CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY: Across Yorkshire's moors and dales,
the world's most famous vet set the benchmark for animal care.
And James Herriot's legacy lives on.
COWS MOO
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 you wouldn't take me on
as an assistant, is that right? Probably.
THEY LAUGH
Peter's old partnerjulian Norton...
With a gloved hand and a lubricated 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 these off ourselves, do you think? Phwoo!
Never taking their eyes off the ball.
THEY CHEER
As they help animals of all shapes...
I didn't think I'd be hugging a turkey today.
Whoa. ..sizes...
That's more like pulling a calf out.
...types...
Nearly clone, nearly clone, Bertie.
...and temperaments. Ow! He's bit me.
It's definitely not glamourous.
I spend far too much of my time scrubbing testicles.
But it's varied.
SHE IMITATES HORSE You ought to know better.
It's rarely easy. SHE GROANS
But they continue the Herriot tradition...
COW BELLOWS Whoa.
...treating all creatures...
That's it. There we go, there we go.
...great... Aw, Merlin.
Come on! ..and small.
HE LAUGHS
More haste can mean less speed.
The race is not always to the swift.
SHEEP BLEAT
And while there are those who simply have too much energy
not to burn it...
...whether you're the tortoise or the hare...
...in Yorkshire, the real win
is being able to stop and admire the scenery.
But for a Yorkshire vet, a complacent snooze...
COWS MOO
...is almost always out of the question.
And on the edge of the North York Moors,
Peter's racing to an emergency.
Just had a call from a farmer called Steven
who has a young heifer that hasn't had a calf before,
and she's in difficulty.
He sounded quite concerned,
and he would like someone out as soon as possible.
When we visit these animals, especially when calving or lambing,
then giving birth generally can be a life-or-death situation.
Ancl farmers only call us, really, when they need us.
And with over 50 years of farming experience,
Steve knows when to sound the alarm.
It's a big calf, and it's her first calf, and I'm on my own.
Ancl if I get the calf stuck,
I've had it happen once this year already,
I lost the calf cos I struggled to get it out.
Morning. Good afternoon, sir.
Good afternoon. I've had a sandwich, so it's afternoon now.
THEY CH UCKLE How are you?
I'm very well, thank you.
You having problems, are you? Yeah. It's a heifer, her first calf,
and it's got big feet and a big head.
COW BELLOWS
Right.
I think your assessment is right.
She's just clone nothing since I saw her at half past seven this morning.
She's not been straining at all?
Not unless she's been straining during the night. Yes.
This calf hasn't engaged the birth canal properly.
It's not a lost cause trying to give birth naturally.
Ancl that's always, obviously, the preferred course of action,
but it's going to be touch and go.
No matter whether it's lambs, chickens, goslings,
I just love it when there's a birth on the farm. Absolutely. Yeah.
Right, we're roped up.
No.
Steady on, lass.
If you want her to come out, we can...
I just wonder if she's... If she gets her leg stuck through there.
That's not gonna be good. No.
Right, we better go into the yard. Yeah.
Let's take her through. Come on, lass.
Come on, lass, off you go. Steady away.
Come on, lass. Come on, hey up. Come on.
Let's try again. Now we've a bit more space.
COW BELLOWS
Right.
I'm just concerned...
...| think your shoulders might come through,
but it's his back end I'm worried about.
STEVEN LAUGHS
COW BELLOWS
I'm not so sure.
You look like you're having doubts.
I am.
PETER SIGHS It's not gonna come through.
No. Right. Right.
Make the decision. Yeah.
COW GRUNTS
We'll need a couple of buckets of nice, clean, warm water, please.
This calf's too big to be born naturally.
Our only chance of having a live calf
is to carry out a caesarean section.
COW MOOS
COW BELLOWS
At the practice in Thirsk,
Matt's been helpingjulian with some of his more exotic patients.
I know you're cross and I know you're hungry,
but we've just gotta check you out.
And next to see him is Louise's tortoise Doris,
who has an unusual problem.
So, Doris, she climbs up everything.
So, I went out for a couple of hours.
When I got home, she was upside down.
I didn't know how long she'd been upside down, so I checked her,
and I thought, well, she might be a bit dehydrated.
So I put her in a bath of warm water,
and some little white floaty things came up on the surface.
So I looked closer, and it looked like tiny, tiny maggots.
I've got quite a bit of experience with tortoises.
