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DR. BRENDA: Good boy, you can do it!
DR. NICOLE: Perfect. (laughs)
NARRATOR: It's a good day at Pol Vet.
(neigh)
(Dr. Pol laughs)
NARRATOR: There's some whine...
(dog whines)
DR. POL: Hello.
NARRATOR: cheese...
(duck quacking) and quackers.
ANDY: Quackers is my duck.
About a year and a half ago
me and the old lady decided we wanted to get some,
uh, well, she decided... we wanted to get some chickens,
so I said if we're gonna get chickens, I want a couple ducks.
DR. POL: Hi, duck.
Okay, pick him up and let me see his foot,
I think that's easiest.
ANDY: She has not been wanting to put any weight on her foot,
she stands up on one leg, and I've put her in my pool.
DR. POL: Oh, wait a minute. What the heck?
ANDY: She doesn't even use it to paddle for swimming
or anything like that.
DR. POL: She broke that.
Look at this.
That's all swollen up.
See right there?
And how this is crooked?
ANDY: Yes.
DR. POL: And it's hotter than blazes.
It's always a little hot
because there's more blood supply trying to heal things up.
How long ago did this happen?
ANDY: I'd say maybe a couple weeks.
DR. POL: Yeah. And it's almost healed up.
Many times a leg that is below the hock will not heal up
because there's not enough circulation.
But this one was between the knee and the heel,
and there's lots of circulation.
So, yes, the bone knitted together,
and yeah, healed a little crooked,
but that doesn't hurt them.
Ah, poor thing.
I am going to get you some oral medicine,
and, well, you will take it.
I'll be right back.
(quacking)
ANDY: You hear that, Quackers?
Quackers' personality, that's hard to say, that's--
She is just a duck, but I mean, she's fun.
DR. POL: Make sure that we don't get an infection in there.
He gets one mL twice a day.
ANDY: Okay.
DR. POL: He's getting an anti-inflammatory
and an antibiotic so that he will heal up good.
Have a good time.
ANDY: Thanks, you, too.
DR. POL: Take care of him.
ANDY: I'm feeling pretty good
that it's healing up already and everything.
Now she's gonna hopefully get back outside
with the other ducks
and swimming and living the best life.
(quacking)
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(gobbling)
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Pete's pet is big!
PETE: Rosie's a longhorn.
I got her when she was about a year and a half.
I've always wanted a longhorn.
It's just something I've always wanted.
As long as she's got grain, she's very docile.
I mean, we bring her out, and the kids brush her and wash her,
and she just stands there.
So she's a member of the family.
About a week and a half ago I noticed a small lump on her,
on the right side of her jaw.
It's quite firm, which is a little bit concerning.
Usually when they're more movable
it's not more of an abscess or something like that.
Anytime you get something that's unknown
that sprouts up that quickly,
it's, it's concerning for certain.
DR. NICOLE: Hi, girl.
PETE: She got that lump on the right side here.
DR. NICOLE: Okay. How long has it been there?
PETE: About a week and a half.
DR. NICOLE: Yeah.
You don't like me touching it, huh?
Is she eating okay? PETE: Yeah.
DR. NICOLE: She's obviously chewing on something.
PETE: Yeah, I gave her some grain.
DR. NICOLE: I have a needle. PETE: Okay.
DR. NICOLE: I'm gonna go ahead and poke it
and see if it's an abscess.
Hi.
Rosie is a pretty good-sized cow,
but I'm not only afraid of her size,
I'm also afraid of her nice horns.
Oop. Okay. Come on, girl.
Yeah.
She's definitely not gonna like me now.
Let's see, do we have a way we can kind of tie her to a tree?
PETE: Yeah.
DR. NICOLE: Watch out,
I don't want her to get you with her horns, either.
PETE: Yeah, let me try this.
DR. NICOLE: Hi. Hi, mama.
Hold on, it's in there.
I don't have to poke you anymore.
Not getting much of anything out.
It's not affecting her lower jaw,
it's just her upper jaw.
So she could have got some feed stuck in there.
The lump does have a little bit of hardness to it,
I think because it's under pressure.
Ooh, there's some blood.
PETE: Yep.
DR. NICOLE: It may just be a big hematoma.
PETE: Oh, yeah?
DR. NICOLE: The only thing I'm getting out is some blood,
so it could be something as simple as a hematoma,
meaning that she bumped her head
and now it's a big bruise under a whole bunch of pressure.
I think either something
worked her, its way up in her mouth
and kind of caused a sore,
or even something externally
that has now kind of healed over,
but I'm afraid if I go ahead and lance it,
that is just gonna create a big wound.
PETE: Sure.
DR. NICOLE: And I'd rather try to fight it
with some antibiotics internally first,
and then if that doesn't heal it,
then we can go ahead and cut into her.
PETE: Okay.
DR. NICOLE: Right now it's not affecting how she eats,
how she gets around.
Put 10 tablets in there.
So with some time and antibiotics,
I'm expecting it to go away.
But if not, then Pete will let me know.
Bye, sweetie.
PETE: Thanks a lot.
