WOMAN: Nope, stay in, dude.
DR. BRENDA: Hello, how are you?
WOMAN: Good, you?
DR. BRENDA: You want to go through the window
or do we want to open the door today?
WOMAN: We can go through.
DR. BRENDA: Don't want to scratch your truck.
Ugh. Hang on here.
Oh, yes, you're a sweetheart.
Diesel's come in today, he's 12 weeks old,
he's getting his next round of vaccinations.
His owner, Casey, has brought him in today
for us to take a look at him and get him all caught up.
Good thing you're a good boy, otherwise I'd be in trouble.
Diesel's a really nice pup, and it's always really nice
to start the day off with a happy puppy that's healthy.
NARRATOR: Dr. Brenda's not the only one
with a happy patient this morning.
DR. LISA: I need a puppy assistant.
I have a young schnauzer named Fedo
coming in to visit with me today.
Hi, baby.
He's just getting kind of his last round of puppy shots
taken care of.
Don't scare the baby.
DR. POL: Rrr-rr-rrr.
NARRATOR: If Dr. Pol wants to get in on the puppy love...
(whimpering)
he's about to get a truckload of it.
DR. POL: Okay, pups are coming here.
WOMAN: Ready, let's go.
DR. POL: Okay, so you vaccinate your own?
MAN: Yes. DR. POL: Okay.
WOMAN: And then we just need wormer for all of them as well.
GIRL: Mr. Ankles goes first.
DR. POL: Okay, this one's already eight and a half pounds.
How old are these?
WOMAN: Six weeks. DR. POL: What?!
WOMAN: Yeah.
DR. LISA: Five pounds, six ounces.
Hey, bud.
Thank you for this gift.
Typically I like to sneak my dewormer into puppies
with some tasty camouflage wrapped around it.
Say "ahh."
Unfortunately it seems like Fedo is a little suspicious
of everything I'm offering him today,
so I'm gonna have to shove the pill in his mouth,
which always makes me feel very bad.
Thanks a lot, bud.
(slide whistle)
(laughter)
DR. POL: Next.
Hey!
What, you pushed it out again.
(laughter)
DR. BRENDA: You're just getting them all gross, yeah.
WOMAN: Get in there.
DR. BRENDA: Oh, you're being bad.
WOMAN: Oh, are you being a stinker?
DR. BRENDA: Yes, he is.
DR. POL: What are you...?
DR. BRENDA: Good boy. (pop)
Oh. You're not a good boy.
(puppy whining)
WOMAN: You gotta eat it!
DR. POL: Okay, now he's got it.
WOMAN: Now he did it.
DR. BRENDA: One more time. We're all good.
Oh, good boy, you licked your nose.
Crazy little puppy.
DR. POL: Okay. They're looking good.
MAN: Uh-oh. GIRL: That one's dripping.
WOMAN: Uh-oh, one of them spit out a pill,
I don't know which one.
MAN: Don't know which one.
DR. POL: The third one.
This one.
Come on, lick your nose.
It's gone.
Okay, guys.
MAN: Alright, gather them up.
CHILD: Whoa, whoa! Frank went out the door!
DR. POL: Have fun with them.
DR. BRENDA: Here we go, good boy,
and we'll see you in a month.
WOMAN: Thank you.
DR. LISA: Seems like he's perfectly healthy.
WOMAN: Thank you.
DR. LISA: Have a great one. WOMAN: Yep, you, too.
You're gonna be a movie star.
♪ ♪
(clucking)
♪ ♪
DR. POL: Who do we have to do ultrasounds?
DENNIS: We got to do all of them.
DR. POL: Dennis has racehorses that have been retired,
and he's breeding them.
And now we have to find out if they're pregnant.
We brought a new ultrasound.
DENNIS: I hope so.
(laughs)
DR. POL: Thank goodness that is the long cord, I like that.
DR. LISA: It is very long, yes.
DR. POL: Ready, Dennis?
Come on, mare, you've had this done a dozen times.
She says, "I know." Come on. No, not that way.
You know, you old mare.
You're a pain the butt.
DR. LISA: I think you're probably more a pain in hers.
DR. POL: Oh. That should be on the right side
the way it feels, Dennis, let's find out.
DENNIS: 27, 28 days.
DR. LISA: So that's uterus there.
DR. POL: That's the uterus.
28 days there should be a fetus there, and I don't see anything.
DR. LISA: Yeah, just a really thick uterine lining.
DR. POL: Yeah.
She's not pregnant, Dennis.
Where we going, across?
Dr. Lisa has done some pregnancy checks, but not that many.
Okay, you get in there, go for it.
So at least for her she can get more experience
in working with this ultrasound.
DR. LISA: How many days along should she be?
DENNIS: 20 days.
DR. POL: 20 days, yeah.
But where is the fetus?
DR. LISA: I don't see any...
DR. POL: Nothing. Should be way bigger at 20 days.
Open.
Okay. Pbbt! Bad year!
Where's the other one?
WOMAN: Ready? DENNIS: Ready.
