DR. JAN POL: Okay, so...
Gary and Vicki are bringing their macaws in.
GARY: That was pretty cool, wasn't it?
DR. POL: It's easy for these birds to get to be 70, 80 years old.
And one already is 56.
Oh, my goodness, bringing 'em in a bunch at a time.
Hi, big guy.
VICKI: A 90-year-old man had them
and he had passed away,
so they came to us.
They're just part of our family now.
- DR. POL: God, that is long. - VICKI: Yes.
DR. POL: Being in captivity their beak
just grows too far out,
and you have a little trouble eating sometimes.
NARRATOR: Trimming a beak can be tricky.
VICKI: He might try to bite.
- DR. POL [off screen]: They will always do that. - VICKI [off screen]: Yeah.
DR. POL: Your finger is no match for that beak.
- Okay, sit in it. - [laughter]
You put a towel on so they don't see what it is.
Yes.
Grab a hold of the head from the back.
Right there.
Now the biggest problem is you cannot cut as much as you think.
NARRATOR: Just like hair and fingernails...
GARY: Hold on.
NARRATOR: The beak is made of keratin
and grows throughout the bird's life.
DR. POL: There. Okay, put him in the cage.
VICKI: Dr. Pol is always amazing with my animals.
He handles them with respect.
DR. POL: Oh, yeah, you got sharp nails.
[laughs]
The younger bird, the beak looks fine,
but the nails are very long and sharp.
- [screeches] - Oh.
Come here. You behave.
What you have to do with the nails is get the points off.
There is the last one.
And that's it. Good boy.
GARY: Let's show him your trick.
DR. POL: Tss.
VICKI: They're just really smart.
They are amazing birds.
[caws]
ROBERTA: Junior. [smacks lips]
Come on. [smacks lips]
DR. LISA JONES: Roberta is here this morning with Junior.
ROBERTA: You're alright. Come on, bud.
DR. LISA: She's not quite sure what happened.
ROBERTA: Come on.
DR. LISA: She noticed that he has
quite a good-sized cut on his abdomen.
ROBERTA: Come on.
Junior's had a history of coming here.
Oh, come on.
The past couple visits haven't been very fun.
We're being a little bit dramatic. [laughs]
So, he's a little bit nervous.
[laughs]
We have six working dogs that work the farm.
No. [laughs]
Come on.
Trouble tends to find him
compared to the other dogs.
Go inside.
But we love him just the way he is.
DR. LISA: Hi, bud. So what happened?
ROBERTA: So there's a gash up in the groin area.
- DR. LISA: Oh, my goodness. - ROBERTA: Um...
DR. LISA: Yeah, looks pretty deep.
ROBERTA [off screen]: There is barbed wire fencing,
I don't know if maybe the barbed wire
- got caught on him. - DR. LISA: Got caught.
ROBERTA: Because Junior is an outdoor working dog,
I'm concerned about the possibility of
there being some foreign material in the wound.
- DR. LISA: So he's definitely gonna need to be... - ROBERTA: Sedated?
- DR. LISA: Sedated. - ROBERTA [off screen]: Yeah.
DR. LISA: I wanna make sure I thoroughly explore it
and make sure that there's nothing
still contaminating the area.
He's a working dog.
ROBERTA: He's very important to us because without him
we can't keep our livestock safe with our local predators.
DR. LISA: Gonna shave all the hair out of the way.
[whirring]
The wound, it's a little bit on the older side,
it certainly isn't fresh.
It's sore, huh, buddy?
Junior has a lot of shaggy hair
so I can understand it not being noticed right away.
Kiddo.
Looks like it's gonna require quite a bit of cleaning
before I can close it up.
ROBERTA: It's always a worry in the back of your mind,
what if it was worse than we had anticipated
or if there was lacerations to an organ.
All the worst-case scenarios.
Am I gonna go home without my dog today?
DR. LISA: Looks like the injuries
through the skin aren't too severe.
'Cause this wound is dirty,
there's gonna be quite a bit of drainage as it heals.
So I put this rubber drain in, just to allow that extra fluid
Junior's body is producing to drain out
so it doesn't cause more problems
and prevent the wound from healing.
ROBERTA: Oh, buddy.
DR. LISA: He forgot how to move.
ROBERTA: He's my little drama queen.
Everyone's gonna be happy that it wasn't worst-case scenario
and that he's still gonna be home to get his loving.
Nope, this way. Come on, Junior.
DR. LISA: I'm just gonna have him come back in a few days...
ROBERTA: Aw, sweet boy, come on.
DR. LISA: ...so I can remove that drain,
and then take the sutures out once the wound has healed.
IOANA [off screen]: You wanna take the troublemakers?
DR. NICOLE ARCY: Ioana is bringing in her ferrets.
IOANA: Hello.
DR. NICOLE: Ferrets aren't very common at Pol Vet's.
So it's very exciting when we get to see 'em.
Caesar Salad.
IOANA: One of the ferrets' name is Caesar Salad.
Yes, like the salad.
The other one Noodle Marie.
Noodle because every ferret, it's a noddle.
- DR. NICOLE: Hello. Hi. - IOANA: Hi.
There's just the yearly checkup and vaccination.
Nothing serious, it's just their routine.
