A blog to appreciate all of the things that Vets and Vet Techs have to deal with everyday. A blog to follow for anyone interested in veterinary medicine or becoming a Vet/ Vet Tech.
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iheartvmt: ‘POSSUM!!! This cutey also got attacked by a dog and has several small puncture wounds on his backside that are completely hidden by the fur. He’s getting pain meds, antibiotics, and daily wound care until he’s all better, then he’ll be transferred to the rehab department to prepare for release.
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iheartvmt: Assistants administering an intranasal bordetella vaccine to a hound dog. The Bordetella (“kennel cough”) vaccine comes in both intranasal and injectable forms, but recent studies have shown that the intranasal is faster and more effective. For this reason, most veterinarians, especially in shelters where kennel cough is prevalent, use the intranasal version.  Random sidenote: the bacteria that causes kennel cough in dogs (Bordetella bronchiseptica) is related to the bacteria that causes whooping cough in humans (Bordetella pertussis), but neither infection is zoonotic (transmissible between humans and animals).
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deerhoof: a psa for takin’ care of my friends
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veterinaryrambles: My very first pyometra case! This was in a 3-year-old unspayed cat. She weighed under six pounds and her pus-filled uterus weighed 140 grams, or 0.3 lbs. The clothespin in this photo is for scale. Pyometra, an infection of the uterus, occurs in cats and dogs when their ovaries produce hormones at an inappropriate time in their cycle. This causes the cervix to open when it shouldn’t. Bacteria from the outside, such as E. coli from the nearby anus, may travel into the vagina and then into the uterus. The uterus has little in the way of natural defense, and will fill up with inflammatory cells and bacteria. This is usually fatal if untreated, as the uterus can close up and create a ticking time bomb - if it ruptures, it’s septic peritonitis and game over. Cats are usually less systemically ill than dogs, but both can die. Medical treatment with hormones and antibiotics can be attempted in valuable breeding animals, but immediate spay surgery is the best option. Of course, when you’re cutting the uterus out you do have to take care not to explode that whole thing, which feels like a turgid, angry sausage… It was rather nerve-wracking! Especially the initial incision into the abdomen, which was a WHOOP THERE IT IS moment. So please, if you know you aren’t breeding your female pets, spay them!
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internshipdays: Abscess removal from a year old black pug named Molly. (It ended up being a large hunk of a wine cork)
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veterinaryrambles: When you have an eye that’s red and painful and the dog is already blind, what do you do?  Go on and remove it, that’s what.   The dog is doing great and no longer has a constant source of pain from a defunct organ.  The surgery is fairly easy but you do have to do some delicate tissue handling when severing the eye from the optic nerve.