♪ ♪
(Dr. Pol sighs)
DENNIS: What? DR. POL: Pregnant.
The next horse, thank goodness, she is pregnant.
Look at this, there we go.
See that? That's the beginning.
That's the fetus.
Look at that.
And that's the only one.
Okay. Good.
Okay, I'm gonna let you take that home.
And I'm gonna take off.
DR. LISA: Drive carefully.
DR. POL: We'll see ya.
Thanks, Lisa.
♪ ♪
You have a peacock?
JULIE: I do!
Coconut is a peahen, which is a female peacock.
DR. POL: I'm not taking her out here
because otherwise we'll be chasing peacocks.
JULIE: Man alive.
I don't want to chase peacocks.
DR. POL: And they fly right over your head, land,
and then laugh at you.
JULIE: She's not real snuggly warm, she's not a little animal
that you can just walk up to
and like, you know, say, hey, you're my friend.
DR. POL: Okay, so she got hurt some time ago?
JULIE: I say she moonwalks when she walks,
because she doesn't put any weight on her right leg.
But she will run around and she perches and...
DR. POL: Okay, now both hands here.
JULIE: Don't bite me, Coconut!
DR. POL: Tight.
Yeah.
Hold the wings. Just hold the wings.
I don't find too much wrong in there.
It's in here.
I think the tendon slipped.
NARRATOR: Dr. Pol suspects that Coconut's limp
is the result of an avian virus
that can affect the legs and feet.
DR. POL: The problem is whenever she puts weight on that leg,
she goes all the way down to the ground,
and that's what she's calling a moonwalk.
All the way down.
And this tendon here is right on that side.
JULIE: Oh, yeah.
DR. POL: This is something that we cannot just fix,
it is something that she has acquired.
Sometimes it gets better,
but most of the time they limp for the rest of their life,
there is no pain, it is just a little awkward
because they cannot put weight on that leg.
Nothing I can do, it's solid.
Let her walk around.
JULIE: She's gonna moonwalk forward.
DR. POL: Yeah, yeah, for the rest of her life.
JULIE: It went well.
Coconut is happy.
She's not in pain.
She's just gonna be part of the family.
Alright, Coconut.
You are what you are!
(chuckles)
DEZZARAY: Yeah, I hope that it's just the food or something.
I am here with Moose today because he's been throwing up,
he's been having diarrhea.
DR. LISA: Hello. DEZZARAY: Hi.
I am very, very worried about Moose.
He had thrown up some like mucus-y foam
and then kind of...
(dog howls)
thought nothing of it really.
Yesterday he was a little bit more low energy,
had diarrhea really bad.
DR. LISA: The fact that he is having diarrhea makes me think
he's not obstructed or anything like that.
But dogs that are vomiting,
that's kind of like the first thing I want to worry about.
Well, I'll take him inside
and then I'll come check back in with you.
DEZZARAY: Alrighty.
(howl)
Hey.
DR. LISA: Hey, Moose.
Vomiting and diarrhea are pretty nonspecific symptoms
caused by numerous things.
Can I have your butt end?
You've got a tiny bit of a fever there.
His abdomen isn't super tense, that's a good sign.
Hi!
He says, "What are you doing back there?"
WOMAN: (laughs) Right.
DR. LISA: He in general seems to be pretty bright,
so I think whatever is going on, it's not too severe.
Okay, he's gonna get some antibiotics and some probiotics.
The vomiting and diarrhea he has had are just not letting him
tone down the bad bacteria that are overgrowing in his GI tract.
WOMAN: His stomach is gurgling.
DR. LISA: Gurgling away? Oh, bud.
You've got an upset tummy, huh?
With these medications, I think he'll be able to get back
to a good place pretty quickly.
I think he just has a gastritis, enteritis,
something happened to throw him off a little bit.
He's like trying to feel okay
but the fever makes him feel kind of crummy.
DEZZARAY: I don't blame him.
Alrighty. Thank you again so much.
DR. LISA: Yeah, for sure. Have a great day.
DEZZARAY: Thanks, you, too.
I am so much more relieved now.
Just to know what's causing it,
that nothing's crazy going on and that he's gonna be okay.
♪ ♪
(whimpering)
♪ ♪
(whimpering)
MORGAN: Tater just turned one.
He is a mix breed between pit bull, Lab and pug.
He actually got into a pizza box and ate some breadsticks,
but the foil was stuck to them.
WOMAN: We'll be with you shortly.
MORGAN: Thank you. AMBRIA: Okay, thank you so much.
MORGAN: He threw some of that up,
but now he's just not able to keep any food down.
I'm worried about there possibly being a blockage
in his intestines.
Hi.
DR. POL: The whole darn family.
MORGAN: Yes.
DR. POL: Has he had a bowel movement?
MORGAN: No.
DR. POL: Put him on the table.
NARRATOR: Tater hasn't had a bowel movement
since he swallowed the foil, over a week ago.
DR. POL: Okay, let me see what is in his butt.
Is he throwing up?
MORGAN: Um, yes, when he eats.
DR. POL: That's normal.
Okay, let's take an x-ray, see if there's anything in there.
