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00:00Across Yorkshire's Moors and Dales, the world's most famous vets set the benchmark for animal care.
00:08And James Herriot's legacy lives on.
00:14His former trainee, Peter Wright...
00:16All my life, I've enjoyed doing this.
00:18...has been a Yorkshire vet for over 40 years.
00:22There we are! How are you doing me, old mate?
00:25Peter's old partner, Julian Norton...
00:28Not quite the same as operated in theatre, is it?
00:30I know.
00:31Now has two practices.
00:33I don't want to let him go.
00:35One of them in the town where Herriot worked, surrounded by the North Yorkshire landscape he loved.
00:41Everything that you can see all across there is Yorkshire.
00:44And in the foothills of the Pennines...
00:47That's a Hollywood smile.
00:49...a new generation of town and country vets also uphold the Herriot ethos.
00:54I'm just going to have a feel a bit deeper inside to see what we've got.
00:57The teams are united.
00:59We can probably knock this off ourselves, do you think?
01:01Never taking their eyes off the ball.
01:04Whoa!
01:06Has there helped animals of all shapes...
01:09He's trying to grow an extra pair of legs.
01:11...sizes...
01:12Endo-gorgeous.
01:13...types...
01:14...and temperaments.
01:17No, don't be nasty.
01:19It's definitely not glamorous.
01:21Get that mucus out.
01:22But it's varied.
01:23So we've actually found gold, literally found gold.
01:26It's rarely easy.
01:27You've won Mr. Wet t-shirt.
01:29But they continue the Herriot tradition.
01:32It's alive.
01:33Treating all creatures...
01:34It's moving.
01:35I can't believe it.
01:36...great...
01:37You're all right little bird.
01:40...and small.
01:41How are we up then?
01:42Yay!
01:43Many a famous battle has taken place in Yorkshire.
01:58The 30-year War of the Roses.
02:02Victory over the Vikings at Stamford Bridge in 1066,
02:06shortly before King Harold's infamous demise down south in Hastings.
02:12Just as Edward II's triumph at Burrowbridge in the 14th century,
02:17was quickly followed by the less successful Battle of Byland,
02:22when Edward deployed troops to the top of Sutton Bank,
02:27hoping, in vain,
02:29that guarding the high ground would halt the advancing army
02:33of Scottish King Robert the Bruce.
02:38Here and across the land,
02:41tributes are paid to all of history's brave soldiers.
02:46The animal kingdom isn't without its own battles.
02:51And in West Yorkshire,
02:53Matt's on his way to see Lucy.
02:56She keeps two South American rears,
02:59distant relatives of the emu and the ostrich,
03:02who ward off prowling foxes.
03:05So this is Mr.
03:06We've had him for about two years.
03:09He looks after our hens, protects them,
03:11and he's got his girlfriend, which is Missy.
03:13So I've seen the fox take the hens away physically in the mouse during the day time.
03:17And then since we've had the rears, we've never ever lost a hen in touchwood.
03:20But Mr. has just had more than a fox to contend with.
03:26I came out to check on my hens and he was being attacked by two hunting dogs.
03:30He was really, really badly injured.
03:32I caught them chasing them.
03:36So I've actually chased the dogs off.
03:38I was joined by four gentlemen,
03:40all dressed in camouflage gear,
03:42who denied all knowledge that they were their dogs.
03:44But they were shouting,
03:45get in, kill it, kill it, kill it.
03:47The female doesn't do too bad.
03:51But she's just pacing the land because of her nerves.
03:58I'm still shaking.
03:59I've not slept.
04:00We've been up an hour in the field at two, three o'clock in the morning,
04:03checking on them just in case they come back.
04:06Hi there, Lucy.
04:07Hi. You all right?
04:08This is Mazda's student with us.
04:10Hello.
04:11So, what's the story?
04:13When I got to him, it was covered in blood.
04:15There were feathers everywhere.
04:17You can see he's shook up.
04:18Yeah.
04:19Poor lad.
04:20Now, I don't know that it's in the injuries
04:21because he's been hunkered down ever since the attack.
04:23Right.
04:24What I think we'll do,
04:25we've got a towel there to cover his head
04:27and then I'll get you to wrap a towel around his body
04:29so it feels nice and secure
04:30and then we can put him onto his side
04:32and have a look at those legs
04:33and work our way from there.
04:34All right.
04:35Yeah.
04:36Right.
04:37Let's gently see if he'll just roll him over to this side.
04:39There we go.
04:40That's it. That's it.
04:41Goodbye.
04:42That's it. Good boy. Relax.
04:43Good lad.
04:44Right.
04:45Oof.
04:46Aye.
04:47They've a fair gun at him, haven't they?
04:52You can see where the dogs have got Mr. Real Good
04:57and they've caused some really nasty lacerations
05:00around this back end.
