Today in vet school I learned...

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That the recurrent laryngeal nerve is an argument against intelligent design. :idea:
 
Coquette22 said:
Anatomy differences? Or just cause it's tiny?
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Part of it was definitely size, but I'd still rather neuter a 2 lb kitten than a rat. The testicles were *very* firmly adhered to the skin of the scrotum, making them very hard to exteriorize. It would've been easier if I had done open castration, but I wanted it to be closed to protect the inguinal rings. Then, even when you do exteriorize them, you can't pull them out very far in order to avoid disturbing the epididymal fat. So there's extremely little room to work with, you can't yank the entire thing out like in most other species. Then the cord is a lot thinker than I planned, and sterility was lost when a testicle I was trying to exteriorize shot back into the scrotum and through the inguinal ring into the abdomen and I had to massage it back down. And, of course, rats are extremely prone to scrotal abscesses. So that's gonna happen.

Ugh. It didn't help that this is a fully mature 700 gram rat. I really hope he does okay, he has an adoptive home waiting for him.
 
Horses don't get polioencephalomalacia lesions... at least not from sulfur toxicity...

At least I think I'm remembering that correctly. I really do need to go through tox, but here I am updating my iPhone because priorities...
 
Today I learned.....nothing.

Ugh. This rotation needs to be over.
 
Must be rough if you're posting twice about it. 😀
 
Today I learned how to do a nasal biopsy and a joint tap. Super awesome rotation.

:banana:
 
Today I learned that if I really want to stay focused and awake in vet school I should consider taking speed instead of caffeine.....

Sadly this is not a feasible alternative.....
 
devyn said:
Today I learned that if I really want to stay focused and awake in vet school I should consider taking speed instead of caffeine.....

Sadly this is not a feasible alternative.....
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If you find a more feasible alternative, please let me know.....I am currently plagued with this problem.....Particularly on Wednesday afternoons in my Animals, Health and Society 3 hr lecture. The material is absolutely riveting.....😴

It could be a decent money-maker.....😉
 
Escalla said:
If you find a more feasible alternative, please let me know.....I am currently plagued with this problem.....Particularly on Wednesday afternoons in my Animals, Health and Society 3 hr lecture. The material is absolutely riveting.....😴
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This sounds a lot like our Animal, Health, Welfare and Food Safety courses that we had to take... they were sooooo incredibly boring... I was seriously asked on an exam: what is the maximum degree that a lorry ramp can be when loading pigs?

This "AHWAFS" course was supposed to continue on into this year as well, but after much discussion (and probably many complaints by students in previous years about the pointlessness of the course), the course was removed and important parts of the course were just added to our current CFC block (evidence based med, which is still... 😴) but at least we don't have the whole course any more.

Anyway, good luck staying awake... It would take a lot of force to even get me to show up for that lecture, especially 3 hours.
 
DVMDream said:
This sounds a lot like our Animal, Health, Welfare and Food Safety courses that we had to take... they were sooooo incredibly boring... I was seriously asked on an exam: what is the maximum degree that a lorry ramp can be when loading pigs?

This "AHWAFS" course was supposed to continue on into this year as well, but after much discussion (and probably many complaints by students in previous years about the pointlessness of the course), the course was removed and important parts of the course were just added to our current CFC block (evidence based med, which is still... 😴) but at least we don't have the whole course any more.

Anyway, good luck staying awake... It would take a lot of force to even get me to show up for that lecture, especially 3 hours.
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You were seriously asked that? Geez.

People are leaving now. I guess that means I can wake up and pack up.....Hehehe.

I totally would consider taking the afternoon off and leaving at lunch....except we have a quiz every week (I wonder why? lol)...and with a class of 30, people would notice. Ugh. The public health/ecosystem people seem to enjoy it....it's just really not for me. At least I have SDN. 🙂
 
TIL that if you have a bleeder on a goat castration to start 'violently clamping' until the bleeding stops...
 
TIL I need to spend way more time in our anatomy lab... and make a table for blood supply and innervation.
 
TIL that penguins are highly susceptible to malaria.
 
Rwwilliams said:
TIL I need to spend way more time in our anatomy lab... and make a table for blood supply and innervation.
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I used mnemonics to remember anatomy...some of them more appropriate than others...but it worked! Grouped them together by flexors, extensors,innervations etc. 🙂
 
selisona said:
Don't get me started on goats. Had to put an IV in one over the summer and it almost died of shear stress. Apparently, goats do that...
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:laugh:

Most of the small "exotics" do that as well. I haven't learned about rabbits and anaesthesia yet, but overall rabbits in just about any situation kind of suck.... don't hold them appropriately = broken back= death, too much stress = death.
 
shortnsweet said:
I used mnemonics to remember anatomy...some of them more appropriate than others...but it worked! Grouped them together by flexors, extensors,innervations etc. 🙂
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That's what we've been working on! My group came up with a mneumonic for the forelimb muscles (Because Erin Can't Love U Forever Stupid F...) and it works great! My problem isn't naming muscles or even knowing what they do, it's more that I don't know nerves and blood supply.
 
