(barking)
DR. POL: What? What?
WOMAN: So sorry.
DR. POL: Don't be sorry, I like it!
Jeremy is bringing Gordo in.
Hiya, big guy.
He's a two-year-old bulldog.
Hold still, big guy.
JEREMY: He's been having eye problems with his right eye,
he's been kind of getting boogers in it
and having a hard time opening it,
it's been kind of shut a lot.
DR. POL: Ha, you big face.
Oh, my gosh, here, take a look.
Watch this.
He's got rolled-in eyelids.
JEREMY: Mm-hmm.
DR. POL: And the hair is rubbing on the eyeball.
It's easy to see he has what they call entropion.
These are eyelids that roll in
and then the hair is rubbing on the eyeball,
which is of course very irritating.
See how normal this eye is? See that?
JEREMY: Yeah.
DR. POL: This here, I already pulled it up,
but you can see how red it is on the bottom and in the corner.
See that?
That requires surgery.
JEREMY: Oh, it does?
DR. POL: Yeah. JEREMY: Okay.
DR. POL: Okay. I got to see how soon we can do it.
If you don't do anything, the cornea will become cloudy
and he will be blind in that eye.
Okay, this is a big old dog
that needs entropion on his right eye, ASAP.
WOMAN: Do it today. There ain't no other surgeries.
WOMAN: Yeah, might as well.
JEREMY: I just thought there was something, you know,
allergies or something with his eye.
I didn't know it was going to be something
that had to have surgery.
DR. POL: I can do it right now; otherwise it'll be a month.
JEREMY: Let's do it now if we can.
Gordo? It's Spanish for fatty.
You know, and he's always short and stocky,
you know, he's just reminds of a gordo.
DR. POL: Gordo, not so fast!
(laughing)
You big strong ox. Come on, boy!
♪ ♪
(baa)
AYLA: Sheepy, sit down.
AMIE: Today we brought in our three-day-old lamb, Mr. Flopsy.
Mr. Flopsy was going to be a show lamb,
and he's living in the house now,
so the kids are very attached to him.
So he's gonna probably become a pet. (laughs)
DR. LISA: Hello!
Has he... bear weight on it at all?
AMIE: Not really.
He has, we think, a broken leg.
DR. LISA: Alright. And how old?
AMIE: Three days. DR. LISA: Three days, alright.
AMIE: It's this one, and I think it's broke down in here.
DR. LISA: What has happened?
AMIE: We think he got ran over, his mother, we--
Her name's Crazy Legs, she's a little bit wild.
(laughing)
DR. LISA: I'm hoping it might just be
that he got stepped on and he's really sore.
But we'll take a look and I'll you know, okay?
AMIE: Okay, thank you.
DR. LISA: I'm gonna take a look at Mr. Flopsy's leg.
I'm just hoping it's really badly bruised,
but we're gonna head down to the x-ray room
to see what we're dealing with.
(baa)
I know.
AMIE: Mr. Flopsy is a tough little lamb.
He's only three days old.
He's trying to stand up
even though I'm sure he's probably in a lot of pain.
DR. LISA: Oh, it is broken.
It looks like Mr. Flopsy's leg
is indeed, unfortunately, broken.
He is a pretty young guy, though,
and in these really young animals,
fractures can actually heal pretty well.
Alright. It is broken.
AMIE: Is it? That's what I thought.
DR. LISA: Yeah. AMIE: Oh, yeah.
DR. LISA: It's not really displaced at all,
so that's really good,
and it looks like it's just kind of simple, straight across.
AMIE: Okay.
DR. LISA: So I'm gonna splint it.
AMIE: Mm-hmm.
DR. LISA: I'm gonna sedate him to do it,
because it's gonna hurt.
And we'll take care of your baby.
AMIE: Okay, thank you.
DR. LISA: It is pretty painful to splint and wrap a leg,
so I'm first going to give him a small amount of sedation.
Once I'm able to splint the leg really well
and stabilize those bones...
Oh, baby.
the biggest thing to watch out for is as he's growing,
we might have to readjust the splint,
because he's only three days old right now.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Another patient in.
DR. POL: Oh. There he comes.
NARRATOR: The previous patient out!
DR. POL: Watch out!
Look at that monster.
For us it's a pretty routine surgery.
I don't know how many I've done.
All we do is take a little ribbon of skin out
underneath or around where the eyelid rolls in
and suture it.
Whoa, ho, ho, ho, ho!
Come on, bulldog.
JEREMY: Buddy boy.
DR. POL: Okay, see that eye?
See the stitches?
JEREMY: Yeah.
DR. POL: They pull the eyelid out.
Here's the salve, quarter inch twice a day in his eye.
JEREMY: Down at the bottom? Around it?
DR. POL: Just in the eye. Or and around it if you want to.
Okay.
Any questions, any problems, you call us.
JEREMY: I will.
DR. POL: Thanks. JEREMY: Thank you very much.
DR. POL: Gordo's gonna be fine,
and Gordo will be just a happy dog.
JEREMY: Come here, boy. Gordo, come here, buddy.
Let's go home.
He's part of our family.
Whatever he needs, we're gonna get fixed.
DR. POL: He's a nice dog.
JANETTE: Hi, Lilo.
