— A veterinarian in Prince Edward Island successfully operated on her smallest patient ever earlier this week — a 50-gram dwarf hamster named Mr. Nibbles. Is it the size of a walnut?”‘ Dr. Claudia Lister said Thursday in an interview from the New Perth Animal Hospital. “I said, ‘More like two cotton balls.”‘Mr. Nibbles had injured his paw on his hamster wheel, and needed an amputation. Mr. Nibbles’ small size made him especially vulnerable to over-medication. Lister consulted veterinary journals and the Facebook group “Veterinary Anesthesia Nerds.”Lister had to fashion special equipment, adjusting a dental dam to fit a small-animal cone around the hamster.

Source: National Post April 19, 2018 18:13 UTC