05:01So it's no wonder it feels horrible
05:03feels horrible because infection can set in quite quickly. Obviously there's a lot of
05:08inflammation present as well. Got a wound there as well. But I'm more concerned at this area
05:16here. So I'm just going to have a look underneath. You all right there, Lucia? Yeah, yeah, thanks.
05:21Let's see what we've got going on here. Okay. Relax, relax, relax, relax, relax. That's
05:32it. Not really gone for his right leg, have they? That's all clear. We need to have a
05:38look and see what's going on with that leg, because the last thing I want to see is if
05:41we're going to that joint, because that's obviously bad news.
05:54After practice in Thirst, Wendy and her son Craig have brought their 12-year-old basset
06:01town, Thelma, to see Julian. Thelma's come in today with a problem with her left eye. She's
06:08got a condition called glaucoma, where the pressure builds up. We got Thelma, I think she was about
06:14six or seven, adopted that. She's just brilliant. We've been checking the eye pressure every couple
06:21of months and it's been really well controlled, but it's suddenly started to become problematic.
06:26It's keeping her awake at night and she's on painkillers. I'm just hoping Julian can sort
06:33something else out for her. As long as she's not peeing any more, that's the biggest thing.
06:39Hello again.
06:40Hello again. Thelma.
06:42Come on, missus. Come on.
06:45Is it still quite bad?
06:47Yeah.
06:47I have. Yeah. I've been given our pain relief. Still putting the drops in, but I don't think
06:54it's doing any good.
06:55Wow.
06:56It's suddenly swollen up. I'm going to check the pressure again just now, but it's looking
07:00like we're going to need to do something altogether more dramatic. Good girl.
07:05This is called a tonometer. It basically measures the pressure in the eyeball and it tells us
07:14how bad the glaucoma is. And in Thelma's case at the moment, it's really bad. I've never
07:19seen one as high as that. 99 is, yeah, it's really high. That's going to be a very painful
07:25situation. The only option is to remove the eyeball. It's fairly kind of horrible surgery,
07:33but it will be curative. So I think it's the right thing to do and then she'll look a bit
07:39funny, but she'll feel a lot more comfortable. Yeah. Aw. Aw.
07:48Before surgery begins, Robin and Kelly... Oh, God, darling.
07:53..are making sure Thelma is as comfortable as possible.
07:56So routinely, dogs' temperatures can drop through an anaesthetic, so we do everything
08:03we can to keep them warm. So we always put socks on them and they get a blanket when they
08:07go in theatre as well. Fashion accessory. Fashion accessory.
08:12I'm hoping that she's going to be OK. But she's an old girl, so we'll keep monitoring
08:16her closely. Right, you ready?
08:18Whenever we take away part of the body, it's the last thing we want to do. But in these
08:29cases, glaucoma that's unresponsive to treatment is really painful. And this is as bad a case
08:36as I've seen, I think. All right, are we ready?
08:42Coming up... Ooh, you can just see the holes where the teeth have gone in.
08:46Matt needs a big birdhouse. Right, and we'll go head to the top left.
08:51Can David help a unique lamb? It was born with five legs and six feet.
08:57I've never seen one quite like that. And when work friends are reunited...
09:01It's going to be a reunion, isn't it? I know it is.
09:03It's never too late for an old grievance. You must be the only person that asks you
09:09for an interview, and then you get thrown on reception the second day.
09:14We're meeting you.
09:26In West Yorkshire, Matt's on one of his more shocking emergency calls.
09:31Bloody hell. It's, uh, taking a beating.
09:35He's helping loose his rear of mister, after the big bird suffered a vicious dog attack.
09:41My concern is it's a bit too cold out here for him.
09:44Yep.
09:44Is there any way that we could get a few pallets across the front of that and put him in there?
09:49Yeah.
09:50Because at least in there he's going to be sheltered.
09:52How do we get him there?
09:54I think we'll just carry him, you know.
09:56So we'll get him all treated and cleaned up and stuff like that while we're here.
10:00With mister's partner Missy still on high alert, the attack's been traumatic for all involved.
10:06I did think it was irreparable. I didn't think he was going to make it at all, because there
10:11was that much blood. But he's very strong.
10:15The wounds are really quite nasty, but thankfully there's no penetration to any deeper or more
10:20vital structures. So we're going to give all of that a clean, give it a flush out, get
10:24him started on some serious therapy, and hopefully we'll start to make progress.
10:28I know it's sore, it's sore. It must have put up some fighting to have only those scabs
10:37and scratches here and there. What kind of dogs were they?
10:40Like hunting dogs.
10:41You can just see the holes where the teeth have gone in, so what I'm doing is I'm flushing
10:45this out to clean out any nastiness that's knocking around there, and the body can start
10:50to have a chance at healing. Right then, I'm just going to find a bit of muscle to put this
10:56in. Goodbye.
