4108. Oxytocin injections to induce egg laying in a red-eared slider

4088. Story telling using the 3Ds - Do dogs suffer from toothaches? Carnassial Tooth Abscess in a Pomeranian

STORY TELLING USING THE 3D's to sell a product or service
Details
Dialogue
Discovery
All wrapped up in Drama

Interns: See example
Use "3D's" to tell your story
See:

https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2020/02/story-telling-using-3ds-example-do-dogs.html






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23 Mar 2020

Dear Dr Daniel Sing

Yesterday, we brought KAME for consultation and injection to induce her to lay eggs.

Please help to review the X Ray again for KAME if she had 8 or 9 eggs?  So far she laid 8 (laid first egg about 5 o clock [about 1 hr 15 mins after injection] and continuously next 45 minutes) in the car at Lorong 5 car park. It was raining heavily.

We brought her home and she fell asleep without food.

This morning Rita found her in the bathtub but the water drained.  After filling up the bathtub with water, she was restless and not eating yet.

Thank you.

Best regards
Kho / Rita

24 Mar 2020  Email
Dear Doctor Daniel Sing

Finally the biggest egg, KAME laid around 4pm this afternoon. She dug a hole at the garden and laid and covered it.  Rita took it out from the mud and took a photo of it for your record.

Thank you.

Best regards
Jimmy / Rita

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PREVIOUS OXYTOCIN INJECTION IN DEC 2019

APRIL 20, 2019

Dear Dr Sing

We went back about 5pm and since you administered the injection she had laid 5 eggs. As we were travelling home she laid one egg in the car.
When my wife reached home about 5.45pm she laid another 2 eggs. We went out and when my son reached home, he found 4 eggs in the plastic box (filled with water) around 6.45pm.
In total she laid 12 eggs. Is it possible for her to form another 7 eggs in 11 days?
She is very tired and now sleeping.   We are monitoring her closely if more eggs 🥚 to come. 

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4107. Syrian hamster - Testicular traumatic swelling

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Original images

4106. HABITAT LOSS. The Oriental Garden Lizard loses his home in Yio Chu Kang Crescent

 Photography Tips. 

It is too much to carry a camera bag with many lens when taking local wildlife photography.

I use one one zooms lens from 18mm to 250 mm, DSLR Canon camera. The tip is to use the setting to "P" Mode. This will be easier for amateurs to take good photographs of wildlife without having to figure out the shutter speed or aperture.

The follow images are taken with this zoom lens.

Mar 6, 2020

The regular and once-monthly clearing of the vines, creepers, grass and leaves from the railing and the nearby areas of Lentor Avenue/Yio Chu Kang Crescent result in the loss of habitat for this young Oriental Garden Lizard. He has no insects to hunt and survive. There are very few of such creatures nowadays, less than 5 in this area which is being developed into a major road. The lizard will become extinct as Singapore develops more land and build more. 

Mar 20, 2020. Rare sighting of the oldest Oriental Garden Lizard seen by luck, being at the right place at the right time. How do I know? Its length is longer and its head is broader compared to the younger ones. (show photo side by side).

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On the same day, at the Countryside Park Garden, there was a younger adult. Hunting.

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As the habitat is lost owing to construction of the highway, these lizards are getting extinct. 

Jun 4, 2020.
A good conditioned Oriental Garden Lizard is seen along Yio Chu Kang Crescent, opposite the Seletar Simpang River. He seemed to be shedding his old coat.

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Other images

This Oriental Garden Lizard was not bothered with me taking videos and photographs. Once, he decided to hop down from the ropes. After that he went up the ropes and onto the barrier pole!

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 The following lizard could be the same one as the above on the barrier pole but on different dates.

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4428. Mar 1, 2020. Ear warts in a dwarf hamster. What to do?

Surgery is the only option. Seek a hamster vet who performs surgery.

Buy cream from pet shops or drugs from the vet will not make the warts disappear.

The case is posted on Instagram on 3 Dec 2020.

4104. The guinea pig has a jaw abscess --- molar spurs and overgrown front teeth --- images

THE GUINEA PIG HAS A GIGANTIC FACIAL LUMP - PT 1/3 

THE GUINEA PIG HAS A GIGANTIC FACIAL LUMP - PT 3/3

An auroscope may be used to check the inside of the mouth of the guinea.
Special dental instruments are used to open the mouth of the guinea pig wide for inspection.
Dental X-rays are ideal. If not available, do the skull X-ray.

Antibiotics, drainage, and surgery are all common treatment for jaw abscesses. 

4103. A guinea pig has head tilt. Dirty ears

https://youtu.be/iR_-McMRqMc

4102. REYNA. Burring of the overgrown front teeth in a Guinea Pig

1.  Edit the video - show the use of the burring tool to trim the excess length. Burring is said to reduce the likelihood of tooth fracture if one uses just a cutter. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wUqlGJ3DEcU

Overgrown front teeth

https://youtu.be/zvWVmILYT1s

use of Dremel wheel for burring overgrown front teeth guinea pig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FH70M2jP32s
burring of the overgrown front teeth under anaesthesia



 A guinea pig grows continuously unlike human teeth. They are worn down by the guinea pig eating hard food like hay. However, this guinea pig was not given sufficient hay and the teeth grew and grew. They overlap and the guinea pig cannot eat properly. He loses weight. This vet educational video shows the burring or cutting of the overgrown teeth to enable the guinea pig to eat normally again. After the procedure of burring using the Dremel 300 cutting wheel as shown in this video, the guinea pig now can chew hay normally and has gained weight. Early signs like loss of appetite warn the owner that the teeth are overgrown. She sought Toa Payoh Vets for early treatment and now the guinea pig is thriving.


https://youtu.be/puQlu7Ho84Y               
After trimming overgrown teeth. Advice on hay diet.

2.  A guinea pig has a fatty tumour on the left chin

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fymligXmTU
Left lower jaw swelling. It is a large fatty tumour.