2026. Foot abscess trim on female African elephant.

Girl, sweetheart, you okay? Keep your trunk over there. Okay. All right. It's already pretty soft. You guys been doing a good job. Yeah It's okay, honey, don't you worry I got you So automatically this is gonna reduce as we if we rasp over the top of it this hole automatically gets smaller in a sense, right? Okay, thank you Hit it with the water Put the hose handy And I'm just gonna do this just to see where this crack goes I'm not gonna do anything I just want to see Sometimes you'll notice a hairline crack or something like that. But no, I don't see it Just to see a little bit you can do that. You're trying to help me on Okay, I'll get into it Okay, same thing guys. Yeah outside Good, honey It's okay So when the back of my knife was hitting that abscess, that's when she moved, right? So I know she's sensitive. So I'm trying to be aware of that. I'm not just kind of doing this blindly I know what I want to do, but she might not let me do it, right? Might be hurt too much You want to take a break? You okay? Okay Okay, honey, I know baby I know it's okay Good girl That's delicious over there That's delicious. I Know honey, it's okay It's delicious stuff over there You guys are doing a good job. So it's good. Yeah, so just stay the course Yeah, no, it's I know, honey So I'm just trying to make so much but it's all pretty pink up here So you can't you can't do too much. You can't do anything really you just gotta let it go But this is you know, it was way up here last time man a couple weeks ago a couple months ago Okay, that's one baby. All right. Here we go Same thing. I always start on the outside You know So No, I know but I know yeah That's pretty good Yeah, so you see here there's a pocket okay up here so I want to I want to open that up if I can So I'm gonna try to follow that a little bit as I work around. I'm not just gonna stay there I'll come back to it. But you see here. There's a hole Yeah, so you see I'm just gonna follow that black and she's not bothered it's all dead there, okay Good, honey. There's that pocket right there. See Good honey, good girl. What do you think about that? Huh? What do you think about that? Open up a little more just around it. I don't want to keep digging. I want to keep people so air can get to it Right, so if you just dig that it just it just makes that cavern, you know So if you open it now She'll go out in the sand and dig it and debride it and get air to it and you guys will soak it So it's okay, honey. I know baby Okay You're being so good, honey I'm just trying to follow a little pocket here And so you take a picture of this when we're done then tomorrow we'll see it and it'll fill in But it's good, you know, we're ahead of it now, so we just got to stay the course And it's it's good that she's trained and we can Yeah Good girl, honey Good sweetheart girl So now I'm just gonna go in there and scrape it. I'm not really I'm just trying to clean it to see what I can see Okay, it's more for me to see Good Kizzy Good girl, honey You can see it's a little bit bloody now Try not to I just want to kind of Open up as much as I can You okay? I'm gonna slide over here a little bit more baby. Okay You can maybe take a shot at me if you want. I think I might be in range. I Don't know But you're being a good girl Yeah, bloody there. Okay More in there more pocket or no, I'd be it right there. Okay, that's good The worst is when it just keeps going and going and going but yeah, this looks good you guys got it Good, honey Good girl Okay, there's not much more to do I think You guys will soak it now. Yeah Is that the plan? Yeah, you should always soak after you trim yeah Okay a little bit pink there. Okay, not much more to do So we opened it up with more a little bit, right? So then we'll soak it and then we'll see tomorrow this will fill in This will fill in and we just keep drawing it out drawing it out drawing it out Hang on. Hang on sweetie What happened?