(woof)
(dog whining)
(barking)
(oink)
(swan honking)
SHEILA: No, you're not getting out. Not getting out.
NARRATOR: An exotic species has landed in the parking lot
for a recheck.
SHEILA: Cinder is my black swan.
I bought him a year ago, and he's really friendly.
He will eat grass out of my hand.
JAMES: He likes to spar with the kittens, he fights with them.
(Dr. Pol laughs)
SHEILA: The rest of the animals on the farm,
he's alright with those, it's just the cats he doesn't like.
NARRATOR: Cinder is a frequent flyer at the clinic.
DR. POL: He actually couldn't walk very well,
he was quivering all over and shaking.
We gave him some minerals and an injection.
And he has improved quite a bit.
SHEILA: He's like 80% better.
He's got a little bit way to go yet.
DR. POL: I remember him.
SHEILA: This year he's walking all over
and he's, he's actually taking off a little bit.
We thought maybe he could use one more shot
to see if that'll help the shakiness in his legs.
DR. POL: I'll give him a shot.
You know, the minerals actually are helping the muscles.
No.
Calcium, phosphorus, selenium, magnesium,
all are very important in locomotion.
You know, I'm also have success with vitamin B complex.
SHEILA: Okay.
DR. POL: Half a cc of B complex.
Without the needle, in his mouth.
SHEILA: Oh, okay. DR. POL: Once a day.
SHEILA: Okay.
DR. POL: What we do is we just make sure
that we treat everything.
It seems like the B complex helps nerves, too.
SHEILA: Okay. (quacking)
DR. POL: Quack, quack, quack, we have one like that, too.
SHEILA: Oh, I love Doc Pol.
He's easy to talk to and answers any question you have.
Alright.
DR. POL: Okay, watch his toes.
SHEILA: He's gonna go back home, get let loose with his friend.
We're gonna go to Indiana and get him a mate.
We're getting a pond all set up for him
and hopefully we can get some baby black swans.
DR. POL: You guys take care.
SHEILA: Okay, thank you.
JAMES: Thank you.
♪ ♪
CHARLES: Ready?
(radio beeps) DR. POL: Mobile one to base.
NARRATOR: Two calls come in,
two vets go out.
♪ ♪
DR. BRENDA: Hello, how are you? PAUL: How are you?
DR. BRENDA: Today we're here with Paul
looking at the fair calf named Reid.
Reid has injured his foot in some way, and is lame.
PAUL: I'm wondering if he didn't get a thorn or either banged it
or something, but he's got a little redness
in the bottom of his foot now.
Then he tries to walk on it, but he just, he favors it.
Hopefully we can do something with it.
DR. BRENDA: Good boy.
We'll see if we can get the bottom of the foot cleaned up,
see if we find something.
(moo)
NARRATOR: While Dr. Brenda searches for the injury,
Doc is searching for his next client.
(radio beeps) DR. POL: Mobile one to base.
Did Randy Kube know that I'm coming?
CHARLES: Well, he's gonna be here in 10 minutes.
DR. POL: Yeah.
Randy has called me a couple days ago
that he would like me to stop by sometime and look at the colts.
Hi, guys.
I think he was losing hair some place.
Yeah.
Now, see, he's losing it on the muzzle and everything, too.
One colt has some bald spots.
But see he itches?
Okay.
I've seen it before.
This is typical for lice.
There he comes.
You were worried about that hair loss?
RANDY: Yes.
DR. POL: For some reason they're rubbing.
The first thing you have to do is get rid of the cause
of everything, which are the lice.
What I use here is an over-the-counter product.
It is for flies, lice, and everything.
If we can get rid of the lice and keep that under control,
the hair will grow over it.
RANDY: 'Cause I wormed her thinking, okay.
DR. POL: That doesn't do it. RANDY: Okay.
DR. POL: And you just pour it over their back
and that should be fine.
And I would do all the mares.
RANDY: Alright. Thank you, guys. Appreciate it.
DR. POL: You bet.
(moo)
DR. BRENDA: Settle, boss, easy.
Alright, I'm not seeing where he stepped on anything
on the bottom of it.
Certainly is a lot of swelling there.
There's a spot right here that's a little bit bloody.
But there's not any.
PAUL: It's not broke or nothing like that?
DR. BRENDA: No, it doesn't act broken.
I was worried that he had stepped on something.
I really don't find a whole lot of evidence of that.
It kind of looks like he's got an abscess in there.
Alright, what I'm going to have you do with him
is I'm gonna have you soak this foot in Epsom salt water.
PAUL: Okay.
DR. BRENDA: For like 10 minutes a day for a few days.
It'll hopefully draw that infection to a head
so it breaks out, and then once it breaks out and drains,
he should be fine.
