By Simon J. Girling
Veterinary Nursing of unique Pets is the definitive reference booklet at the rules and perform of nursing unique species. From rabbits and chinchillas to budgies and iguanas, it not just covers husbandry, food and dealing with, yet offers an summary of ailments and coverings, and explores anatomy and chemical restraint. The redesigned structure and whole color art make it swifter and more straightforward to discover precisely what you’re taking a look for.
New assurance for this revised and enlarged moment version contains: emergency and important care, radiography, and small marsupials reminiscent of sugargliders. as well as the thorough causes of acceptable home-care as a way to allow you to optimistically suggest consumers, the e-book now additionally covers the care of hospitalised exotics.
Key features:
• offers an realizing of the fundamentals of illnesses, husbandry, anatomy and body structure of unique pets as defined via the RCVS examinations
• supplies veterinary nurses the arrogance to debate unique pets with consumers by means of offering an effective wisdom base in those species.
• This ebook acts as a significant other to the town and Guilds NVQ point four an identical qualification "Veterinary Nursing of unique Species".
Suitable for veterinary nurses, veterinary technicians and veterinary scholars.
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Wire cages are not so good, as hamsters have a habit of climbing up the sides, and then handover-hand across the roofs of these cages. They will often lose their grip suffer back injuries or compound fractures of the tibia as they land on the cage floor. It is advised to keep housing temperatures between 18°C and 26°C. Temperatures less than 5–6°C will result in the hamster hibernating. In this state, respiration and heart rates slow considerably, making it difficult in many instances to detect if the hamster is still alive.
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This is best done by fostering the kits onto another lactating jill, but this is often difficult. If the affected jill is still well enough the kits should be left with her to gain what little milk they may. Supplemental feeding may then be given using a proprietary feline milk replacer enriched with whipping cream to increase the fat content. A rough guide is 2–3 parts feline milk replacer to one part whipping cream. This needs to be fed every 2 hours or so via a nipple feeder, preferably warmed prior to feeding.