At Hess's clinic, one of only two in the country accredited by the American Animal Hospital Association, she even
treats wallabies, marsupials similar to but smaller than kangaroos.
«Columbian Park Zoo called us in the spring, asking if we could help
them treat a wallaby with a dislocated hip and we thought, «Sure, why not?»»
When choosing the correct stimulus in the experiment, the
wallaby would be
treated with food, leading to an extremely accurate determination of the Neutral Point.
I
treat exotic pets — birds (parrots, canaries, finches, chickens, turkeys, waterfowl, pigeons and doves), rabbits, rodents (guinea pigs, chinchillas, rats, mice, hamsters, gerbils, degus), ferrets, reptiles (lizards, snakes, turtles, tortoises), amphibians (frogs and toads), and some less commonly kept exotics such as hedgehogs, sugar gliders, pot - bellied pigs,
wallabies, kinkajous, and pet skunks.
Using a device called a Tightrope ™, a Purdue Veterinary Medicine small animal surgery team recently
treated the dislocated hip of a female
wallaby from Lafayette's Columbian Park Zoo.