- DR. NICOLE: Who is this one? - HUNTER: This one's Caesar.
- DR. NICOLE: Hi, Caesar. - IOANA: Caesar Salad.
DR. NICOLE: I'm not sure I've ever heard any animal
named Caesar Salad.
One pound six ounces.
- IOANA: One pound? [gasps] - DR. NICOLE: Yeah.
DR. NICOLE: Ferrets always have a little musk to 'em.
Ooh.
I can't put a name on what it smells like,
but it's definitely an odor.
Did you want all the vaccines for her?
- IOANA [off screen]: All of 'em. - DR. NICOLE: All of 'em? Okay.
IOANA: Yeah.
NARRATOR: Just like cats and dogs...
DR. NICOLE: Hi, sweetheart.
NARRATOR: ...ferrets need routine checkups...
- DR. NICOLE: Okay. - NARRATOR: ...and vaccinations.
DR. NICOLE: There, all done.
You wanna get the other one?
HUNTER: Okay.
IOANA: She is the opposite of Caesar Salad.
DR. NICOLE: Okay, Noodle.
IOANA: She gets in trouble all the time.
- All the time. - DR. NICOLE: Hold on, hold on.
IOANA: Ferrets, they can be a little bit challenging
because they are so wiggly.
DR. NICOLE: Hey, quit, quit, quit.
IOANA: But she was absolutely amazing.
DR. NICOLE: You did very good, thank you.
This appointment has definitely been a good breakup to my day.
They're adorable.
Caesar Salad and Noodle both look great.
IOANA: I think those two ferrets made everybody's day.
[laughs]
NARRATOR: From ferrets...
DR. NICOLE [off screen]: Pretty girl.
[squeaks]
NARRATOR: ...to parrots,
PVS sees them all.
[grunts]
Everyone has a favorite.
DR. POL [off screen]: Come on, guys.
NARRATOR: For doc and Diane...
DR. POL: Come on, Donar.
NARRATOR: ...theirs is a classic...
- DR. POL: Oh, my gosh. - NARRATOR: ...dogs.
- Big dogs. - DR. POL [off screen]: Hey!
When Diane and I got married,
we wanted to have big dogs.
- DIANE: This way. - NARRATOR: Over the years...
DR. POL: Athena!
NARRATOR: ...Danes, St. Bernards...
DR. POL: Such a nice dog.
NARRATOR: ...and Newfoundlands have all found
a loving home with the Pols.
DR. POL: Now throw it underhand.
- DIANE: Slimy. - [toy squeaks]
DR. POL: Ani is a very sweet dog.
DIANE [off screen]: Bring me your toy.
DR. POL: We got her on our anniversary.
DIANE: Bring it here.
DR. POL: When you've had an animal for a long time...
DIANE: Good girl.
DR. POL: ...you wanna keep it as long as possible.
Silly dogs.
DIANE: Ani passed away about a year and a half ago.
DR. POL: Come on, go.
DIANE: And we really missed her
and we really missed the breed of the Newfie.
So we went looking for a new dog,
and we found a puppy.
Okay, Lily, should we go in and meet the rest of the family?
Huh? Come on.
You can do the steps, come on.
Since I've first seen the breed,
I've always liked 'em.
There you go.
They're like big fluffy teddy bears,
especially as young puppies.
Let's go, come on.
Yeah, come on.
DR. POL: Psst. Come here.
This one is a very happy puppy.
DR. POL: Oh, my goodness gracious.
And busier than all get-out.
She still smells good.
But still sweet as the sweet can be.
Okay, come on.
CHARLES: My mom and dad have
a real strong connection to animals,
they love their dogs.
DR. POL: Come on, little girl.
- CHARLES: I can't imagine... - DR. POL: Come on.
CHARLES: ...them ever not having animals.
DR. POL [off screen]: Hey, this way, come here.
- DIANE: So are you a good girl? - DR. POL: Yes.
DIANE: We're gonna be keeping her here at the clinic
for the next couple of weeks
'cause we wanna get her used to going outside
and going to the bathroom and training her.
DR. POL: Yes, you're a good girl, huh?
Yeah, let's go back inside.
DIANE: I think she's gonna be a nice addition to our family.
What do you think about that?
[puppy grunts]
DR. LISA: Okey-dokey.
Chloe is here with her mom today.
[bleats]
They have her young goat, Hero.
[bleats]
They have some pretty big plans for his future.
DR. LISA: Good morning.
He's a very handsome young goat.
CHLOE: Hoping to breed him with my two younger does this year.
NARRATOR: Chloe's concerned Hero may not be up to the challenge.
CHLOE: When I went out to work with him
I noticed there was a lot of blood
on the back of his front legs.
He was peeing blood.
DR. LISA: Has he been eating okay?
CHLOE: He's still been eating.
DR. LISA: Urinary problems are not uncommon in male goats.
They are pretty prone to developing urinary stones
if they aren't being fed the appropriate diet.
NARRATOR: Livestock grains are often loaded with minerals...
[Hero bleats]
...that can calcify, creating stones.
DR. LISA: Does the grain have ammonium chloride in it?
CHLOE: It does not.
DR. LISA: I always recommend to make sure
that they're being fed a grain
that has ammonium chloride in it.
I'm just gonna check his temperature.