11:00So that there's an antibiotic injection. Right, anti-inflammatories now.
11:06Vet student Malisa is shadowing Matt.
11:09It's really sad to see such cases, but it's a very good opportunity for me to learn.
11:14And proving to be extremely useful.
11:16So you just sit him up, you just sit him up there. Right, Min, you'll go back.
11:24Miss has got a lot of strength there, which is good, but the wind and the weather up here
11:28is just nasty, and we're going to get him into this little shed so he's nice and warm,
11:33and we can be sure that he's not at risk of hypothermia.
11:36This is Missy. She's come to see what's going on. She's been really, really upset about it
11:42all because they're always together. They've been brought up together, and that's all they
11:45know is each other. Right, and we'll go head to the top left.
11:51Whew, no gym tonight for me. So while he's in here and he's nice and calm, I'm just looking
11:59underneath all his wings, some nasty gashes around, but I think the deepest wounds we've treated.
12:05Right, let's leave him to it. Extra pair of hands has been very welcome today, so thank you very much.
12:15Thank you very much. Right, after you.
12:19It was definitely an exhilarating experience. I think it went pretty well and got the meds in,
12:25so hopefully, fingers crossed, he's going to go grand.
12:30I nearly stopped shaking. Obviously, it was just terrifying to witness it all and see it first-hand,
12:35one of the yaw animals, the yaw pets.
12:38A bite a few inches further down, you know, it might have even been a put-to-sleep case.
12:43The nasty wounds, but I'm really pleased that they're in a place where I think the body can heal.
12:48Right. Well, fingers crossed. Keep it posted.
12:50Yeah, will do. Brilliant.
12:51See you next time. Right, Mouth, let's bounce.
12:53Right, thank you. See you later.
12:54See you later. Bye. Bye.
12:56Nice to meet you.
13:09Near Thirst, Peter's quite excited about his next job, even if it sounds pretty routine.
13:15There's no way now to castrate a Shetland pony called Reggie.
13:22It's starting to get a little bit nippy, and the owner, Nicola, thinks it's time that he was separated from his testicles.
13:30What he's especially looking forward to is an emotional reunion.
13:35It's going to be a bit of a blast from the past, because Nicola, the owner's mother, Sandra, worked with me at Scaldale.
13:44She was a fantastic receptionist and secretary.
13:49Good afternoon, Scaldale Veterinary Centre.
13:53Incredibly reliable, and one of the nicest people you could have to work with.
13:58You used to shout at me, didn't you?
13:59Well, you used to shout at me.
14:01She used to shout at me.
14:03Peter's head nurse in Kirby Moorside, Rachel, also worked with Sandra at Scaldale.
14:12Well, hello, stranger.
14:13Hello.
14:14How are you?
14:15Well, I'm very well.
14:16How are you?
14:17Yeah, I'm fine.
14:18It's like a Scaldale reunion, isn't it?
14:19I know, it is.
14:20Yeah, very well, thank you.
14:21And what have we here?
14:22Three generations?
14:23Three generations, yeah.
14:24I know when I was at Scaldale, you always kept me in my place, didn't you?
14:27You were a model vet.
14:28Yeah, you didn't say that at the time, did you?
14:31Well, here we are, Nicola.
14:34We've got Reggie today.
14:36We have.
14:37Yeah.
14:38So it's full of the joys of spring?
14:39It really is, yeah.
14:40Oh, crikey.
14:41What we'll do, I think, we'll take him into the box and we'll give him a sedative, and then,
14:46hopefully, remove those bits, those annoying little bits that are making him a little bit nippy.
14:53Right, mister, here goes.
14:56Got to give me sedative first.
14:58Looks like you've got the knack there, Peter.
15:01Hey, we haven't started yet.
15:02Come on, you know you really want to.
15:06Come on, Reggie.
15:07Go on, Reg.
15:08Come on, Reggie.
15:09Now, he might wobble a bit on here.
15:12Can we turn left here, please, Nic?
15:15Right, lovely.
15:18I'm going to inject him now, then he's going to jerk a bit, then he's going to go down onto
15:22his side.
15:23That's lovely.
15:24Have a little sleep, Reg.
15:25Just for a short time.
15:26That's it, my old friend.
15:27That's grand.
15:28Rubber testicles, Reggie.
15:29Rubber testicles.
15:30It's looking good, so far.
15:31So far.
15:32Oh, bless him.
15:33You know, when you're working with another vet or a nurse, you become very much a team.
15:34And when Rachel came to Skeldale, right from the word go, I just knew she was perfect.
15:35And when Rachel came to Skeldale, right from the word go, I just knew she was perfect.
15:36And I've got to say, he's actually a team.
15:37He's actually a team.
15:38He's actually a team.
15:39He's a team.
