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Incredible Northern Vets - Season 2 Episode 8 -
Farm Cat First Aid
Farm Cat First Aid
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00:00One of them grabbed her inner moneymaker
00:02and created an infection there.
00:04She's really sweet, and the kids really like her.
00:07Hopefully they can help her.
00:09He got big gobs of food in there.
00:11He's not eating. This is bad, bad, bad.
00:14Hi, princess.
00:16She was only about 12 weeks old when she came into my care.
00:19A little hard lump.
00:20It might be like a BB gun pellet.
00:22A what? Oh.
00:24For her to have a pellet lodged in her ear, it's heartbreaking.
00:30Across the country...
00:32Be nice.
00:33...Indigenous vets are using their knowledge and skills...
00:36Look at her.
00:37...to help the animals we love stay happy and healthy.
00:53Rachel with Kiki.
00:55Do you need a hand?
00:56It rolls.
00:57You're at it in style.
00:59She's so cool, this cat.
01:01She's got a better car than I do.
01:03Well, she's kind of a stray that showed up at her place.
01:07We always put food out for her, and we can pet her and stuff.
01:11She's really sweet, and the kids really like her.
01:14She's definitely kind of skittish.
01:17Kiki is kind of like a farm cat that's coming in today for some swelling on the face.
01:25It's actually gone down, the swelling.
01:27Yeah.
01:28I think maybe popped or something.
01:29I don't know if it's infected or whatever.
01:31Yeah.
01:32I mean, I'll have a closer look at it, but I can already see it for sure.
01:34Yeah.
01:35Sorry, miss.
01:36The kids seen her a few days ago.
01:38Her one side of her face was swollen up, they said.
01:42And unfortunately, the dog chased her away, and we couldn't find her for a couple days.
01:46But we found her yesterday.
01:47So hopefully, hopefully they can help her.
01:50Whoa.
01:51I know there's a lot going on.
01:53Do you have lots of cats around your place?
01:56We have five other cats.
01:58Two come in, and the other three stay outside.
02:01Do you ever hear them fighting?
02:03Sometimes.
02:04I think Kiki has been fighting with cats, and I think one of them grabbed her inner moneymaker
02:11and created an infection there, and it grew and grew and grew and burst.
02:16Do you guys want to listen to her?
02:19Listen to her heart.
02:20Her heart?
02:21Sure.
02:22Okay, put these in your ears that way.
02:24Whenever I have little kids in the appointment, I always try to get them to listen to the heart.
02:28It's something that's super easy and kind of fun and interactive for them.
02:32Pretty cool, hey?
02:33Yeah.
02:36Can you hear it?
02:37Yeah.
02:38Yeah?
02:39I also want the kids to enjoy being at the vet.
02:41Otherwise, they just kind of stare at me the whole time.
02:44Good job.
02:48So, her heart sounds okay.
02:50She does have a little bit of a heart murmur.
02:53Mm.
02:54So, there's a little bit of an abnormal sound.
02:56So, instead of going lub-dub, it goes lub-sh-dub.
02:58Mm.
02:59It's really minor.
03:00Whenever we have a heart murmur, we know that blood's not flowing normally through the heart.
03:05We can have a closer look at her face.
03:09Little cat burrito.
03:11You can see where it's popped.
03:13Yeah, there's some pus coming out of there.
03:15And so, what we like to do is clip and clean them and make sure we drain all the infection out.
03:21Typically, we like to sedate these cases, but because Kiki has a bit of a heart murmur, it impacts how we run our anesthetic.
03:28So, we're going to try without sedation and see what she'll let us get away with and go from there.
03:33Okay, little nugget.
03:35All right, you're going to do just fine, right?
03:41Ouchie.
03:42Oh, yeah.
03:46Ugh.
03:47Do you see that tree?
03:48Yeah, I can smell it.
03:49Ooh.
03:50Kiki's face smells because it's infected tissue.
03:54It's pus coming out of her head.
03:57Oh, sorry.
03:58Oh, I got your whiskers.
