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- From: "Amy Young Leith" <alyoung@kiwi.ucs.indiana.edu>
- Subject: Re: Darwin was neutered!
- Message-ID: <1992Nov18.192807.11394@news.cs.indiana.edu>
- Organization: Indiana University, Bloomington
- References: <1992Nov18.153622.16034@vax5.cit.cornell.edu>
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- Date: Wed, 18 Nov 1992 19:27:59 -0500
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- In article <1992Nov18.153622.16034@vax5.cit.cornell.edu> wd5j@vax5.cit.cornell.edu writes:
- >There's been a dearth of rabbit postings so...here's another Darwin
- >update. He was neutered on Oct. 25th or so, on short notice (the
- >surgery service had an opening). I miscalculated his post-anesthetic
- >abilities and left his Elizabethan collar off overnight, so he chewed
- >out all his sutures and ended up with an open wound that had to granulate
- >in (heal by filling in, rather than a quicker healing by sutured surfaces).
- >For a week I kept the e-collar on him because he literally tore at himself
- >whenever he could. He got it off one day and did quite a number on it--
- >finally I began to leave off the collar because it was changing him into
- >an irritable, hand-shy bun. It seemed that every time I checked on him, I
- >had to turn him over to see the wound, and his exercise was restricted.
- >Ugh, it was not a fun two weeks.
-
- Wow! That was a bunch of trouble!
-
- Dink's was no problem at all... I took him in, she did the operation
- around noon, I picked him up a little after 2:00. She normally keeps
- them longer, but they do gas anesthesia, not a shot, and I promised to
- keep him confined and quiet for 12 hours, so she let him come home.
- He was like a limp rag (but he ate, of course!) for a few hours, but
- then was alright. I let him out later that night (real late) and he
- lopped around a bit. Next day he was right back on track.
-
- amy
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