15:40He's a team.
15:41And I've got to say, he's actually the same about Sandra.
15:42No, you must be the only person that asks you for an interview.
15:44And when Rachel came to Skeldale, right from the word go, I just knew she was perfect.
15:48And I've got to say, exactly the same about Sandra.
15:49No, you must be the only person that asks you for an interview, and then you get thrown
16:11in on reception the second day.
16:13Well, you're just nice.
16:14And you're the only person who asks you for an interview.
16:16and you were there, and we needed you.
16:22That's looking absolutely fine.
16:24We will get a little bit of oozing,
16:26and that's why we'll leave these incisions open,
16:28so that that can just drain nicely now.
16:33There you are, Reg.
16:35That's it.
16:36Good job, well done there, look.
16:38Yeah, he's happy now.
16:40Good boy.
16:41Let's go steady, Reg.
16:46Well, I've got to say, it is lovely to catch up.
16:49Maybe we should do it more often.
16:50We maybe should.
16:51We should, yeah.
16:52Yeah, we should.
16:53Definitely.
16:54And I think, if I remember right,
16:56you know, if we do meet up in a hostel or so,
16:58it's your round, I think.
17:00Well, that does not surprise me one bit.
17:04On that note, lovely seeing you, Peter.
17:07And you, yeah.
17:08See you later, bye.
17:10Bye.
17:11Reg's recovery now should be pretty uneventful, really.
17:17Yes, he's a youngster, but relatively he's nice and calm,
17:20and once we got to work, I couldn't have had a better patient.
17:26I've got to say I did find it quite nostalgic
17:28to see Sandra again, and to see her daughter, Nicola,
17:32and her granddaughter, it was quite special, really.
17:35It took me back in time.
17:37Over at Thirsk's newest vet practice,
17:43Julian is performing delicate surgery.
17:48Is she all right?
17:50With the help of Robin and Kelly,
17:52he's removing Thelma the Basset Hound's damaged eye.
17:55So the first bit is cutting through the skin around the eye.
18:00It's more difficult in a basset because there's so much skin
18:04and so much spare tissue really everywhere.
18:09So, taking quite a bit away.
18:14I've done this in all sorts of animals, mainly dogs, I suppose,
18:18but I took an eye out of a Daegu most recently.
18:21Oh, wow.
18:22Two cows, they were not easy.
18:24And, crikey, yeah, you think there's a lot of blood with this kind of thing,
18:28but with a cow, it's poor.
18:33It's fairly slow and steady at the moment.
18:36Never quite as easy as you think it's going to be.
18:39It's a question of dissecting around inside the orbit
18:44to get the eyeball sort of loosened off.
18:50And then the final bit is kind of getting it out.
18:57Yeah.
18:59So, yeah, out now.
19:01So that's just closing the gaping hole back together.
19:08Considering how much extra skin there is
19:11that's sort of flopping in the way,
19:13it looks reasonably neat, that.
19:16Ready?
19:17Yeah.
19:18Can she say goodbye to her socks?
19:19Yeah, she can.
19:23Right.
19:25You ready?
19:26One, two, three.
19:27I'm ready.
19:28We hope that Thelma's going to stay quite sleepy
19:31for the next hour or so,
19:32and then all being well home.
19:34Home later on this evening.
19:35Good evening.
19:42And a few hours later,
19:45Thelma's owners, Wendy and Craig,
19:47are back at the practice.
19:50We rang up at lunchtime
19:52and heard all had gone well.
19:55I'm scared because I don't know what she's going to look like.
19:57I'll probably start crying,
19:58but I'm just dying to get her home.
20:00Come on, Thelma!
20:01This way, that's it.
20:03Hey!
20:04There we are!
20:06She looks happier already.
20:08The Sidney went fine, off the plan.
20:11I can see there's quite a big wound.
20:14Yeah.
20:15But if they'll heal up nicely,
20:16now the eye's out,
20:17the pain is pretty much gone.
20:19So she'll be happier and brighter
20:21and sometimes almost instantly better.
20:23It's not very nice to look after.
20:25I'm sure she'll look better once it's healed.
20:27She seems okay.
20:28A little bit subdued.
20:30I just hope she's not in any more pain.
20:32That's the main thing.
20:34It was the right thing to do,
20:35so happy with that.
20:37I'll get you home.
20:40Aw!
20:41Thelma's recovered really well.
20:42The sight where we removed the eye looks great.
20:46See you soon.
20:47Bye!
20:48She needs to take it quite steadily
20:49for the next few weeks.
20:50Things can go wrong in terms of
20:52dislodging blood clots and that sort of thing.
20:55But it's a question of keeping calm
20:57and letting nature do its healing thing now.
21:11After they met on a rural dating site,
21:13Amanda recently moved up from Cornwall
21:16to live with Paul near Huddersfield.
