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Pet health and care advices for pet owners and vet students, photography tips, travel stories, advices for young people
Monday, March 4, 2013
1404. Sunday Mar 2, 2013's interesting cases - the inexperienced dog groomer
1403. Follow up with an intern
From: Kong Yuen Sing [mailto:99pups@gmail.com]
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2013 6:44 AM
To:....
Cc: Kong Yuen Sing
Subject: Re: FW: Volunteer work
Sent: Tuesday, 26 February, 2013 6:44 AM
To:....
Cc: Kong Yuen Sing
Subject: Re: FW: Volunteer work
Dear Ms Tan
Are you studying vet medicine in Glasgow University now? You should be in the 4th year? Pl email to me some images of Glasgow University Vet College if possible and happy new year.
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On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 8:42 PM, Tan @hotmail.com> wrote:
Dear Dr. Sing,
It was really nice hearing from you! Hope you had a wonderful Chinese New Year too.
After
going through a series of events over the past few years, I am actually
now studying Accountancy at Nanyang Technological University. My
initial intention of studying Veterinary Science didn’t realise due to
financial constraints as I was not awarded the AVA scholarship 4 years
ago. However, if you require pictures from Glasgow, I can seek
permission from a friend of mine who is in her fourth year there now.
Regards,
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EMAIL REPLY FROM DR SING DATED MAR 4, 2013
Thank you for reply. Accountants make much more money than vets generally, from my past years of observing the profession as financial management is the heart of corporations, not veterinary medicine and surgery. Therefore you can be as wealthy as you want if you know how to manage your own accounting firm and network or become the CEO or chairman of a big company.
I may visit Glasgow Vet College and if your friend can provide some images (e.g. in her facebook), please let me know.
As for you, much depends on you after graduation and working around 5 years and saving up money, you can still study veterinary medicine if the passion is still there. I know of at least 2 Singaporean ladies doing it. Best wishes again.
Best wishes.
Saturday, March 2, 2013
1402. Update. Cat with 4 calcium oxalate bladder stones
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Friday, March 1, 2013
1406. Spaying a ferocious young cat
Today Friday Mar 1, 2013, morning, the young couple brought in a cat, born around Jan 2011, for spaying. In the presence of the owners, she was quiet. So I put her in her own carrier to be spayed in the afternoon.
I thought the carrier door would open sideways as in all carriers. However, it was not working and one has to click open the two sides and front corners to open up the top half of the carrier. The sounds of clicking open the hinges were extremely loud, like a gun firing in a small room on the table top.. The cat was too angry and my assistant tried to hold her. She stretched out her claws. He took one step backwards. leaped off and in the process some anal sac oil splattered in at least 6 spots on the top of my shirt. The smell was rancid oil. The cat landed on the floor and hid in a corner. What to do?
In short, I got a lasso to restrain her, put her inside a wired crate. Later I had to pack in newspapers and phone books. The cat snarled everytime the papers were put in. "She is cramped at one side," my assistant called me. I inserted the fine needle and the cat leapt up while inside the crate. My 27G needle bent and flew to the floor as I pressed the plunger. In short, the cat did not get the 100% of the sedation IM.
At the next time, more newspapers filled the crate and another helper pushed the cat towards the side, facing me. Ths time I could inject. Lots of time spent in just this case. Cats and dogs do get ferocious once the owner is away.
A: Sedation IM 2.19 pm
B: Isoflurane first given. No need.
C. Isoflurane stopped. No need.
D: First skin incision: 2.33 pm
E: Completion of skin stitching: 3.01 pm
E-A = 42 min
E-D = 28 min.
The cat was in the middle of heat. So much time was spent to ensure that the big ovarian blood vessels were properly ligated. The ovaries were incised at least 5 mm from the uterus after ligation just in case some remnants of ovarian tissues were left in the body. There have been complaints of cats and dogs still having heat after spay and one reason is that some ovarian tissues were left behind during the spaying.
The best way is to incise the skin near to the umbilicus to expose the whole ovary plus suspensory ligaments. usually made an incision of 1 cm long starting 0.5 cm from the umbilical scar in cats. This incision is insufficiently long to access the bifurcation of the uterine bodies after hooking out the left ovary. Therefore I had to make the incision longer by extending another 1 cm caudally to expose the bifurcation of the uterine body..
For this cat on heat, the skin incision came to 2 cm long. For cats not on heat, I could open 0.8 cm long in the spay. Longer incision takes longer time. 28 minutes to spay this cat when a cat not on heat would take 10 minutes.
Surgical anaesthesia was sufficient at this dosage for 2.1 kg cat as there was no reaction .
I thought the carrier door would open sideways as in all carriers. However, it was not working and one has to click open the two sides and front corners to open up the top half of the carrier. The sounds of clicking open the hinges were extremely loud, like a gun firing in a small room on the table top.. The cat was too angry and my assistant tried to hold her. She stretched out her claws. He took one step backwards. leaped off and in the process some anal sac oil splattered in at least 6 spots on the top of my shirt. The smell was rancid oil. The cat landed on the floor and hid in a corner. What to do?
In short, I got a lasso to restrain her, put her inside a wired crate. Later I had to pack in newspapers and phone books. The cat snarled everytime the papers were put in. "She is cramped at one side," my assistant called me. I inserted the fine needle and the cat leapt up while inside the crate. My 27G needle bent and flew to the floor as I pressed the plunger. In short, the cat did not get the 100% of the sedation IM.
At the next time, more newspapers filled the crate and another helper pushed the cat towards the side, facing me. Ths time I could inject. Lots of time spent in just this case. Cats and dogs do get ferocious once the owner is away.
A: Sedation IM 2.19 pm
B: Isoflurane first given. No need.
C. Isoflurane stopped. No need.
D: First skin incision: 2.33 pm
E: Completion of skin stitching: 3.01 pm
E-A = 42 min
E-D = 28 min.
The cat was in the middle of heat. So much time was spent to ensure that the big ovarian blood vessels were properly ligated. The ovaries were incised at least 5 mm from the uterus after ligation just in case some remnants of ovarian tissues were left in the body. There have been complaints of cats and dogs still having heat after spay and one reason is that some ovarian tissues were left behind during the spaying.
The best way is to incise the skin near to the umbilicus to expose the whole ovary plus suspensory ligaments. usually made an incision of 1 cm long starting 0.5 cm from the umbilical scar in cats. This incision is insufficiently long to access the bifurcation of the uterine bodies after hooking out the left ovary. Therefore I had to make the incision longer by extending another 1 cm caudally to expose the bifurcation of the uterine body..
For this cat on heat, the skin incision came to 2 cm long. For cats not on heat, I could open 0.8 cm long in the spay. Longer incision takes longer time. 28 minutes to spay this cat when a cat not on heat would take 10 minutes.
Surgical anaesthesia was sufficient at this dosage for 2.1 kg cat as there was no reaction .
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