First thing this morning we checked on all of the boarding rabbits to make sure they had fresh water, food and greens, and then changed their boxes. Next we gave Mosby the boarding cat his morning dose of prednisone (1/2 tab of 5 mg) and the rat, Thunder, his morning dose of Sulfathim.

Our first tech appointment was Sammy the Samoyed, he had a sebaceous cyst on his back rupture that needed to be shaved and cleaned.

Next was Sophie, a black DLH that needed a feline leukemia vaccine. It was given transdermal on the left hind leg.

Lilly the Maltese came in for a coag clotting profile because there was a possibility that she ingested rat poison, but she had been given her last vitamin K dose 24 hours ago, not 48, so she rescheduled.

Slipper the black lab puppy came in for a lepto and Lyme vaccine. I gave both subcutaneously in the left shoulder and left hind leg.

Juniper was neutered yesterday and came back in to be jump started on eating. Being a rabbit, we didn’t want to let him go on not eating for more then just the night. I gave him 50 cc’s LRS with vitamin B subcutaneously along with 0.2 cc of Reglan and we gave 9 cc’s of Critical Care for herbivores PO.

Claire is an Irish terrier who needed a Snap 3DX, came up positive for Lyme disease. She came back for a QC6 which I drew the blood for.

Mr. Tuffy is a Cairn terrier and needed nails and to clip around the bum area. I also gave Kennel Cough intranasal.

Lucy needed a kennel cough vaccine and Snap 3DX. I gave the vaccine intranasal and drew the blood for the test, ran test, which came out negative.

Mulligan Boyle a black lab mix came in and I drew 3 ccs from right cephalic vein for an in-house chemistry and profile.

Madeline the golden retriever had a hot spot on her right front leg and right inner thigh. I shaved both areas and cleaned with hydrogen peroxide and put Neopredef powder on the areas.

Ziggy the Dachshund came in for the lepto vaccine. I gave 0.1 cc of Benadryl SQ first because he was prone to a reaction, and then gave the vaccine on the left shoulder.

A DLH cat came in sick; I took her temperature which was 101.9 degrees. Then later I restrained for a chemistry and profile to be done in-house.

There was more down time today then yesterday, during that time we just cleaned anything and everything.

When I first arrived at Wellesley Animal Hospital it was the middle of the day, so I was thrown into helping pretty fast, which was fine. These are the things I did today:

I helped two of the techs; Linda and Holly; prepare to sedate a fractious cat, Rufio a spayed female DSH.
We needed to:
-draw blood for chemistry
-get a weight and
-give her a leukemia vaccine, transdermal. (See procedures)
We sedated the cat using an induction chamber with the Isoflurane on 3 and O2 on 3 as well. Once Rufio was down, we kept her on a 2 and 2 rate with a mask. Since I just arrived, I held her with the mask while the vaccine was given and I held off a right saphenous vein for the blood work. Once we were done, I kept her on oxygen for only a few minutes until she started to wake up. Then I moved her to a recovery cage until she was picked up a few hours later.

I moved a cat that had a dental this morning from where it was recovering to a regular cage

Restrained for a nail trim on a Doberman pincher, and a basset hound; Patti

I restrained a wheaten terrier for an ear cleaning and also a ruptured cyst that had a lot of pus and cottage cheesy substance; she was put on antibiotics for this and kept on her ear medication she was already on.

I scrubbed and wrapped three surgery packs (see procedures)

I restrained for a microchipping of Grace, the black lab puppy who was in the hospital for vomiting and diarrhea.

I restrained for a saphenous blood draw for a T4 level on Benji the DSH cat.

Restrained for fluids on a cat who is very old and in declining health

I cleaned a few cages of animals that went home

Restrained for a heartworm test on a dog

I performed heartworm test (Snap 3DX; see procedures) which was negative

I helped clean up treatment area after things calmed down

I brought a rabbit out to its owner after it boarded.
I brought the two neuters of the day to their owners after they paid; one was Woody a king Charles Cavalier and Disco a cocker spaniel.

We moved the remaining boarding animals (two rabbits and a cat) into bigger cages so they had more room after we cleaned the cages.

I switched the laundry a few times, put dishes away and general cleaning of areas

I gave Thunder, the boarding rat, his Sulfathim (0.2cc) PO

The last thing we did was euthanize Rebel, a male German shepherd, who bit both his owner and the daughter of the family within 24 hours and was overdue on rabies by a month. We offered to quarantine the dog for 10 days, but he wanted to euthanize him immediately. The only problem is that the dog is very, very vicious. We had the owner put a muzzle on and gave 3cc’s of Dormitor IM in a rear leg and waited for him to become sedate. After 20 minutes he was still barking and lunging at Dr. Tast, so we gave a cocktail of ketamine and acepromizine and finally after 40 minutes, Rebel was asleep. The owners left and we euthanized him with Euthosol. Then we moved him into the treatment room onto the sink table. Dr. Tast then decapitated him to send in his head. We packaged the head, and then got the body ready to get sent out for private cremation.

Then we vacuumed and mopped the entire hospital, and took out the trash (see procedures for end of day duties)