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Dr. Pol: Man, beautiful here, isn't it?

Charles: Yeah, it is.

Robyn: Sheepy, come, come, come.

Dr. Pol: Robin lives in amish country and she has a pet sheep.

Robyn: Mama.

She can move faster than I thought she could.

They have personalities just like a dog.

Mama, come on. Mama.

A lot of people think sheep are dumb, but they're not that dumb.

Oh, brother.

Mama is having a hard time getting up, she's stiff-legged.

You're okay, mama.

And I'm just concerned about her

going through another michigan winter.

Alright, let me check on this guy.

Mama had a lamb, which is little boy.

He is the biggest of all the sheep, and the biggest baby.

I'm not sure what's going on with him,

he's acting really odd.

Dr. Pol: Hello. I'm dr. Pol, I've never been here.

Robyn: Yeah, nice to meet you personally.

Dr. Pol: What's going on? Old?

Robyn: Well, she's very old, she's at least 13.

Charles: Whoa.

Dr. Pol: That is old for a sheep.

Robyn: She looks so thin.

Dr. Pol: She wants to make sure that she has enough fat on her

that the winter is not too bad.

The main thing is her teeth.

They have to actually eat more when it's cold...

Bottom teeth are good.

...In order to stay warm

when the weather gets bad in michigan.

She still has good teeth, and she is not overly thin.

Robyn: Do you think she can get through the winter alright?

Dr. Pol: Yes. Robyn: Ah!

Dr. Pol: There's meat there.

Robyn: I am so happy.

Dr. Pol: And that's the whole secret.

Hey! God knew how he made animals.

Robyn: That's right, yeah. They're amazing creatures.

Dr. Pol: Yes!

Robyn: Then this guy.

Dr. Pol: Yeah, he's fat.

Little boy, the big boy that she had a little while ago, is good.

You can feel the spine, but that's muscle there.

That's perfect.

They don't have to be, you know, fat, roly-poly,

because that's bad for the liver.

(laughter)

robyn: Little boy, you silly thing.

Dr. Pol: Turn him loose.

Narrator: The sheep get a clean bill of health.

Dr. Pol: Mary had a little lamb.

Robyn: Yeah.

Narrator: And with a proper diet

should be able to weather the winter.

Dr. Pol: Okay?

Robyn: Okay, wonderful. Dr. Pol: Very good.

Robyn: Well, nice meeting you guys, thank you so much.

Charles: Nice meeting you. Dr. Pol: Yeah, nice meeting you.

Robyn: That was wonderful news.

Charles: Oh, she's a nice lady, a really nice lady.

(meow)

(barking)

gerolyn: It's okay. It's okay.

Dr. Pol: Gerolyn is getting gus into the clinic

because he is not doing good.

Gerolyn: You're okay.

I knew something was wrong.

I knew.

He's not eating.

He vomited on Friday morning.

Dr. Pol: What did he throw up?

Gerolyn: His just little bit of cat food that he had just ate.

Dr. Pol: Yeah.

Gerolyn: I'm concerned, maybe he's gotten into something,

I don't know.

Dr. Pol: Yeah, 102.5.

Gerolyn: And he's such a sweet baby.

Dr. Pol: Yes.

Gerolyn: He meets me in the morning first thing,

wants to get a little love, likes to sit in your lap.

Dr. Pol: Color is good, that's not the problem.

Gerolyn: He's a great cat.

(purring)

he's still purring.

Dr. Pol: I know.

He's purring so loud,

he's so happy being handled that you can't listen.

Quit purring.

Gerolyn: I know he doesn't feel good, but yet he purrs.

Dr. Pol: Yeah, strange, isn't it?

Look at this, when you pinch here, see what he does?

Instantly swallows, 'cause he has a sore throat.

Everything hurts.

Bad upper respiratory bronchitis and all that stuff.

Can you give him daily medicine?

Gerolyn: Oh, yeah.

Dr. Pol: Oh, okay. Then we'll get antibiotics for him, too.

Gus needs some antibiotics

in order to get over this cold or flu that he has.

It is just the stupid weather.

Gerolyn: Okay.

Dr. Pol: It's michigan.

It turns out that gus had been at the clinic before.

He got run over and had a broken pelvis.

Let me see how you walk with that.

When you put gus on the ground...

Gosh, look at this, he's not even limping.

...He walks completely normal.

Gerolyn: He's such a nice kitty.

I've got a lot of love into this kitty.

Dr. Pol: Okay. Gerolyn: Thank you, dr. Pol.

Dr. Pol: Yes. He's a happy cat.

Gerolyn: Alright, gus.

Dr. Pol: So we'll just spruce him up.

Gerolyn: Guess what, you get some more time inside.

A little bit of antibiotics and hopefully road to recovery.

(purring)

narrator: Fall has barely arrived,

and already winter is knocking at the door.

(phone rings)

diane: Pol veterinary services, this is diane.

I have some really mixed feelings about the early winter.

Some snow I don't mind, but I'm not in for a long winter.

Kathy: You're trouble, aren't you?

Dale: Bella and roy need their shots.

Bella seems not to be herself.

She's been laying around a lot and want to get her checked out.

Dr. Pol: Those two?

Dale: Yep.

You want them both?

Dr. Pol: Of course, let's go.

Right in here.

Kathy: Come on.

Dr. Pol: Where's the other one?

Dale: She's coming.

Dr. Pol: Oh, slow.

Hey, come here!