Everything just kind of points to something intestinal.
The owner thinks that it's all tin foil,
and we can see that on an x-ray.
Okay, you stay right here, we'll bring the picture here.
MORGAN: Yes, sir. AMBRIA: Okay, thank you.
DR. POL: Come on.
MORGAN: Tater's a big part of our family.
He's pretty much claimed me.
If he ends up needing surgery, my hope is that he's just,
you know, he's okay and be back to his, himself.
DR. POL: Good boy.
Come here.
(beep)
That's not aluminum foil.
What the heck is that?
There is something in his gut that I don't know what it is.
MORGAN: Oh, boy.
DR. POL: What is that big thing in the middle?
On Tater's x-ray, there's no tinfoil.
But there's lots of gas,
and many times you see that when there is a obstruction.
All that gas is intestine.
AMBRIA: Okay. MORGAN: Okay.
DR. POL: And I have no idea what that is.
AMBRIA: Oh.
DR. POL: It's not aluminum foil.
We probably have to open him up.
'Cause it's been like this for a week.
AMBRIA: He's lost three pounds in one week.
DR. POL: This is something in his belly.
Something is wrong in the intestines,
but on an x-ray you cannot decide what it is.
So what we're gonna do now is just exploratory surgery
and see what we find.
If this is peritonitis
and that's a solid thing with intestines in there,
I may not be able to save him.
That's the problem.
But he can't do this way either.
AMBRIA: No.
DR. POL: So you do,
it's you're danged if you do and danged if you don't.
He could have had a punctured intestine,
which would cause peritonitis.
Peritonitis is a infection in the belly.
So we'll find that out when we get into him.
MORGAN: It's definitely not what I was expecting.
Depending on, you know, what happens,
if he can't help him,
then I want to do what's most humane for him.
DR. POL: Okay. We'll see what we can do.
AMBRIA: Yes, sir.
MORGAN: I just want him to be able to help him
so we can take him home.
You know, he can get back to himself.
DR. POL: Okay, let's see.
(surgical instruments clinking)
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: You've got Ellie? SCOTT: Yep.
DR. LISA: Alright, what happened?
SCOTT: I was at a family get-together,
and one of my relatives' dogs ended up attacking mine.
Ellie got a couple lacerations-- One under her armpit,
one on the front of one of her other leg.
DR. LISA: Is she able to walk okay, or is she in any...
SCOTT: Once she gets outside,
like it's more like trying to get up the step kind of deal.
DR. LISA: Okay, yeah.
Hey, princess.
Want to come out?
Good girl.
SCOTT: I know, girl, I know. (dog whimpering)
It was this leg right here.
DR. LISA: Okay.
SCOTT: It was just like a toothmark,
but that one was actually concerning me
'cause it was just like blood everywhere.
DR. LISA: Alright, I'll be back in just a couple minutes.
SCOTT: Ellie means a lot to me,
she's got this like fun, bubbly personality.
Seeing her like this kind of hurts
'cause she's not her normal self.
DR. LISA: Ouch, ouch.
Ellie looks a little bit beat up.
She's got a few puncture wounds,
and it looks like she's got a pretty nasty laceration
just under her armpit.
Yeah, it's gonna need sutures.
I want to flush all the puncture wounds,
clean everything up, and then just throw
a few quick sutures in that deeper laceration.
Dog fight injuries can be extremely severe,
so she definitely is a lucky dog today,
and she's gonna be just fine.
Can you get up there, baby?
Oh, my--wow, what coordination.
SCOTT: Such a good girl.
DR. LISA: The injuries on this leg,
it looked like just a puncture wound or two
and just quite a bit of bruising and swelling.
SCOTT: Okay.
DR. LISA: And then I did suture this one, it was pretty deep.
She's gonna be quite sore.
And I have her on some pain medications
and some antibiotics.
'Cause dog mouths are super dirty,
so the biggest thing to watch out for is infection.
But the antibiotic should take care of pretty much everything.
SCOTT: Take care of it.
Yesterday I was quite upset,
I didn't know what was gonna happen.
I'm feeling a lot better now.
I'm gonna do everything I can,
so hopefully get back to her normal bubbly self.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: As the day winds down,
Doc is finishing up exploratory surgery on Tater,
his pit bull patient.
DR. POL: Holy cow.
There it is.
Okay, there we go.
We didn't expect anything like this.
We were very happy that it was there
and it was easy to take care of.
Hello, this is Dr. Pol.
Guess what we found.
A bouncy ball.
Tater swallowed a bouncy ball.
The ball came out very easily.
Yup, he's waking up.
The intestines were not bad at all,
so I think that the prognosis is very good for him,
to live and eat another bouncy ball later on.
We saved the bouncy ball for you,
but you probably will throw it away.
He should be on IVs probably for a couple days.
So if you want to come back tomorrow, we're open by 8:30.
Alrighty.
We'll see you tomorrow, then.
Yeah, bye-bye.
♪ ♪
DR. LISA: He's such a sweet dog.
♪ ♪
Hey, hey, hey. Hey, hey, hey.
