3/5/06 Start of a new week

This past week got back to normal, sort of, once the Puppy Angels took off. I was more involved with the groups of students coming to the GSPCA, was back to seeing clients and performing just a few spays and neuters for the week. But this week also brought in several animals that had been hit by cars. These cases are particularly hard for me because I can’t do any orthopedics at the clinic so many of these cases have to be referred to the University. Much of the time the owner cannot afford treatment at the University so some of these animals get euthanized depending on the specific problems. One non-orthopedic case was a cat with a ruptured urinary bladder, left inguinal hernia, and a right side body wall hernia with several loops of intestine exposed; I’ll save you the gory photos. We took that cat into surgery and spent a while trying to repair the damage. As I was finishing up, unfortunately the cat’s heart stopped which we couldn’t get started again.









So to start the new week, I went with some friends to Mt. Carmel water falls just south of Grenville early this morning. These are the best waterfalls that I’ve been to yet on Grenada. Since it was so early in the day, we were the only people around for at least an hour and then some local kids showed up. Under the big falls was a nice pool where we relaxed for a while and enjoyed the sun. Then we hiked down to the lower falls. On the way home we stopped at Grand Etang Lake for a small picnic.

This would have been a really great day except for a phone call that I received from a student earlier in the trip. Apparently, that morning some students found that one of the dogs that hung around the beach at Grand Anse campus had been hit by a car. So once we reached home I got to go over to the dorm and see this dog. Well as it appeared, the dog had not been hit by a car but had been mauled by another dog (or three). Poor guy was in bad shape so the students elected to put him down. Again, I’ll save you the gory photos.

So with this dog, this new week did not have a very auspicious beginning.