This is a chemical compound
that helps to dissolve any potential stones
before they have a chance to cause problems.
His temperature is normal.
He doesn't have a fever.
He's a nice weight. He is right in the sweet spot.
And he seems bright and alert, happy.
Everything's looking okay right now.
Unfortunately, we weren't able to catch a urinary sample,
but Hero did...
give me a nice preview of what that might look like.
DR. LISA: I don't see any blood in the urine drops here.
Looks like the urine is pretty normal
just from watching.
A urinary infection is a little bit lower on the list now.
I don't know if he could have also cut himself
on his actual penis.
It can bleed quite a bit,
there's a lot of blood vessels down there, so...
I kinda take a peek under the hood.
Oh, yeah.
He has quite a bit of irritation and swelling.
Even just a mild scratch
could bleed pretty profusely for a short time.
CHLOE [off screen]: Okay.
DR. LISA: And I'm wondering is that the source of the blood
that Chloe was seeing.
DR. LISA: I bet he snagged himself
'cause it looked like there was a little bit of bruising there.
The irritated area
is already starting to heal up a little bit.
But I don't think it's gonna need antibiotics or anything,
it already seems like it's already improving.
I don't need to intervene.
CHLOE: Definitely a lot more relieved and calm
now that he's on the way to recovery.
I was gonna put him with my girls next week.
DR. LISA [off screen]: Uh-oh.
CHLOE: Do you think that he's able to or...
DR. LISA: The more active he is,
it'll probably take longer to get all the way better.
CHLOE: Should be okay to wait another week.
- DR. LISA: Okay. - CHLOE [off screen]: Come on.
DR. LISA: I think with just a little bit more time
he can go hang out with the ladies
and have a lovely time in the future.
CINDY: We don't really know much about him, he was a stray.
DR. POL: Cynthya's bringing Bubba in.
- Oh, my gosh. - CINDY: Yeah.
DR. POL: What happened here?
She found him this morning, he was gone for a day
and there's a huge hole on his side.
Oh, my goodness.
CINDY: It looked like either a coyote
or an eagle had grabbed him.
DR. POL: He's opened up from stem to stern.
DR. LISA [off screen]: Poor cat.
DR. POL: Coyote, eagle, who knows what.
CINDY: It's a pretty deep wound.
I'm hoping he'll be okay
and he doesn't have to be put down or anything like that.
DR. POL: Funny that it's not inside in the guts, isn't it?
It doesn't get into the chest or into the belly.
NARRATOR: Luckily, Bubba's internal organs
are still intact.
DR. POL: I'm gonna sew him up.
CINDY: Dr. Pol said he was gonna have to spend the night.
So it just depends on what they can do for him.
DR. POL: Maggots in there already.
Oh, yeah, they're all over.
So we definitely have a bad infection in there.
So what we have to do is, you know,
clean it up,
stitch him up.
Oh, that's deep.
The tissue has to heal.
Oh, yeah. Quite deep.
That damage, when it heals it produces all this fluid.
Okay.
So we put a drain in there,
and we leave it in until it stops draining.
CINDY: We weren't sure if he was gonna make it through the night.
DR. POL: There you go, huh? Look at this.
Next morning he's up and he's looking for food.
Hey, buddy.
CINDY: It's pretty amazing that he's up.
DR. POL: Look at that.
CINDY: I wouldn't be if I had
a ten-inch hole in my side.
AUTUMN: Alright, bud.
CINDY: We love Dr. Pol.
AUTUMN: You get to go home.
CINDY: He's right there to help you in an emergency.
- Here's a kitty. - AUTUMN: Alright, one Bubba.
CINDY: Thank you very much.
DR. POL: It's a cat, it's amazing how they heal up.
See you later.
We'll see what happens.
CINDY: Alright, thank you.
NARRATOR: Bubba's next battle...
CINDY: Keep your hand over him.
NARRATOR: ...fending off infection.
CINDY: He has antibiotic and gel
that we have to put on so that it heals up.
MARTY: Chevy's five-year-old German shepherd,
we've had him since a pup.
Unfortunately this morning he decided
to try to make friends with a porcupine.
DR. BRENDA GRETTENBERGER: It could be worse, he only has half of his face.
MARTY [off screen]: I know.
DR. BRENDA: Even though he's got a lot of quills,
he doesn't have enough quills for me
to be really concerned about this at all.
So I'm gonna put sedative in his right front leg,
since he's got quills in the left front.
And then we're gonna move him to the back.
MARTY: Something like this has never happened before.
DR. BRENDA: How you doing there, bud?
MARTY: Where we live, yeah, we figured sooner or later
it was gonna be a skunk or maybe a porcupine.
DR. BRENDA: Chevy, I know, I know,
but you can't go that way.
MARTY: She said she's gonna pull those quills
and she can reverse the anesthesia,
so we can get him home here shortly.
NARRATOR: Both canine...
DR. POL: Okay, so...
NARRATOR: ...and equine are humbled by the quill.
DR. POL: Yeah, that hurts.
NARRATOR: Breeze also had an encounter with a porcupine.
DR. POL: They don't bite 'em like a dog does,
they don't attack it, but they get curious.
DR. POL: Where is the swelling?
- KATIE: From here all the way down. - DR. POL: Oh!
