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Question 1

normal urine volume in a rabbit?

Answer 1

up to 130 ml/kg/d

Question 2

hamsters are your classic amyloids, but who else gets it?

Answer 2

rabbits

Question 3

common bugs for cystitis in rabbits?

Answer 3

pseudomonas & e coli

Question 4

normal UPC in a rabbit?

Answer 4

up to 0.40

Question 5

weird fatty kidney thing?

Answer 5

In obese does near parturition, perirenal fat can get steatitis like liver does - can cause ARF

Question 6

Polycystic kidney dz in rabbits is also assoc with abnormalities where else?

Answer 6

cholangitis

Question 7

medication for hormonal incontinence in spayed female rabbits?

Answer 7

DES

Question 8

Polypoid cystitis in rabbits typically occurs why?

Answer 8

in response to irritation/inflammation in the bladder

Question 9

You spin down rabbit urine and the supernatant remains reddish. Indicates….

Answer 9

pigmenturia not hematuria

Question 10

where do bladder stones in male GPs often lodge?

Answer 10

neck of bladder at the seminal colliculus

Question 11

what size uroliths can pass on their own in GPs?

Answer 11

<5mm

Question 12

one case report of ARF in a guinea pig who ate

Answer 12

a peace lily. Literally the only way in which a guinea pig is like a cat.

Question 13

which crystals are normal in chinchilla urine?

Answer 13

Amorphous is normal

CALCIUM CARBONATE IS NOT

Question 14

Normal color of degu pee?

Answer 14

white to brown; typically quite turbid

Question 15

weird cause of urinary obstructions in mice?

Answer 15

infection of the preputial glands with staph aureus

or bulbourethral glands with Pasteurella pneumotropica

Question 16

Mouse kidney parvovirus. Sure. why not.

Answer 16

spontaneous nephropathy in mice. mostly a research mouse thing.

Question 17

how much protein does a rat kidney spill, if a rat kidney does spill protein

Answer 17

with chronic progressive nephrosis, can be >10 mg per day! - up to 137 mg/d reported in male SD rats

Question 18

what is Klosiella dulcis?

Answer 18

Sugar glider kidney worm

Question 19

Rabbits and sugar gliders shouldn’t be housed together, partly bc SG are insane, but also b/c

Answer 19

If the SG gets pasteurella from the rabbit, generalized abscessation and sudden death

Question 20

What is Simplicomonas?

Answer 20

Sugar glider “ick” - diarrhea, joey covered in gross discharge. like tritrich basically.

Question 21

sugar glider oral abscesses are commonly what bacteria?

Answer 21

Proteus & the various enterobacters

Question 22

marked gas dilation in the intestines of a hedgehog indicates

Answer 22

pretty much anything (including obstructions, but generally, just “sick hedgehog”

Question 23

signs of ADV in a skunk?

Answer 23

like mink or ferrets
melena
fever
wasting
hepatosplenomegaly
neuro

Question 24

adenoviral hepatitis in skunks - should they be vaccinated?

Answer 24

no. (no vaccine for the skunk version, and the dog adenovirus vaccine doesn’t work)

Question 25

canine distemper virus in skunks can cause what signs?

Answer 25

GI signs, vomiting & diarrhea are the ones mentioned