My vet friends work at such a huge clinic that they see conspecific aggression cases all the time, but this past Saturday took the cake! Sixteen females, from 14 different households, were all so badly wounded by a female cagemate that they required surgical wound repair.
Mark asked me did I have room to rehab all of them and it breaks my heart that I could only take in the 2 worst cases. Unfortunately, I'm afraid neither girl will do well. One has multiple skull fractures and the other has a windpipe so torn up that it's likely to scar badly and significantly impair her breathing. I dread the fact that both girls might end up being euthanized.