Lilo's wound just looks like something is eating at her.
It's pretty, it's pretty gross.
DR. NICOLE: You have Lilo? What's going on with her?
JANETTE: Um, well, she's a rescue,
so I don't know much about her.
It just appears she has, I don't know, like behind her ear.
DR. NICOLE: So she has multiple wounds?
JANETTE: Yeah, so... DR. NICOLE: Okay.
JANETTE: we thought we were getting it to heal,
and then it was like, we realized...
DR. NICOLE: Something else popped up?
JANETTE: Yeah.
DR. NICOLE: Okay, I will take her in and check her out,
we'll see what's going on.
JANETTE: Alright, thanks.
DR. NICOLE: Yep. Hi, baby girl.
JANETTE: We've just been putting peroxide
and triple antibiotic in it,
and trying to keep it as clean as possible.
It looks very painful, so I'm just hoping
that we can figure out what's going on
and, you know, get her healed up.
DR. NICOLE: Hi. What do you see?
WOMAN: Oh, she's got like no hair right there.
DR. NICOLE: Ew. Ouch.
WOMAN: Oh!
DR. NICOLE: That's a big wound for a baby kitty!
(clippers whirring)
Oh, I know it's scary, hold on!
Lilo's skin is irritated, it's red,
there's pus coming out, and it does not look good.
Are your ears clean?
Oh, her ears are terrible.
Maybe she's just getting like self-inflicting wounds
from scratching her little ears.
Commonly, when cats have an ear infection,
they like to scratch, and if they have very sharp nails,
they dig into their own skin and cause worse issues.
WOMAN: Ugh.
DR. NICOLE: Like they're, like, look at that chunk.
When I get the ear swab out from Lilo's ears,
she has a very bad ear infection,
and this big wound behind her ear...
Honey!
Yeah, she scratched like half of that wound off.
is from her scratching at it continuously.
That's like the worst I've ever seen any wound
from an animal scratching their ears.
Thankfully this is just a secondary skin issue
that we're gonna treat with some medications
and making sure that the skin stays clean.
Let's trim those nails.
I don't want her to do more damage.
Oh, my goodness.
I'm very happy that I can go tell Janette
that it's not some kind of flesh-eating bacteria,
it's just a simple ear infection.
Outlook for Lilo is great.
I am sending home some ear medication.
JANETTE: I'm very relieved.
I didn't want it to be anything major.
DR. NICOLE: Just go ahead, keep cleaning that wound,
wash it out two, three times a day.
Other than that, if you have any issues, give me a call, okay?
JANETTE: Alright, thank you so much.
DR. NICOLE: You're welcome. Bye, guys.
JANETTE: Bye. Should have brought her more treats.
(squeak)
♪ ♪
(meow)
(squeaking)
(door chime)
♪ ♪
JAN: He got the name real quick.
He's in trouble all the time.
The man is in a pickle all the time.
Makes me laugh every day.
Pickle is about four years old,
and he is a Boston terrier- Chihuahua mix.
I didn't realize we're matching.
I usually go with collies and shepherds and things like that.
Uh, so he's a little bit of an adjustment,
but he's been glorious.
(gagging)
NARRATOR: Jan thinks Pickle is choking on a treat.
JAN: There's something in there, and it's causing him problems.
DR. POL: That's the one with the stick in his mouth?
JAN: I'm thinking it's down in the, down in deep,
he's been having some distress.
DR. POL: Hi! Come on in.
If these things will get stuck in their throat,
they are in real bad distress.
What is he doing or not doing?
JAN: Okay, he's not able to eat.
He hasn't been able to hold down water.
He chokes.
When he's laying down
and he tries to put his head down on me,
right down in here he seems-- There--to choke.
DR. POL: When I look at it,
there is no bone stuck in his throat,
but it is very tender.
That's his windpipe, I don't feel anything.
He swallowed too big a piece,
and it scratched his throat and it hurts.
Then he starts coughing and gagging
and probably throwing up.
Once it's beyond the throat, it'll go through.
JAN: That's what I was hoping.
DR. POL: Yes, his throat is very sore.
JAN: Ohh.
DR. POL: Pickles is gonna be fine,
a sore throat, and those are easy to take care of.
JAN: Thank you, sir, thank you.
If there was something in there, it has moved through,
and then it's on into his stomach, so it's okay.
Well, I would have never forgiven myself if I hadn't...
DR. POL: I know. JAN: done something.
DR. POL: I know!
And that's no problem. That's what we're here for.
JAN: He's my joy.
The relief is just
I'm gonna probably do a little crying on the way home,
just 'cause you get yourself worked up!
Very fast!
Pickle means the world to me.
He's my every day, all day, so, thank God. Yeah.
Today is a beautiful day, in more ways than one.
He's the best dog I've ever had.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: An emergency has just arrived.
BETTY: He's got a big swelling on his stomach
and a hematoma there.
Pal is my friend Annabell's dog.
She found Pal laying out on the sawdust pile on the farm.
His back end won't work,
he hasn't used, gone potty all weekend,
I'm thinking his back is broke.
DR. NICOLE: Odd that he has a bruise there,
and then if you also look at his eye.
BETTY: His bloodshot eye, yup. I know.
