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ascle · 5 months
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Un p’tit mardi dans la vie d’une calico!
Just another Tuesday in a calico’s life!
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the-vegan-muser · 7 months
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I cannot stop thinking about this fish at Denver Zoo getting a CT scan.
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ejacutastic · 1 year
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reptile-garden · 7 months
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I am apparently tasty
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orcinus-veterinarius · 9 months
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“I want to be a vet” is a common childhood dream… but I’m curious just how widespread it is!
Reblogs are appreciated 🐾
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drferox · 3 months
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I know sometimes we debate whether it’s appropriate or harder to get a job in the vet industry if you have tattoos or dyed hair. And I know older practice managers debate it on Facebook the most.
But it’s the end of 2023 and our receptionist has visible tattoos, long green hair and is wearing bright green cat ears.
It’s wonderful. Nobody’s bothered by it, if anything it’s received positively. More of this please.
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ask-a-vetblr · 6 months
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Is it true that purebred dogs need more medical attention than mixed breeds? Why?
vet-and-wild here.
Not necessarily. We know that certain breeds are prone to certain diseases, and that some breeds are generally just not very healthy (i.e. brachycephalic breeds), and some are frequently overbred with no regard for health/temperament (i.e. Frenchies, doodles, GSDs...really anything popular). There's some breeds that when I see for their first puppy visit I really really push for them to get pet insurance on principle. But if someone walked in and said they had a mix of those particular breeds I would still say the same thing.
There's kind of a misunderstanding about crossbreeding and "hybrid vigor", and this assumption that crossbreeding automatically makes the resulting puppies healthier. While genetic diversity is a good thing for a population, breeding two unhealthy dogs just produces more unhealthy dogs, regardless of breed or how much they've been crossbred. I wouldn't say that I see more sick purebreds than mixed breeds, or that one particular group seems to outlive the others.
Except really old chihuahuas with no teeth and a raging heart murmur. They outlive everyone. (jk jk)
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Distractions
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shadythetortie · 2 years
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Advice for pet owners from an RVT
- Please be honest with us. We aren't going to report you to the police because your dog got into your stash. We need to know if your cat's wound happened two days ago or two hours ago. Just tell us what happened.
- VACCINATE YOUR PETS. We don't care about your stances on human vaccines. Your pets NEED theirs. Parvo is one of the worst things a puppy can get, it has a high mortality rate, and it's prevented by vaccinating. Distemper and Rabies are INCURABLE, and ONLY prevented by vaccines. Vaccinate your pets, even if they are indoor only.
- Your dog is not a wolf. It does not need a grain-free diet. Dogs have evolved to digest carbs and grains alongside us. Grain-free diets have been linked to causing a heart condition called DCM (dilated cardiomyopathy) and we are seeing more and more cases of it in younger and younger dogs. My clinic personally had 3 cases in the last two weeks, and it is a horrible thing to see.
- Spay and neuter your pets if you aren't going to breed them. If you are, do NOT breed before they're at least 1.5 years old. Two years is better.
- Besides altering your pet, leave the rest of their body parts alone. Your dog prefers having their ears and tail. Your cat needs their claws. Declawing is cruel and banned in many places, and ear cropping/tail docking isn't far behind.
- STOP LISTENING TO YOUR BREEDER INSTEAD OF YOUR VET.
- Retractable leashes are literally garbage and should be banned.
- Keep your pet on a leash or in a carrier when you bring them to the clinic! Do not carry your angry cat inside in your arms!!
- Cats do not do things out of spite. Your cat does not pee outside of the litter because it's angry. It's probably stressed, or is having urinary issues.
- Stop being rude to the vet staff. We have one of the highest suicide rates of any profession, and it's only getting worse. We have enough to deal with without you reaming us out because Fluffy needs their nails trimmed TODAY and we're booked up for 3 weeks.
- Stop scruffing your cats. Its an outdated form of restraint and it is physically painful.
- Train your dogs. Bad behaviours are 90% boredom and bad habits. Spend time with your dogs.
