FEBRUARY 2014: MONTHLY REPORT BY ARR MOBILE VETERINARY

Date	Location	Species	Concern	Photo	Notes	Drugs/Notes
9/2/14	Crescent Island	Wildebeest-Female	Postmortem		Spotted dead lying on right lateral recumbence. Portion of Intestines were popping out of the stomach and the whole of gluteal region had been predated on.	It was suspected to have been attacked by hyenas that mauled her in the encounter.
10/2/14	Hells Gate National Park	Zebra-Male	Wound		Spotted lame on the right fore limb. Examination revealed a septic wound at fetlock posteriorly and was exuding creamy pus mixed with fresh blood. This was as a result of faulty snare. Hoof on the same limb had overgrown. Hoof was trimmed using hoof cutter and filed using hoof rasp. 100mgs Ivermectin was administered subcutaneously.	Immobilized using 7mgs Etorphine and 60mgs Azaperone. Wound was cleaned with 100ml Hydrogen Peroxide, rinsed with 50ml Iodine, sprayed with 50ml Tetracycline wound spray. 20ml healing oil was smeared topically on the wound 30000mgs Tetracycline was injected into muscles. Was revived using 24mgs Diprenorphine intravenous
11/2/14	Kedong Ranch	Zebra-Male	Wound		Was isolated due to severe lameness on the right hind limb at fetlock joint which was due to traumatic wound suspected to have been caused by faulty snare. It was bleeding due to ambulation. 20cc Pyrethrin was applied as pour-on acaricide and 100mgs Ivermectin injected subcutaneously	Darted using etorphine 7mgs and 60mgs Azaperone mixture. 100ml Hydrogen peroxide followed by 50ml Iodine was used to clean the wound. 50ml Tetracycline Wound spray and 50ml healing oil was topically applied one after the other. 15000mgs Amoxicillin was injected intramuscularly. It was revived using 24mgs Diprenorphine into jugular vein.
13/2/14	Lake Nakuru National Park	Black Rhino-Male ID No. 44	Emaciation		Reported to be weak occasioned by poor body score. Examination shown that it was highly emaciated and had several natural wounds. He was alert and ambulating well though slow. It was feeding but did not have normal aggressiveness.	The same candidate had been treated in November 2013 for fight wounds. There was no obvious indicator warranting darting and also his condition disqualified him from darting adventure. It was recommended that he be monitored for seven days after which review will be done.
	Loldia	Buffalo-Female	Snare		Was reported as having been ‘tethered’ around a strong tree.  Examination revealed that it had been snared around neck using a wedge wire about seven meters long. The snoop was tight causing severe strangulation. This led to bloat which was made worsened by advanced pregnancy.  She was very aggressive	It was darted using 12mgs Etorphine and 180mgs Azaperone. Unfortunately she went down on a very tight snare which caused fatal strangulation before it was severed using wire cutter.
	Western & Northern Lake Naivasha	Hippos	Deaths Surveillance		A response was made to a report that many hippos around Lake Naivasha were dying following massive fencing resulting to scarce forage. Areas visited were along Moi North lake road. Only one death was reported at Marula Estate but was the carcass was highly decomposed.	In Manera there was another carcass which was found in a trapping whole along Manera-Lower KARI border. This matter was handed over to Investigation team at Naivasha Station for action as it indicated poaching activities
14/2/14	Olkaria Gate	Zebra foal-Male	Congenital deformities		Noted spending most of the time lying down. When examined closely it was established that it had congenital deformities affecting both hind limbs. The left had hock joint deflexion medially crossing over to the right side and fetlock had posterior deflexion. The right had fetlock Knuckling.	The degree of deformity was severe making ambulation difficult and subjected the foal to unnecessary duress. To overcome all the shortcomings, it was euthanized using 400mgs Sodium Pentobarbitone intracardially
	Annex-KWSTI	Waterbuck-Female	Snare		Was noted shaking head constantly. This was caused by a strangulating plain wire snare around the neck. It had resulted to septic traumatic wound with creamy tenacious pus and Scab formation	Darted using 8mgs Etorphine and 80mgs Azaperone. Wound was liberally cleaned with 100cc Hydrogen Peroxide, then 100cc Iodine. It was sprayed with 50cc Tetracycline wound spray and smeared with 50cc Healing Oil. 7500mgs of Penicillin was injected intramuscularly. It was reversed with 75mgs Naltrexone intravenously.
16/2/14	Lake Nakuru National Park	White Rhino-Male named Joe	Postmortem		It was discovered in the morning after a night of gunshots. It was found on right lateral recumbence. Two projectile entries were found on the left metacarpal and above the left eye.	An exit point was found on the metacarpal joint posteriorly for the former and the latter track was followed to the left frontal bone, left neck muscles up to left humerus neck where it settled completely fracturing the humeral neck. The animal died of circulatory shock following rupture of left brachial plexus.
	Lake Nakuru National Park	Black Rhino-  ID No. 44	Postmortem		It died while under monitoring following wasting syndrome. It was found on sternal recumbence. A swelling was noted on right neck muscles. Between the swelling and cervical vertebrae was a bullet head. The swelling was believed to have been pus which hardened to form muscle like tissue. This showed that it was a long standing condition.	The carcass was screened for any metallic foreign material using metal detector. A total of seven bullet heads were retrieved from the carcass. Five within neck muscles and two within stomach region. It died of massive organ failure since the liver was covered with fibrin, pericardial sac and ventral colon were ruptured.
24/2/14	Soy Sambu Wildlife Conservancy	Zebra-Female	Fracture		Reported lame on the left front limb. The said limb had a lateral deflexon at the level of metacarpal joint making ambulation painful resulting to constant periods of lying down. The injury was suspected to have been caused faulty snare	Was darted using 7mgs Etorphine and 60mgs Azaperone. Due to seriousness of the injury it was put down using 400mgs Sodium Pentobarbitone intravenously to avoid unnecessary suffering.
26/2/14	Bao Campsite near Ndere Island	Construction of Holding Boma	Preparation of release		Constructed boma to hold the different species which were meant to be translocated to Ndere Island from Naivasha area.	The targeted animals were zebras, waterbuck, warthogs and impalas. These were meant to complete the tourist western circuit.
28/2/14	Sanctuary Farm	18 Zebras-5 males, 13 females	Capture and Translocation		Capture was effected by use of chemicals and manual loading of the immobilized zebras into transporting crate loaded on truck where they were revived and separated in two compartments. Two zebras were desnared in the process and one was released after treatment of dermal swellings. One female zebra died immediately after intravenous darting.	Each was immobilized using 6mgs for adults and 5mgs for sub adult Etorphine and 80 or 60mgs Azaperone respectively. 500I.U of Hylase was included to shorten knock down time. Each was revived using 24 mgs Diprenorphine intravenously and 15mgs Naltrexone intramuscularly
28/2/14	Bao Campsite near Island	17 Zebras-5 males, 12 females	Release		They were released at late night into the holding boma to rest awaiting transit over water the following morning to Ndere Island	Two broke out of boma and were darted using 5mgs Etorphine and 50mgs Azaperone. They were taken back into boma and revived using 24mgs Diprenorphine.