Help me study

[sandtiger]

Sure then, umm...


How does a Laughing Kookaburra Produce its extremly laughing like noise? *Not sure if Vertinary question*

[~~rose~~]

[KaylaBlue]

I have a story layout for you...

You are called in by a worried horse owner. Their horse has just stepped in a hole and it's leg is visibly fractured. However, because of the excitement, he/she is running around, in quite a lot of pain, and somehow loose. What do you do?? (Assuming that the owner is quite wealthy, and the horse is an excitable Thoroughbred who is worth a lot of money. So... you don't have the option of putting the suffering animal down... No matter how much pain the poor thing is in...) What do you do? What do you give it?

Kayla

[RZ]

The disease in Old Yeller was rabies, something that can be transmitted from ANY mammal to ANY mammal

Ferox, In common farm or pet animals, what other diseases are zoonotic?

Do you know yet if you are doing large or small animal? I know in some areas in the states large animal vets are almost nonexistent - if you agree to serve in an out of the way place you can pretty much get your education paid for

[~~rose~~]

Yeah, but in the movie they said this, "that wolf was MAD" and that was right after their cow was mad...mad cow disease.

[Ferox]

Old yeller was rabies. Mad Cow disease isn't reported in dogs as yet, and certainly not in American Wolves.

Kayla, with that horse scenario....
... I put it down. The prevention of cruelty to animals act(need to look up exact number) says that I can, specifically if the animal is in uncontrolable pain and/or has a hopeless prognosis. A big TB with its leg swinging in the breeze is a hopeless painful prognosis. Eventually it will stop running, at which point it can either be sedated and euthanised or shot. It doesn't matter how rich the owner is or how valuable the horse is - too much pain means not worth living. I don't need an owner's consent.

If it was a foal, that would be different. Start it on a cocktail of pain killers until it's comfortable, then ship it off to a referral surgery if they think they can do anything about it. Start with bute, then probably flunixin, then an opiod. Could even try lignocaine and ketamine, although lots of drugs aren't great for a little foal if you're desperate enough you'll try anything.

And I am aware that opiods cause an excitement reaction in horses, but the truth is that the side effect doesn't happen if the horse is very painful.

How's that?


RZ's zoonotic diseases:
ringworm (itchy skin), toxoplasmosis(Flu or abortion), roundworm(usually itchy skin), fleas, cat scratch fever(to hospital with you), leptospirosis(V. sick), rift valley fever(flu), Q fever(seriously ill, almost a biological weapon), Anthrax (sort of counts), salmonella, campylobacter, rabies, brucellosis, tuberculosis, cryptosporidia, yersinia, listeria, Glanders (catch it from horses, will kill you) Hendra (catch it from horses, again, will kill you), Western Equine encephalitis, Easter Equine Encephalitis, Venesuelian Equine Encephalitis, Nipah virus, O'nyong'nyong virus.... I know there's more, but it's a long list.

And while not a zoonotic disease, is a pet shows up with lead poisoning there's a good chance the rest of the family has it too.

I'm looking for a job on the fringe of a city - some large animals but no race horses so that my partner can still stay with me.