He has swelling underneath his throat
from all these quills that they didn't get out
and probably went in deeper.
Oh, yes, it's here. Right there.
- Here, look at this. - KATIE: We didn't get 'em all.
DR. POL: He still had a quill in his nose
and it was in so deep that my fingers couldn't do it,
you know, just couldn't hang on to it.
KATIE: Dang.
DR. POL: Good teeth, huh?
KATIE: Yes! Dang.
DR. POL: Teeth work like a charm.
- But that's what the problem is. - KATIE: Okay.
DR. POL: What we gonna treat him with
is anti-inflammatories and antibiotics,
and everything should be fine.
NARRATOR: Chevy's now chilled and ready to be de-quilled.
DR. BRENDA: Good boy.
The quill has scales that are sort of like barbs
that are holding it in the skin.
That's why they're kinda hard to pull out.
And I usually twist it sorta like spaghetti.
Okay.
And pulling against the quill with the instrument,
not just pulling it straight out.
Alright, that looks good.
That's just my experience and how I do it.
There you go.
Typically, there's not a lot of aftercare
with the porcupine quills.
Chevy, are you thinking about getting up yet?
It's like getting a sliver and taking the sliver out.
Good boy.
And the immune system will get
everything cleaned up and good to go.
Come on here, sweetie.
MARTY: It was quick and easy.
It looks like he's gonna do well.
Obviously, you have a full recovery
and that's what's most important.
NARRATOR: Chevy should be fine
as long as he minds the porcupines.
[Lily barking]
DR. POL: One and a half CC and...
[barking]
DIANE: She does not like to be in the crate.
NARRATOR: The Pols' new pup, Lily,
is proving to be a wild child.
DIANE: No.
She is very smart,
she is picking up very fast, but...
Lily!
You've gotta be on top of her all the time.
- Uh-uh. Nope, that's mine. - [barks, whines]
She's chewing on everything right now.
Lily.
- Hey! - DR. POL: Lily.
DIANE: So we've had to correct her for that.
She needs to be trained...
DR. POL: [laughs] Look at her.
DIANE: ...so that she lets us know
when she has to go to the bathroom
and then we can take her outside.
- So are you a good girl? - DR. POL: Yes.
DIANE: So we're at a learning process for both of us.
- No. - DR. POL [off screen]: I know you want attention.
DIANE [off screen]: Lily!
She seems to be pretty smart
and picking up pretty fast, so I hope she keeps it up.
[snorts]
DR. LISA: I got a call
about a farrowing at a pig farm,
it's a first-time mom
and she's having a hard time getting through her litter.
Kevin is not here yet, so I'll start without him.
Pigs often have litters of over ten plus piglets.
With only a count of five piglets so far,
I'm suspicious that there's quite a few more inside.
So somebody's stuck in there blocking up the works.
DR. LISA: There's a piglet right here in the birth canal.
Oh, my gosh.
I think this is the piglet that has caused the problem.
I think he's been dead for a while.
With the state of the first piglet that I remove,
I kinda think that all of the piglets
that might be left inside mom aren't alive anymore.
So at this point I just really wanna make sure
I get all the piglets out, so that mom doesn't get sick.
NARRATOR: Keeping mom safe takes hustle and muscle.
DR. LISA: No, come back.
These calls can be physically demanding.
The size of a pig's birth canal
is only slightly larger than my forearm,
so it's quite painful to kinda
force my arm inside that deep...
[grunts]
...and then to have to work with a head snare
by using just my forearm muscles and fingers.
[exhales]
It gets pretty exhausting.
Oh, my gosh.
That's a very big one.
NARRATOR: As Dr. Lisa suspected,
the trapped piglets are stillborn.
DR. LISA: I don't feel any more.
The fact that I have removed a couple piglets
and don't feel any more doesn't mean
there aren't any more left.
[squealing]
Their uterus extends two-thirds up
the way of their body.
It just means that they're floating somewhere
out of my reach most likely.
I'm gonna give her a dose of oxytocin
to contract her uterus,
and if there's any more it, should hopefully push them
into arm's length.
They're a massive source of infection,
which could be life-threatening for her,
so we gotta make sure we get every last one.
Alright.
As I suspected,
I can feel another piglet there waiting for me,
which is great.
We're getting the piglets out just as I hoped.
NARRATOR: Dr. Lisa goes in for a final check.
DR. LISA: I don't feel anything.
With all of the piglets removed,
I think she'll be just fine.
NARRATOR: That means mom can get down to parenting her five new piglets.
DR. LISA: Hopefully by the time she's ready to have her next litter,
she'll be a little bit better able
to handle the situation on her own
and we won't have to intervene.
DIANE: Lily. Come on!
NARRATOR: Lily and Diane...
DIANE [off screen]: Come on, Lily.
NARRATOR: ...are forging a bond.
DIANE: Come on.
I thought it's probably time she goes out and plays
around the other animals.
Tater. Come here, Tater.
Tater didn't really wanna have anything to do with her.
Hey. I still love you, too. Come on, Tater.
Kinda turned his back on me,
so maybe his nose is out of joint, I'm not sure.
You're too rambunctious for Tater.
Right, Samson?
Samson the horse is kinda curious.
Something new, something different, something little,
and he's not quite sure how to take this whole situation in.
