PQ 2022 Flashcards
Who has the most concentrated urine?
a. Rat
b. Guinea pig
c. Gerbil
d. Chinchilla
c. Gerbil
Where are scent glands located in the hamster?
a. Ventral on the midline
b. Dorsal
c. On both sides
d. None
c. On both sides
How many scent glands does a rabbit have?
a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
c. 3
Sludge is connected to which organ?
a. Stomach
b. Small intestine
c. Urinary bladder
d. Uterus
c. Urinary bladder
Which of these have feather cysts?
a. Canary
. Guinea pigs are considered to have…
a. small size, large body surface
b. small size, small surface area
c. Large size, large surface
d. Large size, small surface
a. small size, large body surface
What drug can not be given PO to rabbits?
a. Amoxicillin
b. erythromycin
c. clindamycin
d. azithromycin
a. Amoxicillin
How many teeth does a guinea pig have?
a. 20
b. 22
c. 24
d. None of the above
a. 20
rabbit 28, hamster 16
What doesn’t cause respiratory symptoms?
a. Abdominal mass
b. Mechanical irritation
c. Encephalitozoonosis
d. Dental problem
c. Encephalitozoonosis
What does Mycoplasma pulmonis cause in the rat?
CRD = chronic respiratory disease
What causes mucoid enteritis?
a. Stress
b. Too low fibre
c. Iron insufficiency
a. Stress
b. Too low fibre
What cannot cause an acquired dental disease?
a. Brachygnathia
b. Trauma
c. Metabolic bone disease
a. Brachygnathia → congenital
Vitamin D deficiency
a. Calcium cannot be absorbed and calcium binding proteins will be inhibited
b. Bone issues
c. Phosphorous cannot be absorbed
a. Calcium cannot be absorbed and calcium binding proteins will be inhibited
What do you do for overgrown incisors
a. Extraction
b. Grind down
c. Both
d. None
c. Both
Which of these has a diaphragm?
a. Guinea pig
b. Corn snake
c. Tortoise Herman
d. Swan
a. Guinea pig
How many eggs do day geckos lay at one time
a. Only 1
b. Always 2
c. 3-4
d. 5-7
b. Always 2
Xylazine can cause what
a. Myocardial necrosis
b. Myocardial fibrosis
c. Does not affect the heart
d. Decreases GI motility
a. Myocardial necrosis in rabbits
b. Myocardial fibrosis in rabbits
d. Decreases GI motility
- respiratory depression
Which drug causes apnoea
a. Propofol
b. Fentanyl
c. Ketamine
d. all 3
d. all 3
a. Propofol
b. Fentanyl (sometimes)
c. Ketamine
Midazolam can be administered:
a. In combination
b. By itself
c. ?
d. All 3 (Can also be given to at risk patients).
a. In combination
b. By itself
Which is zoonotic
a. Trichophyton mentagrophytes
b. Cheyletiella
c. francisella tularensis
d. psoroptes
e. All of the above
e. All of the above
Which vein is used in rabbit
a. Marginal vein
b. Saphena
c. Cephalica
d. all 3
d. all 3
Larger volume:
- Jugular and lateral saphenous vein
which causes hypothermia during surgery
a. Heat pad
b. Warm table
c. Feet covered
d. Alcohol
d. Alcohol
Rabbits are
a. Obligate nasal breathers
How long do chinchillas live for?
a. 10-15 years (up to 22 years!)
How long do guinea pigs live for?
5-7 years
When is there symmetrical alopecia?
a. Mites
b. Ringworm
c. None
d. Both
c. None
Which spp. should be fasted before surgery?
a. Ferret
b. Rabbit
c. Hamster
d. Guinea pig
a. Ferret
Which have white molars?
a. Guinea pig
b. Rabbit
c. Chinchilla
d. Hamster
d. Hamster
Omnivores are white, herbivores are yellow
which are active at dusk and dawn?
Rabbit, guinea pig
which are active at night
Rat, hamster, mouse, chinchilla
What causes fur chewing?
a. Iron insufficiency
b. Too little fibre
c. Stress
b. Too little fibre (in rabbits)
c. Stress (in chinchillas)
When do you use premedication in rabbits?
a. When you use isoflurane after
b. Painful surgery
c. Risky patients
d. Always
d. Always
What can you not give in a bolus?
a. Propofol
b. Ketamine
c. Fentanyl
d. none
d. none
Which do have continuous molar tooth growth?
