Happy toxic Easter

Re: Happy toxic Easter

Emily Nightingale — Wed, 23 Apr 2014 22:06:46 GMT

Chocolate Labrador (it's in the name isnt it!??)... at Christmas ate 1kg Marzipan, 1kg block of icing, 1kg bag of mixed fruit... Weighed 25.1kg on arrival..

Gave apomorphine.. and it produced solid blocks of the marzipan and icing followed by lots of fruit..... and weighed 22.1kg on leaving the surgery.. The contents filled an ENTIRE round washing up bowl! ..

Re: Happy toxic Easter

Jenny Smith — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:29:28 GMT

I only had one chocolate toxicity all weekend! Little tibetan type who was just over the toxic threshold at about 22mg/kg theobromine. Made her vomit, sent her home :)

Everything else has been one extreme to the other, either pulled claws or weird neuro cases!

Jenny

Re: Happy toxic Easter

Utlendigur — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 21:07:42 GMT

I had a disembowelment, a decapitation, a DOA and one suffering from shock that recovered with symptomatic treatment. Wasn't even on duty - the cat seems to have discovered a source of mice somewhere nearby. I was impressed with the shocked one that managed to sit so still on the dog bed that the dog didn't notice

Re: Happy toxic Easter

Busybee — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 20:18:10 GMT

No nice simple chocolate toxicities, just a monstrous cow caesarean 100kg calf!! sigh....

Re: Happy toxic Easter

emma_j — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:30:23 GMT

We had no choc tox's, surprisingly, but I did see a 21 year old cat - for fight wounds. Good on her.

Re: Happy toxic Easter

Kirsten Simpson — Tue, 22 Apr 2014 11:20:17 GMT

My fave one (from Xmas) when I worked OOH was a dog that had eaten the WHOLE Christmas pudding. The dog was so bloated. We made it V+ with Apomorphine and up came around 2kg of lovely smelling Christmas pudding in wee sausages- cinnamon and well tasty smelling. Dog looked so much thinner afterwards and the owner was off, at 10:30pm on Xmas eve, to find some more mincemeat to make another one!

Re: Happy toxic Easter

Hannah Wynne Richards — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 18:33:41 GMT

Sorry Neil, I admit defeat. All I've seen is an elderly (OK very old ) cat, it already has chronic kidney failure, and hyperthyroisism, and now has a snotty nose as well. If something dreadful crops up in the next 24 hours, I'll curse you.

Wynne

Re: Happy toxic Easter

James Laidlaw — Sun, 20 Apr 2014 17:32:24 GMT

No toxicity. Everything I saw has likely terminal cancer. Happy Easter.