Her anal glands aren't able to express on their own like other cats, they're getting too full until they pop. You should be taking her in or expressing them yourself before the rupture, these are uncomfortable.
we’re leaving the country for three days and my grandma is going to be taking care of her, but she’s not going to be able to take her to the vet since we live in a rural area:( do you think she’s going to be okay?
Give the antibiotics you were prescribed. Why would they send you medications they didn't think would help? Antibiotics can both prevent and clear early infections, and it sounds like no one's even seen any signs of infection, you're operating off maybes.
People are of multiple minds on this. I'm not in an anaplasma area, but ehrlichiosis is here and it's another bloodborne tick vector disease. And if you test positive for one, there's 30 other tick diseases that she might also have, most of which respond really well to doxy. Signs can be really subtle yet painful. And if you're going to treat, you can't do a wussy 10 days, 4-6 weeks is recommended.
ProBNP is measuring a peptide that leaks out when the heart is damaged. When your heart is weak, it gets bigger and flappier to compensate. This releases probnp as it stretches. It's an early marker so you can catch it faster than an x-ray when the heart is already huge.
I don't think it's malpractice, but it's probably fraud to charge for services not rendered. Malpractice doesn't really mean "you're bad at your job", you have to be able to prove they harmed the pet through negligence or something. They should refund you (at least the cost of the histopath), and if they don't you should go over their head, but I don't think you could get a lawsuit or their license imo.
They don't, really. There's little dog cannulas I've secured in a nose next to an oxygen tank, but that was just so parents could visit before a euthanasia. And that didn't stay in very well, but it was more private than me holding the breathing circuit tube up to his face while his mother cried.
So if the dog needs concentrated oxygen, they need to be put down? Is there any situation where a dog could have access to portable oxygen and live out their life?
Not in my experience. A person can be convinced to keep a mask on or they'll choke. A dog won't, and eventually their person has to go to work or sleep. If they're not in a facility where they can be constantly cared for, the risk of a really distressing death is ever present.
9 is not old enough for "crawls somewhere and dies on their own". That's like being 45 in human years and your kids are planning your funeral. Obese cats are at risk for hepatic lipidosis, this is something a vet needs in on early.
You can absolutely grow into a heart murmur. There's no way to check at home, even if you bought the equipment, hearing a grade 1 or 2 murmur is a skill you get after auscultating a hundred animals. Undiagnosed heart disease makes anesthesia much riskier and can be fatal even in day-to-day life. Even in young cats, if they just suddenly fall over and are gone, it was usually cardiac.
Quizlet was my best friend. I was on that thing all the time. Vague terms like "canine respiratory" will get you things, course numbers will get you past or current student sets (VMED 1672). I hardly ever made my own study guides, I was just a vulture for other people's. It might not be on the test you're taking, if it's some guy from Ohio's material, but if you're confused about a concept, someone's probably written it in a better way.
So, it's always worth mentioning, especially in a high stakes environment, because you never know what minute detail you can assume and what you can't, but emergency surgeries happen all the time with food on the stomach. If it's a spay I'll send you home, it's not worth the aspiration pneumonia for something we can do tomorrow. But if you're a life-threatening situation, even in human med, they'll operate. It's nice to know, so maybe I can premed with an anti-nausea med. But it's still hitting the table.
Those are the bulbourethral glands. Means he's excited. Their function in reproduction is to keep everything in the vaginal canal while semen deposition happens. You ever heard of dogs being "tied"? These're why.
She'll be fine. People double dose all the time by giving two dogs their preventatives and one dog spitting theirs out only to get scooped up. And that's immediately, a week apart is better.
It sounds like you're talking about transitional cells, which can be in normal urine. Cells hardly ever scream cancer, some are just ugly. Ugly cells can be malformed because of cancer, or they just got smushed in the sample or are viewed at a weird angle between the cover slip and glass slide, or they just made an ugly cell and now it's sloughing off. The problem with "it'll probably be fine" is that if it's not nothing, consequences can be drastic if diagnostics are put off. Sounds like he would like to pursue testing but doesn't want you to work yourself up.
My surgery rotation had a bunch of spinal surgeries, we "walked" them twice a day. Meant carrying my little maltese hemilaminectomy to the elevator, putting her on the grass at the yard, and watching Hush Puppy slowly find a place to poop. I'm sure that's what she meant. One there's no real time or room to do a long leisure walk, two, her clinician would have been super mad at her.
