(chirping)
(baa)
(oink)
(whimpering)
DR. POL: My goodness! Hi, guys!
DANIELLE: Hi.
DR. POL: So who's the one that we have trouble with?
DANIELLE: This one. This is Daisy.
DR. POL: Yeah?
NARRATOR: Daisy has heterochromia,
the word for having two different-colored eyes.
DR. POL: Cute little thing.
NARRATOR: It's not an ailment;
it just adds a bit of what the French call
"Je ne sais quoi."
DANIELLE: She had a bunch of scabs on her back,
and she still has some.
I didn't know why they were there.
DR. POL: Bring her in!
DANIELLE: I came to see Dr. Pol with Daisy, my little corgi.
Daisy is about five months old.
She had a bunch of scabs on her back.
And then she also had a cough that I was concerned about.
DR. POL: She's 18 pounds.
DANIELLE: Right there's one.
DR. POL: Good.
It looks like almost like
a fungal infection, staph infection.
DANIELLE: She was infested with fleas when I got her.
DR. POL: That's what caused it. Skin infection from the fleas.
DANIELLE: I also have the video of her cough that she's making.
DR. POL: Yeah?
DANIELLE: She does it kind of often.
(dog coughing)
DR. POL: Oh, that's the reverse sneezing.
You know, a little upper respiratory.
It's an infection, upper respiratory problem.
Many times this reverse-sneezing comes
because of a dry environment.
Then they start snorting and sniffing and coughing.
People do the same thing.
Do you have a humidifier in the house?
DANIELLE: Yeah, I do. I have a small one.
DR. POL: Because the humidity in the house
has a lot to do with it.
Because she's such a short-legged dog,
she's so low to the ground where everything is dry.
DANIELLE: Okay.
DR. POL: You get dry throat, and that's what she has.
DANIELLE: Okay. DR. POL: And then that hurts.
You're a cute dog.
DANIELLE: She is very cute. I love her.
DR. POL: So, I'm gonna give her a shot of cortisone
and penicillin.
DANIELLE: And that's for the skin?
DR. POL: Yup. That's for the cough, too.
Oh, you're a cute dog!
(Danielle laughs)
♪ ♪
SHANE: I brought my beagle in, Tracker.
He's having some hip or back problems.
I noticed when I got him out to go to hunt today
that he was kind of wobbly
and I just wanted to come in and have him checked out.
Because he has had a previous injury where he hurt his back.
DR. LISA: Hello. SHANE: Hi, how's it going?
DR. LISA: How's Tracker?
SHANE: Could be better.
DR. LISA: Can you set him down
and walk him around so I can see?
SHANE: Yep.
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: Wow.
Does look kind of unsteady there.
Come here, bud.
I'm a little bit concerned about potentially arthritis
or something going on in his back.
♪ ♪
The connection between his brain and his leg,
there's something interrupting it.
And I'm wondering if he could be getting arthritis
in the same place that has had injuries in the past.
First thing is gonna be giving Tracker
a good physical examination.
Alright. We'll be back in just a couple minutes.
And then we're gonna take some x-ray pictures.
SHANE: He's about 8, 9 years old now.
So he's getting up there in years.
Just hoping to find out what's going on with his back.
Get him out of pain so we can get back out in the woods
and let him do what he likes doing.
DR. LISA: I think the problem ones are here.
♪ ♪
(door chime)
Good boy!
Here you go, bud!
I do think it is a disc that's causing the problem.
This is the disc that we're concerned about.
It's pretty nice and dark and clear over here,
but over here it's a little cloudy.
Almost like almost like the jelly donut part of the disc
has come out.
SHANE: Kind of like a ruptured disc on us.
DR. LISA: Yeah, exactly the same.
Or it could just be kind of swollen
and pushing up on his spinal cord,
and that's why we're seeing the weakness.
SHANE: Okay.
DR. LISA: The biggest thing with disc injuries
is that more activity can make the disc more aggravated
and make all the problems worse and maybe irreversible.
Try and keep him quiet in a confined space,
so he's not running around, um.
SHANE: Yeah, no more rabbit hunting for the year.
DR. LISA: Yeah. Unfortunately.
Some of these dogs return completely to normal.
Sometimes the damage to the spinal cord is permanent.
Strict rest along with the anti-inflammatories
are key for Tracker to recover.
I'm gonna start him on some steroids,
because he's pretty uncomfortable and sensitive.
I want to see Tracker again in a couple weeks
just to kind of assess how he's coming along.
Alright, Tracker. We'll see you in a couple weeks.
