(dog groaning)
CHRISTINE: Want to go see Dr. Pol?
Teddie is a Yorkie Pomeranian.
He's 6 1/2 years old.
That was gross.
Well, I made bean soup yesterday,
and I gave him the ham bone out of it,
and he's been sick ever since.
Throwing up and shivering and not feeling well.
Here he comes.
DR. POL: So, you give this little dog a big ham bone?
CHRISTINE: I said I know I'm gonna get chewed out.
DR. POL: No, he got chewed on. (laughs)
CHRISTINE: He has thrown up so much.
DR. POL: Yes.
CHRISTINE: And he's so uncomfortable.
DR. POL: Come on in.
CHRISTINE: This is very unusual for him
to not eat or drink or play.
Very worried.
He's not good.
He's tried and tried and tried so much to poop and...
DR. POL: Yeah.
How big a ham bone was it?
CHRISTINE: The knuckle was probably that big,
and then it had one piece coming off it.
He ate that piece.
DR. POL: Teddie is not a big dog,
and he couldn't eat the whole bone,
and he ate all the gristle of it.
Tasted good, didn't it?
(Christine laughs)
So now he's throwing up.
When we have bones that are processed--
They are cooked, they are boiled,
they're fried, it makes no difference--
The dogs cannot digest them.
Let's take an x-ray, see how much bone is in there.
♪ ♪
Yeah, bones, they're already going through.
There are some pieces of bone that you see on the x-ray,
but nothing serious.
That's all bone.
CHRISTINE: Ooh.
DR. POL: So, what he needs is laxative.
See here?
He got a heck of a lot more than what you think he did.
A little bit of laxative
so they do not get plugged up with the pieces,
and everything should be fine.
CHRISTINE: And he's gonna poop his brains out, right?
DR. POL: Hope so.
CHRISTINE: I'm very relieved that Teddie's gonna be okay,
but he's not gonna be happy
'cause this is the last bone he's getting.
(dog groans)
When I get Teddie home,
I'm gonna put rugs and newspapers down
so when his medicine does start working,
I don't have a mess everywhere.
I'm willing to do whatever it takes for him,
if it means I have to miss my NASCAR race this year, then.
(whimpering)
♪ ♪
DENIM: Right here, he's got a white patch on him,
on his chest.
My dad named him.
His name's Patch, he's, he's a pretty good cat.
He likes to listen, likes to be pet.
He's definitely a cuddler.
Whoa, you're alright.
I bring him in my bedroom
'cause my dad don't want him in the house.
Ouch, though, that did kind of hurt.
This morning my grandma had mown the lawn
and he got scared and ran out of the kennel,
and when he tried coming back
he couldn't really walk on his back legs,
he was kind of like wobbling on them.
DR. LISA: Hello. You've got Patch?
SHELLEY: Yes.
DR. LISA: So, what's the story?
SHELLEY: Something with his back leg.
He went under the seat.
DENIM: I can't grab him by his back legs.
I guess I'm climbing in the back.
DR. LISA: Patch, it looks like, today
was not feeling a carrier situation.
Alright, you got him wrangled?
SHELLEY: Yeah. (chuckles) DR. LISA: Alright.
DENIM: It's his back right leg.
DR. LISA: The back right? Okay. DENIM: Yeah.
DR. LISA: I'll be back in just a little while, okay?
DENIM: Okay, thank you.
DR. LISA: Hi, bud. WOMAN: Hi, kitty!
DR. LISA: So, he's been having problems
with his right hind leg.
You can't really lift your butt and tail!
You either feel miserable
or you're just a very relaxed sort of boy.
Want to trot around?
Watching Patch walk around the room,
he's definitely limping on one of his legs
and his tail has very little tone,
it's kind of hanging sort of limply.
His tail is very swollen.
WOMAN: Yeah.
DR. LISA: Is his tail paralyzed?
The next step here is gonna be to do some imaging
to see if there's any fractures
and to decide the extent of the injuries.
(meow)
DR. LISA: Sorry, bud. Okay.
(beep)
Okay.
WOMAN: Sorry, buddy.
(meow)
DR. LISA: Oh, yeah, interesting!
On the x-ray, it's pretty clear
that Patch has what we sometimes call a tail pull injury,
or an avulsed tail.
NARRATOR: Patch's tail was somehow pulled hard enough
that his vertebrae separated.
DR. LISA: It actually caused some damage
to some of the nerves
that are kind of rooted at the base of his tail there.
Do you have any thoughts about a cat with a tail avulsion?
His tail's just kind of wobbly
and his legs are a little unsteady.
I don't think it needs to be amputated necessarily.
DR. BRENDA: It's not gonna ever work again,
it's just gonna hang there.
NARRATOR: Though the tail won't regain function,
Patch's legs might.
DR. BRENDA: I would give him some time
to see how much that resolves.
DR. LISA: The injury is so fresh and has so much healing to go.