For pain, there's a tablet,
and you can mix it in a little bit of grain for him.
The calf will feel much better once the abscess breaks open.
In the meantime, we're gonna put him on some pain medication.
And then hopefully life will be better.
PAUL: Thank you. DR. BRENDA: You're welcome.
PAUL: It makes me feel better
that it's not a broken foot or something.
Hopefully it works its way out.
(radio beeps)
DR. BRENDA: KNFC-707, mobile 3 to base.
♪ ♪
(barking)
GRANT: Got 'em all.
DR. NICOLE: Oh, my goodness! SARAH: Do you want to hold one?
DR. NICOLE: This is the cutest, I want to hold all of them.
Hi, guys!
Grant is bringing in 11 beagle puppies.
Look at you, little girly, hi!
I grew up with beagles, and this is my breed.
SARAH: We have three left.
DR. NICOLE: Three left? Aw.
GRANT: It's actually two left now.
SARAH: Oh, two left now?
GRANT: I want to make sure all of them go to, like, good homes
and they're all happy.
NARRATOR: Before they adopt their new owners,
these puppies need their first vaccinations.
DR. NICOLE: We'll vaccinate them, check them over.
Come on, puppers.
Your ears are flapping in the wind.
There's two up for grabs!
DR. POL: Are they beagles or bassets?
DR. NICOLE: Beagles.
They're my favorite.
Rose, there is one male and one female up for grabs.
ROSE: Oh!
DR. NICOLE: I start off with a simple exam.
Look how cute you are.
Check their eyes, their nose, their mouth,
their bellies, their legs,
their ears,
their hearts, their lungs.
Little female, male, what are you?
Everything.
Female.
If those are normal...
Yay!
they can get their vaccine...
Good girl!
and maybe even a dewormer.
I'll trade you.
Okay, this one is also done.
WOMAN: These are the last two.
DR. NICOLE: All the pups are looking great.
Okay, pups.
ROSE: You are the cutest little thing ever.
I seriously want that puppy.
DR. NICOLE: As I'm examining the puppies,
I see that Rose is already very attached to the little runt.
ROSE: Is this one available?
DR. NICOLE: Next thing I know, Rose is talking to the owner.
ROSE: Oh, I'm so excited, thank you so much!
DR. NICOLE: And she has herself a new puppy.
Can we just forget to hand this one back?
Just kidding, they would totally notice.
Okay, they all look very healthy.
Their hearts and lungs all sound great.
Here is all the puppy books.
Here's a puppy.
Bye, baby. SARAH: Thank you so much.
DR. NICOLE: All these puppies are very healthy and very cute,
and the owners are gonna love them and be very happy.
Have a good day, guys, bye. GRANT: Thank you!
♪ ♪
(whining)
♪ ♪
(sniffing)
WOMAN: That's a good boy.
(crunch)
♪ ♪
DR. NICOLE: On my first birthday I got a beagle puppy,
and ever since, I have loved beagles.
You still have that number, right, Rose?
As they get further and further away, I keep drilling myself.
I think it's about time that I add a new addition to my family.
So I'm getting a puppy.
I called him, he's coming back.
That little one I was holding at the end, yeah.
Where are you?
I'm so excited.
Hello! Long time no see. GRANT: Yeah.
DR. NICOLE: Oh, my goodness!
GRANT: All yours!
DR. NICOLE: Thank you so much!
It's the end of the day, and I have a new puppy.
You gonna be a good boy?
While working at Pol Vet, you never know what to expect,
but I never expected to go home with a puppy today.
Oh, my goodness!
Get 'em, Tater!
Good boy, Tater!
(meow)
♪ ♪
DR. POL: Hello, my friend. JIM: How's it going, Doc?
DR. POL: What's the problem with the fox?
DEBORAH: We brought Buddy the fox,
he had a little lump by his foot,
and now we were just kind of concerned, you know,
just for his health, because he is getting up in age.
DR. POL: Okay, bring him in.
This fox has been in the family now for a long time already.
Jim and Deborah have all the necessary papers
to keep wild animals like this.
DEBORAH: He was a rescue from a, a zoo,
and we always went to see Buddy,
and he kind of took a liking to us,
and we've been taking care of him for 13 years now.
DR. POL: What's his problem?
JIM: He has a little, like, a water ball on his foot.
DR. POL: Let me see. Pretty guy. What foot?
He's peeing, watch out.
JIM: Right on his left front, it's like a water ball.
DR. POL: He's been licking this.
My dog has the same thing.
It's a lick granuloma.
There's some irritation, they start licking,
and it just gets a bubble in there.
They lick it and then you get basically
some, yeah, scar tissue in there.
Doesn't hurt him at all.
JIM: Okay. DR. POL: Okay.
DEBORAH: And then...