She just wants to play with everybody
and be all over everybody else.
Let's go.
They're not so sure about her.
Come on.
[clucking]
DR. POL: There are two chickens coming in.
Strange how many people have pet chickens now, isn't it?
MATT: Come here, buddy.
DR. POL: Chickens can be real nice pets.
MILLIE: You're okay.
I am obsessed with him, I love him.
He's like a dog.
AUTUMN: Put him up there. Hi, buddy.
MATT: His demeanor's great.
Runs around the yard, we've got a few hens
that he hangs out with, and he just does his thing.
DR. POL: Okay. So what's his problem?
MATT [off screen]: Losing his balance, breathing really heavy.
DR. POL: Ooh.
This rooster's not in good shape.
He is very thin.
When I look at it, his comb is blue.
Yeah, look that. He has no oxygen in him.
There's a very fast heartbeat which is normal for chickens,
but I can't even hear the lungs.
I suspect bad pneumonia.
I'm gonna mix up antibiotics.
MATT: Okay.
DR. POL: We just mix up some medicine for this rooster.
See if that works.
And hopefully it helps.
[clucking]
So this is another rooster.
What's going on?
MILLIE: His leg goes like straight out.
DR. POL: Oh.
So he's having a really hard time walking.
- DR. POL: This tendon slips off. - MILLIE: Mm-hmm.
- MILLIE: Oh. - DR. POL: And that's what it is.
The tendon does not stay on the hock,
and they cannot put their foot down.
You know what you should do?
Tie his legs together like that.
And then they'll start walking.
Sometimes they get over it,
but what I do, I tie the legs together
so it cannot go to the side.
I tell ya, they're tough.
When you tie the legs together, the tendon,
you know, goes back into a normal place,
and hopefully in a couple weeks it heals up.
See what that does.
MILLIE: I am feeling relieved, I'm glad he's okay.
DR. POL: See ya.
MILLIE: He said just let him be with his flock.
So I'm gonna do that, and he's just gonna live his life.
[clucking]
ROBERTA: Yep. Yeah, right here.
Come here. This way.
NARRATOR: A few days ago...
Junior underwent surgery to repair a wound.
ROBERTA: [sighs] Okay. We're doing this again.
Today I'm here to get Junior's draining tube out.
And to check the sutures and the healing process of his puncture wound.
We have a flair for the dramatic.
It's always nice to see Dr. Lisa,
she's a breath of fresh air.
DR. LISA: Hello, handsome.
ROBERTA: My fur babies are in good hands
whenever we are here to see Dr. Lisa.
DR. LISA: That looks pretty nice.
Looks like everything is healing up pretty well.
Hold still, kiddo.
ROBERTA: She got right in there, got that tube out.
DR. LISA: There it is.
ROBERTA: Alright. See? Not so bad.
It was very simple and quick.
DR. LISA: He might have a little bit of a scar there,
but looks pretty good.
Back to your previously scheduled activities.
ROBERTA: Yeah?
DR. LISA: As long as he stays out of trouble
in the course of his job,
I think Junior will be just fine.
- HEATHER: Yeah, I know. - [meows]
DR. NICOLE: Heather is bringing in her cat Phineas today,
who is new to her, and he has two cloudy eyes.
My goodness. Honey, what's wrong with your eyes?
DR. NICOLE: Oh, Phineas.
HEATHER: Looks like the lower lid part
is kind of growing over his eyes.
[meows]
DR. NICOLE: Has his eyes always been like that?
HEATHER: Yeah, but they're getting worse.
DR. NICOLE: Okay.
According to Heather, ever since she had Phineas,
his eyes have never been normal.
DR. NICOLE: See this big darker blue area right there?
- That's a big ulcer on his eye. - HEATHER: Oh.
DR. NICOLE: And then over here, that's another ulcer on his eye.
That means that that skin layer is gone
and therefore exposing it to the underlayer.
And that is very painful as well.
DR. NICOLE: Could be something that he was born with
and that's why we have these issues.
Sometimes if mom has any diseases,
they can cross the placenta and infect the kitten.
HEATHER: I was told he's FIV positive.
DR. NICOLE: FIV? Okay.
He is FIV positive,
which is a disease
that basically lowers the immune system.
NARRATOR: Allowing even minor eye infections
to become severe.
- DR. NICOLE: Stevie's boy? - HEATHER [off screen]: Yes.
DR. NICOLE: I wanna stain Phineas' eyes
just to look for those ulcers and make them glow back at me.
NARRATOR: The drops allow Dr. Nicole
to assess the extent of the damage.
DR. NICOLE: See how unclear that is up there,
where you can't see the colors of his eyes at all?
Just because he has all this extra tissue on top of it.
I'm very worried for Phineas,
especially since his eyes have been like this
since he was born.
I'm kind of afraid that it's a little too late
'cause we have all that, basically scarring.
I don't know if there's gonna be much I can do for him.
So, yeah, he can't see really much at all.
We may just have to take the eyes.
HEATHER: I kind of prepared for this
when I first adopted Phineas.
DR. NICOLE: Cats can get along just fine without their eyes.
They use their other senses, they use their whiskers a lot.
Even though Phineas has lost sight
we still have those other senses,
even their whiskers can tell 'em
if there's something close to their face,
or if there's vibrations near them.