Kathy: He doesn't want to come. (laughing)

roy, it's okay.

Come on.

Dr. Pol: Hey, you big guy, come on!

Ah!

What's your problem?

Shut the door.

Okay, let's do the scaredy cat first. Roy?

Dale: Yep.

Dr. Pol: Just the distemper.

Hey, you.

Holy cow, he gained weight.

You better start running a little bit more.

Dale: He's outside all day long.

Dr. Pol: This is the thing, don't use snacks,

you give them a kernel of dog food.

It's not what they're getting,

it's the fact that they're getting attention.

Dale: You're looking at her as you say that, right?

Kathy: I'm in trouble again, aren't I, doc?

Dr. Pol: No, you're not.

You love your dog.

Oh, what next?

Dale: She just hasn't been acting right.

She's always taking her paws and digging at her face.

Dr. Pol: See, that's red.

Dale: Mm-hm.

And roy's always licking her ears.

Dr. Pol: Okay, that's a no-no.

That saliva has bacterias growing in it,

so you get an infection.

Oh, yeah, look at this.

Kathy: Ugh.

Dr. Pol: Let me get the other ear,

see if that one is bad, too.

You're fine. (dog whimpering)

yeah, not as bad.

That's probably why she's laying around a little bit.

And this is what I want you to use in the ears.

Not too much, and right in that hollow spot.

Both ears, so put a pea size in there,

and then at least 30 seconds massage it.

Hi! Oh, you're so sweet.

Okay, you do it once a day, for 10 days.

You know, after that, I'd like to see how the ears are then.

Okay.

Dale: What would be the chances of getting roy's nails trimmed?

I cannot hold him down, he hollers and gets away from me.

Dr. Pol: Do it just like horses.

Dale: I've never done it with him standing up.

Dr. Pol: Well, that's how you do it.

When they don't see it, always goes better.

And never cut them too short.

Oh, yeah, I love you, too.

But I washed my face this morning already.

This one, and we done.

Dale: All done. Dr. Pol: Big dog.

Dr. Pol: Okay. Any more questions?

Dale: Nope, that should do it.

Kathy: Whoa.

(laughing)

dr. Pol: Thanks, ladies and gentlemen.

We'll see ya.

Dale: Thanks, doc. Kathy: Thank you.

(thunder)

narrator: Any concerns about an early winter

are getting rained out.

Dr. Pol: Been soaking wet, and up and down,

and that's what we have in michigan.

(laughs)

dave: Come here, big boy. (clicks tongue)

well, duke, our reindeer, he's a little dumpy today.

The weather's been kind of fluctuating a lot lately.

It does have an effect on them.

So I want dr. Brenda to come out and check him.

I'd rather be safe than sorry.

Dr. Brenda: Hello.

Dave: I think he saw dr. Brenda pull in,

so he wasn't about to be caught.

Dan: Get over there, get over there.

Dave: You've pretty much got to bob and weave

when you're working with reindeer.

Dan: You're gonna have to corner him.

Dave: I'm not happy when I gotta run around

chasing him like that.

Dan: Here he comes!

Dave: Especially in the rain.

Dan: Shut that gate!

Dr. Brenda: Not very good for him,

but in order to get medicine, you've gotta catch him.

His respiratory rate's up some

just because he's been running around, but.

He's a little bit stressed

because it took them a minute to catch him.

I don't like the coughing, though.

It's a sign that the lungs are worse than I'd like them to be.

He's up to 100, he's almost up to 104.

Dave: Is he?

Dr. Brenda: Okay.

Stop leaning on me, bud.

He's not terrible, he definitely needs the antibiotic.

We're gonna put him on antibiotics,

see if that doesn't get him cleared up

so that they're ready to do their christmas shows

here in another month or so.

How soon are they supposed to travel again?

Dave: About six weeks.

Dr. Brenda: I'd like him home at least two.

Dave: Oh.

Dr. Brenda: Minimum of two.

And then we'll see how they're feeling.

It's a waiting game now for the antibiotics to work.

Well, hopefully the weather will be more fall-like

and he'll feel better.

Dave: Yeah.

We've had this issue before,

it usually takes about 48 hours for them to get over it,

then they're back to normal.

Dr. Brenda: Good luck with the rain, yeah.

Dave: Yeah, have a good afternoon.

(dog whimpering) cynthia: It's alright, remi.

Dr. Lisa: Cynthia's bringing in remi today.

Remi's been vomiting,

and her owner is very concerned about parvovirus.

Narrator: Parvo attacks the gi tract and can be lethal.

Cynthia: We got remi yesterday.

And, um...

He's just, he looks really bad.

Dr. Lisa: I wanted to take a look at remi

out in his owner's car before we brought him inside.

Parvovirus is very contagious,

and we want to make sure we protect our other patients

in the office from being exposed.

Hey.

Cynthia: He just threw up again.

Dr. Lisa: Remi has vomited in the front seat of the car,

and there is a little bit of blood in it.

So it's an emergent situation.

Dr. Lisa: Hey.

Cynthia: He just threw up again.

I have a really bad feeling

that the puppy we just got yesterday has parvo.

Dr. Lisa: I'm gonna do a parvo test.

Narrator: At just nine weeks old,

remi is off to a rough start.

Dr. Lisa: Grab him, we'll go directly into

a specific exam room.

Cynthia: Alright, come here, remi.

Dr. Lisa: The next step is to get him in the clinic,

take him straight into our designated parvo exam room.

