10/29/2004: Baby raccoons

[Katkeeper]

A straighter incision would be a plus as well!

I've noticed that vets don't care much about sewing techniques. My calico had an injury (shaving revealed white fur; nearly white skin) that had to be stitched. She still has a spot in her fur that shows where the injury was because of the skin that was kind of bunched up to sew it together. In defense of the vets, I have a doctor friend who was in Vietnam putting people back together, and he says that the faster you can work on a person, the less stress on the body and the quicker the person will recover.
So he learned to work very fast. I assume this is true of animals also.
When my friend returned to civilian life as an ob-gyn, he worked very quickly on patients when he had to do surgery. He was known for the short recovery time of his patients!