04:00I cut off her whiskers, which was devastating.
04:05I can't believe I did that.
04:07She's like, whatever.
04:09What a cat.
04:10She's like, I'm a tough farm cat, man.
04:13What's going on is just an abscess under the skin.
04:16Once we're able to flush the area really well, it should heal up just fine.
04:21Oh, this cat is amazing.
04:23She is so good.
04:25Kiki is surprisingly calm considering that I'm expelling pus from her face and then sticking my syringe in there and expanding the tissues and letting them drain again.
04:35But she's tolerating it super, super well.
04:39I think you'll heal up pretty good.
04:41It's astronomical how good she's been.
04:43Yeah.
04:44Look at her little bald head.
04:45She's going to need a toupee.
04:47Yeah.
04:49She needs antibiotics.
04:50She needs anti-inflammatories.
04:52Just a couple pokes.
04:53Good job, honey bun.
04:55She's a tough old girl.
04:57We flushed out as much as we could.
04:59Mm-hmm.
05:00Clipped it up really good.
05:01Cleaned it.
05:02Okay.
05:03And see if you can warm compress it twice daily.
05:05We might just have to have her in the house.
05:08This way we can keep better care of her.
05:11Keep track of where she is.
05:13Oh my gosh.
05:16Here we are.
05:19I love this.
05:20Thank you very much.
05:22You're welcome.
05:23And she has a bit of a funky haircut, so don't make fun of her.
05:27Hopefully she's getting better soon, right?
05:31We will have to keep her in the house whether she likes it or not.
05:35It's Dr. Allison calling from Forest Grove Vet Clinic.
05:47Do you have a few minutes to chat?
05:50This will still go.
05:51There we go.
05:52There we go.
05:53Now we'll come in.
05:54Yeah.
05:55Say good morning.
05:56Good morning.
05:57There we go.
05:58Is this Gemma?
05:59This is Gemma.
06:00I brought in Gemma.
06:01She is approximately a five-month-old mixed breed.
06:02We like to say she's a party mix.
06:03What a good girl.
06:04She is one of my fosters with New Hope Dog Rescue here in Saskatoon.
06:06And she's been with us for almost three months now.
06:08Hi Gemma.
06:09Are you ready?
06:10She's ready.
06:11She is just this dog who wants to love.
06:13And she's just all joy and happiness.
06:15She knows exactly where to go, I guess.
06:17She's on a mission.
06:35It's time for her to be spayed.
06:37but she's also got this really hard round spot on her left ear there you go good girl and we
06:44couldn't figure out what it was i'm really hoping that it's not cancer or anything crazy like that
06:50because she's so young and lovely beautiful ecg there it is a hard lump
07:00there's cartilage on it it's like on the inside yeah it's not unusual for puppies to have little
07:09bits of scar tissue or little lumps and bumps but this one felt different it's a really hard
07:15piece of something i can feel in her ear and i'm not sure what it is x-ray
07:22what is it what is it oh it's like a baby a what like a baby like a bullet
07:30oh it might be like a bb gun pellet that's stuck in her ear oh poor thing why did someone show you
07:37with a bb to think that somebody could do that to a little puppy it i don't know breaking my heart is
07:46not even a strong enough word it's just a little tiny puppy it makes me feel physically unwell that
07:53somebody would knowingly harm a little puppy or any animal it's terrible
08:02got shot by bb it's terrible sometimes it's just really sad seeing the rescue dogs because they come
08:09in with like scars or bbs we think that jemma has a bb pellet in her ear it really breaks my heart to
08:19see these kind of things on the flip side it is super rewarding to be able to find a dog
08:26like jemma with a situation that's really unusual and be able to help her with that okay i'm ready
08:34go ahead you go first anytime that there's something that shouldn't be inside your pet
08:40it's important to remove it so that it's not migrating anywhere or leaking out any sort of
08:45chemicals and we don't know maybe it's painful for her to have that in her ear but there's some
08:51risks to cutting into the ear that ear does have a lot of blood supply going to it that's the artery
08:58and then the one that runs right along here on the other side that's the vein and this is the bb
09:04right directly in the middle of those two lovely vessels she was only about 12 weeks old when she came
09:09into my care so for her to have a pellet lodged in her ear it's heartbreaking you're ready shanna
09:18cutting i'm hoping that dr allison is able to take it out without removing a large chunk of jemma's ear
09:28oh it's like in the cartilage can you see that man i thought that this would be like much easier