DR. NICOLE: Hi, bud! And it's just that side,
so that makes me wonder if he got hit by something
and it affected just that side.
BETTY: He's definitely hurting and he can't get around,
his back legs are completely useless right now.
NARRATOR: Australian shepherd Pal may have a broken spine.
DR. NICOLE: I'll probably have to take him downstairs
for some x-rays, too.
Careful, he may be painful.
BETTY: Come on, Pal.
I know. He's hurting.
DR. NICOLE: He's not happy, he's painful.
Hang in there, Pal.
Okay, we'll be back.
BETTY: Alrighty.
DR. NICOLE: In order to find out what's going on with Pal,
I'm gonna need to take x-rays to see if it's his back,
his leg, and to check on his pelvis as well.
(mouse clicking)
X-rays show that his back looks normal.
Okay, so his femur's fractured.
His pelvis looks a little weird,
and his right femur is fractured pretty badly.
So, this is his back end.
Overall, his backbones look pretty good.
But these are his hips,
and then this is his right leg...
BETTY: Oh! DR. NICOLE: that's swollen.
So this part should be up here to make one long nice bone.
BETTY: It looks like it snapped.
DR. NICOLE: Yep, it's snapped,
and we have a few little splinters coming off.
This is his left rear, and that's why I was wondering
if he had any issues with that
because this bone looks deformed almost.
BETTY: He broke it before.
ANNABELL: He limped a little bit in the yard.
DR. NICOLE: Okay. Okay.
NARRATOR: When he was younger,
Pal broke his other leg in a farm accident.
BETTY: Because he did chew the brace off,
he had it off for one day, it didn't set quite right.
DR. NICOLE: One's already kind of bad,
and now we have a broken one.
If you want, you can go to an orthopedic surgeon,
and that would be the best option for him.
The other option is we can try and splint it here,
but I'm worried about this other leg that he's limping on
would be the only thing in the back end to hold him up.
ANNABELL: Well, do you think you can splint it?
DR. NICOLE: We can try, yeah.
I think it's worth a chance if you guys want to go ahead
and just do the supportive care at home.
Since Pal is going to go home with a splint,
he's gonna have a unstable recovery
for the next few weeks.
He's gonna have to be lifted up and down everywhere he goes,
he's gonna have to get assistance
just to go outside to go to the bathroom.
ANNABELL: We give him pain pills?
DR. NICOLE: He'll get pain pills.
I'll send them home with you.
ANNABELL: Yeah. DR. NICOLE: Okay?
We can go ahead and get him splinted up.
Splints work great sometimes,
but sometimes dogs just rip them off,
and other times they allow the dog to move around too much
and they won't rest it enough.
Okay.
Pal's prognosis is guarded for right now,
I'm a little worried for him.
♪ ♪
SADIE: Clemmie.
(meow)
I know, baby girl.
Clementine fell sometime in the middle of the night.
She wouldn't put any weight on her paw.
Gonna make you better!
(meow)
EMILIO: Kitty, kitty, kitty! Kitty, kitty, kitty.
Clementine's my therapy cat.
I love her very much.
DR. POL: Cute little thing.
(meow)
What happened?
SADIE: I don't know.
It was 3:30 in the morning, I heard a boom,
and I got up and checked on my son.
DR. POL: Yeah, yeah.
SADIE: And he was fine.
DR. POL: Good!
SADIE: She was licking it when I looked at her
and then tried to walk and was limping.
DR. POL: Yeah.
SADIE: And now she won't put no weight on it at all.
DR. POL: No, it's broke.
SADIE: It's broke? DR. POL: Yeah.
NARRATOR: It's the clinic's third broken leg this week!
DR. POL: It's not much, it's just a little bone.
Here's the joint; it broke right there.
SADIE: Uh-huh.
DR. POL: You know? So we'll fix her.
SADIE: Oh. DR. POL: Yeah.
SADIE: I'm sorry, baby girl.
DR. POL: You can actually easily feel where the fracture is,
so the main thing is now to immobilize it
and put a splint on.
Okay, go up front, take your carrier with you.
SADIE: Okay.
DR. POL: Nice cat.
You're nice.
NARRATOR: While Dr. Pol heads to place splint number three...
DR. POL: Left front, broken leg.
NARRATOR: Dr. Brenda and Dr. Nicole
are tasked with some horse doctoring.
SANDRA: I have three horses that'll be seeing Doc today:
Owen, Glow, and Johnny.
DR. NICOLE: All three may need their teeth floated,
which means that we take a rasp and file the teeth down
in order for them to chew better.
DR. NICOLE: Have any of them been dropping feed?
SANDRA: Yep, they've been doing
the whole nom-nom-nom with the tongue thing.
DR. BRENDA: And you said you've never cleaned,
had his sheath cleaned before? Okay.
TIFFANY: No, we've only had him two years.
DR. BRENDA: That's got buildup of debris in there
that can cause some issues and cause some swelling.
Well, what we're going to do
is I'm gonna give him a little bit of tranquilizer.
That'll let him relax,
we can get the whole penis and sheath cleaned.
(grinding)
DR. NICOLE: A little bit of a wave right here.
A little bit of a hook up front.
DR. BRENDA: Some of the horses are very willing
to let you clean it without sedation.
