Pet health and care advices for pet owners and vet students, photography tips, travel stories, advices for young people
Saturday, February 4, 2023
4582. PHOTOGRAPHY TIP: Use "Back Focus" to take sharp photo.
PHOTOGRAPHY TIP - USE "BACK FOCUS" button
GOOD MORNING
from the newest Artease Cafe at the newest Regional Library in Singapore at One Punggol.
TIP: Canon
R5. I used Back Focus - head of man in orange T-shirt - AV
Mode, F/16, ISO 400, 24-105 mm lens, seated.His strands of grey hair
are visible at 100% view. 3 Feb 2023.
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Friday, February 3, 2023
4581. WILDLIFE SINGAPORE. Red junglefowl.
SINGAPORE WILDLIFE
In late 2022, this red junglefowl roams
freely on the grounds of the Singapore General Hospital with his
flock of around 4 others. He crows loudly. I saw a little girl,
probably China National with her parents, cupping her ears with her
hands as she stood listening. He looked young and knew no fears about
human beings. I don't see them in early 2023.
The red
junglefowl is kept as pets in some houses or permitted to roam the
outside as in Lentor Estate.
The roaming ones are rarely seen
after a few days.
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UPDATES AT:
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023
4580. TRAVEL STORIES - VIETNAM. A memorable risky incident and SAPA town video.
17 Sep 2022: A group of 16 senior citizens (aged over 60) and two younger ladies had a packaged tour of Vietnam. We visited SAPA in North-West Vietnam, the Mount Fansipan and Ha Long Bay.
This video relates a memorable risky event. We had dinner at a
restaurant below road level.The food and service were good. After
dinner, we had to walk uphill to the main road. We lined up along the
heavy traffic as the road had no pavement, being elevated two storeys
above the restaurant.
"I am going to die here," I
thought to myself as motorbikes and vehicles whizzed past us, within
3 feet of distance separation literally. This was an expressway and
we were at the edge of very fast moving traffic! We were safe and I
forgot the incident. But history repeated itself. Same situation.
I took a video of the pink bus to prove it. The motorbikes whizzed so close. If I had walked backwards, I would fall off the slope as this expressway was elevated and was level with the 2nd storey of the restaurant! Fortunately all were safe and sound and made it to the Hanoi Airport to arrive home in Singapore!
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VIDEO
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Monday, January 30, 2023
4579. Sedentary lifestyle in Singapore.
Walking is a form of low impact, moderate intensity exercise that has a range of health benefits and few risks. As a result, the CDC recommend that most adults aim for 10,000 steps per day . For most people, this is the equivalent of about 8 kilometers, or 5 miles.20 Jan 2021
4578. TRAVELS AUSTRALIA. Sea fronting golf course - Mona Vale Golf Club
29 Jan 2023. Golfing at Mona Vale Golf Club.
It's a seafront golf club. There should be interesting views of the Tasman seas.
29 Jan 2023.
TRAVELS AUSTRALIA. V2/2 with text. The beautiful sea-fronting Mona Vale
Golf Course.
The Mona Vale Golf Course is beautiful with tall pine trees and blue sea
views. In Australia, many golf courses are open to the public and are
affordable.
The footage narrated by the husband and wife team is actual footage of
the Mona Vale Golf Course. The others are merged videos from pexels.com.
The video is created for viewers who lead sedentary lifestyles and/or
who love golfing.
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Sunday, January 29, 2023
4577. VET CASE. A cat has aural haematoma - needs surgery
29 Jan 2023.
AURAL HAEMATOMA IN A CAT - Rare case.
"Vet 1 used a syringe and needle to suck out the blood from
my cat' s swollen left ear," Elsie said to me. "But the ear
swelling re-appears. I have repeated the sucking out the blood again
over the last seven days, but the swelling keeps coming back!
"I
phoned my friend Mary. She said that surgery is needed!"
"Surgery
is preferred to syringing out the blood. The vet makes a big S-shaped
cut to drain out the blood," I told Elsie. "The ear must be
bandaged for around 10 days if you are worried about the ear shape
turning into a cauliflower mass."
As at 4 Feb 2023, the couple had decided to get surgery done by Vet 1 soon.
UPDATES AT:
https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2023/01/4577-vet-case-cat-has-aural-haematoma.html
AURAL HAEMTOMAA cat keeps scratching
her swollen ear. What to do?
VIDEO on physical examination at:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8rxnKreVU
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2 FEB 2023. Video evidence.
