Reindeer Treated at Tufts Back Safely at the Zoo [video]
A young reindeer was treated at Tufts for knee surgery.
Information courtesy of Katie Cinnamond, assistant director of public relations, Tufts University Just in time for the holiday season, faculty clinicians at the Foster Hospital for Small Animals (FHSA) at the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University report that Willow, a one-and-a-half-year-old reindeer, is in stable condition after undergoing knee surgery on Thursday, Dec. 13. The young female reindeer is now back home for the holidays and is resting comfortably in the onsite zoo hospital at Franklin Park Zoo in Boston. She was transported from Stone Zoo in Stoneham, Mass., where she resides with two other reindeer, to the Cummings School after suffering from a luxating patella. A luxating patella is a condition caused …
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