- Bob Hayer: How can so many organs, bones, and muscles fit into such a tiny body?!
- Bob Hayer: Your next pet will be an elephant!
- Sandra: Yes, Sir!
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![[0950] Elephantine](/comics/2017-12-28-0950-elephantine.png "[0950] Elephantine")
[0950] Elephantine
└ posted on Thursday, 28 December 2017, by Novil
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@ Vegemite:
I like the extra touch that the Skull in that invective is clearly an animal skull rather than a human skull.
Why is Sandra in the operating room?
Doesn’t she carry germs and stuff?
Now I really want to see that vet put an elephant on his operating table.
Wait till the vet has to operate on Roborovski hamster.
Wait ’til Richard sees the resulting vet bill.
@ Asrial:
Yes but her presence might be the only thing keeping Woo and Lily from interrupting
Wait till god of elephants (Ganesha, was it?) grant Sandra the tiny Elephant for her next pet just to mess with the vet.
Franken-turus?
“As the minuteness of the parts formed a great hindrance to my speed, I resolved, contrary to my first intention, to make the being of a gigantic stature; that is to say, about eight feet in height, and proportionably large.”
Feartheswans wrote:
Nevertheless, Sandra should not be in there unless she’s scrubbed, and doubly so Woo, Lily, and the other kits should not be in there. Sandra should be in the waiting room with the family, keeping them (especially Lily) calm.
He thinks this is tough, he should try operating on neonates.
At least he wasn’t complaining about how small he was having to write to sign the internal organs. I got a laugh out of that story.
She should have at least been wearing a face mask, but the doc apparently isn’t too concerned about sterile procedure, as he pulled his own down to yell at her.
Perhaps Doc Hayer called in an off duty surgeon from the hospital to do the operation? A veterinary surgeon would be used to operating on smaller bodies.
627235 wrote:
I think this is like when women cuss out the man that knocked them up, and then seem to forget about it. He’s under major stress.
Anyway operations on elephants probably require a team and special tools. Ever think of the problems involved in such simple procedures as giving an elephant an enema?
627235 wrote:
He should only have to operate on the animal in 0430] Software Engineering, Now With Cats! └ posted on Monday, 19 November 2012, by Novil
since Vets usually need to treat small animals, usually the pets of small children, wouldn’t it make sense for the vet to make some kind of magnification device, like a pair of magnification goggles or in the worst case scenario a magnifying glass
My cousin was a practicing dentist and was called to a zoo to consult on an elephant with a tusk that was splitting. They wound up putting a “bracelet” around the splitting area of the tusk. Imagine trying to work on a 3-ton animal that doesn’t really understand what you’re doing, is in pain, and can’t really be anesthetized. And is dangerous if it tries to break away from you.
@ Shazz_smifff:
Speaking as someone who’s dissected small animals, the organs aren’t so small that you have trouble seeing them.
What’s pissing him off is “fat finger syndrome”; The pitchfork left too small a hole for him to reach in through, and he doesn’t dare significantly enlarge it because Arci is so small to begin with.
A goldfish and an elephant are two completely different things.
And the elephant will be Mr. Tusks, vice mayor of tiny towne.
Hippopotamus.
*discovers new species of Elephant at its largest the size of a Great dane*
*Adopts a Baby of said species*
@ 627235: Yeah it sounds like a statement he might regret later.
@ Razel:
That would fit the behaviour of the gods in this comic perfectly.
Yet another suspension of disbelief. A small-animal vet would never say that; nor, as has been pointed out, would Sandra be present.
Love your series.
Please do more research, or you shall be a victim of your own success.
@ Richard Sheaves-Bein:
Operating theaters aren’t actually all that super clean. The anaestheologist is often also not scrubbed up, just wearing a clean gown. And more importantly the patient itself is also only cleanrd around the actual operating site.
