Transporting large animals

2003-02-01 Thread Gael Goldsack
We had occasion to move a 70kg (160#) anaesthetised Irish Wolfhound from the car to get her inside the house. She used to panic if she came out of an anaesthetic at the vet hospital, so we brought her home to wake up. We used a large carpet piece (that fitted into the back of our wagon) to carry as

Transporting large animals

2003-01-30 Thread Workndog
>From my first aid training, you can improvise a quick stretcher from two 6 ft closet >pole rods and a blanket. For a dog I would fold a blanket in half and lay it on the >ground. Then put the two poles (in parallel)on top, a little more than a third of the >way in from the edge on each side. Fo