DVMDream said:
:laugh:

Most of the small "exotics" do that as well. I haven't learned about rabbits and anaesthesia yet, but overall rabbits in just about any situation kind of suck.... don't hold them appropriately = broken back= death, too much stress = death.
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My grandpa used to love hunting rabbits. He told me that you could miss and still come home with a rabbit because they'd basically have a heart attack and die just from the sound of the gunshot.
 
DVMDream said:
:laugh:

Most of the small "exotics" do that as well. I haven't learned about rabbits and anaesthesia yet, but overall rabbits in just about any situation kind of suck.... don't hold them appropriately = broken back= death, too much stress = death.
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We just finished talking about anesthetizing rabbits (and I'm procrastinating studying for our rabbit quiz tomorrow...oops) Biggest issue is you can't mask them down as they will hold their breath (AND DIE!!!, as the slides so kindly point out 😉) But don't try to sedate them with detomidine as they are highly resistant...Plus the whole GI stasis thing with any amount of stress. Fun fun 😀
 
today i learned that humans/horse crazies are so insane that they will stick marbles in a mares uterus in hopes that it tricks her into believing she's pregnant. 😱 :shrug: :wtf:
 
jmo1012 said:
today i learned that humans/horse crazies are so insane that they will stick marbles in a mares uterus in hopes that it tricks her into believing she's pregnant. 😱 :shrug: :wtf:
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There actually is some basis for this (although the success rate is quite low) so we aren't totally crazy. 😉 I wouldn't waste the time but I've heard of others trying it on mares that were holy terrors when in heat.

http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/Documents/learnmares19-hormther-marbles-2009.pdf
 
DVMDream said:
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Most of the small "exotics" do that as well. I haven't learned about rabbits and anaesthesia yet, but overall rabbits in just about any situation kind of suck.... don't hold them appropriately = broken back= death, too much stress = death.
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lol, I showed rabbits for ten years (yes, rabbit shows are a thing . . .) and can attest to this. No casualties that I ever saw, but you constantly had to worry about them being too cold, or too hot, or overexcited, or noises too loud, or not handling them properly, or a dozen other things. And then of course there was always the one idiot who would bring a rabbit with fur mites and then my rabbits would inevitably be covered with them a week later, no matter how far away from the infected one they were. 👎

I love rabbits but I will readily admit that they are some of the most stupidly fragile animals ever. 🙄
 
Yeah, our notes say rabbit =mini horse. So true on so many levels :laugh:

SnS, I adore ponies. Probably because I'm short and always end up riding the ones that terrorize children because no one else can fit on them...hehe.
 
Philliab said:
There actually is some basis for this (although the success rate is quite low) so we aren't totally crazy. 😉 I wouldn't waste the time but I've heard of others trying it on mares that were holy terrors when in heat.

http://csu-cvmbs.colostate.edu/Documents/learnmares19-hormther-marbles-2009.pdf
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You have roughly the same chance of your horse not displaying estrus behavior with marbles in her uterus during the show season as without (roughly 11%). i'm gonna go with no marbles please and thank you!
 
that redhead said:
Yeah, our notes say rabbit =mini horse. So true on so many levels :laugh:

SnS, I adore ponies. Probably because I'm short and always end up riding the ones that terrorize children because no one else can fit on them...hehe.
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Welcome to my life. I come home and my trainer puts me on everything for 12h to 18h. But you will "Appreciate it when you are older" 🙄
 
I think I count count on one hand the number of equines over 14.2 I've ridden in my life (and I've been riding a long as time) trail rode on a 15hh mare...it was like riding a brontosaurus:laugh: 18hh is basically unimaginable to me😱
 
"My" horse is a very stocky 14.3hh. I'm 5'0" (5'1" in riding boots). She feels about right to me. I have gone up to 16hh, and I don't mind riding horses that big but I look ridiculous on them. I've never really ridden anything smaller than about 14hh, just because my riding coach doesn't trust ponies as far as she can throw them, so we never had any in the barn.
 
I'm 5'7" and ride a 14.2 Cob. We look appropriate for each other.
 
Disclaimer-I am not a horse person nor am I outdoorsy. I am a very city person. Bear with me.

I learned today what a "sway back" is on a horse is and that if you "tickle" (and by tickle I mean kinda poke your fingernails into) a horse's belly, it will use it's epaxial muscles to pull the ventrum up. Apparently this is a good trick to exercise those muscles to correct a sway back and an easy thing to teach a client to do. Plus super fun and cute to do 😀
 
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