The important thing in a surgical theater is that anything thay comes into or above the wound is steril, because downflow can get the stuff into the wound and cause infection. Anything outside the wound area is kept away from the wound by the airflow and careful procedures. There’s even things like clean-cubes, which are basically a tent the surgian puts around just a limb to get a clean working zone. The rest can then be a standard “dirty” room, which saves tremendously on operating cost for surgery on feet, hands and lower limbs.
In summary, as long as Sandra stays in the chair and doesn’t hang over the wound there is no harm in her being there.
The bigger the animal the more it eats.
The more food you need the more expensive it becomes.
The smaller the animal the more the vet curses and charges you accordingly.
No matter what size animal you take, the price is the same.. at least with small pets you can cuddle them. could you imagine sandra cuddling with a elephant in her bed?
@ Asrial:
as long as you don’t touch stuff its fine. i used to volunteer at a shelter to get experience around animals (i wanted to be a vet nurse) and was allowed to observe operations, on simpler ones the vets talked through what they were doing so i could learn.
“white elephant (n.)
“burdensome charge, inconvenient thing that one does not know how to get rid of,” 1851, supposedly from the practice of the King of Siam of presenting one of the sacred albino elephants to a courtier who had fallen from favor; the gift was a great honor, but the proper upkeep of one was ruinously expensive.”
Props to Sam O Nella’s YouTube Channel for reminding me the phrase.
@ Asrial:
Guy’s probably super lax about sterility measures, lol. I mean, he broke sterile field just to pull down his mask and shout at Sandra, lol.
@ Aldin:
űarcturus actually a “wild” raccoon, so the bill goes to the government, if i know right. The “helpful bystander” cannot be “punished” for the good intentions!
@ Richard Sheaves-Bein:
concidering the really clean fork tine that went through his shoulder, Sandra sat away from the table not touching anything is the least of his infection worries.
Has anyone considered it’s after hours and he doesn’t have the staff to stop her?
I’m afraid I absolutely no respect for a vet who displays anger towards his patients instead of empathy. For a practicing vet, small animals would be daily fare so what is the problem? Do you regret choosing this career?
Additionally, anger is not going to help his surgical performance (which is already suspect by his breaking sterility barriers).
He is obviously the only vet available but I wouldn’t go back to him.
@ TheSkulker:
its already been determined that he is starting to regret his carreer.
The second panel kind of reminds me of the Hasbro surgery game Operation. Anybody remember the toy commercials in the 80’s?
@ Asrial:
You are right, she should be wearing surgical gear. But if she had been, there would be very little expression to be seen on her face.
@ TheSkulker:
I would agree in a real-life situation, but in the case of a webcomic, where the joke is the delivery on the last picture, it is kind of funny. Also, he was very empathetic when Woo had the bald spot on his tail.
Elephant? Really?
https://www.google.com/url?sa=i&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=images&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwjl54nRobXYAhWik-AKHZm5AZIQjRwIBw&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DmqnPvKbUoLs&psig=AOvVaw02nwuqGzy9xrofETCcraKc&ust=1514844427421123
Dang, that’s huge. Didn’t expect that to happen.
Sorry if it messes the forum up.
Far wrote:
You can edit any such Google URL by removing the tracking codes that make up 75% of the address. Delete everything from the beginning “https” to and including the “&URL=”. Then delete everything after the “&psig=” and you are left with just:
“https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqnPvKbUoLs”
Much shorter!
In general, the first part is Google tracking where you were when you linked to YouTube. The second part is telling YouTube where you came from. For Google searches, it is usually “&usg=” instead of “&psig=” following the actual address. The “&xyz=” strings are PHP variable definitions used to communicate various info to the we site. For YouTube, all you ever need is the “?v=…” part.
And, hopefully, your next link will be for a more palatable subject! 😉 😉
Let’s talk about the elephant that’s not in the room, shall we?
Oh really?
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/2010/09/06/0197-tick/
TheSkulker wrote:
Wellll, just trying to make the point about elephants and veterinary medicine wouldn’t be any better.