However, this will be the first time I think I've seen maggots.
Have we got Doris, please?
Yes. Come on through. Hi, Doris.
What's the story with Doris?
I understand we're concerned about maggots.
There was a tiny, tiny little hole between her tail
and the top of her shell, and the maggots were coming out of there.
But she's been fine prior to this?
We've got no other underlying worries, problems, concerns?
Nothing at all. Right, come on, let's get you out.
I can just see there's a few more little eggs there.
That's good. Right, so if you could just light me up in there.
Perfect, yeah.
So it's not just at the top of the tail.
The maggots have actually started to go up into the muscle there.
Hopefully, they've not gone too far into her body,
because if they penetrate into her body cavity,
then certainly, that's not good.
Right, we'll get some tweezers, and we'll pick out what we can.
So hopefully, we'll be able to get those maggots out.
But my concern is how deep have they gone up into here?
That's what I was worried about.
It's the first time I've seen it in tortoises,
but the thing is, it can happen to any animal.
All you need is a tiny wound, a little bit of moisture,
a fly to come in at the wrong spot, a bit of poo, and that's it.
I mean, this could have happened within 24 hours.
You know, they're horrible, horrible, horrible little things.
They just start to eat away at the flesh there.
I can see them there. That is foul.
Come on.
Ugh. Clever girl.
I might just brush up here a little bit.
I know. All right, darling. I know, you're being so good.
They are horrendous.
We've got developed maggots that I've been pulling out
of little holes that have gone into the muscle
just at the top of her tail.
Ancl I'm just brushing away the fly eggs that have just been laid.
Erm, but what we have discovered is that the wound
on the top of the tail isn't the only wound there.
There's two holes, one of which is quite a shallow hole,
and the other one I am concerned runs a bit deeper.
The problem is that in this top part of the shell,
what we call the carapace, it's quite hollow.
So it's filled with air. Ancl if the maggots have got in there,
then that is obviously a big, big concern.
PETER GROANS
A huge challenge for Peter.
PETER EXCLAIMS
Big bugger!
Eight little Labs perk upjulian.
A pop-up puppy play pen. Wow.
But one older one is a concern for Rohin.
We're dealing with something challenging here,
and I think if it's left unmanaged,
it would be catastrophic, to be honest.
CH RISTOPH ER TIMOTHY: Near Kirkbymoorside...
PETER EXHALES HEAVILY Whoa, what a job.
...Peter's performing an emergency C-section
to try and save Steve's first-time mum and her large calf.
Can you hold onto that leg for me?
I'll have to try and get the other one as well.
STEVE: Yeah.
It's coming. We're winning.
PETER EXCLAIMS
Big bugger!
PETER EXCLAIMS
PETER STRAINS
There's no heartbeat. Yeah.
I think he's a dead 'un, in't he?
Ah, clear.
I never felt a flicker of life when I went in earlier.
No, no, well, that's it. It had to be.
The cow is the most important now. Right, let's start stitching.
The calf was, I think, dead before we started.
But it was difficult.
There was no movement. We still had to get him out.
Absolutely.
I'll try and get a calf to mother on.
Yes. Foster one on.
Cos she has a good udder.
She looks like she's loaded with milk. Yes.
'|'m disappointed that the calf wasn't born alive.
'Earlier on today, she hadn't given any signs that she was calving.
'She wasn't straining at all,
'and sometimes that happens
'when they know that the calf's too big to be born naturally.
'So they give up before they start.'
just about clone.
'But we had to get the calf out,
'otherwise we're going to lose them both.'
Are you going to sit up?
Come on, away. Come on, then.
COW BELLOWS
That's it.
I like to see them sat up. Yeah.
That's better, in't it?
You want a drink, lass?
Yeah, she probably will. Yeah.
That's good, that's nice.
Steve's now going to find a calf that we can foster on.
If I get a young calf, I'll be able to use some of that afterbirth up
to cover him and give him the same smell as what her own calf has.
You can try and salvage something.
So I'm just hoping that out of what's been a sad ending
is ultimately a happy outcome.
Well, this is most kind, and we rarely get this nowadays, you know?
Yeah, well, we've had a long session, haven't we?
There's no way that calf could have been born naturally.
No, no. Not a chance.
Ancl we'd have lost the cow as well. Yeah. The heifer.
Anyway, good health. Cheers. Good health.