I guess we'll just have to kind of wait and see.
The biggest thing right now is just controlling the swelling
and the pain associated with his injuries
and making sure that he is getting lots of TLC
as he's recovering
and not getting out of the house to do more damage to himself.
Alright, so I'm not sure if he got hit by a car
or got his tail snagged in something,
but his tail got kind of pulled, so it's dislocated,
and that caused a little bit of nerve damage,
so that's why his legs are a little unsteady.
So, it's pretty swollen and painful.
I gave him an injection of anti-inflammatories.
And at home this is just some more pain medication,
you'll start giving these tomorrow.
DENIM: You know, I'm not no vet or nothing,
but hopefully he'll better in the next couple weeks.
So probably it wouldn't be a good idea
to leave him outside.
DR. LISA: No, I would keep him inside
so he's not running around.
DENIM: You get to be my roommate!
DR. LISA: Yeah, awesome!
Please call me if you have any concerns about anything.
You guys have a great day.
SHELLEY: You, too, hon. DENIM: You, too.
Thank you.
With him being an outside cat, he's gonna miss being outside,
but at least he gets to stay in my room with me.
So that's a bonus.
♪ ♪
(whimpering)
(grunting)
♪ ♪
(bird chirps)
ELAINE: Cookie is my bird. It's a cockatiel.
And Cookie is about 9 years old.
Cookie's issue is it likes to pick its feathers.
DR. POL: Shut the door so he doesn't fly away.
ELAINE: Oh, yeah, good idea.
DR. POL: Oh, you little twerp.
ELAINE: Quit pecking at Doc.
DR. POL: No, that's fine.
You're a cutie.
But he's pecking his feathers out.
That's what it looks like to me.
Because see, he does not pick them
out of his neck or his tail.
ELAINE: No.
DR. POL: This is a symptom of either boredom, nervousness.
When these birds do not feel good,
they start pecking feathers.
When something bothers them, they peck themselves bald.
I've seen parrots here that had no feathers,
completely bald, and only here
because they couldn't peck at it.
ELAINE: Oh, my gosh.
DR. POL: He is frustrated.
ELAINE: Oh, he's frustrated? From what?
DR. POL: Yes.
Is there another one, do you have only one?
ELAINE: Only one.
DR. POL: This one is I think just boredom,
because everything is fine,
he's eating good, he's drinking good.
But he doesn't have anything to play with.
He needs something to keep him occupied.
ELAINE: What can I do?
DR. POL: Put a mirror in there.
ELAINE: Oh, okay!
DR. POL: Then he has a friend.
Sometimes putting a mirror in with the cage
where they can look at themselves
and talk to themselves so they're not bored
will take care of it.
ELAINE: Perfect, alright.
DR. POL: Do that first.
ELAINE: Thank you.
'Cause two of them screaming could be... (laughs)
Cockatiels are kind of loud when they squawk,
so I think I'm gonna opt for a mirror for a while.
DR. POL: See you.
ELAINE: Thanks, Dr. Pol, see you later.
DR. POL: Outlook for Cookie is good.
These birds can live quite a long time,
and if he is not bored and he's happy and talks to himself,
it'll be many more years.
(chirp)
KIM: Did you guys see her get hit by the car?
HARLEY: No.
KIM: They came, did the guy come to the door?
CADE: Yeah, he just-- No, we saw him and then...
KIM: You saw him stop out front.
CADE: Then Bella's just laying in the front.
KIM: I called our vet, of course they were closed on Saturday,
but they gave me an emergency number,
so I took her over there.
They looked at her, did x-rays,
found out that Bella had broken her pelvis,
decided to bring her over here to see what our options were.
DR. LISA: Good morning. KIM: Good morning.
DR. LISA: You have Bella? KIM: Yeah, she's in the...
DR. LISA: I was looking through the x-rays,
so, I'd like to look her over.
KIM: Yeah.
DR. LISA: While she's here,
and then I'm gonna try and do a rectal exam
and see if I can feel where her fractures are
and just kind of assess how painful she is.
KIM: Okay.
DR. LISA: And then we'll go from there.
Hi, sweetheart.
KIM: The thing I'm worried about most is the possibility
that we might have to put Bella down,
being that she has a broken pelvis
and she's 12 or 13 years old.
DR. LISA: We'll be back out in a few minutes.
KIM: Okay, thank you.
DR. LISA: Dogs that get hit by cars
can have pretty catastrophic injuries.
Fortunately it's not something
that we see every day by any means.
DR. POL: Oh, there's another one here.
NARRATOR: Today it happened twice.
DR. POL: Okay, come on. Where is she?
SARAH: My husband, Andy,
was pulling in the driveway last night,
and she likes to run up to cars,
and he bumped her coming up the driveway.
DR. POL: Is she in the back? SARAH: She's in the back.
DR. POL: Okay, bring her out.
