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  1. J

    My beef died this morning

    Interesting, cattle were one animal that I never saw/necropsied that had died from a ruptured thoracic vessel. I necropsied the elk calf, several deer, one donkey, one llama and a domestic goat that died that way, that I remember. And that was over a 15 year period. So maybe no one brought a...
  2. J

    My beef died this morning

    A quick death for an animal that appears healthy until it is suddenly dead, is usually caused by a blood vessel bursting in the thoracic cavity. I necropsied a number of animals, both wild and domestic that died like that. Basically they drown in their own blood. One was an injured elk calf...
  3. J

    Summer break

    At the risk of being seriously maligned, I would suggest you have someone go to the nearest health food store and get you some Hyland's Calc. Phos. 6X and take one tablet every 4 hours during the day and if you get up during the night. People who did that had their broken arm, leg or vertebrae...
  4. J

    Keeping them alive

    Not sure why you think birth defects on animals and children are so funny. Since I see animals everyday that have life affecting underbite, even a Brewer's Blackbird last week with a short upper bill, I don't find underbite or any other birth defect to be anything to laugh about. The populations...
  5. J

    Keeping them alive

    Its bite was normal, anyone with at least one eye can see that, so why did you even ask?
  6. J

    Keeping them alive

    This doesn't look like any wolf I have seen. The head is not the right shape and the feet are much too small for a wolf. It looks like a dog that wasn't very well cared for or a feral dog. It is definitely not a coyote either of course.
  7. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    Here is a drawing of a dog skull. On the skull being discussed from the pond, all of the bone forward of the purple in the drawing is gone. I was wrong about there being the location of the root of the back most tooth on the skull. That is gone with the rest of the front of the skull. The...
  8. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    Since the skull was originally at least 6 or more inches long, that would have been a very funny looking skunk. Hope you didn't put much money on skunk - LOL. I attached a stock photo from the Internet of a small dog skull. Note that the skull being discussed...
  9. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    There are no nasal bones left. The part of the skull shown in the photos is the back part of the skull.
  10. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    TCRanch, you are correct. All of the front part of the skull is gone. It originally was fairly long, like a canine's face is, except for dogs bred to have very short faces. The reason it is difficult to find an exact match is because there is a great deal of variation in dog skulls and the front...
  11. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    Dog skulls vary a lot depending on the kind of dog. The skull is from a small animal and it closely matches the rear part of some of the small dog skulls pictured on the internet. The front part forward of the eye sockets is gone.
  12. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    It is definitely a canine, likely a young dog. It doesn't match a fox skull and doesn't come close to matching a raccoon. Not even close for opossum.
  13. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    Silver, there weren't any teeth remaining in the section of skull shown in the photo, just the holes where the roots of the teeth clear at the back of the upper jaw were. The part of the skull that has the front teeth on a dog is no longer there.
  14. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    Yes, chaded, it is all your fault that I decided to identify the skull when TC Ranch asked if anyone knows what kind of skull it is. My hypothesis is that it is the back part of the skull of a small dog. However, if that is shown to be incorrect, I would be interested to know what species it...
  15. J

    What kind of bone is this?

    OH, NO, she's back! Someone drown their small dog in the pond. This is the rear part of a dog skull. No dragons, turtles, alligators, or underbite here - LOL.
  16. J

    Seventh horse dies at Churchill Downs

    Part of the cause is disruption of the bone development on the fetus foals during development. Thoroughbreds eat grass and grain, both have tested high in neonicotinoids and glyphosate. Just neonicotinoids alone were shown by studies to cause mammal babies to have birth defects, including...
  17. J

    Seventh horse dies at Churchill Downs

    If Secretariat's progeny were not close to his equal, how did 17 horses of 18 in the Derby have his genes? Of all the thoroughbred foals born three years ago, that is a pretty high percentage of the cream of the crop having his genes. It is often not the first generation that inherits the...
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