NARRATOR: Across Yorkshire's moors and dales,
the world's most famous vet set the benchmark for animal care.
His former trainee Peter Wright...
All my life, I've enjoyed doing this.
...has been a Yorkshire vet for over 40 years.
I'm getting the impression that you wouldn't take me on
as an assistant, is that right? Probably.
Finger, I'm well equipped.
...now runs two practices. Come on, young man.
One of them in the town where Herriot worked,
surrounded by the North Yorkshire landscape he loved.
Look at that! What a sheep.
And in the foothills of the Pennines...
I'm armed and ready.
...a new generation of town and country vets...
This is the closest tojames Bond I think I'm ever getting.
...also uphold the Herriot ethos.
Another day in paradise.
The teams are united.
We can probably knock this off ourselves, do you think? Pfft!
Never taking their eyes off the ball...
Ooh, how's that?!
Whoo-ah!
...as they help animals of all shapes...
I didn't think I'd be hugging a turkey today.
...sizes...
...types... Nearly done.
Nearly done, Bertie.
...and temperaments. Ow!
He bit me.
It's definitely not glamourous...
I spend far too much of my time scrubbing testicles.
...but it's varied.
Ee-aw! You ought to know better.
It's rarely easy...
...but they continue the Herriot tradition...
Whoa. ..treating all creatures...
That's it, there we go, there we go.
...great... Aw, Merlin.
Come on. ..and small.
PETER CHUCKLES
on traditional cornerstones.
Church.
Pub.
Shop.
Farm.
COW MOOS
And for village people,
it seems there's no need to be unhappy.
With life appearing to ease along at gentle pace.
All the time in the world to spare.
But of course, this isn't always the case.
And today, news of drama in a village
on the edge of the North York Moors has just reached Peter.
I just finished my last consultation,
and I see my next one is a farmer
who is on his way down to the surgery urgently
because he's got a ewe that's lambing,
and he's concerned that the lamb
Hopefully, that won't be the case,
but until she gets here, we won't know.
With sheep, you can't count your chickens before they hatch.
John has rushed down from the village of Fadmoor,
less than three miles away.
She's a pure Suffolk shearling,
and she's just having a single.
She's been on maybe an hour,
but they're just massive legs, and I just think
they're too big to pull.
I don't think I can get it out.
Morning, how are you?
Not so bad. Good.
You got the one you're having trouble with, have you?
Yeah. just a Suffolk shearling with massive legs.
Do you want her in there or...?
Er... we'll have a feel in there, I think, to start with.
We'll put her up that left side
because I'm left-handed for this job.
Champion.
Yeah. You haven't got much width there. No.
The birth canal isn't very big. No.
I think we're going to struggle to get it out. I do.
I think this birth canal's too narrow to give birth.
She's fairly immature, is the mother.
But the lamb itself is a reasonable size.
It's not massive.
So the best thing here is a caesarean section.
Right, so we will need her out.
With time of the essence,
Peter and john need to rush the ewe into the lambing room...
There you are, missus, that's better.
...and get her into position...
This saves a lot of back ache. Yeah. Champion.
...for emergency surgery.
Have you had a caesarean clone before? You will have clone.
Yeah, unfortunately.
Successful?
Er, we have had them clone successful.
The last one...
wasn't. Oh. Oh, clear.
She had a dead lamb in her, and it
Ancl then the other lambs cited.
I don't want to count my chickens,
so I think the timing's good.
So I'm fairly hopeful,
but with sheep, sheep have a habit of doing the dirty on you.
So let's just wait and see.
Farming, like vet work, has evolved over the years.
But the past is still celebrated...
...at places like the Yorkshire Museum of Farming near York.
Although,
Come on, little ones, out the way.
Do you want a little bit?
Yes. ..for manager, Shelley.
and Ben and Jerry the Anglo Newbians,
and then we have
It's lovely. I love it.
It's just real lovely atmosphere,
you know, always asking all sorts of things
about the animals and the place.
Hey, PePPa-
Come and have your carrot.
But now it's not just farm animals who need looking after.
