean
01:52it's just a fact of life guys. Poor old Meg will be left on her own again and that
01:58is for me the heartbreaking side of the story because we put so much effort into
02:07to pairing them up and they've lived such a happy few years. Well it's been more
02:12than a few years. They've really had a happy time together which is great. So
02:18yeah is what it is but yeah I'm trying to now go and get them. It's going to be
02:23best to lock them both in the night house and then yeah it makes life just a lot
02:31easier when when Peter when she gets here. Yeah look what I got for you. Yeah
02:40yeah Ikki here. Yeah yeah oh yeah yes yeah hello my darling let's go come Ikki yeah
02:58yeah come girlie yeah yeah yeah oh it's always a tricky one when the vet comes it's almost
03:14like they know something is up so this is like not a normal there we go my girl it's
03:20not a normal and kind of occasion so I can see with Meg immediately there's this
03:30like suspicion like what's going on here yeah might take a while bear with me yeah
03:46even if I just get Icarus in that would be first prize yeah boy oh all right guys so plan
03:57B I'm
03:58gonna try and get the loading vehicle here guys plan C so we changed our minds with
04:09plan B we decided that we're not gonna try with the the caged vehicle what we are
04:17gonna try is simulate a feeding day so what I'm gonna do is I'm going to leave because I think
04:30what's happening is she is seeing something's up she suspects something's up this is a bit
04:36of an unusual situation where it's Marcel and Clarence and George is not here today he's off
04:43so this is a little bit of an unusual aspect to the routine and I think they are they're definitely
04:53suspecting that something's awry so we're going to try and play their game get the feeding vehicle
05:03down here pretend it's a feeding day we locked him in the night pen Diki probably weighs about 180 now
05:15he's probably about 180 I'd say yeah I think about I mean he's lost a lot of weight he's old
05:22he's 21 20
05:23it was 22 yeah 22 it's old like us just chuck under the fence I'll tell you in
05:49no no through here well good luck in getting through that side
05:52are you like what what was that creature made from stone it was one of those childhood comic
06:05here oh yeah just that brick man brick man yeah yeah he looks like he's out cold okay cool you
06:11want to go and open that please
06:12yeah slow it down
06:50I think this is just like calcification osteoarthritis of the hock joint yeah that's moved up and calcified and cause
06:58that or a periosteal reaction that's then subsided and now started to grow or it could be a tumor
07:04a bone tumor I've never seen an osteosarcoma that would form it so it would be a fibrosarcoma so it's
07:13going to need x-rays okay I've got a we should have brought our we've got a nice portable x
07:19-ray machine we didn't realize it would be bone no I thought it was soft I haven't been able to
07:24touch it so
07:25nice photo or something yeah okay um yeah we're going to need to do reds but I can come out
07:31again and do some reds I can do it right here on the farm okay doesn't need to be ready
07:36to come in
07:37so let's clip and then we can do that can we get him in the light somehow yeah yeah yeah
07:41let's get him in the light yeah yeah
07:42thank you and we because he's a nice big boy
08:02yeah that was the one you see that almost there temperature dart wound
08:07so let's get him in the light collection and then I'm going to start with the ivy stuff
08:10here's the reason for the
08:13my boy
08:15clip and ivy stuff
08:17yes
08:19there's a few
08:20yeah
08:22yeah feel it
08:24wow
08:24it's crazy eh
08:30it's attached to the tibia
08:36okay
08:36okay this is not involved
08:40doesn't give at all eh
08:41did it start at the bottom
08:42yeah correct
08:43is this the first one
08:44yeah
08:45no not at all it's all bone
08:46bone bone
08:47it could be
08:48it could be hollow on the inside
08:49it sounds a bit hollow eh
08:51this is a bone system
08:53which is not necessarily
08:56cancerous
08:56but I have a feeling I need to do biopsies
08:59once I've taken an x-ray
09:02yeah
09:02yeah
09:03say again
09:0337.7
09:04say to this
09:08shame do we not have some umbrella for Doc
09:11that's okay
09:11you sure
09:12I'm sure thank you very much
09:13I do have an umbrella in my car
09:15no no it's fine
09:16you want one
09:16no
09:17you want to feel the sun
09:19I want to be rough
09:20I don't mind being your umbrella girl
09:22I'm fine no I'm good
09:23you'll feel like a motor GP rider
09:25yeah yeah I was just about to say
09:26yeah but I mean that
