First weekend on call as a vet - yikes!

[SilverSpyderGT]

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Tonight is my first weekend on call after graduating, and I got a call about a vomiting monkey before I even got home from work this afternoon! The senior vet said to be ready to sedate him, work him up, and tube him tomorrow if he doesn't perk up, so please send some good monkey karma my way!

😱

 

[frozen_canadian]

A MONKEY? Wow, good luck with that one. My heart skips several beats if I get a call about anything that isn't a cat,dog,horse or cow. Never had a call about a monkey yet...I'd (jokingly) refer them to a human hospital...

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Wooo good luck! I'm doing my first conference presentation in a week - yikes. Ah, the non-school life!

 

[iampg]

Tonight is my first weekend on call after graduating, and I got a call about a vomiting monkey before I even got home from work this afternoon! The senior vet said to be ready to sedate him, work him up, and tube him tomorrow if he doesn't perk up, so please send some good monkey karma my way!

😱

What strain the monkey is?

GL, BTW, I always do that because I am now working in a company which uses monkeys in drug development studies.

 

[lailanni]

wow! sounds cool! how'd it go? are you a lab animal med resident? exotics?

 

[chris03333]

What strain the monkey is?

GL, BTW, I always do that because I am now working in a company which uses monkeys in drug development studies.

strain of monkey? Really, are you sure you work in drug development? If yes, you might want to look into that one and see what you come up with.😉

 

[SilverSpyderGT]

Haha, thanks! Everything went well, no problems on my end. Yay! 🙂

The *species* of monkey was Macaca mulatta (rhesus macaque). They make up the majority of our colony.

I'm a lab animal resident. Love, love, LOVE it!

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

Man, rhesus can be nasty though - don't mess with a rhesus! I like cynos better...they seem more manageable. Did he behave?

 

[SilverSpyderGT]

He was very gentlemanly - I gave him some peanuts for a treat. 🙂

I don't mind our male rhesus(es?). Our females are a little more high-strung, though. Do you get any monkeys through necropsy?

 

[WhtsThFrequency]

I'm impressed. I spent a summer at WFU at their primate center (suprisingly good facility) and the few rhesus they had left (they mostly had cynos and greens and stuff) were old and VERY testy. In TX, yhere isn't a big primate center close to us that sends em to us - usually they tend to do them themselves. We did have a lion last week, though! Cooler than a monkey ! 😉