Shelley's come to Wetherby to see Julian
after a disturbing discovery at the museum.
Are you waking up?
Four orphaned kittens.
Have we got some kittens?
Hi there. Hi.
You all right? Oh, wow, look at those. Cute.
Look how small you are.
How old are they, then? Not very? Three weeks.
They were found at work,
eyes were still shut,
just there in the grass, cold, hungry,
no sign of Mum at all.
Ancl I've been, erm, bottle-feeding them since,
and I think it started going a bit thin on its back.
Thin with the hair, you mean? Thin with the hair. Yep.
Ancl then it's tracked up and behind the ears and the neck.
Let me put some gloves on and have a look.
WHISPERS: Aww, look at you.
Super-cute. Mm.
Have they got names? Yes.
That's Trio because she's got three spots on her back. Oh, yeah.
That's Dumpling. Dumpling? Yes.
They've all got quite thin hair,
and some of them are quite scaly.
Look at you, you've got a nice, round face.
So, which is this one?
That's Purcly because that was the first one to start purring.
JULIAN CH UCKLES
She was the smallest one when they were found
and was so cold,
she was quite unresponsive. Gosh.
So, you've really saved the lives of these four, then. Yeah.
Ancl then which is the last one? This one here?
That one's Pooh.
Mm, so Pooki's quite thin hair, isn't she?
Yeah. Hm.
Mm.
So, you can see there on Pooh's head,
there's, like, that line there. Mm.
Ring worm is a fungal infection
that attacks the skin and the hair follicles.
It can be quite nasty, especially for young animals, in particular.
So what we need to do to test it,
so we take some hair and put it in this little jar. Right.
Ancl then it grows, and it goes... Mm. ..red if it's ring worm.
You have to kind of grab it and pull it,
so if you just snip the hair off, it doesn't work.
Yeah. You've got to get it right from the...
To get the hair follicles.
Ancl then I normally take a few... samples.
Sorry, little one. That's it.
You need to wait up to 14 clays
but it's a good idea to start some treatment in the meantime.
Yeah. just so we're way ahead of the game sort of thing.
If we don't get on top of it, they'll be...
Yeah. ..quite poorly.
Coming up...
You know he's in pain because he hardly moves.
And you can tell he's not a happy dog.
Willa struggling spaniel be saved by pioneering surgery?
It's fairly cutting edge stuff, really.
'Ey? Blazing a trail, aren't you? 'Ey?
And is a large lamb... He would never have come out.
In fact, he's nearly ready for market.
...strong enough to survive?
Come on, lad.
NARRATOR: During emergency surgery at the practice in Kirkbymoorside,
it's almost the moment of truth.
How's it going, all right? All right, john.
Tell you in a few minutes how it's going. Yeah.
So far, so good.
Farmer john's hoping Peter can save his ewe and her large lamb.
Right.
Just big enough, this lamb.
Just big enough.
He would never have come out.
In fact, he's nearly ready for market.
Come on, lad.
Never in a million years would that have come out.
Come on.
I'm holding its head up.
A lad what helps us, this is what he does,
and they seem to survive better, so I'm just trying.
I'm a big believer in just rubbing the chest,
Yep. Big believer.
Come on, lamb.
Yeah, it's coughing now.
John was absolutely right.
Too big to be born naturally.
We'd have lost the lamb and possibly the ewe as well
if she'd torn, so it's always about making decisions.
Do you know?
I think it was 16 kilos. Really?!
Now, that is some lamb.
I can't compete with that.
That's the thing about Yorkshire farmers.
You know you never impress them, even if you make right decision.
PETER LAUGHS
Then we can get her back on her feet.
We're just gonna weigh him.
I'm just interested to see what this lamb weighs.
But I'd just like to see.
Well, it will impress me.
He's near as dammit 8.9 kilos.
Right, missus.
What you got there, eh?
She won't have a lot of idea yet, will she?
No.
But this shearling has never seen a baby lamb of her own before.
So it's all new to her, really.
Good lass.
That's it.
It'll be john's job to mother the lamb on.
