Today
we of course had some Tech and Doctor appointments, and in the afternoon we had
an emergency for a Maltese mix named Lucy that was hit by a car. Luckily, after Dr. Roberta checked her over
and performed some tests, it was found that there was no serious damage
externally or internally to Lucy besides a few cuts here and there as well as a
few gashes/abrasions on her thighs. One of the abrasions was larger than the
others, and it needed to be cleaned and stapled shut (the other abrasions were
small enough that they just needed to be cleaned). Dr. Roberta first gave a Metacam injection to
help with pain relief, then applied Tritop ointment to protect from bacterial
infections on her skin, and lastly gave Lucy a Polyflex injection to help fight
against skin bacterial infections. After
giving the injections and medications, it was time to focus on closing the
larger abrasion. Since it was such a
small ‘procedure’, it wasn’t really necessary to put Lucy under
anesthesia. When Dr. Roberta tried to
get the first staple in, Lucy yelped and jerked her leg back, so the staple
didn’t go in all the way. Lauren was
holding Lucy, and I was scratching Lucy’s head and talking to her in order to
try and distract her, as well as to try and help her feel more at ease. It took a few more tries, but Dr. Roberta was
then able to staple the abrasion closed.
One of Lucy's gashes.
The largest gash all stapled up.
Lucy, the Maltese.
There
were also two small yet interesting things that happened later in the afternoon
today. The first was that a client found
a baby/just born squirrel (at least, we were all fairly sure it was a squirrel) while taking a walk, and so they brought it in
because they weren’t sure what to do with it but didn’t want to leave it for
dead at the place where they found it.
Unfortunately there really wasn’t anything anyone could do, especially since
no one really knows anything about squirrels and no one really knew what was
wrong with it; so, I’m not sure what happened with the squirrel. The second was that one of the new stray cats
that had arrived a few days ago had to get his tail surgically removed; the
nervous system in his tail was dead, and he couldn’t move his tail anymore nor
could he feel anything in his tail.
Because of that, the doctors removed it last night, but I didn’t know
that had happened. I don’t know what
caused his tail to end up like that, but it was just an interesting thing to
see a cat with a nub for a tail! He’s also
going to be put up for adoption soon; he’s a sweetie, so hopefully he’ll find a
nice home soon!
The baby squirrel.
The kitty's nubnub tail!
The nice stray cat.
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