Exotic pets

Re: Exotic pets

Rachel Jayne — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:50:26 GMT

My first practice had a client with a marmoset monkey!

It had to wrestled with a towel & dom/torb'd before we could do anything with it...

Poor lil thing, must've absolutely petrified. Never quite understood how the lady was allowed to keep it..

Re: Exotic pets

Brogan Proud — Sat, 24 Apr 2010 16:35:02 GMT

not in practice but in my old work at some kennels we had an open day and a guy who rescues 'out of the ordinary' pets from awful conditions and cicumstances brought his crew in i managed to get to handle a skunk who was the cuddliest girl ever, a few meerkats which were amazing along with spiders and lizards.

Re: Exotic pets

A-J — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:12:01 GMT

i worked for vets which did the local zoo. Saw a few exotics :)

did a cs on a marmoset, so tiny and some bush dog thingys too - stinky beasts!

Re: Exotic pets

Lucy-lu — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 13:05:59 GMT

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I've helped remove a childs jean jacket

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Did anyone ask where the child was????

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LOL

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Unfortuanely the child survived!!! The owner was a bit of a dipstick, as 'council estate' tenant who managed to accidently electrocute his 2nd snake, (Boa constrictor!!!). Of course he never paid all of his bills of and we got R.S.P.C.A involved though!

We have a vet who has interest in exotics so we are lucky to see quite a few. I would really like to see some spiders though, (how weird am I!)

Re: Exotic pets

Steph Worsley — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 23:25:00 GMT

i worked with a vet who was also a falconer so ended up with various birds of prey beacuse of that, also at the same practice a couple brought a "kestrel" in after they knocked it with their car........if that was a kestrel then i'm called Arthur!!! It was a sparrow hawk and was n o longer stunned by the time it got to us......being the professionals we were (as it was only me and a small female vet on at the time) we shut ourselves in a consult room to make sure there was no obvious damage......there wasnt he ended up trying to hold us hostage in the consult room till i managed to get the box over the top of him while he was on the floor and then we scooted him along the floor into a walk in kennel and called our falconer vet!!!!!

prob the best creature i've seen in practice was a komodo dragon!!!!! had it in for MRI!!!!

Re: Exotic pets

Phrin Vernon RVN — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 22:05:32 GMT

I have seen the odd little snake - they don't go down with me and i really struggled to help the vet with it

Other than that... erm... I have a vague recollection of a stray! iguana being handed in at one place i worked. Can't remember what happened to it.

I'm not very good with non-mammals.... I go all itchy and jumpy LOL

Re: Exotic pets

Kerry Spain — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:47:20 GMT

hahaha the child thing made me laugh!

Re: Exotic pets

Steph Phillips — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 12:32:10 GMT

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We had someone come in with a squirrel that she kept as a pet, she named him Scrat! Was so tame, thankfully they were presuaded to hand him over to a sanctuary and they were going to prepare him for the wild :)

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Grey squirrels can't be released back into the wild as not a native species, Would have been better off letting her keep him as if he's super tame he wouldn't be able to cope in the wild anyway.

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She hadn't had him long.. he only seemed to take to her, wont let anyone else near him.. strange! her mother presuaded her to hand him over, not us.. I loved him.. I'd have had him! lol

Re: Exotic pets

Kim Buckley — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 08:13:56 GMT

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Grey squirrels can't be released back into the wild as not a native species, Would have been better off letting her keep him as if he's super tame he wouldn't be able to cope in the wild anyway.

Re: Exotic pets

Laura Ringsell — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:40:45 GMT

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OMG Kerry I just nearly had a heart attack

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SAME HERE!! nearly prolapsed!! lol.. aghh!!

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Holy smokes - glad that wasn't me - would have lost all cool and probably lunch too!!!

Re: Exotic pets

Steph Phillips — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 20:36:18 GMT

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OMG Kerry I just nearly had a heart attack

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SAME HERE!! nearly prolapsed!! lol.. aghh!!

Re: Exotic pets

Claire Cameron — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 19:42:41 GMT

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I've helped remove a childs jean jacket

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Did anyone ask where the child was????

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LOL

Re: Exotic pets

Fiona Leathers — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 18:56:58 GMT

[quote user="Lucy-lu"]

I've helped remove a childs jean jacket

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Did anyone ask where the child was????

Re: Exotic pets

Claire Cameron — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 14:12:50 GMT

OMG Kerry I just nearly had a heart attack

Re: Exotic pets

Lucy-lu — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 12:53:16 GMT

I've helped remove a childs jean jacket from a Burmese python,( dippy owner!). It was so big we have to put it on 2 operating tables to do the procedure!!!

Re: Exotic pets

Maisy — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:25:57 GMT

Worked with vets who dealt a lot with reptiles so was often seeing larger snakes which was pretty interesting! Have seen some prairie dogs that belonged to a wildlife park, they're cute! They used to come in for checks when brought into the centre.

Re: Exotic pets

Kerry Spain — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 11:25:26 GMT

A BANANA SPIDER!

ok so it wasn't a pet but a guy who works at the local fruit and vege shop found it and somehow managed to scoop it up and bundle it into a Marlboro packet, brought the damn thing to us and asked what it was... yup you guessed right... I had run off out the back door and you couldn't see me for dust...

YAK!

Re: Exotic pets

Sal the 1st — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 10:45:57 GMT

pygmy hegehogs yes - we have a breeder near here - but havnt seen one at my current practice.

The last one I saw we had to amputate a leg following a non healing fracture - she did very well. The one previous to that needed dental treatment