24 Dec 2020.
Toa Payoh Vets was closed on Christmas Eve. But there was an emergency. An owner phoned up at around 4 pm. Her 6-year-old female red-eared slider was very restless. She was scratching the flooring and moving a lot. Her front paws pushed away her favourite food which were the prawns. I attended this emergency.
An X-ray showed 4 eggs. I injected oxytocin 1.5 ml SC injection and 0.3 ml Calcium injection. One malformed egg laid after the X-ray but 30 minutes before my injection. "It is a malformed egg with a ridged shell," I told the lady who had been a costume jeweller creator.
"The government wanted $1,500 as a licensing fee as I was a jeweller," she told me. "Apparently, the licensing fee is to monitor jewellers for money laundering as the company would have to submit records of sales. I had to close the company as I don't make that kind of money as a jeweller!"
She filled a big plastic container with water and put the slider in after my injection. We waited nearly 45 minutes while she observed and talked to her pet.
"Best to leave the slider alone as she might be too excited to lay eggs in your presence," I suggested.
"I am not disturbing her," she countered. So we waited and waited. Finally, she decided to take the slider home.
"Bail out half the amount of water inside the tank," I suggested as she wanted the red-eared slider inside the water in the tank. Her husband helped her to carry the tank of water onto the back seat of the red car. It was a longish car that permitted ease of entry of the tank.
4 eggs were seem in the X-ray
This Egg 1 was laid before oxytocin and calcium injection
2 eggs were laid after the 2nd oxytocin injection on Boxing Day
26 Dec 2020
All 4 eggs were laid
19 Dec 2019.
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