Name: Phoenix's Vet Visit
Uploaded: 2017-08-20T00:35:08.000Z
Duration: 7 min 17 s
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- What we're doing is  a complete physical

Phoenix has been with us, I   believe for about two years,

he was born at the Assiniboine  Park Zoo in Wiinipeg.

We're here at the Western  College of Veterinary Medicine

and it's what we do for many of the animals

It contributes to the overall knowledge on the

As you can see we have a   great support team doing it

and what it'll do is it'll  really give us some base line

information on the overall  health status of this animal.

We'll look at blood,   we'll look at urine,

be able to check his musculoskeletal system.

Use ultrasound to check   and see the internal organs

And, it also gives us that   information that we can then

So if in the future he was   to develop a kidney problem

or a liver issue, we would have that base line information

to draw on and further  tests would indicate

Red pandas are the first  species that are being managed

We participate in a program   here in North America

every pair of red pandas is   evaluated on an annual basis

by biologists and animals    are then placed together

The concept is to    maintain genetic diversity

It's a little different  procedure than your normal pet

and you can understand seeing  the claws on this animal

that if he was awake you wouldn't be able to do

We have a number of  different vets working

doing different things at    one time so that we don't

keep the animal sedated for too, too long.

Anytime you do sedate an  animal there's always a danger

but by monitoring it as closely as what we are

it really reduces down any  risk of anything going wrong.

They'll monitor the heart rate, they'll also

while they have him like this  give him all the shots and

check for external parasites   at the same time, ear mites.

Basically what they're doing here is checking all the teeth,

they'll make sure that there's no gum disease.

- [Vet] He's got a tiny little chip fracture,

- [John] Just a little chip   on a canine tooth there.

(Vet speaking away from camera too low to hear)

Normally if you're doing blood tests you shave

but because this animal   does spend most of it's time

outdoors in the winter we    don't want to shave it.

It would make it susceptible   to frost bite after.

Getting blood is important,   a lot of an animals' health

can be monitored through blood and urine.

and looking for signs of any damage or arthritis.

Everything is marked down so   at the end of the exercise

we'll have a complete  understanding of his

You can see that something    like this, because it's

not done everyday it's a   great teaching opportunity.

It allows us to look at    vertebrae, all the joints

and some of the internal organs actually show up

We can check for arthritis,  we can check for bone disease

For the ultrasound  it's identical to what

If we were going through a   physical exam and they were

doing an ultrasound on you,   it's the exact same process.

This is just to ensure that the internal organs

that we don't see any signs of tumors or cysts

After the ultrasound we have a picture of it all

so the vets can check it    out and also it'll go into

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Phoenix's Vet Visit

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