The second door on your left.

And figure out what's going on.

Not feeling so good.

Parvo is a very aggressive virus, especially in puppies.

Belly hurts a little bit.

Causes intense nausea, horrible diarrhea,

and fluid loss from both ends of the puppy.

So, it's an emergent situation.

So the parvo test just takes a few minutes.

And then we'll kinda go from there, what we find.

Cynthia: I'm hoping, praying he doesn't have parvo.

To lose a puppy, uh, it'd be heartbreaking.

Dr. Lisa: Come on.

Tell me.

I'm running the parvo test,

and it's probably the longest few minutes of my life.

15 seconds.

Cynthia: I always prepare myself for the worst, unfortunately.

(timer beeps)

dr. Lisa: Thankfully the test is negative.

It's negative.

Cynthia: Yes! Yes!

I'm feeling...(sighs) ecstatic, overwhelmed,

just, I, I can't even explain it.

Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.

A lot of relief.

Dr. Lisa: It's very good.

So I'm pretty excited, and his owner is overjoyed, of course.

We were all pretty nervous.

Sometimes with vomiting,

they get, it's more stimulation to vomit,

and it becomes like a cycle.

So if we kind of break that cycle,

help him get over whatever started this.

Chronic vomiting in a young puppy

can still be just as dangerous.

I'll give him an anti-nausea medication.

This burns a little bit, he's probably not gonna like it.

I'm also gonna start him on some antibiotics

that are really good for the gi tract,

just in case there is a bacterial infection.

Cynthia: I really like dr. Lisa, it's the first time I met her.

Dr. Lisa: And then I'll give you a probiotic paste

to kinda coat his gi tract.

Cynthia: Yay.

Dr. Lisa: And then we'll kinda see what happens

over the next few days.

Cynthia: Okay.

She explained everything.

Dr. Lisa: I wouldn't be super concerned.

Cynthia: Comforted me.

Dr. Lisa: The biggest thing is keeping him hydrated.

Cynthia: And was excited when I was excited.

Hope for the best.

Dr. Lisa: Yeah. I'm very pleased it's not parvo.

Cynthia: Oh, so am I!

So am I.

Dr. Lisa: I feel safe petting you now.

You're very cute.

Remi's prognosis is very good.

It's just kind of making sure he stays hydrated,

and we get his stomach feeling a little better.

Cynthia: Yay, remi!

It's not parvo!

Dr. Lisa: Cynthia still is gonna have

some nursing care ahead of her.

Cynthia: Just made my day so much better.

He's going to drink as much water as I can get him to drink.

Even if he pees on the floor, I don't care.

Let's go!

He's just gonna drink water and we're gonna get him healthy.

Dr. Lisa: You have a nice day.

Cynthia: Thanks, you, too.

♪ ♪

dr. Brenda: Alright, so you got a sick pig.

Gary: Well, he's breathing funny, I don't know what it is.

I lost one of my pigs the other day,

and so I started watching them close,

and this one's breathing hard, so.

Dr. Brenda: Yeah, he's kinda herky-jerky when he does that.

Gary: Yeah, he's shivering like.

Dr. Brenda: You gonna climb up there and catch him for me,

or am I gonna climb in there and catch him?

Gary: No, well, I get out of wind really easy.

Dr. Brenda: Shut that. Gary: Yeah.

Dr. Brenda: I'm gonna try to take his temperature.

You can tell he's not feeling good,

'cause he's pretty dang quiet.

Gary: Yeah, he's being good.

I'm hoping to get him over it, you know.

So that's what I'm hoping for.

Dr. Brenda: Yeah, he's up to 103.

He's not too crackly,

but definitely he's got some respiratory noise in here.

You were right to bring him.

He kinda walks and talks pneumonia,

so we're going to treat him appropriately.

So we're going to give him two shots.

Gary: Okay.

Dr. Brenda: The medication will work well

to fix the respiratory tract,

the pig will feel better, and everyone will be happy.

Gary: We got it. Dr. Brenda: We got it, alright.

Gary: Thank you. Dr. Brenda: Okay, you're set.

Gary: I sure appreciate it. Dr. Brenda: Yep, no problem.

Gary: I'm feeling great.

Hopefully this will knock it out and he'll be back to normal.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

narrator: The weather...

(meow)

...Is downright wicked.

Dr. Pol: Man alive, it's pretty white.

We had record low temperatures.

We broke 150 records.

That sudden cold is hard on animals.

Narrator: Some of the hardest hit: Elderly animals like mama.

Robyn: The old girl,

she just doesn't seem to be enjoying life.

Mama quit eating.

And it's raspy when she's breathing.

It's okay.

I'm guessing that she's probably starting to die.

You're okay.

But then little boy, he's usually up and running

and now he's just laying.

It's okay.

Dr. Pol: We going back.

The very first time it was nice

with a lot of color on the trees,

and now we have six inches of snow.

That's michigan.

So, what's going on?

She was eating when we were here.

Robyn: Right, yeah, she was doing good,

and then she quit eating.

So, I don't know what's going on.

Dr. Pol: Come on. What's the matter here?

Robyn: Can you tell her breathing's bad?

Dr. Pol: Yeah, she's breathing heavy.

Pneumonia?

Dr. Lisa: Sounds a little harsh, it's not really crackly, but.

Dr. Pol: There you go, butt up in the air, sweet.

Dr. Lisa: She coughs a little bit when I rub her trachea.

