Owner: Nearly-Dr Ferox URL:http://www.nearlydrferox.blogging4life.com Join Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2007 23:56:41 -0600 Rating:0 Site Description: This is the Blog of a Veterinary Student at Melbourne University entering the final two years of her course and sharing her knowledge and experience along the way. Site statistics:Click here
Microchip Myths 2008-03-17 09:00:41 Most pet owners in the western world will have heard about microchipping their pets so that if their animal is lost or stolen, it can be returned to them. Many councils around the world now require pets to be microchiped before registration, and have legislated which microchips can and cannot be used. However, there are [...] Read more:Microchip
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Surpirse! It’s a Tiger! 2008-03-19 09:00:34 Somethings take you completely by surprise. On Friday the 14th of March a buzz flowed through the corridors of Melbourne University: There’s a TIGER in the post mortem room!
It goes without saying that several students, including myself, crowded around the window of the post mortem room to see for ourselves. We do autopsies as part [...]
Parasites in Meat 2008-03-21 22:02:35 I mentioned in a previous post that there are a variety of parasitic cysts that may be present in the meat that we eat. I don’t mean to make you paranoid about enjoying a nice rare steak, because in modern production systems these aren’t that common. They become more common in free range animals, as [...] Read more:Parasites
Found: One Easter Bunny 2008-03-25 04:32:11 On Monday morning a client at the Dandenong Veterinary Hospital rang to say that she had found the EasterBunny
. She had, I’m not joking.
I big, white, rabbit (see above) was found hoping around her backyard. They spent the day trying to catch it and see if it would eat, before bringing him in to [...]
I still cry for cats 2008-03-24 03:50:27 Euthanasia is part of being a Veterinarian. It’s something we have to do, even though it’s unpleasant and emotions run high. Death is part of life and if you take responsibility for an animal during it’s life, then you have to realise how that responsibility will ultimately end.
I’ve performed euthanasia for rabbits, rats and wild [...]
Herriot Syndrome 2008-03-26 23:34:07 When I started work experience this week, I was talking to the veterinarian who was supervising me.
“So, do you want to work with just small animals then?” - the Vet
“Actually, I haven’t yet made up my mind. I quite like all species.” - Me
“Huh, that’s unusual. Most students have already made up there mind that it’s going [...] Read more:Syndrome
Melbourne Aquarium Work Experience 2008-03-29 00:10:48 This past week I’ve been lucky enough to be doing vet work experience with the veterinarian who treats the inhabitants of MelbourneAquarium
, Dr Rob Jones. I’ve been following him around this last week, and on Friday was lucky enough to spend part of my time in Melbourne Aquarium.
It’s Dr Jone’s responsibility to provide veterinary [...]
Marijuana Poisoning in Dogs and Cats 2008-04-01 05:26:46 It happens. For some reason, dogs and cats show up in emergency clinics from time to time with signs of marijuana toxicity.
Sometimes pets are present when this drug is being smoked and become intoxicated and overdose that way. dogs have been known to eat pipe cleanings or joints, but usually they’ve eaten some hash cookies [...] Read more:Marijuana
Little Old Me? 2008-03-30 07:19:32 I found out recently that I was nominated for the Blogger’s Choice Awards. I had never heard of these before, but as I understandi t they ar essentially like the Oscars, but for Blogs. I was nominated for the Best Animal Blogger category, and voting runs all year.
If you think I deseve a vote, please [...]
Kitten Invaders 2008-04-04 06:18:59 I apologize for my slack posting this week, but sometimes work gets ontop of me and I just get buried under all the things I have to do, instead of the things I wantto do. That level of work, and the stress that comes with it, can really get you down. Fortunately, my day was [...] Read more:Kitten
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There’s a Cow in the Horse Wards? 2008-04-08 02:26:42 Usually it seems like cattle vets and equine vets have very different views on life and would rather see each other as little as possible. As such, it was quite surprising for me to learn that there was a calf hidden in the horse wards that had undergone treatment for an umbilical abscess.
I found out [...] Read more:Horse
Dental Health for Dogs and Cats 2008-04-06 07:12:16 So many animals that walk into small animal practice suffer from dental problems, and most of those are due to a build up of plaque on the teeth, which then becomes mineralised and forms calculus. This can cause problems and discomfort for the animal, as gums become inflamed (gingivitis) and the bone around the teeth [...] Read more:Health
Look what I found! 2008-04-12 02:45:46 7pm on my 21st birthday, I was just about to shut my car door and drive home, when I notices something moving and geting closer.
Lucky things happen to you on your birthday, and it turns out I had been discovered by a stray dog wandering through the grounds of the vet school.
I took him into [...]
The Herald Sun’s Propaganda and our Education 2008-04-13 20:59:42 The Herald
Sun, probably the trashiest newspaper in Australia, published an Article on the 13th of April called ‘Dogs Operated on, then Killed.‘ It made me sick.
