Great photos this morning Celia. I like the Highland Cattle one. Took this photo of one in Tasmania, very striking looking animals.

 

How our Vets help all animals.

 

 

The Tiger had a tumor in a Forida Vet surgery.  Amazing the knowledge that vets have to have on all species of animals.

Looks if this Orangutan is enjoying the attention!

This Tiger needed eye surgery.

Hip Surgery!     

reminds me of my many times going to collect the pets I have had over the years.

They really do not like the Tudor Collars, but need to have them due to their ability to pull their stitches out.

Below dental surgery.

 

I have seen many of these over the years from being attacked by other cats or dogs! The Abscess.

Our standard poodle had a lump on his gum, thought he had a splinter in the gum, after a few days of trying to treat it I went off to the vet with my husband and standard poodle. The vet looked at it and said it was Bone Cancer!  Our hearts fell.   He took samples and it came back with a positive, but he said, it is not the type of Bone Cancer I expected, this is the cancer you should have if you have to have cancer!

Pardon we said

This cancer can grow to the size of a grapefruit if not treated, it doesnt spread around the body his reply came back.

What I need to do is cut out the bone the cancer is growing in and a few cm either side of the growth.

That was done two days later and our poor 9 year old came home looking very sad for himself, I was thinking to myself it this had been a human we would still be in hospital!  The vet had sewn up the flap where they was no bone very neatly and unless you knew what had taken place you would not have known about three inches of the lower jaw bone was missing.

Three days later our Standard, [a big guy] was catching tennis balls in his mouth and running around in the park!

Gosh we thought if that was a human we would be lying low and feeling very sore.

How wonderful the vets treatment was.   Sadly he only lived for another two and a half years, that was a shock, yes he had other cancers in his body that we found after an ultra sound of his spine and had to be put to sleep, we were in shock losing our best buddy who had travelled to Melbourne and back with us several times and to the UK and back.  

Standard Poodles don't live much beyond 14.  - 16 years if you are very lucky, but we didn't expect him to go so soon.

The hardest thing is to tell the vet to put your loved pet to sleep, I have had to do this several times, they then travel to the RainBow Bridge.  At least they don't have to suffer the pain and indignity that humans do when these insidious diseases strike us.