I am so glad to hear that your surgery has helped your overall health. May you continue to stay healthy.👍

My name is amanda

Didn't you mean hermaphrodite?

It's kind of interesting that autocorrect changed the word to Aphrodite, considering there are legends of the Goddess of Love being quite happy to transform herself to a more masculine form if she was interested in someone who was attracted to men. Probably not a necessary comment, but I couldn't help myself. It made me giggle. I'm glad that you've found a solution to help you stay healthy and comfortable!

Amanda Shelton- Glad your surgery went well. You don't have any problems.

Definitely not the run of the mill spay or neuter. This is really fixing up after a congenital defect, not a mere normal feature that we want to disable.

the surgeons of the area must've got an interesting portfolio

Did you notice any kind of pattern to the dogs with this problem? Such as it being more common among pure breeds, certain breeds of dogs, or was there reasons to believe there was a common problem with serious inbreeding of dogs in that area? I've volunteered at Pounds and Wild Animal Sanctuaries most of my life and never seen anything like Sofira.

@@riverlady982 no pattern that I noticed, the first was an older adult chihuahua mix, the next was an 8 week old shepherd/husky looking puppy, the other two that happened while I worked there I didn’t actually see, just heard about, so I don’t know what kind of dogs they were. I suspect the reason that shelter got so many through was simply that they have a HUGE free and low cost spay/neuter program and they do over 8000 spays and neuters a year. We got to see a fair number of really odd cases just because we had a HUGE number of animals coming through. Quick story though: that first intersex dog, the chihuahua, was a privately owned dog named “Princess” who was coming in through our free program for a low income neighborhood. She was a pampered baby who came in wearing a sparkly, hot pink collar and outfit. When we explained to the owner what we had found, she nearly fell over laughing and told us “I always wondered why she lifted her leg like a boy dog!”

@@ThKiwi How interesting... and hilarious! 😂

Interesting!

I thought the same! So cool

Learned something new today... Thank you 😘

Crazy haha I was also excited but because it sort of sounded the same haha I’m easily entertained so you can imagine how excited I was to read this haha

Nice to know people randomly do research on people's last name. Falconer was the last name for people who trained the Falcons for English royalty and went on to become land barons, well according to my family tree.

Most interesting case in a long time. Thank you .

Wow 😲😲😲🤔🤔🤔

My mom and I had a cat that was a hermaphrodite when I was a kid. We couldn’t get Milo dessexed because there were issues with his/her blood. And the tubes for the urethra were much longer than a normal males would’ve been. Milo ended up getting a UTI that even after 3 rounds of antibiotics we couldn’t get under control. He/she became septic and passed away.

​@@mcrchickenluvr Sad situation, sorry for your loss, we do get to fall in love with our pet babies

So they have ovaries and balls? Does that mean they could breed themselves? I know weirdest question ever.

@Yella16 m MB BM BM

100% agree A life is a life no matter if it’s human or not You took it on and now you do whatever you can to take care of it cost or no cost. How would people like it if we treated kids that way, not saying some don’t already thou People need to start understanding more taking on anything besides your own needs is challenging and it’s a lot of responsibility. You can’t just quit when things get tough. Find a way thru it and ask for help too.

Good job

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I agree, but I was met with the "lovely" experience of going to the vet and being told a CT scan for my cat would be $1600,- That was pre-insurance, and I do have insurance, but even with - it could still be $800, even if my max co-pay was $300. (something something about it being considered absolutely medically neccisarry etc). and some times they just go "no, we won't cover that". And with puppies, you often need to have a full vet check before even being able to insure them. so the issue would most likely not be covered by insurance due to it being pre-existing or genetic. I am not saying I wouldn't do everything in my power to help them, but I also won't blame someone if they planned for "normal" vet bills like micro-chip, desexing, vaccines etc. maybe a 1-2k exta "buffer" (but very few have this). and then show up to the vet and be told the dog need several CT scans, expert panels and a complex surgery? No way that is under 3k. possibly up to 5-6k. And if they give the dog up for adoption there is no certainty it will be adopted out or be fixed, and then you have basically condemned them to a life of misery of pain and skin infections. So it's a long way of saying " I kinda get it, no I would never want to put down a otherwhise healthy pet, but I do understand someone not wanting to go into mountains of debt if they think it will ruin their lives (and as a consequence the pet's life).

Out of curiosity, how much money did you spend? I am asking cuz I just wonder . I have no clue how much people spend on there pets.

