Asian Small-Clawed Otter Husbandry Manual (1998)

Health:-Do you perform regular routine physical examinations on your otters?Yes •---How often?_________________ No •-Does the routine exam include hematology and scrum chemistry analysis?Yes • No •-What type of veterinary care do you have access to in your collection?Full time veterinarian on staff? •Part time veterinarian on staff or contract? •Hours per week_________Contract veterinarian on call when needed? •Other________________________________-Please list the primary veterinarian to contact regarding otter health concerns.Name____________________________Phone____________________________Fax______________________________E-mail____________________________-Please identify the most common clinical health problems seen in your otters, excluding renaland cystic calculi. Please check those that you have noted in your animals and add any otheritems you have seen. Feel free to elaborate and give details regarding frequency and cause, etc.A. Dental problems •____________________________________________B. Abscesses •_________________________________________________C. Diarrhea and/or vomiting •______________________________________D. Fur plucking •________________________________________________E. Spinal disease •_______________________________________________F. Neonatal deaths •______________________________________________G. Lameness •__________________________________________________H. Pneumonia •_________________________________________________I. Dermatitis •__________________________________________________J. Salmonellosis •_______________________________________________K. Nutritional deficiencies •_______________________________________L._____________________________________________________________M._____________________________________________________________N._____________________________________________________________-Do you routinely perform postmortem examinations on all otters? Yes • No •-Do you perform histopathology on all otters? Yes • No •-Who performs the histopathology?_________________________________-Would you be interested in using a specific pathologist identified by the SSP for all ofyour otter cases? Yes • No•Asian Small-Clawed Otter Husbandry Manual/Survey Questions85