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It is not (at this moment) raining and that is new and different. Very exciting!
I see patches off blue stuff in the sky between the clouds!It is not (at this moment) raining and that is new and different. Very exciting!
I can now go see my girl whenever I want. Rode her today (after spending what seemed like forever grooming the little mud monster...), and it was so great to have her trot up to the gate to meet me.
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when drunk.Okay. Admittedly I am in a bar, but when I read this message the first time I didn't see the horse pic and my mind went in a totally different direction.
A picture is worth a thousand words, especially when drunk.
You didn't have to, I did it for you.I didn't *say* I was drunk...
Spontaneous Miami trip with my SO today since we have a random few days off together we've never been!
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Nice! I'm on shelter med for my first rotation too. Just started week 2. My actual spay time is getting pretty quick but it's the suturing that's taking me so long! Dang intradermals...Finished my first day of shelter rotation! They planned two spays for me to do today, since it usually takes students most of the day to finish that on their first day. Did the first one in 33 minutes, and the second in 40! Second one had a weird vessel hiding in her subQ fat that just bled everywhere, so it took me a little longer to get that under control. Considering that was only spay #3 and #4 for me, and the previous two took about an hour, I'm feeling pretty darn good about myself right now!
The suturing absolutely takes the longest. I'm sure your shelter's teaching you lots of tricks, but at Humane Alliance I got the tip to really turn my body so that I was almost perpendicular to the animal (so you're taking your bites straight towards you as opposed to at a weird angle) and that actually really helped a lot in not popping through the skin or going too deep.Nice! I'm on shelter med for my first rotation too. Just started week 2. My actual spay time is getting pretty quick but it's the suturing that's taking me so long! Dang intradermals...
The shelter vet I'm working with takes his intradermal bites perpendicular to the incision, instead of parallel, so he doesn't have to turn his body. His incisions are so small that he places them as simple interrupteds or cruciates, instead of continuous. He actually had to lengthen one of his incisions today because the kitty turned out to be pregnant, and the marble-sized sacs wouldn't fit through his original incision. My incisions are not that small yet!The suturing absolutely takes the longest. I'm sure your shelter's teaching you lots of tricks, but at Humane Alliance I got the tip to really turn my body so that I was almost perpendicular to the animal (so you're taking your bites straight towards you as opposed to at a weird angle) and that actually really helped a lot in not popping through the skin or going too deep.
Also if you're allowed to leave a tag from sq to tie down to instead of having to bury, that's like the best.
I was just told the body-turning trick today! Have yet to get to try it though since I was already finished.The suturing absolutely takes the longest. I'm sure your shelter's teaching you lots of tricks, but at Humane Alliance I got the tip to really turn my body so that I was almost perpendicular to the animal (so you're taking your bites straight towards you as opposed to at a weird angle) and that actually really helped a lot in not popping through the skin or going too deep.
Also if you're allowed to leave a tag from sq to tie down to instead of having to bury, that's like the best.
The shelter vet I'm working with takes his intradermal bites perpendicular to the incision, instead of parallel, so he doesn't have to turn his body. His incisions are so small that he places them as simple interrupteds or cruciates, instead of continuous. He actually had to lengthen one of his incisions today because the kitty turned out to be pregnant, and the marble-sized sacs wouldn't fit through his original incision. My incisions are not that small yet!
I was just told the body-turning trick today! Have yet to get to try it though since I was already finished.
I will have to ask about the sq tag...never heard of that. I got my knots to bury on my kitty today but an hour later she had scratched/bitten her abdomen to pieces and we had to re-anesthetize her and suture up all her new lacerations. She definitely hated her new e-collar after that!
shush you fancy ER vet.Surgical staples. The end.
Just took my last final of undergrad! Now nothing until graduation Saturday!
Best gift my SO has ever not-actually-given-me-but-I-still-benefit-from is him buying a couple's lifetime membership to our alumni association. I don't get any harassing emails/call/letters ever. It is glorious.Congrats Wildcat . Expect a letter in your mailbox next Monday from Alumni Relations asking you to donate. They don't waste any time with that ****.