DR. NICOLE: Okay, have a good day.
PETE: Thanks.
I'm happy. Knowing that it's treatable is great news,
that's the news that you hope for.
Give her some antibiotics, hopefully it'll clear up.
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(oinking)
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Roja just wrapped up a long road trip from Texas.
KELLY: We just hauled her in a trailer for almost 36 hours.
We've gone 1,500 miles.
She was doing great, and she drank all the way home,
she ate all the way home.
We put her in this pasture yesterday,
checked on her again this morning,
and she hasn't drank at all.
This line right here, this is a bad sign in horses,
and this indentation right here,
it's showing that she's getting dehydrated and really tucked up.
NARRATOR: Kelly fears a blocked intestine is to blame.
KELLY: Horses can't throw up, they can't belch,
and because of the bulk of food that they eat,
if they don't have enough fluid in their system,
then they can get like an impaction
and have to have surgery.
This mare has already colicked once,
which makes them more prone to colic again,
and about one out of four horses will die of colic.
She is my niece's mare, the love of her life,
and I cannot let anything happen to this mare
while my niece is not here.
She actually handled the trip very well, she drank well,
ate well, pooped well.
DR. POL: Did you stop along the road?
KELLY: Oh, yeah.
DR. POL: Did you let her drink?
KELLY: Oh, yes, yeah.
We brought her hay, we brought her water.
DR. POL: Yeah.
KELLY: We stopped every four to six hours
and walked them around, let them drink, let them graze.
DR. POL: She's a nurse, she knows what to do,
but the horse is still standing in the trailer
all the way from Texas, and that is pretty tiring.
Has she been rolling at all?
KELLY: No. DR. POL: No.
RYLIE: Once yesterday.
KELLY: She just started pawing.
DR. POL: Temperature's still 100 only, that's good.
This is more pneumonia than anything else, I betcha.
KELLY: Really?
DR. POL: Look at this.
KELLY: I know, she's breathing fast.
DR. POL: Yeah, yeah, she does not feel good.
KELLY: Oh, yeah, I know.
DR. POL: Oh, heck yes.
It's even worse on this side.
KELLY: Is it?
DR. POL: The lungs and especially on the right side
are quite noisy.
I don't know if it was a closed trailer or an open trailer,
but she has some pneumonia.
Just...
KELLY: Oh, baby.
DR. POL: Just shipping fever.
KELLY: Yeah, just shipping fever.
DR. POL: Shipping fever is a conglomerate of conditions
that you see in any animal that has been moved around.
NARRATOR: Stress from a long trip
can weaken a horse's immune system,
leaving them vulnerable to respiratory infections.
DR. POL: Okay.
I'm gonna give her a big dose of cortisone.
I want her to feel better.
Some anti-inflammatories, some feel-good drugs.
A syringe-full again tonight.
KELLY: Okay.
DR. POL: With another 10 cc.
KELLY: Okay.
DR. POL: Some antibiotics.
Keep her out of the sun right now.
KELLY: Okay.
DR. POL: Out of the draft.
And the horse should be better in no time flat.
Where is the hay?
'Cause I like, does she,
does she want to eat any grass at all?
KELLY: Well, we took her in off the grass
'cause I didn't want her to get an impaction.
DR. POL: Walk over where those guys are
and see if she wants to eat any of that grass.
NARRATOR: One more test
to rule out something more serious.
DR. POL: There she goes, that's what I want to see.
KELLY: Yeah.
DR. POL: If they have colic, bellyache...
KELLY: They won't eat. DR. POL: They don't eat.
KELLY: I'm relieved she's not colicking
'cause it's a little bit more difficult to treat.
Giving an antibiotic every day for the next five days
is a really good diagnosis. (laughs)
DR. POL: If there's a problem, you call me again.
KELLY: I will.
DR. POL: But I doubt that we have a problem.
KELLY: Okay.
DR. POL: Horses do recover very well from a stress like this,
especially when you give them some time.
Enjoy the little horse.
KELLY: Thank you so much.
DR. POL: Take care.
KELLY: I am very relieved that Dr. Pol came out
and that I can call my niece and give her the good news.
And we're gonna FaceTime her so Savannah can see her horse.
(laughing) And her horse can see her.
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DR. POL: Lacey is bringing in her dog Daisy,
they had a bad accident.
LACEY: Daisy's our chocolate Lab.
She'll be about 9 months old at the end of this month.
DR. POL: How bad is she?
ADAM: Her whole front end is cut up.
DR. POL: How in the heck did you do that?
LACEY: I was praying and saying a lot of prayers on the way here
that she would make it.
DR. POL: A massive wound.
Sit down. We're going to the back side, right into surgery!
DR. POL: Drive around, follow me.
LACEY: Daisy was just out on her leash,
and my husband was on the rototiller.
DR. POL: Okay, bring her right in.
LACEY: She got too close with her leash
and her leash got caught in the rototiller,
and it just yanked her right into it.
DR. POL: Okay, you got it? Come right in.
LACEY: We thought she was dead.
She wasn't moving underneath it.