This and Andrew going "tuk tuk tuk" to his chicken made him my absolute favourite in this show! Such a wonderful doctor

I think it’s about being able to assign one gender or another for humans, or you could grow up pretty confused and feel out of place.

@@Queenofgreen515 Yeah but the person who's intersex should be able to choose what they want their anatomy to be, and be allowed to identify with whatever gender they feel suits them. Trying to force an assignment on someone and performing surgery before they can even speak ultimately leads to more distress later on.

​@@Queenofgreen515 i was an intersex baby who was given surgery without my consent when i was born. it didn't stop me growing up without confusion, it didn't stop me feeling out of place, it made me feel MORE confused because doctors do not like to tell you that you're intersex, they tell you your hormonal issues are from something unrelated or worse just LIE and say your charts are normal, your symptoms are normal. if i was allowed to grow up with what i was born with, there would've not only not been health complications, but i wouldn't be needing a surgery that can cost around 25 thousand dollars to fix their botched job and constant coverups. but of course, nobody talks about kids like me. it's all "oh, its important for their health" (frankly, usually a lie) or "oh, we don't want them to be confused" (they will be anyway) as opposed to considering how absolutely mad it is to put newborns through a surgery that is usually almost entirely cosmetic. i can promise you that myself and every other intersex person i know who had surgeries done as children, not one of us is happy about it.

@@Queenofgreen515 I'm both intersex and transgender. It's a lot more complicated than boy/girl, male/female. It's very easy to grow up confused and feeling out of place, because of the insistence on fitting people into one of two strict boxes. If society was more accepting of trans and intersex individuals, it would be a lot less painful for MANY humans... and pets, since people sometimes do treat intersex animals like freak shows, too. :/

There are humans who die because they can't afford super-expensive surgeries and treatments, so we shouldn't be shocked that pet owners -- when faced with a gigantic bill -- can't afford an operation on their pet. Over 20 years ago one test on my late cat cost $650. Sadly, it showed inoperable stomach cancer (she'd stopped eating), but before the vet told me how she couldn't be saved and would die in a few weeks, surgery and chemo would have cost me thousands. I didn't want her to suffer and had her put down. Again, that was decades ago, so I can only imagine how expensive a vet bill like that would be today. We should try to not judge pet owners for not being able to afford a $5,000 vet bill.

​@@billybobkumar9231 I'm not judging people not being able to afford a vet bill. I understand they can get expensive. I'm just saying if the pet is simply born different the quick way people disregard them is sad. I understand something like this could be costly but to disregard your pet as soon as the vet tells you they have both genders without further seeing if it is something easily managed or fixable first is just flat out sad. Chris was saying some owners find out the dog has both genders and basically right off the bat choose to abandon them or put them down. That's not reason enough for me. I feel people should love their pets more than that than to just put them down for something that could be nothing or not hard to fix. Kind of like those people who are like, "I wouldn't want a dog with 3 legs!" basically from a vanity standpoint. If someone can't love a pet unconditionally then the pet parent life isnt for them. Your situation was very sad and I'm sorry to hear about that. But it sounds like you did everything you could have done. Some people just give up on the smallest of hiccups and that's what really bothers me with some pet owners. If it makes you feel any better, no one I have heard of that has put their pets through chemo would do it again as they saw their pet basically have to suffer through the treatments. So it's super expensive on top of the poor animal just suffering through it all with no guaruntees that it will fix the cancer. Given the situation, I would have chosen the same thing as you.

@@melaniem4798 I'd say personally that it's about the animal's quality of life, is it worth letting the animal suffer from infection and complications or to make sure that family member does not have to go through that pain.

@@Monica_bondevik I understand that as well. If there wasn't anything that could be done I wouldn't choose to prolong my pets suffering. If the person and their vet have talked about all the options and it's just not going to be good for the pet, I totally understand. But some people are just so quick to give up on their pets (when it's not a money or quality of life issue) and it makes me sad.

I was surprised by that because I can’t imagine putting down a much loved pet just for being a hermaphrodite! Pets are family, the only time you put one down is when they are suffering and you have no other choice. This is why pet insurance is so important! Vet bills can be brutal.

That thought had occurred to me too. As a scientist I'd be itching to get a karyotype done to see if there were multiple cell lines. I mainly deal with human cases of intersex though, being intersex myself. One of my co authors on papers I've had published is a chimera (XX/XY), intersex is more common in mammals including humans than most believe. Unfortunately the whole thing has become politicised as it goes against sincere Religious belief.

