2026. A good example of what to do about an elephant foot abscess.

Elephant Care Unchained
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Jun 12, 2026
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Here is a close up look into what to do about an elephant foot abscess.
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It was up here, it has dropped down.
It's okay, honey.
Again, I start on the outside.
Start on the outside and work your way in.
You want to expose the edge so that this can come out.
So you have to make room for this to come out, okay?
This is not the important thing.
It's closing off, so you want to open it up.
Okay?
Same thing with Kaka.
Like a mushroom.
It's okay.
It's okay, honey.
That looks worse than it is.
But what I'm doing here hasn't hurt her yet, I don't think.
Yeah, it's okay.
Thank you, thank you.
We can spray this other one.
It's okay, honey.
Good girl.
Put the pocket in there.
See, I can take my thumb and go over this and have more control.
Be more specific of where I want to cut.
Using the one-sided blade, right?
I'm holding her trunk too, but...
It's okay, honey.
It's okay.
I'm just trying to find the edge of that little pocket.
Keep it open.
There?
It's okay, honey.
Same thing there.
It's okay, honey.
Sorry.
Yeah, I'm just trying to find the edge, right?
I'm not trying to hurt her.
That's what I did to the other side.
That's what's bleeding on the other side.
Huh?
It's okay.
Oh.
Good, baby.
Okay.
Oh.
I know, honey.
There's a little bit of dead skin here.
I'm just trying to show you guys things, right?
I'm just shaving off a little bit.
I'm not cutting into that abscess.
There's just a little bit of dead skin here, okay?
If I were to go that, it would bleed really bad.
You don't want to do that.
You want to try to avoid this stuff and just allow it to come out.
And you'll know and you'll see dead skin and cut off the dead skin.
But don't worry about this too much.
This is extremely painful.
You can see a little bit that I did there.
That wasn't even the abscess.
But this is just to show you guys.
Okay?
I'm basically done.
I just want to teach a little bit here.
Okay?
So, again, bring this up.
Open this up.
Draw this out.
And then if we could soak it, it would help pull that out in warm water, yeah?
And she's irritated, yeah?
Okay.
All right.