SARAH: Andy said that he heard her yelp pretty good,
and the first I saw her,
she just was limping everywhere she was walking.
DR. POL: Pick her up, let me see how she walks.
We are outside, so I make Charlie walk
so I can see how lame and what leg it is.
Yeah.
And it's the left rear that he will step on,
but when he starts running, it hurts too much.
Okay, come on in, let me have a feel.
And then we'll go from there.
DR. LISA: You're too old for this nonsense.
Bella was hit by a car recently.
Surgery in these cases
can provide the most stabilization for the fractures.
Unfortunately she's not what I would call a young dog.
NARRATOR: Anesthesia on a senior dog is risky.
DR. LISA: I don't want to put her under an anesthetic,
I want to avoid sedation if possible.
I can't feel anything abnormal;
I think everybody is in the right place at least.
Because the pelvis forms
its own kind of grid-like stabilization system,
if we can keep the pet movement-restricted enough
and with some pain management, they can heal without surgery.
WOMAN: There you go, sweetie.
DR. LISA: I think as long as long as Kim
can keep Bella nice and quiet and we can control her pain,
her pelvic fractures should heal,
but it might take quite a long time.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: It's good news for Charlie, too.
DR. POL: Yeah, nothing is broke.
SARAH: Okay. DR. POL: It just hurts.
SARAH: It just hurts. Oh, thank God.
DR. POL: Yeah.
There is no fractures, the hip is in place,
so it is just a very bad bruise
that Charlie should come over it pretty quick.
So, I'm gonna get you pain pills.
SARAH: Okay. DR. POL: And that's it.
SARAH: Awesome.
DR. POL: And tell your husband not to drive so fast.
(Sarah laughs)
I think the husband is a lucky man.
Because Sarah loves her dog,
and it was anything happened to the dog,
it would be the husband who was in the doghouse.
NARRATOR: Fortunately both Charlie and Bella
are headed home to rest and heal up.
KIM: This is a good day for our family.
I'm relieved that we're gonna be able to take Bella home.
DR. LISA: This is your medication.
KIM: Just glad that it turned out the way it did.
So, that's good news, guys.
CADE: So, we don't have to put Bella down?
KIM: No!
♪ ♪
(moo)
DARLENE: We just recently purchased
the whole herd of miniature Herefords,
about two weeks ago.
They are all expecting babies.
Hi, Dr. Pol.
DR. POL: So now you bought cows?
DARLENE: Yeah, selling out of pigs.
Lena is our nine-year-old, and she has a vaginal prolapse.
We have never dealt with this before, and it seems concerning.
DR. POL: And this is the one?
There's a difference between a vaginal prolapse
and a uterine prolapse
Hi, sweetie.
Oh, come on.
A vaginal prolapse many times happens before they have a calf,
while a uterus prolapse comes after they have a calf.
DARLENE: As far as we know that's,
this is the first time that she's done this,
but she's getting older.
DR. POL: It's not that big.
Come on.
CHARLES: You got the lead?
DR. POL: I got it, hang on.
Just take it easy. Get around.
DARLENE: Come on. DR. POL: Come on.
CHARLES: Come on.
Good luck leading her in there.
DR. POL: She says no, I can't get through here.
What is hanging out is basically the wall of the birth canal.
And that's because she's on the chubby side.
Most of these lose elasticity with many calves.
Oh, quit that.
And then some fat in the pelvis will just make it hang out.
See? That's what you do.
NARRATOR: With Lena due to calve so soon,
the best treatment is a course of anti-inflammatories.
DR. POL: She's too close to freshening
that I think I'm gonna give a shot of cortisone,
and within two days she'll have a calf.
NARRATOR: The cortisone will reduce the swelling
and allow for an easier birth.
DR. POL: It's not bad.
Get that calf out.
DARLENE: Okay.
DR. POL: Need help, let me know. We'll see ya.
DARLENE: Alright, thanks, Doc!
Relieved that we didn't have to do anything major
and just keep our eye on her
and if we have any issues, give him a call.
That hopefully everything's gonna be great.
(moo)
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Half an hour away,
another Hereford also needs obstetrical expertise.
MARY: Hi, Dr. Lisa.
DR. LISA: Hello, how are you?
MARY: Good, and you?
DR. LISA: I'm doing alright!
Where we want to start, then?
MARY: Well...
this one right here, the first one, she got bred,
but we didn't really want her to have a baby.
(moo)
NARRATOR: Mary's bull made an unplanned visit
with the heifers.
MARY: She got bred, and she's only 14 months old.
DR. LISA: Hmm.
She's a little bit younger than we'd like,
she's kind of an oopsie cow,
and we're hoping that she is baby-free.
MARY: Come here, honey.
Come here.
Good girl.
DR. LISA: When you have your arm inside a cow,
and they swing their body back and forth...
MARY: Hey!
DR. LISA: in the blink of an eye
that can cause some pretty bad shoulder injury.
MARY: It's okay.