JIM: And then he has problems with his butt again.
DR. POL: Oh, yay.
Agh!
Ow, ow, ow, ow.
DEBORAH: It's pretty raw. Is it the...?
DR. POL: Anal glands, yes.
These foxes have anal glands just like dogs and skunks,
and when they get full, they get irritated.
Yeah, see that here? DEBORAH: Oh, yeah.
DR. POL: All raw, see? DEBORAH: Oh, my.
DR. POL: And Buddy's butt is very irritated.
Anal glands, you just squeeze it and that's good.
There comes the stuff.
NARRATOR: The glands can clog, leading to infection.
DEBORAH: Is that poop or is that?
DR. POL: No, no, no, that's from the gland.
DEBORAH: Oh, boy.
DR. POL: And to me it looked like very sore,
and I'm sure glad that people don't have anal glands.
It's empty again, I'll just give him a big dose of cortisone.
I gave him an anti-inflammatory and antibiotics
to counteract the infection.
Yeah, you're a good boy.
DEBORAH: It went really well.
We definitely like Dr. Pol.
He's excellent with Buddy,
and he's excellent with all the animals, actually.
(laughs)
♪ ♪
HEIDI: I believe Chloe got hit by a car.
She was right by me and she got away and went to the road.
DR. LISA: What happened?
HEIDI: I didn't see anything,
and then I flipped her over, I'm like, oh, my gosh.
She's got a scrape on her face. She winces when I pick her up.
HEIDI: I believe her left front is broke,
at the, maybe by the joint.
DR. LISA: Heidi brought Chloe in today for an examination,
Chloe has gotten into a pretty severe accident.
NARRATOR: Chloe, a two-year-old blue heeler,
can't put any weight on her front leg.
DR. LISA: Alright, we're gonna start with some x-rays,
I'm gonna do kind of, like, whole body ones.
HEIDI: It's okay, Chloe.
DR. LISA: Chloe has most likely fractured her leg.
NARRATOR: X-rays will reveal the extent of Chloe's injuries.
DR. LISA: I want to make sure that there aren't
any severe internal injuries, I also want to characterize
the severity of the fractured limb.
(beep)
It's got like a chip floating in it, which is not good.
On x-ray I can tell that Chloe
has a compound fracture of her humerus.
This type of fracture is too unstable
to be able to heal with a splint alone.
Hello.
I don't see any, like, internal injuries, which is good news.
I don't see any evidence of internal bleeding.
She does have a fracture of the humerus of her left leg.
HEIDI: Okay.
DR. LISA: With this type of fracture,
pretty much the only way she would be able to keep the leg
and use it is a surgery,
where they'll most likely either pin it
or put like a metal plate.
The second option would be an amputation, yeah.
♪ ♪
HEIDI: I, I'd rather just try the second option.
DR. LISA: Yeah.
HEIDI: I have another three-legged dog, so.
DR. LISA: Yeah.
Given Chloe and Heidi's lifestyle,
surgery and plating doesn't sound like
a great option for them.
So we're going to remove the leg.
And it's going to provide Chloe with a similar quality of life.
HEIDI: Thank you so much.
DR. LISA: And as long as everything goes smoothly,
as I expect it to, Heidi will be able to pick her up later today.
HEIDI: I'm just so thankful
she's not hurt any worse than she is.
Oh, my goodness, I hope today goes really well.
She's by my side all the time,
so, I hope she comes out okay today.
♪ ♪
(mew)
DR. POL: You got all the kittens?
AMANDA: Yeah.
DR. POL: Oh, my gosh. How old are those?
AMANDA: They'll be six weeks Wednesday.
DR. POL: Okay. I'll get the door, you get the cats.
NARRATOR: Like puppies, kittens need vaccinations
to keep them healthy.
DR. POL: Come on in.
Let's look at mom.
ADAM: This is Carmella.
Carmella just showed up on our porch,
and we seen she was pregnant, so we took her in, gave her a home.
DR. POL: Is she still nursing? Yup, a little bit.
And she is a nice cat, isn't she?
And I'll give her rabies and distemper.
AMANDA: Okay.
DR. POL: And then she's caught up.
Okay, she goes back in.
And now we're gonna have the pretty ones.
Hi.
Is, look at this, only one is a tortoise.
AMANDA: Yeah. DR. POL: Yeah.
AMANDA: I think it's four boys and one girl,
so we'll see if I'm right.
DR. POL: That's a male.
Okay, this is already a male.
Of course this is a female.
NARRATOR: The distinctive calico coat
is linked to the X chromosome.
Almost all calicos are female.
DR. POL: In 50 years I have not seen a male calico.
Oh, the little tiny thing.
Shhh. You're right.
AMANDA: Ah, I was!
DR. POL: So, four shots, give me the little one.
