#vetblr

Snickers and Percy had a birthday party! Snickers is now a year old, and Percy is likely two or three!

[they are not a pet, they are a rehab animal. Wild animals make awful pets. If you encounter an orphaned or injured wild animal, please call a wildlife rehab center or game warden.]

Help fund their care and many more by donating here!

There will be another wildlife calendar for 2020! I’ll be posting the photos that don’t make the cut from the photoshoots here! Please stay tuned for when buying information is announced in the next few months!

missnoodliness:

Currently volunteering a 3hr shift to the Pet Loss Support Hotline at MSU CVM. I am a firm believer that our ‘pets’ are a part of our family and if you are grieving, struggling to cope with their loss, then there should be someone there to help you. Tonight, that might be me!

If you or anyone you know is struggling with the loss of a pet and feels like they need someone to talk to, there are options!

• The Listening Ear 24-hour Crisis Hotline: (517) 337-1717
  
• The Iams Pet Loss Support Resource Center: (888) 332 7738 [M-F 8-5]
• WSU Hotline: (886) 266-8635 
• Until April 20th, 2017 MSU Pet Loss Support Hotline: (517) 432-2696
  6:30 pm - 9:30 pm EST [T,W,Th]

cranquis:

flyonthewallmedstudent:

lizziedoesvetpath:

One of my favourite Tumblr experiences is:

Medblr: makes post with genuine statements and questions

Vetblr: how fast can we derail this with weird animal shit?

Weird animal shit is the best.

It’s a symbiosis or something…

It’s what we do!

iheartvmt:

avoiding-claws:

agro-carnist:

For people who work with dogs: what are your favorite and least favorite breeds to work with?

My least favorite is definitely miniature pinschers and I’d say my favorites are Dobermans and border collies

Least favourite are probably German shepherds or sharpeis. Favourites are basically any mastiff breed

Least favorites: Sharpeis, basset hounds, bulldogs, pugs.

Favorite: “deer dogs” (a popular blend of foxhound, coonhound, large beagle, and whatever else the breeder thought would run deer well), beagles, huskies, German shepherds, jack russells, poodles… Honestly, I just love most dogs

Favorite: funky little mixes like a Brussels/Pug mix who I affectionately call “my little potato” or an unexpectedly sweet Shiba/Sharpei mix; calm doodles that crawl up into your lap; Goldens; beagles; whippets and greyhounds; Boxers; chill small shepherd mixes, big goofy Pits … pretty much any dog with a gentle or just overwhelmingly happy demeanor.

Least favorite: Rottweilers, Shiba Inus, Sharpeis, Chow Chows, Cane Corsos, English Bulldogs, Huskies, smelly and oozy aged Pugs, anything super drooly, anything that Won’t Stop Bouncing or mouthing, anything aggressive and fearful to strangers to a point you can’t even touch them. I’m worried about how the pandemic dogs are going to turn out for sure, behavior-wise.

mental-health-in-academia:

“The young doctor should look about early for an avocation, a pastime, that will take him/her away from patients, pills, and potions…No one is really happy or safe without one.”

—William Osler M.D., The Medical Library in Post-graduate Work (1909).
(viamednerds)

Take heed. Sometimes history repeats and sometimes the people who came before us know what the hell they’re talking about. Never let medicine be the only thing that you are or do.

sans–seraph:

great-and-small:

Fight me horse people

Choke. Rain Rot. Valley Fever. Lockjaw. Sleeping Sickness. Black Leg. Red Water. Blue Tongue. Lavender Foal. Fatal White. Dummy Foal.

… if it’s not a ridiculously long acronym, it’s something that makes you feel like a Shakespearean witch.

Hardware disease. Spider lambs. FETAL MONSTERS

iheartvmt:

avoiding-claws:

two-tails-and-some-scales:

Calling all vetblrs and those in the veterinary community!

I’ve been on my first rotation (placement) since COVID and the team are awesome and I want to treat them when I leave next week, but I’m not sure what to get them? Here are my considerations:

• Got a card sorted already
• Some team members are on a diet so I was thinking grapes cause everyone loves grapes?
• I can’t bake anything as I don’t have the facilities where I’m staying
• I’m a student so can’t spend tons of money
• I’m in the uk
• Roughly 6 vets on each day and 8 vet nurses, but would like a little extra for those not working on my last day/on call over the weekend

What do you guys think I should get/what would you love to get?

Tagging some guys

@avoidingclaws-mostly@drferox@vet-and-wild@vetmedirl@veterinaryrambles@ask-a-vetblr@sueanoi-the-vet@iheartvmt@talesfromtreatment

Fruit in general is always great! Everyone always goes for cake (which is also fab) but there’s something sooooo good about a load of fresh fruit. Just like a variety of fruit!