DR. LISA: I don't feel even any fluid in her uterus,
so that would be the...
MARY: First sign. DR. LISA: the first sign.
MARY: Okay.
DR. LISA: So, I think you're in the clear.
MARY: Good news.
DR. LISA: Good! I like to be the bearer of good news.
(Mary laughs)
Alright, well, I guess I'll hit the road, then.
MARY: Well, thank you so much.
DR. LISA: You're very welcome. MARY: I appreciate it.
♪ ♪
KAREN: He actually was a wild mustang we got
from the Bureau of Land Management.
Gambit has a swelling on his neck.
Karen.
DR. POL: Karen, how are you?
KAREN: And it's been going on for three or four weeks,
and just seems to keep getting bigger and bigger.
DR. POL: Oh, oh, for Pete's sake, ow!
DR. POL: That's hotter than blazes.
KAREN: He's always had this little lump underneath it,
which I assumed was probably vaccination.
About three weeks ago started getting bigger.
DR. POL: When I felt that lump, it was real hard.
That hurts like the dickens.
KAREN: It does.
DR. POL: And there was not a soft spot in there,
so then you don't know whether it is a tumor
or an abscess or some other swelling.
You got a minute?
NARRATOR: The mysterious lump could be cancerous.
To get a better idea of the source...
DR. LISA: Hello. DR. NICOLE: Hi.
NARRATOR: Doc calls for a few helping hands.
DR. POL: It's solid, isn't it, Lisa?
Yes.
DR. LISA: I would still poke it.
DR. POL: Poke it.
DR. LISA: With lumps, sometimes the best diagnostic tool we have
is just kind of poking into the lump with a needle,
collecting a little bit of a sample.
DR. POL: What you find?
Solid pus?
Abscess? Hallelujah!
How the heck did that happen?
It's just full of pus.
He needs a tranquilization.
Which makes it good,
because we can clear up abscesses very easily.
I'm gonna stick a big needle in there, make a big hole.
♪ ♪
They love this.
And then use peroxide to flush more pus out,
and you can see how much pus is in there
because the peroxide that's coming out comes flying out.
There, clean already, look at that.
I put a drain tube in there, it's a piece of rubber
that you put in there to keep it open.
Otherwise, the body wall heals up too fast.
And the abscess comes back.
When there's no more swelling, and no more pus,
which could be a week or two,
then you just cut underneath the stitch,
and everything comes out.
KAREN: Alright.
DR. POL: Then I want you to get
the biggest bottle of peroxide you can find.
Put penicillin in the quart of peroxide.
You shove that liquid up in there,
penicillin goes in all those crevices
and takes the infection out.
Something I've learned through the years.
Outlook for Gambit of course is good;
an abscess is not something that is deadly.
You'll be alright, buddy.
(laughs)
Weird.
KAREN: Very relieved.
When we get home, we'll be cleaning out his wound,
starting as soon as we get home.
DR. POL: Very good, you did fantastic.
KAREN: Gambit's definitely worth that work.
I have, you know, more horses at home,
and I would do that for each and every one of them.
The horses are my life.
♪ ♪
(clucking)
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: This afternoon, two of the vets
are tied up with paperwork.
While the other two have back to back to back...
DR. POL: Oh, my gosh!
NARRATOR: puppy appointments!
DR. POL: Puppies, puppies, puppies!
NARRATOR: Health checks for two pit bull mastiffs...
four goldendoodles...
six Australian shepherds...
and eight Rottweilers...
are all on the docket!
DR. POL: Holy cow, a lot of puppies!
(woman laughing)
DR. LISA: We've got some puppies to examinate.
DR. POL: He's 33 pounds.
9 pounds.
A gallon of milk is 8 pounds.
WOMAN: Yeah, well, they're double that, almost.
DR. POL: Yes.
WOMAN: Oh, my goodness!
10.13.
(bark)
DR. LISA: Ready to play?
DR. NICOLE: I don't see the little thingy. Where is it?
DR. POL: Oh, don't be so scared.
(laughs) You're alright.
Very good heartbeats, and I'll check for ruptures.
WOMAN: Hey, I lost one.
(laughter)
(boing boing boing boing)
DR. LISA: This isn't going well.
WOMAN: Are you hungry?
MAN: They're teething really bad right now,
they've just been chewing on everything,
including each other.
DR. LISA: This one is a boy!
And he's biting my hand.
DR. BRENDA: Alright, now I've laid my glasses down somewhere,
actually can't do that.
WOMAN: Big girl!
(boing)
DR. LISA: There's pee on the floor!
WOMAN: We knew that was coming.
DR. LISA: Oh, you picked a really great spot to go potty!
(woman giggling)
(Dr. Pol laughs)
WOMAN: She is beautiful.
DR. POL: She is!
They are so cute.
WOMAN: Yes, they are.
DR. LISA: Alright.
WOMAN: We did it!