DR. POL: Watch out.
Okay, right on the table, and then let's have a look.
LACEY: When he pulled her out, she was just shredded
and her skin was falling off.
WOMAN: (gasps) Oh!
DR. POL: That hurts a little bit.
It looks like Daisy's front leg is almost tore off.
Was she standing?
ADAM: Yeah, she was, she took off running...
DR. POL: Okay, okay.
If she took off running, there's nothing broke.
ADAM: This leg, she was limping all over it.
DR. POL: Yeah, because it's right here.
That's all underneath the skin there.
ADAM: Right.
She is cut across the front, it wraps around this leg,
she has two cuts on her front leg,
and then she has a cut on the back of her neck.
DR. POL: Oh, this is only skin!
WOMAN: Yeah, I see a flap right here now.
DR. POL: Yeah, I know, big flap.
I was afraid that it was gonna have legs cut off.
Nothing major is hurt,
it's just a lot of skin and muscle
that is flopping around.
It's only on the outside. We can fix that.
I'll get penicillin in there, we start suturing.
Daisy is very lucky that she didn't get her head cut off,
to be honest with you.
It doesn't look like the nerves or the blood vessels
are damaged, so, yes, muscle and skin will heal up.
And we'll just sew everything up.
ADAM: Yeah?
DR. POL: I'll do my best.
ADAM: Thank you. DR. POL: You know that.
ADAM: Oh, yeah.
(sighs)
Thought we were gonna have to put her down right away.
But relieved, very relieved.
He said we'll be good, and we can pick her up tomorrow.
(chuckling)
(sobbing)
No bones are broke,
and she's stopped bleeding and everything, yep.
LACEY: Oh, my gosh.
She is so lucky.
ADAM: Mm-hmm.
DR. POL: Nothing major. Can you believe that?
WOMAN: Oh, my.
DR. POL: Okay, start scrubbing.
LACEY: That was scary.
I know.
But to see that,
it's like burnt into my, into my head now, seeing that.
ADAM: Yeah.
LACEY: You happy, buddy?
We can pick her up tomorrow.
(laughs)
ADAM: Good news, buddy.
LACEY: Yep.
She's gonna be okay.
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MARY: Misty is a 19- or 20-year-old
Morgan-mustang cross.
She means quite a bit to me, because she's an older horse,
and I'm an older rider, and we get along great.
My kids don't like her because she's slow.
And I love her because she's slow.
Misty has a discharge from her left eye,
and she's had that before,
and usually it's dirt or something that's got in there.
So I wasn't too concerned about it
until this weekend I saw that the top part of her eyeball
is turning a cloudy white.
And that's very concerning.
DR. LISA: Have you seen her rubbing it on anything,
does it seem to bother her or?
MARY: No.
DR. LISA: Just the...
I brought some eye stain
that we can check for an ulcer.
She might not be a huge fan of this, either.
MARY: She doesn't like me to try to look in it,
it's kind of under the top eyelid,
the cloudiness that I see.
DR. LISA: There's a little white spot there,
right there at the top.
MARY: I think it's growing larger all the time
and it's not, not affecting her sight yet,
but my concern is that it will.
NARRATOR: Dr. Lisa's stain will adhere to corneal ulcers,
which are scratches or open sores in the eye.
DR. LISA: I think you got enough stain in there now.
Ulcers can be kind of tricky to heal,
especially if they get infected,
it's kind of a sign that the cornea
has sustained some pretty severe damage.
It doesn't look like it's picking up any of the stain.
So I don't think it's an ulcer, might be a little bit of a scar,
but her conjunctiva does look a little irritated as well,
like a bit of a conjunctivitis.
But I don't see anything like stuck in there that's rubbing,
and that looks like the cornea's intact.
(horse nickers)
The cloudiness is just a little bit of irritation
or possibly some scarring from previous damage.
But it doesn't look like there's anything actively
to be concerned about today.
So I'll leave you an eye ointment
to put in there a few times a day.
You can just roll her lower lid down,
squirt a little bit in there,
and then just sort of massage it over her eye.
Mary's going to keep a close eye on the eye,
make sure that it's improving,
and then we'll decide whether or not
we need to add on oral antibiotics
if we aren't seeing any improvement with time.
She's a pretty cooperative patient.
MARY: She's a good girl.
DR. LISA: Have a great day.
MARY: Yeah.
That's good news.
Looks like we've got a few more miles in us.
(chuckles)
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(meow)
DR. POL: Neilla is bringing in a couple cats.
NEILLA: My cats, Angel and Rex,
got into a tiff with the barn cat.
DR. POL: Cat fights!
Oo-wee.
NEILLA: Yeah, they're big boys.
Rex's face, where his cut is, just does not smell good.
And whenever we touch Angel's hindquarters,
he screams in extreme pain.
(meow)
DR. POL: Let her go one at a time.
NEILLA: So his problem is like back here, I wasn't able to...
DR. POL: Oh, this happened sometime,
this already an abscess.
(meow)
NEILLA: Yeah. He was biting, so.
DR. POL: Yeah, it's pus.