SHANE: Just gonna have to give him his medicine,
not run him anymore for the rest of the season,
keep him on a low activity
and live a comfortable life.
♪ ♪
DR. NICOLE: Hello.
BRIANA: Hello.
DR. NICOLE: So, you have Fatty.
NARRATOR: Right on Tracker's heels
is a patient with a mysterious limp.
DR. NICOLE: Okay! I'll take him in.
BRIANA: Alright.
Fatty did something to his right front arm, paw.
It swelled up and he won't use it,
so, figured better get it fixed than let him suffer.
♪ ♪
WOMAN: Hi, dude!
DR. NICOLE: His name is Fatty, but he is kind of normal-sized.
9 pounds, 5 ounces.
There's your little limp!
Can I see your little paws, huh, bud?
Nothing there.
I'm not really getting too much pain or inflammation on his leg.
Let me see you walk, buddy.
Go on!
So he is limping on his front leg.
WOMAN: Come on! DR. NICOLE: Ohh.
WOMAN: Good kitty!
DR. NICOLE: That was pathetic.
I can see that he is favoring his front right leg.
But I need to take some x-rays to see what's going on.
(meow)
BRIANA: Fatty actually is owned by my son, who's 14.
He's had him for seven years.
Um, he means a lot to him.
(beep)
Hopefully it's just a sprained muscle or something.
I have him on crate rest,
but I hope it's no surgery, no nothing like that.
DR. NICOLE: This is like the only thing I can find.
It's like right here, it looks like he has a slight fracture.
Here we go, here's Fatty!
And I have some pictures to show you.
It looks like Fatty has
a pizza slice-almost-looking type fracture in his leg.
Here we have the white line,
and right here we have a slight fracture, in there,
and it's right above his wrist.
It's not completely fractured off,
but it's causing him some pain.
We can't really do anything for that
except keep him rested, which you've been doing.
Um, we're just gonna have to extend that time period
for probably at least another two to three weeks.
And I did give him a shot for some pain medication,
and then I'm gonna send you home with some, too.
Okay, I will go get Fatty his meds
and we'll get you going, okay?
BRIANA: Alright. Thank you. DR. NICOLE: Have a good day.
BRIANA: That's the better outcome, that Fatty's not,
like, he doesn't need surgery, it's not something long term,
it's, it's fixable.
My son's already messaging me,
and I'm sure he'll be extremely happy
that it'll be extra cuddles with Fatty.
MARTIN: Okay, Bernard. Sit.
Bernard, sit. Show off.
(dog whining) There you go, sit.
Stay there, plant the butt.
DR. POL: Okay! Here comes Bernard.
MARTIN: Bernard.
DR. POL: What's he doing?
MARTIN: He's got diarrhea, and he's throwing up.
Bernard is five years old. He's a Labradoodle.
We love him to pieces, and we brought him here
because he has some intestinal issues.
REBECCA: This is a bad thing, but we feed him that.
For treats in the car.
DR. POL: No more!
MARTIN: Oh, yeah, I get to eat 'em now.
MARTIN: It couldn't be the salami and the ham and stuff
that we give him for treats,
so we figure it's got to be something else.
REBECCA: Listen, these are good,
these are just chicken, that's all.
Chicken strips.
DR. POL: Too much salt!
MARTIN: That's good stuff,
I mean, you can put that in with noodles.
DR. POL: Treats are not the best for dogs.
Many times they're too salty.
MARTIN: We give him a treat
every time he goes outside and goes potty.
DR. POL: Don't have to.
MARTIN: Alright.
DR. POL: I need the temperature first.
MARTIN: His butt is awful red.
DR. POL: Sore!
His butt hurts!
(clattering)
Okay, that's no good.
I can't take it 'cause he won't sit still.
It's as sore from diarrhea from straining.
MARTIN: Okay. REBECCA: Yeah.
DR. POL: Forget about the temperature.
Let me feel his belly.
And it... not that tender; there's nothing in there.
Bernard's intestines are completely empty.
And when I feel his belly, there is no pain or anything,
but there's nothing in there.
Idiopathic diarrhea, throwing up, not feeling good!
I'm gonna treat him for the diarrhea.
That was cortisone and the first dose of penicillin.
The outlook for Bernard is good.
This is a shot that'll slow down the gut.
The diarrhea, throwing up should stop with medicine.
And then this is a shot, keeps him from throwing up.
REBECCA: Thank you.
DR. POL: And hopefully everything will heal up
in a couple days and he'll be fine.
Cut out the treats. As much as you can.
REBECCA: Okay. MARTIN: Okay.
DR. POL: If you want to reward him,
give him a kernel of dog food
and a pat on the head, "You're a dang good dog."
