I'm not a Veterinarian, but I had almost completed my Veterinarian Technician course, before it got detoured by other things in my life..
Read my post in this thread -think it was #39- to get another piece of information on me..
http://www.offtopicz.net/showthread.php?t=75178
I have saved many.. many animals -(and some people)- in the last 30 years and could write a few books based on my experiences..
I normally don't like to bring attention or talk about myself and the things I do or have done, because there are many skeptics that would consider me a nut case.. -three of my own children are an example-... so I just keep quiet to avoid attacks, confrontations or rudeness..
I will tell you that I have a vast, innate knowledge of many things, especially Veterinarian and Human Medicine.. things just come to me out of the blue.. :eek
BTW.. I have "diagnosed" a few things I never studied or heard before, as part of that innate knowledge.. on some people, including my mother and father... -which were confirmed and documented by their physicians-..
Going back to your question, it would be hard for me to pinpoint one memorable case of saving an animal, because there were so many, but here are some that come to my mind right now..
** When I bought the first baby snake for my daughter, I knew nothing about snakes.. I also didn't know that newborn baby Ball Pythons refuse to eat and you have to hand feed them until they learn to unhinge their jaws and swallow their prey, whole.. My vet taught me that technique and I did it with many other snakes after that..
Anyway.. when I bought that baby, I also bought three pinkies to feed it.. The breeder that sold me the snake and the pinkies was only interested in making some money and never mentioned anything about the caring of those animals..
I put the snake and pinkies in the cage, and waited for it to eat.. After two days, one of the pinkies was dead, and Clyde was still not eating.. I grabbed snake and pinkies and went to the vet.. That was when I learned about hand feeding..
I came home with a satisfied baby snake, and a very hungry, tiny pinkie, who would die in a few hours..
I couldn't let that happen, so I made up a concoction of dry kitten milk, condensed sweet milk and warm water.. and for the next few weeks, fed it to my tiny pinkie, drop by drop..every hour or so.. I also made a warm tiny bag out of some soft material, pinned the whole contraption on the inside of my shirt, and carried my little "Lucky" everywhere I went..
He was the start of my many breeding harems and was the best little mouse I've ever had..
** I used to breed small animals for a pet store, and was making a delivery one day, when I saw a nice, young, very pregnant white mouse in the cages they had, with mice sold as feeders..
I bought her with the intention of letting her finish her pregnancy, and use the babies as feeders for my tiny newborn snakes, and then put her in one of my breeding harems -that is one male and five females-...
It was a blazing hot summer day, so I placed her little carrier on the front passenger seat of my car, next to the air conditioner vents and headed home as fast as I could..
Mice, especially pregnant ones, cannot survive high temperatures, and unfortunately, by the time I got home, she had died, but I could still see some movement in her belly..
I grabbed a razor, and performed an impromptu c-section on her... I fed some of the tiny pinkies to my baby snakes, and mixed the rest in a nest full of pinkies one of my harems had at that moment..
** Another time, in February, I went to make another delivery to the same store.. They had just received an order of lizzards from their big supplier and there was a small Chinese Water Dragon that was dying inside the box.. They didn't want to bother with it, so they asked me if I wanted to try to save it.. They knew I would never pass on a free animal, and of course I said yes!!..
That little thing was extremely cold, and a breath away from going bye bye.. so I wrapped it on some tissue, stuck it inside my bra to keep it warm, and drove home..
~Lizzards and reptiles need high temperatures to survive, and in an emergency, our body temperature is the closest you can get.. And what better place is there to carry them?..
After I got her settled in a nice, warm environment, I tried to feed it some crickets, worms, fruit, vegetables, and anything I could think of, but it refused to even try.. so in desperation, I grabbed a tiny piece of my cats canned food and stuck my finger with it in her mouth..
That is something no one should ever do, because those tiny teeth are razor sharp and can do a lot of damage, but I knew it wouldn't happen to me at that moment, because she was extremely weak, so I took the chance..
She lived for ten years, on a diet of canned cat food, and I was very sorry to see her go, but I knew that if I hadn't taken a chance that day at the pet store, she would have died ten years earlier..
I have many more stories to tell, and maybe some day I will do that..
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