21:18And she's quickly learned
21:21that life as a Yorkshire sheep farmer
21:23is never dull.
21:25But even Paul was shocked
21:27by one of their newest arrivals.
21:32I was born with five legs and six feet.
21:37It was a big surprise seeing it
21:39when it first landed,
21:41coming up at five o'clock in the morning.
21:42And we've said every day is a circus up here,
21:44but this has taken it to the extreme.
21:47I didn't expect the leg to grow
21:49in proportion to the sheep,
21:51but it has.
21:53I think that's the most weirdest thing about it,
21:55that it looks to be growing more than what the lamb is.
21:57The bone and everything.
21:59The farm animal team in Huddersfield
22:01have been monitoring the situation.
22:04And David's just arrived,
22:06with concern growing.
22:08There's a lamb's walking now,
22:09swinging away,
22:10and it's catching between its two legs,
22:11and it's getting big, it's getting over.
22:13And where it's swinging,
22:14it's just bothering it a bit now, I think.
22:16Hello.
22:17Hi, David.
22:18How are you doing?
22:19So it's still been growing, this fifth leg, then?
22:21Yes.
22:22Yeah.
22:23It's now dragging on the ground?
22:24Is it?
22:25It's going to become a real problem for it.
22:27Right, I'll just get my boots on,
22:28and then we'll have a look at the size of it.
22:34Steady, mate. Steady.
22:36I've never seen one quite like that.
22:38You get all sorts of bits.
22:40I've seen some that have been stillborn,
22:42but I've never seen one
22:43that's just lived and grown like that.
22:45That'll be a birth defect,
22:46so when its cells were multiplying
22:49as it was growing in the womb,
22:50some of them went to the wrong place
22:52or doubled when they shouldn't have,
22:54and it's trying to grow an extra pair of legs.
22:56It's going to be pretty painful and uncomfortable.
22:58Go on, then, little man.
23:01Poor thing, it's getting in the way of it moving around.
23:03Yeah.
23:05David's made the decision
23:07that successful surgery is possible.
23:13I'm pretty optimistic.
23:14We can get that off.
23:15It's going to be an interesting one, certainly.
23:18Let's hope there's no unexpected surprises in there.
23:20You never really know what you're going to get
23:22with these kind of things
23:23because they're so unusual.
23:26To help him with the extra leg,
23:28David has an extra pair of hands.
23:31Steady.
23:32Here you go.
23:33That's a little bit of sedation.
23:35That belonged to vet student Izzy.
23:37I don't know if you hang onto the foot, Izzy.
23:39While I scrub it, please.
23:40Yeah, I've got a limited amount of time,
23:42so I need to crack on.
23:47Coming up...
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24:01Yeah.
24:02And will there be high fives
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25:13In West Yorkshire, Matt's client Lucy was left shocked
25:29when one of her rears suffered a violent dog attack.
25:32So that night when Matt left,
25:34we'd managed to get Mr. into the field shelter
25:36and that was fine.
25:38I lived in the field shelter with him,
25:40and we stroked him and it was lovely.
25:42All the treatment was in place,
25:44done everything that we should have done,
25:46but unfortunately he just didn't pull through.
25:53Mr. lived with Mrs.
25:54and Mrs. did not cope well on her own at all without him.
25:58She just was so upset and it was just awful to see
26:01because she was looking for him all the time.
26:06So the new arrival has been absolutely amazing for her.
26:09She's come round a million times
26:11because she was so lonely before on her own.
26:13So she's back to herself again now.
26:17Matt's come back to see how the new bird is settling in.
26:20Hi Lucy, all right? Good to see you again. How's things?
26:24Yeah, good, thank you.
26:25Good, good, good.
26:26So sad to hear about Mr.
26:27and it sounds like he'd just deteriorated
26:29since we saw him, did it?
26:30So we kept him sheltered all night
26:32and he was totally fine.
26:33And then we came to the surgery
26:34to pick up the medication that we needed to pick up.
26:36Yeah.
26:37And unfortunately, when we got back,
26:39he'd already gone.
26:40Really? That quick?
26:41Yeah, so quick.
26:42He was fine in the morning.
26:43Yeah.
26:44Seemed his perky self
26:45and then he'd just gone by the time we got back.
26:47I mean, the thing is with birds,
26:49it's something that no matter how big they are,
26:51they are so, so stressy.
26:53Yeah.
26:54Maybe cows, such like that,
26:56you know, can survive through
26:57and handle that degree of stress,
26:59whereas birds are just so fractious
27:01no matter what the size.
27:02Yeah.
27:03And, I mean, it was a long shot,
27:04but we did what we could.
27:05We had to try.
27:06Definitely.
27:07Oh, definitely.
27:09Well, I understand Missy's got a new partner now.
27:11Yeah?
