Why veterinary is never boring...

Re: Why veterinary is never boring...

Vicky RVN — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:44:37 GMT

A CBA by the tail base, had obv burst and o' thought it was bloody diarrhoea!

It was so funny, i held the cat steady while vet started to clean, we both at the same time saw the small hole and realised what it was!

Re: Why veterinary is never boring...

Saskia Quinn — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:42:24 GMT

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Cat came in the other day with bloody diarrhoea...vet brought out the back to clean the 'diarrhoea' off the back...guess what we found?

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I'm intrigued now Vicky!

Re: Why veterinary is never boring...

Vicky RVN — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:39:16 GMT

Cat came in the other day with bloody diarrhoea...vet brought out the back to clean the 'diarrhoea' off the back...guess what we found?

Re: Why veterinary is never boring...

Anonymous — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 19:01:53 GMT

I love the fact that I can walk in the door and know that it will always be a different day. Today we had a lab in for thoracic rads, I usually feel the abdomen on any anesthetised animal and I felt its bladder and noticed he needed a wee but as I was feeling I could feel some really hard lumps so told vet and he decided to do a rad of his abdomen aswell poor dogs bladder was full of uroliths! doing surgery tomorrow. looking forward to seeing that op!

Re: Why veterinary is never boring...

les punton — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:13:34 GMT

we had a 6 month old kitten with chronic heart failure, it has been started on meds but gutted as it is such a young cat!

Re: Why veterinary is never boring...

JaneRVN — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 18:01:24 GMT

We had a male entire cat in for check CBA.

He was a bit feisty, and on GA discovered he was cryptorchid, on palpating for the testicle found 2 huge masses in the abdomen which turned out to be lymph nodes.

Poor cat 1-2 years old had lymphoma and was euthed while under a GA that had been meant for a simple castrate!

Re: Why veterinary is never boring...

Nicola Smith — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 09:50:21 GMT

Before xmas we had an old boxer in for castration due to testicular tumour, very aggressive dog so can;t much of a look at hime normally - found splenic mass once sdated and able to exam properly - did splenectomy and owner reports never been better!

Re: Why veterinary is never boring...

Saskia Quinn — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 19:13:14 GMT

similar happened my dog Rosie - mammary lump removal, poor recovery and 2 days later was operated on again to remove spleenic mass!

Had an old dog in few weeks ago that had been attacked by another dog and needed its wounds treated - found a mass in her abdomen, quite a big one too Owner wouldnt have knew only dog had been attacked so decided not to do anything about it at the minute due to age 15 years and dog was still in great form