Week 6 - Teeth cleaning and X-rays

This week was more interesting than the last one. I was able to observe a tooth cleaning for the second time at the clinic. The condition of the teeth seemed to be in poor health and at least 20 teeth had to be removed from the west high land terrier. Tracy and Dr. Dugan told me that it's not uncommon for small dogs to have the worst teeth condition. The most interesting looking teeth were three merged together and there was only one root. The terrier recovered well and but did had a reaction halfway through the cleaning and Tracy our vet tech assassinated the dog through the whole ordeal. Other than that hiccup the cleaning went well. During this day I saw a cat who appeared to be losing weight and not eating much so IV's needed it to feed it and hopefully mention weight. It is currently unknown of what has caused this but Dr. Stamps ruled out that it might be a cat version of anorexia 

On Wednesday I help Dr. Dugan and one of the new vet techs carry a large golden retriever mix on the x-ray table. The sedation that was used was very powerful since the dog was asleep in less than a minute. The reason it needs to be x-ray was that the owner thinks that it may have broken their right hind leg. Since it was walking funny when the owner noticed. Once the x-ray was taken Sarah showed me how the front of the middle of the hind leg was shifting back and forth. She told me how it was not supposed to do that it needs surgery to fix it. 

Cat that has difficulty eating so IV's were used