Ancl our patient's had a drink as well,
which is great. That's right, yeah.
For every heartbreak a vet experiences,
there are any number of heart-warming moments.
And this morning atjulian's Wetherby practice,
that number is eight... beautiful babies.
I've got a room full of puppies
all waiting to be checked over and vaccinated.
So that's about the best thing to start the clay, really.
The Labrador puppies' owner Bev has come with help,
in both human and fabric form.
Hello. WOMAN: Morning.
Wow. Is that some kind of PUPPY Play Pen?
|11'S a pop-up_ A P°P'"P PUPPY Play Pen-
Wow. Yeah.
Crikey, they're a nice little bunch, aren't they? Aren't they?
He's not stopped drinking. BEV LAUGHS
One down lying on his back. Ancl Tiny Titty.
She's the smallest, but she's the feistiest. Hello.
You're quite big as well, aren't you?
He's still going, look, that one. THEY LAUGH
That's really fun, isn't it? Two are playing like that,
and the other one's just sitting there drinking away.
BEV LAUGHS Well, it's all great fun,
but I think we're gonna have to start doing some veterinary work,
as much as we could watch you doing this all clay.
This is Mia, orange collar.
Mia? Yeah.
Hello, Mia. You're a very nice-looking pup, aren't you?
So, we check, obviously, the heart is the main thing to be right.
Check for hernias.
In male clogs, we check there's two testicles. Yeah.
Ears as well, some puppies you get bad ears, but they look brilliant.
Ancl then mouth and eyes and other bits and bobs.
Right, so she passes the test. She can go.
So, you're all right, sweetheart.
So, contestant number two. This is Ragnor.
He's the one that was drinking.
Yeah. This is the one I'm having.
I can see why he's, er... Big chubs.
He is massive, isn't he? Yeah. WOMEN LAUGH
So, he's got two testicles.
There you are, Ragnor. Perfect.
He looks gentle, doesn't he?
Ancl soft. Beautiful.
Perfect.
Good boy.
There we are, that's good.
Look at her wagging her tail.
Another male again. Another boy.
This is number four, this is.
Half way.
Who's the next one? Purple collar, little girl.
I was going to say, we should be clue some girls at this point.
You just get so apprehensive until, obviously,
you get your vet to check 'em. We spend 24 hours a day with 'em,
and you think they're perfect, but we're not the medical people.
So you're just so anxious, and fingers crossed.
That sounds good to me.
PUPPY SQUEAKS Good girl.
Oh, sorry. The only one to squeak.
So, that's eight all together. It is, lovey.
So, the next logistical challenge is how you gonna get them out?
Aww.
HE CHUCKLES
Look how cute that is. Come on, guys.
So, the puppies went in two by two.
They're lovely and warm, aren't they?
They're like hot water bottles.
And to get out of the rain,
they all go into... the car.
Oh, pups, I don't want to say goodbye.
Brilliant.
PUPS WHINE
Over in Thirsk,
Matt and Kelly are concerned about Louise's tortoise Doris.
Right, what we'll do is, I know you're not gonna like this,
but just tip her up like that for me.
We'll get that light in, and that gives me a nice angle just to see
how far this goes.
She has maggots in her tail injury. LOUISE: Well clone, darling.
And if they've burrowed too far, it could be fatal.
So, the maggots have burrowed by about a centimetre,
that's on that left-hand side hole.
I'm gonna have a feel of that other hole as well.
Make sure that that's not any deeper.
I know it's stingy, but it needs to be clone.
It needs to be clone.
VET: It'll be better in the long run, darling.
Clever girl. We're nearly done, darling.
You know what? That hole is a little bit deeper than I initially thought.
Right, then.
I'll be able to tell with this little needle
how deep that hole really goes.
If, say, we weren't getting all this iodine coming out,
it'd be going into the areas there.
So I think we've been quite lucky there.
They've not buried themselves too far in there at all.
They were all kind of sat squirming away
were these horrible little ones here.
Right, then. I'm just going to get some topical treatment.
When it touches the maggots, anything like that,
it just kills them. OK.
So I'm just going to rub it around that area.
That's it, there we go.
You'll feel better, I promise.
Trust me, this is good for you. This is what you need.
Lovely. That looks better.
Right, so, what we're gonna do now
is I'm going to give her an injection of antibiotic.
Well clone. Well clone. Good girl.
Let's get you back in your box, Doris.
