Most horrific thing I've seen
Long time lurker, first time poster, so be gentle please.

I used to work with animals way back in the mists of time and worked with some interesting characters.

Probably the most horrific thing I've ever seen was the biopsy that needed to be done on a female Golden Retriever. Said bitch was three years old and often suffered from UTI's (urinary tract infections for the uninitiated). The current one had been so bad that she was hospitalised with it for a few days. She had her abdomen x-rayed and scanned to check what was going on with her bladder, as she was thought to have drunk three bowls of water on Monday and not passed anything of note since (although I have a feeling that she’d kicked them over as her bed was dripping wet and didn't smell of urine).

So her abdomen was scanned which elicited a few 'Hmms...' and 'Mmm interesting's...' from the vet [!!!] Then her bladder was x-rayed several times. First filled with water, then with air in it, then a silvery compound, very similar to barium, but I've forgotten what it's called right now. Then she was taken back to scan again where we found that she had an abnormal utethra as it was filling the bladder from two places instead of one. This admittedly was rather interesting to view; the bladder filling itself one one hand, but due to it being a genetic abnormality, not so wonderful for doggy.

Finally - and this is the horrible bit - the decision was made to take some biopsy samples from her, after she was examined with a speculum and they noticed some white bumps along the wall. They tried to get some biopsies the traditional way with a scope and long forceps, but someone had borrowed the good scope and not returned it, so her vagina was inverted and biopsies were taken via a scalpel. Guess who was in charge of the ‘vaginal inverting’?

Yup, that's right, your friendly animal technician had to turn a dogs cunt inside out so the vet could chop chunks out to be sent away for testing. Can you imagine the pain?
*tries to get image out of head*
*fails*
*cries*
(beckyjsbx WOOP WOOP, Tue 12 Aug 2008, 23:24, 1 reply)

Most importantly
was there any blood? :)
( Noeli overtheshoulderboulderholderthingstraplatchboobs, Wed 13 Aug 2008, 8:47, closed)