DR. NICOLE: I just would not have him outside at all.
- HEATHER: Okay. - DR. NICOLE [off screen]: Okay?
HEATHER: He's actually I think been preparing for it,
'cause he's slowly been getting up to this moment.
DR. NICOLE: Call us around one o'clock.
HEATHER: Okay.
He's just a really cool cat.
[meows]
He's still gonna be really cool just without eyes.
[meows]
DR. POL: We are headed to Stutzman.
They have a pet cow
that supplies the milk for the family.
- She's got big horns. - MALINDA [off screen]: Yeah.
- [laughter] - Yeah.
DR. POL: Look at the horns.
That's too dangerous with the horns, I'm gonna tie her.
Otherwise I'll be just running all over God's creation.
We have to pregnancy check her,
they thought she was pregnant
and they wanna make sure.
No!
Well, I have to be able to get my hand up you know where.
It doesn't take much.
She doesn't want it.
No.
She is a wild one.
NARRATOR: Those horns...
mean safety first.
DR. POL: This way.
So we end up just putting her in the milking stanchion.
That's it.
Come on. Will you just relax a little bit?
You feel the uterus inside and you can tell how big it is
and how far along.
She is...
four months pregnant.
At this moment she's four months pregnant and everything is fine.
MALINDA: What about her overall health, is she good?
DR. POL: She looks very good.
- MALINDA: Okay. - DR. POL: Yeah.
DR. POL: Okay, that was good.
Good seeing ya.
[device chirps]
Mobile one to base.
CINDY: Yeah, don't bite.
NARRATOR: Bubba's back for a checkup.
DR. POL: Oh, my goodness.
NARRATOR: He's been recovering from surgery
for a massive wound.
DR. POL: He's opened up from stem to stern.
It looks like something was trying to grab him
and he got away.
I'm gonna sew him up.
CINDY: Dr. Pol put stiches in him and a drain tube.
And he's doing really well.
What are you lounging?
He acts like nothing's even wrong.
- DR. POL: Hello. - CINDY: Hello.
DR. POL: How we doing?
Cynthia's bringing Bubba back now
to have the drain removed.
CINDY: The tube has not drained at all so...
DR. POL: Nope. Nope.
Heck, in a couple days it already quit draining.
That means that the wound has healed from the inside out.
So the drain comes out.
To be honest, it's cleaner than what I thought.
My compliments.
CINDY: Thank you. [laughs]
DR. POL: What you see is a couple holes on the top
and the bottom where the drain was.
You just spray this on, doesn't hurt.
This helps heal it just like that, too.
It increases blood flow and keeps it clean.
Just keep spraying it
'cause it looks like it's holding there and there.
CINDY [off screen]: Mm-hmm.
DR. POL: And that's where the deepest hole was.
CINDY: It was bad.
DR. POL: Amazing that it didn't get into his chest.
CINDY [off screen]: I know.
DR. POL: The skin where the damage was
is a little rough.
I sure hope that the stitches will hold, but we'll see.
- Let's see in a week from now. - CINDY: Okay.
Probably just go home and relax for a while,
we don't want him up running around.
Come on, Bubba.
We don't want him to rip any stitches open.
[rooster crows]
DIANE [off screen]: Lily, come on.
Let's go. Come on.
I think everything's going well
with the new puppy now.
Come on, you can do it.
She's come a long way.
See, you did it. Good girl.
DR. POL [off screen]: Lily, come here.
DIANE: We've been working on her coming
when we call her name.
DR. POL: Are you coming?
DIANE: And going outside to go to the bathroom.
DR. POL [off screen]: Well, hallelujah.
The main thing is that you do positive reinforcement.
Yeah, you're a good girl.
She gets a little treat.
DIANE: Inside. Good girl.
And I've noticed that's one of the things with this breed,
that they seem to, you know, thrive on praise.
DR. POL: Hi, sweet.
DIANE: And he loves her.
SHEILA: Come with me. No, come with me.
Coco is a standard poodle.
No, hey, come on.
She's nine years old and she's wild.
She acts like she's two years old, all the time.
Coco, come here.
She's a stubborn dog.
No, come here.
ASSISTANT [off screen]: Alright, you wanna to bring Coco back?
SHEILA: Yep.
Found a mass in Coco's mouth.
Doesn't look good.
I know.
Scares me because I had a standard poodle,
and she had this same thing,
and it was cancer.
You're gonna be okay.
- DR. BRENDA: Hello. How are you? - SHEILA: Hello.
Good. How are you?
DR. BRENDA: It's not uncommon with
various lumps and bumps
that people are concerned
that they could be cancerous, some of them are...
- SHEILA: Stop Coco. - DR. BRENDA: Deep breath, let me look.
...some of them are not.
SHEILA: She's so nervous.
DR. BRENDA: We don't know until we look.
DR. BRENDA: Okay, that I think is the dental epulis,
usually benign.
SHEILA [off screen]: Ohh.
DR. BRENDA: They come from the ligament
that holds the tooth in the tooth socket.
DR. BRENDA: Stop.
NARRATOR: The benign growths
are often the result of trauma to the gums.
DR. BRENDA: The best plan of action
would be to go in and remove that.
NARRATOR: Until it's removed,
the epulis will continue to grow...