Bit of a peculiar case there.
The maggots had started to bury into the muscle
underneath the top of her shell.
I've flushed it out and checked.
But we're gonna be on some intensive care and therapy,
certainly for the next few clays,
until we can be sure there's no more maggots left
and Doris continues to improve.
At the hospital in Huddersfield,
Emma and Charlie
are waiting anxiously with their 11-year old black Labrador Benson.
He was actually really quiet and sleeping lots,
and I thought I could feel his spine just protruding a little bit.
So we brought him in.
Ancl then within a week, he grew this big lump.
Rohin is examining the results of Benson's CT scan.
The results came back that it was a really invasive,
quite a nasty cancer, really, which has grown quite rapidly.
That's our tumour, and that's part of the actual spinal column.
This way. This way, boy.
Our only chance now to actually get a good outcome in this case
is essentially to remove not just the growth,
but to take wide margins around it,
which includes the tip of the spine itself.
We know that Benson's got heart disease as well.
There's a lot of risk factors there which we've got to bear in mind.
Ancl we're dealing with something challenging here.
But I think if it's left unmanaged,
there's a real risk that does invade deeper into his spinal tissue.
Ancl if that happened, it would be catastrophic, to be honest.
He's our baby. He's like one of our children.
CHARLIE: He's a brilliant dog.
Yeah. He's just the best.
Just wait for the call after the op, won't we,
and keep everything crossed? Yeah.
NEIL: Are you good for me to knock him out? Yes.
Good boy. There's a good boy.
See you soon.
Cancer consultant Neil
will be leading Rohin through the surgery.
This is what's described as a grade-three tumour,
which is a high-grade disease,
so what we do when we cut is we cut a big circle,
and then we just kind of keep going down on that same circle.
Are we ready?
So, there's the outline of our mass.
If we don't go in with this sort of radical approach,
it's just gonna keep growing back and shorten his lifespan.
Is that a baby hare? The hare...
WOMAN: A dog actually got it.
Ah, yeah. That's from the dog, look.
...and the tortoise.
EV UP. we're weeing!
I'm sorry, Doris, I'm only trying to help you.
And slow and steady will definitely win Peter's race.
Within the next hour, I can see Number 13 overtaking Number 10.
This could be heading to a photo finish here.
CH RISTOPH ER TIMOTHY: In Huddersfield,
Rohin and the hospital's cancer consultant Neil
are about to perform complex, high-risk surgery.
Are you happy at your end, Kirsty? KIRSTY: Yes.
Are we good to go? Nice and stable.
They're removing a tumour from elderly Labrador Benson's spine.
We can see where the edge of the tumour is on the CT,
and we can give ourselves that bit of extra boundary around that.
If you take that extra region,
then you minimise your chance of cancer cells being left behind.
OK, right, there's a vertebrae.
Oh, yeah.
Neil's being super careful here
because we've only got one chance to get this right.
We're cutting through the tip of each vertebra
in order to get the proper margins.
We're not very far away from what is absolutely vital,
which is the spinal cord itself,
so steady hand needed for this bit.
One more part here to the scary portion of the operation.
The final vertebrae here to cut through.
So that's uncler the last bit of bone there.
Here we go. Get rid of that.
Now, cos what we should never do at this stage
is see where the tumour is.
It's all contained inside that thing.
I don't want to see it.
Are you familiar with this sliding knot?
I'm not. I've clone Wilko stitches,
but I've not clone a knot like that before.
Neil's a fountain of knowledge with this stuff.
So it's quite nice to get to learn new things
that you're not clone before.
OK, great. There we are. All sorted.
The plan now is we need to keep him comfortable overnight
and keep him pain free.
All right, Bens. There we go, big boy.
It's a case I've followed through from the very beginning,
and Benson, he just kind of melts your heart.
He's a typical old, happy, friendly Labrador.
I know we put him through a lot there,
but we would only ever do that if we thought there was a chance of a cure
and a good outcome in the long run.
BENSON WHINES
In Thirsk, it's been three weeks
since Matt treated Louise's pet tortoise Doris...
Doris, come on through.
...whose tail injury
led to a potentially fatal maggot infestation.
Right, little Doris. So, how are we doing?
I've been putting the fly cream on like you say every clay,
and I say to her, "Right, Doris, I'll take you to see Matt"...
Ancl obviously just that name, "Matt."
