

Tiny sutures for a tiny patient
Baby Eastern cottontail, Sylvilagus floridanus Last week, Clinic Director Arianna Mouradjian called to ask if I could suture a wound on a baby bunny. He was one of the first babies of the year. I asked her to zip me a text with a photo, hoping we could glue the wound instead. As you can see, he was indeed tiny, and too small to use any type of anesthetic safely. He had a deep wound across the top of his scalp that extended to his unopened right eye causing it to droop open a