Operating on small patients

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Phrin Vernon RVN — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 23:35:32 GMT

I'm glad i'm not the only one who puts tiny furries in their pockets to help keep them warm!

I must admit that I sometimes put them in the top of my tunic too! Its gotta be warmer than a pocket, and they do it with teeny babas - kangaroo care i think its called...

Re: Operating on small patients

SmegSlayer — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 16:35:38 GMT

did a (probable) lymphoma lump removal from a hamster flank a couple of weeks ago- recovered really well and is so far doing great. after she came round, i padded my pocket and kept her in there to keep her warm. the worst one was a few years ago removing a rat from a mammary tumour the size of a tennis ball- blood everywhere but that survived as well

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bongo — Sun, 27 Mar 2011 15:14:58 GMT

Once splinted a #leg in a hammy with a cocktail stick and some tape, was a long shot but we never saw it back again, probs cos it died but u never know

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Juliet Drummond DAVN (med) RVN D32/33 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:47:02 GMT

(so did the young )

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Juliet Drummond DAVN (med) RVN D32/33 — Sat, 12 Mar 2011 02:45:37 GMT

[quote user="Steph Phillips"]

[quote user="Juliet Drummond"]gerbil caesarian[/quote]

Wow!! That sounds very fiddly!!

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yeah it was, we gave it a go to try and save the poor thing, but sadly it died, and so tidi the young.

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Sara Benton — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 17:15:28 GMT

We did an enucleation on a hamster once, teeny tiny, but it worked and the hamster recovered really well

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Kim Buckley — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:53:04 GMT

Helped with a lump removal on a goldfish

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Steph Phillips — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 15:49:41 GMT

[quote user="Juliet Drummond"]gerbil caesarian[/quote]

Wow!! That sounds very fiddly!!

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Nicola Smith — Fri, 11 Mar 2011 12:15:30 GMT

Hi, have done lots of rate and quite a few hammy lump remvals including a chinese one few months ago that went fine - they do seem to recover SO well and so quickly too!

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:29:19 GMT

gerbil leg amputate ( my own gerbil)

gerbil castrate - again my own gerbil

tail tip removal on a garter snake (my own)

# repair on a rat

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Juliet Drummond DAVN (med) RVN D32/33 — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:20:19 GMT

gerbil caesarian - yonks and yonks ago. sadly it died.

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Sarah Southworth RVN CertVNECC — Thu, 10 Mar 2011 21:37:13 GMT

i can vagely remember seeing a enucleation on a hamster