Eh up, we're weeing!
That was the name. It's striking the fear into her.
I'm sorry, Doris, I'm only trying to help you.
Ancl this should be your last visit, OK?
Right. Are you OK just to hold her slightly up like that for me?
Ancl then I can just get a good look by this skin under that shell.
Just going to get some of this excess skin away here.
There we go. Let's get some of that, ugh, all of that scabbiness away.
It's looking really, really well.
That skin there is beautiful and pink.
It's sealing up there.
There's no infection there.
It doesn't smell or anything like that,
so it should heal up no bother.
Lovely, right. Thank you.
In you go, Doris.
It's really good to see Doris doing so well.
It was a bit touch and go to start with.
I was concerned that those maggots had got into her body cavity,
which would've been curtains for her,
but I'm really pleased that they hadn't.
It'll continue to heal now over the next few weeks
and, with some more TLC from Louise, she should be fine.
And a few weeks later,
even though Doris doesn't move anywhere quickly,
her ordeal is well and truly behind her.
Doris was really, really ill with the maggots,
but she's absolutely on form again now,
enjoying her food, enjoying life.
And that's ream] thanks to Matt.
Because without him, she would've probably cited.
Ancl all I say to her is, "We will go and see Matt if you do it again."
Ancl, oh, she behaves herself!
Back at the practice...
See you later on, bye.
...nurse Sue hasn't realised that they're following the fable.
I've got a little baby wabbit! A rabbit? Yes.
It's been found,
and the lady thinks it might have a little damaged leg.
Because after the tortoise...
Is that a baby hare? Is it?
Oh, my goodness!
Look at that. Hello!
Awwww!
They have big legs, big back legs, don't they? Yeah.
So, we want to save you, definitely. Yeah.
A dog actually got it. Ah, yeah.
It's covered in goo, isn't it? From the dog.
Is that a bit of blood there? That's from the dog, look.
Awww.
The leveret was brought in by Abi.
Mum lives on a farm, the dogs were playing on the lawn,
and she noticed the dog had something in its mouth.
So, she runs over.
He was absolutely drenched,
because the dog had had him in his mouth so...
We weren't sure if he had broken his leg.
He looked a bit like he was limping, so.
Thought it was best to get him looked at.
It's only just a flesh wound, that.
You've been a very lucky little leveret.
It's very lucky.
He might have avoided major injury,
but Matt knows there's still cause for concern.
I've seen a few little baby leverets, and, unfortunately,
the more human intervention that's acquired with them,
the less well they do, so...
The best thing we can do for this little chap
is to get it fed up and put it back where it came from.
I do fear that if we started to interfere too much,
the poor little thing would die of stress.
It's always touch and go with wild animals
when they've been injured, especially young ones.
Peter is a vet with extensive equine experience.
Ancl who's this?
It's Dream. Dream?
Ancl is he a Dream or a nightmare? Well, that depends.
THEY LAUGH
I think I can just pull that, just one quick pull.
I don't think we need to even sedate him.
There we are. just like that.
Job clone. Thank you.
Ancl if you put that under your pillow,
you never know what the Tooth Fairy might bring you.
But many years ago,
his horse work was less "tooth hurty",
more likely the 2.30 at Thirsk.
I used to do the emergency racecourse work here on race clays
with Donald Sinclair, better known as Siegfried Farnon.
Ancl this brings back lots of memories for me.
And today, as magnificent thoroughbreds
gallop home at high speed...
...Peter's on duty once more.
For a snail race.
Organised by his friend Ian.
It is 13 inches to the finishing line.
It is actually in the Guinness Book of Records,
so we're really genuine about it.
Obviously the most important piece is that we have a vet here.
I need to make sure they're healthy before they go off
and there's no signs of lameness, there's nobody ill.
We've got to make sure that during the race that there's no injuries,
so I'll be on standby then to make sure they go home safely.
Although Peter's normally at the races with friends and family...
You've won it, you've won!
Get on there!
...today, he couldn't risk bringing his wife Lin.
When we've been in France,
she's rather partial to an odd snail or so.
Ancl I didn't want her eating any of the competitors today,
so I thought it was safer if I left her at home.
With eyes on the race course rather than the main course...
There are some outstanding snails.
You see them now, they're trying to get out. I can, I can see.
They're really keen.
...the local youngsters have selected their snails.
I picked 11.
Ancl I picked 10.