MARTIN: Okay.
DR. POL: That's the best.
You know, don't treat every time he looks at you.
'Cause they train you!
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: A field emergency summons Doc Pol.
DR. POL: Barry calls.
BARRY: Starting to get bloated and she started burping.
DR. POL: Barry has a down cow, and he's worried.
When did she have a calf?
BARRY: Week and a half ago.
DR. POL: That's weird, why she'd be down now.
BARRY: Right.
NARRATOR: There are several reasons
a cow can go down after calving.
But it's typically within days of delivering, not this long.
DR. POL: You get me some warm water.
Let's go look at her.
BARRY: Tried getting her up myself, I couldn't get her up.
(moo)
Just trying to save her.
DR. POL: What the heck?
She acts weird!
DR. POL: This is not a normal lack of calcium;
this is more like something else.
NARRATOR: Calcium deficiency is a common condition
to rule out in down nursing cows.
DR. POL: You have this problem where, you know,
they run short on minerals when they start milking.
See how she's shaking?
BARRY: Yeah.
DR. POL: That's not normal for lack of calcium.
The muscles are shaking, which you don't see with milk fever.
And she has a very high temperature right now;
106 almost.
BARRY: Holy crap.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: Lungs sound terrible,
but that could be from the high temperature, too.
This is not a lack of calcium, but more a lack of magnesium.
NARRATOR: Shaking is a telltale sign of magnesium deficiency.
DR. POL: Back in the Netherlands,
we had it also, and they would call it head disease.
Kopziekte.
They would be shaking like this like crazy.
And that's what she is... (shudders)
Okay, I got to find some with magnesium in there.
I don't know if I have any or not.
Yes! Got the right stuff!
BARRY: This cow's had five or six calves.
Her sixth one she just had a week and a half ago.
That calf still needs milk,
so we need that cow to give her that milk.
DR. POL: Okay, sweetie, let's see if we can save you.
NARRATOR: Dr. Pol inserts an IV
to deliver a mineral cocktail the cow desperately needs.
DR. POL: What I do now is use a bottle
that has calcium, phosphorus, and magnesium in there.
And I hope there's enough in there to do the trick.
What we have to do is run it in very slow
because the calcium, too fast, can stop the heart.
But at the same time you got to get it in pretty fast
because the cow is not in very good shape.
Slow down, buddy.
How many cows you got left yet?
BARRY: We have five cows here, there's three calves here,
and then we got five more down at the other barn.
DR. POL: Oh.
NARRATOR: Mineral deficiency threatens Barry's entire herd.
DR. POL: You feed mainly hay, right?
BARRY: Yeah.
DR. POL: Many times these animals will just get, you know,
hay and some grain,
but they don't get enough minerals out of that.
He should feed more minerals.
What you need is a 1:1 calcium-phosphorus mineral.
BARRY: Okay.
BLAYN: It's not shaking as bad now.
DR. POL: So far, so good.
She is, uh, doing a little bit better
and a little bit more quiet.
Okay, I think that's it.
I do the best I can, but the cow does not look good at all.
But now we have another emergency:
I have a calving to go some place.
I'm gonna go on that calving.
BARRY: Okay.
DR. POL: And then I may just swing by on the way back
and see where she is.
BARRY: They all need more magnesium.
We're gonna add some different minerals.
Obviously they're not getting enough minerals.
We thought we were doing okay, and, truth be told,
today we didn't have enough minerals.
DR. POL: I'll be back after the calving,
I want to see how she's doing.
BARRY: Okay. DR. POL: Okay!
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: Hello!
DR. NICOLE: Easy, easy, good boy.
DR. BRENDA: When did you first notice the problem starting?
DR. LISA: Oh, wow.
DR. NICOLE: Nice kitty.
DR. BRENDA: Ooh, heavens.
(whimpering)
(bleating)
(whimpering)
(baa)
NARRATOR: It's controlled chaos in the parking lot...
NATHAN: First time away from the farm.
DR. BRENDA: You got me a bus full of babies?
NARRATOR: for Dr. Brenda...
(baa)
NARRATOR: and Dr. Lisa.
DR. LISA: You got some babies in there, I see.
NATHAN: We've got some babies.
Bernese mountain dog and Australian shepherd cross.
DR. LISA: Hi, guys! How old are they?
NATHAN: They're six and a half.
DR. LISA: Six and a half weeks.
Seeing a happy, healthy puppy
is always a bit of a, a ray of sunshine.
We'll be back!
NATHAN: Okay! Sounds good.
(baa)
DR. BRENDA: Okay.
