Clinic tidbits

[cjsmith]

It's been a while since I wrote one of these. I have learned:

- How to hold a guinea pig so he can get his nails trimmed.
- Alaskan Malamutes are NOT just slightly different from huskies. They are HUGE HUGE DOGS. I mean it. HUGE.
- Bengal cats WILL escape their cage. When you and your six extra arms manage to get them back in, they will decide they don't know each other any more, and they'll get into a nasty fight. After they've been separated, they will also knock over all food and water bowls within minutes of their placement.
- It is possible for a one-year-old Golden Retriever to snooze all day. Yes, a Golden! Just send him through anaphylactic shock & quick treatment with steroids. Nap time.
- Jack Russell dogs are insane.
- Jack Russell dogs trying to eat while wearing an Elizabethan collar are hilariously funny. Successful, but hilariously funny.
- I am therefore a mean and terrible person.
- A thick-coated dog who for medical reasons has had a penectomy (men, don't google this) is thenceforth prone to chafing and infections in the surrounding skin, and when you shave him, he really gets... um... pissed off.
- Some dogs who have truly enormous bladder capacity will demonstrate it when pissed off. (Why do these appointments have to occur in the morning? I wouldn't have minded having clean scrubs well into the afternoon. Really, I wouldn't have minded.)
- The stethoscope I think I want is a Littmann Master Classic II. I can hear way better with those than with others I've tried.

Comments

[anirishpenguin.livejournal.com]

I love hearing about your time at the clinic.
They're almost always amusing (unless someone goes down).
Also, you are not a mean and terrible person.

How are your classes going?

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Ya gotta laugh or you'll cry. I really do chuckle over these clinic events!

Classes are going well - lots of work, but it's not (yet) difficult.

How about your classes?

[anirishpenguin.livejournal.com]

My classes are also going well, lots of work but going along.
Thanks for asking

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

It's crazy how much work it can get to be! What classes are you taking? I don't think you said. (Me = first year physics, first year chem, first year bio.)