'And that's what )ohh has to do as soon as he gets home.'
I hope all goes well. Yeah, thank you.
Occasionally, pets are acquired unexpectedly.
And at the practice in Wetherby...
Are we just waiting for some medication?
Yeah. Yeah.
...Bev and Sarah are considering the implications of mass mayhem.
Would you rather have 20 clogs or a 100 rabbits?
Ooh.
Rabbits are easier. Really? Yeah.
I'd have clogs if I'd got a big field,
and I could just let them out cos if you were walking 20 clogs,
you'd be exhausted, wouldn't you?
LAUGHS
Meanwhile, Julian's examining the skin test results
of the four abandoned kittens
that unexpectedly turned up at the farming museum.
And it's not good news.
My suspicions of ringworm have been confirmed,
It can be really nasty, especially for young kittens like this.
So Shelley's got some medication, she's got her work cut out
because, erm, it's a repeated process.
On a regular basis,
two or three times, to kill the fungal infection.
Over at the museum,
manager Shelley is determined
to nurse all four babies back to full health.
Right, who's coming first?
It sort of eats away at the fur
and creates a ring-shaped scab,
hence the word ringworm.
Today's the clay they need the treatment again.
That involves bathing them in warm water with the medication.
Oh, no, let go. Let go, let go.
There we go, sweetheart. 'Ey?
We've got to get it right into the fur,
so it gets right down to the skin
cos the ringworm targets the hair follicle.
This one's Trio.
She was the first one to show signs of the ringworm.
Her back here was all ridged,
and the skin was really dry.
'Ey? There.
I think that will do for you.
Right, let's pop you in there.
Oh, she's snuggled right under the blankets.
Go in there.
This one's Dumpling.
There we go.
Your whiskers, hm?
OK.
Pooh.
There we go.
...like with any baby...
Yeah, you get warm under there.
...after bath time comes a bottle.
Going to have something to drink?
Best job in the world.
Another couple of treatments after this,
and I would like to think we've, er...
...got on top of it.
Come on, let's get you back in where it's warm.
On walks near her home in Huddersfield...
Come on, then. Good boy, jimmy.
...Elaine recently noticed
that her three-year-old cooker spaniel, jimmyjoe,
seemed to be in pain.
He sits down quite a lot
and looks back to see where it's hurting.
If he has a really bad clay,
you know he's in pain because he hardly moves and gets up again.
Ancl you can tell he's not a happy dog when he's like that.
Jimmy's had a scan at the Huddersfield animal hospital.
Come on. Good boy.
The results came back showing
that there were some disc degeneration in the back,
little bits in his spinal canal.
And, if it goes any further, he could be paralysed
because it could touch his spinal cord.
So today, he's booked in for complex surgery
We're going to do a procedure, so that he'll have
a much better quality of life,
he'll be in a lot less pain, and hopefully,
he'll go on to be running around the fields like usual.
OK, little fella.
There's a good boy.
And from that, we've created a 3D model.
He's got more movement there than he should have.
So we're going to put some screws
So, the drill guide is going to come in and sit down onto the bone
and should give us really
and then we can place our screw down into the bone.
It's really critical
If we're slightly too far in,
we'll catch his spinal cord, and that will be disastrous.
How are we getting on? Yeah, he's doing all right.
He's nicely asleep, so we're just going to get him
prepped up, and then we'll get him through into theatre.
We've got to be really careful with these screws, don't we? Yeah.
The last thing we want is metalwork
rubbing against his spinal cord in that area.
So we've got about 0.2 of a millimetre of tolerance
on either side there.
So, yeah, it's just a bit tricky.
To have the pedicle screw placed
with one of these BD-printed drill guides.
So it's fairly cutting edge sort of stuff, really.
Hey, blazing a trail, aren't you? Hey?
These surgeries are fascinating to be a part of,
and it's just amazing how far veterinary medicine
continues to improve and continues to develop.
OK.
So, we're going to make a nice-sized exposure,
so we can see what's going on.
Obviously, it's going to be quite a long surgery.
