Haiti Vet Training Day 3

Today was surgery day. It started out by picking up 7 dogs (3 female & 4 male) from the village that Kelly works in. (The fellow pictured helped us collect the dogs and is the director of the new school that Kelly will be working with for her “Give a Kid to a Kid program”.

 

Here’s my favorite pup that we picked up. She was so sweet! (Can I keep her mom?!?) Crystal did her spay surgery today with her 4 trainees.

This is my surgery dog, that we nicknamed “Whitey” or “Blan” (White in Creole).

Here is my surgery team waiting for Blan to go to sleep. My trainees were Rodney (my assistant surgeon), Lenor (anesthetist), Michelet (monitor) and Garmy (recorder).

Putting in an iv cather with one of the HSI vet techs. Lenor put the catheter in on the first try—Way to go!

 

Blan drowsy after surgery. There are no surgery pictures because my hands were preoccupied. She was in heat and so the surgery was tougher than normal. But we got through it well!

Kelly resting with one of her post op patients. We were all tired after a good, successful day of training!