Yeesh, looks like he got a temporary tarrsorophy, where they tack up his third eyelid as a protective barrier? I'd see if your clinic would just shave the longest hairs that are getting caught in the discharge. And ask how they want you to deal with the cleaning. They may say leave it, may put him on systemic pain meds if he's not already, may tell you to get a big ball of sopping wet gauze and try to gently dab and see if even that amount of pressure is undoable.
I don't know your finances or if this is right for you, but those are normal cat vaccines and this is around the age I start requiring bloodwork annually.
If it's not on his skin and never gets in his mouth, sure, but I think that's pretty hard to guarantee if he rolls over. There are dog specific styling gels I'd encourage you to look into.
You should call them! They will probably return your message, but it's an office of like 3 people, it's very chill. From what I remember, 20-30 questions, not open book. Most people pass, though studying is mind-numbingly boring. They'll probably switch it for you if you get an induction date, I worked there for a couple summers. They're lovely people.
This happened to me too. I washed a lot of fecal cups just to look busy. I had a couple doctors that would let me follow them and round me, I would read their pee and ear cytologies, but when they weren't around I mostly helped hold for rads and snooped on completed case reports. I knew a couple of techs that would let me TPR and intubate, practice jug sticks. But the rest I mostly offered to restrain and do nail trims/suture removals. Like a tech student, basically. It wasn't the doctoring I was supposed to be learning, but it got me a mostly complimentary letter.
You can confirm/rule out asthma with a BAL. Which I think is broncho-alveolar lavage? You get a huge endoscope, put some liquid in their lungs, suck it back out, and see if there's a bunch of eosinophils in there. It's like putting milk in a hershey bottle and shaking it. It's a pretty specialized procedure.
Her anal glands aren't able to express on their own like other cats, they're getting too full until they pop. You should be taking her in or expressing them yourself before the rupture, these are uncomfortable.
we’re leaving the country for three days and my grandma is going to be taking care of her, but she’s not going to be able to take her to the vet since we live in a rural area:( do you think she’s going to be okay?
Depends on your okay. Will she die before you get back? No. But it's painful and risk of local infection is high.
You need to see a vet. Nasal planum depigmentation and smoothing can be a sign of an autoimmune disease.
Some reason I was thinking they only removed one testicle and not both or maybe that just depends on the dog
Always both.
Look up double dewclaws. I mostly see them in pyrenees, but you're already a mix, who is to say what else is in there?
Give the antibiotics you were prescribed. Why would they send you medications they didn't think would help? Antibiotics can both prevent and clear early infections, and it sounds like no one's even seen any signs of infection, you're operating off maybes.
People are of multiple minds on this. I'm not in an anaplasma area, but ehrlichiosis is here and it's another bloodborne tick vector disease. And if you test positive for one, there's 30 other tick diseases that she might also have, most of which respond really well to doxy. Signs can be really subtle yet painful. And if you're going to treat, you can't do a wussy 10 days, 4-6 weeks is recommended.
ProBNP is measuring a peptide that leaks out when the heart is damaged. When your heart is weak, it gets bigger and flappier to compensate. This releases probnp as it stretches. It's an early marker so you can catch it faster than an x-ray when the heart is already huge.
I don't think it's malpractice, but it's probably fraud to charge for services not rendered. Malpractice doesn't really mean "you're bad at your job", you have to be able to prove they harmed the pet through negligence or something. They should refund you (at least the cost of the histopath), and if they don't you should go over their head, but I don't think you could get a lawsuit or their license imo.
They don't, really. There's little dog cannulas I've secured in a nose next to an oxygen tank, but that was just so parents could visit before a euthanasia. And that didn't stay in very well, but it was more private than me holding the breathing circuit tube up to his face while his mother cried.
So if the dog needs concentrated oxygen, they need to be put down? Is there any situation where a dog could have access to portable oxygen and live out their life?
Not in my experience. A person can be convinced to keep a mask on or they'll choke. A dog won't, and eventually their person has to go to work or sleep. If they're not in a facility where they can be constantly cared for, the risk of a really distressing death is ever present.