SHEILA: Sit down.
NARRATOR: ...making Coco susceptible
to a host of dental issues.
DR. BRENDA: Before surgery we're going to do some blood work
and take a listen to Coco.
You look good.
We're just making sure
that she's in the best possible health
before we give her anesthetic.
- Hey. - SHEILA: Hey!
You don't do that.
She's never done that before, ever.
Did she get ya?
- DR. BRENDA: No. - [Sheila laughs]
SHEILA: It wasn't good.
NARRATOR: Coco's likely just a little stressed out.
DR. BRENDA: Takes about ten minutes for this to run.
SHEILA: Okay. I've never seen her do that before.
You're so naughty.
I did not like it.
NARRATOR: Time for a little time out.
SHEILA: She snapped at Brenda.
DR. BRENDA: Okay, her blood work looks good.
Coco is okay to go to surgery.
We're going to remove the mass that's in her mouth.
DR. BRENDA: Gonna remove it here at the back side.
Hopefully we'll be able to get rid of all of it
and Coco will do well.
SHEILA: Call at one o'clock and see how she's doing and time for pick up.
NARRATOR: Earlier, Heather's cat, Phineas,
had his eyes removed due to painful ulcers.
DR. NICOLE: It's gotta be a rude awakening for Phineas
to not have any vision.
But now that I got rid of the sense of pain
from his eyes being so sore and irritated for so long,
I'm hoping that makes up for it.
ASSISTANT [off screen]: I'll be right back with him.
HEATHER [mouths]: Okay.
He's just a really cool cat.
And his other senses will go into high gear
and it'll be okay.
DR. NICOLE: He looks a little different, huh?
Infections are still something
I wanna make sure we keep an eye on, but...
he'll be fine without his eyes.
Just look at Tater,
Tater does great with three legs.
Yes Phineas didn't lose a leg, but just like Tater,
Phineas will be able to adapt quickly.
DIANE: Good girl.
Yes.
That was good.
NARRATOR: It didn't take long for the new Pol pup
to make plenty of pals.
DIANE: Everybody in the clinic seems to be very enthusiastic about her.
DR. POL: It is healthy to have animals around.
And I think that's very important.
DIANE: She's a cute little puppy.
WOMAN [off screen]: Come here, Lily.
DIANE: And who doesn't love a puppy?
NARRATOR: Even Tater is...
DIANE: She loves attention.
NARRATOR: ...well, let's say warming up to the idea.
DIANE: Extra spark in the house.
Let's go home.
And he loves her.
[inaudible]
'Cause she is a little princess.
DR. POL: Okay. I'll see you soon as I can.
[crows]
SHEILA: Okay, come on, you two.
[barking]
I'm here to get the howling Coco.
[laughs]
We can hear her outside.
DR. BRENDA: Surgery went well. Coco looks good.
Prognosis at this point is good.
There may be some regrowth of this tissue,
but it does look like it's going to be benign.
SHEILA: Coco.
DR. BRENDA: So that's all positive things for Coco.
SHEILA: There's your kids.
Which one do you want? [laughs]
She didn't know which grandkid to go to.
Coco, come here.
She loves 'em.
She's gonna get all sorts of attention
when she gets home.
Alrighty. Thanks.
Shut the door, sister.
DR. LISA: I'm going out to Lori's farm
to take a look at one of her mini horses, Little Man.
You're a lot bigger than I remember.
- LORI [off screen]: Yeah. - DR. LISA: He used to be tiny.
LORI: Not no more.
I'll go get the pony.
Little Man is a two-and-a-half-year-old mini,
and he's as sweet as pie.
Last year he broke his collar bone here.
He's been wobbly, like, his body was shifting back and forth.
Watch when he walks.
DR. LISA: He does seem weak in his hind legs.
LORI [off screen]: Watch his back.
DR. LISA: Seems like he doesn't quite know
where his hind legs are at times.
DR. LISA: There's something fairly significant going on.
He is walking with a very wide based stance on his hind legs,
sometimes they almost cross over.
Has he been getting more unsteady over time
or staying about the same?
LORI: Getting worse. That's why I got you out here.
LORI: What do we do for that?
He wasn't getting any better,
so we figured maybe we'd have to put him down
and, uh, I couldn't do it.
The kids love him to death,
they come out here and play with him all the time.
DR. LISA: Just wanna try walking him
in a little bit of a circle here.
There's different causes of hind leg unsteadiness in horses.
LORI [off screen]: Get out of there, Rio.
DR. LISA: Right now his unsteadiness
seems to be primarily in his hind legs.
LORI: Well, he broke this whole side here.
DR. LISA: Yeah, I could feel that.
He get kicked or he fell or...
- LORI: No, we think he flipped. - DR. LISA: Oof.
He has an old injury in his shoulder
that looks like it's pretty much healed.
When it's high up like this there's enough big muscles
that are holding a lot of stuff in place
- that the bone doesn't move as much. - LORI [off screen]: Yeah.
DR. LISA: I don't think that that is causing the issue.
When did he start kinda acting...
LORI: He's been like that for maybe three or four months.
We had a chiropractor come out,
he wasn't getting any better.
DR. LISA: There's a few different diseases
that can cause unsteadiness or wobbliness.