(vehicle approaching)
(horse nickers)
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: Do you know what happened or?
LEAH: No idea.
Last night, noticed Cherokee was limping.
There seemed to be an injury to her back knee.
It's a hole, you can see the tendon is sort of half severed.
It's deep enough that you can touch the bone.
I'm worried that it's something that's beyond us.
DR. LISA: Alright, you want to bring him out
so I can take a look?
LEAH: I've known Cherokee as long as I've been alive.
She's a good girl, and we're hoping that it's not too bad.
DR. LISA: I don't think it's gonna be
something to close easily.
Definitely over 24 hours old.
Because this wound is a little bit too old and contaminated
to close today,
I'm just going to start with flushing it out really well.
NARRATOR: Flushing the wound will allow Dr. Lisa
to get a better look at the damage.
DR. LISA: This big kind of lump here
is kind of a big chunk of granulation tissue.
On first glance at a wound, it can look fairly superficial.
So it's not necessarily bad.
I think the joint is probably safe.
But as you kind of explore it
more with my fingers than with my eyes,
I can feel bone at the deepest extent of the wound.
That's the biggest risk of secondary infection
is if we do get infection in a joint space,
that's a lot harder to get rid of.
LEAH: Are you able to see any of the tendon?
My brother thought, he said the tendon
was half severed yesterday.
DR. LISA: Well, she's bearing weight on it.
There isn't a lot on the front of the leg.
The biggest important structures are on the back,
so the fact that she's able to bear weight on it,
um, and is walking pretty well,
I think everything as far as tendons and muscle structures
is pretty okay.
I think she got pretty lucky.
I'll have you wrap it to keep it a little bit better protected.
And you can do cold hosing for the next couple days
just to help with some of the swelling.
I'm gonna give you a honey dressing to use on it.
NARRATOR: Honey has been used for millennia
for its antibacterial and anti-inflammatory properties.
DR. LISA: You'll just kind of slather it,
put the dressing on, change it like once a day.
It is just really deep and prone to infection,
especially since we don't know what caused it.
I'll get you some antibiotics
and some bute for the pain and the swelling
and the bandaging stuff, and you'll be all set.
As long as we can keep infection out of the way
and make sure that the granulation tissue
that has already started to cover the wound
continues to do so,
I think Cherokee will heal up okay
without any lasting lameness.
Not many horses will let you do that without any sedation.
That's pretty impressive.
LEAH: Yeah, she's a good girl.
I'm just pretty glad with how it turned out today.
We love her to death,
she was our favorite horse to ride in the rodeo,
and we're glad that she'll recover.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: 17 miles away,
Dr. Nicole's tending to the herd at Clay Knob Dairy.
DR. NICOLE: I know!
I disappeared! (chuckles)
Today we are preg-checking some cows.
Ah, okay, what's her story?
DALE: Might be there's a calf in there, Doc, hopefully.
♪ ♪
DR. NICOLE: No, she's open.
Got a CL on the right, but a big ovary on the left.
DALE: 50 days fresh.
DR. NICOLE: Okay. Big ovary on the right.
DALE: But not nasty, right?
DR. NICOLE: No, not nasty. She is good.
She's pregnant.
It's in the left horn,
I'm just trying to lift it up a little bit.
Left horn means female, right?
DALE: Oh, good!
(Dr. Nicole chuckles)
Fresh cow, she hasn't been bred yet.
DR. NICOLE: She has a big ovary on the right and on the left.
Yeah, she's pregnant in the left horn.
DALE: Alright, we'll rock with that. Good.
DR. NICOLE: Another left horn, huh?
DALE: Woo, two heifers.
(gobbling)
NARRATOR: An unusual flock
is keeping Dr. Pol busy at the clinic.
PATRICIA: They've been sick.
I have my turkey, Baby, my chicken, Mystical,
and my dog, Spike.
They got kind of like a (exhales) breathing bad.
DR. POL: Yeah?
PATRICIA: And that's where her went,
and then she started sounding...
DR. POL: Let's take this one inside and have a look.
PATRICIA: Okay.
It's okay, Mysti.
I don't want to...
DR. POL: Here, see that big abscess there?
PATRICIA: Oh, my.
DR. POL: Yeah. That is a coryza.
NARRATOR: Caused by bacteria,
infectious coryza is similar to a nasty sinus infection.
DR. POL: Most of the time chickens have a bacteria
that causes a thick, hard ball of pus.
Hang on for a sec.
So, I take that out.
See?
PATRICIA: Oh, my.
DR. POL: And then she needs antibiotic
to battle the infection from the bacterias
and everything heals up.
Okay, let's go look at the turkey, same thing.
(door chime)
Then we do the dog afterwards.
(turkey gobbling)
Okay.
Turn around, brother.
The turkey has this soft abscess right on the face.
Either it'll go away or break through;
we can put him on antibiotics
just to make sure everything goes fine,
but we're leaving this one alone.