NEILLA: Ew.
We don't know when exactly it happened.
We seen it last night, so we just called this morning
to get them in as soon as possible.
Yeah, he wouldn't let me touch it, so.
DR. POL: No, it hurts.
When cats get in a fight, you can't see anything.
(clippers whirring)
Because the teeth are very pointed,
all they do is make a little hole in the skin,
and underneath the hair you don't see it
until the bacterias from the teeth make an abscess.
You can see here where the pus is coming out.
See?
(meow)
Yeah, I know.
It's a big hole in there.
Yeah, so, what I'm gonna--
(meow) Oh, just hold still.
(meow) NEILLA: I know.
DR. POL: I know, it hurts.
(meow) (Neilla gasps)
NEILLA: Don't do it again.
You can't do that again. No, no, no, no, no.
NARRATOR: Angel's backside is blowing up.
NEILLA: It was absolutely like a volcano of pus.
(boom)
(Dr. Pol moans)
I'm gonna pass out.
DR. POL: Well, then sit down.
NEILLA: Dr. Pol!
DR. POL: I learned one sentence in Latin:
Pus bonum et laudable.
(cat yowls)
Let me have her, let me have her, I got her.
That means "the good and blessed pus."
NEILLA: It's on your shirt.
DR. POL: That's okay.
In the olden days people would get abscesses, too,
and when the pus came out, everything was healing up.
NEILLA: Okay, I'm not gonna pass out,
I'm not gonna pass out.
It was terrible.
I can't look, I just can't look.
DR. POL: Don't, 'cause it's a lot of pus that comes out.
NEILLA: Yeah, I'm not gonna look.
It makes me shake thinking about it.
You can't do that again.
Dr. Pol!
DR. POL: We have to flush it.
(meow)
Watch out, don't look.
Pus never bothered me.
When there is an injury underneath the skin,
the white blood cells make pus.
(meow)
See, this is just peroxide foam.
If you open it up and all the pus comes out,
they heal up in no time flat.
It's clean already.
NEILLA: Okay.
(meow) Ooh.
DR. POL: Yeah, I know, that's what--I got her.
God made a handle on these animals.
NEILLA: I didn't realize he was so bad.
DR. POL: Okay, so how bad is the other one, where is he?
NEILLA: He's got a nice cut on his face.
DR. POL: Oh.
NEILLA: This one's a little stinky.
DR. POL: Come on, big toes. No. Where is it?
Same thing.
NEILLA: Rex's injury looks like a lace--like a cut to his cheek.
It smells so bad.
DR. POL: Yeah, it was an abscess,
except this one broke open already.
See that?
I cannot suture this.
Just keep Neosporin on the outside.
I'll get you a big bottle of antibiotics.
Both of them get 1 cc twice a day.
NEILLA: Okay.
DR. POL: He goes back in.
And you still are standing up.
(laughter)
If they can stay away from the feral tomcat,
everything is fine, but if they get in a fight again,
there will be another abscess.
(meow)
NEILLA: I'm gonna try my best to keep them inside.
It's very hard, you know, they just slip right out that door
and end up costing me lots of money here at Dr. Pol's vet,
and they love to see us. (laughs)
(meow)
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(bell dinging)
CHERYL: Here he comes!
We're excited to see Dr. Pol today.
DR. POL: Hello, Cheryl. CHERYL: Hi.
DR. POL: Cheryl is an old neighbor lady,
she used to live behind us here.
She has a few animals, some sheep, she has a llama.
And they're very nice in a very nice place up north there.
(peacock squawking)
CHERYL: They keep us active.
They make me go outside every day.
He's coming out to grind Waylon's teeth,
give Quincy her rabies and distemper shots,
and the sheep their worm shots.
DR. POL: And she completely quit eating?
CHERYL: No, he's quit eating his grain.
He's still eating tons of hay,
and he hasn't had his teeth cut in...
DR. POL: No, but we don't cut normally.
No, those are fine, there's nothing wrong with those.
CHERYL: Really? DR. POL: Yeah.
See, those are, those are the fighting teeth,
and they're good.
CHERYL: Yeah? DR. POL: Yeah.
Llamas have what they call fighting teeth,
it seems like these teeth are in backwards.
People think they have to be ground down.
I don't think so,
'cause it's completely natural and it doesn't bother them.
CHERYL: Whenever he used to get sheared by the shearers,
they'd grind his teeth.
DR. POL: They want extra money.
CHERYL: Oh.
NARRATOR: On to preventative care.
DR. POL: And that's his rabies, his distemper,
and his Bordetella.
(sheep bleats) (Dr. Pol laughs)
So this is just routine vaccinations.
One.
It has the tetanus, the lockjaw in that,
and that's very important for the sheep and the llamas
so that, you know, if they get an injury
that they do not die of lockjaw right away.
Cheryl, the llama needs a shot, too, doesn't she?
CHERYL: Yeah, everybody needs shots.
DR. POL: No, I'm not giving you a shot.
DR. NICOLE: They're getting Eastern/Western, tetanus,
and then flu/rhino, correct?