Quit wagging your tail.
Aw, look at that face.
AMANDA: Yeah. ADAM: Yeah.
DR. POL: Jeepers.
There, that's the worm pills.
Ah, you got to swallow that.
Look at this, salivating like crazy.
These worm pills don't taste good at all.
Where do you think you're going?
And if you don't get it down fast,
they drool and drool and drool.
Now, say "ahh."
(meow)
(blows)
When you blow in their face...
Uh-huh.
they actually get scared and swallow.
Yup.
Okay. One more.
I know it doesn't taste good, I'm sorry.
Very nice.
Carmella and the kittens are doing fine.
They're good cats.
Let's go.
(meow)
(mew)
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Chloe is out of surgery.
DR. LISA: Everything went really well. Yeah.
HEIDI: Oh, good.
DR. LISA: She's gonna be pretty sore.
Chloe's surgery went really well.
I'm very pleased with how she recovered.
HEIDI: Oh, my goodness.
WOMAN: She's still kind of groggy.
HEIDI: Okay.
WOMAN: She took a couple steps on her own.
HEIDI: Okay.
I'm feeling very happy, very relieved, she's doing real good.
Thank you so much, I appreciate it.
WOMAN: Yeah, no problem.
DR. LISA: I think she's got a excellent prognosis so far.
HEIDI: This is my buddy, I swear, she never leaves my side.
I'm very thankful.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: At PVS...
DR. POL: Okay, you got a couple animals.
NARRATOR: treating patients is a walk in the parking lot.
DR. LISA: This is gonna be fun.
(meow)
BETHANY: Rooter is a golden retriever.
He is three weeks old.
At one week old, we discovered he has a scab on his tail.
DR. POL: How you doing? BETHANY: Good how are you?
DR. POL: Let me see that.
Somebody bit it.
BETHANY: Is that what happened?
DR. POL: Yeah. Use Neosporin.
BETHANY: Like what we would use on humans?
DR. POL: Yes. Several times a day.
BETHANY: Okay. Sounds good. Thank you.
That's a way easier fix than what we were expecting.
CHARLES: Ready?
DR. POL: No.
CHARLES: We were called out to an Amish farm for a foaling.
Usually a horse will have the foal on its own,
so when they need to call us, there's a real problem.
DR. POL: Alright, get me water.
This horse has been now in labor since 6 o'clock in this morning,
and here it's 10 o'clock.
I think we see trouble here.
Ho, mare.
♪ ♪
(whinny)
Ho.
When I put my hand inside...
That's hind legs, okay.
I find that the colt is coming backwards.
And yes, it smells already a little bit,
so I already know that it is dead.
Get the puller, Charles.
(whinny)
NARRATOR: To save the mare from a life-threatening infection...
DR. POL: Chains.
Doc and Charles have to move quickly to pull the dead foal.
DR. POL: There is no way that we can just pull it out by hand,
so what we're gonna use is the calf puller.
Okay, hang on to her.
MAN: Come here, ho, girl. Ho, girl.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: Okay, got it, Charles? Got it?
CHARLES: I got it, I got it, I got it.
DR. POL: We put it right underneath the birth canal.
MAN: Ho, girl.
DR. POL: And just keep pressure on.
Ho, mare.
MAN: Ho, girl, ho, girl. Ho, girl.
DR. POL: It's coming.
Jiminy Christmas.
Holy cow, is that a big colt.
MAN: Ho.
Easy.
Ho, girl.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: We just move with the horse
and just keep the steady pull on.
And it has to go slow,
because we don't want to tear anything.
♪ ♪
Jiminy Christmas. We got this.
CHARLES: Oh, it's coming, it's coming.
DR. POL: Yeah, it's coming.
CHARLES: Yeah, here we go.
DR. POL: The main thing is to get the pelvis of the colt
through the pelvis of the horse.
Come on, mare, you can push now.
(whinny)
CHARLES: Push.
DR. POL: There, the butt is out, guys.
When the butt of the colt is out, the rest should come easy.
CHARLES: It's coming, it's coming. We got it.
Man, that thing is huge.
DR. POL: I'm amazed the size of this colt.
Man, she almost looks like a three-week-old colt.
This colt was so big, especially since it was coming backwards,
that she could not have pushed hard enough
that it would come out.
But we got it.
You got oxytocin?
You can give her 10 cc now and then 5 cc tonight
and tomorrow morning if she hasn't cleaned yet.
The afterbirth is still attached.
This is something that the farmer has to watch for,
make sure that all the afterbirth comes off it
in the next couple hours.
But she looks good, there is no tears in there or anything.
MAN: Okay.
DR. POL: Okay.
MAN: Thank you.
DR. POL: Can't save a colt, but at least we got the mare.
MAN: Yeah, that is true, so.