You calm down, sir.
AMBRIA: I feel relieved.
I'm just very happy for my family that he's gonna be okay.
They told me he saved it for me.
DR. LISA: Yeah, we did.
AMBRIA: A little surprised.
Because we expected for him to say that he found foil.
Good, I'll just take that.
Ended up being a bouncy ball.
DR. LISA: It smells very bad.
AMBRIA: I am gonna take it.
DR. LISA: That's what did it.
It was stopped, like totally blocking everything.
AMBRIA: That is crazy.
DR. LISA: Just make sure he stays
really restricted, activity-wise.
There it is. Yay!
AMBRIA: Yay! You're back! I know! Thank you.
DR. LISA: You're welcome.
AMBRIA: Come on, Tater. I know.
DR. LISA: He's like I don't think I can walk with this on.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Dr. Pol is charging off to an emergency farm call.
A pregnant dairy cow is in serious distress.
DR. POL: When House Dairy calls for a calving,
we know there's trouble.
Hyah, come on!
TREVOR: Yeah, this would be an emergency.
The cow today's been in labor for a couple hours
with no real progress.
NARRATOR: She's pregnant with twins,
which doubles the complications.
TREVOR: The calves I'm not sure are alive.
Chances are probably not, but maybe we'll get lucky today.
TREVOR: Yes, we will.
DR. POL: I strip to the waist because I have to go in deep,
and in a case like this, I need all the length of my arms.
Yeah. Joints don't move.
The first calf is tail-first and stuck in the pelvis.
That's the front leg.
TREVOR: So that's another calf, correct?
DR. POL: No, that's probably the same one.
But those joints are stiff.
The first calf is dead already.
But in no time flat we can get it through the pelvis.
♪ ♪
Keep going, I think it's coming.
And there's the second one.
And lo and behold.
MAN: Is this one alive?
DR. POL: I think so.
(moo)
DR. POL: It has been some time already
that the cow has been in labor,
and the second calf many times
will try to start breathing inside
and get a lot of mucus in the windpipe.
The calf actually suffocates inside.
We've got to hurry up then and get the calf out.
MAN: This one's coming the right way?
DR. POL: I don't know.
Well, that's a hind leg.
(splash)
Yeah, thanks.
Chains.
Both of them breech, can you believe that?
Okay, get it out, hurry up.
Pull.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: We have a live calf.
The main thing is now to swing it upside down,
get all the mucus out.
MAN: It's going. DR. POL: Good.
(moo)
BOY: Yay!
DR. POL: This is a healthy female calf,
so everything is normal, that's the best thing.
BOY: Oh, yeah!
TREVOR: Feeling real good today.
Doc Pol was able to save one of the calves.
One live healthy calf is better than what we had anticipated,
and the mother went right to licking that one off
and cleaning it up,
and the calf will go to nursing
and everybody should be doing well.
BOYS: No! No!
DR. POL: This is all part of life.
BOY: Yeah, he's alive!
DR. POL: These kids can now see how calves are born
and have something to tell to their mates in school.
One live one, right?
TREVOR: Yeah.
♪ ♪
(gobbling)
♪ ♪
(baa)
DAVID: I'm coming in this morning, I have a goat, Lizzy.
Morning, Dr. Pol.
DR. POL: You got three of them.
DAVID: Well, I've got two now.
I got a couple of ice fishing poles,
I just so happened to push that
too close to their pen last night,
and Lizzy got adventurous,
came up and ate one of the fishhooks.
It was a good lure, too.
Caught a lot of fish with that one. And a goat.
DR. POL: Well, people say goats eat everything;
this one ate a fishhook.
(baa)
Fishhooks are a lot of trouble.
'Cause there's all over the place
and they have a barb on it.
That is a bad one 'cause it has a thing on it.
In this case it wasn't in very deep
and just with needle-nose pliers.
Normally I cut the barb off,
but this one, I don't think there's too much stuff there.
It comes out very easily and fast.
And the goat just...
(goat cries)
protested only one time.
Got it.
DAVID: Got her. Nicely done.
DR. POL: Okay. DAVID: Beautiful.
DR. POL: And the other one is lame?
DAVID: Yeah.
One leg perfectly fine last night.
The bonus situation this morning,
Lizzy's mother, Marble, she's limping along on three legs,
so both goats coming in to see Dr. Pol.
DR. POL: Yeah, that's, this leg is swollen.
See that, that joint?
DAVID: Up at that joint is, yeah.
DR. POL: Right here. DAVID: Yeah.
DR. POL: It looks like there is
some infection in there, some pain.
I would put her on penicillin.
8 cc a day for 10 days in a row.
So what I decide to do is put her on antibiotics
to take the infection away.
DR. POL: Give her an aspirin on top of it.
DAVID: Okay.
DR. POL: Most of the time these things do heal up
after a little while.
The outlook for Marble is very good.
DAVID: Thanks a lot. Appreciate it.
DR. POL: Yep.
DAVID: Really excited to get these guys back home to my son.
He is now 10.
And that's what he wanted instead of a puppy,
he wanted some goats.