Dr. Pol: Hey, quit kicking me, you're not a horse.

No, that's low.

99.

Dr. Lisa: She cold?

Dr. Pol: Yeah.

Robyn said that mama had more or less quit eating.

That's a very fast heart rate.

You see that when they get parasites.

We keep them in an enclosed area

where they have to eat and poop in the same place,

and that's how they infect themselves with worms.

Robyn: Good girl.

Dr. Pol: Because she's so run down,

there is also some pneumonia.

I'd like to treat her and see what happens.

Robyn: Hey, I trust you,

if you think she might be able to pull out, let's try.

Dr. Pol: Let's try.

Robyn: And little boy?

Dr. Pol: This guy?

Robyn: Yeah. He's way younger.

Dr. Pol: Yeah, I know.

We'll give him a worm dose.

Robyn: Oh, good.

Narrator: Ridding the sheep of parasites...

Dr. Pol: There it is.

Narrator: ...Improves digestion...

Dr. Pol: Okay.

Narrator: ...And their ability to absorb vital nutrients.

Dr. Pol: That will help to put some weight on these animals

so it's easy going through the winter.

Okay, let's see what we can do.

Robyn: I thought that was the end of her today.

Dr. Pol: This barn is fantastic.

Robyn: I went from being kind of depressed and thinking

that I was going to lose a couple sheep, to a lot of hope.

Dr. Pol: Everything is sick.

Dr. Lisa: It's the cold!

Dr. Pol: Yeah.

Matthew: We're bringing boone in, our saint bernard/mastiff,

because his jowls are bleeding.

Dr. Brenda: Hi there, sweetie, how are you?

Savannah: Right here.

I noticed this morning the little flaps,

they usually hang out of his mouth.

Dr. Brenda: Okay.

Savannah: He won't bite ya.

They were just like super swollen,

and I literally like touched it

and it started gushing blood everywhere,

and I was like, uh-oh.

Dr. Brenda: Yep, yep. Matthew: And gunk.

Dr. Brenda: Like this spot right here is what you're looking at.

I mean, he's got some crustiness I can feel.

Potentially with how cold it's gotten so fast,

he may be getting a little bit of frostbite on them.

The edges of his lips have gotten frostbit

and now they've cracked and are bleeding.

We're not gonna do a whole lot with these,

'cause there's just nothing to do.

It's just a factor of him being outdoors in the cold.

Put some neosporin on there to help soften it.

Savannah: Okay.

Dr. Brenda: Or even vaseline before he goes outside

just to help protect it.

It's a short-term problem, it's easily fixed,

and then prevented in the future.

It is what it is because it was a high of 16 this morning,

so I'm like, woo-hoo.

There's nothing wrong with him, per se,

we just have to deal with the weather

a little bit better for him.

Okay, any other questions while you're here?

Savannah: Not that I know of. Dr. Brenda: Alright.

Matthew: We're gonna just let him have fun in the snow

and just keep an eye on him.

Come on.

Narrator: The hazardous weather...

Dr. Pol: Gotta go, gotta go, gotta go!

Narrator: ...Is wreaking havoc.

Dr. Pol: Aftin has a horse, dancer, that fell on the ice.

It hit its head on something hard.

Aftin: She slipped on the ice and fell onto a salt block.

This is actually her tooth, she broke it off.

I'm sure there's still about another inch of it

left in her mouth.

Dr. Pol: Ohh, that's not good.

(horse nickers)

dr. Pol: What did you do, huh? What did you do?

Narrator: Dancer is the latest casualty

from an unexpected cold snap.

Aftin: She slipped on the ice, rupturing a tooth at the root.

This is actually her tooth that came out.

Dr. Pol: Oh.

Aftin: There's a very sharp hole

down at the bottom of the gum line.

Dr. Pol: That's where the tooth broke off.

Hold still.

I may have to think that the whole tooth has to come out.

Charles: I can't believe this.

This is the first time that I'm seeing a horse

that slipped on the ice and cracked its tooth.

Aftin: She happened to catch the salt block.

Dr. Pol: Tranquilize a little bit.

Let's see what we got.

Put the speculum in.

Okay.

The speculum is a very heavy metal thing...

Can you say ahh?

...That you put in a horse's mouth.

Just a second. There you go.

And then you can open it up,

so that the horse will not bite you if you reach inside.

Yeah, that's...

Aftin: Down here at the bottom.

Dr. Pol: Oh, yeah! Yeah, yeah. Got a flashlight handy?

Charles: It's a little one, so.

Dr. Pol: Yeah, let's see here.

Here, aftin take a look.

It turns out that one of the molars kinda shattered.

Yeah, there's a piece of bone there.

And there's a lot of pieces that come loose.

Aftin: Seems to be like cutting the side of her cheek.

Dr. Pol: Yeah.

But the root of the molar is still very tight.

There's nothing I can do.

So we don't have to pull it.

Aftin: Do you think it's something we can file off or...?

Dr. Pol: No. We gotta do by feel anyhow.

Let me get my finger in there

and see if we can just grab it with my finger.

See, it's all swollen there.

I got a big piece out.

Here. Here.

(laughs)

I like you.

This was in the mouth like that.

And that got knocked out, it was laying just like this

at the bottom of the mouth,

with just this little piece of skin attached.

Aftin: Yep.

Dr. Pol: So we pulled that out. Aftin: Yep.

Dr. Pol: And normally it flushes out, but now it will be better.

Aftin: Okay.