(radio chirps)
DR. POL: Mobile one to base.
♪ ♪
HEATHER: Oh, my goodness, that looks... very special, Smokey.
I have brought in Smokey.
DR. LISA: So what's going on?
HEATHER: He has what I believe is an abscess.
And it did pop yesterday.
DR. LISA: Ooh, ouch.
HEATHER: He has hair missing from the side of his face,
and it looks pretty nasty.
DR. LISA: Alright, we'll take a look at him.
And then this doesn't have a door, right?
HEATHER: Yeah.
I just put it together like right before coming and...
DR. LISA: It's missing an important part. (laughs)
HEATHER: I know.
DR. LISA: Alright, be right back.
HEATHER: Okay.
WOMAN: The unveiling.
DR. LISA: Hello.
Ouch.
Looking at Smokey as he comes out of the carrier,
I can see that his face is very obviously swollen.
WOMAN: Poor guy, you don't feel good.
DR. LISA: And see there's quite a bit of pus coming out.
Nice ooze.
WOMAN: Oh, man!
DR. LISA: We're gonna need to sedate him
so I can open that the rest of the way.
I'm just going to knock him out a little bit
so he's a little calmer
and doesn't feel anything that I'm doing to him.
(clippers buzzing)
I want more drainage down low.
WOMAN: Down there.
DR. LISA: This abscess has kind of popped on its own,
but I'm going to create a little bit of a larger hole
for the infection to drain out of.
I'm making sort of like a cross-shaped cut.
This shape takes a little bit longer to heal
than just a straight line, and it will allow that abscess
to just drain a little bit longer,
give it a chance to heal properly
and not seal all that infection back inside.
You'll look much more symmetrical now.
WOMAN: Mm-hmm.
DR. LISA: I want to flush it,
get all the nastiness out, or as much of it as I can.
WOMAN: Flush it from the top and...?
DR. LISA: Treat him with some antibiotics
and some pain medications,
and then we'll give him some reversal
so he wakes up quickly, and then send him home on his merry way.
Are you awake?
That was fast.
Alright. (meow)
He's all awake again.
Probably got bitten or poked by something outside,
and it just blew up.
I think he should heal up without any problems.
HEATHER: Okay, thank you very much.
I think it worked out really well.
He looks a little rough, but he'll recover.
He's a good boy.
DR. NICOLE: Hello. RECHELLE: Hey.
DR. NICOLE: You have Whatson? RECHELLE: Yes.
DR. NICOLE: Okay.
Rechelle is bringing in Whatson, her rat.
RECHELLE: He had a sore, it was just a tiny, tiny little thing,
when I first got him, but it's gotten a lot longer.
DR. NICOLE: Okay.
RECHELLE: Got a booboo on his belly.
DR. NICOLE: How long have you had him for?
RECHELLE: I've had him for seven months now.
He's usually an active rat, but he's slowed down quite a bit.
Just not himself.
DR. NICOLE: Pound and six ounces.
RECHELLE: It's been probably about two days
he hasn't touched his food, he hasn't really drank anything.
DR. NICOLE: The smaller the animal is,
the more important it is that they eat and drink.
So if they stop eating and drinking,
that's a pretty much emergency.
We're gonna clip that area on his belly
and see if we can see what's going on
a little bit better, okay?
RECHELLE: Phew.
Be strong, be brave.
(deep breath)
(clippers buzzing)
DR. NICOLE: Rechelle is very concerned about Whatson.
I'm gonna put on my detective hat
and get to the bottom of this.
Good boy, little man, I'm sorry.
Is there anything sharp on the cage
he could be hurting himself on?
RECHELLE: No.
DR. NICOLE: It could be maybe something from his environment,
maybe it's some urine scalding, could it be parasites?
I'm gonna do a little bit of an impression smear
and see if we see anything under the microscope.
RECHELLE: Okay.
DR. NICOLE: Okay. I'll be back.
♪ ♪
Okay.
So, skin scraping looked normal.
I didn't find anything to be concerned about.
Good news for Whatson, he doesn't have anything terrible
going on, just an infection.
We're gonna do a topical cleaner and an ointment on there.
So this is just an antibacterial antifungal cleaner,
I'm not hurting you.
And then I'm gonna send him home with some pain medication
and antibiotics to help treat him systemically.
So that's gonna start making him feel better.
Yeah, he looks pretty good otherwise.
RECHELLE: I want to cry 'cause it makes me feel a lot happier.
Once he gets feeling better,
I'm going to start teaching him how to shoot basketballs.
It's a little, tiny, plastic ping-pong
he puts in the little net that I made.
(chuckles)
♪ ♪
PATTY: It's okay, baby.
(dog whines)
Oh, sorry, sorry.