Mara's brought her minivan that's full of goat kids,
and we're gonna go out and vaccinate them
and just check them over.
Okay.
(goat screams)
Right. There's his vaccine.
MARA: Other side?
DR. BRENDA: Yeah. Just the back end.
Everybody is gonna get two shots today.
(goat screams) I know, it's just terrible.
(screaming)
NARRATOR: On vaccine day...
DR. BRENDA: Perfect.
NARRATOR: kids being kids...
DR. BRENDA: Back end first.
NARRATOR: means it's gonna be loud.
(screaming)
DR. BRENDA: There you go.
(screaming)
Okay, this one's done.
(screaming)
Okay, done.
(screaming)
Good.
Alright, you're all set!
MAN: Alrighty.
DR. BRENDA: Everybody did well today,
so they're ready to go home and live a happy goat life.
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: Alright, who's first?
This is a girl.
10 pounds, 6 ounces.
No hernias or anything, looks good!
They're always so happy and joyful
and haven't really experienced anything bad yet in life.
Hi, baby!
And I want to make sure that they can feel that they're safe
and that we care about them.
It's a boy.
He has both of his testicles.
9 pounds, 14 ounces.
11 pounds, 14 ounces.
Big!
This is a girl.
She does have a small hernia.
It's a girl. It's a boy.
And he has both little peanuts where they ought to be.
Hello!
Hi, bud.
6 pounds, 6 ounces.
You're the littlest little boy.
AUTUMN: Oh, my gosh!
There's a pee puddle.
DR. LISA: She had to go!
Can you pass me a paper towel
so I can clean it up before they all trot through it?
In a large litter of puppies like this,
there's bound to be a few accidents here and there.
AUTUMN: Oooh.
DR. LISA: Oh, my goodness!
That one pooped.
Well, their stool looks normal.
That's good!
AUTUMN: Yeah!
DR. LISA: Thanks for the sample, guys!
They were very excited
and haven't really learned any house manners yet.
But they make up for it with being super cute.
(puppies whimpering)
Here they are!
They all look very good.
There is, one little girl that has a small hernia.
So it's just primarily a cosmetic defect.
It's something that can be fixed when she gets spayed later on.
Everybody looks happy and healthy today,
and they're heading out the door
to hopefully really good new lives with new families.
They all look pretty nice.
NATHAN: (laughs) Thank you!
(whimpering)
♪ ♪
(moo)
DR. POL: Andrea and Jeremy called in because this cow
is trying to have a calf, and she can't.
(moo)
She's aggressive.
JEREMY: She's always been sassy.
DR. POL: Okay, how can we get a rope on her
without getting killed?
This cow was not the tamest one.
JEREMY: Be nice, huh?
Please?
(moo)
DR. POL: We had trouble getting a rope on him.
Watch out. She's gonna get ya.
Don't get in the corner there.
(moo)
Okay.
So finally Jeremy got a rope on her.
(moo) Okay.
JEREMY: Poor girl.
You're doing good, honey, we're here to help you.
DR. POL: These big cows can move fast.
Ow!
Ohh.
JEREMY: You okay? DR. POL: No.
(moo)
DR. POL: She almost busted my wrist.
NARRATOR: A cow in stalled labor
jerked Dr. Pol's arm out of her birth canal.
DR. POL: Twist the tail the other way
so she doesn't twist into the wall again.
She just flipped her butt to one side,
almost wrenched my arm out of the socket.
Holy cow, that hurt!
So you stick your other arm in there and start working.
Oh, my.
♪ ♪
ANDREA: Oh, good girl, Ginger! Just stay still.
DR. POL: When I reach in there, I find too many legs.
And that's why it doesn't come out.
Chains!
What we do now is get the chains on the hind legs.
Handles!
And pull it out.
You take the tail; you and I take the chains.
JEREMY: What side is...
DR. POL: Ready?
JEREMY: Yes, sir!
Ah.
Kick, buddy!
ANDREA: Oh!
JEREMY: Beautiful.
DR. POL: Yes! Okay, take it in the corner.
And let's get the second one.
ANDREA: Second one?
DR. POL: There's two calves.
So put that one in the corner, and we go after the second one.
Get some towels and start rubbing it,
we'll get this one out, and then she can work on both of 'em.
ANDREA: I need some towels!
DR. POL: When I reach in for the second one...
No, it's coming already.
(moo)
that one comes out, uh, headfirst.
I think they were trying to come both at the same time.
It's one of those things that says "me first!"
Doesn't work.
JEREMY: Holy smokies!
Two calves, Lizzy!
DR. POL: Twin calves in cows is very common.