Dr. Pol: That's all she needs. Stick your finger in there.

It's clean now, there's nothing loose anymore. Feel that?

Aftin: Oh, yeah, much better.

Dr. Pol: Good. Let it be. Aftin: Okay.

Dr. Pol: I've done it before.

It just takes time for the gums to get over that.

Aftin: Yeah.

Dr. Pol: You're a good girl.

There is now a hole in there,

but pretty soon this is gonna be straight again,

and the horse dancer should have no problem later on.

Wake up!

You're good.

Aftin: Thanks.

Dr. Pol: You know I love horses like that, okay.

Aftin: It's the best-case scenario.

There you go.

Hopefully after the next couple weeks

she'll be back on her feed again.

Dr. Pol: Ah, that's cold.

♪ ♪

♪ ♪

where is it?

Jessica is bringing in a little five-months-old alpaca

that is not growing.

Jessica: It's a boy.

He was a very difficult birth.

The baby is not breathing quite the way I feel he should be.

Dr. Brenda: Hang on.

My concern would be a little bit of low oxygen

perhaps with the long birthing.

We'll give him a little bit of a steroid

to make him feel a little bit better.

He looks totally uncoordinated,

but this is how a baby looks at less than an hour old.

It's too hard to get them all coordinated at once,

isn't it, buddy?

Dr. Ray: They're way too long.

Dr. Brenda: Oh, there, he's almost got it.

Dr. Pol: How old is she?

Jessica: Four and a half months.

Dr. Pol: Normal good color.

Jessica: He's still quite small for his age,

so I brought him in to see dr. Pol today

to get some blood work done and see where we stand.

Dr. Pol: They are so beautiful with those big eyes, you know.

Just cool it.

Come on, big eyes.

Okay, we need a little help, come on in.

Andrea.

Jessica: You want me to put him up on the table?

Dr. Pol: No.

Jessica: I don't think I've ever had you on the floor, doc.

Dr. Pol: Oh, heck yes.

That should be plenty, andrea, stick it in all the tubes.

Now I gotta get up.

Jessica: I bet he'll help ya.

Dr. Pol: You sit here with him.

The red blood cells are low,

white blood cells are almost nonexistent.

Look at that.

The hemoglobin is next to nothing.

Some way or other, there is not enough blood being made.

She didn't clot very well either.

And I noticed that, because normally

you pull the needle out and they clot.

Jessica: There's some levels that are low,

and we're not quite sure why they're low.

So what are we looking at?

I mean, he's only four and a half months.

Dr. Pol: I'm gonna give him a dose of iron,

and then in two weeks, redo the blood.

Okay, iron.

To help her out, you know, we gonna treat it with iron

and see if we can build it up a little bit.

The hemoglobin is low, so that's why the iron.

Narrator: A dose of iron will ward off any potential anemia.

Dr. Pol: We can help him, you know, start making some blood,

but at a certain moment he has to do it himself.

Okay.

I want to see him again in two weeks, and make sure I'm here.

Let's see what he does.

Jessica: Okay. Dr. Pol: Thanks.

Clay: We've been having problems with the little tan steer.

I noticed that his left side was all bloated out.

Dr. Brenda: I don't think he can get much bigger than that.

This calf's bloated pretty hard, so it is an emergency.

They can't move the diaphragm, so they can't breathe.

Not a very fun way to go, I'm sure.

Clay: We've been having problems with the little tan steer.

He wasn't breathing well.

His left side was all bloated out.

Dr. Brenda is one of the few veterinarians

that will still make a farm call,

especially when it's below zero.

So, uh, that was my first call.

Dr. Brenda: I don't think he can get much bigger than that.

He was bad when I got here.

They can't move the diaphragm, so they can't breathe,

so they smother.

Not immediate danger of death,

but within a few hours, yes, possibly could have died.

We're going to start by de-bloating this calf.

What's going to happen is we're going to make a cut in the skin,

we're going to put this through, and I'm going to screw it in,

and that's going to hold it in there,

and then when we take out the stylet part,

the air will just come right out of it.

Alright, let's see what we can do here.

We'll put local anesthetic, so that those are not painful.

Okay, ready?

Just hold the calf.

Easy, babe, easy.

We're almost done.

Clay: You okay?

Dr. Brenda: I'm okay, yep.

Just want to get that in far enough.

Dr. Brenda: Oh, jeez. Clay: Ohhh.

(air escaping)

dr. Brenda: It's not gonna smell good,

but he'll feel better in a minute and stop being so fussy.

Clay: What now?

Dr. Brenda: Well, right now I'm gonna take his temperature

and take a listen to him.

The problem with this particular calf

is he's had chronic respiratory problems.

So he's not running a temperature today

which I think is good.

The lymph nodes in his chest are swollen up and irritated.

As long as they're still super raspy,

he's filling up with gas and getting bloated.

Let me get some meds for him.

Now that we've got the trocar in, he can breathe better,

he's not gonna have gas built up, this gives him time to heal.

I think 90% of his problem is,

he's had some issues with the weather,

the way it's been up and down and all over the place.

Clay: Okay.

Dr. Brenda: It's quite nice when we go from a critical situation

when I walk in the barn to now the calf feels much better.

That was his dose for today.

Clay: You're clear?

Dr. Brenda: Yep, let his tail down, he's good.

He's still got some issues to deal with,

but it's a good thing we came.

Had we not done something, you would've lost him.

Clay: He looks good now.

