Dr. Karen Emerson is joined with Dr. Jansen and her cockatoo, Switch.
Getting a check up on your exotics can be difficult and stressful for your pet.
However, anesthesia can be administered to handle minor procedures.
To make your appointment today call the Emerson Animal Hospital in West Point at (662) 524-4145.
Dr. karen emerson: good morning sunrisers.
I'm dr. karen emerson.
And today i have with me, my associate dr. jansen, and this is actually her bird switch, which is a major mitchell cockatoo.
You actually going to see this bird on another segment, but what we're talking about today is how easy it is to put your birds under anesthesia, to do minor procedures that they need done, instead of stressing them out and catching them in a towel and doing everything while they're awake.
We actually use something called isoflurane.
We actually put the mask on, they go to sleep.
We're actually going to be micro chipping her bird.
This microchip is very awesome because the fact after we microchip, we'll actually be able to test her pet's temperature just through with the microchip.
You want to explain that a little bit?
Dr. jansen: yeah.
So this microchip in particular, once it settles into the skin tissue, has its own thermometer built in.
And so when we wipe the reader over top of it, once it's been activated for a couple of days, it'll actually tell you the internal temperature of your bird.
So that we're not trying to stress them out then later, trying to get a rectal temperature from them at a different time.
Dr. karen emerson: so we're actually now going to do the microchip.
It looks like a very huge needle.
Going to go right here, inside the breast, and now we're going to scan it ... and we're in.
So you see how simple that was.
Now, we're going to wake her up and this is also so easy for us while they're under anesthesia and asleep, we could do their beak, we can do their wings.
We actually could trim their wings and we can do their nails.
So this is something that just does very well.
Dr. karen emerson: like my bird.
I've had my bird for 32 years, and this is actually the way i prefer to do my bird now, instead of stressing him out while he's awake.
So if you have a new bird, you're thinking about getting the big nails done, microchip done, you're worried about the anesthetic process.
If you will allow us to do that, we can walk you through it.
It's very, very safe.
If you have any questions, give us a call.
I promise your pets will thank you.
And i hope you have a great rest of your week.
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