I picked 13.
We're all lined up, Peter.
Right, they're under starters orders...
and they're off!
EXCITED CHATTER
I think number 12's a non-runner.
The stewards will be watching number 9 very carefully.
It looks as if we've got some interference going on there.
There may be a disqualification coming here.
Number 10's doing very nicely,
but number 13 is making a bit of a break for it now.
Within the next hour, I can see number 13 overtaking number 10.
Number 2 set off really well.
But sadly, he's burnt himself out,
and number 10 and number 13 are really going strong.
This could be heading to a photo finish here.
This is looking very close!
At five minutes, 11 seconds,
it's more than three minutes off world record pace.
I think number 10's there first.
But nine-year-old winner Lincoln doesn't care.
I'm amazed.
And while Lin likes her escargot,
Peter's developed an appetite for very different snail starter orders.
Do you know, I've enjoyed it a lot better
than when I was here in the '80s
when I was making sure the horses were getting round safely.
A, you're not going to get kicked, you're not going to be bitten.
So it's been a bit of a doddle, really.
Meanwhile, U-Snail Bolt has already claimed his trophy.
I think you may be taking him home with you.
He's obviously very pleased with himself, isn't he?
So many congratulations.
There's your trophy. Thank you.
Ancl also, there's your prize as well. Thank you.
Well clone.
In Huddersfield, it's two weeks since Rohin's surgery
to remove 11-year old black Lab Benson's spinal tumour.
He's had several sections of his lumbar vertebrae removed.
So, it's a big thing to recover from that,
and I'm really hoping it's all gone well.
We didn't have obvious signs
of spread of the tumour elsewhere in his body.
It could be a proper cure if the surgery all heals OK.
But Benson's owners Emma and Charlie...
HOYv you doing, guys? Hlya, you all right?
...have fresh concerns.
I have thought I've felt another lump.
Just there.
It's worth me just checking that while we're here today,
and if it's a fatty lump, at least we'll know straight away.
It's a bit of a scare that we want to know,
is this another problem that he's now got to deal with,
another cancer, essentially?
It's not like last time, sweetheart.
We're just taking a little sample here
that will help us to know what cells are inside there,
whether there's something we need to be worried about or not.
Still to come...
Right, then, little leveret.
Will it be a good hare day forjulian?
Come on, little one. Come on, bit more.
And Peter has high hopes for a heifer.
I'm hoping that Steven has managed to get a calf
and fostered it on to the heifer.
Morning. Good morning, sir.
CHRISTOPHER TIMOTHY: At the practice in Thirsk...
Intensive care nutrition for debilitated herbivores.
Guinea pigs, chinchillas, iguanas, and tortoises...
Ancl [eve rets .
"Julian's patient is an exhausted baby hare,
who's had a traumatic day.
This is a tiny amount of stuff.
Hopefully, this will be mended by this medicine.
Right, then, little leveret.
Glasses on again.
Well, this little baby leveret was found by a member of the public
whose dog had actually come across it.
Already we've called him Larry.
It seems to be uninjured,
but they're very susceptible, much more so than wild rabbits,
to human contact and stuff.
So, we need to really get it back out to nature.
Come on, little one.
Come on, bit more.
There we are.
It likes this.
I've spilt a bit down its chin,
but apart from that, it's going quite well.
I think he looks like he might have a reasonable chance.
Abi brought Larry to the surgery
after rescuing him in her mum's garden.
Oh, hello. Hello. Do you want to come through?
So, this is a baby hare, called a leveret.
Seems to be uninjured. Luckily.
We were just a bit concerned by his legs.
There's a couple of little bits of blood,
which I think are just where he's probably been squeezed
a bit too hard by the dog.
But nothing that's too serious. Covered in saliva, obviously.
They do really badly if you try to hospitalise them.
The more they're handled, the worse the situation is. Right.
So, I would literally just take him back
and make sure the dog doesn't get to him again.
I'll keep them in the house.
I'm just glad he's OK,
I was so concerned the clogs had really hurt him.
But, yeah, remarkably bright, I thought.
He's OK? Yeah. Thank God.
So, yeah, good luck. Thank you so much. Thank you.
Cheerio. Bye.
Well, hopefully this little leveret's going to do OK.
I think with this nutritious food and a few more closes to take home,
I think that's as good as we can do,
and hopefully nature will be kind to this little leveret.
