Always check your surroundings.

Re: Always check your surroundings.

Mark Hedberg — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 07:11:46 GMT

How did you get close enough to get something down the throat?

Re: Always check your surroundings.

Braden Collins — Thu, 22 Dec 2011 03:36:52 GMT

Once had a feral cat brought in to us for euthanasia by the council rangers. Completely unapproachable so went for oral ketamine. The cat went through an excitement phase, knocked the cage over which allowed the door to come open and the cat ran off. We eventually caught it when it fell asleep on a nearby businesses driveway. Fortunately no clients saw cat running down the road closely followed by the vet.

Re: Always check your surroundings.

Evelyn Barbour-Hill — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 18:19:50 GMT

[quote user="Bob Russell"]

This sort of Xmas cheer is what I really want to hear!

"every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"

Bah, Humbug

[/quote]

This is for you, Bob:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tGirb_wgkcw&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xsb3-O-wZXc&feature=related

Re: Always check your surroundings.

Bob Russell — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 15:08:49 GMT

This sort of Xmas cheer is what I really want to hear!

"every idiot who goes about with 'Merry Christmas' on his lips, should be boiled with his own pudding, and buried with a stake of holly through his heart. He should!"

Bah, Humbug

Re: Always check your surroundings.

James Laidlaw — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 12:56:07 GMT

JGW spreading xmas cheer? This is a week for the diary!

Re: Always check your surroundings.

J G Wray — Wed, 21 Dec 2011 11:33:21 GMT

[quote user="Utlendigur"]but it did occur to me that if I got stuck or the kennels tilted back, it was unlikely that anyone would find me until my corpse started to smell[/quote]

This year we received the news that a client of ours had been found possibly four weeks after she had died in her bath - she banged her head and drowned according to the inquest. She had a drink problem and no family.

She also had three cats, one called "Spawn of Satan". Only two were found. Both were euthanased.

Happy Xmas

JGW

Re: Always check your surroundings.

Julie Innes — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 23:09:34 GMT

We had similar with a feral cat a few years ago- gave it its GA (torb/ dom/ket), whereupon it went ape and legged it. We searched high and low, but didn't find it- it must have been having a nice sleep somewhere. Left the trap out and caught it again, re-anaesthetised it the the next day and finally got it neutered

Re: Always check your surroundings.

Utlendigur — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 18:28:57 GMT

[quote user="James Laidlaw"]what else could possibly go wrong...[/quote]

This is a veterinary practice - answer = anything and everything

I had a similar incident on call one weekend. Feral cat dropped off by CPL managed to get out of the trap, ran up several tiers of shelves - glass bottles flying everywhere including a 5 litre glass bottle of Kaogel (that stuff DOES stick - nothing shifted the splatters off the wall). Cat fell onto the floor, looked up and spotted a tiny gap in the panneling between the top and bottom row of kennels - disappeared into the bowels of the kennels. Being skinny, I managed to push the block of kennels a few inches away from wall, squeeze along the wall for a metre or two, into the increasingly small space, and grab it with a cat catcher - but it did occur to me that if I got stuck or the kennels tilted back, it was unlikely that anyone would find me until my corpse started to smell