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- Subject: Re: rats
- Message-ID: <1992Nov17.001147.6329@news2.cis.umn.edu>
- Date: 17 Nov 92 00:11:47 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov16.153014.29703@eskimo.com> feathers@eskimo.com (Cheryl Owen) writes:
- >
- > Yeah, some of my rats died under anesthesia in a vet's office. They
- >had developed growths; the growths themselves were non-cancerous and not
- >painful, but the vet advised that they would continue to grow and the
- >rats would be more comfortable with the growths removed. Well, I dunno
- >if "metabolically challenged," i.e. dead, qualifies as "more
- >comfortable." After several episodes of that, I came to the conclusion
- >that rats either don't deal well with anesthesia or that vet wasn't very
- >skilled at determining the proper amount to give so small an animal.
- > All my other rats save one eventually died of cancer.
-
- I'm sorry to hear about your rats dying. I've had people tell me "it
- was just a rodent", but I think people who say that just don't understand!
- I worked for a vet and he didn't have problems with rats and
- anaesthetic. He used Halothane--an inhalant. Perhaps your vet is trying
- something injectible like Ketaset? However, of the rats I've known that
- have successfully gone through surgery (about 4, I think), all have
- developed more tumors and died soon anyway. Guess it's just part of the
- territory of loving something than has a higher metabolism and a shorter
- lifespan than yourself....
- --Amy
-