Congrats Wildcat . Expect a letter in your mailbox next Monday from Alumni Relations asking you to donate. They don't waste any time with that ****.
Michigan State's Alumni Association started calling us a few weeks before we even graduated. Probably hoping to cash in on the fleeting excitement of leaving campus finally.Congrats Wildcat . Expect a letter in your mailbox next Monday from Alumni Relations asking you to donate. They don't waste any time with that ****.
Eeyyuppp I never in my life got all A's past... middle school or so.So many overachievers in this thread...
With an A on my cell bio final I have officially gotten all A's this semester!
Agreed, I *@#%ing hate cell bio! That class is trash and a complete waste of time. It's been my mortal enemy all semester.Bro I'm just tryna pass cell bio. That class is Satan
My Sheltie girl and I ran 3 miles today!!
It may not seem like much, but with vet school being a turd, I haven't been able to run more than a mile every month or so, and poorly at that. Plus, my Lillie is very, very furry, and I worry about her in the heat (but I wanted to bring her because she adores running and if I leave her she whines and paces/cries the entire time I'm gone). A vet back home recommended a cooling vest, and so I got one and tried it out, gradually increasing our distance.. and she did wonderfully! After I took the vest off she was extremely cool to the touch, and she was hardly panting much at all. I'm extremely pleased at our progress and super happy my running buddy is with me and all-the-while happily staying cool
I got it from the RuffWear website (you can get it off amazon too): http://www.ruffwear.com/Swamp-Coole...Prevents-Canine-Heat-Exhaustion-from-Ruffwear. I found it works well if you soak it for about 10-15 min in cool water, before runs I dump some ice in there and it easily kept her cool for over 1.5 hours.Where'd you get that vest? My pup has lar par and can't be out in the heat for long.
Whoa, I need to try this. I have two nordic dogs with very thick double coats. The older one is crankyyyyyyyyyyyyyy in the hot weather. Pup hasn't been through a summer yet but already acts pathetic when its above 40* out.I got it from the RuffWear website (you can get it off amazon too): http://www.ruffwear.com/Swamp-Coole...Prevents-Canine-Heat-Exhaustion-from-Ruffwear. I found it works well if you soak it for about 10-15 min in cool water, before runs I dump some ice in there and it easily kept her cool for over 1.5 hours.
It's pretty awesome and would definitely recommend it! Granted, I wouldn't wear it first in the house (it could drip the first 5 min or so if you put it on immediately from the water), and my girl was still panting/hot by the end, but she easily kept up the entire time (unlike before with even a mile run), and her fur physically felt like at least 30-40 degrees cooler than the air underneath the vest.Whoa, I need to try this. I have two nordic dogs with very thick double coats. The older one is crankyyyyyyyyyyyyyy in the hot weather. Pup hasn't been through a summer yet but already acts pathetic when its above 40* out.
You have a sheltie?? Need pics!!!My Sheltie girl and I ran 3 miles today!!
It may not seem like much, but with vet school being a turd, I haven't been able to run more than a mile every month or so, and poorly at that. Plus, my Lillie is very, very furry, and I worry about her in the heat (but I wanted to bring her because she adores running and if I leave her she whines and paces/cries the entire time I'm gone). A vet back home recommended a cooling vest, and so I got one and tried it out, gradually increasing our distance.. and she did wonderfully! After I took the vest off she was extremely cool to the touch, and she was hardly panting much at all. I'm extremely pleased at our progress and super happy my running buddy is with me and all-the-while happily staying cool
She's gorgeous!!!Here she is
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Aww thank you!She's gorgeous!!!
I want another sheltie. My girl was a sable, she passed away almost 10 years ago now. Best dog ever.
I got it from the RuffWear website (you can get it off amazon too): http://www.ruffwear.com/Swamp-Coole...Prevents-Canine-Heat-Exhaustion-from-Ruffwear. I found it works well if you soak it for about 10-15 min in cool water, before runs I dump some ice in there and it easily kept her cool for over 1.5 hours.