It's quite a bit of fat to get through there, isn't there?
Yeah, he's a chunky boy.
We absolutely need to get a good view of what's going on
to be able to do this surgery accurately.
Really, you've only got one shot at this.
When you're fixing something,
you've got to fix it in the position that you want.
Ancl that's it, isn't it?
There's no going back really, is there? That's it.
Coming up... Hello, lad.
Are you a bit poorly?
Shona has colic concerns for a friend's horse.
You get this really good toilet-flushing sound
that kind of reassures you,
but I can't hear that good flushing sound.
Peter wants to know who's boss.
Anna, are you in charge?
What would you say George? Are you in charge or is Anna?
And hang on to your hats.
Julian decides to brighten up surgery.
I think I'm rocking that.
For their flamboyant fashion.
There's wellies and waterproofs...
Right.
...essential arm our...
I always go for three layers.
Like that.
...and they've been proud of being seen as squares for years.
We swear an oath that we will always wear a checked shirt.
Checked shirt, but what you do, you wear them for best
until the collars start to go a bit frayed,
and then you wear them for work after that.
I think we are fashion icons, aren't we, really?
I think so. Yeah.
To a point.
But now, at the practice in Wetherby,
Julian's decided he needs to zhuzh up when he scrubs up.
Oh.
And he wants the opinion of the two Lucys.
It's the wrong way round! Is this right?
You look like a chef. Oh, it's quite big.
That is large, it's got a lot of excess space.
You can have that, Lucy, if you want. She's got a big head.
I have got a big head, I'll take it on board. It's fine.
Any good?
Yeah. Mm. Yeah.
Looks like you've got two, like, space buns.
Take a selfie, you can see. I'm gonna do.
I think I'm rocking that.
Ears in or ears out? In.
You need to have your hair in it. We're not gonna look good in them.
I think it's too big anyway, though,
You have got a little head.
You should have specified that you need an extra small.
Quite like that as well. There.
There you go.
So, conclusion is that's for Lucy
Ancl I reckon I'm gonna alternate between these two.
Are you not gonna fix this one?
Yeah, but that's for special occasions. Oh, OK.
Well, we'll know who the favourite nurse is, then,
when he brings out his favourite hat.
Probably be me. OK!
You're both my favourite nurses. There's no competition here.
Cos we're both called Lucy.
He only likes Lucys, that's alll heard.
Over in Huddersfield,
Matt and Martin have their surgical hats on
for a complex operation.
MATT: Crikey.
They're trying to mend jimmyjoe the spaniel's spine
to stop his pain
MARTIN: So, we're down at
This is a life-sized 3D model ofjimmyjoe's spine.
Oh, fantastic.
Hopefully, now we can recognise
That is absolutely incredible.
To have a 3D-casted individual model
of a specific dog's spine
is absolutely revolutionary.
You can use this model to pinpoint exactly where you need to be,
and in a surgery such as this,
knowing exactly where you are is absolutely crucial.
This ground-breaking procedure requires some serious metalwork.
Now, literally comes the most critical part
of the procedure - drilling the hole here.
So, we're going to just go really, really slowly.
If we're not careful, we'll put the drill in, and it'll walk.
Ancl it only has to walk a fraction of a millimetre
for that to be an issue.
OK, yeah.
So, this is kind of the moment of truth
and should tell us whether...
whether we're right or not.
That's just nice.
Happy with that.
Let's just get that down onto the screw head.
Yeah.
Jimmyjoe is a really, really lively dog.
So as he's running around,
all this metalwork is going to be taking all the force,
of his spine absolutely rigid.
Everything now is absolutely fused there,
so hopefully, he should be nice and comfortable.
Looks spot on, does that.
All we've got to do, really, is stitch things up.
But we're just going to zip him into CT,
erm, do a quick scan of that area
to make sure that we've got our screws in the right place.
I always think scans like this are quite nerve-wracking.
Cos you can see it's coming up, are they in the right place?
It's tense.
Look at that.
Well, I think things are looking fairly good here, Matt.