27:12Yeah.
27:13When we got the new one then,
27:14they were like a long-lost couple.
27:15They just ran towards each other in the field.
27:17Oh, that's so nice.
27:18And they've been inseparable ever since.
27:19Oh, fab.
27:20How old is her new boyfriend?
27:22Two.
27:23Yeah.
27:24And she's three.
27:25Oh, brilliant.
27:26What have we called him?
27:27Maverick, for now.
27:28Maverick. Oh, right, okay.
27:29Right, I'm about to feed them, Jonty.
27:30Oh, I'd love to help you feed them.
27:31Yeah, let's feed the dinosaurs.
27:33Which is your favourite, bread or lettuce?
27:35Do you want your fingers?
27:36Nah, I don't value them.
27:37Right.
27:40Not only do they look like dinosaurs when they're running towards you,
27:43I think they eat like dinosaurs as well.
27:45So, er, breakfast time.
27:47And if any rear deserves a special treat,
27:50it's Missy.
27:51Look at this.
27:52Oh.
27:53New person.
27:54There you go, Missy.
27:56Sure, she took it very gently, too.
27:58Right, come on, Maverick.
27:59Whoa, tasty.
28:01And it's better for you than white bread as well.
28:03There you go.
28:06Down the hatch.
28:08Ah, thanks so much for having me over for breakfast.
28:10And it's so good to see them looking so well.
28:12Yeah.
28:14It's obviously still so sad that we lost Mister,
28:17but when you look at the amount of trauma that he'd gone through
28:21and from such a horrific dog attack as well,
28:24it was always going to be a long shot,
28:26and unfortunately it's a reality that, as vets, we have to deal with,
28:31and it's horrible not just for the owners,
28:34but it's horrible for the animals that are often partners with them.
28:38At least Missy's still here,
28:40and it's good to see that she's back on her feet now,
28:42and she's got a good bond with Maverick.
28:44One of Peter's newest farming friends is Abby, up on the North York Moors.
28:57Anyway, if you just hold me that rope, that might work.
29:01I'll do my girl power.
29:03Good to know you now.
29:05And he's introduced her to some old friends.
29:08Hey, Abby!
29:09Hello!
29:10You all right, kid?
29:11Which meant Abby could provide Jean and Steve Green
29:14with some new four-legged friends.
29:16Oh, they're too money and steak.
29:18Oh, grand. Beautiful.
29:20Just what I don't want, isn't it?
29:22To give Abby an even better feel for Thirsk farming history,
29:29today, Peter's meeting her at the original Harriet practice,
29:33where he worked until 1996, alongside the great vet himself.
29:39Good morning, Peter.
29:40How are you doing?
29:41Oh, good, thank you. How are you?
29:42I'm very well, thanks.
29:43Because he's promised to give a guided tour to the whole family.
29:47Hello.
29:48Hello.
29:49Nice to see you.
29:51Well, this was the dispenser here.
29:54Is this where you used to keep all your lotions and portions, Peter?
29:58Well, it was.
29:59I mean, a lot of these hark back to before my time.
30:01You know, they have colourings in to make them look more potent
30:04and useful than they actually were.
30:06And I think in those days, you know, animals either survived
30:09or they didn't.
30:13It's quite special because I've got Abby here
30:16and a family who, to me, are traditional family farmers.
30:20This was a consulting room, so we had a table in there.
30:22We would stand here and see dogs when they came in,
30:25but going back to before my time,
30:27you know, you wouldn't see a dog.
30:29And a cat was even rarer.
30:30And it's lovely to welcome them
30:32and show them what my life used to be like to some extent,
30:35going back to the 80s when I came back to work here as a veterinary surgeon.
30:39And certainly whenever I step in here,
30:41it brings back lots of memories.
30:43This is the office.
30:47A couple of telephones on here.
30:49This is where all the visits would come in.
30:51You would then write it in the day book.
30:54To use the words of Donald Sinclair and Alf White,
30:57us young fit lads would be out doing work.
30:59Donald didn't like us sitting out in the office
31:01because we weren't earning any money.
31:03It's really interesting to see what it was like when Peter was here.
31:10So, I'm really enjoying my day out.
31:13And it gives us a break from the farm.
31:15And there's many farmers' names I recognise here.
31:18January 1982.
31:21Green, Stony Brook Farm.
31:24Visit heifer.
31:26If that was nowadays, you'd be going to see one of our heifers,
31:29what were dropped off for them.
31:31Well, I would, wouldn't I?
31:32And I've got to say, I don't go so much now
31:35because they're very healthy.
31:37But seeing as Abby's in Firsk,
31:43they decided to pay a visit to the latest of her calves
31:47to be re-homed at Stony Brook Farm.
31:50Yeah, we brought Frosty the calf down.
31:53Hello, Frosty!
