I can’t believe I don’t have grey hair yet.

Doing one dental procedure in a month is a nail biter for us.  Doing 6 in two days was going to push us to the limits of what we thought possible, but nothing prepared us for how things can go sideways in an instant.

 

The Peter Emily International Veterinary Dental Foundation www.peteremilyfoundation.org/ is world famous for their charitable work; fixing big cat teeth.  In addition to volunteering their services, they bring vets who are training to learn from them and a slew of techs and their PR person.  We asked them to come help us address lingering dental issues for the tigers: Seth, Zabu, Gabrielle, Priya & Amanda and our cougar, Sassy.  Dr. Gingerich came up from The Pet Dental Center in Bonita Springs http://petdental.center/ to observe and help.  Our own vets, Dr. Justin Boorstein and Dr. Liz Wynn, of the Ehrlich Animal Hospital came as well, and Dr. Justin invited a vet from his practice, at the Humane Society of Tampa Bay, Dr. Christine Glenn.

 

The way the PEIVDF vets work is in pairs or trios, all working in the cat’s mouth at the same time.  All of the sedation and handling of the cats is done by the sanctuary and their own vets.  This is how they can complete so many procedures in such a short period of time.  Day 1 Saturday Oct. 7 was pretty amazing!

 

We had been preparing for this weekend for a year and there were two huge hurdles.  First was that we only had one working tiger transport cage and the other was that we only had one anesthesia machine and it was designed for dogs and cats; not tigers.  Through fundraisers and pleas for help with our wish list items we had managed to secure donors for 3 new transport cages and a tiger sized anesthesia machine with a ventilator.  (Huge shout out the Roselle and the MacLean families!)

 

Hi, I’m Carole Baskin and I’ve been writing my story since I was able to write, but when the media goes to share it, they only choose the parts that fit their idea of what will generate views.  These are my views and opinions. If I'm going to share my story, it should be the whole story.  The titles are the dates things happened. If you have any interest in who I really am please start at the beginning of this playlist: http://savethecats.org/

 

I know there will be people who take things out of context and try to use them to validate their own misconception, but you have access to the whole story.  My hope is that others will recognize themselves in my words and have the strength to do what is right for themselves and our shared planet.  

 

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Music (if any) from Epidemic Sound (http://www.epidemicsound.com) This video is for entertainment purposes only and is my opinion.  Closing graphic with permission from https://youtu.be/F_AtgWMfwrk