​@@ZoeBrain big difference between lifestyle choices, personal preferences and true medical body differences. I hate being marginalised because I'm in the majority white female heterosexual

@@ZoeBrain Yea a lot of people think one can only be XX or XY but having both isn't rare nor is having something like XXY! Crazy stuff happens and I've heard scientists are starting to think XX/XY are grossly over simplified and that it should really be broadened?

@@ZoeBrain I am a scientist too (mainly zoology). This has been an interesting case. But I only have a bachelor degree in zoology.

Likely Not a Chimera. Border collies usually have split colouring on the face

Dr M

AMEN 🙏🏼❤️

Not because it's a hermaphrodite but you may have to change nappies for the rest of the dog's life. It needs to be said.

shelters will often put down dogs like that because there not adoptable and most people will not take a dog on with special medical needs most people come to a shelter to adopt out a dog and take it home not spend tens of thousands of dollars on one dog with special needs

Sometimes putting an animal down is the best for it. You are asking owners to have to deal with an animal who will be always ill and with chronic infections - which generally leads to a lower quality of life. Many vets won't have the experience nor the machinery to diagnose nor treat the animal. This one was lucky to be in an area where that is available.

Exactly

@@thekamiakai And lucky they could afford the costs, yikes TWO CT scans!! I remember the one one of my dogs had a few years ago was $2,000, a lot of people would have trouble paying for even one CT scan let alone two plus that extensive surgery and all the rest!

Interesting!

The cat or the vet? ROFL! ;)

​@@noraleestone2859 words have such interesting nuance lol

@@AnitaSouthall Don't they just!! I often think my mind is terribly warped, but I did find that funny. ;)

@@AnitaSouthall In the words of Daffy Duck, "Pronoun trouble."

💖🥰, yes it is gorgeous and beautiful.

don't blame him!

Oscar: "You're gonna stick that thing in there. Not gonna happen!"

With the cameras there, what do you expect them to do?

Very well said. Thank you Bondi vets and staff.

Funny

Oh my word, be careful out there

I'm sorry that you have to deal with rude people. I see this as God giving you an opportunity to rise above the handicap and turn it into a blessing. How, you ask? Possibly by teaching children with similar issues that you have overcome your issues and it's also possible for them to do the same in their life. Overcoming adversity is a challenge for everyone at one time in their life in different degrees. Learn to accept the challenge and turn it into a sucess.

I noticed the split color on his/her face. That is an interesting observation.

I hadn’t thought about that but it would make perfect sense.

Usually border collies do have colouring like that, so I doubt that would be it

I have a Chimera kitten right now and it's a calico/tabby and is undermined if she's a hermaphrodite yet

Great observation! It would also account for the fact that one side had more of a pronounced difference in the ureter.

Wooow. Having one set of hormones is enough, imagine having both. I would’ve gone crazy too.

How do you feed wild falcons?

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@@AnitaSouthall 🌺

Jim Koo

I’ll call 📱 later tomorrow I’ll be home 🏡 I’ll call you back tomorrow I’m done I’ll be done done ✔️ done I’ll be home 🏡 tomorrow if I don’t want you done I’m going back to work tomorrow I’ll let be on my way home I’ll call you later I’m done I’ll let you know later I’m going on tomorrow I’m done I’m just not sure I’m sorry 😞 I know I can do tomorrow I’ll call tomorrow

I’m sure I can get a few phone calls done done with my hair appointment done tomorrow so I can get done yuyuy tomorrow if I have my hair nails hair hair appointment done ✔️ tomorrow I’m sorry I’m just not sure I’m sorry I have my work schedule and I’m going to work on a phone

medication dosage is figured by weight. thats all math. many are figured in kilograms or grams. the times given are math. example...q4 hour dose i would give 9-1-5-9. i was a nurse 35 yrs.

Dry. Not Dr. 🤦

Absolutely no one wants to get pecked by a Peckary

Same. I had two ops, one when I was a kid and a second at 21 but that time it was purely for cosmetic reasons because I was so self-conscious. They told me if it ever started to drift out again they could only operate on my good eye. They could turn it inwards which would make the bad eye automatically realign as eyes work together. I am middle aged now and it seems my eye is starting to drift out again but I don’t want to mess with the good eye. But yeah, when I was younger people did enjoy poking fun at me. Nowadays people just wonder who I am looking at; it’s so awkward.