This will take a couple of minutes for that to work.
They are less willing usually to let me do it
because I'm a total stranger
and way up in their personal business.
(grinding)
SANDRA: Ah, you're alright.
DR. BRENDA: You're alright.
(grinding)
DR. NICOLE: That's evened out.
DR. BRENDA: It actually isn't too dirty in here.
SANDRA: Come on, buddy.
I've never felt from the outside like you're doing.
DR. BRENDA: I don't think he's gonna go too far away hopefully.
DR. NICOLE: Not that bad.
(grinding)
Perfect.
SANDRA: Awesome. DR. NICOLE: All set.
DR. BRENDA: You're all set. TIFFANY: Thank you.
DR. BRENDA: You're welcome. Have a good day.
DR. NICOLE: Bye, guys.
Now it's time for me to get back in the Jeep, go to the clinic,
warm up my hands, get some coffee inside of me.
♪ ♪
LORI: Usually she's a very hyper, spunky dog.
Brylee has been sick and for the last three days,
not eating, not drinking, and just laying and sleeping.
Today she actually only went outside once.
She's laid, that's it.
She's a good girl.
Just not a happy one.
DR. POL: So what's going on here?
LORI: I don't know. Um...
DR. POL: She's only one year old?
LORI: She'll be two this month.
DR. POL: Okay, let's bring her in
because I have too many questions.
LORI: I got her for my autistic son.
She's just an amazing dog,
she knows when he's going to have a meltdown.
DR. POL: Hi, sweet.
LORI: She's usually very, very energetic.
And for her to do this just is not right at all.
She has done nothing but lay on the floor under a blanket.
DR. POL: Yeah?
LORI: But when she would get up, she would cry.
I mean, she'd move her head, she'd like scream.
DR. POL: Brylee does not look good.
She is laying down
and just doesn't care about too many things.
What happened, any idea?
LORI: I have no idea, she... nothing.
Other than her chewing the remote.
DR. POL: Yeah, that won't do it.
She, she didn't eat it?
LORI: No.
DR. POL: She has a very high temperature.
LORI: Are you serious?
DR. POL: Yeah, look at this.
104.2 already.
LORI: Holy!
DR. POL: And it's still going up.
104 and a half.
When I take her temperature, that is quite high.
No wonder she doesn't feel good.
LORI: No kidding!
(yelp)
DR. POL: How long has she been like this?
LORI: Since Saturday night.
(yelp)
LORI: And see, that's... (sigh)
DR. POL: Hang on.
LORI: I just hope Dr. Pol can figure out
what is wrong with her and make her feel better.
(whine)
DR. POL: It's red as the dickens.
No wonder she wants to do nothing.
LORI: No kidding. Oh, my goodness.
DR. POL: When I listen to her lungs,
there is also a lot of noise in there already.
This is what it is, a severe upper respiratory
with almost going into pneumonia.
This can be fixed.
LORI: Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you, thank you.
NARRATOR: Brylee caught a real chill from the Michigan winter.
DR. POL: You know, especially when it gets this cold,
the dry air causes the throat irritation.
Do you have a humidifier in the house?
LORI: No, but I can boil water on the stove.
DR. POL: Okay, do that.
Patience.
We'll fix her.
LORI: Okay.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.
It's okay.
I feel amazing now
because I know that she's gonna be okay.
There you go.
DR. POL: Big dose of cortisone for her.
In the next couple hours,
that'll take the temperature down to normal.
Get her on antibiotics.
Tonight she gets the first pill.
LORI: Okay.
DR. POL: And she'll just snap right out of this.
By tomorrow morning, she'll feel a little bit better,
she'll start eating.
Okay, get up, girl.
LORI: Come on, come on.
DR. POL: Come on. LORI: Come on.
DR. POL: You got her? LORI: Yep.
DR. POL: Thanks, Lori.
LORI: Thank you very, very much.
Dr. Pol is amazing.
Come here.
He was boom, boom, boom, and he figured it out.
Well, this is the most she's walked all day.
I am thankful for Dr. Pol.
Are you gonna get stuck?
DR. LISA: Hello. JAMIE: Hi.
DR. LISA: You brought in a baby for me?
♪ ♪
JAMIE: Remy is a little over ten weeks,
and she's a blue Great Dane.
She's pretty laid-back.
Very playful but pretty laid-back.
DR. LISA: And how long have you had her?
JAMIE: Um, about ten days.
Remy's coming in today to get her boosters.
DR. LISA: I can update this for you.
Alright, we'll be right back.
JAMIE: Thanks.
DR. LISA: Remy's a happy, healthy puppy.
We're just doing a check-up and some shots.
Oop, stay there, babe.
One of the first things I do is get a weight on Remy.
31.
It looks like she's grown quite a bit,
which is exactly what we want her to do.
Oooh, my goodness!
She's a large-breed dog,
and she's gaining weight at the appropriate rate.
DR. POL: Where you goin'?
NARRATOR: A Great Dane at the clinic always draws a crowd!
DR. LISA: Look at it!
DR. POL: Hiya, sweetie.
DIANE: Oh, nice!
She looks like a female.
You've got a female face!
DR. LISA: She is a female.
DR. POL: Don't be so scared.