Okay, good.
PATRICIA: You want the dog now?
DR. POL: Yep.
PATRICIA: We brought Spike in because he was having diarrhea.
Okay, this one has blood in his poop.
DR. POL: This is Spike?
PATRICIA: Yeah, this is Spike.
DR. POL: Let me see his butt end, then.
(dog whining) Hey.
PATRICIA: Yeah.
Spike.
(squealing)
DR. POL: Anal glands are big.
Let me see if I can get anything out of them.
(squealing)
PATRICIA: Okay, it's alright, it's alright.
(squealing)
DR. POL: Yeah, there it comes. See?
PATRICIA: Yup!
DR. POL: Feels better, buddy.
Look at that!
PATRICIA: Oh, my, baby!
DR. POL: There, that's done. Okay.
PATRICIA: Good job! DR. POL: Good.
♪ ♪
DR. NICOLE: Come here, kitty kitty.
Come here. (kiss)
I love coming to Clay Knob.
They're always so nice, and they have it down to a T.
Is that all of them?
Yep.
They know exactly how to get the cows in,
how to get them out, and do it efficiently.
Ooh, careful guys.
I better start right now.
DALE: Yep.
(meow)
DR. LISA: Hey!
Oh, you're round!
Look at how round you are!
HUNTER: I brought Kinley here
because she started making these noises of gagging
and trying to gasp for breath and wheezing.
DR. LISA: Hi.
HUNTER: Then she started throwing up.
DR. LISA: There are about 1,000 different things
that could cause these symptoms.
Nothing I would say seriously seems to be wrong,
she's pretty bright and alert.
Her temperature is normal and her lungs sound good.
I don't see any signs of obstruction,
so I think in this case some anti-nausea medications
and some antibiotics will take care of the problem.
Alright.
She does have nasal discharge, so she could be developing
a bit of an upper respiratory infection.
HUNTER: Okay.
DR. LISA: And sometimes they're swallowing a lot of mucus
and that can make them feel sort of off and then make them vomit.
She's maybe a little bit overweight.
HUNTER: Mm-hmm. Yeah.
DR. LISA: Just shave off a couple pounds
with some extra playing around when she's feeling better.
HUNTER: Okay.
DR. LISA: I'm very happy that Kinley is doing fine,
and that medicine will help her, and it was nothing too serious.
HUNTER: Thank you.
DR. LISA: Yep, take it easy today.
HUNTER: You, too.
(meow)
DALE: Holy cow! What are you doing?
DR. NICOLE: Surprise!
Bladder is huge!
DALE: You already did that!
Twice already!
DR. NICOLE: Ooh.
I always enjoy coming to Clay Knob
not only to see the cows, but in my breaks,
I get to play with the kitties, and it's just so much fun here.
Okay. Well, I will see you guys later, then.
DALE: Well, thanks, Doc. Good seeing you!
PHIL: Thanks, Doc.
DALE: We didn't have very many pregnant,
but on the brighter side
we had the ones that already had their calves,
they're all cleaned up and they're ready to get bred back.
So, life is good. Yep.
(humming)
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THERESA: I got a goat, Elsa, that's about 8 years old,
and she's drastically lost weight and went down.
NARRATOR: Theresa knows, Elsa's condition is grave.
THERESA: What are you doing?
Normally Elsa's right out there, and if she sees anybody,
she's baaing at you and wants you to come and love on her
and jumping around, and right now Elsa's just kind of there.
Gonna see what Doc Pol says.
I'm hoping it's not the end of her time
and Doc Pol can give her some medicine,
find out what's going on with her
and get her back up on her feet.
Doc Pol, how are you, darling?
DR. POL: Ahh.
THERESA: She's lost weight drastically in the last week.
DR. POL: Oh, for Pete's sake, Theresa.
THERESA: I know!
I don't know if it's the end of her time or...
She was fine a few weeks ago,
he said she was eating and drinking.
She's lost weight drastically.
DR. POL: There's nothing, there's nothing left to her.
THERESA: No, drastically in a week.
DR. POL: Theresa has no idea what happened with this goat
because she went downhill so fast.
THERESA: She don't have diarrhea.
I checked that.
DR. POL: This is strange.
Yeah, way low, look at this.
97.
NARRATOR: A healthy goat's average temperature is 102.
DR. POL: I'm gonna take one of those, I'm gonna look at that.
She's very thin,
so I want to make sure that we don't have parasites.
♪ ♪
No parasites.
THERESA: Something's just not right.
DR. POL: No idea why she lost that much weight,
'cause there's nothing left of her.
THERESA: So, what do you think's better for Elsa?
♪ ♪
I know you and I both don't like to do this.
DR. POL: Her chances of pulling through,
in her condition here, 1 in 10.
She has not been eating.
She's very thin.
When they are this far down with a temperature so low,
you know that it is very hard if not impossible
to bring this goat back.
