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Agreed. We never send them home with cones however if one decides to lick and chew excessively they can have one. Pretty uncommon though!

IF it's a histiocytoma, they are relatively common in young dogs and I don't believe have any link to cancers in the future. Yes, technically it's a type of tumour but nothing nasty and mostly they resolve on their own. Hope you get some positive answers from the vet!

So sorry to hear about this. What an awful situation for you. Just wondering though, maybe if you could explain how the Foxy 'started it', what the situation was etc, some experienced people may be able to shed some light on the situation? Is it possible that the Foxy was responding to subtle body language and perhaps the Akita started it? I still second the suggestion of a Behaviourist to assess the behaviour of the two together. Just in case it is the Akita with the 'problem'? Even though you have decided to rehome the Foxy, I would think it important to make sure your Akita isn't developing any problems and to be sure you're not rehoming a DA Foxy

I'm confused as to how you're so sure it's none of the other suggestions people have made and are positive it's an allergy to your dog? Surely you should actually have it confirmed by a Doctor before asking what you should do? I'm also allergic to pretty much any animal with fur/hair and also never get a cough - just sneezing, itchy eyes etc

She may have been thinking of an abscess, but again, not something that happens with every wound

Nope, not true

Orbit would be a Wiggle

Hey Rob, So glad to hear you're getting some answers and I hope little Mickey pulls through ok. He is in the best hands now at SASH and will only get the best of care. I'm Ian's other nurse at the PHVH, so hopefully I'll get to meet you and Mickey sometime soon

People in tick areas need to be extra careful this season as there is a shortage of Tick Serum.

Exactly. What goes on behind the scenes is totally different. But yet he still chooses to have a TV show where the produces etc get him to do stuff that to knowledgeable people, looks completely ridiculous. What if that joey in the recent episode died because it overheated, like he suggested? Because it would make 'good tv' for him to take it home and put it in his bed. An experienced wildlife carer would likely have had a proper temperature controlled area for the joey. When his alarm woke him up for feed time, the milk bottle he used was just sitting on his bedside table. So it's been sitting there for 2-3 hours since the last feed? cold? growing bacteria? Lambs and other animals come to him in Bondi - bit weird? He traveled out to assist in a difficult birthing of one of Rachel Sanna's mares. Now really, if one of her mares really was having difficulty, surely she'd have equine vets there? I'm sure he's a great guy and is probably very good as his job. But I just wish that if he was going to do a TV show about being a vet, make it real.

And this is exactly why I have a problem with Bondi Vet, because this is the impression he helps to create about vets. When in actual fact, there are a lot of vets out there who DO have a lot of knowledge on those subjects.

Because it's all for TV, Moselle, that's why. I'm sure he does get a bit upset - he wouldn't be human if he didn't. But I'm referring to the way they make 'good tv' out of it. Because in a 'normal' situation, that joey should and would have been passed straight on to an experienced wildlife carer, like Wires or Sydney Metro, but instead they got him to take him home and get up during the night to feed it etc. For TV.

To their credit, the Rottie may have been an inbred BYB dog bred by idiots... But then I'm a bit of a fan of Andrew's so I'm biased He's so very strong, lifting that big Dane up onto the table. But also so gentle getting upset about the little joey. Certainly is an Aussie Hero. But a Hero who still bleeds ;) Perhaps we should all pitch in to buy him a pill popper?

Have to say, that was my first thought too. I guess they have to sort of mimic a den though? But the pic of one in a cage with a wire floor looked a bit suss.

That's so cool... I thought about something like that but I'm too tight and worry about my water bill! Just a thought though, maybe get a cover? Wouldn't take too long before mozzies and stuff start inhabiting it and making it all grotty...

I would not be trying to spray Cortivance into a sore, inflamed ear. It's alcohol based so stings. Besides that, it wouldn't treat the infection. Dermotic has some cortisone in it, as well as antibiotic and antifungal agents, so will reduce inflammation. How did she react when the vet cleaned her ears and applied the Dermotic? Could it be that she's being a bit more difficult with you because she knows she can? We have had a few clients whose dogs wouldn't allow them to medicate their ears, but were fine with us. They'd just pop in twice a day for a week or so and we'd do the treatments. Unfortunately, any treatment is going to involve repeated medicating into the ear. So even if you went to another vet and they flushed them out under GA/sedation, you're still going to have to apply something at home and without this, they won't get better.