(baa)
♪ ♪
(door chime)
♪ ♪
MORGAN: Hi. WOMAN: Hi there.
MORGAN: Um, I've got Tater.
WOMAN: You've got Tater, okay. MORGAN: Yes.
NARRATOR: It's been two days since Dr. Pol
surgically removed a toy ball from Tater's intestines.
Tater's back in today with some alarming new symptoms.
DR. LISA: Hello. MORGAN: Hi.
DR. LISA: So what's going on?
MORGAN: Oh, boy. Yesterday he was fine, um,
and then today he's just been having
like these weird episodes.
I took a video 'cause I didn't think I'd be able to explain it.
DR. LISA: His face is twitching?
MORGAN: It's basically like he's drunk.
His balance is off, he's running into everything.
DR. LISA: And how often is this happening?
MORGAN: It's been happening all day.
DR. LISA: Okay.
He's been having some intermittent facial twitching.
The fact that he just had surgery,
there might be some complications
associated with that,
so I'm really glad that Morgan decided to bring him in.
No vomiting or... MORGAN: No.
DR. LISA: Has he been going to the bathroom okay?
MORGAN: He's been going to the bathroom like normal again.
DR. LISA: Good boy.
Take a look at that incision.
Yeah, looks kind of red.
MORGAN: Yeah, he...
DR. LISA: He's got a little bit of a fever as well.
Any diarrhea or...
MORGAN: No, it's normal.
DR. LISA: Been normal.
It seems like he's not really responding
to any visual stimuli that I'm giving him.
I'm not sure if this is
because he actually is having difficulty seeing,
and if the twitches might be the signs of something going on
in his central nervous system,
if they're seizures rather than fever-associated.
Let's draw some blood and see if we see anything.
I want to do some bloodwork
to see if that gives me any more clues
about the severity of a possible infection.
Alright, be right back, okay?
MORGAN: Thank you.
We expected for him to come home and to get better,
so to have to come back is kind of overwhelming,
but we just, in the end, we just want him to get better.
DR. LISA: Dr. Brenda, I'm looking at Tater the dog.
He was fine yesterday, ate this morning,
but he's having like these weird episodes
where his head twitches and he's all stumbly,
and his temperature's 103.4.
DR. BRENDA: Oooh.
DR. LISA: Do we need to do a second explore?
I'm worried because isn't it three days after surgery
that they're most likely to have an intestinal dehiscence?
DR. LISA: I have a bad feeling.
MORGAN: Okay, I know, I know, you're okay.
DR. LISA: Looking at the results of Tater's bloodwork,
I can see some pretty strong evidence
that there is infection going on.
I think the twitching
is all kind of associated with the fever,
and how he's really just feeling miserable.
So I'm gonna give him a dose of some IV antibiotics...
MORGAN: Okay.
DR. LISA: right now, and then switch his antibiotic
to something a bit more broad spectrum and powerful
than what he's on right now.
NARRATOR: Dr. Lisa is concerned
that Tater's incision could be infected.
DR. LISA: If he's not improving with the antibiotic,
we might need to go in and do a second surgery.
MORGAN: I just want him to be okay.
DR. LISA: Yeah.
So I'll take him in the back right now.
MORGAN: Okay.
DR. LISA: He's such a happy dog.
MORGAN: He is, it doesn't matter what's going on with him.
DR. LISA: Come on, kiddo.
MORGAN: Come on, baby, it's okay, I'm coming.
DR. LISA: I don't know, he's acting like he can't see.
Looking at Tater's symptoms makes me highly concerned.
I want to keep Tater overnight tonight
just to keep him on some IV fluids
to make sure that he is well hydrated.
I also just want to be able to keep an eye on him.
I just don't feel comfortable sending him home
the way he is right now.
Got the fluids going.
It might be a better idea to keep him here,
and then I can even repeat IV antibiotics tomorrow morning.
MORGAN: Okay.
DR. LISA: If we still have that in.
MORGAN: Alright.
DR. LISA: Does that sound okay to you?
MORGAN: Yeah, that's fine.
I'm just hopeful that with the fact that he's staying with them
it will avoid surgery.
DR. LISA: And I'll give you a call in the morning.
MORGAN: I'm just trying to be positive
that he'll be better either way.
♪ ♪
DR. POL: Morning.
STEVE: Morning, sir.
I have a mini horse named Roxy.
She's got a limp in her hind leg.
She's having trouble getting up.
I don't know what's going on with her.
DR. POL: Well, let's go look.
STEVE: She's limping around on this side.
DR. POL: Oh, yeah this knee is swollen like crazy.
STEVE: Over here?
DR. POL: Yeah, I think so.
The swelling is all the way down through the hocks.
The whole hind leg is swollen from the knee down,
so some kind of injury.
STEVE: I'm thinking maybe the 9-, 10-month-old donkey...
DR. POL: Kicked her.
STEVE: Yeah, she's been kind of a brat.
DR. POL: Most likely the culprit is the donkey they have there.
Because donkeys are very smart, but also very dominant.