DIANE: When a Great Dane puppy comes in,
Jan and I can't resist!
DR. LISA: You got huge feet.
DIANE: You're a big grower, aren't you? You are.
I love those puppy bellies, yes, I do!
DR. LISA: Good girl.
Oh, you were so brave.
NARRATOR: A little treat for Remy...
DR. LISA: I got bacon!
NARRATOR: allows Dr. Lisa to stealthily administer the meds.
WOMAN: What is it?
DR. LISA: A giant pill.
Surprise.
(laughing)
She's like, "It's good, but also awful."
Alrighty, kiddo!
I will take this part.
Remy looks great today.
She took her shots like a champ.
She looks like she's growing amazingly well,
and she's super adorable.
She had quite the fan club in there!
(whimpering)
DR. POL: So where's the goose?
♪ (heavenly choir) ♪
JACLYN: Jimmy is our friendly pet goose.
(honk)
He's a Canadian goose,
and we've had him since pretty much the day he was born.
His mom left him.
DR. POL: You have a goose. JACLYN: I do.
DR. POL: Okay, bring him in, let me see how bad it is.
Somewhere or other he got hurt.
He's got a cut on his leg.
Man, he's pretty.
JACLYN: Beautiful, well behaved.
DR. POL: He doesn't fly away with the others?
JACLYN: No, he doesn't fly away,
he actually runs all the others out of the yard.
(Dr. Pol laughs)
Jimmy is a part of the family-- Not just mine,
but the neighbors, all the people that work around us,
and all the people that come over.
They all love to be around Jimmy.
Ooh! Settle down, Jimmy, it's okay.
DR. POL: Hey, that's slippery, that's the problem.
JACLYN: It's okay.
My neighbor called this morning,
and he said he happened to be out by the road.
It's okay, it's okay, baby.
He had blood dripping.
And we bandaged him up a little bit,
just so he stopped bleeding everywhere.
DR. POL: Yeah, see how thin that is?
JACLYN: Yes.
DR. POL: There is no way that I can suture that and let it hold.
I'm gonna glue it.
JACLYN: Okay.
NARRATOR: The skin on Jimmy's leg
is too thin for stitches or staples.
DR. POL: Don't get this on your fingers 'cause...
JACLYN: Nope, we're well aware.
DR. POL: This is tissue glue that you don't take off.
And that's holding already.
It gets absorbed, dissolves,
you glue it together and you leave it.
JACLYN: Good job, Jimmy!
ANGELINA: Aww, he is being pretty good.
JACLYN: He is being very good!
DR. POL: Okay, stick it out to the side a little bit.
JACLYN: Hold his leg, Lina.
DR. POL: Just like that.
This is antibiotic.
JACLYN: Awesome.
DR. POL: Put this around it.
Now hold that.
Oh, you're good.
The main thing is it doesn't move much
so that the glue has a chance to keep the skin together
and let it heal.
Now I would keep this on for about a week.
JACLYN: Yep.
DR. POL: And then just take it off and forget it.
JACLYN: Alright!
DR. POL: This wound will heal up.
He doesn't fly away anymore, so he'll be happy in the pond.
They are pretty animals, aren't they?
JACLYN: Oh, yeah, everybody loves Jimmy.
DIANE: Wow.
DR. POL: He's cute, aren't they pretty?
DIANE: Mm-hmm! DR. POL: Close up like this.
Geese can be the biggest pets around.
DIANE: So how did you tame him to begin with?
DR. POL: Found him in the middle of the road.
JACLYN: She found him.
ANGELINA: I thought it was a duck.
(laughing)
DIANE: Well, close. DR. POL: Close.
JACLYN: And then she hands him to me.
"This is Jimmy." (laughter)
DR. POL: Pretty, aren't they?
DIANE: Yeah.
(barking)
♪ ♪
CHARLES: What do they got? Cow with a bad foot?
DR. POL: Something like that.
We're going to Ed.
He has beef cows, and he has a limping calf.
ED: We're not sure what's going on with her yet, so.
Doc Pol will figure it out, he always does.
It's a young heifer, it was born last year.
She's the littlest one I've got.
Hi, Doc.
DR. POL: Hello!
ED: You hate seeing them in pain, right?
And limping around.
DR. POL: What you got? A lame one?
ED: Yeah she's got, she's been limping.
DR. POL: Oh, it's this little guy?
ED: Yeah, that little guy.
DR. POL: Oh, here I thought I had a big cow to fight with.
ED: No, no, no, just a little one.
DR. POL: Now, what the heck is going on there?
ED: I don't know.
DR. POL: It's just a little foot.
ED: Doesn't look like it's swelled up or anything.
DR. POL: No. ED: Yeah.
DR. POL: See how she's walking on the tiptoes?
ED: Yep.
DR. POL: Let me get my box,
let's put her in the head chute and see what happened.
ED: Okay.
CHARLES: Come on.
ED: Hang on.
Hold on, sweetie.
Oh, boy.
Get over here!
Steve!
ED: Ho, boy.
Get over here!
DR. POL: These cows never want to be caught in the head chute,
because they know when they get caught
something happens to them.
What the heck!
CHARLES: She is, for a little lady,
she is quite the attitude.
