ANIMAL SURGERY

Hokitika Guardian, 17 April 1930, Page 2

ANIMAL SURGERY

COW’S FALSE TEETH.

GLASS EYE FOR DOG

SYDNEY, April 3

One was inclined, to apce.pt with the proverbial grain of salt recent American reports of a horse fitted with a set of false teeth, and of; cows fitted with (Irak glasses for better milking results, but according to one of. Sydney Sunday papers New South [Wales can also provide an - extraordinary case of animal surgery. In this case, however, Strawberry was fitted,, ,np,t,. wj tlin.‘,\. ; ,pp).r..pf„d. l! rlv,, horn-rimmed ‘spectacles, but with a brand new -sot of molars. A dentist at Bondi—a. suburb of,Sydney, noted, for its gay,./continental air' at night along its fine beach promenade—was entrusted recently with the task of making- the cow, a prize animal, a false set of. teeth, according to the paper which reveals this somewhat freakish bit" of surgery. The set was made and fitted .into the animal’s jaw •without any ill-effects, it is stated. Cows are no loss immune from toothache or the torture of teeth extraction than humans, according to one of. the professors of the Afeterinary ,Research School at Sydney University. The caste' of ft pedigj-ee,, dog., .belongmg. to, a, Sydney owner,' having been. furnished with a glass eye recently’is rechlUid,

Anyway, be, \vi. : t)v Strawberry if she shows,- a. t desire, to- kick the bucket when being milked. She might be suffering from the .toothache, or neuralgia, digestive disorder, or some other exciting of .pi : bad molar, and might he feeling out of sorts. Tijkw.,hfi!r, *to« ithe: tdeutlsfei [or*,an overhaul." After all, “there never was yet a pjiiiosop, her .that, cq-yld on-, dure- the' toothache patiently.’.’ ..Again, if she is giving short measure, it might he a ease of myopia. She'might b c suffering from short sight or from eyo strain in the occupation of looking for succulent blades of grass. Suitable glasses might restore the rich lacteal flow. The same .with the cat that howls all night. It might not be seeking its soul mate, lake it to the vet. It might merely be suffering; from insomnia andHife 1 ' in' < tieecl“6f a' seductive! drug -or- pir.: