I am still going to Cobham Park Veterinary Clinic every week. A number of times animals have been brought in to have x-rays for various reasons and I helped the nurses to position them and develop the films. Also, a chocolate Labrador that was believed to be pregnant had an ultrasound scan. It turned out that she was pregnant and is due to have 5 puppies later in the year.
Another Vets has also allowed me to start doing work experience with them each week. Beech House Veterinary Centre has 4 branches that the vets circulate around. I go to the main branch so there are always a few vets there at any time and plenty happening. In the weeks that I have been there I have got to see lots including;
- A number of neuterings (spays and castrations)
- A cruciate ligament repair
- Dentals on rabbits and dogs – on of the rabbits had a tooth abscess which had to be removed
- A cat and a dog which had both (at different times) been in RTAs – the cat was very lucky and other than being in shock and a few cuts was fine, but all of the dog’s front teeth had been hit and had to be removed and had some quite bad bruising
- Two ferrets having a check up
- A guinea pig with fur loss
- On of the vets, Charlie, putting air bubbles into a pig’s eye that he got from the butchers and then syringing them out again to practice for an operation to remove some fatty lumps from a dog’s iris
- A dog with swollen anal glands
- A young dog which had eaten some lead and was given lots of food and laxatives to pass it through its system
- A dogue de bourdeux puppy with a bite wound to its ear which had become infected
- A few different tumour removals
- A cat that had its tail bitten in a fight
- A kitten having its first vaccination
- A dewclaw removal because the dog kept catching them on things and in the last year had broken one of them three times
When there are no operations or consultations to watch, Ros the Head Nurse always finds things for me to do; I help out with the cleaning, have taken out IV catheters, help to restrain animals and feed patients in the kennels.
