#Veterinary Science

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colic surgery in a horse showing healthy pink tissue on the left and red dying small intestines on the right.

[equinesandeducation]

Final weekend of january already! Making a big batch of pasta salad, so I have lunch for the week and don't have to spend time on that in the mornings. Spent a good chunk of Saturday afternoon just rotting and reading, recharging a little 🙌🏻

[spindle-and-nima]

Update on bunbun!

I've been busy caring for this sweet 7 year old girl so my usual content was a bit slow. She's about 10 days post op now from having a very enlarged uterus full of liquid and necrotic tissue removed. We ran some tests on her and found it was not a bacterial infection which is what we hoped, but rather a uterine cancer. The good news is it doesn't appear to have spread anywhere else at all, and her recovery is stellar, with everything having been removed just in time (the surgery was critical bc this thing was so full there was high danger of it bursting in the body). It was a stressful surgery because prey animals especially might stress to death when put under and may not survive the surgery. So it was risk the surgery, put her down, or risk the uterus bursting and taking her little life. Thankfully she beat the odds.

I will interject to say this rabbit was not spayed. It is EXTREMELY important to fix your rabbits because fixing them decreases the risk of cancer. 70-80% of rabbits that are unspayed develop cancer after 3 years old and it is hard on their little bodies. Cases like bunbun don't always end well, and even with all this cancer can return, so please please fix your pets. Better to spend the money to be responsible than risk the high chance of expensive hospital bills and more importantly, a very sick friend later on.

She was extremely boney and skinny before, and now is plumping up and being more active and i got to see many flops and binkies (her owners were delighted to hear this because she evidently rarely binkies). Who knows how long that dreadful cancer was sapping her sunshine away. She will be going back to her owners soon to hopefully live a few more happy years!

Bonus: a very delightful before and after (left is her poor very underweight self)

Live well, brave girl!

[typhlonectes]

Harris (@beetlemoses)

[fromchaostocosmos]

Do like cats and dogs find us cute they way we find them cute?

Do like find human children/babies/infants adorable the way we find their babies adorable?

Or I'm is that not really something they can understand?

Because I know that it is said that cats see their humans as just weird cats that are bad at being cats and dogs see their humans as the head of the pack. (I think that is correct I might be wrong)

So I'm curious if like from the scientific/veterinary science understanding if they have a concept of cute/adorable and if so do they, cats and dogs, ever apply to humans and human children/babies.

[chronicallydragons]

being a fantasy author with an veterinary science background is sometimes really awesome, but sometimes you're forced to consider super cursed concepts like: can dragons drop their tails like some other reptile species?

I decided no because they're such large creatures with such thick tails that the blood supply to the tail would be too massive and dropping the tail would lead to catastrophic blood loss. There ARE some larger lizards that can drop their tails under extreme circumstances, but it’s super risky and dangerous

[thehappyvet]

We need to move away from "this new study says this so do this" onto "the consensus from this body which represents this scientific area is this".

There's new studies coming out every second of every day. Yes they might change current perspectives and bring new information, but the study also needs time to be in the field and scrutinised (and also sometimes replicated) before It's established as a new body of evidence.

Influencers coming out with new studies all the time makes it sound like science changes at the drop of a hat and it doesn't. It needs thoughtful consideration and that comes from the relevant scientific body that represents that area.

In my mind this is one of the biggest threats to scientific reputation in the near future and influencers wanting their 30 seconds of fame and to be the one to shock and scare everyone for engagement is going to be our biggest downfall.

We all need to slow down and look for the overall consensus and stop cherry picking studies for engagement.

[smurfsonfire]

I'm back on Tumblr and need to follow some blogs! 😁

Please give me a like/reblog if you are/post any of the following and I will follow you :)

- 60s, 70s, 80s music, maybe some 90s music

- 80s hair metal, glam metal, glam rock, etc.

- Fleetwood Mac 💚

- Symphonic metal(Epica, Nightwish, etc.)

- Evanescence, Within Temptation, Amaranthe, Delain, any similar bands

- Helloween (the band)

- Halloween (the spooky time 🎃)

- Studyblrs: Veterinary, Music, Literature, Astronomy/physics, History

- Artists and writers with OCs that are musicians, or OCs whose stories are set in historical periods(anywhere from 1800-1990s, but my favorites are 1800s, 1910s, 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, and up to 2008)

- Titanic 💙 both the movie and the history

- Some more bands: Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Whitesnake, Van Halen, Mötley Crüe, Aerosmith, Poison, Dokken, RATT, etc. 🎸

[theoddvet]

It is so cool when you can see the pathology grossly on the tissue section before looking at it microscopically!

This unfortunate canine had multicentric lymphoma that was being managed palliatively quite successfully, until they developed neurological symptoms. All lymph nodes were grossly normal, but the lymphoma (the dark purple areas) had spread to the meninges in multiple areas.

[fogaminghub]

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[er-cryptid]

Domestication

-- an evolutionary process

-- mediated by humans

-- alters genetic make-up of plants and animals

-- the shift to rely on domesticated plants and animals took several thousand years

-- significantly altered human culture

-- advantages of plant domestication -> increased size -> loss of delayed seed germination -> loss of protective devices -> controlled seed dispersal -> simultaneous ripening of fruit or seeds

-- advantages of animal domestication -> smaller horns -> less aggressive -> ready resource for food or labor

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Veterinarian practices cesarean section on cow

[equinesandeducation]

Fully into one of the hardest weeks of this internship, but managing so far, and also sort of having fun! 😅

[spindle-and-nima]

funnily enough, i dont think gas is the issue right now; weve been giving him simethicone but it hasnt done anything, all his symptoms remain. we think its probably dehydration instead. (theres no way for us to know for sure because they couldnt xray at the time, hes too squirmy)

i know you probably get tons of asks for help and stuff, so you dont have to answer if you dont feel like it, but do you have any tips for getting them to drink? overall we are doing very well though, back to his primary doctor on thursday! his appetite is still there thank god ❤️‍🩹 glad spindle and his bangs are ok!

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Is he eating at all? Like pellets or greens?

You can make a mix where you soften pellets with water, blend with some greens he likes, and make a runny slop and try to syringe feed him. Oxbow used to make this stuff called critical care which can help get food and water into his system. If he's eating greens, make them super wet so he's inevitably taking in water.

I would consult your vet to see if making a pellet/hay slurry is a good option. Refrain from treats high in sugar because if it's not dehydration it's a blockage in his gut and fiber will move stuff along.

I say to use a slurry because as some of you know I'm doing my doctorate degree in immunology and microbiology and work with a lot of lab animals. When certain gene knockouts make some of our kiddos under the weather we make what I call sad soup where we soak their chow in water to make this gloppy mix they can lap up to encourage food and water intake and it tends to help.

Ask your vet ofc but that's part of the rationale behind things like oxbows critical care.

[wikipediapictures]

Fascioloides magna

[misforgotten2]

The Colloidal Gold Reactions sounds like the title of a best selling crime novel.