Rabbit, hare, guineapig, chinchilla, degu,
Which is not needed in fixing teeth?
a. Mouth gag
b. Foreign body forceps
c. Light source
d. Dental grind wheel
b. Foreign body forceps
Which is needed for rabbit intubation (two question with different options):
a. Endoscope
b. Otoscope
c. Blindly
d. All of them
d. All of them
- endoscope
- otoscope
- blind intubation
- V-gel
Which one is the easiest to intubation
a. Ferret
b. Rabbit
c. Guinea pig
d. Snake
d. Snake
what happens when a gecko has no setae on their feet?
a. Cannot swim
b. Cannot grasp insect pray
c. Cannot climb vertical glass
d. None
c. Cannot climb vertical glass
What is for the rabbit?
a. Uterus duplex bicornis
b. Uterus simplex bicornis
c. Uterus duplex unicornis
d. Uterus simplex unicornis
a. Uterus duplex bicornis
Where is the sweat gland located in rabbit
they have no external sweat gland, can overheat and die
Where is the sweat gland located in hamster
they have none!
Which animal drops its tail?
A. Leopard gecko
B. Snakes
C. Tortoise
A. Leopard gecko
Easy to intubate a rabbit?
no
Which species has continuous molar growth
Rabbits + obligate herbivore rodents (guinea pig, chinchilla,
degu)
Which species have incisors continuously growing?
rabbits, guinea pig, chinchilla, degu, rat
Which species do NOT have continuous molar growth
mouse, rat, hedgehog
What can you get from palpating a client?
a. Body condition
b. Dehydration
c. Internal masses
d. All of the above
d. All of the above
How to treat entamoeba infection?
Metronidazole
Which snake is the biggest?
Python
What does knemidokoptes sp. cause?
Affecting beak & legs
What is a buck?
a. Male rabbit
b. Female rabbit
c. Male guinea pig
d. Female guinea pig
a. Male rabbit
What is a doe?
a. Male rabbit
b. Female rabbit
c. Male guinea pig
d. Female guinea pig
b. Female rabbit
Where would you NOT put an IV catheter in rabbits?
a. Marginal ear vein
b. Vena cava cranialis
c. Cephalic vein
d. Saphenous vein
b. Vena cava cranialis
Iv catheterisation: ferrets
- V. cephalic
- V. jugularis
Which castration technique is used - 2 questions, I think the species asked were mouse
and rabbit and rat
a. Closed
b. Open
c. Both can be used
d. Depends on the size of the animals
Closed (always)
When does the skin lose its elasticity in reptiles
a. 2-3 % water loss
b. 5-10 % water loss
c. 15-20 % water loss
d. Not relevant
b. 5-10 % water loss → I chose this because this is what we studied in every other
subject
A question about finding two darker (I think?), hairless areas on the flank of a hamster
answer should have been this is physiological as those are the scent gland
When neutering a doe do we..
- Take out just the ovaries
- Take out the uterus
- Tie the fallopian tubes
- Only take out the uterus when we see some pathological change
Take out the uterus???
The reason we castrate rabbits
- To prevent reproduction
- To prevent some odour problems
- To change behaviour
- All three answers
- All three answers
Body temperature of rabbits..
- Is important to monitor more and more when the patient is under anaesthesia for a long time
- Is checked at every general check up examination
- Doesn’t need to be checked
- Is checked at every general check up examination
- Is important to monitor more and more when the patient is under anaesthesia for a long time
Which statement is true for rabbits?
- Only some rabbits have atropinase enzyme
- Giving atropine will increase gut motility
- Ketamine can not be given to rabbits
- Only some rabbits have atropinase enzyme
How do we assist an intubation in rabbits?
- With endoscope
- With otoscope
- We can use both
- Hell no we don’t need help!
- We can use both
Which one is hard to intubate?
- Guinea pig
- Swan
- Hermann tortoise
- Snake
- Guinea pig
Rabbits and rodent
These are the real “herbivores”
- Rabbit and guinea pig
- Chinchilla and degu
- Guinea pig and degu
- Rabbit and chinchilla
- Rabbit and guinea pig
Which species is crepuscular (dawn & dusk)
- rabbit & Guinea pig
which are obligated herbivore rodents?
guineq pig, chinchilla, degu
