Melisa's Life

I have always wanted to kind of highlight some of the animals at my work. Whenever the good ones come in, I always forget my camera *doh!* This time, I just took pics with my phone. They're not the greatest quality, but you get the idea. Friday was HORRIBLE! We get New Years Day off, so everyone waits until the 2nd to come in. It was so busy.
First is B. He is the sweetest Jack Russell. He reminds me a lot of Ryu. He came in on Christmas day on an emergency. Another dog attacked him. His throat was completely open and you could see his trachea. One of the drs. was showing me pictures of what it looked like before he stitched it up. He came back New Years Eve, we did surgery on him and found a hole through his esophagus. Every time he would eat, it would come back out the hole(gross huh...try cleaning that up). This caused the sutures to fail in a couple spots. We sedated him again on Friday while I was there and I helped put a feeding tube in(that's what the orange/brown tube is on top of his neck) and resuture the failing spots. I decided to spare the details and took a pic of him after surgery while we were out for a walk. Dr N talked his owners into letting him take care of B for a couple of weeks while the feeding tube is in. We were all talking about what a sweetheart he is and both the drs said that if the owners were leaning toward euthanizing him, they would take him home. I will write an update next week.

Next is puppies! We had a c-section on Friday too. One of my coworkers breeds English Bulldogs. These dogs, in my opinion, are unnatural. They can't get pregnant on their own or give birth on their own. We've become the bulldog specialists in Utah and see a LOT of them, therefore, we do a lot of c-sections. These puppies are some of my coworkers. These pics are graphic.
1. Is a pic of the Uterus with all the puppies inside.
2. Is a pic of the incision with him pulling a puppy out.
3. Is a pic of the puppy. He still has the membrane on him. The dr carefully takes this off and cleans him up.
4. The dr clamping the umbilical cord.
I couldn't get any pics after this point, it gets a little crazy. My job is to rub puppies, suction their noses and mouths, make sure they are breathing and their color looks good, and sometimes tie the cords and cut them.
5. All 8 puppies in a row :)