Death Of A Dog
I vividly remember the end of the life of our first English Setter ; Charlotte.
Charlotte and Daisy
She was in a bad state and wasn’t getting up from in front of AGA.
After a phone call to our vet, who knew her well, he said he’d come round at the end of the day on his way home and assess the situation.
He turned up after midnight and after a quick assessment, he felt that she wouldn’t last the night. So he gave her an injection whilst I stroked her.
Afterwards, I had an unopened bottle of Paddy in the cupboard, so we drank well for about an hour to Charlotte.
He took Charlotte away afterwards.
I do sometimes think, that dogs get better end-of-life care than humans do!
World-First Operation To Treat Rhino’s Broken Leg
The title of this post, is the same as that of this article on the BBC.
This is the sub-heading.
A rhinoceros with a broken leg is back on its feet after a world-first operation.
These are the first three paragraphs.
Amara, a southern white rhino at Knowsley safari park, was given keyhole surgery and had to wear a cast for four weeks.
Surgeons took what they knew about operating on horses and applied it to Amara because there was so little information about rhinos which had been injured in this way.
A team of 10 vets was involved in the operation, which they described as “unlike anything we’ve experienced previously”.
I bet it wasn’t like a horse, as equines in my experience don’t have a bodger on their bonce.
The BBC featured the story in BBC Breakfast this morning and I wouldn’t be surprised to see it turn up later or on the Internet.
Some may say, is the expense worth it to operate on a rhino.
But I would say, that the experience gained by the University of Liverpool, will be applied to the treatment of other large animals, like buffalo, bison, draught horses, elephants and hippotami.
Also, knowing Scousers as I do, I suspect that some of the techniques used, will be scrounged by Liverpool’s medics and applied to humans.
The Anonymous Widower 