But I would say over half of the twins are born dead.
So yes, this is good.
You got two live calves, man!
ANDREA: Yay!
DR. POL: You're not kidding!
That's the bull, that's the heifer.
They're a good size for twins, really.
(laughs)
(moo)
JEREMY: Happy day, right there.
DR. POL: Yes. You're not kidding.
(moo)
♪ ♪
Let's see what she's doing.
NARRATOR: Doc heads back toward the tremoring cow.
DR. POL: These animals are very hard to get back up.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Three hours ago, Dr. Pol treated Barry's cow
for a life-threatening magnesium deficiency.
She had collapsed with full-body tremors,
unable to care for her nursing calf.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: I already see from the road
that, uh, she has, uh, died already.
She just didn't respond.
NARRATOR: The emergency IV was not enough.
DR. POL: That's magnesium.
Dang it.
BARRY: Well, that sucks.
We lost her.
Um, part of farming.
You don't want to see it happen,
uh, but my boy just got a full-time job now,
bottle-feeding the calf.
♪ ♪
KIMBERLY: Come on, buddy.
NARRATOR: Phoenix has a new home.
KIMBERLY: You're fine!
NARRATOR: But he can't get comfortable.
KIMBERLY: Phoenix is 10 years old,
he's supposed to be quarter Percheron.
I haven't had him that long; I've only had him two weeks.
I haven't even rode him yet.
When he first came here, we couldn't even touch his ears.
Just kind of looks like a bunch of scabs in there.
DR. NICOLE: Hello! KIMBERLY: Hi!
DR. NICOLE: Phoenix!
Hi, bud.
So, what's going on with him?
KIMBERLY: He doesn't like his ears messed with,
that's for sure!
DR. NICOLE: Okay.
KIMBERLY: When I was trying to mess with his ears and stuff
when he first came here, he was trying to bite us, so.
DR. NICOLE: Okay. KIMBERLY: Yeah.
DR. NICOLE: I'll go ahead and get some sedation,
we'll get that on board,
and then we'll start messing around with him, okay?
KIMBERLY: Okey-dokey!
DR. NICOLE: The tricky part is with Phoenix,
he doesn't like us touching his ears.
So, sedation will relax him
and will also allow me to get the job done.
As long as you don't bite me when I give you a shot.
♪ ♪
Okay. So, this'll make him sleepy.
He just won't be fully aware.
KIMBERLY: Okay. DR. NICOLE: Okay?
So I'm gonna get everything together
and see how he reacts.
♪ ♪
(horse neighs)
♪ ♪
KIMBERLY: Easy, buddy!
(horse neighs)
Holy fudge-buckets!
DR. NICOLE: Buddy!
I wonder if he ever had sedation before.
He might have just kind of been overcompensating
and then got a little bit of an overreaction.
Huh, bud?
Phoenix, I think, is having a little reaction
to where he is losing his balance.
Hi!
He's not sure what's going on,
and he tries to overcompensate and spooks himself.
We'll take a look at the ears.
♪ ♪
KIMBERLY: Now, what does that look like to you?
DR. NICOLE: I think it may be some fungus.
Phoenix has some scabs in his ears,
and I believe that it is fungal.
Definitely does not feel good!
We're gonna go ahead and put on some cleaner.
I'll go ahead and put some in his ears right now.
Okay, cutie.
Now that Phoenix is sedated, he's very calm,
and he doesn't mind anything really going on around him.
You're gonna feel much better.
They don't really go much further than right here.
So, the sun should be able to penetrate it.
Once the sun starts shining, the UV light will help heal it.
Hopefully in a couple weeks with the sun and UV radiation
they'll clear right up.
Now if we could only get the sun to stick around,
that'd be great.
Okay.
Both ears are done.
Yeah.
He'll wake up in a few hours and then he'll be fine.
KIMBERLY: The UV rays come out with the sunshine
and everything like that being spring and summer.
So, it just needs to get the sun to it and everything like that.
Thank you so much!
DR. NICOLE: You're welcome. Have a good day.
KIMBERLY: You, too.
♪ ♪
(dog barks)
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: Alright, come on, buddy.
NARRATOR: There's really no such thing as a routine case.
(meow)
DR. POL: Who sent you this cat?
Because this is a castrated male.
MARLENE: It's a male?
NARRATOR: You can never predict what's gonna happen,
as Dr. Lisa and Doc Pol can attest.
DR. POL: Man, it's cold this morning again!
Here, a little bit of water in there, Dennis, please.
Dennis called, and he's got a pregnancy check,
so I brought the ultrasound.
(zipper)
When was she bred?
