poo on the hand!

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Sal the 1st — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 22:13:13 GMT

well I guess you can imagine what our GSD was like then Bethany

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Bethany Leonard - Williams RVN — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 21:35:39 GMT

had a client who only used us to have his cat cremated because he liked the crematorium we used (weird i know)

Anyhow one friday morning rings to say he had cat pts at his vets and wanted to bring it over for crem with ashes back. Told client fine and we closed at 7pm to arrive b4 then - anyway not working the weekend or late on friday evening so thought nothing more of it - until he arrives on monday 6.50pm with said dead cat wrapped in multiple plastics bags - needless to say it was rather bloated and when i put it into the cremation bag i heard it pop and the subsequent smell was incredible!!

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Kim Buckley — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 20:06:42 GMT

Old, smelly, dead things are another matter! Had to bag up an RTA cat today who had obviously been dead for days! Turns my stomach!

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Sal the 1st — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:39:04 GMT

not maggots - but I was once involved in moving and bagging the body of a huge GSD that had died GDV. It hadnt been gassed off and had been dead 24 hrs ...... I'll leave you to imagine what happened

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les punton — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 19:30:35 GMT

that is VERY VERY grim, im not good with maggots so rather you than me.......yuck

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Deemus — Thu, 10 Sep 2009 18:09:23 GMT

I love a good ripe abscess me!

Yesterday was gross. One of the vets had PTS their own Great Dane and placed it in a medium bag in the mortuary (read chilled outside cupboard). Trouble was, a week later (was PTS just after bod man had been) she was still there but the bag had split. Cue big bloody stinking mess and alive with maggots. Other vet helpfully Indorexed them but didn't think to move them once dead or ask anyone else to do it. The next day, dead maggots, leaky bag and the worst death smell I've come across in ages.

Had to move 65kg of dead weight (with help), sweep the floor and then scrub the whole thing. I was literally up to my ankles in dead dog maggoty soup. Gross! Other nurses thought it was hilarious and gross in equal measures. (This is why I need minions!) Have you ever tried to get a massive dog into another bag whilst trying not to cover yourself in goo? I said some words even I didn't know I knew!

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Bethany Leonard - Williams RVN — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 19:59:47 GMT

had the most amazing anal gland impaction in a month ago - was the size of a grapefuit - was in a cavalier too, strangest thing was all the 'gunk' the vet expressed out didnt smell at all!

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Kim Buckley — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 18:27:37 GMT

I'm a big fan of acsesses aswell! Had a huge one on a bunny one wkend and the vet can't stand them so gave me a scalpel blade and let me get on with it. It was amazing!!!! lol

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Vicky RVN — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 14:20:34 GMT

Haha yep you are weird

But then so am i cos i like a juicy abscess!

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Kim Buckley — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 07:13:55 GMT

I LOVE picking maggots off! But then I'm weird!

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A Little TLC — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:37:00 GMT

its hard, esp cos you can hear them, sounds so horrible!! urgh..... i hated doing maggoty things, you get used to the smell after a while, but..... when a new one comes in, you start aaaaall over again. course, working with wildlife, you get a LOT. never gets any easier, breaks my heart.... but when they recover and you realease them back to the wild, best feeling ever

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Vicky RVN — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:29:50 GMT

Maggots are the thing i find hardest to deal with

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A Little TLC — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:17:30 GMT

lol! yeah, it was pretty nasty, had to pick them all out before i could put it in the washing machine....

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Vicky RVN — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:12:10 GMT

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oh and someone knocked a dish full of maggots in surgical spirit in my pocket after i had just spent half an hour picking them out of a badgers rump...... smelly welly, ming-a-ling...

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Urgh that's 100 times worse than poo!

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A Little TLC — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 21:05:05 GMT

i had a pocket of swan poo once...now thats something....... soo slimey.....

oh and someone knocked a dish full of maggots in surgical spirit in my pocket after i had just spent half an hour picking them out of a badgers rump...... smelly welly, ming-a-ling...

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:58:28 GMT

Moving a Doberman today we put him into the kennel l put a hand into my pocket to get something ... bloody dog had sh*t in it

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Jenny Cook RVN — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 20:37:34 GMT

Had dog in other day for flush anal glands under GA and check up as had an anal gland abcess not long ago. So there i am at head end of dog watchin anaesthetic while vet sqeezes, all i see next was something fly past me and splat on the wall, floor, shelves, table... Yep, lovely anal gland shite... Thank god it squirted and flew other way or would have hit me in face and clothes haha. Smelt horrible. lol

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Kim Buckley — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:27:18 GMT

Never seen anything like it! The dog had to have 2 blood transfusions because of all the blood loss! Made a full recovery though!

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Bethany Leonard - Williams RVN — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:22:21 GMT

wow kimbo that must have been some forcefull poo!!!

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Kim Buckley — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:14:36 GMT

We had a dog with haemorrhagic diarrhoea who not only exploded in it's water bowl but then manage to knock the drip pump off the side of the cage and into it! Good bye drip pump!

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Nick Shackleton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:11:39 GMT

We had a dog shite in it's water bowl today!!! Good job it weren't thirsty!!! lol

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Bethany Leonard - Williams RVN — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 20:01:22 GMT

poo in the pocket - had that several times - always seems to be cat castrates that do that!

The funniest one though was when a hedgehog came in with a few ticks on it - one of the other nurses started to take them off but covered them all in vaseline first when i came along to help - anyway all were removed and hoggy was fine - about 30 mins later i went and discharged a routine op and when i was talking to the client i moved my arm and noticed something just above my elbow - it was a tick stuck to my arm and not only that i was a massive bugger too! scared the crap out of me till i realised it was just stuck on with vaseline - must have leant on it whislt de-ticking the hoggy! just so very very gross!

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les punton — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 19:43:07 GMT

haha thats great!

well not for you............

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bumble bee — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:27:15 GMT

i had held a cat for a GA in the morning that was a bit lively so had to pin him to the table.All that day i could smell poo!Nothing on my uniform or pinny so.....! Got home & emptied my pockets only to find a nice dried nugget of cat poo in my pocket!

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Nick Shackleton — Tue, 01 Sep 2009 18:48:19 GMT

I rememebr watching my first pyometra at the age of 15years, it was in a massive labrador. the vet went to put the pus ridden uterus in the bin but missed and it went splat on the floor. Well that was enough and I went bam on the floor lol