So I think that Roxy got the short end of the stick
and the long end of the leg.
Yeah, look at this.
(laughs)
Thank goodness she doesn't have long legs.
There's nothing broken, I think that's the main thing.
This is all soft tissue.
Roxy's gonna get a tube of bute,
which is against the pain and inflammation.
This is double dose cortisone.
It'll take a lot of the swelling out.
Some antibiotics just to make sure
that we don't get infection in this swollen leg.
And time.
Should be fine.
Roxy's outlook should be good.
She should be fine in a couple weeks.
Okay.
STEVE: Alright, thank you, sir.
DR. POL: Yep, thank you.
STEVE: Grandkids and wife will be happy.
Come on, Roxy, get back up here.
And my wife's probably chomping at the bit
for me to call her right now and let her know how she's doing.
(laughs)
DR. LISA: This way, goofball.
Tater seems to be significantly improved this morning,
which I am very relieved to see.
Come on, bud.
He's bright and alert, very happy.
His fever seems to be resolved.
And the twitching is almost completely gone.
Trot, trot, trot, trot, trot.
MORGAN: I know. He trots like a horse.
Hi, baby!
DR. LISA: He's gonna be able to go home today.
So, he's a lot brighter than yesterday.
His fever's gone.
Switching him to a different antibiotic.
He ate really well this morning.
He went to the bathroom.
Everything's looking okay.
Still has like a slight twitch now and then.
We'll keep a close eye on him and see how he's doing.
He's a nut!
He's very excited.
MORGAN: I know. You're happy to get out of here.
He seems like he's definitely feeling better.
Definitely full of energy.
It feels good.
DR. LISA: Do you need a hand getting him outside or are you?
Little maniac.
MORGAN: I'm used to all this energy.
We're just gonna keep an eye on him
and try and keep him calm as much as we can.
As you can see, that's, that's kind of hard.
(growling)
Hopefully, he'll do okay until we can have stitches out.
Then he'll be free.
♪ ♪
(dog barking)
DR. BRENDA: Hello, pup, how are you?
Oops, watch it, you're walking on my feet.
NARRATOR: With two patients at the same farm call,
Dr. Brenda starts with equine eye troubles.
GRANDMA: His name is Comet.
And isn't he cute?
DR. BRENDA: Yes, he is.
GRANDMA: He gets a goobery eye that we want you to look at.
BRITTANY: It's usually always this one.
And it doesn't drain like clear water.
GRANDMA: Yeah, he usually has like a glob of yellow goo.
BRITTANY: And it looks pretty good right now.
But last night when he came in, he had a big, icky...
GRANDMA: It's been going on since we got him last year.
DR. BRENDA: I always worry about a plugged tear duct,
which it does not look like.
That should be more like running black down the face.
I think the goopiness is just the fluid portion of the tears
is not enough.
'Cause the eye itself looks good.
So I don't think that medicating it's gonna do anything.
GRANDMA: Okay.
DR. BRENDA: If he'll let you, I'd rinse it
with like a saline contact solution.
I'd just rinse his eye out to see if we can't increase that,
just do that once a day just to help make sure
he's got enough fluid production in that eye.
Do we have a cow to look at?
BRITTANY: Yes. DR. BRENDA: Okay.
BRITTANY: But we have to walk over here.
We have a cow that's not getting around well.
We've had her for almost a year now.
I started noticing something weird in her rear end.
I've never seen anything like it before.
DR. BRENDA: Okay.
BRITTANY: She's not showing any improvement.
There is something obviously not right.
DR. BRENDA: Ew. That's not good.
BRITTANY: You can see like how her legs come out
so far behind her.
DR. BRENDA: Yeah, she definitely looks like a back injury
of some sort to me.
If you look at her head, shoulders,
and like halfway across her chest,
that all looks normal.
And then starting just ahead of her hip bones,
it's not normal anymore.
This heifer is a yearling heifer that looks completely abnormal
from the middle of the back back.
There's muscle wasting,
there's obviously neurological issues
with the way the feet are moving.
This calf's had some problems.
I mean, she looks like she's had some kind of nerve damage.
What happened, I don't know.
Whether it was a birth defect issue we're seeing,
or she got stepped on or jumped on.
If it was an injury she was going to recover from,
she should be getting stronger.
BRITTANY: And she's not.
DR. BRENDA: Right, well, we got two things going.
You've got an animal that's changing size.
BRITTANY: Oh.
DR. BRENDA: So she's growing, but she's not healing.
BRITTANY: Okay.
DR. BRENDA: Probably not much we can do with it, unfortunately.
I don't think that mineral supplementation
is gonna help her,
I don't think steroids at this point
are gonna really help her.
Unfortunately there's not a lot of options.
There's been some kind of trauma
to some of the neurological portions of this calf,
and we're not going to get better.
She's gonna be like this
and it's gonna continue to be a worse problem
the bigger she gets.
BRITTANY: Okay.
DR. BRENDA: With this heifer, I think that euthanasia
is the most humane thing to do, unfortunately.
So, that's a decision for you guys to make.