31:55So we'd better go see how she is doing, aren't we?
31:59Oh, you buggery bit!
32:02Blurry!
32:03Yeah, you've got some teeth.
32:06Hello, anybody about?
32:08Yes, sir!
32:09Well, I've got a visitor with me.
32:11You all right?
32:12How are you?
32:13Good, yeah, how are you?
32:14So you delivered this calf fairly recently, I believe, didn't you?
32:17Yeah.
32:18Yeah.
32:19Let's have a look.
32:20Looks a nice calf.
32:21It's a good long calf, that.
32:23It is a good long calf, Steve, yeah.
32:25It has a good frame.
32:26How's she settling in?
32:28It's settling in not too bad.
32:30Good.
32:31But it makes a lot of noise for a human.
32:34Why?
32:35Have you trained it?
32:36Well, it might take off to me and it won't throw up.
32:39Well, you're one of them, are you?
32:41Oh, they're good calves.
32:42They can't falter.
32:43Good.
32:44I'm pleased she's settling in well for you.
32:45Well, that's fair praise indeed, coming from Mrs Green.
32:46Fair praise.
32:47Today's been a good day.
32:48And to top it off, we've come to see the calves delivered here.
32:52She's looking happy and content and it's nice to see that they're doing well.
32:53And we know that Stevie and Jeannie look after her very well.
32:57You take care, Abby.
32:58Yeah, you too.
32:59Bye.
33:00Yeah, bye, love.
33:01It's been lovely to see Abby and her family here in Thirsk.
33:02And I thoroughly enjoyed taking them a trip down memory lane, back at my old practice.
33:03So, uh, all of them are happy.
33:04It's been lovely to see Abby and her family here in Thirsk.
33:05And I thoroughly enjoyed taking them a trip down memory lane, back at my old practice.
33:06So, uh, all in all, a very good day.
33:07Thank you, Debbie!
33:08Thank you, Debbie!
33:09Thank you, Debbie!
33:10Thank you, Debbie!
33:11Thank you, Debbie!
33:12And I'm still happy to see that they're content and it's nice to see that they're doing
33:15well.
33:16And we know that Stevie and Jeannie look after her very well.
33:18You take care, Abby.
33:19Yeah, you too.
33:20Bye!
33:21Bye!
33:22Bye, love!
33:23It's been lovely to see Abby and her family here in Thirsk.
33:25And I thoroughly enjoyed taking them a trip down memory lane, back at my old practice.
33:30So, all in all, have a very good day.
33:32near Huddersfield david's performing one of his most unusual operations on paul and amanda's lamb
33:50so i've been through the skin and i am doing a mixture of sharp and blunt dissection because
33:58you don't know exactly what's underneath he's removing her fifth leg which has two feet what
34:03i'm worried about is that somewhere in here is a big honking artery what we can't have is
34:12too much blood loss because she's not big enough to sustain a massive bleed
34:23it's fiddly even if you're doing a dog in the surgery with normal legs
34:28and you know i'm exactly where everything is
34:33it's connected way more than i thought there's a lot of muscle in there
34:41and that's the bleeder
34:45i knew there would be a big blood vessel in there somewhere
34:50she's like all right isn't she just keep your hands on it was a major arterial
34:55blood supply i think it'll last little bit so before we can read a little bit just don't
35:00relax too much paul and amanda just in case
35:08excellent and although the lamb now has the right number of legs
35:12feels weird david can't relax yet either
35:18the problem is because the anatomy is so abnormal it's not like you can predict where
35:25the artery was going to be well it's got a big leg then with blood supply yeah
35:28yeah it's like growing crops you know they're not going to grow us there's no water
35:34it's weird it's just i don't know it's intriguing yeah all stitched up and closed certainly was a tricky one
35:43we're just gonna i'll take a gas
35:48she's still going to be pretty sleepy for a little while
35:51she needs some time to to come around from all the anesthetic and the trauma and the surgery
35:54really think she'd be better with mum yeah yeah we'll get mum in this one this one here
36:03it was fascinating something i don't think i'll ever see again hopefully
36:08great that it's all gone well not too much of a blood loss and dave had it all under control
36:13excellent amazes me that she's up and about already yeah yeah she's just as if nothing's happened
36:23cheers david thanks very much brilliant i'll be back here hopefully in a couple of weeks
36:27yeah the stitches out see how she's doing obviously keep a close eye on and let me know if there any
36:31concerns in the meantime certainly was an interesting one but she's doing really well she's back in the
36:38pen with mum just don't want to charging around and banging that wound now so we're going to keep a
36:43close eye on her not let her do too much exercise keep it nice and clean and then hopefully in a couple
36:48of weeks i can come back get the stitches out and let them get on with it
36:54still to come come on thelma this way when thelma returns julian's weightlifting
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37:54in thirst wendy's brought felma back to the practice three weeks after julian had to remove the 12 year
38:01old bassett hounds eye it's healed lovely she's much happier she's sleeping better she doesn't seem like
38:09she's in pain anymore at all and i think it just sounds awful getting the dog's eye removed but it's
38:16it's like it's the best thing we did for her
