Today started with a dog who's owners brought him in with a bone stuck on his lower jaw. Last night they had given him one of those cross-sections of a femur bone that you can buy in the pet store that was about 3 inches long and this morning they found him with the bone stuck around his mandible. It had somehow slipped past the canine teeth and could not be removed. The doctors sedated him with DexDomitor and used bone cutting foreceps to split the bone apart and remove it.
The Rott from last night ended up having 9 live pups (11 total) between 6am yesterday and 12:15 this morning. Their tails and dewclaws were docked today.
There was a growth removal on a dog's rear paw. The growth was a little larger than a marble and was growing on the medial aspect of one of the middle digits. I got to shave it (which wasn't easy). And I got to monitor during surgery. The growth was removed by cautery and I learned how to set up the machine.
There was an ACTH stim test in today. A dental with deciduous canine extractions and I got to watch as the vet trained one of the long-term techs there how to remove them.
One of the techs brought in her Great Dane. I found out from one of the vets that this is her third Great Dane in a short period of time. The first died within months of a bone infection, the second died of bloat shortly after she got it. This one was in for some swelling from it's recent gastropexy. It makes me think I need to try again to warn my brother about bloat with his Great Dane.
There was a lot of downtime, though. Aside from monitoring during the one surgery I just held a few dogs and worked on my packet for school. I want a medium day!!!
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