If it were West Nile
or one of the encephalitis viruses
he would have gotten a lot worse a lot faster
- than he has been doing. - LORI: Yeah.
NARRATOR: If it's not viral...
DR. LISA: Selenium deficiency can cause
unsteadiness like this.
NARRATOR: ... it could be something lacking in Little Man's diet.
DR. LISA: We live in an area that is deficient
in some vitamins and minerals
that horses require for muscle development.
We could start treating him for it.
Start by giving him selenium, vitamin E boosters.
If deficiency was the source of his weakness,
then his prognosis in the future is extremely good.
Other than the unsteadiness, he seems healthy.
LORI: We'll just wait it out, see what happens.
In the meantime he's healthy, he's happy.
There you go.
He does whatever he wants around here,
he's pretty much king of the roost.
NARRATOR: The supplements and boosters
should kick in within 24 hours.
LORI: That'll make you feel a little better, huh?
[Lucy meowing]
LORI: Lucy.
DR. NICOLE: Lori is bringing in her big orange cat Lucy today
because her butt has been smelling.
LORI: Lucy is seven years old.
She's our only animal that we have
and we're pretty fond of her.
DR. NICOLE: Hello, how are you?
- LORI: I'm good and yourself? - DR. NICOLE: Good.
I'm not sure what I'm walking into for this appointment.
DR. NICOLE: What's going on with your butt, Lucy?
If a butt smells...
Ooh.
...I don't know if it's medical
or just some poop back there.
We'll see.
Girlie.
LORI: At first I thought she was just not cleaning herself.
We gave her a bath, that did not go well.
Then it was just a couple days later
she had a stinky butt again.
DR. NICOLE: Oh, my goodness.
LORI [off screen]: But other than that,
you know, regular...
DR. NICOLE: Jeez, fourteen pounds, four ounces.
- She is overweight. - LORI: Yep.
DR. NICOLE: and I think that's part of her issue.
LORI: Really?
DR. NICOLE: Lucy weighs a whole 14 pounds
which is pretty big for a cat.
LORI: It's alright.
DR. NICOLE: What she should be weighing
is probably more around like ten pounds.
I'm gonna take her on back, shave her butt area,
and then clean it up for her.
She's so round,
she can't actually get back
to her butt to groom herself.
LORI: My husband is gonna just love hearing you say that.
Lucy is overweight.
Apparently, she can't reach herself.
[whirring]
DR. NICOLE: If you would clean your own stinky butt,
I wouldn't have to.
Sometimes I hope if I talk to my clients,
they'll listen to me.
Poor girl. I know it's irritating.
Man, if Lucy would only clean her own butt,
we wouldn't be here right now.
You're a sweet girly though, huh?
She's got like little extra folds all around her vulva.
Lucy does have some accumulation
in the folds around her vulva.
That's what was really stinky.
So poop and urine can just sit there
and therefore start smelling.
DR. NICOLE: Should we go show mom your clean butt?
While we have had some fun poking fun at Lucy...
Come on, clean butt.
...it is very important that she loses weight.
I just don't think she's able to clean herself.
Very good news, we just have to lose some weight.
And you have to help her in the meantime.
LORI [off screen]: Right.
She is in for a lifestyle change,
she has an automatic feeder
and we may have to go back to one dish at a time.
DR. NICOLE: Okay, big girl.
I really do love Lucy
and I just really want the best for her
which is to lose some weight.
[meows]
DR. POL: I hope you don't know that.
Okay, what next?
- CINDY: No. - DR. POL: Bubba is back.
CINDY: Don't jump out.
DR. POL: He was outside
and it looks like something
was trying to grab him and he got away.
- CINDY: He's healing up. - DR. POL: I know.
- CINDY: It's pulling together. - DR. POL: I know.
CINDY: It looks a lot better than it did.
DR. POL: Hi, sweet.
At this point it doesn't look bad at all.
CINDY: It's a miracle.
- [Cindy laughs] - DR. POL: Yeah.
The wound underneath has healed up,
it looks very clean.
But part of the skin has died off,
which was almost expected.
I would like to put some stitches in there
- and help make it faster. - CINDY: Okay.
DR. POL: When we get the clean skin sutured together
it'll hold up real good.
Perfect.
And everything should be fine.
Keep it up.
CINDY: Alright, thank you.
We really appreciate Dr. Pol for everything that he does.
And he cares so much for the animals.
Can't ask for anything more.
[purring]
DIANE [off screen]: Alright, let's go.
Out, come on.
NARRATOR: After four months of puppy growth spurts...
DIANE [off screen]: Come on, guys.
NARRATOR: Lily's officially part of the Pol pack.
DIANE: Come on.
She's always attracted herself
to Killian, the St. Bernard.
DR. POL: She instantly cottoned to the old man.
DIANE: That's her big brother.
[Diane speaks indistinctly]
DR. POL: She just went right to him,
said here I am.
DIANE [off screen]: Yeah. [laughs]
DR. POL: And when he lays down,
she just cuddles up to him.
DIANE: Come on. Over here.
She's very smart.
No, sit. Good, easy.
But, being a puppy,
she still tries to get away with what she can.
I'm hoping for a long happy life with her.
Let's go. Come on.
She certainly is a sweet dog.
Yeah, come on.
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