Wednesday 13 April 2011

An injured animal

You don't want to get injured in Svalbard. We are having a good hospital, but there is some limitations what they can do there. People with some bigger injuries are send to Tromsø for to get treatment. But it's long way to Tromsø...

Situation is even worse for animals. We don't have any vet here. The hospital can help also animals with small injuries, but otherwise also they need to get treatment in the mainland.

Our dog got injured. We are thinking his paw is only sprained (which is painful enough!), but as we don't have a vet here, that is only our own unprofessional diagnose. We contacted a vet by telephone and he send a prescription to the pharmacy. So, he's getting now some painkillers and if his paw doesn't get better in five days time, then we need to think if we need to take him to the hospital or in Tromsø. So, now he's jumping around with his three paws and we're just hoping that he's getting soon better again.

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