DR. POL: Ha ha ha!
Let me in.
Then we try again.
Dog! Get back here!
Hee hee, there she comes.
Hee hee hee!
Yeah, that's my box.
(dog barking)
ED: Steve, no, Steve, that's enough!
DR. POL: Come on.
CHARLES: Yeah, she goes.
Yup, she's in.
DR. POL: So finally when we get him in the chute
and have his leg hoisted up, we can work on him.
♪ ♪
There's a big ball in between here,
and I don't know why.
When I check the foot out,
there is a big ball of manure right in between the hooves.
That hurts, too.
(Ed chuckles)
That looks like it has been there for quite some time.
Everything feels good.
Okay, let her down.
Nothing in the hoof, but see how far apart that was?
ED: He found a ball of manure in there that was hard,
which is really unusual.
Obviously they're walking on manure and stuff all the time,
but she couldn't shake it.
That was a problem.
DR. POL: Watch it, watch it.
Yeah, she puts the foot down flat now, see that?
CHARLES: So, hard poop it was.
ED: I haven't seen that before. DR. POL: No!
ED: Alright, thanks, Doc, appreciate it.
DR. POL: Yep, thanks!
ED: Actually that was the best-case scenario
we could have had,
'cause he didn't have to cut into the hoof
or bandage it or anything.
I have every confidence that she's gonna do really well
and come right out of it now.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: He's got rolled-in eyelids.
JEREMY: Mm-hmm.
DR. POL: And the hair is rubbing on the eyeball.
That requires surgery.
JEREMY: Gordo!
NARRATOR: After the correction...
JEREMY: Everything healed up good and he's doing pretty well.
I know.
You know, he's a hyper, fun-loving dog.
Gordo, want a treat?
So he's, didn't really affect him much.
Get your Frisbee.
He's part of our family, you know,
we love him just like our kids.
So we're glad he's doing well and he's back to his hyper self.
I'm happy that he's doing well.
RACHEL: Gordo, Come here. JEREMY: Gordo, come here.
(baa)
AYLA: One leg broken!
NARRATOR: Mr. Flopsy, the little lamb with a broken leg,
has a splint check today.
AMIE: He seems to be healing well and doing good.
BROCK: Hey, Flopsy!
Seriously, stop trying to eat my coat.
AMIE: He's a really good eater, he's grown really well
and he's very active, even with a broken leg.
DR. LISA: How is the little guy?
AMIE: He's doing pretty good.
He can't get up on his own a lot because of it,
so I have to help him and he lays on it.
DR. LISA: Doesn't look like it's swelling.
It actually looks like it's staying okay.
I kind of want to take an x-ray and make sure everything...
AMIE: Okay.
DR. LISA: looks like it's where it's supposed to.
AMIE: Okay.
DR. LISA: And we'll be right back.
AMIE: Okay, thank you.
DR. LISA: I just want to make sure with an x-ray
that healing is going on
and that the splint isn't too mobile.
(door chime)
Can I have an x-ray ordered?
(meow)
EMILIO: Like she wouldn't walk on the leg,
but as soon as she got it on for a bit,
she would start putting pressure on the leg that has the splint.
NARRATOR: Clementine is also back for a splint check
on her broken leg.
DR. POL: Now we are for you. SADIE: Okay.
DR. POL: How's she doing, licking raw a little bit?
SADIE: Yeah.
DR. POL: Oh, my gosh, how did you get her in that cage?
SADIE: The top.
DR. POL: That feels good there.
That is not too sore, yeah.
Oh, yeah she was licking there.
SADIE: Yep.
DR. POL: Put Neosporin on there.
SADIE: Okay.
DR. POL: And that looks good.
Watch this here, that this doesn't swell up.
Otherwise everything is fine.
SADIE: Okay.
DR. POL: Good. That stays on now,
I would say, another two weeks.
SADIE: Okay.
DR. POL: Any questions, any raw spots, any swelling,
you let me know.
You're all set.
(door chime)
DR. LISA: I need you to look at something.
DR. POL: It's doing just fine.
DR. LISA: You think I can leave it?
DR. POL: Yep. DR. LISA: Okay.
DR. POL: Let her stand on this.
DR. LISA: Yeah, he's, she's been using it.
DR. POL: Yeah.
DR. LISA: Bones are definitely healing together
the way I hoped they would,
looks like everything is coming along the way it ought to.
Definitely we need some more time,
but I think we're on the road to recovery.
Alright, we'll see you then in a couple weeks.
AMIE: Okay, sounds good.
DR. LISA: Let me know if you have any concerns
about anything.
AMIE: Okay, thank you. DR. LISA: Yep.
AMIE: After his recheck today, I feel really good
about how he's doing and how things are going for him.
(baa)
NARRATOR: Dr. Nicole's splint check with Pal
won't be so simple.
DR. NICOLE: Hello. How are you today?
ANNABELL: Not too bad.
DR. NICOLE: Today is Pal's recheck,
and he chewed through his splint.
TERRY: He chewed it off and...
DR. NICOLE: Oh, buddy. Okay.
DR. NICOLE: Goodness, still,
yep, it's still broken pretty well.
Oh, bud.
NARRATOR: When Pal removed his splint,
all mending of his broken femur stopped.
