3156. Short-lived mushrooms in the plantar box

The size and colour of the big mushrooms are impressive. They live for around 3 days only.

Young mushrooms on May 15, 2018

Bloom on May 16, 2018

Will not be erect but will collapse and shrivel on May 17, 2018

3155. Images of Orange breasted green pigeons seen during exercise in a pubic fitness park in Singapore

May 18, 2018


The orange-breasted green pigeon (Treron bicinctus) is a pigeon found across tropical Asia

nape blue green
crown yellowish green
uppertail coverts are bronze
lowertail coverts are umarked rufous

male - pinkish band on the upper breast
           a broader orange band below

female - bright yellow breast




Singapore sightings on a tree opposite my fitness machine in a public park. I used a Canon zoom lens 55-250 mm, Autofocus, Program mode while seated in the exercise machine (extender).

The pigeons were on lower branches, posing for me, except on May 22, 2018 (top of tree)

Exercise extender (right). The tree (not in image) faces me on the left.

April 2, 2018. Easter Monday

Apr 4, 2018  (Guan Yin's birthday)

April 12, 2018. Whole body is available to be photographed

May 22, 2018  Tuesday 8 am. Around 2 pigeons were seen fluttering at the top of the trees. Bodies could not be seen clearly.

Very difficult to photograph the whole bird on May 22, 2018.

An illustration seen in the internet

An illustration











 

3154. A Silkie Terrier keeps licking her front paw - lick granuloma surgery

In most cases, the removal of the lick granuloma resolves the continuous paw licking problem.
Follow up with the owner is needed.

3153. A 4-year-old Spitz loves to eat. High total cholesterol

Sat May 12, 2018

Ref: 45856.  The mother and son brought the 4-year-old female spayed Spitz for the annual vaccination. The dog was overweight at 18.2 kg.  Her Body Condition Score 7/9.

The son bought pre-cooked food from  www.goodwoofsg.com.

"My Spitz just loves to eat this food," the son said. "The company is HSA certified.  I feed her 40g 2x per day. Now she is overweight!".  "It is best to do the health screening by a blood test," I advised. "The last was done last year."

BLOOD TEST FINDINGS
Total cholesterol  8.20 mmol/L  (3-6.6)
Triglycerides        1.19 mmol/L (0.33 - 3.27)

The mother was advised to feed a therapeutic diet called Hill's R/D. "Give 10% of total amount of food (pork + rice) per day during the first week, then increase to 15% and so on for the following weeks. Your dog will get used to the new food and will not reject it. Most owners feed 100% of R/D and give up when the dog rejects it, hence failing to reduce the weight."

Within 2 months, the Spitz had reduced weight.

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Ref 50424.  A 14-year-old male neutered Golden Retriever on the same day.  The eye skin area was bald due to eye rubbing on the floor.  Bad breath. However, the ears were clean as the owner had maintained them regularly.

The owner was worried as the dog kept sneezing and had coughing for 2 days. Possibly a kennel cough as the dog was not vaccinated. Her total cholesterol results are shown for comparison to the Spitz above.

BLOOD TEST FINDINGS
Total cholesterol  5.40 mmol/L  (3-6.6)
Triglycerides        0.98 mmol/L (0.33 - 3.27)