Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:51:56 GMT

[quote user="Judith Archbold"]

Sorry....I just saw the word Racoon and lept into action on the forum. I iagree ...who needs a " racoon dog"? get a dog!.....from a rescue centre.....be a good citizen....

[/quote]Mind you we may be pre-judging this client. I have a client who runs a company which is mainly involving in the safe re-housing of seized illegally imported exotic species, transporting wild animals across Europe and between zoos and re-housing animals from closed zoos, collections and laboratories. His experiences, many shared with me as his vet, include: wolves, porcupines. marmosets, capuchins and larger primates, penguins, flamingos, large snakes, alligators even an elephant to name but a few, let alone tons of more mundane and indigenous species, some which he keeps in his own private collection if they cannot be rehoused for medical reasons. I guess a request to neuter a Racoon Dog is small beer compared to that lot. But if they are pets well.....vitriol back on!

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Judith Archbold — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 13:32:32 GMT

Sorry....I just saw the word Racoon and lept into action on the forum. I iagree ...who needs a " racoon dog"? get a dog!.....from a rescue centre.....be a good citizen....

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Martin Atkinson — Wed, 14 Jun 2017 11:25:34 GMT

[quote user="Niall Taylor"]What is it with people that they feel they must have the latest, weirdest, usually wild, animal as a pet? More a fashion accessory with pose value than a proper companion IMHO.[/quote]Its not much different from f***wits who have designer and trophy dog breeds.

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Emma Bicker — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:11:25 GMT

These guys are almost wild, so I think we'll be going for the dom/ket combo! We have a mother and her 4 babies who will be around 16 weeks old. We would normally use dexdom/bup/ket in cats - do you think this would work as well? Thanks for the advice!

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Emma Bicker — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 19:06:45 GMT

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Marie Kubiak — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 18:39:09 GMT

I have used dom/ket at cat doses on feisty ones and acp/bupre then iv propofol at dog doses on nice ones and both worked fine. Neutering for both sexes is just like dogs but I find the ovarian pedicle is easier to access for some reason so they're a bit nicer to do.

Marie

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Gillian Mostyn — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:41:08 GMT

We neutered a couple of raccoon dogs (I assume you aren't taking about raccoon, which are a different species) a few years ago... sorry, can't remember much about it but I guess that means they were pretty straight forward!! I think we used the same anaesthesia as we do in dogs.... But I guess it depends on how friendly they are to allow you to place an IV canula.

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Niall Taylor — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 15:37:52 GMT

[quote user="Judith Archbold"]I've castrated a couple of raccoons...[/quote]

Raccoon dogs aren't raccoons, apparently:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raccoon_dog

What is it with people that they feel they must have the latest, weirdest, usually wild, animal as a pet? More a fashion accessory with pose value than a proper companion IMHO.

[quote user="Judith Archbold"]one of them was called Nigel Farage![/quote]

Very satisfying!

Niall

RE: Raccoon Dogs - Neutering!

Judith Archbold — Tue, 13 Jun 2017 08:55:01 GMT

Hi.

I've castrated a couple of raccoons ( one of them was called Nigel Farage!). We gased them down (with Isoflurane), maintained them on a mask ( you can use domitor premed if they are a bit feisty...but the two I did were handleable with gauntlets just in case of nips and wrapped in a big towel). Gave buprenorphine analgesia.

Then just castrate them like a dog: I did the open technique as wanted to ensure good blood vessel ligation in these cases. Also use intradermal sutures as they are great " fiddlers" in their " private parts" on recovery!