Unusual animals

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Leanne Tyreman-Guest — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 15:21:37 GMT

Saw a marabou stork day before yest, that has to be one of the ugliest birds Ive ever seen!! they look like an old man with fuzzy curly hair!! lol!!

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Leanne Tyreman-Guest — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 14:54:02 GMT

A lynx!! she is an amazing cat! We have an exotics vet based in our practice, she is great and we are very fortunate that if you are keen she will let you see the unusual animals, we get meerkats,SEEEEMPLES.......sorry! couldnt resist! they are sooo cute! i have seen a fruit bat, marmosets, all types of birds, lizards etc, lemurs & the list goes on, the lynx has to be a fave though!

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A Little TLC — Wed, 17 Feb 2010 11:26:49 GMT

Well, seeing as I worked in a wildlife hospital, all the above was totally normal for me!!! Which is why i loved it, to me, i have to say more interesting than domestics. Includidn the wallabies. - Quite a challenge. We have also however had leopard - brought over as the facilities are so good. Umm wild pig.....

A few people brought in things i though was odd - an RTA beetle...? A ladybird with its wing sticking out? Spiders, lizards, Crayfish...........oh the list is endless......

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albatross — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:20:30 GMT

during my three months of training, there was a roe deer brought in for treatment (and was then pts due to its injuries), but I did get my first practice at putting in catheters while it was sedated ready to be pts. I bet not many other students can say that.... still not practiced on companion animals or exotics....and now my training has ended I probably never will.......

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Dawn Seabrook — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:35:57 GMT

We had a guy bring us a young capy bara that he had found in his garden, turns out that some crazy person locally was breeding them and when the RSPCA got involved just let them go!

On the phobia side of things I am TERRIFIED of frogs luckily we dont get too many in just the normal strimmer/lawn mower incidents but I will leave the room if anyone appears with one.

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Tracy Windler RVN — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 22:25:41 GMT

We had a member of the public wrestle a "loopy ferret" into us, he thought it must be injured! We had a quick look in the box and thought "thats no bloody ferret" and called the local wildlife rescue. She said she thought it was a wild polecat and needed releasing into the wild. Still suspicious, I had a closer look. Was a bloody Mink! Fair dues to the bloke who managed to catch it!

Also had a member of the public carry in a badly injured fox, she wouldn't leave it and said it liked her and was relaxed with her around. I had to firmly explain to her that this was NOT NORMAL BEHAVIOUR and the fox was not relaxed, but extremely stressed and very ill to be behaving like that. Poor little thing, had to be put to sleep, after being mauled to point-of-death by a well-meaning person.

Don't you just love stupid people!

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Sal the 1st — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:49:38 GMT

I have never been able to understand why parents get their kids hamsters as pets - you just know it will end in tears - either when the hamster succumbs or the kid gets bitten (especially those little russian rabid ones - they have a real taste for blood!)

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Mac Feather — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 21:42:15 GMT

[quote user="Sally Roberts"]

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]

. Also not a hamster fan satans helpers.

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Well said.

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I used to 'love' the nurse consults where you were faced with a hamster nail clip. Mum and kids gingerly place the shoe box on the table and back away steadily. Yep you know you are on your own with a bitey wriggly critter!

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Haley Thomas — Sun, 14 Feb 2010 11:42:31 GMT

Our vet done a lump removal on a chicken....gassed it down turned her back to scrub up, turned back to find an egg near its bum!!! She accused the nurse of playing games lol!!! if it wasnt warm I dont think she would ever believe that it had been laid lol!!!

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Vicky RVN — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:48:05 GMT

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]Dislike of llama and l got full face spit not neck[/quote]

You're not the only one!!! At college feeding and cleaning them...minding my own business with wheelbarrow of hay...look up and there is llama, right in my face with a mouth full of grass spit. Nice!!!

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Vicky RVN — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 22:46:32 GMT

[quote user="Emma Bartlett"]owl and otter place in the New Forest[/quote]

That's about 10 min drive from me

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Sandra Taylor RVN, MBVNA — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 21:19:31 GMT

Baby foxes, and baby deer, as well as a bird of prey.... some kind of eagle,dont ask me what kind it was , all I will say is, that the guy holding it was practically on his knees due to the weight of this thing... it was massive. We have had a good few snakes, they dont bother me.

I am not overly keen on chinchilla, they move way to fast. Cute to look at, but I would rather not handle them.

We have seen a good few hens recently too. And ferrets, we have had 6 castrates in a week!!

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Anonymous — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:52:12 GMT

We get wallabys in a fair bit - there are a number of them living wild in our local area since some escaped from the wild life park years ago so people will often find then unable to fend for them selves for what ever reason and take them in - they seem to get on pretty well with goats!

We also had a very old swan from the local harbour who couldn't fend for himself anymore and came and spent the last 6 weeks of his life on the pond in the practice grounds - he was acutually really friendly which surprised me bacause I thought swans were meant to be nasty.

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Sal the 1st — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:09:39 GMT

my furthest return for a racing pigeon was Spain! he had been awol 5 monthsish.

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LaurenA — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 20:04:12 GMT

eagle owl, deer, fox cub and numerous racing pigeons reunited with owners miles away!

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Polly P — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:52:30 GMT

Wow it is interesting to see what you all come across!

Also it's kind of a relief to hear people say that they don't like certain animals or are scared of them, I have never handled a spider and never would out of choice (though I find them fascinating and have spent a lot of time reading up on them on line) but we'll see!

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albatross — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:47:37 GMT

we're getting a spate of hens in lately.

Last year we had a peacock in.......anorexic

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Emily Hibbs — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:39:38 GMT

We've recently had a corn snake in for a lump removal and a hen in yesterday! Bless her she laid an egg in her basket before she got knocked out! Love chickens!

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Kim Buckley — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:17:25 GMT

Our rabbit dental bur got broken by one of the vets who was clipping a puffer fishes beak with it! hehe

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rachel w — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:16:14 GMT

At my last practice we had a puffer fish in that had swim bladder problem. and a little girl that bought us in her pet caterpillar that was dead but she thought it was sleeping

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Kim Buckley — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 19:04:52 GMT

Koi carp for a lump removal. My practice won't treat tarantulas for h&s reasons.

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Sally Howe — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 18:02:23 GMT

[quote user="Caro Laithwaite"]

. Also not a hamster fan satans helpers.

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Well said.

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Emma Bartlett — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:59:43 GMT

Giant millipede, goats, lots of owls, 10 week old otter (local wildlfe rescue wouldn't believe it was an otter when i phoned them up.....they said no it'll be a polecat......i think i can tell the difference between an otter and a polecat!!!!) she had ran from the river across 2 fields towards a clients house and was exhausted and dehydrated, we couldn't find any sign of other otters in the area she had come from so she went to the owl and otter place in the New Forest and they reared her with another otter of the same age.....so cute!

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Caro Laithwaite VN — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 17:46:50 GMT

Dislike of llama and l got full face spit not neck. Also not a hamster fan satans helpers.

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Sally Howe — Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:59:13 GMT

Snakes (various), iguanas, marmosets, pot bellied pigs, various owls, stick insects