Coatimundi castration

RE: Coatimundi castration

Gillian Mostyn — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 15:23:19 GMT

Why not just spay her?

RE: Coatimundi castration

Ceri Gruffudd Jones — Fri, 17 Mar 2017 14:38:40 GMT

Charlie the Coati was successfully castrated yesterday- thanks for the hints.

His owner is worried that the female may be pregnant - she is showing behavioural changes. With the recent reclassification of the species she doesn't want any more babies and was asking about abortions. Any thoughts? Alizin? Mesalin?

RE: Coatimundi castration

Ceri Gruffudd Jones — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:30:19 GMT

That's great. Thanks for the advice - I'm quite looking forward to it.

Ceri

RE: Coatimundi castration

Marie Kubiak — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:14:44 GMT

I use 0.05mg/kg medetomidine and 5mg/kg ketamine IM by hand if very tame, in crush cage if any doubt - I had one of these guys fly at my face a couple of months ago so tend to crush them! Intubate and maintain on Iso/O2. Then you can either do scrotal incisions like cat castrates in small, young animals, or prescrotal like dog in larger, more mature animals. Intradermals in skin and post-op meloxicam at dog doses.

Marie

RE: Coatimundi castration

Joyce Whitehead — Wed, 01 Mar 2017 21:05:52 GMT

I did one many years ago, and spoke to one of the zoo vets for advice. He recommended domitor and butorphanol as sedation, then gas, so that's what we did. We used doses similar to dog doses, managed to get it IM without too much trouble in a smallish cage. From memory (20years later) I think we masked him with (in those days) halothane. And did the castration prescrotally like a dog castate.

Happy to see what any up to date suggestions are though!