How many days, Dennis?
DENNIS: 17, 18.
DR. POL: Okay!
I can feel a pregnancy of a horse at about 15 days.
The fetus is only a couple cells at this moment.
They call that an amniotic vesicle.
But the benefit of the ultrasound
is that the owner can see what you feel.
Oh, my gosh.
Ah, come on, lady, give me a break.
Huh.
Man, it's too cold. She is clamping like crazy!
Clamped my hand in there because my hands are too cold!
Oh, come on!
My arm is getting tired.
You got all day today? (laughs)
♪ ♪
MERCEDE: Come here!
I have had Rebel since he was 6 months old.
He's now 4, and I've had his hooves trimmed once.
Come here!
He's the worst to catch.
Rebel! Rebel!
I'd have better luck catching my rabbit.
No.
(crash)
Fine!
I'll find a lead.
DR. LISA: Hello!
NARRATOR: Rebel is getting a hoof trim...
DR. LISA: Oh, he's free and wild!
NARRATOR: if Dr. Lisa and Mercede can catch him.
DR. LISA: I'll go around the other side.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Taming this rebel requires orange kryptonite.
MERCEDE: Cheese snacks are his weakness.
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: Oh! Perfect!
MERCEDE: It's been a year and a half
since he's been trimmed, and they're not...
They grew faster than what I expected!
DR. LISA: Rebel's feet are kind of overgrown.
He's mostly just on grass and fairly soft surfaces,
so there isn't anything to wear them down
without them being trimmed.
This one's quite a bit longer. I know.
Rebel isn't really a fan of the foot-trimming process.
MERCEDE: No, no no.
Stop.
♪ ♪
Good heavens.
DR. LISA: We're almost done.
MERCEDE: Come on, big guy.
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: You want to lie down?
DR. POL: I don't see it, Dennis.
It should be there.
I can feel it by hand.
By hand, she's pregnant,
but the ultrasound, it can't see squat!
There it is.
There.
Okay, Dennis, she's pregnant!
The benefit of the ultrasound is that the owner knows for sure.
Okay, there's the picture.
DENNIS: Cool.
DR. POL: Not very clear, but it's there, see that?
(Dennis chuckles)
And that develops into a big horse
like that eventually.
Okay.
Done!
DR. LISA: Want to lie down?
See if we can kind of lean him up against the fence.
Perfect.
(ducks quacking)
♪ ♪
Oh!
MERCEDE: Well, you're down!
Now just stay, buddy!
NARRATOR: Rebel's feisty spirit
is one reason he's such a good fit for the family.
MERCEDE: Rebel was bought for my daughter when she was 3
to practice riding for mutton-busting in the rodeo.
DR. LISA: That's cool.
I did that once!
Mutton-busting is a sport
where mostly you put little kids on sheep
and watch them run around in circles.
It's pretty fun.
I was not super good at it as a child,
but I always enjoyed the experience.
MERCEDE: You're alright.
DR. LISA: You're okay.
(laughs)
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Alright, one more, kiddo.
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Alright. He survived!
Need a moment of alone time?
MERCEDE: Dr. Lisa did amazing.
Rebel is the worst patient.
I'm sure it's gonna be hard to get Dr. Lisa to come back!
Alright, thank you so much.
DR. LISA: You're very welcome.
Sorry I traumatized your sheep!
MERCEDE: No, that's okay.
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(meow)
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(baa)
NARRATOR: Loretta can count her goats on one hand.
LORETTA: I brought in two adult goats and two baby goats.
(baa)
NARRATOR: Today she wants a recount.
LORETTA: One had babies the day before yesterday,
and, I think, still might have another kid in her.
DR. POL: Okay, goats!
Loretta's afraid there's more in there.
And she had two, but I don't see any afterbirth.
Do you think you can still feel anything in there?
Dr. Lisa has small hands...
(goat groaning)
and for her it's a lot easier to feel inside
than for me trying to get my hand through the pelvis.
(goat groaning)
Nothing?
DR. LISA: Yeah, the cervix is... DR. POL: Closed?
DR. LISA: Closed. DR. POL: Good!
DR. LISA: I can just get one finger in.
DR. POL: Good! There is no more!
Thank you, that's what I wanted you to do!
DR. LISA: Mission accomplished.
DR. POL: Okay, now the other one.
LORETTA: I have another one
that I'm not sure what's going on with her.
I've never seen anything like that before.
DR. POL: What the heck is that?
DR. POL: Ahh, bring her around the back.
The second goat that she brings
has this big ball in front of her chest.
LORETTA: Goats get sick all the time.
It's one reason or another.