09:27the hottest umbrella girl you ever gonna get
09:30you're gonna need to wear a mini skirt there Tyler
09:32this is as good as it gets Doc
09:33shorts
09:35shorts and hairy legs
09:50so I'm feeling you don't even see the vein
09:53yeah but like a professional
09:55yes
09:56it's almost like you've done this for a while
10:00a few years
10:07okay good boy okay
10:09perfect sedation
10:10that is good
10:11he's happy now
10:12okay off you go
10:14yes sir
10:15not getting any younger
10:17yes sir
10:18we're not
10:18it's hot here man
10:19I'm dying
10:20okay we'll do it
10:22on the side first
10:28my mat
10:29that's gonna feel much better
10:43perfect
10:47should we leave that one
10:49this one no
10:50yeah
10:50it's right there by
10:51no no it's fine
10:53it's gonna
10:54he won't outlive that
10:55that growth
10:56no but I'll do this one
10:57no I'm joking
10:59you think I'm being serious
11:02I've got you here
11:03you're gonna give a full mani and pedi dude
11:05you're not
11:06you're not getting away with only doing four
11:08yeah
11:08I wasn't worried about that
11:11no don't you worry
11:13I've still got my sense of humor
11:14thank god
11:15that's all I have
11:16that looks perfect
11:18yeah
11:19just come right out
11:24one more
11:25no no for our bag
11:27no
11:28no
11:48I'm sorry my boy
11:54oh my gosh guys we are cooking here
11:57so
11:58like literally
11:59it seems to be
12:0040
12:0141 degrees
12:02and I have been driving
12:04so there has been air flow
12:06but yeah
12:06it's cooking hot
12:08Icarus is recovering
12:10and
12:11looking good
12:12the
12:13obviously the procedure went well
12:14the claws are clipped
12:16but
12:17we are going to have to
12:19sedate him again
12:20to find out what's going on
12:21with that
12:22growth
12:23which that seems to be a bony
12:25growth
12:25growth
12:26on his hind leg
12:28so we are going to
12:29arrange for next week
12:30for Doc to come out
12:31with the x-ray
12:32machine
12:33and for him to take
12:34a
12:37biopsy
12:37a bone biopsy
12:38so that we can test that
12:39and see what we are dealing with
12:58good teeth
12:59good teeth
12:59emergency
13:10look at these
13:11that big boy
13:14oh
13:15oh
13:18oh
13:18very
13:18good
13:19good
13:19look at
13:36All right guys, I don't want to talk too much because Miss Meg tends to get irritated these
13:45days with me droning on but I did want to give you an update on how Icky is doing and
13:54yeah he's doing
13:56well since he had his claws clipped. The weather is excruciating guys it's it's like 40 degrees
14:05on a daily basis there's no reprieve the wind that does blow is warm and unfortunately there's
14:13no end in sight because we have these clear blue skies that are going to persist for the next two
14:22weeks it appears so that really does take it out of the cats so he is tired and hot and
14:31bothered
14:33but he's obviously up and about from the procedure just that was just the nail clippings and we're
14:43going to have to do the biopsy this week but what I did want to tell you guys is that
14:51we got the bloods
14:53back from Peter and as Peter expected or suggested Icky is suffering from age-related kidney failure
15:04so we have been treating for that for the last year and a half he is on liver support he's
15:12on
15:12kidney support and he's on bone and joint health support so he's pretty much getting everything
15:21he's also getting vitamin E so he's getting a lot of supplementation guys we're doing everything
15:28we can Peter does have one or two other things that he wants to try just to support even more
15:36and you can see oh Miggy you're so funny
15:49look at the love
16:29she really does love him
16:39guys the reason she does that is because I'm talking too much and that's Meg's way of saying
16:47Kev stop it so I'm not going to talk too much more on on Icky as you can see he
16:54is up and about
16:57and doing well considering his age and ailments and yeah we'll we'll see what we can do for him
17:06but uh he is an old cat we need to accept that and I think he's he's done really really
17:16well
17:17so the sad part is for me I was thinking about it the other day is if we do lose
17:24Icky in the future
17:26then poor old Meg's going to be on her own again vice versa if we lost Meg then he'd be
17:31on his own
17:32again so ultimately we are going to get to that point where um we're going to be left with a
17:38single
17:40individual like we are with Sabindi so it is what it is sorry Meggy I'm not going to talk anymore
17:47and uh we'll catch you up when we uh do the procedure this week so
17:56just wanted to give you guys that update
17:58so
18:08so
18:13so
18:14so
18:14so
18:25so
18:27so
