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Sent this to my mom (she’s a nurse) and this was her reaction
I love her-
I'm gonna send this to my students
Patellar shindig
Also ferrets are the most cartoon animals I've ever encountered. Every time I look at them, they're doing some cartoonishly ferrety thing. There has never been an inaccurate depiction of a ferret, they actually are just like that, all the time. They have evil in their souls and they know it. Also always cooking up endocrine disease.
My new favorite phrases are "capacity for care" and "clear and consistent." We learned capacity for care during the shelter rotation, referring to not only the space but all the elements of caring for animals, and the limits of those. I think it can be expanded though to include departments in the hospital (not that far of a reach) and to yourself. Patients and beyond. Sometimes you might need to step away from things in your life because your capacity for care has been reached. For clear and consistent, I saw a video of a resident talking about teaching students, and all you need to do is to be clear and consistent, and I wholeheartedly agree, and this is now how I personally evaluate every clinician and rotation. Still behind on writing evaluations though.
i'm crying rn.... the fucking Torta.....
If you're new to me yelling about this: my neighbors feed a feral cat colony but provide no other care to the colony like neuter/spay or vaccination. They free feed the cats, which attracts skunks, and they have (at the moment) about 20 cats in the colony, which attracts coyotes.
My dog has been skunked twice, she can't be outside in our yard unsupervised for even a minute because otherwise she'll try to eat cat shit because there's cat shit everywhere in my yard because the neighbors also haven't provided litterboxes or a sandbox for their ferals (their entire yard is paved) and if she has to go outside at night I need to clear the yard for coyotes before I let her out even in the small fenced area by our bedroom.
Also there are fleas fucking *everywhere* and even though my dog is on medication to prevent fleas I need to de-flea her twice a week in the summer; this is the case for every dog owner on the street.
The street I live on has a speed limit of 25mph but I hear cats getting hit frequently, so frequently that we have a resident group of crows who hang out and wait for them to become roadkill.
I have a collection of photos on my phone that show kittens with broken legs, kittens with missing eyes, kittens with horrible ear mite infections, and I have a dedicated shovel that I use for moving cat corpses that show up on my property. The cats that die on my property die from abscessed wounds from fights with other cats, respiratory infections, renal failure, and injuries from being hit by cars.
My spouse is immune compromised, and while toxoplasmosis is not a serious risk for most people, it IS a serious risk for people who are immune compromised (as are all the other infections that cats can potentially carry), which means that it's unsafe for me to grow vegetables in my yard for us to eat and it's unsafe for him to work in the yard.
I'd love to maybe open my windows at night and keep down the electricity costs of using the AC, but I can't because the entire side of my house that faces my neighbor's yard reeks of cat shit and piss year round.
Those are my next door neighbors.
Last week I was walking my dog as a neighbor around the corner was pulling out of her garage; she paused and rolled down her window and pointed at the cats on her lawn and said "Head's up, my cats are weirdly aggressive about small dogs and they just got let out so they're full of energy right now" and I nodded and crossed the street and didn't yell at my neighbor but *the temptation was there* because A) why are you letting your aggressive animals roam and B) Why are you letting your cats shit all over the neighborhood and C) Why are you exposing your owned cats to the risks of the large and territorial feral colony that is a literal stone's throw away from your house?
Anyway, and as always, Keep Your Fucking Cats Indoors.
Also I rarely bring it up when I go on these rants but friends, if you let your cat outside you don't know what it's eating. You don't know its toileting habits. You don't know if it has diarrhea or if it hasn't urinated in a day. You don't know if you have a neighbor that's feeding your adult cat additional meals, you don't know if there's a neighbor who's putting out kitten food that could cause pancreatitis in your cat.
EVEN if there are not predators, EVEN if you live in someplace where cars are banned, EVEN if every cat-borne pathogen has been eradicated in your town specifically, EVEN if nobody within two hundred miles of you used rat poison or antifreeze, EVEN if fleas haven't been seen in your city in two hundred years, EVEN if everyone in your neighborhood loves cats and would never hurt them, EVEN if the roaming cats in your neighborhood have taken a vow of nonviolence, you are STILL exposing your cat to a greater risk of mortality because you are not in control of its environment and you are not able to observe its behaviors.
Some of the cats who "just disappeared one day" got hit by cars, but plenty of them curled up under a bench and died of renal failure that could have been prevented if their owner knew the last time they peed and took them to the vet when they stopped producing urine.
Time for the annual tradition of landscapers hacking our bushes to bits and breaking our gate. They break the gate every few months but this one's extra special.
Are MDs aware we call them “human doctors”?
I saw a post about euphemisms for slaughter or euthanasia in farmers… do vets have that sort of thing? Lol
haha I saw those too
The main one I can think of (that is probably more a UK/England/South England thing) is saying they’re going to Devon. Devon as in heaven. A nicer way of saying PTS/euth/crash is on the cards.
Examples:
“If this doesn’t work, I think it’s time for that trip to Devon” - AKA this is the last ditch attempt at treatment before PTS
“He’s going to be Devon in an hour” - AKA, his PTS appt is in an hour
“I think he’s destined for Devon” - AKA, I don’t think his prognosis is good at all .
Very very common where I am (but weirdly not near actual Devon)
My personal favorite is "giving him some cream soda" because our euthanaze is this color
Another one is TTJ (transfer to Jesus)
I’ve heard “transferred upstairs” too.
TTJ is the most common one I hear, but I'll also occasionally hear variations on "treating them with blue juice/blue juice cures everything" ie: we cant fix this pet, so euthanasia is the kindest option (our euthanasia solution used to be blue, now its pink.)
Also have heard ‘treated with blue juice’ actually!
My shelter will sometimes use "adopted by Jesus" but mostly we'll just say the animal has been "signed", because the vets have a sheet they have to fill out and sign for anything that's been euthanized or will be.
Before that it was "needs the pink juice" at private practice.
Updates to this post that I forgot existed:
“Referral to Jesus” is picking up in popularity lately.
And on a slightly darker trajectory… “dolethal deficient”. As in, our euthanasia drug is for some reason called dolethal so you might hear someone saying “I’m just worried at this stage he might have a dolethal deficiency” when the prognosis is really, really bad and it might be time for euthanasia.
Keeping the dark ones going: I've heard "euthasol deficiency" (basically dolethal from above) or for large animals "needs a dose of intracranial lead"
Rounding vet students have unintentionally created another one when they're presenting their case and will finish with "referred to necropsy"
(My rotation mate made this)
Have you all heard of DIM in ferrets? I had my first (known/highly suspected) case and it's weird af.
We had a couple of cases of this through the diagnostic lab just recently! Such a weird disease, but cool histologic lesions 🔬
Not me thinking "days in milk"
Once again, I HAD to know...and it gets better, y'all. X3 The Greyhound is probably the best pic, but this artist LOVES DOGS. LOL
22 Mar 1910, Chicago Tribune, Page 5. It's accompanying an article about the Chicago Kennel Club show. LOL