JODI: Yeah.
NARRATOR: 16 horses at Hopewell Ranch
are also due for vaccinations.
DR. NICOLE: It's a beautiful day outside,
and I'm very excited to spend some time with these horsies.
JODI: Hopewell Ranch is a therapy farm
where we work with children, veterans, individuals, families,
who are having a difficult time.
DR. NICOLE: You gonna be brave?
JODI: Our horses are the backbone of what we do here,
and so keeping them healthy is vital to our programs.
DR. NICOLE: Oh, I got to reach for this one.
Okay, Sampson.
Hi, Lincoln.
Blaze, all set, bud.
You're a good boy, I can tell you're a good boy.
The first set of horses do great for their vaccines.
You're all set, Oliver.
They just stand there and take it like a champ.
After 37 years of shots
you should be used to this by now, hon.
Hi.
Are you nervous to come see me?
It's okay.
Lightning sees a syringe from miles away.
(neigh)
Hi. Hi!
JODI: He's a mustang.
He's a pretty good guy,
but he does give us a run for our money.
DR. NICOLE: I think we're just gonna have
a tug-of-war, basically.
(neigh)
DR. POL: Okay, what else? That's it?
CHERYL: Deworming. CHARLES: The sheep deworming.
DR. POL: Worming.
CHERYL: Charlie, it don't hurt.
DR. POL: It does, too.
NARRATOR: Before wrapping up,
Cheryl needs a bit more advice from the expert.
DR. POL: He needs a CDT.
CHARLES: Oh, peacock questions!
Cheryl knows that I have peacocks,
so she pulled me aside and wanted to kind of pick my brain.
CHERYL: My male keeps killing the females.
CHARLES: What?
CHERYL: Charles said that he has never heard
of a male killing a female.
But ours did.
We've gone through three.
CHARLES: Yeah, I mean they're definitely fighting each other,
you can see their leg is bleeding on the one.
Peacocks are territorial,
so if you put two males in close proximity to each other,
they'll fight, especially over a female.
And that's probably what was happening in this situation.
I would take one of them out.
See the one that's not bleeding?
CHERYL: Yeah.
CHARLES: I think that's the bully.
Figure out who's the instigator, ship him out,
and then go with one male and two females.
If you need some, just let me know,
I got, I got some females.
We need to get rid of some anyway,
so it works perfect for us.
DR. POL: Thanks, guys!
TED: Thanks, Doc! CHERYL: Thank you!
DR. POL: You take care.
CHERYL: It's always good to see Doc Pol.
(laughs)
And Charles was a bonus!
(laughing)
DR. NICOLE: Unfortunately, Lightning is not
letting me near him.
JODI: Kim, if you think that you could even get it in him.
DR. NICOLE: So I'm gonna hand off the vaccine
to a trusted hand who deals with Lightning every day.
Good boy, perfect.
He never expected the non-vet to give the shot.
JODI: Patience is definitely a virtue on a ranch.
DR. NICOLE: What, is it my hands that smell like vaccine,
or how do you know?
JODI: Because they're all so individualized.
DR. NICOLE: Poke.
You're a pro. Good girl.
Puzzle!
Look at your ears.
I love coming to Hopewell Ranch.
Hi, Cowboy.
I love that I get to help horses that are helping other people.
Was that that bad? Hmm?
And there's nothing better than that.
We got 'em all, right?
(horse nickers)
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DR. BRENDA: How are you?
SHEENA: Good. PETE: Good, how are you doing?
DR. BRENDA: Good.
Today we're with Pete and Sheena.
We're rechecking Rosie.
She still has some swelling on the side of the face
that's not getting better.
So tell me what's going on with her,
'cause I didn't see her to start with.
PETE: She developed a lump,
but it was more elongated, a little softer.
DR. BRENDA: Okay.
PETE: Dr. Nicole was out and aspirated it
and got some blood out and thought that it was a hematoma.
And it hasn't gotten better.
DR. BRENDA: Easy, sweets.
You guys have already tried antibiotics,
which haven't worked.
PETE: Yeah.
SHEENA: She is eating, drinking, moving around fine.
DR. BRENDA: I'm just trying to figure out
what's swollen and why.
Does it feel like it's the side of her cheek
or a lip problem, or is it something deeper in?
I know, I know.
Feels like it's all in the cheek.
It could be a tooth problem that's causing some of that,
we may or may not be able to tell that.
But it's harder than what I would expect
for just an abscess,
and it's in a weird spot for just an abscess.
Quite honestly I'm not sure,
everything kind of feels... mangled in here.
I think if you guys can hold her while I give her a shot.
To keep us safer, we're gonna use some tranquilizer
and lay her down.
That way she's not painful, we can do what we need to do.
What's that?
She's got a very loose tooth in here,
that's part of this, whatever this is.
There's a lot of swollen, angry tissue here,
so the more I touch, I'm getting blood on my fingers,
getting blood coming out of her mouth mixed with her drool.
And I realize there's two or three teeth in here
that are loose.
Like, I can wiggle them with my fingers.