Dr Sing Kong Yuen documents the rare case of an aural haematoma (swollen ear with blood inside the ear pinna) and explains its surgical treatment. The owners will get the cat operated by Vet 1's clinic. Vet 1 had been giving steroids, antibiotics and had advised the couple to use the needle and syringe aspirations to suck out the blood. Every 2 days, the couple aspirated, but the swelling recurs. Now they decided to let Vet 1 do an operation to release the blood. Surgical treatment is the standard option for aural haematomas as needle aspirations do not work in most cases.
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AURAL HAEMTOMAA cat keeps scratching her swollen ear. What to do?
VIDEO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y8rxnKreVU
4576. Three out of 4 new sliders have no appetite, gasping for breath and show swollen eyes. What to do?
27 Jan 2023. Video consultation about 3 sick red-eared sliders with Dr Sing Kong Yuen. VET CASE. V1. Swollen eyes and not eating in newly purchased red-eared sliders 11 days after purchase, 3 of the 4 sliders are not eating.
Two have swollen eyes. One is gasping for breath. The young lady purchased two from one shop and two from another. Dr Daniel advised hygiene and feeding of oral antibiotics at home. Warm light. White spots are being treated with anti-fungal medication.
I advised owner to feed good quality feed pellets, non-chlorinated
water and not to use chlorinated medication onto the water tank for
the time being. Sliders to be housed separately for next 14 days and
follow up with videos from her.
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4575. Hamster eye injuries are emergencies. Seek vet treatment early.
VET CASE STUDY:
What is the cause of this right eye shedding tears?
The following could be causes: 1. Paper bedding of brown and white types. 2. Sand bath on the upper platform is used as a peeing container instead of the usual sand bath. The burrowing into the sand bath could have tossed sand particles into the right eye. 3. Wheel with a cover of corn cardboard encircling the base. The floor of the inside of the wheel has NO grid bars, hence the cardboard was installed. An unusual situation. Pieces of cardboard could have got into the right eye during exercise. 4. The platform with ladder comprised 2 levels. The sand bath was on the upper level and was used for peeing.
Items No. 2, 3 and 4 were removed.
The nurse had shown owner how to apply eye drops for the next 10 days. No more watery right eye after 7 days of treatment. The owner is happy.
Do not delay in seeking veterinary treatment of your hamster with eye injuries. Early treatment may save vision as the hamster keeps rubbing its injured eye till it gets inflamed or ruptured. If the eyeball pops out of the eye socket, it will be too late to save the vision. Seek a hamster vet as not all vets perform hamster surgeries. Consult Toa Payoh Vets, 6254-3326 or 9668-6468 promptly.
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4574. Buffet at lunchtime in Hanoi, Vietnam
VIETNAM - 18 SEP 2022: Sunday buffet at lunchtime in a restaurant
in Hanoi. Seafood is the Singapore tourist's most popular selection
in buffets.
Canon R5, AV Mode, Inside Vietnamese restaurant international buffet lunch. Cannot remember my settings used.
GOOD MORNING TO ALL. Frances, Thank you for organising the
tour. Here's a photo for Frances to keep and view when she is 72
years old (my age). Will you be as busy as ever on the mobile
phone while eating lunch? Photo was on Sunday 18 Sep 2022 lunch time.
At 12.07pm, the top 3 of the list of your phone screen was Lazada,
Elle EU and Tik Tok! The plate on the left was food taken by Judy for
me.
Aiyo I don wan to think so far yet…. Don even know if I can live
up to 72yo or not! To me anything above 70 is all bonus alrdy ?゚マᄏ
most important is every day must happy n healthy orelse long
life also useless?
Do keep the photo as your family genes have longevity ones.
I seen 103yo patient - on wheelchair / blind deaf…every where pain n sick…so long also no use- just suffering only ?
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GOOD MORNING TO ALL. Frances, Thank you for organising the tour. Here's a photo for Frances to keep and view when she is 72 years old (my age). Will you be as busy as ever on the mobile phone while eating lunch? Photo was on Sunday 18 Sep 2022 lunch time. At 12.07pm, the top 3 of the list of your phone screen was Lazada, Elle EU and Tik Tok! The plate on the left was food taken by Judy for me.
Aiyo I don wan to think so far yet…. Don even know if I can live up to 72yo or not! To me anything above 70 is all bonus alrdy 🙏🏻 most important is every day must happy n healthy orelse long life also useless🤣
Do keep the photo as your family genes have longevity ones.
I seen 103yo patient - on wheelchair / blind deaf…every where pain n sick…so long also no use- just suffering only 😭