Look. But this is one of the success stories. This young chimp called commando has a new lease on life because of many compassionate people. Oh ha ha ha. Mm, you lovelylook at look at this man and his camera. Look at this man and his ha ha ha. What a happy ending to a great Animal Rescue. Dont go away, well have more of Animal Rescue right after this brief break. Pa here now is another great Animal Rescue story. Watch. Welcome to the living desert zoo angardens, aanctuary for a wide variety of desert creatures from around the world that also provides these critters the most advanced medical care available. Today were going to capture up our Mountain Lion reno. We did an mri a number of years ago, and we found that he had a narrowing of the bones that surround his spinal cord. And by having an increased weight, it can cause more damage to that and cause the severity of his clinical signs to increase. And, umso were going in today to try to find out whats causing this weight increase. And we dont believe that its due to increase in his food intake, because hes not getting any more food than he normally does. We think this may be possibly a thyroid problem or some other metabolic disease. Because hes such an old cat, and because of the problems hes had in the past, we need to get this weight down as quick as possible. Otherwise it can have a severe effect on his overall health. Ive loaded the dart in the hospital, and now re going to be pressurizing the dart so that when it goes into the animal, it will express and inject inside the animal. And then hellok, now. Reno . Stop. Ok, good. [firing dart] ok. So weve darted the cat. And so, once we do that, we try to turn the lights down, clear everybody out except for my technicians, who will monitor him and wait till he actually starts to feel the effects of the anesthesia. Caution is also the watchword for these Animal Rescuers because treating any large wild animal, even tranquilized, can be dangerous. I know, reno. I know. Yeah. Ok. And do you have the, um. Cord . White part of the ear, if we can. So right now, were just trying to get him stabilized before we start doing our work, make sure hes nice and sedate. Well get the ekg machine out in just a few minus and go from there. But were going to get himmake sure hes nice and sleepy before we start all of this. My first observation for this animal is that, yeah, we have put on quite a bit of weight. And i worry about that because of our previously diagnosed back problem. So what were going to do is do some testing to find out whats causing this, and then try to reverse that and get some of this weight off this cat. [heart monitor beeping] heart sounds good. Again, weve got an aged animal that has a history of arthritis and back problems. And again, we worry about the heart as well. His hearts sounding good. Were going to check it with an ekg, though, make sure that its pumping properly. You got stuff for his eyes . Yeah, you going to look at yeah, ill need to take a peek at them real quick. They look a little hazy. Hes starting to show some cloudiness in the eyes, too. Is he . You can just look at it just from reflective. And when you look in it, i can see the structures behind it, but theyre not clear. Were still seeing, but were not getting clear vision. Again, with a cat like this in the wild, this would impair our vision enough where we wouldnt be able to hunt for our prey. So, again, signs of old age in a cat that sometimes you necessarily wouldnt even see in the wild. When we have the animal down like this and we can do everything, we try to do as much as possible. So we tm the nails, um, we check eyes, ears, nose, throat, the teeth. We do everything we can because we dont like to knock these animalsor to sedate these animals often because each time you have an anesthetic procedure, theres always a risk of complications. So we try to do this as infrequently as possible. But we have to do it often enough so that we maintain the good health of the animal and check and find these things that we will start to see over time. [beeping] oh, thats cause theyre probably messing with his leg. Visitors to the living desert get a unique, upclose view of all medical procedures conducted in the hospital. Even if hes looking, the telazolhes still feeling it, so hes not gonna wake up. But yeah, do watch your fingers. Safety is utmost importance. Hes got a little bit of tartar on his teeth, so were just cleaning it up. And then were going to flip the cat over, im going to check the other ear and then were basically going to be ready to go back to our enclosure at that point. Ok, watch that. Ok, ready . 