AR-News: (UK) Hospital casualty unit with animal instincts

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A dog's life: Leanne Green with Yorkshire Terrier Lucky 
Hospital casualty unit with animal instincts
>From saving the life of a dog involved in a road accident to filing a 
rabbit's claws and performing dental work on a cat - it's all in a day's work for 
staff at the Sheffield PDSA Petaid hospital. Reporter Jade Beecroft met the 
city's animal doctors.
THE PDSA veterinary centre is celebrating its sixth anniversary of providing 
treatment for pets whose owners cannot afford expensive vets fees.
The team of five veterinary surgeons and seven nurses help more than 100 
stricken animals from all over South Yorkshire every day, while the hospital also 
provides a 24-hour emergency service.
"Most of our patients are cats, dogs and rabbits," said Head Nurse Linda 
Capewell. "But we do get the odd unusual case too.
"The strangest experience I've had while working here was trying to perform a 
stomach tube procedure on a huge Indian Python."





full story:

http://www.sheffieldtoday.net/ViewArticle.aspx?SectionID=58&ArticleID=733072



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