Excellent. Excited to see how he does.
And a couple of days later,
jimmyjoe can take his first steps on the road to recovery...
Right, then, little fella.
'Ey?
Come on, then. Good boy.
...by going home with Elaine.
Look! Hello, Jim.
Jflmesy, Jamesy.
Ooh! Bless him.
My dopey b0y_
Have you forgiven me?
Oh, I love you.
He's walking really well.
H is tail's lively.
On both of his back legs well.
As long as he's pain-free. Yeah, absolutely.
That's the most important thing he is. Absolutely. Look at that.
Right, come on then. Best get you out of here, boy.
Let's get you home.
I've seenjimmyjoe since he was a pup,
and he's a bit of a character and a personality.
He's been really popular in the kennels
in the last couple of clays.
There we go, buddy.
'But it's really nice to see him heading home today.'
Thank you. Yeah, no problem.
Cheers. Wonderful.
All right, you take care.
'He certainly needs lots and lots of rest at the minute.'
Ancl then I'm really hoping we'll be able
to just gradually increase his level of exercise.
Ancl I'm kind of hoping he'll get back to normal
within maybe six to eight weeks.
On the edge of the North York Moors...
Peter's at john's farm
three weeks after performing an
Now, john. Now, Peter, how are you doing?
All right, are you? You've got some help today, I see.
Aye, we've got some help, yeah. We're well-staffed today.
Is that right? Anna, are you in charge?
What would you say, George? Are you in charge or is Anna?
THEY CHUCKLE
I see you got the ewe there
She's looking really well.
The only thing was, we lost the lamb.
Lost the lamb? Yeah, we lost him two clays after we got him home.
He just never seemed to thrive, really.
Well, that's disappointing because he was a big lamb, wasn't he?
He was a big lamb.
So, you've obviously fostered one on?
We fostered one on it, and she loves it, as you can see.
So some goods come of it, then, john. Yeah, definitely.
Yeah, that would have been a pet lamb, and now he has a mum.
Now he has a mother. Yeah, so some good's come of it. Yeah.
Right, well, we better get those stitches out.
Let's have a look. Let's get these stitches out.
Those stitches are out now.
Very good.
So, you'll be lambing them all next year yourself, will you?
No?
Are we gonna turn this ewe out?
Yeah. Shall we put them out?
There she goes.
When they go out?
This is spring grass. Yes.
So, some good's come of it, John, really, I'm glad to say. Yep.
Yep. Well, if we hadn't had t'caesarean,
we'd have lost ewe, definitely.
lost ewe as well, I think.
Do you know, that's quite unusual -
THEY LAUGH You have to, though, don't you?
But you're right.
Yeah, sometimes, you've got to think of what you've gained
rather than what you've lost. Yep.
In West Yorkshire...
...Shona is a horse enthusiast.
Good lad.
Whether riding them... Good boy.
...or running the equine side of the Huddersfield practice.
Whenever you approach them,
always go to the front first and say hello.
Run a hand down them, so they know that you're there.
And she passes on her horse whispering wisdom to the nurses.
My grandma was a teacher.
Maybe some of those genes have passed down a little bit.
I do like teaching people,
especially when they seem to be enjoying it and seem interested.
The handling skills Shona teaches come in most handy
when a patient is distressed.
And at the end of a long night on call,
she's heading to a 7am equine emergency
that's concerningly close to home.
Her friend Rachel suspects her young shire horse has colic.
Colic basically means signs of abdominal pain in horses.
He's only a year old, so...
when they get colic.
It's always an emergency.
You want a vet there as soon as you can.
Often, as an owner, when you come to a colic,
you don't know how long they've been having problems for.
I've known Rachel a long time, and she's always had horses.
I used to ride her first pony when I was a teenager.
She's just a really good friend.
I've known Dante since they got him back in winter.
So we just want to get on
She's a bit worried about him, as am I.
Morning, Rachel. Hi, how are you?
I'm all right, a bit worried about Dante, with you ringing me.
Hello, lad. Hello.
Are you a bit poorly?