NARRATOR: Elsa is too far gone.
THERESA: Then that's what we need to do.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: When Theresa decides that this goat should go,
I completely concur with her,
and we'll put the goat down very humanely.
♪ ♪
THERESA: Well, this isn't what I wanted to do,
but I kind of knew
that maybe this is what we were gonna have to do, so.
Sometimes you got to do things that are really tough.
These are the tough times.
Now I have to call my granddaughter
and let her know that we had to put her goat down,
which will be a little tough, but...
♪ ♪
Doc Pol, I'm gonna stay over here while you do that.
DR. POL: You're fine.
THERESA: Doc, you've been taking care of her since she was born.
DR. POL: Mm-hmm.
THERESA: So, I'm glad you're still here
and the one taking care of her at the end.
This is absolutely part of owning animals
and absolutely part of farming.
You have to let them go.
♪ ♪
(rooster crows)
(baa)
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: A few days ago, Darlene's cow
had a vaginal prolapse and was due to calve anytime.
DARLENE: We came out Saturday morning
and she had a healthy baby and no prolapse, so we were happy.
DR. BRENDA: Hi, Darlene, how are you?
NARRATOR: Now Lena is having another problem.
DARLENE: She has not cleaned out all the way,
and we're worried about infection.
DR. BRENDA: Come on, babe.
So, this cow's got a retained placenta.
The placenta just hasn't expelled after calving.
Okay, we're not gonna get it to come today.
Pretty tight in there yet.
But if I pull on it, I'm just gonna shred it,
which is just gonna leave little tags in there,
and I don't want to do that.
Still pretty tightly adhered to the uterus,
so I'm not getting it to move anywhere,
we've got a little bit of it out,
but the rest of it's not coming out in one piece.
She's still eating?
DARLENE: Mm-hmm.
DR. BRENDA: She should pass it like Friday, Saturday.
I would expect she'd get the rest of it out,
but if she doesn't, let me know.
We're starting her on antibiotics,
we're going to go ahead and give her medication
to help her contract her uterus.
Get over.
And then hopefully the placenta will come out
and we'll go from there.
Or in 10 days, she gets another dose.
DARLENE: Okay.
DR. BRENDA: Alright, I'm gonna peek in at your baby
and then we'll let her go.
DARLENE: Okay.
DR. BRENDA: Hey there, pumpkinhead!
DARLENE: So, this is our second baby.
She's just a total little sweetheart, so it's very nice.
(laughs)
She doesn't seem to have the greatest milk production.
DR. BRENDA: Well, she's not a dairy cow.
DARLENE: I'm just saying like I'm supplementing the baby.
DR. BRENDA: Her udder's not super full,
but beef calves nurse all the time,
so you don't get that nice big full udder
that you get in a dairy cow.
Right, I would keep an eye on her,
but if she wants to nurse on the bottle,
as long as you don't mind doing it,
I would go ahead and add that.
I think she's probably got enough for her,
but if you're concerned at all,
then extra milk, as long as she'll drink it, is fine.
Any other questions?
DARLENE: Nope.
DR. BRENDA: Okay. Talk to you later.
DARLENE: Okay. Thank you.
DR. BRENDA: Yep.
DARLENE: We'll just keep her up here
and make sure that she's passing that when she needs to
and everybody's doing good.
♪ ♪
(bleating)
(bawk)
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: Today I'm at Stacey's place.
They have a pig with a prolapsed rectum.
This is one of their 4-H pigs, so they're concerned about him.
We'll have his butt sticking out,
his head in the corner.
NARRATOR: The first step in treating
any porcine prolapse...
DR. LISA: Perfect.
(pig squealing)
NARRATOR: is wrangling!
DR. LISA: He's gonna back right out.
STACEY: Bud, if you just hold still!
DR. LISA: It's just kind of all of us working together
to try and hold him down.
Let's go over here.
But he's a pretty big guy,
and he's really strong, and he's scared.
(pig screams)
(screaming)
BRYCE: You need to calm down, mister.
DR. LISA: Typically, in pigs,
the prolapse tissue swells really quickly,
and if you try and put it in, it will just come back out,
so the treatment of choice
is actually just to amputate the diseased tissue,
get rid of it so it's not a problem anymore.
So, I'll put a plastic ring inside his rectum there.
The tube is wide enough that the fecal material
can still pass through without any problems.
NARRATOR: Rubber bands cut off circulation
to the exposed tissue.
DR. LISA: This usually dies and falls off
just within a few days.
(squealing)
STACEY: Aw, he's loose.
DR. LISA: We're almost there.
(laughter)
♪ ♪
Can you help me kind of push him back in?
You're about ready to pass out, kid!
(pig screaming)
That's as good as we're getting.
STACEY: Woo, buddy!
BRYCE: He'll be fine now?
DR. LISA: Yeah.
Since we finally were able to get the prolapse ring in place,
the prolapse tissue is going to die very quickly and painlessly.