- Again. Please be nice to the vet staff. We're doing our best to help your pets. We're overworked, exhausted, underpaid and underappreciated. We are tired. Be gentle and be kind.
- IF YOUR PET BITES, JUST TELL ME IT DOES. I WILL NOT JUDGE YOU. I JUST WANT TO NOT GET BIT.
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great-and-small · 23 days
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Get the apomorphine!
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theywerenobody · 1 year
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Slow Monday.
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doodlehorseafternoon · 2 months
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Being a veterinarian is fun because yes I'm a horse vet primarily, but I have the resources and training to learn how to work on multiple species
Does this mean performing anesthesia on a goldfish for the first time is any less stressful? No, no it does not
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equinesandeducation · 2 months
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Had a nice little walk with kitty and spent the rest of the day studying in bed 🙌🏻💖
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nikkilunalace · 7 months
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vet-and-wild · 6 months
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My current soapbox at work is low stress handling, particularly for cats. I am absolutely getting on my coworkers about it, particularly when it comes to scruffing. One of my goals for this year is to take the scruff free pledge, and I encourage any other veterinary professionals to do the same.
You may ask, "but what if the cat is fractious? Should I just let myself get bit?"
No, of course not. Even this particular campaign notes: "There may be exceptional circumstances in which there is a real and imminent risk of injury to a person where very brief heavy restraint, such as scruffing, may be necessary. However, these occasions should be rare and exceptional, never ever routine."
Our goal should be to reduce the likelihood that cats will feel need to bite/swat by implementing appropriate low stress handling techniques. There's a lot that goes into this, and honestly it is kind of a steep learning curve at first. But once you start to get the hang of it, you'll see a huge difference.
The thing about scruffing is that it is a LAST resort. Not a second resort, or a third resort. It is something you use if you need immediate and brief control of a cat. That may be for safety, or to implement life saving care. It is NOT meant for prolonged restraint, especially for something routine (i.e. wellness blood work, nail trims, vaccines, etc). Basically, if you have to scruff a cat for something routine, you should not continue that procedure. A cat should not be biting/swatting, screaming, or excessively struggling for something that is not essential to their immediate health. If they are, we need to stop and reassess, and potentially consider oral or injectable sedation. I think that's where some disconnect comes in, at least with my own experiences
Yes, we are no longer scruffing as a first resort at my work (or doing the "scruff and stretch" for blood draws), and I think this is true in many clinics. And that's great! But getting people to stop grabbing the scruff and continuing with a kitten's FIV/FeLV test because they started screeching and nipping? We're working on that. It's a good lesson for me too, because yes, I did say that you can scruff to protect yourself from getting bit. So I've gotten some push back because a cat was actively struggling or trying to bite/swat when I've called someone out for scruffing. The point is, they shouldn't be getting that worked up in the first place. And if they are, and we have to scruff to protect ourselves, we should not be continuing, because the animal is already way too stressed.
Dr. Sophia Yin said something in a lecture that I thought really put things in perspective. She asked, "is it appropriate to strap down uncooperative children at the dentist?" While of course we need to be careful with anthropomorphism, I think this is a case where the comparison is very apt. Because cats, like kids at the dentist, are reacting this way due to fear and stress. It's not out of malice or spite, it's fear. So we, as veterinary professionals, need to stop accepting that forceful, full body restraint (which has been shown to increase the amount the cat struggles and also increase their aversion to the area they were restrained) is acceptable in anything other than dire circumstances.
I encourage all veterinary professionals and cat owners to get familiar with the AAFP/ISFM 2022 Feline Handling Guidelines. Because this is gold standard medicine, and cats deserve better.
tldr; scruffing cats in the veterinary clinic is inappropriate and outdated as a restraint method and should only be used briefly as a method to regain control in an extreme situation, not as continued restraint.
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When cetaceans breathe in, their heart rate briefly but notably increases, before dropping again in preparation for a dive. As a result, when taking a cetacean’s heart rate, you record the “splits”—the high and low rates following a breath.
Source: I auscultated a cetacean today!!!! 🩺
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