04/12/2024
🐭❤️ MENDING MILA ❤️🐭
Everybody please meet one of our smallest clients Mila the Guinea Pig.
In October Mila was practising gymnastics on a bed when she had an accident and fell off. She hurt her leg and was brought in to be examined. Our vets carried out some xrays and found that Mila had fractured her femur, which is the large bone in the top of her leg.
Because the fracture was so bad and the bones weren't aligned properly it was decided that Mila would need surgery if we were to save her leg. Mila's owners made the brave decision to give her a chance and she was booked in for surgery the next day.
Performing an operation on such a small animal (weighing only 300g) would be no easy feat. But with careful planning our vet Shane was able to realign the bone and place a tiny intra medullary pin through the bone to hold it in place. Our nursing team monitored Mila carefully while she was under anaesthesia and she came through surgery successfully.
A number of weeks later Mila's owner reports that she has fully bounced back to health - but has left all dreams of a gymnastics career behind her 🐭🤸♀️❤️