09:35as i'm cutting over the pellet i'm quickly realizing that it's not going to be as easy as i initially
09:42thought it was this is bb this is cartilage this pink material here and then skin so i'm kind of
09:48having to like cut through the cartilage there well jemma's little body is doing what it was supposed
09:54to it was walling off that foreign object from the rest of her body really adhered underneath even okay
10:04she has magic puppy healing juice she's going to heal it beautifully that's beautiful that's
10:26actually more challenging than i thought it would be now what do we do with the bb does it go in the
10:30jar of weird things fun stuff pulled out from my animals thank you joey
10:40now that jemma is spayed and we've removed the bb pellet from her ear the hope is is that she's
10:44going to heal up great and she's going to be able to go to her new home and live out the best rest of
10:49her life here she is hi miss jemma i'm so glad that she was able to get that palette out
10:58she's such a sweet deserving girl and it's going to break our hearts when she leaves but she's gonna
11:06have just the best life very cool hey princess good girl
11:16how are you guys good i'm good i'm dr petra okay so we got goat problems yeah
11:31i love jerry he's a norwegian dwarf and he's a pet we knew something was wrong when we could see
11:43foam coming out of his mouth i'm pretty worried and the issue i guess he can pick up feed chew it
11:50appropriately and then he just can't swallow it i don't think he's chewing it can't swallow when he's
11:56moving weight jerry the goat is here today on a urgent care basis for not being able to chew or
12:06swallow appropriately whoa a scapegoat yeah jerry is more of a beloved pet than he is a production animal
12:20more and more often we're starting to see these farm animals become pets to people
12:24kids love them they're adorable so they can be really great additions to a family
12:32i like their personalities they're spunky we go out to them we spend time with them brush them and
12:41give them treats
12:44he's like no thank you i know buddy oh yeah you got big gobs of food in there
12:50so is he swallowing this stuff at all it's kind of just sitting all in it's just sitting in there
12:58it's okay buddy it's okay it's hard goats aren't meant to stand still
13:07ruminants have what we call a four-chambered stomach
13:10basically it's just a large fermentation vat because they eat like grasses and forages hays
13:17that sort of thing so they need to be able to ferment that and break it down
13:21yeah his gut sounds definitely aren't normal
13:27normally it makes a noise and i can hear that with my stethoscope when it does that
13:31this goat's rumen isn't contracting at all there's nothing going on in there an animal with a four-chambered
13:37stomach shouldn't sound like that they should have lots of guts out so he's probably not eating
13:41appropriately um he's not chewing appropriately which is affecting how he's digesting that's a serious
13:47problem i'd like to look in there oh you're okay okay buddy sorry little dude are you not going to
13:59let me look in there at all not even a glimpse yeah do that again that would be helpful open wide bud
14:08hurt because of his sharp teeth oh i know he bit me lots ouch yeah that's like coming out of his
14:14throat almost wow he has just like huge clumps of feed in his mouth and it's compacting down almost into
14:23his throat yeah because see even that crunching is seems like his teeth aren't lining up yeah
14:30he's not moving his jaw at all he's just trying to like swallow long blades of grass whole
14:38you can hear that eh when he's swallowing yeah that gurgling yeah jerry is losing weight he's not eating
14:48well ultimately he could he could die this is bad bad bad
14:55open wide bud ouch i'm a surgeon i need to keep my hands here jerry the goat is not able to
15:09chew or swallow appropriately so i'm curious as to what's going on in the mouth
15:18i don't think he's going to let me get a really good look in that mouth without any sedation
15:23i think we should sedate him and kind of we can go from there i know buddy it's a tough day for you
15:31jerry won't let me look in the mouth there it is nice so we're gonna sedate him and have a closer look
15:38in there oh he's got terrible teeth oh your teeth my friend
15:54like look at that sharp look at that oh my gosh and this tooth is missing it's the same on this side
16:00let me take a photo for them yeah poor guy no wonder it hurts no wonder it's right