Anything that looks slightly injured or ill, we take in and try and save.
This is where we found him.
We're gonna keep a really close eye on him now for the rest of today.
He's looking loads better than he did, a lot perkier,
and he's got a full belly now.
A bit of an eventful clay for the little one.
At the hospital in Huddersfield,
Rohin's checking to see
if Emma and Charlie's elderly Labrador, Benson,
has another cancerous tumour.
Good boy.
Just a couple of weeks after complex surgery on his spine.
The good news we've got is that we've just got fatty cells.
Ancl that means this is looking like a lipoma,
a benign fatty growth,
rather than what would be more concerning,
which is another tumour that's cancerous.
Yes, it looks like good news. We've got the fatty cells.
There was no cellular material coming back.
Brilliant, massive relief.
Absolutely over the moon, cos he's got a few of those already,
and they don't tend to grow very quickly, so that's good.
Well clone. Well clone!
I'm glad he's doing as well as he is.
Yeah, thank you very much as well. No worries, guys.
Thank you very much. See you later. Bye.
There's another spanner in the works there
with a new lump that had formed.
Ancl to know that that one's a fatty lump as well,
it's just a, you know, an even better feeling now.
The wound itself looks great. Benson's still happy.
It's the best feeling in the world, honestly.
And after a few more weeks of rest and recuperation,
Benson's enjoying his best feeling in the world.
Good boy. Fetch it.
Benson loves coming here. He absolutely loves swimming.
He always has.
We've got photos of him
in the bath with our kids when they were younger as well,
all three of them having a bath together.
He's always loved water.
You ready, boy?
We were really worried about Benson at the time, because obviously,
it was a very aggressive form of cancer that he had.
But he seems to be getting fitter and stronger and healthier.
So, we're really pleased cos he... Yeah, he means the world to us.
He is maybe not quite as quick as he used to be,
but he still loves his walks.
He did a zoom the other day, didn't he? He did.
Yeah, he's just back to his old self again.
Near Kirkbymoorside,
Peter's come to see Steve and his granddaughter Elisha,
after delivering a still-born calf by c-section two weeks ago.
Right.
I'm hoping that Steven has managed to get a calf
and fostered it onto the heifer.
Hopefully, she'll be doing OK, but we'll soon find out.
Morning. Good morning, sir.
How are you? Fine. Thank you.
Better than the weather. Aye, it's not been great, has it?
Yeah. Miserable. And I see we've got an extra pair of hands today.
Oh, yes.
And despite losing her own calf,
the heifer also has a youngster to guide.
She took the calf that night. Oh, how lovely.
She's doing that calf well. She is doing it well.
So, some good's come out of it. Yeah, that's right.
That's lovely. And I think she's clue her stitches out, isn't she? Yes.
We'll get into the crush, shall we? Yeah, that's lovely. Excellent.
It's always nice to have an extra pair of hands.
Especially someone youthful like Elisha.
Because to be fair to Steven and myself,
we're not in the first flush of youth.
Ancl I think it's fair to say
that Elisha will move a little bit more quickly than we do.
Right. That's it.
Elisha's studying agriculture at college.
Hello, clear.
But every day's a school day.
And is Grandad a good teacher? Yeah.
Is he really? Well, you had to say that, didn't you?
Maybe he uses a few choice words, sometimes.
I'm sure he is!
Right, we'll take those out.
I couldn't ask for this wound, really, to look any better.
There's no swelling. There's no infection.
You know, we're not exactly working under sterile conditions.
And that's what at ways amazes me about our customers,
you know, the animals, how resilient they are.
Yeah. They have good healing skin, have animals. They have!
I often say, they're far superior to human beings, aren't they?
Oh, they mend easy. Ancl they don't complain as much.
They don't complain at all.
That's it. Very happy with that.
That's good. Excellent.
Good, all right.
Are they going out now?
Are you going out, clear? Are you going out?
You'll be happy when you get out there.
Well, that's turned out quite well. It has, yeah.
I'll leave you in peace. Thank you very much, Peter.
Nice to see you, Elisha. You, too.
Ancl good luck at college. Thank you.
Do you know, this shows how out of misfortune and sadness,
goodness can come.
Ancl it gives me a great thrill
to come and see how she's accepted this calf,
not only accepted it, but this calf is absolutely thriving.
And, er, as veterinary surgeons,
when we have a result like this, it does cheer you up.