Whatever this is, it could be just a broken tooth,
we get this tooth pulled out,
things are gonna be fine and dandy.
It could be that this has all come on
from a cancer-type problem.
DR. BRENDA: Ooh, heavens!
NARRATOR: Rosie has a mouthful of loose teeth.
PETE: I'm really concerned at how easily those teeth came out.
DR. BRENDA: Hang on, mom.
PETE: That was pretty surprising.
DR. BRENDA: Okay, so normal teeth,
I shouldn't be able to dig out with my fingers.
Their molar teeth are in as hard as ours are.
So, you would not have somebody just walk in and go "pfft."
SHEENA: Yeah. PETE: Right.
DR. BRENDA: And that's pretty much all I've done here.
Alright, so we've taken out one.
SHEENA: Oh, poor baby.
DR. BRENDA: Two, three, four of her upper molars.
SHEENA: Poor Rosie.
DR. BRENDA: But really they were so infected and whatever,
so something's happened.
Best-case scenario, she had some traumatic event happen,
one of the mini donkeys she lives with
kicked her in the head,
and that's what caused all the swelling
and that's what's caused all the problems.
Best-case scenario.
Uh, worst-case scenario is that it's a cancer issue
that's causing the loose teeth
because of the cancer tissue growing underneath the teeth,
pushing them out of the way.
PETE: So what should we do or...
DR. BRENDA: Um...
it's just gonna take time to heal, if it's gonna heal.
Now that the teeth are not flopping around in there,
some healing should occur, some swelling should go down,
she may still have a bump,
but hopefully it's less big than what it is now.
SHEENA: Okay.
DR. BRENDA: If it's a cancer-type problem,
that's going to continue to get bigger and bigger.
SHEENA: Okay.
DR. BRENDA: We're gonna watch now over the next little bit
to see if her eating habits and her drooling get better,
if they go away, she eats better,
she's not drooling as much.
Those are signs that there's been some healing happening.
PETE: She doesn't have teeth on that right side
on the upper now,
so hopefully that will heal up and firm up
and she'll be able to chew on that side.
And she'll live for many more years.
Longhorns can live almost 30 years,
so she's only a third of the way there.
(geese honking)
(rooster crows)
♪ ♪
LACEY: Ahh.
Daisy's been good,
better than to be expected for what has happened to her.
DR. POL: We're going right into surgery.
NARRATOR: One week ago...
LACEY: She got too close with her leash,
and her leash got caught in the rototiller.
DR. POL: A massive wound.
(woman gasps)
DR. POL: That hurts a little bit.
LACEY: She was just like shredded,
and her skin was falling off.
DR. POL: It's only on the outside. We can fix that.
NARRATOR: Once Doc determined no bones or organs
were damaged in the accident,
he merely sutured Daisy's skin back in place.
DR. LISA: No, don't lick it, sweetheart.
Let's keep her head up.
LACEY: He said about two weeks she should be doing better.
DR. LISA: Stay still, babe.
LACEY: We're at one week,
and I feel like now we have a little bit of a setback.
DR. POL: Let's go look.
There is a flap of skin
that didn't heal up good on the recheck here.
No, there's nothing to trim.
This is not dead.
Not a problem, it's just a little bit extra skin.
And the rest looks good.
That's still alive.
I won't take it off until-- 'cause it's gonna bleed.
Get the staple gun, we gonna put some staples there.
WOMAN: Good girl.
You're such a good baby.
There you go.
DR. POL: That's good enough.
WOMAN: Okay, let me hold your head.
DR. POL: Pcch, pcch, pcch, pcch, pcch! Haa!
WOMAN: She's very happy.
WOMAN: She is so happy.
DR. POL: Hey, not so fast.
Okay, that skin is not dead.
LACEY: No? That's good.
DR. POL: No, so I'm not taking anything off.
LACEY: No.
DR. POL: And...
LACEY: I can't look.
I can't look at it.
DR. POL: But it's beautiful!
Put honey on when you get home.
LACEY: Put honey on it? DR. POL: Honey.
LACEY: Okay.
No, I've never heard of putting honey on a dog.
DR. POL: And don't let her lick it off.
LACEY: Okay.
NARRATOR: Honey has long been used
for its anti-microbial properties
that inhibit bacteria.
DR. POL: Ah, come on!
Up a day!
Good.
Considering everything.
She is putting weight on her leg already,
which is very surprisingly,
but still kind of flopping over
because the muscles that pull the leg forward
are damaged so bad.
As long as that muscle underneath his leg heals up,
the feeling is there, but it all has to come back.
LACEY: Okay. DR. POL: Okay.
LACEY: I, you know, I trust Dr. Pol's opinion.
If he thinks it's gonna heal fine
and he suggests putting honey on it twice a day,
then that's what we're gonna do.
So, I feel confident.
♪ ♪
(goat bleating)
CHARITY: I've been raising goats for three years.
We just started with pregnant ones.
Before we just had three that were pets, and now we have...
Who's counting? 15? (laughs)
Something around there.
Arura is around two to three years old.
