Some part of my externship I dedicate to small animals, here a couple of cases
This chihuahua met on the walk a passing by donkey and decided to mess up with it, eventually recieved a kick...
...and the eyeball had to be removed.
 |
 |
| Don't mess up with a donkey!:) |
Seeing shot animals was not a rare event.
Left forelimb at palmar level and right hind one at hip region were affected.
Intestinal impactation is a quite common emergency. You never know what you can find inside your animal's bowel...
Cesarian section was one of the most frecuently performed emergencies, almost always there were Yorkshire terriers.
 |
| The newborn puppies in their first days of life are submitted some procedures, according to breed. |
 |
| For instance tail docking. |
These are puppies I tried to safe from an euthanasia, when a pit bull bitch in an advanced gestation was brought to be spayed. About 2 weeks were missing for them to develope completely but because of my lack of experience I insisted on keeping them alive.
 |
| They were 11 in total and we fed each of them every hour. |
 |
 |
| I spent about a week without sleeping but it all made no sense as they were too premature to survive. They were becoming more deshidrated every day eventhough were fed, finally they didn't make it. I got strongly convinced that sometimes it's really better to euthanize an animal before it's born. Another interesting case- Dirofilaria immitis. This patient was found with signs of cardiac and respiratory insuficiency. After the diagnose was euthanised due to its age and advanced symptoms. After performing a quick autopsy, this was found in a right ventricule. |
This dog was found with a cat's nail sticked into his eye. Fortunately was easily removed.
Here I was let to perform an oto hematomy surgery.
A bit nasty but espectacular Notoedres cati infection in a stray cat. After 2-weeks treatment consisting ivermectine a big clinical improvoment was noted.
As the last one I am presenting you the most interesting one- Fragile skin syndrome in cat. When this cat was presented to our hospital, at the time of restraining it for blood sampling, the skin on the dorsal neck tore, leaving this flap of skin.
And here some of my work collegues :)
