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The past few weeks have been busy, not much on xanga til now. I recently took a trip to the zoo with my aunt, uncle, and cousins to see the new penguins. Since our visit, two of them have died, some kind of disease within the pen. It's a shame, since they were in isolation for an entire month before their release to the public. But it was a lot of fun to see them swimming around, doing "penguin-like" things. On the way out, we had a treat from a peacock. He decided to show off for us a bit and I snapped a few pictures with my phone:
 
Clinic life continues to go well as always. We had a 9mo old mastiff come in with a shoulder problem last week. We had to take a few x-rays, and imagine taking pictures with a 140lb monster puppy. It was a bit nuts, but after 20 minutes of slobbering and panting, we made it. The owners waited out in the lobby with their kids, and the kids (having had a giant friendly dog at home) were apparently not afraid of a single dog alive. They boldly went up to each and every dog that passed through the lobby to pet it. Including the owner-protective german shepherds, the grumpy old-lady poodles, and the highly-infectious-sickly puppies. A bit worrisome, but I think the parents managed to return home with un-bitten, uninfected kids.
We have one doctor at the clinic that really enjoys seeing small pocket pets, such as rabbits, hedgehogs, and guinea pigs. On Friday she examined a guinea pig, and after stepping out of the exam room she was joking about how a small section of her lip was a bit swollen, maybe an allergic reaction to the piggie. We teased her about Julia Roberts lips, but thought nothing of it. Ten minutes later, the doctor was sitting back in the office, eyes swollen, dripping tears, face red, and coughing. She also said her throat and the insides of her ears were itchy. She looked as uncomfortable as all get-out, evidentially due to a very severe allergic reaction to the guinea pig. I felt terrible for her, and she went home for the afternoon to sleep it off. Luckily her airway didn't close up; she's doing fine now, only with a small bruise below one of her eyes from the extreme swelling. She hasn't had reactions like that in the past to small animals, but she said she's been developing an allergy to them in the past month. Those days of examining rabbits are over now though. Now I only worry about developing an allergy to dogs; as a wanna-be vet, that would be catastrophic. |
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