I just really appreciate that there are still vets

that'll still come out and make a farm call.

Dr. Brenda: Okay, what else?

Clay: That's enough.

I think I can say dr. Brenda

saved my steer's life this morning.

Narrator: Rainy weather followed by a polar vortex

has created an environment ripe for pneumonia.

Dr. Pol: Dang it.

Any animal that has lungs can get pneumonia.

That means sea turtles can get pneumonia.

Narrator: Pneumonia presents with a variety of symptoms.

Dr. Pol: Come on in.

Spencer: She was acting weird,

shaking like she might have a seizure or something.

Dr. Pol: Hey, what's up?

Carmen: Our dog stella was breathing hard.

Dr. Pol: You don't feel good at all.

Narrator: There are common indicators.

Dr. Pol: 103 already.

Spencer: Oh, wow.

Dr. Pol: No wonder he's shaking.

Narrator: Fever.

Dr. Pol: Here, look at this.

Everybody has a temperature!

Narrator: Color.

Dr. Pol: See how red that is?

Spencer: Yeah.

If it's really red, it means

that her lungs are filled with liquid.

Dr. Pol: Come here, let me listen.

Carmen: It's okay!

Narrator: And inflamed lungs.

Dr. Pol: Oh, yeah.

The lungs are no good.

She has pneumonia.

Here, listen, you can hear the lungs.

Spencer: Mm-hmm. Dr. Pol: Pneumonia.

Spencer: Pneumonia? Dr. Pol: Yeah.

Dr. Pol: It's pneumonia again.

This frickin' cold weather does it all.

Carmen: Okay.

Dr. Pol: And what are you gonna do?

Just a little bit of a pneumonia like this is not that serious.

I'm gonna get her a shot.

Yes, it hurts a little, but just cool it, you're fine.

Treat her.

Yeah, watch your fingers.

Should be a lot better by tomorrow.

Every animal is an individual, but if they get sick,

we can treat them and hopefully they all get better.

And if it doesn't improve, let me know.

Randy: Alright.

Dr. Pol: Prognosis on these things is good.

Spencer: Let's go.

Get a shot and now you acting all better.

I'm gonna be ecstatic when she gets back to herself.

Come on, hop in there.

Psshh.

Narrator: Earlier, doc treated isador for an iron deficiency.

Jessica: He's been a handful.

He was lethargic and not eating

and losing weight on a daily basis.

Dr. Pol: Man, they are so beautiful, those big eyes.

I'm gonna give him a dose of iron.

We gonna treat it with vitamins, iron,

and see if we can build it up a little bit.

Let's see what he does.

Jessica: Okay. Dr. Pol: Thanks.

Jessica: He is now finally on the mend

and gaining weight again.

So, 58.6.

And then he'll go.

He's eating constantly.

Smells like black licorice.

He seems to be getting taller.

He's much more energetic

than what he was just a few weeks ago.

(laughs)

which are all good signs.

He seems to be on the upward mend

and I hope he keeps going that way.

Dr. Pol: He may not be big like all the others,

but he should be alright.

♪ ♪

cynthia: Remington!

Dr. Pol: Cynthia and rick are bringing remi in.

Remi was in when he was sick,

they thought it was parvo; it wasn't.

Holy cow.

Narrator: It's been almost two months

and remi's grown by leaps and pounds.

Dr. Pol: Ay, ay.

Let's come back in a year from now,

see if you can carry him yet.

So now it's high time to start puppy shots.

Come here. Crazy dog.

Oh, yeah. You are nice.

Cynthia: His right eye waters all the time.

He's just a very sweet boy, very big boy.

Here, let me.

But very sweet boy.

Dr. Pol: There's a couple hair that I see

that are not sticking straight or something like this.

Okay, hang on.

I'm gonna try something.

The bottom eyelid almost rolls in, see that?

So I'm gonna squeeze this.

Make that swell up, and then it stays out.

See if that helps enough.

Okay, rabies, distemper.

Puppies need to be vaccinated.

Cynthia: Good boy.

Dr. Pol: They get some immunity from the mother, but not enough.

Hey, you.

If you're not vaccinated, they don't have immunity,

then you cannot have them mingle with other dogs.

Cynthia: There we go.

Dr. Pol: I hope that the vaccine now will keep the puppy healthy

for rick and cynthia.

Okay. That's it.

Cynthia: Come on, let's go home.

♪ ♪

terry: Hey, girls.

That's my maternity ward in there.

Had a cow, had a calf, thereabout daylight,

that was a little bit too big for her.

Pretty awful, isn't it?

Dr. Nicole: Oh, man.

Dr. Nicole: Oh, it's so cold.

Terry: Had a cow, had a calf,

that was a little bit too big for her.

Pretty awful, isn't it?

Dr. Nicole: Oh, man.

In order to get this cow feeling better

I have to replace the prolapse.

No, no, no, no.

Terry: It's something I can't deal with myself.

You work with cows quite a bit, do ya?

Dr. Nicole: I have, yeah.

She's gonna get a local block in the spine

so that she stops pushing against me.

Oh, man.

And hopefully push it back in and get it sutured up.

I'll let this block sit in for a second.

Terry: I'm hoping to just save the cow's life.

Dr. Nicole: We are gonna need a bucket of warm water.

Terry: Got that.

Anything else you're going to need?

Dr. Nicole: If you have like a tarp,

we could use that to our advantage.

Yeah, that could work.

That may be it.

Hi, you gonna help? Huh?

