4029. A Fancy Rat has mammary tumours. Mastectomy. Two videos. BKTP Series.

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Veterinary Stories by Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow)

22 Apr 2022. Video production. 

FEMALE FANCY RATS DO DEVELOP MAMMARY TUMOURS. WHAT TO DO?

Fancy Rats do develop mammary tumours. What to do? Video 1/2

There are two videos. This is video 1/2 with no narration showing the good  surgical outcome. The rat did not have recurrence of the tumour and  lived to an old age. This rat had a gigantic mammary gland tumour excised at Toa Payoh Vets in 2015. 

Early surgery would have been preferred to lower anaesthetic and bleeding risks as a gigantic tumour takes a much longer time to operate, increasing the risk of death on the operating table.

Two videos are created from a case study at Toa Payoh Vets in 2015.

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4032. Videos 2022 No narration - Images for videos

 

4031. Plants and flowers for identification NParks Pearlynn.

20 Apr 2022

Dear Pearlynn

IDENTIFICATION OF PLANTS AND FLOWERS

Thank you for your offer to help me in my research on NParks and Esplanade flora and fauna. I have put them in the blog below for you to see. 

https://2010vets.blogspot.com/2022/04/4031-plants-and-flowers-for.html

Please let me know if you wish to have the bigger files or any other info. Thank you once again.

Dr David Sing, BVMS (Glasgow)

Veterinarian

Toa Payoh Vets, Singapore

 please identify yellow butterfly and purple flowers in forecourt garden, esplanade

red flowers, forecourt garden esplanade

violet flowers with silvery leaves
forecourt garden, esplanade

yellow flowers, forecourt garden esplanade

yellow flowers, forecourt garden, esplanade

pink flowers forecourt garden esplanade

pavement outside Lentor St house

pink roses hybrid?

pavement outside Lentor St house

epiphyte lentor st

pin wheel flower tree? jasmine flower tree?  lentor street

coconut tree name? lentor st

ixora species name? lentor estate

mexican petunia? very common in NParks street pavement gardens

Additional images on 21 Apr 2022

Name of this tree in Lentor St Playground. It drops large green "apples" like those Fiji apples.
(see image of 3 fruits below)

4030. Two Oriental Garden Lizards in Lentor St Playground seen today Wed 20 Apr 2022

 Wed 20 Apr2022

Lizard 1 near the Fern Trees
This is the 3rd sighting. I had a video. He was not worried about me. I took lots of photos. As I walked within 10 feet, he scurried off to the other side of the tree. He is greener today. 

Lizard 2 near the Fitness Corner.
Second sighting. He was staring at me as I looked up the tree trunk not expecting to see him.

He scurried to the other side of the trunk.

35 images of Oriental Garden Lizards photos by Dr Sing Kong Yuen

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as at 11 May 2022. Search "Oriental Garden Lizards".  

4029. Loss of wildlife and wild flowers in Yio Chu Kang Cres secondary forest - 17 Apr 2022.

 

SINGAPORE forest - Yio Chu Kang Crescent secondary forest Sun 17 Apr 2022

LOSS OF WILDLIFE AND WILD FLOWERS IN YIO CHU KANG CRES SECONDARY FOREST

Sun 17 Apr 2022. The forest path had been widened considerably with regular trimming and of shrubs and plants. Regular anti-mosquito insecticide spray since lifting of many Covid-19 curbs in Jan 2021.

Much wild flowers and wildlife like butterflies and oriental garden lizards, damselflies, dragonflies have had vanished in large numbers. These are photographed by me before and during the Covid-19 pandemic (2017 - 2020).

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SINGAPORE WILDLIFE. 20 Apr 2022. The Peacock Pansy is an orange butterfly, seen rarely in Yio Chu Kang Cres forest, due to deforestation, frequent shrub pruning and anti-mosquito insecticide fogging after Covid-19 relaxation of rules in mid 2021. Future generations of Singaporeans are unlikely to see one in the wild.

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The Yio Chu Kang Cres forest as at 20 Apr 2022. Shrubs and plants had been cut away, widening the forest path.

20 Apr 2022. YIO CHU KANG CRESCENT secondary forest which may be cleared in 5 years' time as the North-South Corridor Project to build a viaduct and tunnel from North Singapore to town will be completed. More deforestation and loss of habitat. So, the wildlife will vanished. This Peacock Pansy used to be frequently seen during the Covid-19 lockdown in Apr - Dec 2020. But today, one is seen after several days or weeks.

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4028. A Fancy Rat has a large leg lump. What to do?

A Fancy Rat has a large leg lump which bleeds and grows bigger. (Video 2/2). What to do? Dr Sing Kong Yuen, BVMS (Glasgow). 18 Apr 2022. 

The owner had consulted two vets. One advised leg amputation as a tumour could be suspected. Both gave external cream and disinfectant to apply. The lump enlarged to a large size, looking like a tumour over 2 months. “How was the original lump?” I asked the young lady. “Was it a small skin wart?”

“No, no,” she said. “It was a cut wound, just like what the left hind leg has now.”

Based on the owner's history that the origin of the lump was a cut wound which grew larger in size over the past 2 months ago, I diagnosed a lick granuloma.

A cut wound, if licked frequently and daily over 2 months, can develop into a large mass or lump, looking much like a tumour. If it was a lick granuloma, now 1.5 cm x 1.0 cm x 1.0 cm, it could be excised. There would be no need for leg amputation as the lump would not re-grow if the owner ensured there was no continuous licking  . 

However, it could still be a tumour as I had not seen the cut wounds. The other leg had two 0.5 cm cuts due to the climbing up and getting cut on the cage bars. 

Treatment was surgical excision of the granuloma. I gave Zoletil injection IM and

isoflurane anaesthesia gas. Then the electro-surgical electrode wire sliced off the top

75% of the granuloma. Profuse bleeding like a burst dam. 

I bandaged the operated area. 

A follow up of over the next 4 weeks would be done to see if the lump has recurred. 

Post operation close monitoring to prevent licking of the wound by bandaging the leg

and painkillers were given. The rat dislikes wearing the Elizabethen collar which would

prevent licking of the wound or biting off the bandages.

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