NARRATOR: Yet another pup with an injured leg
needs Dr. Lisa's attention.
PATTY: Hi. DR. LISA: So what happened?
PATTY: Coco got in a fight with another dog.
DR. LISA: Oh, my goodness.
PATTY: And he's never been in a fight before.
DR. LISA: I'm gonna start with taking an x-ray of the leg
and see what we're dealing with.
PATTY: Okay. DR. LISA: Alright.
We'll go slow.
Which leg is it that...?
SUSAN: It's right there. PATTY: This one.
(yelp)
PATTY: Coco! I'm so sorry!
PATTY: My poor baby.
I'm scared.
I've never had anything happen to him.
DR. LISA: Unfortunately, Coco was the victim of a dog attack.
It's pretty important right now
to evaluate the severity of Coco's injuries.
He's pretty painful.
But I'm not sure if it actually is broken
or if he's just really sore.
PATTY: I love my dog.
He is the world to me.
I'm worried that he's gonna have his leg amputated.
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: He just put a little weight on it, so.
(dog yelps) WOMAN: It's okay.
DR. LISA: We'll go take x-rays.
Poor little sausage.
♪ ♪
(beep)
He got pretty lucky.
The x-rays look clear,
I don't see any signs of fractures or internal damage,
which is really good news.
Sad little Coco.
Are you a little dramatic boy?
Yeah.
Alright, good news, nothing's broken.
PATTY: Oh, good.
DR. LISA: He's just pretty sore.
This is his shoulder, and that's his humerus,
and then these are kind of the smaller bones,
and everything looks totally...
PATTY: Okay.
DR. LISA: totally good.
He's just pretty, pretty bruised.
PATTY: Okay.
DR. LISA: I know how worried Patty is about Coco.
Got pretty lucky everything looks okay.
It feels very good to be able to reassure her
that Coco is going to be just fine.
Alright?
PATTY: Alright, thank you.
It's the best news I've ever heard.
I am feeling much better.
He will go home, and he'll get tons and tons of treats.
He'll be fine within a couple of weeks.
(popping)
(squeaking)
♪ ♪
(door chime)
DR. POL: Man, that's an old van you got there.
TERINA: Yeah.
DR. POL: How many years?
TERINA: '92.
DR. POL: Yeah, that's what I thought.
What's going on with your dog?
TERINA: Mac is my son's dog.
He went out to the bathroom this morning
and come in with blood on his bum, and here we are.
Bottom was all bloody.
DR. POL: Bring him in. TERINA: Alright.
DR. POL: When there's blood on the stool...
TERINA: There you go.
DR. POL: it all depends what the cause is.
So, yes, you have to do a good physical exam.
Hiya, big guy.
Put your leg on the table.
TERINA: Come on, buddy, there you go.
DR. POL: Yeah, yeah, I love you, too, but don't have to lick me.
Color is good.
When did this start, this morning?
TERINA: Just this morning she found it.
DR. POL: 102.2, he has a little temperature.
♪ ♪
Don't feel good.
Yeah, he's got a little temp.
What I want to do, put my finger up his butt
so I get some stool and see what it looks like.
Come on, put your butt in here, big boy.
TERINA: He had to put his finger in his bum.
(dog yelps)
Oh, oh, oh.
DR. POL: I know that hurts.
TERINA: Mac didn't like it.
NARRATOR: The stool sample may point to a diagnosis.
DR. POL: I'll be back. TERINA: Alright.
DR. POL: I'm gonna check this, make sure it's not worms.
TERINA: Okay.
DR. POL: Well, we make sure, because he has diarrhea,
that we don't have parasites one way or the other.
TERINA: It's okay.
DR. POL: And that's easy to do underneath the microscope.
(sighs)
No, I didn't see any parasites in there, just blood.
No parasites, so then the diarrhea
comes from something else.
Most likely garbage eater. I don't know what he got into.
TERINA: He's a puppy, he wants to eat everything.
DR. POL: Chews everything, yeah.
Most likely Mac got into something
that didn't agree with him.
Okay, I'm gonna get two kinds of pills for you.
And then rice and hamburger for a couple days.
Feed him a little bit at a time like half a cup, a cup at a time
'cause he's a good eater.
TERINA: Oh, yes, he is.
DR. POL: You guys, these dogs are something else.
TERINA: He is something, I'll tell ya.
DR. POL: And then the two pills.
And you start with the pills when you come home.
TERINA: Okay.
DR. POL: As long as they keep Mac out of the garbage,
he should be fine.
And three, four times a day.
TERINA: Okay.
A mild diet and some medicine, and Mac's gonna be great.
Come on.
Good boy.
(rooster crows)
(moo)
STEVE: Well, right now it's bleeding quite badly.
Never had anything like this ever happen.
I'm just hoping we can get this blood to stop.