We got her already pregnant about two months ago.
She was said to be due at the end of March,
so potentially overdue.
NARRATOR: March ended a week ago.
Arura's labor is just beginning.
CHARITY: It's sucking back in, I don't understand.
She started last night around 8 p.m.,
and unfortunately no progress.
DR. LISA: Alright, let's see what we got.
CHARITY: So last night, about 8:30, 9 o'clock,
she lost her mucus plug.
I checked her all night,
and she was just laying in the same spot.
So I let her be, but I got up this morning
and saw that she had maybe a sac hanging down.
DR. LISA: Let's take a feel.
CHARITY: She's been very uncomfortable, heavy breathing.
DR. LISA: It seems like Arura has been pushing pretty hard,
and the fact that there hasn't been any visible progress
is a sign that maybe one of the kids is stuck.
There's a baby right here.
There's two front feet and a head.
CHARITY: Okay.
DR. LISA: I'm just gonna try and put a little traction on it.
CHARITY: Okay.
DR. LISA: The uterine environment is filled
with some pretty gooey fluids
that does make it pretty difficult
to get a grip on the kid with just your hand.
So I'm gonna use a head snare here
to help guide it through the birth canal.
CHARITY: The baby is trying to come out the proper way?
DR. LISA: Yeah.
Everything feels the way it ought to, nothing's backwards.
But everything feels pretty tight.
It's just a fairly large kid.
I think that might be
why she's been having problems having it on her own.
CHARITY: Aw, come on, mama.
Keep pushing.
DR. LISA: It's good that Arura is still pushing pretty hard,
'cause that's gonna help get this kid out.
But it does make it a little more difficult for me
to get my arm into position,
and it can be a little bit uncomfortable.
CHARITY: Good girl, keep going, keep going, mama, you're good.
♪ ♪
I know, honey...
DR. LISA: This one isn't alive anymore.
Unfortunately, when I am able to deliver this kid,
it has already passed away.
It's been a while.
And it doesn't feel like there's another one,
and she's so round I thought there would be for sure.
This is a pretty crushing blow.
Charity was expecting to have
a couple of healthy, perfect kids,
she's been waiting a long time.
Unfortunately, the stress
was just a little bit too much for it.
I don't think this is something that you could have changed
with a couple hours.
He's been dead a little while.
I think he was just a little bit too big for her.
CHARITY: Okay.
Unfortunately, raising any type of farm animal,
you sometimes have a loss.
It's the inevitable and it makes it easier
knowing that there was nothing else
that we could have done to save that baby.
DR. LISA: Her uterus feels totally normal,
her cervix isn't torn at all.
She's gonna be okay, which is the really good news.
Arura is going to be just fine, and hopefully she'll be able
to have some healthy kids in the future.
CHARITY: Once she has recovered from this,
she'll go back out with our herd of goats
and just let her be a pet.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: It's early morning.
And young pets need a vet.
DR. NICOLE: Come on, guys!
Today is a good day.
I get to see a car full of puppies.
How many can you hold, Lynette?
LYNETTE: You know what, bring it on.
DR. NICOLE: Patty is bringing in six goldendoodles
and two golden retriever puppies today
for wellness checks before they go to their new homes.
Oh, my goodness, babies.
LYNETTE: Look at you guys!
DR. NICOLE: It's a room full of goldens,
this is the cutest room ever.
There you go, little marshmallow.
Look at that face.
Okay, let's go ahead and get some temperatures.
For puppy exams, it's important to check over
for any birth defects
or anything that they could have caught since being born.
101.7.
Okay!
Come here.
You want to check their teeth, their nose, their eyes, ears,
any defects in the abdomen, such as a hernia.
Okay, who's next?
And you want to check their weights and temperature.
Are you only 13 pounds?
Are you just mostly fluff?
NARRATOR: These eight-week-olds will exceed 50 pounds
in eight months.
DR. NICOLE: I know I didn't do you
'cause your hair's a little fluffy.
You all look very good.
Perfect. Perfect.
(kiss)
Okay, babies!
Let's go.
(kissing) Good babies.
They all look very good.
No issues with any of them.
They're all eating really good, drinking good, very healthy,
and all set to go to their forever homes,
and it's gonna be perfect.
♪ ♪
(moo)
DR. POL: Okay, bring the next one in.
(moo)
Cows in really good shape, Ed.
Ed has about seven cows to be pregnancy checked.
And this one is pregnant five months.
She's probably eight months.
She's pregnant...
(moo)
Three and a half.
NARRATOR: Feeding a cow can cost nearly $1,000 a year.
DR. POL: She's still open.
NARRATOR: So, knowing how many are pregnant
helps Ed manage his herd.
DR. POL: Easy.
And she is pregnant, about four and a half months.
Good!
Six of them are pregnant,
and now of course that's a good thing.
Oh, my gosh.
Let her go on her own speed, she's, she's hurting.
ED: Yeah, she's hurting bad.
NARRATOR: When one of Ed's cows hurts...
ED: Come on, baby.
Good girl.
NARRATOR: so does his bottom line.