(baa)
NARRATOR: Every goat gets Loretta's personal attention.
LORETTA: I'm just raising 'em for myself;
I'm not raising 'em to sell.
They're pets.
DR. POL: Okay, just hold her.
I want to see what's in there.
It's pus.
This is just from an injury, and probably just a staph.
That is not a lymph node.
Hang on, I'll get a knife.
This is a big abscess on the front.
This is most likely, it's a staph or a strep
from an injury that caused a bunch of pus.
Okay, hold her head up like that,
that's the easiest; just like that.
Good!
What I do with a pus pocket like this,
make a big hole so that all the pus comes out.
LORETTA: Ooh.
DR. POL: You don't like mayonnaise?
DOUG: I don't mind mayonnaise,
but that ain't, I ain't putting that on bread.
LORETTA: That ain't mayonnaise!
(laughter)
DR. POL: Okay!
An injury, and you got infection underneath there, ppthh!
That was it.
No antibiotics necessary, flush it with peroxide.
(baa)
LORETTA: I drive 45 miles one way
to come up here to Dr. Pol.
DR. POL: Okay. Load 'em up!
LORETTA: Because I know he'll make the right diagnosis
and do the right thing.
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(moo)
(clucking)
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NARRATOR: Paul and Chelsea's cow
has something inside that's got to come out.
DR. BRENDA: When did she calve?
PAUL: Saturday. CHELSEA: Saturday.
PAUL: It's about a month early.
DR. BRENDA: Which jives with what she's doing
with her uterus.
PAUL: This cow we have, her name's Betsy.
She miscarriaged the second calf.
So today we're gonna have the vet clean out the afterbirth.
DR. BRENDA: Let me see what she'll do.
Alright. Try tailing her for me.
NARRATOR: Mothers typically deliver the placenta
directly following the birth.
DR. BRENDA: Easy, mom, you're alright.
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I'm not sure it's gonna go anywhere today.
The placental attachment right now is super tight.
The problem is she lost the calf early,
so that the placenta wasn't ready to release.
We're gonna leave her like that.
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NARRATOR: Drugs can accelerate this placental expulsion.
DR. BRENDA: I'm actually gonna leave it in
for a little bit longer.
We're gonna give her some medicine
to have her come back in heat, cause some uterus contractions.
Trying to get it to break apart and come out.
She just needs a shot.
It'll help contract the uterus down
and hopefully get her to release that herself.
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She should be good.
We're gonna give her a follow-up dose
of the medication in about a week.
These placentas will eventually come out.
And then hopefully she'll be good,
you guys won't have to worry about it.
CHELSEA: Alright.
PAUL: Dr. Brenda's a good vet.
She gets right to the point, does a great job for us.
It's kind of nice.
DR. BRENDA: Hope the rest of 'em all just lay down,
have their babies no problems!
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(meow)
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(chirping)
(honk)
NYOMIE: Hi, Waygo!
NARRATOR: Nyomie took one gander at her... gander
and high-tailed it to the clinic.
NYOMIE: Waygo is a boy.
Waygo had something hanging out of the backside of him
and I'm just really scared that he's gonna die
because he's like my baby!
NARRATOR: Waygo leaves a clue to what's up.
NYOMIE: Oh, my God, I think there's an egg in there!
DR. POL: Lo and behold.
NYOMIE: That's so cool.
DR. POL: There is an egg behind the goose!
NYOMIE: I don't think male geese can lay eggs, so.
Hey, Doc!
So Waygo is a girl.
DR. POL: Yeah?
Just lay it down, hang on to her head.
NYOMIE: Okay. I'll go on this side.
DR. POL: Yes, there is a little prolapse in there.
NARRATOR: A prolapse is innards that are pushed out.
DR. POL: When they have laid their first egg,
many times you get some irritation in the oviduct,
and this is what she saw.
So the "he" is a "she."
It was a big egg for a little girl.
NYOMIE: I'm feeling relieved,
now that I know my goose is okay.
DR. POL: Okay. NYOMIE: Awesome.
DR. POL: You're all set. NYOMIE: Thank you so much!
I can take him home-- her home.
Look at your little baby egg!
And she's gonna be okay!
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DR. POL: Janet? JANET: Yes.
DR. POL: What we got?
JANET: Austin, he's 13, one of my barn cats.
DR. POL: Yeah?
JANET: He had this tumor thing underneath his lip.
DR. POL: Yeah.
JANET: And now it's hanging there.
DR. POL: Yeah. I'll carry him in.
You and I are coming inside.
JANET: Okay.
Austin, he's semi-feral, has a tumor.