DR. LISA: Hello. STEVE: How you doing?
DR. LISA: Good, how are you?
So what happened?
STEVE: So she came through the chute
and got her leg caught between here.
Yeah, she was coming through the chute
and she kicked back and her foot got caught
between this bar and this bar.
It gashed it really bad.
DR. LISA: Ooh, ouch.
STEVE: It's really deep.
You know, it's, it's kind of a serious deal
when you have one cut like this on their leg,
'cause hopefully she'll stay sound
so she can walk on that back leg.
She's 100 days pregnant.
DR. LISA: Okay.
STEVE: I don't want to lose the pregnancy.
Sara Rose is a two-year-old female
that's really important to me, and she's pregnant,
so we're concerned with her losing her pregnancy, too.
DR. LISA: I am gonna give her a little bit of sedation,
just she'll still stay standing
and it's not gonna hurt the calf.
STEVE: Not a problem.
(moo)
DR. LISA: You did a number on yourself, though.
STEVE: Is it to the bone?
DR. LISA: Yeah, I can feel bone here.
The wound is very deep.
This looks like some severed tendon.
And there are some pretty major blood vessels squirting blood,
so there's a lot of blood loss and it's pretty painful.
STEVE: Is that an artery or is that just a...?
DR. LISA: This looks like some pretty bright blood,
so I think it is an artery.
STEVE: Yeah.
DR. LISA: First thing I want to do is get that bleeding stopped.
♪ ♪
Could you have one of the girls hold the tail there?
STEVE: Yeah, here, why don't you stand here and hold the tail?
DR. LISA: And if you could come on this side of me.
STEVE: Yeah.
DR. LISA: There's just so many little arteries down here.
It starts out as one big tree basically,
and you get more and more branches as we get further down
on the leg, so there's just a lot of little ones.
♪ ♪
Can you grab that tail again?
(mooing)
It is a remarkable amount of bleeding visually.
But cows are very large animals
and have gallons and gallons of blood that they can lose.
♪ ♪
Once I get the large arteries tied off
and the bleeding controlled,
I want to start to close the deeper layers of the wound...
STEVE: Just a few more stitches, girl.
DR. LISA: which will help bring the skin together.
♪ ♪
We have antibiotics on board and also some pain medications
to keep her comfortable.
(mooing)
STEVE: Great job.
See, she got it put together really good.
GIRL: Looks good.
DR. LISA: With the way everything closed up,
she has a, a fairly good outlook.
I think she'll stay sound and hopefully keep the calf.
Anything else you need?
STEVE: Thank you so much. DR. LISA: You're very welcome.
STEVE: Really appreciate you.
DR. LISA: At this point, nothing is certain,
but I have a very hopeful feeling.
STEVE: Tell her thanks, girls.
GIRLS: Thanks.
♪ ♪
DR. NICOLE: Buddy!
NARRATOR: Dr. Nicole named her new beagle puppy Ruger...
DR. NICOLE: He's very sweet and mellow,
and hopefully that sticks.
Good boy.
NARRATOR: and loved him so much, she got a second puppy,
a brother, Remington.
DR. NICOLE: Today I have my little farm call boy, Remington.
Gotta go potty? Hmm?
He is helping me on farm calls, and he's in training.
Do you smell cows and horsies?
Oh, you like the puppy?
So he'll be my assistant like Charles.
(honk)
And he's gonna ride shotgun. (laughs)
♪ ♪
HEIDI: Can't believe they're being good.
They're never good, I swear.
About a couple months ago, maybe a month and a half,
Chloe got hit by a car.
DR. LISA: She does have a fracture of the humerus
of her left leg.
So we're going to remove the leg.
HEIDI: Alright, pumpkin.
Come on.
Right away she started hopping around.
Really healed well.
You can't even tell there was a limb there.
(moo)
Chloe's been doing really well with the farm.
We'll give Annabelle her hay.
I think she knows she's a little different.
Where'd Chloe go? Oh, come on, girl.
But I knew she would adapt really well.
Come on.
Dr. Lisa I thought was really good.
I was very thankful to have her.
♪ ♪
(chime)
(harp chord)
♪ ♪
DR. NICOLE: Hello. DANIEL: How we doing?
DR. NICOLE: Hi, Bailey.
So Bailey's pregnant, right? DANIEL: Yes, ma'am.
DR. NICOLE: Okay, and then she has this lump, I see.
DANIEL: Correct.
DR. NICOLE: That does not look good.
DR. NICOLE: Ooh, girly. How long has it been there?
DANIEL: I found it Saturday morning when I went outside.
DR. NICOLE: Okay.
DANIEL: I went out and found Bailey
with this big old growth on her neck.
DR. NICOLE: Girly. What'd you do?