Good doggy.

Good doggy, yeah.

There's a couple things going against me in this case.

Oh, goodness.

The cow doesn't want to stand up,

so I'm gonna try doing it while she's laying down.

Kept it pretty clean.

She also has a whole bunch of fluid in her uterus.

Get this fluid to go back in.

And her uterus is also pretty fragile.

Do you have sugar, as well?

Terry: Okay.

Dr. Nicole: I don't want to go ahead

and poke a finger through there, 'cause then it could rupture

and cause a whole bunch of bleeding,

and that's not what we want at all.

Just in time.

Terry: I had never heard of the sugar before.

Dr. Nicole: Oh, yeah.

It helps draw out the fluid.

All fluid can't go back into the body where it's supposed to be.

This whole bottom side needs some.

It makes the uterus a whole lot tougher to get back in.

Terry: Got more here if you need it.

Dr. Nicole: I learned the sugar trick from dr. Pol.

It's been working really good.

Come on, cow.

Stay in.

You have to be very delicate with this uterus.

Nope, stay, mom.

But use as much force as possible to get it back in.

No pushing.

There you go, baby.

Once I was able to get both arms going in

and both sides of the uterus back in,

that seemed to do the trick.

Good.

Now the uterus is back in, I get to relax for two seconds,

and now I'm gonna suture it back up

before it comes right back out.

Terry: So you've done that before.

Dr. Nicole: Yeah.

One more.

Good.

Um, but that should stop it from coming out.

Gonna grab some pain meds.

Terry: Well, what do you think?

Hmm? What do you think?

Turned out real well.

Nicole did a really good job of putting the cow back together,

getting her stitched up.

Dr. Nicole: So, she should be all set.

Prognosis for this cow is good, now that the prolapse is back in

all she has to do is get her energy stores back up.

Terry: Why don't you go back in there with your baby?

Dr. Nicole: Take those sutures out in about a week.

Terry: Okay.

Dr. Nicole: Just snip it, and she should be okay.

Terry: She take a little doing, yeah?

Dr. Nicole: Rough morning, huh?

It went pretty smoothly for a prolapse, that's always a plus.

And I still have some energy left,

so on to the next farm call.

Terry: Thanks again for coming up, I appreciate that.

Dr. Nicole: Good luck with the rest of them.

Terry: Yeah.

Dr. Pol: It's snowing outside.

It's blowing outside.

Winter is something that you have to survive.

Ken: Oh, you're fine.

I'm coming into the clinic

because we got five shih tzu puppies

for their first vaccination,

so they can be on the road to new homes.

Dr. Pol: Come on in.

Can you carry them all?

Ken: They ain't that heavy yet.

They're all happy-go-lucky puppies.

Dr. Pol: And these are two litters, you said?

Ken: Yeah.

Dr. Pol: Okay, give me one.

Ken: They're a nice companion dog.

Dr. Pol: How old are they?

Ken: They're about 7 weeks.

Dr. Pol: They're in good shape.

This one is 3 pounds.

What we have to do is make sure

that everything looks good, sounds good.

Ken: Name's feisty.

Dr. Pol: Hee hee hee.

Ken: But they've been showing signs of worms.

Dr. Pol: Well, we'll worm them.

It's a routine worming for every puppy.

I know it doesn't taste good, swallow it.

Most of the time it's the parvovirus that makes them sick.

Okay, he's done.

Ken: Alright.

Dr. Pol: So it's very, very important that they vaccinate.

Careful, don't step on him.

You're a friendly guy.

Very good.

Same thing, 3 pounds.

And he's done, and now I'll check the last one.

All these puppies are really looking good and healthy

and ready to go to new homes.

Alrighty, that's all of them.

Ken: Alright, that's it.

Oh, we can go now.

Dr. Pol said they were a-1 healthy,

he never seen no healthier puppies.

I'm going home happy.

Tyler: Bedding cattle down, and we're coming up in the barn,

and she ran around the corner

and caught the corner of the bale spear.

Dr. Pol: What happened? Where? Oh, there.

Tyler: Yeah, she ran into the bale spear on the skid loader.

Tyler: She came running around the corner

as I was going forward and ran into the bale spear.

Dr. Pol: Sorry about my coveralls, okay?

Tyler: Oh, you're fine.

Dr. Pol: Yeee.

How it happened, we don't care.

We try to fix whatever accident happened

and make sure that everything goes fine.

Okay. Leave her here.

Tyler: Okay.

They're gonna let me know tonight how she's doing.

Dr. Pol: Looks like a 3, 4 inch cut.

Get her in a surgery room.

Go to sleep, will you?

And start finding out how bad it is and what.

My gosh.

It's a very fresh cut.

It's clean.

The basic thing is suture it up.

You're done, one more stitch.

Then everything should be fine.

Don't make a big deal on it when it's just a small thing.

♪ ♪

tyler: Doc pol called and said everything went good

and it looked good, so.

I'm very relieved that everything's alright.

She's coming home.

How you doing? Huh?

That doesn't look that bad, does it?

Looks really good.

A lot better than I thought it would look.

Come on, let's go see your brother.

She's going to go home and lay on her bed

and get her treats and take an easy day.

Look at that.

There's rex.

Dr. Nicole: So you have a horse with an eye problem?

Today we're at an amish farm.

I'm going to check on a horse that has a problem with her eye.

Man: It's that eye.

Some days it's okay and other days it's not.

