💊 'A dog came in who had eaten its owner’s entire pharmaceutical cabinet: the paracetamol, ibuprofen, all the vitamins.' 🐕 Vivien Ryan takes i inside the life of a vet: antisocial hours, nips and scratches, and all the odd things animals regurgitate
Antisocial hours and the occasional nip or scratch may be par for the course, but it’s an ‘honour’ to be with animals at their most vulnerableVivien Ryan, a 47-year-old originally from Rio de Janeiro, and now the principal vet at Vets Now in Colwyn Bay, Wales.
“Being a veterinary surgeon is a lot like being a paediatrician,” says Vivien Ryan, a 47-year-old originally from Rio de Janeiro, and now the principal vet at Vets Now in Colwyn Bay, Wales. “The patient can’t tell you where it hurts, or what’s wrong, and they can’t tell you how they feel. So you look to their owner, who is their guardian – their mother and father, if you like – and they give you their best guess. What this means is that we always give a very thorough examination.
“I work a mixture of weekend days and nights. In the evening, I begin work at around 7pm, and the early part of my shift is usually taken up with preparing for procedures or emergency surgeries that might come in during the night. Predominantly, we’re dealing with companion animals, cats and dogs, but also rabbits, guinea pigs, hamsters, tortoises, bearded dragons; anything that people keep in their houses, really.
“They come in because they have an ailment: sore paws, sore tummies, or often as an emergency: road traffic accidents are common. Once we’ve identified the issue, we can normally help them pretty quickly. Mercifully, we see very little death here.tend to pick up on our body language, so it’s entirely true to say that an anxious pet owner can lead to an anxious pet. We secrete pheromones when we’re angry, and animals pick up on that.
“We see strange ailments every day. The average pet will eat all sorts of naughty things, for example. Recently, a dog came in who had eaten an advent calendar, theincluded. Chocolate is poisonous for dogs. Another dog ate its owner’s entire pharmaceutical cabinet: the paracetamol, ibuprofen, all the vitamins. In such cases, we need to get the animal to regurgitate it all up as quickly as possible. I’ve never lost a dog to a paracetamol overdose yet.
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