This highly biased piece of ‘journalism’ distorts the truth with the writer’s own opinion without giving full consideration to the ethics behind these decision. Worse, they also used emotive [...] Read more:Propaganda
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Twin Foals 2008-04-15 20:37:12 You don’t hear much about twin foals, and you nearly never see them. This is because even though up to 10% of horse pregnancies may be twins, they are usually aborted very early on because of the great difficulty in getting both twins to survive.
If the twin foals do survive, they’re usually runts and don’t [...]
The Endoscope 2008-04-17 07:01:17 I never would have thought that my days of youth wasted on video games would ever have provided me with useful skills in a Veterinary career. But as it turns out, the hours I spend playing Lylat Wars have actually made it easier for me to get the hang of driving an Endoscope.
For those that [...]
Textbook Review: Color Atlas of Clinincal Anatomy of the Dog and Cat 2008-04-19 01:20:11 I thought it might be helpful to someone out there if I wrote about the books I use most often when studying. It can be very temping when you first learn that you’ve been accepted into a Veterinary Course to go out and get your hands on any textbook you can. However, it’s not worth [...] Read more:Textbook
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Moo the Kitten 2008-04-20 18:07:14 Hello! My name is Moo and I’m one of the Kendal Hall kittens. You might have seen me in other posts, but I decided that I wanted more attention, so here I am! Read more:Kitten
More awards 2008-04-22 18:00:18 Somebody out there must like me, because I seem to keep winning these things. Maybe there just aren’t a lot of other blogging4life blogs to compete with. Who knows?
And just as a reminder, I had also been nominated by allbutonespecies for the best animal blogger in the blogger’s choice awards. I would love any support [...]
Calf Foetotomy 2008-04-24 18:00:51 Obstetrics are fun. It’s a lot like a spacial reasoning puzzle; you have to find a way to make the neonate (soon-to-be born) animal fit through the birth canal, otherwise it doesn’t matter how strong you are, it either wont fit or will damage the mother coming out.
That’s when the veterinarian considered either a cesarean, [...]
Cyclopia 2008-04-26 18:08:34 We get to see some wierd things in Veterinary Science. Exhibit A:
This head belonged to a calf that suffered from cyclopia. It’s pretty cool to look at, don’t you think? The name is pretty descriptive, ‘cyclopia’ will make you think that this poor creature has only one, central eye. In fact, the main problem is [...]
X-ray challenge #1 2008-04-28 18:02:45 Want to challenge your brain and your eyes and find out how talented you are at reading X-rays? Here’s your chance!
Carefully examine the photo above. You may want to copy it into paint and expand the black background to make it easier on your eyes. What do you notice about this dog? There are a [...]
The Unmentionable Class 2008-04-30 18:00:47 There is one particular practical class that we Veterinary Students are aware of from our early days, and think of it with a mixture of laughter and dread. It is known by many names:
Reproduction 3
The dog repro prac
The ‘Circle of Love’ and
Dog Wanking 101
You read that right, and I don’t mean to be crass, but [...]
Vets & Drug Company ‘Bribes’ 2008-05-02 22:50:57 Thursday the 1st of May was Industry Night at Kendal Hall. It’s an opportunity for big players and drug companies that supply the Veterinary Industry in Australia to set up a display, tell us about themselves and give us poor veterinary students free stuff!
There’s been a bit of concern about doctors pushing unnecessary drugs onto [...] Read more:Vets
Pet Photo Contest! 2008-05-04 20:00:52 I’ve been amusing myself taking photos of Moo and Crumbs, the Kendal Hall unofficial resident kittens, so I decided why not share some of the fun and have a pet photo contest!
I’m looking for a pet or animal photo to use in a new header for this blog, alongside Moo & Crumbs. Dogs, Cats, Canaries, Ferrets, [...] Read more:Photo
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X-Ray Challenge #2 2008-05-07 04:30:33 Since some people seemed to quite enjoy the last X-Ray Challenge
, here’s another one for you! This one is a cat, so things are a little different, but not by much. I will admit it is harder though.
And for those of you who would rather have something relatively ‘normal’ to compare X-Rays too, here is [...]
The Chronic Cat Problem 2008-05-08 16:59:14 Cats have something of a reputation if you ever talk to a veterinary surgeon about them. “Oh, you just throw the pieces of a cat into the same room and it will put itself together again,” is what our surgery lecturer has told us. But there is one notable exception.
Chronic Axilla (armpit) Wounds in cats don’t [...] Read more:Problem
Doing Autopsies 2008-05-11 17:15:39 I had three autopsy prac classes over the last week and a bit. I have to say that they’re hard work, make a huge amount of mess and don’t end up looking like anything you might have imagined from watching some crime show on TV where dead humans are lying around.
We make a huge mess [...]
Have we desexed too many cats? 2008-05-13 08:00:02 There is a huge amount of pressure placed on cat owners to lock their felines up and stop them from breeding. We are constantly told about the thousands of cats and kittens put to sleep in shelters each year, and how cats damage our native wildlife populations. As a result, many councils in Australia have [...]
Keep sending in those photos! 2008-05-12 19:39:55 Reember to keep sending in those pet photos
for the contest! There’s still $35 and 8000 Entrecard credits up for grabs.
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