This morning, he just doesn't want to eat,
which rang a few alarm bells, really.
Has he had a poo at all? No.
Ancl then you said he went out in the field...
Got out in the field and just laid down.
He looks quite bright, but sometimes,
they're a bit deceiving with these colics.
I didn't want to be over-dramatic.
No, no, I don't think you can be over-dramatic.
Good lad.
That is a good boy.
We've given him an anti-spasmodic.
So that relaxes all his gut.
Right, let's check his heart rate.
Right, that sounds good.
Good lad.
So, we're listening to make sure
that it sounds like a normal gurgling gut,
which tells us that the food's moving through it normally.
Good lad.
On the right-hand side, it should sound like a toilet flushing.
That's part of the gut emptying,
and you get this really good toilet-flushing sound
that kind of reassures you.
If it sounds too tinny,
then it can be that there's quite a bit of gas in there,
it can be that they have got an impaction,
which is where all the food's completely wedged in there,
and it won't move.
I can't hear that good toilet-flushing sound.
What I'd like to do now is do a rectal exam on him.
A dog, you can feel the abdomen from the outside
and feel all the intestines and things.
You can't do that on horses and cows.
I'd be interested to see if I can feel anything
on that right-hand side, if there's any worries there.
Right,
His head this way cos I'm right-handed.
Ancl then his bum in the back.
Back up. Good boy.
Stand. Stand.
Right, there's a good man.
So, basically,
Right, so, I'm in now,
so I'm just having a gentle feel around.
So, we're feeling for big, doughy bits of intestine.
That's if there's an impaction, it goes quite firm and doughy.
Good boy.
Ancl then I'm feeling down below in front of me for gassy bits
that might be distended.
Small or large intestine?
That feels small from here.
OK, right, I can't feel anything majorly there, so that's good.
The thing that's bothering me is
I could give him some more pain relief
and then probably come back in, like, an hour or maybe two
and just have another check that his stomach sounds better.
Ancl if at that point it's not sounding much better,
we'll pass a stomach tube.
The pain relief just helps
Most colics, you can treat medically like this,
so you can just give him a few injections
once you've checked them thoroughly over.
But there are, you know, the odd ones where they need surgery.
If you don't give them the drugs very quickly,
then they can turn into one that needs surgery.
You've got to be cautious with colics
because they can get bad quite quickly.
So, Shona's night shift has to extend even further.
Right, then, let me know if anything changes,
and I'll see you in an hour or so. Yep, no worries.
Thank you very much.
That's all right. See you soon. See you in a bit.
While for an anxious Rachel, the day job will have to wait.
I should be at work, but I'll hang around here.
I'll work from home today and just keep a close eye,
wait for Shona to pop back,
and then go from there.
Still to come...
Jimmy Joe's nicely asleep,
so we're ready to take a couple of X-rays.
Judgement Day forjimmyjoe.
If anything's moved, that could be a problem.
And farming memories at the museum.
It says here the first ploughs were dragged along by people.
Don't think you'd pull that very far.
But have the abandoned kittens found there pulled through?
They were pretty small and weak and quite poorly,
and we were anxious that they might not even survive.
NARRATOR: Near H uddersfield,
concern about one of her friend's horses
means Shona's night on call has extended well into the morning.
Hello, handsome.
A couple of hours after treating one-year old Dante for colic,
she's back at Rachel's to check on him.
Good lad. Are you all right? Good boy.
It's always an emergency.
If you don't get on them quickly
and give them the anti-spasmodic drugs,
they can get a lot worse.
Oh, these sound better.
Right, that's good, there's some really nice, normal sounds there.
Oh, yeah, that's moving a lot better.
Just swing him and listen to the other side.
Oh, he's a good sausage, aren't you?
Are you a good sausage? Good boy.
Yeah, that's loads better, Rach. Good.
Loads better. Good. Isn't it, mister?
Have we fixed you?
I just wonder with it being cold,
he's just not drunk quite enough water.
He's not drunk as much as normal.
Sometimes, it's worth giving them some warm water
and just seeing if he'll drink a load.