9 is not old enough for "crawls somewhere and dies on their own". That's like being 45 in human years and your kids are planning your funeral. Obese cats are at risk for hepatic lipidosis, this is something a vet needs in on early.
You can absolutely grow into a heart murmur. There's no way to check at home, even if you bought the equipment, hearing a grade 1 or 2 murmur is a skill you get after auscultating a hundred animals. Undiagnosed heart disease makes anesthesia much riskier and can be fatal even in day-to-day life. Even in young cats, if they just suddenly fall over and are gone, it was usually cardiac.
Nobody is defending Mikio though. Who are you arguing against? I think you're just soap boxing truisms for likes.
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Quizlet was my best friend. I was on that thing all the time. Vague terms like "canine respiratory" will get you things, course numbers will get you past or current student sets (VMED 1672). I hardly ever made my own study guides, I was just a vulture for other people's. It might not be on the test you're taking, if it's some guy from Ohio's material, but if you're confused about a concept, someone's probably written it in a better way.
So, it's always worth mentioning, especially in a high stakes environment, because you never know what minute detail you can assume and what you can't, but emergency surgeries happen all the time with food on the stomach. If it's a spay I'll send you home, it's not worth the aspiration pneumonia for something we can do tomorrow. But if you're a life-threatening situation, even in human med, they'll operate. It's nice to know, so maybe I can premed with an anti-nausea med. But it's still hitting the table.
Those are the bulbourethral glands. Means he's excited. Their function in reproduction is to keep everything in the vaginal canal while semen deposition happens. You ever heard of dogs being "tied"? These're why.
She'll be fine. People double dose all the time by giving two dogs their preventatives and one dog spitting theirs out only to get scooped up. And that's immediately, a week apart is better.
It sounds like you're talking about transitional cells, which can be in normal urine. Cells hardly ever scream cancer, some are just ugly. Ugly cells can be malformed because of cancer, or they just got smushed in the sample or are viewed at a weird angle between the cover slip and glass slide, or they just made an ugly cell and now it's sloughing off. The problem with "it'll probably be fine" is that if it's not nothing, consequences can be drastic if diagnostics are put off. Sounds like he would like to pursue testing but doesn't want you to work yourself up.
My surgery rotation had a bunch of spinal surgeries, we "walked" them twice a day. Meant carrying my little maltese hemilaminectomy to the elevator, putting her on the grass at the yard, and watching Hush Puppy slowly find a place to poop. I'm sure that's what she meant. One there's no real time or room to do a long leisure walk, two, her clinician would have been super mad at her.
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I don't read any of these comments as harsh. It's very neutral wording. You act like these people slapped you in the face.
Yeesh, looks like he got a temporary tarrsorophy, where they tack up his third eyelid as a protective barrier? I'd see if your clinic would just shave the longest hairs that are getting caught in the discharge. And ask how they want you to deal with the cleaning. They may say leave it, may put him on systemic pain meds if he's not already, may tell you to get a big ball of sopping wet gauze and try to gently dab and see if even that amount of pressure is undoable.
I don't know your finances or if this is right for you, but those are normal cat vaccines and this is around the age I start requiring bloodwork annually.
If it's not on his skin and never gets in his mouth, sure, but I think that's pretty hard to guarantee if he rolls over. There are dog specific styling gels I'd encourage you to look into.
You should call them! They will probably return your message, but it's an office of like 3 people, it's very chill. From what I remember, 20-30 questions, not open book. Most people pass, though studying is mind-numbingly boring. They'll probably switch it for you if you get an induction date, I worked there for a couple summers. They're lovely people.
This happened to me too. I washed a lot of fecal cups just to look busy. I had a couple doctors that would let me follow them and round me, I would read their pee and ear cytologies, but when they weren't around I mostly helped hold for rads and snooped on completed case reports. I knew a couple of techs that would let me TPR and intubate, practice jug sticks. But the rest I mostly offered to restrain and do nail trims/suture removals. Like a tech student, basically. It wasn't the doctoring I was supposed to be learning, but it got me a mostly complimentary letter.
You can confirm/rule out asthma with a BAL. Which I think is broncho-alveolar lavage? You get a huge endoscope, put some liquid in their lungs, suck it back out, and see if there's a bunch of eosinophils in there. It's like putting milk in a hershey bottle and shaking it. It's a pretty specialized procedure.