Cryptic blog entries...

...are a good way to get errant siblings to telephone, FYI. And provide a fresh crop of exciting gory veterinary tales!

Tale number one: Birthin' babies. Do you know what it's called when an alpaca gives birth? Unpacking! Seriously. Dr. Moo assisted an unpacking alpaca whose baby had been hanging head out from its hind end for quite some time. The baby was making weird gurgly noises. But Moo managed to save the day.

Tale number two: Bactine, please! Sometimes a stillbirth goes awry, leaving Moo with the icky job of cutting up the fetus inside the mother and then pulling it out. Recently she cut her finger, not on the scalpel she was using but on a shard of rotten cow spinal column.