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Last month, I was fortunate to be invited into the practice at Carleton to commence on a series of stories that cover behind the scenes and in the community with Frame, Swift and Partners. The practice has always looked to be busy most days during this last month, just like the previous month when I visited. There are the routine operations, the challenging cases that require life saving urgency and then in the middle of all this, lambing arrived. In February and March, there were a few ewes being driven into the practice. Mainly prolapse cases that were swiftly taken care of, which one would hope lead to less complicated lambing. I couldn’t help noticing that in April, with all the normal everyday work, the partners are obviously out in the field more, but despite this, all the routines, by some miracle just carry on. It’s a strange thought, but when you walk into reception and it seems so quiet, behind those doors, it is such a different world that we don’t know about.
Fig. 1 I suppose I’m getting used to observing the neutering, dental work and tissue samples being taken. During my last visit, I observed a classic symptom of this time of year. A tick was being removed from a dog’s head, just above its eye. But then on that same day, you see something which is really quite amazing - the latter stages of the rebuilding of a dog’s shoulder to save a dog’s leg. Here is a story that, with the owners consent I can share with you of
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Fig. 2 another complicated procedure. It’s the story of Dorian, the one year old male, neutered cat, who lives on a farm. Yes it’s possible that it might be a story you never come across again. It was noticed by his owners, that his hind right leg was lame. It was at the beginning of March that he was taken into the practice. He was examined by vet, Alex Kirby, who suspected a fractured tibia just above his hock joint. Fig 1 X-Ray image, taken with the new digital radiography system, confirmed Alex’s suspicions.