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As today is the 20th anniversary of the death of my hero, Kurt Cobain I thought I'd post this as his quote has something to do with animals haha. R.I.P
PIT BULL COMFORTS SICK DOGS AT THE VET - "Dominic lays with dogs as they come out of surgery, which calms them, making it much easier on the vet techs to handle the dogs as they wake up."
A Pit Bull named Dominic has earned the title of “Denkai Recovery Specialist” at the Denkai Veterinary Care Clinic in Colorado. Staff members noticed that Dominic would go to dogs who are recovering from surgery and cuddle with them. In addition to dogs, he also comforts cats also. Read more from the greeleytribune.com:
Haswell, though, remained a little skeptical. Dominic was cuddling with the new dog because he was cold, she thought.
She changed her mind later that day, when Dominic lay in the middle of a pile of dogs out of surgery and rested his head on their bodies when they cried.
The dog who cried the most got the most cuddle time from Dominic.
And she remembered the way Dominic rested his head on her neck when she had a headache.
Dominic would even cuddle with cats out of surgery, though they weren’t as receptive as the dogs.
What’s more, it made things easier on them. Dogs coming out of surgery could be wild, even aggressive, and bites were a little too common.
But when Dominic lay with them, they woke up calm, rested and happy.
Dominic now seems to understand his job. When a dog is under, Dominic waits at the foot of the door until clinic workers bring the dog out of surgery and set it on Dominic’s pillow, and he immediately goes over to rest with them.
Dominic cries and paces if another dog is crying in the clinic. He even acts irritated when Haswell rubs a dog’s body in an attempt to wake it up, as if Dominic’s saying, “Hey, I got this.”
“I’ve never, ever seen anything like this,” said Floss Blackburn, who has seen a lot as the founder of Denkai. “He’s got such a sweet heart.”
Beautiful.
Reblog for the truth factor, and the dobermans.
“plop.”
too good not to reblog
Love it.
So at my first staff meeting the other vet nurses had homework to learn how to pack a Cruciate Repair Ligament Kit. I had a feeling I should learn the kit, as i wanted to show my bosses how serious i am to do this :) I had my head nurse boss ask me today if I had some idea of what went in to the kit and better yet, I demonstrated I could name all of them, list what 9/12 did and apparently I did better than some of the other nurses! I feel an unbelievable sense of achievement, especially after getting this awesome stethoscope as a well done!
Well the week has ended and all I have on the brain is vetwrap, IVF drips and catheters. It was definitely information overload and I hope I can retain most of it by Monday. I'm trying to be a sponge and just soak up eevveerryyyttthingg they are telling me. Today I still had my mentor close at hand but I had the general "feel" of what needed to be done so my confidence is definitely growing :) During my shift I: - walked the boarders and hospital patients - made up IVF drip bags - cleaned cages and general cleaning - drew medication from the bottles - ran blood tests - looked at a blood smear through the microscope Thats all I can really remember. My head is kinda fried at the moment haha. That'll do brain. That'll do. Student Vet Nurse
WARNING: Ferrets highly addictive.
So day two was a bit more intense. It was really dead for most of the day, I had all the boarders and patients walked, fed and medicated by 9am. But at about 1pm I experienced my first real emergancy. This beautiful blue heeler came in which had escaped from the RSPCA which is located next to train tracks so the poor guy had been hit by a train. His injuries were definitely extensive, just from what we could see he had fractured teeth, possibly more fractures in his face but we couldnt move him to xray, was bleeding from the anus and had a massive gash from shoulder to shoulder. He definitely had a small chance of survival at the cost of atleast $5000 so after getting him comfy as possible he was euthanized. It was definitely intense and I did feel a bit emotional but not nearly as bad as I thought I would be. I thought I would be a blubbery mess but I guess when you know its for the best it isnt so bad. Well I have to go study a bunch of different instruments to learn to put together a kit for surgeries, wish me luck! Student Vet Nurse
Holy smokes today was intense! I worked 7-3 but stayed back to have a vet nurse staff meeting. It was definitely a full on day but I loved it. But im wrecked after such a big day so bye for now! Student Vet Nurse
TYPES OF FRACTURE…
SIMPLE - A clean break across the bone, separating it into two pieces.
MULTIPLE - More than one fracture site, with substantial distance between each.
COMPOUND - The bone fractures and breaks the skin causing a open wound which leads to the fracture site increasing the chances of a infection occurring.
COMMINUTED- The bone is shattered as opposed to cleanly broken. There are often more than two or three fragments involved.
COMPLICATED - This is where a bone fractures and damages/breaks/punctures a blood vessel, nerve or organ situated around the fracture site. Example: Ribs breaking and puncturing a lung.
OBLIQUE - A break in the bone which is diagonal along the bones axis.
GREENSTICK - Incomplete break of the bone which are usually seen in the young animals as their bones are not fully developed.
AVULSED - When a part of the bone is torn away from the main mass of the bone, usually due to extreme muscle pull.
OVERRIDING - The bone fractures and one of the fragments slips over the other out of place.
What made you want to be a vet nurse?
A lot of things really! I had a "Pet Sitting Service" that consisted of one client haha and I have always loved biology and animal science.I also love the look people give me when I say I'm entering veterinary nursing ;)