BRITTANY: Um, nothing great.
She didn't really have anything good to say about the calf.
She figured it was some sort of back injury.
Nothing that she's gonna recover from.
GRANDMA: I think she should be put down now,
or do you not want to do it?
BRITTANY: We probably should put her down.
DR. BRENDA: The family's talked about this heifer
and decided that the best thing that they can do for her
is to do a euthanasia and end her suffering.
GRANDMA: Well, let me take the kids, then.
♪ ♪
BRITTANY: I think it comes with the territory.
When you raise animals,
there's lots of good, and there's lots of bad.
Um, and you kind of just never know
what hand you're gonna be dealt,
so, um, you just deal with what comes at you.
DR. BRENDA: Alright, I'm sorry
I couldn't be any more help to you.
I don't want to ever say that euthaniasias are easier
as I do this more.
But part of my job is to eliminate the animal's pain,
and as hard as it is,
sometimes euthanasia is the only thing we can do.
♪ ♪
(geese honking)
(baa)
DR. POL: I hear him.
Here he comes.
There they are.
Right here in the shade is just perfect.
MAN: Okay.
DR. POL: Goats are nice,
but if you want to make them do something, they fight you.
NARRATOR: Dr. Pol is getting ready for a rumble.
DR. POL: Tie him right around this thing here, right here.
NARRATOR: Marco the Billy goat
is in desperate need of a hoof trim.
DR. POL: We'll do this one first.
When they are on soft ground, that hoof overgrows.
It's just like an ingrown toenail, and it hurts.
Why don't you lay down, brother?
See how short they have to be?
Oh, hold still.
NARRATOR: While Dr. Pol wrestles
with his stubborn patient,
Dr. Brenda is in a merrier place.
DR. BRENDA: Hello, how are you?
DAVE: Doing alright.
DR. BRENDA: Good.
DAVE: Angel's our 7-year-old female.
There's a big lump behind one of her front legs.
I'm not sure what we got.
DR. BRENDA: Okay.
Angel is a patient that I've had for quite a long time.
She's got a spot that they're worried about,
so we're gonna look and see what it is
and what we can do about it.
You're alright, you're alright, you're alright.
Hold still.
She actually is kind of spoiled rotten.
She thinks she rules the world,
so sometimes working with her gets challenging.
You're not helping.
(laughs)
She wants to be the queen.
Hey.
And I think I should be queen, so we sometimes have issues.
You're not helping.
DR. POL: Come on.
Okay, what we gonna do with you?
Too heavy to fight with you.
See, normally, if they're not that big,
I just hold them, but he is too strong and big.
A cow, I can tie it up.
But not with a goat, 'cause they flop back and forth.
Yeah, you.
Good, good.
You're getting tired.
I know.
I think we're almost done.
Okay, turn him loose.
He'll be limping for a couple days
because he has gotten used to it,
and now he doesn't want to get up.
Ha ha.
Ha!
I think we won, but not by far.
Yeah, I love you, too.
(goat sniffing)
What do you smell?
You stink.
(baa)
DR. BRENDA: Okay, are you ready?
Angel has got some swelling behind her left elbow
that I'm not 100% sure what it is.
I kind of think it's an abscess.
We'll aspirate it first to see if I can tell
before we're gonna do anything more.
It's just an abscess.
Probably it's left over
from vaccinations that we did earlier this year.
It's not anything super life-threatening.
Okay, we got it clean.
It'll heal up; just gonna take some time.
DAVE: Alright, I appreciate it.
DR. BRENDA: No problem.
DAVE: I'm happy there was just an abscess in there.
She's our star here.
People come out just to see Angel.
So I'm glad she's feeling better, she'll be doing well.
(snort)
♪ ♪
(clucking)
♪ ♪
WOMAN: You want to go ahead and wait in here,
Dr. Pol will be in here in just a couple minutes.
MELANIE: Thank you. WOMAN: You're welcome.
DR. POL: Melanie's coming in
with her cat, Frankie, who is limping.
Let me see what it is.
MELANIE: Okay.
DR. POL: What happened?
MELANIE: Um, don't know.
He come in limping two nights ago.
DR. POL: Oh.
MELANIE: Then yesterday he couldn't walk on his leg,
his front, right front leg.
He had black marks in his skin.
I think he might have got hit, I don't know.
I got Frankie about two and a half months ago.
Flame point Siamese, and he's a wild child,
he's into mischief constantly.
Just brought a lot of life into my family for sure.
Come here, Frankie. (kisses)
DR. POL: He's holding it up or what?
MELANIE: Yes. Frank.
DR. POL: No, nothing is broke.
MELANIE: Oh, good.
DR. POL: He's limping on his right front leg,
but there is no fractures to be felt in the long bones.
No, nothing is broke.
MELANIE: Wow, thank goodness.
DR. POL: Now just a second.
I feel something here.
MELANIE: Aw.
DR. POL: And that's here toward the top of the shoulder blade.
MELANIE: Okay. DR. POL: Yup.
Yeah, here, feel how nice and round that is?
Feel the point right there.