DR. NICOLE: If he keeps taking off the splint on this back leg
and doesn't allow it to heal,
then he doesn't really have any good back legs.
He has the one partially okay leg
and then his broken leg.
We'll go ahead and put the splint back on
and see if we can get him fixed up.
We'll bring him out when we're done, okay?
As a puppy, he had a broken back leg on his other side,
and that hasn't quite healed correctly,
and he just can't put weight on that leg.
If we take off the back leg, he's not gonna be able to walk.
(pulling tape)
If he continues to chew through his splints,
we're gonna have to continuously sedate him
and reapply it, and that really slows down his healing.
Okay, Pal.
You get to keep that on now.
Oh, my goodness.
Seems heavier. (laughs)
I'm sending Pal home
with some more pain meds and anti-inflammatories.
I just want to keep a close eye on him
because I don't want this leg to go south.
♪ ♪
(mooing)
DR. POL: Okay, what we got here?
CLARISSA: So, we've got a calf that has a lump on its navel.
DR. POL: Come on, sweetie.
Okay, just, just, Charles,
you should get in there and tail it up.
'Cause it'll back right up.
CHARLES: I know.
DR. POL: These are Angus,
and Angus are notoriously not halter-broke.
Are you getting the tail, or what are you doing?
CHARLES: Well, I-- Yes, I'll get the tail but...
(laughter)
DR. POL: Charles cranks up the tail
to make it stand still for a couple seconds.
When I feel underneath...
That's a big abscess from a navel infection!
It's a big ball full of pus.
Why don't I knock it out, open it up?
'Cause that's all abscess.
CLARISSA: Okay.
(whistling)
DR. POL: If it's an Angus, they kick a little hard,
so she gets an anesthetic, very little bit.
Okay, let her go.
See, it's getting quieter already.
Look at this.
It already loves me.
(Charles chuckles)
What happens here is that when the calf is born,
the navel gets infected, some bacterias crawl inside.
And then the body tries to fight it
by putting a lot of white blood cells in there.
That's good.
The white blood cells die, and they form pus.
So you get a big lump underneath the belly.
Clarissa, where are you? You want some mayonnaise?
CLARISSA: Oh! Yum.
(Dr. Pol chuckles)
NARRATOR: Dr. Pol will lance and drain the abscess.
CHARLES: Oh, my gosh.
That's gnarly.
Oh, my gosh, and it stinks.
As soon as he pops that scalpel in,
it's like going to the soft serve machine.
Man, that's a, that's crazy,
there's so much pus that it made a pus mud puddle.
DR. POL: That's what they call a...
pus puddle? Nah.
CHARLES: Pus puddle. DR. POL: A pus puddle.
Turn it on.
I use the garden hose to flush everything out
and make it sure that everything is clean inside
and let it heal up.
It's getting up.
Open the gate.
See, that's what I like about the anesthetic I give.
They get up and I'm done.
This abscess should heal up without any problems.
Clarissa, take care.
CHARLES: Yep, thanks everybody!
♪ ♪
JAN: Okay.
That's his favorite treat, also, is a carrot.
He didn't choke on those like he did on the chew stick.
Right down in here, he seems--there--to choke.
DR. POL: When I look at it,
there is no bone stuck in his throat,
but it is very tender.
Yes, his throat is very sore.
(toy squeaking)
JAN: I was scared.
But Doc Pol checked him out and, darn it, he reassured me,
sent us home, and he's been great ever since.
Hey. Come here.
You want a carrot? Huh?
♪ ♪
He either sleeps for hours or he's ten miles an hour.
Wherever he is now, where is he now?
(whistles)
Here!
Oh, boy.
He probably found whatever was dead and he's rolling in it.
Pickle, come!
(clapping)
Anyway... (laughs)
♪ ♪
He's fun. Every day he makes me laugh.
You can tell his barometer for happiness
is how curly his tail is.
He's the best dog I've ever had.
He really is.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: 30 minutes from the clinic,
a mare is in serious trouble.
DR. NICOLE: What did you do?
Ouch!
DR. NICOLE: Let's go ahead and get her cleaned up.
Then we'll see what we're gonna do for her.
I'm at an Amish farm, and they have a horse with a laceration.
So I'm gonna give her some sedation,
make her sleepy,
so that way I can go ahead and stitch her back up.
So right here, you can see that she did get part of that tendon.
At closer look, I find out
that the tendon is actually cut as well.
This means that some of the muscle movements could be lost.
And it's really important
that we try to get that tendon back together.
I'm gonna try to connect those two back up.
Hopefully it'll hold,
and then I'm gonna suture this back on top.
So in order to try to fix this tendon,
I'm gonna get some strong suture material
and hope that it holds.
Did she walk up here?
FARMER: Yes.
DR. NICOLE: Okay.
(horse groans)
Mmm.
Dr. JB is a little annoyed.
She's moving her leg a little bit more.
Every time she bends her knee,
she's putting more pressure on this tendon,
and it's already kind of fried.
And she keeps tearing it.
I'm trying to apply some pressure to keep it from moving,
so I can get it together
before she keeps ruining what I'm trying to do.
There.
NARRATOR: With the tendon sutured,
Dr. Nicole pivots to closing the skin.
