Saturday, September 10, 2005
Veterinary Factoids
We've got two for you this week!
1) Veterinarians use their non-dominant arm to perform rectal exams on cows and horses. Why? So if the animal, especially a horse, decides to quickly sit down, rear up or back up on you, the arm that gets broken is not your dominant arm.
(Dr. Brendemuehl said that removing a broken arm from a horse rectum hurts more than childbirth. How he knows what childbirth feels like, I'm not quite sure. . .)
2) Second-hand tobacco smoke is associated more with mouth cancer (specifically squamous cell carcinoma) in cats than with lung cancer in cats or dogs. Why? The most likely reason is because cats groom themselves obsessively, licking up all the carcinogens deposited on their fur from envrironmental smoke.