MELANIE: Ooh. (cat hisses)
Did he break it?
DR. POL: Yeah. MELANIE: Oh, no.
DR. POL: This piece broke off here.
MELANIE: Okay.
DR. POL: Frankie got hit,
and the tip of the shoulder blade came loose.
MELANIE: What do we do?
DR. POL: Hmm.
(cat moans)
Oh, yes, quiet.
There's nothing, there's no way to set it.
MELANIE: Is he gonna be hurting for the rest of his life?
DR. POL: No. It's gonna heal up a little crooked,
but it's gonna heal up alright.
MELANIE: Are you gonna settle down?
DR. POL: No.
There is no way we can stabilize that part.
He just has to have rest for a couple weeks,
and the shoulder blade, it will heal up by itself.
So, big dose of cortisone and antibiotics.
Pain pills for the next three days.
MELANIE: Okay.
DR. POL: And keep him confined.
MELANIE: Okay.
DR. POL: If you have a big dog cage,
put him in there for two weeks.
MELANIE: Nine lives. There's one. One down.
DR. POL: That's why I love animals.
MELANIE: I feel very relieved that Dr. Pol looked over Frankie
and that he just needs to rest for two weeks and he'll heal up.
It's gonna take some time.
But he'll be fine.
Unfortunately I also found out
he's not gonna get out of mischief,
I thought maybe this might calm him down,
but Dr. Pol said nope,
he's still gonna be a bad little kitty. (laughs)
♪ ♪
DR. BRENDA: Hello, how are you? JARRET: Hello.
DR. BRENDA: Would you like to bring Cider in for me please?
JARRET: Yep.
DR. BRENDA: Jarret has brought his dog Cider in today,
he's very concerned about her.
She's not feeling well at home.
So what's going on with her?
JARRET: She's got something going on on her butt,
chewing on herself.
Cider, she's my female springer spaniel.
Like anything, when I see infection,
it's kind of scary to me.
WOMAN: She don't like that one spot touched.
DR. BRENDA: Okay. Come on here, sweetie.
Let's just lay down, there you go.
Good girl, oh, good girl. This spot here?
JARRET: That's the one.
DR. BRENDA: She's got an owie spot here.
JARRET: One of them there, one back here.
DR. BRENDA: Okay.
As I look at Cider and we start examining her skin,
there's multiple areas of skin infection.
Alright, so, she's got multiple hot spots.
And she has tried to chew her tail off.
See how red and irritated that is?
So we call it a hot spot
because they're usually red and angry and gooey,
and they go from nothing to this hot mess in like, pff!
You just don't even notice it,
and all of a sudden it's terrible.
These problems can happen from a variety of things.
This time of year
it's probably an insect bite problem that started it.
JARRET: She plays out in the sand a lot,
so I'm sure she picked up a flea somewhere.
DR. BRENDA: Yep.
Something causes a break in the skin,
so that the bacteria that's normally on their skin
can now take hold and just have a party.
They can become smelly, slimy, disgusting things
that are actually pretty painful for the dog.
I'm gonna cut a little bit of this hair
that's just kind of wadded up.
Now, she may hate this.
Hold still, babe.
(clippers whirring)
Hang in there, sweetie, we're done with you.
Good girl.
So the good news is
they're usually relatively easily treated.
We're gonna start her on an antibiotic
for the skin infection.
And I'm gonna give her a dose of steroid
'cause that's gonna help settle everything down,
settle all this inflammation, the redness, the itching.
Hang on here, sweetie.
Good girl.
One little poke in the back of the neck.
There you go.
Alrighty.
DR. BRENDA: Prognosis for Cider is that she should be cleared up
and then she's back to a happy, healthy dog.
There you go. You guys are all set.
JARRET: I feel good about her.
Just let her lay in bed and do what she usually does.
Hopefully she gets better.
♪ ♪
NARRATOR: Today it's great to be a Tater.
He finally gets his surgery sutures out.
MORGAN: Tater's been pretty good for the last week.
Hang on, come here.
He's quite a handful now.
♪ ♪
See? He thinks his leash is a toy.
DR. POL: As long as you're not the toy, it's okay.
She's doing alright, huh?
MORGAN: Way better, he even gained a little extra weight.
(laughing)
DR. POL: Tater is as happy as can be and just full of energy.
Oh, my goodness gracious.
MORGAN: You can tell the difference.
As soon as he started getting better, he was happy.
DR. POL: Yeah, I know.
And now the sutures have to come out.
I gotcha.
♪ ♪
Right there. Okay.
Everything is healed up, and it looks good.
They were in deep 'cause he was licking it.
MORGAN: Okay.
DR. POL: Got some Neosporin at home?
MORGAN: Yes.
DR. POL: Put it on several times a day for the next couple days,
and he'll be fine.
MORGAN: Okay, perfect.
DR. POL: There you go.
Okay.
MORGAN: Thank you.
It feels great.
In the beginning we were not sure
what was going to happen to him.
So, to know that he's gonna be fine
with no problems in the future, that's, that's a great feeling.
DR. POL: Crazy dog.
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