Last month, Reservoir Vet Clinic had a very unusual patient. A beautiful owl was found injured in the outbuilding of a local resident. The kind citizen brought the owl to the clinic for examination and treatment. On arrival, the owl was given a thorough examination by Dr Bree and it was found that it had a wound near its left wing but was otherwise in good condition.

Binki is an 8 month old rabbit who was recently rescued from a school. He had a bad dental abscess and no one at the school was able to give him the care he needed. Binki's new owner is doing a great job of looking after him and his abscess is almost completely healed. Now that Binki is feeling better, his owner brought him in to be desexed.

Midnight is a young Guinea Pig who was brought to see us after his young owner accidentally dropped him. His owners thought that Midnight had been walking strangely since being dropped. Dr Raj examined Midnight and discovered that his left front leg was the problem. Midnight was admitted into hospital for x-rays of his leg. Dr Eleanor sedated little Midnight and took some x-rays of the sore leg.

Nibbles is a six month old domestic rabbit who was presented to the Reservoir Veterinary Clinic to be castrated. Rabbits should be desexed if they are not going to be used for breeding as there is a high incidence of cancers developing in undesexed rabbits; so desexing eliminates this risk.

Reservoir Vet Clinic has had a recent surge in the number of rabbits we are seeing as patients and several of our team members are following suit. Iggy is a one year old dwarf lop eared rabbit who was adopted by Nurse Sommer when he was eight weeks of age. Iggy lives with Sommer's cat Polly and they get along like a house on fire. Iggy likes to sit next to Polly for hours at a time and Polly will sit there grooming his head.

Reservoir Vet Clinic was lucky enough to treat a young Joey that had been rescued by a local wildlife carer. Dr Wayne examined the young Joey and found that his hip was painful. Dr Wayne took a radiograph of the Joey's hip and found that his hip was dislocated. This is a painful injury for such a young Joey to have. Dr Wayne immediately administered a general anaesthetic so that he could place his hip back into the correct position.

Knuckles is a 6 month old ferret that was bought to the Reservoir Veterinary Clinic for desexing. Desexing a female ferret involves removing her uterus and ovaries. Female ferrets are seasonal breeders and induced ovulators. This means that a female ferret that is not mated will not ovulate so will remain in oestrus. These high oestrogen levels lead to alopecia (hair loss), bone marrow suppression and cancers.

Reservoir Vet Clinic had an unusual visitor to the clinic last month - a turtle named Squirt.
Squirt was brought to the clinic after his owners found a lump on his head.

This month’s patient of the month is a very special visitor to Reservoir Vet Clinic. Coco, the 11 month old rabbit from Thomastown West Primary School came to the clinic to be desexed.