  Work, work, work I can't believe I forgot to mention the day I had at work yesterday. We were in the middle of doing radiographs on one of the Children's Zoo goats, (who has a bladder condition and who is losing weight for no obvious reason), when all of a sudden there came a radio call for help at the rhino exhibit.
Head vet grabs temporary vet #2, and goes off to see what is wrong. About 15 minutes later he radios me, we have an emergency at rhinos, and we need to pack the emergency stuff. Head vet has the van, which is usually what we use to transport personnel and gear, so we throw everything in a pile on the back dock to wait for them to come pick us up.
He never did say what the emergency was, so we packed everything but the kitchen sink. When we got there we found out that the rhino had received a new piece of "enrichment" that day. A big blue barrel with both ends cut off. Well... he liked it so much he got his head stuck in the barrel up to his ears and couldn't get it off. I wish I had a photo, but unfortunately I don't. Everyone showed up to help sort out the situation, from the vet staff to the construction department, and ideas were flying.
First they tried to cut it off with gardening shears while the rhino was still awake, it readily became apparent he wasn't going to go for that, so we administered a dose of sedative to mellow him out. The final plan "A" was to drill several holes in the barrel, then use poles with curved rebar attached with ducktape to pull the barrel off. Plan "B" (because "A" didn't work, the rebar kept bending) was to run some rope thru the drilled holes and have 8 or 10 people pull the barrel off. Plan "C" (do you see a pattern here? ) was to take a cordless saw and cut the barrel off. I think it was a combo of Plan "C" and brute force that eventually pulled the barrel off his head.
Reversal drugs for the sedative were admininstered, and the barrel-ectomy was declared a success! The goat had some teeth that needed to be filed, which could account for the weight loss, the urinary thing is still somewhat of a mystery, but it had pretty much cleared up on the meds before we got the x-rays scheduled so we'll probably have to wait for the next flare-up. 