DR. NICOLE: This could have been way worse.
It could have been more of the leg;
she could have been down.
But she was able to walk all the way from the back pasture
up to the barn, so that gives me hope.
Okay, she is all set.
So, these stitches will have to come out in about two weeks.
If you're able to do it, you can go ahead and just snip them out.
Otherwise, if you want us to come out, we can do that, too.
The next move is to go ahead and start her on some medication.
We'll do some Banamine and then some antibiotics as well.
And then let her rest for the next couple days.
You can go ahead and hose it off a couple times a day.
But the big thing is the inflammation going down
and no infection.
And you are all set.
FARMER: Thank you. DR. NICOLE: You're welcome.
She should be out of the woods in about five days to a week.
I want to see that swelling go down,
and I want to make sure she gets good movement
of that front leg again.
(radio beeps) Mobile five to base.
♪ ♪
JACLYN: Jimmy's good.
So I'm good.
(kissing)
I know.
I loves you, too.
NARRATOR: It's been four months since Jimmy cut his leg.
JACLYN: We kept Jimmy in rehab, basically,
for about three weeks while her knee completely healed shut.
NARRATOR: It's been three months
since Jaclyn discovered Jimmy isn't a gander.
(honk)
JACLYN: Jimmy actually laid eggs.
A whole three eggs.
(honk)
♪ ♪
Live out her life, probably here in the yard.
(honking)
That's the sassy walk.
Jimmy's gonna be Jimmy.
(honk)
DR. LISA: Oh, he's got big!
NARRATOR: Mr. Flopsy and Clementine
are back for updates on their broken legs.
DR. LISA: Mr. Flopsy's coming back in today,
I hope, for his last visit.
And hopefully we're gonna be able to take the splint off
and he'll be able to use the leg the way he's supposed to.
He's so big! Oh, my goodness.
AMIE: He's gotten so big.
DR. LISA: Kind of outgrew that splint, huh?
AMIE: We've rewrapped it a few times, and...
DR. LISA: Yeah.
AMIE: I mean, he's getting around pretty good.
DR. LISA: I'm gonna take an x-ray
and see how it looks
and maybe we can see how he does without it.
'Cause I was thinking probably would only need it
for five or six weeks.
Looks like this little guy's injury
hasn't slowed down his growth at all.
He's all grown up.
Do I need to carry you?
He's probably three or four times larger
than the last time I saw him.
He has so much energy
and is definitely gaining weight the way he's supposed to.
Such a good boy.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: How's he doing?
(meow)
EMILIO: It's a "she."
(Dr. Pol laughs)
DR. POL: Clementine is coming in again
because it's been three weeks since we put the splint on.
SADIE: She still won't put no weight or nothing on it,
but I just think that's 'cause of the splint.
DR. POL: The splint is off?
SADIE: No, still on.
DR. POL: Okay.
Ahhh, man!
I'll bring her, I'm gonna check her out and I'll bring her back.
SADIE: Okay.
(door chime)
(baa)
DR. LISA: Oh, it looks like it healed.
So, it's kind of crooked, but...
On the x-ray, there's a pretty large callus of bone
over where the fracture was,
so I think he can go splint-free from now on.
(baa)
DR. LISA: I know!
(baa)
Got a lot to say.
WOMAN: Mm-hmm.
(baa)
Relax!
DR. POL: Hold still.
She was a good kitty.
She kept it on really nice.
Almost done.
When the splint is off and I feel it,
I can feel there's a solid callus there
and the leg has healed up.
There you go.
Because she has not used that leg for about three weeks,
it still is tender, and usually, in another month or so,
you will not even notice that she ever had a broken leg.
Okay, I took the splint off, there is a very good callus.
Of course, you know, he is not used to it, but it's solid.
EMILIO: She!
DR. POL: She! I'm sorry!
(laughter)
It'll be a couple weeks maybe
before he puts his full weight on,
but that's no problem,
everything feels good and looks good.
SADIE: Okay. DR. POL: There you go.
SADIE: Thank you so much.
DR. POL: Thank you, you take care of her!
SADIE: Okay.
(laughter)
(baa)
DR. LISA: Alright, kiddo.
You'll just look kind of goofy.
With the splint and the bandages off,
he doesn't seem in pain,
he's using the leg the way he ought to,
the leg feels pretty solid as I palpate it,
so this is definitely a successful story.
Come on, baby.
(baa)
AMIE: Look at you!
(baa)
Hey, where you going, mister?
DR. LISA: Anywhere! Away!
AMIE: He's like, it's horrible!
DR. LISA: So it healed a little crooked.
That's why his foot's kind of like this.
But it's solid, there's a solid bone callus,
there's no movement anymore, so.
AMIE: Okay, well, he'll just have a little floppy leg.
DR. LISA: He just looks a little wonky,
but it's, it's gonna work.
AMIE: Yeah, he'll just have to get used to using it again.
DR. LISA: Yeah, it's gonna feel weird.
AMIE: That's alright, he's a little flopsy.
DR. LISA: Alright. I'm glad he's better!
Now that we have the splint off
and the bone has healed pretty rock solid,
I think Mr. Flopsy's gonna have a great rest of his career
as a lamb.
(baa)