I hope your placement went well! I remember those days :’)

I second the fresh fruit! :)

LOL I’m the only one who doesn’t like fruit ;) I do love chocolate or bagels. But I would say the things that touch me most are the cards, especially if they are specific about what helped you and what you learned. I literally squirrel away every card from a client or student I’ve ever received and look at them when I’m down. If your card includes a photo of yourself with an animal that can be pretty cool because I for one am terrible at remembering faces. it does sound like you were working with a big team so I wouldn’t worry about addressing every single person, though if there was a tech or doctor who you worked closely with and really helped you, you could consider writing more than one card.

Congratulations on moving forward!

vet-and-wild:

great-and-small:

What dog owners are worried the vet will judge them for:

- You forgot to give your dog his heart worm medication this month

- You purchased your dog from a good breeder rather than adopting

- Your dog accidentally got into your weed

What the vet will actually judge you for:

- Naming your dog Bella or Loki

Also: “He’s a purebred doodle.”

Also: you brought your giant, insanely hyper dog in on a loose retractable leash.

Conversely, if your pet is named from a fandom we share, I will spend 5 minutes of your appointment squeeing about it with you.

I think one of my favourite things about interacting with human doctors is when they’re kinda impressed and horrified at the same time at fairly routine things in veterinary medicine.

Like endotracheal tubes. I fondly remember a bunch of human anaesthetists having a tour of the university veterinary hospital, and all posing for photos with an equine endotracheal tube, trying to convey just how long and wide it was.

(So if there’s a vetling out there on equine wards at the moment, feel like grabbing a photo of a horse ET tube to show medblr?)

And on the other end of the spectrum it’s like “Yeah, if you don’t have an ET tube small enough, you could consider an intravenous catheter…”

Tis the night before April Fools, and somebody rostered a Ferox on the closing shift with only one other accomplice who will not be at work tomorrow to serve as a witness.

Hmm, what might happen?

Some harmless practical japes?

How many objects can I reveal a personality for?

I wonder if the nurses will think this is annoying?

Pigeons are my favourite patients, not going to lie. Here are two pigeons from yesterday - a wounded adult just admitted, and a wee baby who’s just been seed fed. We get hundreds of pigeons every year, I love them all.

Very cute baby robin. Cat caught and bought into us. The second photo is of two pellets he has produced - the black one on the right from his last meal with his parents - insect shells mostly. The one on the left is from his meals with us - a special mix for growing young passerines. I thought it was very cool to see the diet difference in pellet form!

My cat was put to sleep on Monday. I was woken up when my mum needed someone to hold onto him so she could use her hands she found him crying in the bathroom unable to support himself. Less than an house later he had a seizure that lasted 30 minutes and he was completely unresponsive after that right up until the end. The vets were amazing I really didn’t expect them to let us in with the pandemic but they were lovely and let us hold him.

He is now burried in our garden behind a bench under a privet hedge arch.

I feel incredibly guilty for how he went, he has been struggling for months and I’m not sure he has been all there for a long time but my parents never listened and never took him to the vets despite him being in pain and clearly struggling. I know part of the reason was they were scared he wouldn’t come back if he went but I feel like I should have pushed harder. He should have had a peaceful end, which isn’t what he got.

He was an incredibly special cat and will be dearly missed. Please enjoy the video of him playing his favourite game with the tap. My mum was less impressed by the cat being on the counter .

Spike 28/02/2005 - 07/07/2020

Be at peace now.

wheresonichedgehogwnt:

Vet: Horses have five spare gallons of blood, don’t sweat it

Me: That’s horrifying, why??? What are they doing with it all???

Vet: I don’t know. Um, I’m scared to ask, but how much blood is in a human?

Me: It depends on the human but a human infant has roughly a coke can’s worth, if that

Vet: That’s horrifying, why??? Where did it all go???

Cue the vetblr/medblr intersection

flyonthewallmedstudent:

lizziedoesvetpath:

One of my favourite Tumblr experiences is:

Medblr: makes post with genuine statements and questions

Vetblr: how fast can we derail this with weird animal shit?

Weird animal shit is the best.

It’s a symbiosis or something…

…this meme is for me and the weird outlets I have at work :|

I think a lot about what people think we do with their animals after they leave the clinic, and I wish I could assure them I treat their animal with the same respect I did my own.

Euthanasia appointments are so difficult and we aren’t really prepared for them by school, in the sense that those appointments are more about dealing with the owners almost more than the animal.

Anyway I always think about this minor character in a Hellraiser sequel no one has seen when I try to explain why I talk to the animals on the way to the freezer.

claud-zilla:

endlessnightarts:

Every time I post anything related to wildlife rehab from work I spend the next at a week fighting the urge to constantly post things about how Also The General Public Should Not Be Interacting With Wildlife and I Am A Vetmed Professional because I am terrified of accidently contributing to people thinking wild animals make cute pets

Don’t get me started on nutrition or the idea that we’re paid off by specific pet food companies to endorse them. Explaining the basic requirements of pets & having GrAiN fReE screamed at you over the internet. It is not worthy of our brain space or time.

right? people really get so defensive when you try to explain that grain free diets are being linked to a rise in dilated cardiomyopathy.