Management of Recurrent rectal prolapse in a leopard (Panthera pardus pardus)

Rectal prolapse is the protrusion of one or more layers of the rectum through the anal orifice (Ettinger and Feldman, 1995). In complete rectal prolapse all the layers of the rectum (Ettinger and Feldman, 1995) and mostly the posterior portion of the rectum, which does not have the outer peritoneal covering is involved (OʹConnor, 1980 and Venugopalan, 2005). It is also known as "Prolapsus ani et recti". Persistent tenesmus secondary to urogenital incidents like parturition, abortion, endometritis, dystokia etc. and gastrointestinal tract diseases like diarrhoea, constipation, rectitis, typhlitis, colitis, prostitis etc. are the most common exciting causes of rectal prolapse (OʹConnor, 1980; Strombeck and Guilford, 1990; Ettinger and Feldman, 1995; Tilley and Smith, 1997; Shuttleworth and Smith, 2000 and Venugopalan, 2005).