38:19thelma hiya hello thelma how are you come on thelma this way
38:25so i'll take the front hand you take oh thank you there you go one less side but no less heavy
38:34so she's been doing all right i guess brilliant absolutely brilliant to me it's how i imagine
38:41having a chronic bad headache will be constantly when you take it away very often within a matter
38:48of a few hours you've got those that are really really happy it looks like it's here look very well
38:53a little bit scabby but you always get a little bit of scabbiness there because um
38:57um there's quite a big hole that needs to fill in she's brighter than me i think i'd have to be
39:04sedated to have that done well she can't see what i'm doing yeah true she's been a really brilliant
39:09patient actually right from the beginning and you're done all done this is good she's doing really
39:16well now she's clearly a lot happier and brighter the tail hasn't really stopped wagging
39:20all the time she's been here and now those stitches are out that's the start of her next chapter
39:28and the next chapter contains lots of love and attention back at home oh yeah she likes that
39:37oh yeah yeah she does you could care i'm just so happy i mean obviously she's getting old and i was
39:44really worried about the operation with that age but she's just a happy little old lady
39:49you coming up well man there's a good girl there she is ah yeah it's a good girl
40:00i'm just so happy she's out of pain she's gone into a bit of a
40:04setting slog now i wouldn't have her any other way
40:08near thirsk peter recently enjoyed a work reunion when he castrated shetland pony reggie
40:22and although his former colleague sandra isn't here today he's looking forward to seeing her daughter
40:27nicola and granddaughter holly it's my last call of the day and it's rather a nice one be interesting to
40:34see if reggie's calmed down a bit from when we had to castrate him good afternoon afternoon peter how are
40:42you okay i can see that you're busy well we're trying to keep him right peter look at him he's a little
40:49stunner he looks absolutely magnificent doesn't he i'm pleased with him he's come on a treat i think
40:57having his bits off was the best thing that could have happened absolutely we've had very little
41:02biting yep um he's not stroppy so proud of him absolutely let's have a look at your reggie it's
41:10all right oh reg well reggie reggie we'll give you your vaccination shall we good boy there's a good lad
41:18good lad nearly done it's all right good lad do you want to go for a canter round yeah i said i'm
41:28not quite as keen on him now look at that he's just giving him a kiss on his nose that's lovely what's
41:34two-year-old settling does that i know let's a dog kiss i know don't kiss him on the door yeah
41:40i don't think reggie could look better really because uh nicola and holly are on the ball and
41:47they aren't the only ones he plays football in his stable with his treat football
41:56i could see him doing an amazing run down the wing you know
42:01i saw a little step over there like ronaldo
42:03fantastic it's interesting to see how his characters developed since i saw him last he's
42:13now what you'll call a real sweetie his best mates of the dogs he's obviously a budding footballer as
42:19well but when peter tries to get a game with reg aldo i like him with a football reggie
42:25reggie reggie so as far as football's concerned i think uh reggie thinks it's full time now yeah
42:42near huddersfield it's a couple of weeks since one of david's most fascinating cases
42:48saw him perform surgery at paul and amanda's farm i've come back to see the lamb which had five legs
42:55i made it four it's not every day you get a lamb with five legs and actually six feet there's
43:00always a risk of the wound opening as it runs around after or infection so those were big concerns for
43:06me after the surgery hi guys hello hi david here we are still with us well how's it been she's been
43:15absolutely fine she's got out a couple of times and did mama mary dance around i did worry that with all
43:21that running around it might first open right should we have a closer look yep let's see if i can get
43:26hold of her ready darling
43:33so i'm really pleased with it the ends are healed really well there's a tiny little gap in the middle
43:38where that stitch is but i think that's going to close no problem you've really well past the danger
43:42zone so i'm absolutely chuffed with that
43:44so i've removed the stitches i'm just going to give it a nice clean up and keep it covered and that
43:51tiny patch in the middle will heal up in no time at all
43:53here we go then there you go she's off yeah just get more there go on definitely worth doing it and you
44:07see she can run properly now oh she can compare to the legs we've seen yeah fantastic she looks
44:13fabulous she's clinging around you think nothing had ever happened to her right i'll get going thanks
44:18very much thank you very much david enjoy the sunshine thank you for once i'm pleased with that
44:25i thought there might be some complications after the surgery but no issues at all really she's running
44:29around happily in the field with mum which is something she couldn't do before she can enjoy
44:34grazing in the fields with the rest of the sheep it's a gorgeous sunny day for them so it's a win all
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