Hunting and Fauna: two hunters have found a young chamois dying in the mountains of the province of Turin and are recovering it; the intervention of a surgeon saves him.
In recent days two hunters have found a young chamois dying not far from Baume, a hamlet of Oulx, located in the mountains of the province of Turin; the animal had crouched on a path and lay motionless, isolated from the herd, staring into space. The hunters immediately realized that the young chamois, lost, frightened and somewhat malnourished, must have had some problems and was in difficulty; so they called the hunting guards who in turn contacted the faunal-environmental agents of the Service for the Protection of Fauna and Flora of the Province of Turin in order to recover the animal in difficulty and understand what had happened to it.
Once recovered, the young chamois was included in the “Save them together” project, which has an agreement with the university veterinary hospital; from the medical examination it emerged that the animal, a specimen of six to seven months, had some problems with the brain but to have a certain diagnosis it was necessary to have an MRI scan, a rather expensive and anomalous examination for an ungulate.
So when it seemed there was nothing more to be done to the puppy's rescue, a famous veterinarian, Dr. Offer Zeira, from the veterinary hospital of Lodi who offered to perform the resonance free of charge; from the examination it emerged that a huge abscess was compressing the animal's brain. According to the head of wildlife recovery, Leo Ariemme, probably the chamois, “he had fallen and something had got stuck in his skull. The wound had healed on the outside, but the abscess had built up inside. Apart from breathing, he could no longer do anything ”.
The only solution to the problem was a delicate and risky brain operation so Dr. Zeira, a neurosurgeon, decided to perform the surgery himself, which ended in the best possible way; the young chamois is now out of danger and is hospitalized at the Veterinary Faculty in Grugliasco. He is already able to get up, eat alone, reacts to stimuli and should soon recover completely.
Unfortunately, however, the young chamois cannot yet be released in the mountains of Oulx because he is still too fond of the people who took care of him; Ariemme in fact explained, “He does not show distrust, and this is a problem. Wild life is hard, and to survive he must lose faith in the man who saved him ”.
19 December 2012