DANIEL: She wasn't acting like it hurt her at all.
DR. NICOLE: It's pretty big,
and I definitely want to get a closer look at it.
I'll take her in and see what's in here.
DANIEL: Alrighty.
(door chime)
WOMAN: Oh, is this the one with the--oh, that is a lump.
DR. NICOLE: Okay, girl, hi!
Hi, Bailey.
WOMAN: Feel safe and secure down there.
♪ ♪
DR. NICOLE: Tail up.
Good girl.
DANIEL: Bailey's over two years old.
We've had her since she was a little puppy.
(beeping)
DR. NICOLE: 101.
Let me see what I get.
Hold on, quick poke.
When I draw back on the syringe, I get a whole bunch of blood.
Got a big hematoma.
A hematoma is a space that is filled with blood.
So this can happen from an injury.
Somebody probably bit her or she hit something.
Did someone not like you, pretty girl? Huh?
We want to make sure to get it all out.
We'll lance it a little bit.
Hopefully one little cut.
There, quick poke, girl.
WOMAN: There it comes.
DR. NICOLE: I know, I know, hon.
We'll get you fixed up, girly.
My gosh, it's never ending.
WOMAN: I know.
DR. NICOLE: We'll get most of this drained,
but she's gonna go on meds to get the rest.
I'll take some new ones in my hand, thank you.
Bailey's hematoma had a pretty good amount of drainage.
And it has to be a whole bunch of relief for Bailey.
(kiss)
Okay.
♪ ♪
I'm gonna get her some meds to go home on
that are pregnancy safe.
Bailey's going home on some antibiotics
and anti-inflammatories.
That will help her heal much quicker
and also make sure she doesn't get an infection.
She's such a good girl.
Hey, hey, hey. Bailey.
I lanced that big hematoma,
so it's a big bruise filled with some fluid and some blood.
DANIEL: Okay.
DR. NICOLE: The rest of it is a whole bunch of inflamed tissue,
so it's super thick tissue.
And that's gonna take time to heal.
DANIEL: Okay. Alright, sounds like a plan, thank you.
DR. NICOLE: Have a good day. Good girl!
She'll recover quickly
and be able to have her pups no problem.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Doc's next patient...
TINA: It's okay.
NARRATOR: has had a rough start to life.
DR. POL: Tina is here with Naomi.
This dog was taken away from a puppy mill by Animal Control,
and she adopted it.
TINA: Naomi was in deplorable conditions when rescued.
They were living in rabbit cages in a pole barn.
DR. POL: That's the sicky? What's going on?
TINA: She started vomiting,
she was kind of lethargic that whole day.
DR. POL: How old is she?
TINA: We don't know.
DR. POL: If a dog comes out of a puppy mill like this,
many times they are not socialized,
and this is one of them.
What is going on with her? Not eating or drinking?
TINA: Yeah.
DR. POL: What do you feed her?
TINA: Mostly on canned,
she once in a while will graze on some dry.
It's okay, baby, he's just taking your temp.
It's okay, baby.
I know, honey, I know.
NARRATOR: Naomi's nervous nature
makes even a basic physical exam difficult.
TINA: You might have to give her...
DR. POL: Hey, watch out, she's pooping all over the place.
Throwing up? Diarrhea?
TINA: No, she's kind of been constipated...
DR. POL: Well, it's kind of loose, this is loose like crazy.
TINA: Yeah.
DR. POL: Especially with a dog like this that is that nervous,
many times they start having digestive problems.
TINA: Yesterday I gave her some hamburger and rice.
DR. POL: Yeah.
TINA: She ate that.
DR. POL: Yeah.
I'm gonna give her a shot of cortisone.
I think you can hang on to her.
NARRATOR: The cortisone will reduce pain and inflammation
in Naomi's gut.
DR. POL: That's it.
I would keep her on hamburger and rice
for, you know, another day or so.
NARRATOR: Another case of a canine with an upset stomach...
DR. POL: And then just put her back on food.
Regular food is the best.
NARRATOR: calls for a similar prescription.
TINA: Okay. DR. POL: Okay.
Main thing is to feed it a little bit at a time,
get it used to the new dog food.
And then after a couple days everything should be fine.
♪ ♪
(mooing)
STEVE: That's Sara Rose.
She's the one that had her leg injured.
We brought her through the chute, she kicked her leg...
(moo)
ended up cutting her severely.
DR. LISA: This looks like some severed tendon.
STEVE: Hopefully she'll stay sound
so she can walk on that back leg.
♪ ♪
(mooing)
It's healed up very well.
There's just a little scar there.
You can see she's not favoring it or anything.
You can't hardly tell it even happened.
(moo)
Everything turned out really well.
She's gonna have a calf in January.
I think the future's great for Sara Rose.
(moo)
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