And he'll go back to his normal pigly tasks in just a few days.
BRYCE: How long does he need to be in here by himself for?
DR. LISA: Just until that falls out.
It should just be a couple of days.
I think now that we have the prolapse treated,
he's gonna be ready to show in the fair later this summer,
and he has a great prognosis.
♪ ♪
STACEY: Thanks for coming out.
DR. LISA: Yeah, for sure!
Good thing this is my last stop.
(chuckles)
♪ ♪
LEAH: We're just here for a re-checkup
and to make sure it's healed properly
and if there's anything else that needs done for it.
(horse nickering)
NARRATOR: Cherokee was treated for a gaping leg wound.
DR. LISA: I'll get you some antibiotics.
As long as we can keep infection out of the way,
I think Cherokee will heal up without any lasting lameness.
LEAH: She's moving normally,
so overall it's looking much better than it did.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: The only thing I don't see from you is cats. How come?
LEAH: 'Cause my cats are fine.
DR. POL: (laughs) You're getting proud flesh there.
LEAH: Yeah.
DR. POL: Ho.
Here, this is getting to be proud flesh.
Proud flesh means that the skin is not covering the wound,
and you get all this exuberant scar tissue build-up.
There's no nerves in there
and just proliferating regenerative tissue.
So, you don't put salve on it anymore,
you put lime or Cut-and-Heal.
LEAH: Okay.
DR. POL: You have to dry it, scrape it off,
otherwise you get a big wall of proud flesh
and I have to cut it off again.
LEAH: Okay.
DR. POL: Okay? The shiny stuff has to go.
LEAH: Yeah.
DR. POL: Put that, pack it on, scrape it off, pack it in.
If it bleeds, perfect.
LEAH: Proud flesh is definitely something we can handle;
I've worked with it many, many times in the past.
Little brother will be back to riding her
probably by next week.
♪ ♪
ASHLEY: Yeah, you're a good boy, Gandalf?
(child whooping)
ASHLEY: (laughs) You sound like a siren!
So, it's Gandalf the White.
He's a miniature schnauzer, he's about 14 weeks old,
and we're just here for routine puppy shots.
Super important to get vaccinated.
We're trying to keep him nice and healthy.
We want to go on walks, want to keep him many, many years.
The kids just love him.
DR. POL: Oh, my gosh, let me have that monster!
ASHLEY: Got a little one.
(Dr. Pol laughs)
There you go.
DR. POL: You think I can hang on to him?
Or do you think he'll bite me?
ASHLEY: He's ferocious.
DR. POL: Ferocious!
(door chime)
ASHLEY: Going in to get his shots!
DR. POL: Hey, Breeze, how do you like a little guy like this?
(laughs)
Gandalf is such a very pretty dog
that I just take him around and I'd like everybody to see it.
These big dogs love them.
How do you like this one?
(laughing)
DIANE: How old is he?
DR. POL: About three months.
Though we go for big dogs,
Diane definitely likes these little dogs, too.
How you doing, little fella?
Eh? How are you doing?
Six pounds! You're a monster!
Checking Gandalf over 'cause he's a very healthy puppy,
and it's just routine.
You've got dirty ears already.
Okay.
Gets another vaccination, he needs one more after this.
Come on, say "ah." Everything looks fine.
And just keep feeding him and let him grow up.
ASHLEY: Look, there's Gandalf.
CHILD: Gandalf!
DR. POL: Do you have a beard trimmer at home?
ASHLEY: Uh, no, do I need a beard trimmer?
DR. POL: Yes, you know why?
Clip that hair around his eyes, 'cause see here?
That hair rubs on his eyeballs.
ASHLEY: Okay.
DR. POL: And then you get these big brown spots.
And at the same time, see all that hair coming out of his ear?
ASHLEY: Yes.
DR. POL: Whenever you see that, just pull it out.
ASHLEY: Oh, okay.
DR. POL: There's a lot of hair inside the ear canal;
that has to be removed every so often
so you don't get infection.
And it doesn't hurt. See that?
ASHLEY: Peels right out. Awesome!
DR. POL: See? Keep doing that.
ASHLEY: Yes.
DR. POL: See you in a month for rabies/distemper.
ASHLEY: Okay. DR. POL: Thank you!
ASHLEY: Thank you.
♪ ♪
(barking)
DR. POL: See here?
He got a heck of a lot more than what you think he did.
So, what he needs is laxative.
NARRATOR: Teddie bit off more ham bone than he should chew.
CHRISTINE: And he's gonna poop his brains out, right?
DR. POL: Hope so.
♪ ♪
CHRISTINE: About a day and a half later, it took effect.
Ready?
Um, he pooped...
and he pooped.
And he pooped all the bone out.
He's back to normal.
Rambunctious, mouthy.
He is a really good dog.
(barks)
Sassy, spoiled.
Good boy!
And he don't get any more bones.
♪ ♪