Dr. Nicole: Yeah. Looks like she may have a scar on it.

Hi, pup.

Man: You stay down.

Dr. Nicole: Hold on, girl.

This doesn't hurt, just stains the eye.

Hold on!

You gotta let me put it in there first.

The stain allows me to look for any corneal ulcers or trauma.

I think she got something in her eye.

So if you look right here,

you see that little white spot in her eye?

Man: Yeah.

Dr. Nicole: And that's a scar forming,

so it happened a while ago.

This all happened from an injury,

probably a couple weeks ago,

and the body's trying to do the best it can to heal itself up.

So I'm gonna put her on some eye meds

to help decrease the inflammation

and help it heal faster.

Prognosis for this horse is good.

In the next couple days, she should start feeling better,

she should be less painful and be on the road to recovery.

Man: So you think the white spot's going to go away?

Dr. Nicole: It will decrease in size over time

and hopefully disappear for the most part.

Man: Yeah.

Narrator: Dr. Nicole's not ready

to start hoofing it quite yet.

Dr. Nicole: Per usual there is another animal

that needs my attention.

Hold on, girl.

There's some inflammation,

swelling going on on the back leg,

and he's not sure why, it just happened overnight.

Has she been worked a lot recently?

(whinnies)

yeah, you're going to be touchy, aren't you? Huh?

No, and she's not letting me touch it either.

She's obviously really sore,

'cause she doesn't even want me gliding my hand over it.

It's icy out there, she could have slid,

she could have gotten kicked,

she could have kicked something herself.

Okay, we'll get her on some pain meds.

We're gonna try treatment and rest and see if that helps.

(kisses) (laughs)

man: Let her walk around some.

Dr. Nicole: Yeah, just kind of lightly use her legs.

Horses always tend to get themselves hurt,

but usually it's not too serious,

and they're back on the road to recovery soon.

Perfect. Have a good day, guys. Bye.

Bonnie: Just does not feel good.

Narrator: Some animals are still dealing with the effects

of the wacky weather.

Bonnie: If she was feeling good, she'd be up,

she'd be to the back of the truck.

Dr. Pol: Bonnie is bringing one of her angora goats in

that she shears and sells the hair.

But the goat is sick.

Bonnie: This is not usual behavior.

Noticed yesterday morning she didn't want to get up and eat.

And that's not usual for a goat.

Last night I could get her up but she didn't get up.

Dr. Pol: Oh.

Bonnie: And this morning she still, she's just...

Dr. Pol: Oh.

Bonnie: Lethargic.

Dr. Pol: I'll say.

Bonnie: Okay.

And at the back of the pen.

Dr. Pol: Hold still, sweet.

Bonnie: I sheared November 1st,

and so it's been a dickens of a time.

Dr. Pol: And then it got cold. Bonnie: Oh, yes.

Bonnie: I feel like with being sheared and this cold weather,

that put her at a disadvantage.

It's been a bugger trying to keep them warm.

Dr. Pol: Yes, we've had so many sick animals, including humans.

Bonnie: Yeah.

Dr. Pol: I sneeze and I cough.

(sneezes) bonnie: Oh, bless you.

Dr. Pol: Like I said, everybody sneezes.

Okay, 102 and a half, which is normal.

Temperature is normal.

That's working alright.

But the lungs don't sound the greatest.

But she has a big snotty nose.

Bonnie: She has a snotty nose.

Dr. Pol: When was the last time you wormed her?

(sneezes) bonnie: Well, November 1st.

Dr. Pol: I still see that there's some diarrhea almost.

Let me go check that.

Bonnie: Yeah. Okay.

Dr. Pol: I just want to make sure

that we don't have parasites either.

When I do a fecal...

There's not enough interesting things here to say,

"okay, that's what we got."

I don't find any worm eggs.

You don't even have coccidia.

That's good.

So then we have a whole bunch of pneumonia,

upper respiratory going on.

So the main thing is, make it better.

Okay.

No parasites to be seen.

Bonnie: Okay.

I was very proud that she didn't have any parasites,

so it shows that I'm doing a good job in that respect.

Dr. Pol: So we'll treat it for pneumonia.

Bonnie: Okay.

It was my hunch that it was probably a pneumonia,

but it was a relief to get a true diagnosis.

Dr. Pol: A very good antibiotic and one shot should do it.

Bonnie: Okay.

Dr. Pol: You know, what we have is the fairly new antibiotics.

Okay, at least she's up and walking now, huh?

That last a long time.

Come on, sweet.

A couple days they'll be back on track and be normal.

Watch out.

Don: And keep your fingers crossed

we don't have any others that are sick.

Dr. Pol: Shh!

Don't make it any worse than what it is.

Bonnie: Okay, thank you very much!

Dr. Pol: Yes.

Bonnie: Alright.

Well, that's good.

Don: Good, yeah.

Bonnie: Once she's back to full health,

she's gonna go back in with the buck,

and soon we'll have babies in the spring.

Don: I love 'em.

I think they're fantastic little creatures.

Bonnie: They are.

Robyn: Sheepy. Come, come, come.

Narrator: Less than a week ago,

robyn's sheep were feeling down in the dumps.

Robyn: My sheep are doing fantastic.

Hey, mama.

Mama started eating the very next day,

and each day she's gotten better and better.

Good girl.

Little boy is doing so much better.

Good boy.

He's running around, he's being little boy.

There you go.

I trusted dr. Pol, and look at the results.

Everything's okay.

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