DR. POL: When cows have sore feet
they don't want to stand up and eat, they lay down,
so the milk production is really going down.
Hand me that rope.
NARRATOR: Doc needs to get a look under the hood.
DR. POL: I use my ropes to cross-tie it,
so that the cow doesn't move much.
Then I stand beside it, but they always kick a little bit,
and yes, you always have to make sure
that you're not in the line of fire.
Ooh, that is a bad foot rot.
The fancy name is interdigital dermatitis.
It's an injury,
and then you get a whole bunch of infection in there,
and it hurts like the dickens.
Hey.
ED: It hurts.
DR. POL: Athlete's foot.
CHARLES: They're basically hanging out in the mud
and the muck and the slush and everything like that,
and it's a prime breeding ground for fungus.
(moo)
DR. POL: There's a big corn in there.
Now I need a knife.
So what we have to do is cut all that dead tissue out.
See how rotten that is?
And then get rid of that infection.
I use copper sulfate all the time.
It kills all the bacterias that are there very fast,
you leave the bandage on for a week to ten days,
and everything is fine.
Oh!
CHARLES: Oh, watch out, watch out.
DR. POL: Ow!
She kicked my thumb.
NARRATOR: To fix a limb...
DR. POL: Hold still, girl.
NARRATOR: you need to risk a limb.
DR. POL: She hurts your hand, but you just let it go.
Okay, done. Let her go.
Copper sulfate.
Kills everything.
Leave it on for about a week, 10 days.
There she goes, okay.
Thanks, Ed.
ED: Yup. See you later.
DR. POL: Yeah, man.
Back to the clinic.
♪ ♪
(mooing)
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Sandy is certain that one of her rescue cats is sick.
She's just not sure which one.
SANDY: She's got a matching sister.
They look alike.
So it's Thelma or Louise,
and I forgot which one had the little spot on the chest.
DR. POL: Sandy, what's, what's with the cat?
SANDY: Um, she's bleeding in the eye.
DR. POL: Oh, there she is, I'll take her inside.
SANDY: Thelma or Louise, whatever her name is,
when she first came to me
she had teardrops of blood coming out of her eyes.
(meow)
And a little lump on her head,
which you know, I didn't know what it was.
Last week the lump got much bigger now.
(meow)
DR. POL: What in the world?
(meow)
Holy cow.
When I look at that,
there is this little hole on her head there.
(meow)
Sandy, come on in.
SANDY: I think it's cancer or something,
something that's gonna have to put her down.
DR. POL: See, that was a tick.
Right there.
SANDY: Okay, that's what that was?
DR. POL: Okay, let me fix that up.
And I think the head is out.
No, not yet.
♪ ♪
SANDY: That's a tick?
DR. POL: That's a grub.
A grub is a larva of a big fly.
That little worm is crawling under the skin.
It uses the body fluids, the protein that's in there,
to grow, and when it's big enough, it crawls out.
And that's some kind of parasite.
SANDY: She actually had that worm,
like it was growing in her head all this time.
DR. POL: Yeah, well, look at this,
it's completely smooth now.
SANDY: Yeah.
DR. POL: Okay, that'll heal up now.
NARRATOR: Switching to Thelma or Louise's
other strange sickness...
SANDY: Maybe bleeding eyes
is something usual here and there, just not for me.
I have 24 other cats, and they don't,
none of them have had bleeding eyes.
DR. POL: The eye problem is what they call chlamydia.
NARRATOR: Chlamydial conjunctivitis
is a contagious bacterial infection
that causes inflammation in the eyes.
DR. POL: How old is she? SANDY: 16.
DR. POL: 16? SANDY: Yeah.
DR. POL: The cat probably never got vaccinated good,
so the eye has some pus in there and everything.
I'm gonna worm her.
Oh, come on, say "ah."
Vaccinate her, and most likely that'll take care of things.
SANDY: I was thinking you were gonna put her down.
DR. POL: Oh, heck no.
It looks bad, but it can be healed up.
Yes, you're a nice kitty.
SANDY: She is.
DR. POL: So she got everything. Okay, you go home.
SANDY: I...
I am so happy right now, I'm not kidding.
I thought for sure she was gonna be put down.
She's 16 years old.
I don't know how many years cats can live.
(meow)
She gets to go home and see her sister and her brother
and live her life out.
♪ ♪
(honks horn)
♪ ♪
LACEY: That day I would never want anybody to live through.
DR. POL: We're going right into surgery.
Watch out.
LACEY: Daisy was bleeding, there was flaps of skin.
WOMAN: (gasp) Oh.
DR. POL: That hurts a little bit.
I'll get penicillin in there.
We start suturing.
♪ ♪
LACEY: Got it!
We are so fortunate that she is still with us.
Never seen a dog bounce back so well
after such a traumatic injury.
It looks really good.
Everything healed beautiful, nothing was ever infected,
and the pain went away.
Get your ball, baby!
It hasn't changed her.
She's still hyper and crazy and happy,
and we're just incredibly lucky and blessed
that she has survived such a horrible, horrible accident.
Good girl!