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First real post.... Yippee Skippy!

Started Friday off with a bunny. Yes, a bunny. I walk in the room expecting a pet rabbit, like 5 pounds, white, fluffy, maybe spotted, ect.... Open the cage and a tiny cottontail that could fit in the palm of your hand jumps out, off the counter, and starts scrambling around the room. The small bunny had caught itself on a nail in the house earlier that morning and had a skin laceration on its back. After anesthetizing it and preforming a good exam, I discovered that the small rabbit had created a degloving injury that covered most of its back (aka it had peeled off most of the skin covering its back). I removed the skin, clipped around the edges, and applied a cream. After the exam, pain meds, antibiotics, probiotics, and almost $100 later I sent the small rabbit home. In any other situation involving myself in a rabbit, I would have been skinning it..... not trying to repair the damage.



That was followed by many vaccinations and I'm sure a vomiting dog or two. The end of the day I was called out to a colicing horse. I grabbed my gear and jumped in the truck and headed out. Get to the horse farm and the 18 YR Arab Gelding is lying in the middle of the sand arena rolling. YES, rolling.... The only thought in my head- B... A... D. According to the barn manager, the horse was fine at noon and colicing at 3pm. Lots of pain medication, sedation, tubing, and placing a IV cathetar I was finally able to get the horse standing and walking for about 10 minutes. Just as we were about to load him in the trailer and send him down the road for surgery, he went down again. He never got up after that. After many phone conversations with the owner and exhausting my options for the horse, the decision was made to euthanized the horse.

I arrived home at 8 pm just in time to grab something to eat and shower before my next emergency was arriving. Smokey the weimaraner got hit by a car and was on his way in. On arrival he was laying on his side unable to walk. After stabilizing him and taking some radiographs (x-rays) I was able to determine he had a fracture of the T13 vertebra- aka a broken back. Very serious and not something you see every day.

One more emergency call (a seizing chihuahua puppy) and I finally got home for the night. The phone didn't stay quiet for long though. One phone call at 3:30 and another ~5am and I had about had enough.......... Enough that is to shut off my alarm the next morning and not remember it. :)