Ancl try and settle it down a bit.
You can put a little bit of apple juice in it too
to make it a bit sweeter.
It all sounds really good now,
like, his guts are moving a lot better now,
so I'm very pleased because I'm quite attached to him anyway.
THEY CHUCKLE
But, yeah, he sounds really good, so it's good news.
Right, see you later. Yep, thanks, Shona, see you later.
Yeah, I thought I'd maybe
this morning, but she was happy to come, so...
That's a good outcome.
I've known Rachel a long time,
and it's always a bit different when you know the patient.
Sometimes, it's a bit like treating one of your own, really,
and you do get a bit more worried in some cases.
I have got a bit of an attachment to him,
so I'm really glad he's doing better.
Across Yorkshire,
Julian's made a trip to the farming museum near York...
Hi, Shelley. Hi, Julian.
...to see how the poorly abandoned kittens are doing
after their ringworm treatment.
Look at you.
You won't remember me, but last time I saw you,
you were tiny and looking a bit bedraggled, really,
No.
When they first appeared,
they were pretty small and weak and quite poorly,
and I think we were anxious that they might not even survive.
But, erm, not only are they surviving,
they're positively thriving.
So it's brilliant, really, to see how they've come on,
and Shelley's obviously put loads of time in to get them here,
so it's great to see them looking so well.
Right, good, so, shall we do the vaccinations? Yep, right.
Shall we do you first, hey?
So, which is this one again, did you say?
Just, oops, right, let go. This one's Trio.
Trio.
I don't think she even noticed.
Well clone, Purcly. What a brave kitten.
Excellent. Good.
Get back to playing now.
There we go.
They're more entertaining than me TV on an evening.
I bet they are, yeah.
Kittens. Ps, ps, ps, ps. Smile.
That's my new screen-saver, look.
Aww.
So, they'll need the second part of the vaccine in three weeks,
and then after that,
they'll be safe to go and explore the big, wide world.
Right. And then maybe see some of the other animals
at your farming museum. Yeah, yeah.
Aww, that'd be great.
Speaking of which, I've never been here before. Yeah.
If I just have a quick look round?
Oh, yeah, sure. Very good, cheerio. Right.
Nice to see you again. Bye. Thanks, bye.
Wow.
Look at all these things.
This is the plough section.
It says here the first ploughs were dragged along by people.
Don't think you'd pull that very far.
And afterjulian's jaunt through farming past,
a few weeks later, the kittens all have a bright future.
Two at a new home...
Super home, on a farm,
erm, with other cats and animals and everything,
and they have settled in super.
...and the other two, here with Shelley.
I've kept two.
LAUGHS
Never mind.
Hey, Dumplings.
Ch-ch. Here.
Trio.
Dumpling was never going anywhere,
and I thought, well, I think I'm going to keep Trio,
and they play, keep each other company,
and they're great.
Come on, Dumplings. Ch-ch-ch.
You going to come out? Come on, then.
Ooh. Is this exciting?
I love my cats.
Over in Huddersfield,
three-year-old cooker spaniel jimmyjoe is back at the hospital,
six weeks after Martin's complex, ground-breaking surgery
on his damaged spine.
We're hoping that everything
is still in the position that it was in when we did his surgery.
If anything's moved, that could be a problem.
Ready to take a couple of X-rays.
So, I'm happy with how his X-rays are looking.
Everything is in the same position that it was when we left it.
Everything seems to be healing up really well,
so it fits with how he's getting on in himself,
really good news.
Elaine first became aware ofjimmyjoe's problems
ELAINE: Come on, this way. Let's go. Good lad.
But just a few more weeks later,
he's enjoying them again.
Bit by bit, he's made an amazing recovery, I think, amazing.
Before, even trying to get up,
and also the way he held himself.
Come on. You ready?
Go find. Go on.
Ancl he's not in pain. You can see he's not in pain.
Would be, doing something so new
and so experimental, in a way, it was just really scary.
Was I going to lose him?
But it's fantastic success.
It used to be heart-breaking when
Ancl that is a delight.