16:06goat's teeth grow throughout their life and they've actually grown so much that they're stabbing him
16:12in the cheeks and in the jaw if he can't move that jaw side to side to grind down his feet
16:17then you're gonna have like fibers this long or potentially longer going into your esophagus
16:23and you're not going to process that appropriately this is probably all just a dental disease issue
16:29so i use the power flow and just very quickly take off the sharp edges around all those sharp pointy teeth
16:35doesn't take much not like a horse
16:41already a lot better that's way better oh yeah oh yeah okay we'll try that and see how he does
16:49we're restoring that natural angle to the teeth and allowing him to move his jaw appropriately and
16:54therefore able to eat normally he did really good i'm impressed me too so look at how long and pointy
17:03oh it's like a thing yeah it's like a thing so i made them smoother hopefully this gives him some relief
17:10if you want your goat to live a really long happy life it's probably essential that you get their
17:15dentition checked every now and then you want to get up excellent work jerry
17:27oh careful who doesn't love a dopey goat it's pretty cute right let's go
17:34oh poor sleepy goat he did fantastic
17:47being a vet we work in a high stress environment and so i really enjoy getting out into nature as a way to
17:55decompress there's a lot of history here this valley has been home to first nations people
18:03here in the area for over 6 000 years wow i am at wanaskawin heritage park i am really excited
18:12today to learn more about just how significant the bison were to the indigenous and metis people of
18:17this area each culture has their own way of doing things anytime that you can learn about the land that
18:25you're living on it's a way to take back our heritage wanaskawin is the cultural center museum
18:33an archaeological site it's all of those things together every group that we recognize on the
18:40northern plains came to wanaskawin this immediate area was valued because it's a good place to hunt bison
18:47one of my projects was revamping and rebuilding what we call a bison pound okay they're essentially
18:56a hunting structure used by indigenous peoples here on the northern plains bison coming into the pound
19:02here there's hunters all around this is a you know a trap that's essentially set up for them and once
19:08they come in they're not leaving it's one thing to read a sentence in the history book but to actually
19:15like be there and hear stories of what actually would have happened i think is always really
19:19fascinating for my people for over thousands of years we learned all we needed to know by
19:24listening yeah and watching the these animals
19:29bison for thousands of years were the essential part of my people's existence
19:35my ancestors would never be out of sight out of smell or out of touch of something that didn't come
19:40from these animals they played a prominent role within our spiritual lives but with their near
19:47extinction a lot of other things went with them as well that makes it all the more significant that
19:52we do have them here look at that they're right by the gate oh yeah hey they're right there
20:00i've been here since the introduction of these bison back to this land back in 2019
20:05we've got anywhere from baby calves to five-year-old mature cows on just right about 500 acres of grasslands
20:15that's really really cool bison are known as a keystone species they will change the landscape
20:24ever since we've gotten the bison back we have birds and and certain plants and insects it has flourished
20:31in the last five years from what was here to what we have here now one of the key factors
20:38that we like to try here is a very low stress handling procedure that's what i'm all about with
20:45cats and dogs too i love it i'm excited to hear when we want to move them to a new field
20:51they're always moved with feed or grain yeah yeah sometimes you have to use the candy version
20:57i was gonna say molasses with it yeah it's molasses tubs yeah they just run free
21:04nowadays they're the central part of juana scale in the park they have been for thousands of years
21:08they still are today it's a very powerful thing knowing that our history you know has a lot of dark
21:19points to have a place like this to educate people not only on what life would have been like but also to
21:26be curating a space for these animals to get back in their natural habitat it's hard to put words to
21:33it's really amazing to see
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