1, 2, 3. Flip. And then lets scoot him back. Ok. Hopefully well have some answers. Um, this kids actually currently on thyroid medication, but it could be that the thyroid medication now really isnt enough for him. We may need an increase in the dose, and that could be whywhen your thyroids low, you tend to put on weight even though youre not eating a lot ofood, per se. Checked eyes, ears, mouth, heart, lungs, abdomen, and the temp was normal. Ok. And you guys did the claws . Other than the increase in the weight, he actually appears to be in pretty good health. It can take probably about a day for the blood work to come back, and at that point well be able to evaluate his thyroid, make sure the medication were giving him currently is adequate or if we need to increase the dose. Well also be checking other organ systems throughout his body to make sure that theyre functioning just as well. We did find some haziness in the eyes, which is just some old age changes. Nothing that were going to be too worried about at this point. And, um the rest of him, though, looked actually pretty good. Ready . 1, 2, 3. There you go. Come around, sarah. Set him down. I know, youre so good. Ok. Ready . Its now back to his enclosure as renos medical examination is complete. Well have more of Animal Rescue right after this brief break. Animal rescuers are special people as youll see in this next story. At the wilshire animal hospital, dr. Frank lavac prepares to treat a very sick reptile whos a beloved pet to many Southern California youngsters. This is a king snake, a male 6yearold king snake. Hes from the california science center, where hes used to educate children, that was presented for not eating for several weeks and they noticed the swelling for over a month. And so now were going to examine the snake and see if we can determine exactly whats wrong with the snake. Its a pretty friendly snake, so we dont have to worry so much about him biting us. But you can see right in his midmidsection of his body hes got this really dramatic swelling. And so what were going to do is xray the snake and see if that gives us some insight io why the swelling is there. And were also going to do an ultrasound, and were going to tap it. That is, put a needle into it, and remove some of the fluid, and have that fluid analyzed to see if it tells us whether were dealing with an infection or a tumor. This is a side view of the mass, and this is from the top down. You can see all the vertebrae along the back here, and all of the ribs. And this whole area here is the swollen area. It has what we call a loss of detail. We dont see a specific mass there. So this doesnt necessarily tell me exactly whats wrong. It still could be an infection. It could be a tumor. Dr. Lavac will try to get more detailed information by doing an ultrasound. A special geis placed on the snakes abdomen to improve contact with the probe. Right here, were looking at thenside of the snake. This is the backbone here, and here is the mass in this area here. What we can tell is its a cystic mass. That is, there are some pockets of fluid. And again, we cant tell whether its a tumor or infection at this point. Each test is trying to determine what i might expect to uncover, in essence, as far as whats wrong with the snake. So with the information that we have now, it looks like were going to have to do surgery. See, weve hooked up the anesthetic machine. Hes getting gas and oxygen through the tube here, and we have a doppler over the top of his heart so we can monitor hiswhether hes doing well or not. Ok. Again, this is the mass that were dealing with. Im still trying to dissect around and figure out exactly what it is. Right now, it looks like the mass is associated with the intestinal tract. So it extends through this hollow tube throughout the entire length of the snake. Ive not seen a mass like this before, and im still trying to dissect and figure out exactly what it is. Though dr. Lavac successfully removes the lump, its nature still remains a mystery. Well, weve seemed to have gotten the whole mass. Were trying to stabilize the snake at this point. And now were going to tie off a blood vessel and flush the area, and then close the area as well. The surgery so far has been a success. We went in looking for the swollen mass. We found a mass. We dont know what tissue its associated with at this point, but we removed that mass. Weve closed up the snake. The snake has remained stable throughout the procedure. And now we just need to support him while he is waking up. And then it could take many weeks to know if the surgery was a success. Once we find out the results from the pathologist, well have a better idea exactly whats going on at that point. cause right now, we dont know how seris it is. But surgery went very well, and the snake is recovering. And the snake is strong, and so im very hopeful the snake will fully recover. Time now to check our Animal Rescue mail bag. Animal rescue mail bag shirley from bala, pennsylvania writes. Frances from laurel, maryland tells us. 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