Wild Dog, Floppy, is dying: Video

Mupanigawa – A wild dog pack in decline?

There was still no sign of the wild dogs at the ‘new’ den.
I left the area and headed south to the lions. They did another dirty on us all night. 3 attempts on impala and zebra proved useless. Although Manyari charged in to a herd of zebra and her lightening was something to behold. But alas she missed the foal she was after.
We gave up on the lions in the early hours and headed north to look for the Mupanigawa pack.
They were now in the west, close to the Chiredzi river. But now the pack only numbered 14. There were a few hyaena in the area too.
The dogs seemed to have hunted successfully but Whisky was the only dog who had signs of having eaten.
Most of the other pack members looked really lean. They all stood around seeming to be expecting other pack members to call having made a kill. But that never materialised.

Sash and another dog are missing, and are presumably the dogs they were waiting for to come back. They never did. I fear they have died.
And poor Floppy is in really bad shape. He’s a walking skeleton not having eaten for days. And doesn’t even have the energy to walk in a straight line.
I fear the worst for Floppy, he’s dying of Rabies and there is absolutely nothing we can do. It’s highly possible too, the missing dogs have died of it too.

Crisis is upon us. We hope to be inoculating all the dogs this afternoon.