P.E.I. vet performs career first in operation on 50-gram dwarf hamster
NEW PERTH, P.E.I. — A veterinarian in Prince Edward Island successfully operated on her smallest patient ever earlier this week — a 50-gram dwarf hamster named Mr. Nibbles.
“Somebody was asking me, ‘How big is 50 grams? Is it the size of a walnut?’” Dr. Claudia Lister said Thursday in an interview from the New Perth Animal Hospital. “I said, ‘More like two cotton balls.’”
Mr. Nibbles had injured his paw on his hamster wheel, and needed an amputation.
Lister carefully researched the right anesthetic dosage to successful carry the furry critter through the surgery.