It's located under his lip on his gum around his tooth.
And, and it's big.
He's 13 years old and, and it doesn't look good.
DR. POL: Come on, sweetie.
JANET: Come on. You're alright, you're alright,
you're alright, you're alright.
Stay here. It's okay. Come on. You're alright.
(meow)
JANET: I know, I know.
DR. POL: Son of a gun.
DR. POL: I'm gonna give him an anesthetic,
I'm gonna cut it off.
(meow) JANET: Okay.
DR. POL: Janet's 13-year-old cat that's been in the barn, Austin,
has some kind of swelling in his mouth.
It involves a canine tooth, which are big.
I don't like these kind of tumors.
(meow)
Yes.
Let him go to sleep.
I give Austin an anesthetic.
Here we go!
JANET: Okay.
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DR. POL: I tried with the cutting laser
to get as much as this tumor out until we have healthy tissue.
JANET: I hope he can get a few more years.
You know, I don't know.
I hope they don't have to put him down.
DR. POL: Okay. This is what it looks like.
The tooth comes out very easily, which I don't like,
so I am very worried that this is not a good tumor.
I don't like that kind of tissue,
and I can't get any more off.
I'm afraid it is gonna come back.
JANET: Oh.
DR. POL: But we'll see how long it lasts
and we'll go from there.
JANET: Okay.
DR. POL: Prognosis in this case is very guarded,
'cause that tumor probably will come back.
We don't know how long with this can last.
But we try it anyhow.
JANET: I love Dr. Pol.
He's pulled several of my animals,
you know, out of death.
So, I just hope he can get a few more years, you know, out of it.
DR. POL: If you don't try it, you may not gain anything.
So, I'm trying it!
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(horse nickers)
(boing)
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(baa)
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NARRATOR: It's two weeks
since Shane brought in his hunting dog, Tracker...
DR. LISA: Wow.
NARRATOR: with a spinal injury
that shut down his season.
DR. LISA: Does look kind of unsteady there.
(door chime)
How's Tracker doing?
SHANE: Better. DR. LISA: Excellent.
SHANE: He's not as wobbly. DR. LISA: Beautiful.
Oh, he looks so much better! Excellent.
I'm just gonna take him inside, and we'll be right back.
SHANE: Alright. Cool.
DR. LISA: Come on, Tracker!
You're so happy!
(door chime)
SHANE: I'm just coming back for a two-week follow-up
on my dog Tracker's spine issue that he had,
getting it rechecked and seeing how everything's going with him.
DR. LISA: Good boy!
SHANE: Been seeing it gradually get better,
he's got more feeling in his back end.
I'm hopeful that she'll come back out
and say he's making good progress.
DR. LISA: What a champ!
Good boy!
Tracker looks much more comfortable
than the last time I saw him.
Hi.
He's still not 100% normal, but has vastly improved.
We're gonna continue the steroid therapy for a little longer.
Let's go!
Hopefully he'll continue to improve
and be back to his normal self soon.
There you are.
He's looking pretty good.
Take it easy a little bit longer.
He's still a little wobbly, but he's looking a lot better.
Alright, you have a great day.
SHANE: Thanks a lot. You, too.
I'm able to keep him on light activity,
not doing a lot till he's 100% better.
I'm sure that he'll be back to normal
by the time hunting season comes around.
(baa)
NARRATOR: Loretta's got something in common
with social media influencers.
(Loretta hollers)
She has followers.
LORETTA: Here, goat!
That's the first thing I teach 'em
is to come when they're called.
(ding)
(baa)
NARRATOR: Months ago she trekked 90 miles roundtrip
for Doc Pol's help with two goats in need.
(goat groaning)
LORETTA: Might have another kid in her.
DR. POL: Nothing?
DR. LISA: Yeah, the cervix is... DR. POL: Closed?
DR. LISA: Closed. DR. POL: Good!
It's pus.
An injury, and you got infection underneath there, ppthh!
That was it.
LORETTA: Okay.
They're doing fine now!
I treated 'em, like I was supposed to by Dr. Pol,
and, uh, they're doing just great.
The one over here is the one that had the abscess.
Come here, kid.
Come here, kiddo.
NARRATOR: The goat's pus pocket is empty.
LORETTA: This is where she had the abscess.
Almost like a grapefruit.
I used to raise pigs, and I've had to pull pigs out of a mama,
so cleaning out an abscess wasn't much.
(laughing)
NARRATOR: The three-month-old twins
are fast approaching adult size.
LORETTA: Her babies are doing fine.
That's her little girl.
NARRATOR: If you're a goat,
Loretta's herd is the place to be.
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