There's no point getting a second opinion until you can finish a course of medication. You may find that using the Dermotic twice a day for the time it was prescribed, fixes the problem. If the medication your vet gave you doesn't work, then you need to go back to have the problem investigated further. If your current vet isn't helpful, then get a second opinion.

I just can't see how a text book or cadaver can really prepare you for the real thing. More often than not, the images in the texts are nothing like what you see in real life. Just last week my boss was showing me the different techniques that can be used for a Femoral Head Excision in his Orthopaedics text book. But the first thing he said to me was that when we actually go in, it will look nothing like the pictures. And he was so right. Similar thing with cadavers. Things look, feel and act differently in a dead body. And I'm sure the surgeon does too. If it's just a cadaver, you know it's dead and it doesn't matter so much if you do something majorly wrong. But working on a living animal, even though it's going to be pts at the end, there's still a sense of needing to be careful and not wanting to do the wrong thing. When my boss graduated, he'd already done cruciate repairs in uni. So going into clinic, obviously he wouldn't have done them straight away, but he was able to assist straight away and pretty soon he was doing them himself. These days, in our experience, the newer grads put off doing them and just watch, but pretty soon time goes by and they still haven't done one and end up referring them instead. I can't help but think that Veterinarians are becoming more and more like GP's and only doing the basic stuff and referring anything more complicated, which personally I think is a real shame.

I'd have thought if it was some sort of sound that was upsetting him, the behaviour would have started when you first bought the tv. My guess is that a couple of days ago when you turned on the tv, something happened, either the first sounds of the tv scared him, he moved in a way that hurt him, he got a fright, etc, but which he has related to the turning on of the tv.

This is such a difficult topic to think about, particularly with Orbee laying at my fate staring at me! To be honest, I really have no idea what I would do or how far I would go. It's something we've discussed at work amongst ourselves after hearing stories of thousands spent. I have often said it would depend on the problem. For example, if Orbit got hit by a car now and needed thousands spent, I would do it. I know I have friends who would help me out and of course my Boss would do what he could. But if it was something like Chemo which could only buy me months, then I really don't know. I often say no, that I wouldn't do it, but I know if actually faced with the reality of having to decide, I'd find it so damn hard to say no to something even if it only bought him a few more days. The thought of losing him is just so soul destroying that I'm pretty sure I'll be a wreck, begging that specialists from overseas be called in to do something. I'm thankful though, that I have a really amazing boss who would talk sense to me and probably be the one to tell me if it was time to draw the line. I'm also grateful I have a Boss who is going to keep Orbit alive forever and ever ;)

;) :D ;) Cant...type...tummy...hurting Hahaha he probably thought we were creepy with our 'dog fetish'. Imagine what he thought we did with them... probably misread 'exhibiting' as 'exhibitionism' laughing. so. hard. :eek:

Sorry to be OT, but just wanted to point out that this isn't correct, and the opposite is true. Cats cannot eat dog food long term however dogs can do just fine on cat food.

I'm going to tell him you said that! That's ok, his head needs deflating after being told he looks like a 25yo new grad So Rappie, were they not doing them when you went through? How did you know if you hadn't tied something off right? Some of the things Boss man did when he went through, sounded pretty complex and not something I could imagine you could do on a cadaver. Do you think only working with cadavers was a disadvantage?

Sydney doesn't do non-recovery surgery, but it does use cadavers from the pound for surgery training. Thanks for clearing that up, Rappie. My boss was doing them in Sydney when he went through, but then again, that was quite some time ago

It's funny, when I first started nursing, I thought my first euthanasia would be really upsetting for me. But I was surprised to find I didn't get upset. But these days, I'm totally different and find it really difficult. I tear up putting wildlife to sleep these days. I really struggle to not cry when people come in to have their animals put to sleep. All I can think about, is if that was me in that situation with Orbit. I think about how totally and utterly broken I would be and it just breaks my heart knowing that these people are feeling that feeling there and then. Even just typing this makes me teary! I have no idea why I have become more sensitive because I only ever imagined it would start hard and get easier. One thing I just wanted to mention again, is that non recoverable surgeries are NOT limited to UQ. It happens in Sydney and I would guess WA too. So no idea why this petition only targets UQ