The Mystery Of Megan

‘We might be working under lockdown, but animals still need the same level of attention’

- Joe Inglis

Lockdown has been a strange time for the veterinary profession, with practices open only for emergency cases, and the extra complications of social distancing adding to the difficulties of providing care for the nation’s pets. However, despite the challenges, across the nation vets and vet nurses are continuing to look after animals of all sizes, from poorly hamsters up to the largest farm animals. Even though the human world has been turned upside down, animal illnesses and emergencies are still the same, and still, need exactly the same level of care and attention.

And it’s not just the everyday cases that are continuing to come into the surgeries, the unusual, once in career cases are also still cropping up, such as Megan the Westie who was brought into a surgery run by a friend this week.

“I’d never seen anything quite like it,” Ian the vet told me afterward. “She was brought in because her abdomen had suddenly swollen up like a drum in 24 hours, and as soon as I examined her, I realized that something serious was going on.”