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00:01Across 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.
00:13His 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, my old mate?
00:25Peter's old partner, Julian Norton...
00:27He didn't have colour in his day.
00:29He did have some colour.
00:31...now 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.
00:48...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.
00:57...the teams are united.
00:58We can probably knock this off ourselves, do you think?
01:01Never taking their eyes off the ball...
01:06...has they help animals of all shapes...
01:09...it's trying to grow an extra pair of legs...
01:11...sizes...
01:12...kind of gorgeous.
01:13...types...
01:16...and temperaments.
01:17No, don't be nasty.
01:19...it's definitely not glamorous.
01:21Cut that mucus out.
01:22...but it's varied.
01:23So we've actually found gold, literally found gold.
01:26...it's rarely easy.
01:27You've won Mr. Wet t-shirt.
01:29But they continue the Herriot tradition.
01:32It's alive.
01:33...treating all creatures...
01:34This movie?
01:35I can't believe it.
01:37...great...
01:37...not quite the same as operated in theatre, is it?
01:40Come on!
01:40...and small.
01:41Hey-yo!
01:42Ho-ho-ho!
01:57Whether trotting down a country lane...
02:03...galloping across the countryside...
02:06...or sprinting to the finish line...
02:11...horses are a huge part of Yorkshire life.
02:19Elegant and graceful...
02:24...their beauty often steals the show.
02:37But Matt's rushing out to see a horse...
02:39...who isn't looking her usual show-stopping best.
02:42I've just had a phone call from Phil and Georgie...
02:45...at Cannon Hall.
02:46They've just told me that Amber the Shire horse...
02:48...has got a nasty cut to her eye...
02:50...and it looks quite bad.
02:51Amber's one of their favourite Shire horses...
02:53...and she actually came second at the Great Yorkshire Show...
02:56...last year when I was there.
02:59Did well.
03:01Good girl.
03:02Well done Amber.
03:03Solid effort.
03:06I'm a bit concerned...
03:07...because eyes at very, very tricky things to work with...
03:10...and they're even harder to try and stitch back together.
03:13I'm getting there as quick as I can...
03:14...to see what I can do with it.
03:17At the farm...
03:18...Georgie and Phil are worried.
03:23It doesn't look the best.
03:24It could be that she's just going on a bit of the fencing somewhere.
03:28It's not looking great.
03:30It's not really what you want with a nice young horse.
03:34The worst possible scenario is to lose her eyelid.
03:36Possibly even lose her eyes.
03:39Morning, you all right?
03:40Morning, yeah. Good, thank you.
03:41How are you?
03:42So, sounds like Amber's got herself into a bit of bother.
03:45What's the story?
03:46Yeah, she's obviously overnight had a bit of a...
03:48...bit of an accident here with her eye.
03:50Oh, she's made her right.
03:51Good job of that, hasn't she?
03:52She has, yeah.
03:52It looks...
03:53...had a bit of a tear to it by the looks of it.
03:54Have to have a look.
03:57She's literally just taking it off right at that bit...
03:59...where the tear duct and such is.
04:01Yeah.
04:01And it's already starting to...
04:03Oh, it's so swollen already, is that?
04:05Right.
04:06There.
04:06Oh, relax.
04:07Hey, hey, hey.
04:07It's okay.
04:08It's okay.
04:09It's okay.
04:12Ooh.
04:13She's really done a number on that one.
04:17She's just very lucky that she's not...
04:20...gouged the actual eyeball out.
04:21Looking at it, I can just see in the corner of the eye...
04:24...I've got a little bit of eyelid there.
04:26Right.
04:26So I should hopefully be able to debride that bit of skin there...
04:30...and stitch the eyelid close together...
04:32...because when it comes to eyelid wounds...
04:36...it's paramount to make sure you get a good seal...
04:38...and the eye itself blinks...
04:39...otherwise you're just going to get dry eyes...
04:41...and it can make them have all sorts of stuff like that.
04:42So she's going to need to be very, very, very still.
04:45Right.
04:45So I'm going to need to give you some sedation.
04:49Come on, Amber.
04:50Bit of sleepy time.
04:52Three, two, one.
04:54There we go.
04:54It's a really nasty eye wound is that...
04:56...it's going to be a bit of an awkward stitch together...
04:59...and she's made a good mess of it.
05:00So I just need her to stay really still...
05:03...just for five or ten minutes...
05:04...while I can get those specific stitches in...
05:07...that knits the eyelid together perfectly.
05:10Obviously just the little concern is when the sedate like this...
05:13...obviously they're not falling over...
05:14...and especially not at the wrong time...
05:16...when Matt's obviously got that needle so close to her eye.
05:18Just watch yourself and I'll see you.
05:20Follow on you, George.
05:27Living in a picture-perfect village on the North York Moors...
05:31...Tomeli is living the dream.
05:34But for born and bred Londoner Dally...
05:38...having a homesick Cockney parrot is proving to be a nightmare.
05:43I've had him over 40 years.
05:45He drives me mad.
05:46You know, he's just...
05:47...I've got to have my eyes on him all the time.
05:52Pip's not happy...
05:55...because...
05:55...this is what I think...
05:58...because...
05:59...we was always in London...
06:01...and...
06:02...he's a London boy...
06:04...the same as me.
06:06And blue-headed pioneer's Pip...
06:08...is a bit of an East End hard nut.
06:11He would bite me finger off if he could.
06:13When he shakes his head...
06:14...you know...
06:15...that's when he's getting mad.
06:18I love him...
06:19...but I hate him.
06:21I never thought I would hate a bird...
06:23...but I do hate him.
06:26If he was bigger...
06:28...I think he would kill me.
06:34Today, Pip's at the practice in Kirby Moorside...
06:37...to meet Peter for the first time.
06:40All right, Pip.
06:41But he has ruffled a few feathers on this manor before.
06:48He's here today...
06:50...to get his claws clipped.
06:52But the last time I brought him here...
06:54...he was murder.
06:55He was absolutely really, really bad.
07:01In mixed reckoning practice...
07:03...we've got to, er...
07:04...prepare...
07:05...for the unexpected.
07:07So, er...
07:07...this could be a bit of a challenge for me.
07:09Pip's tough character...
07:11...did mellow with one person.
07:13The old missus, she loved him.
07:16And he loved her.
07:17Danny's late wife...
07:19...Christine.
07:20She could do anything with him.
07:22Cuddle him...
07:23...pick little bits of feathers off his beak.
07:25Her kidneys give out.
07:27You know, she went into hospital on the Monday...
07:29...and she was gone on the Friday.
07:33If I got rid of him...
07:34...I'm getting rid of...
07:35...a little bit of my wife, you know.
07:37And I...
07:38...I do love him.
07:40But we just fight.
07:43It's midwinter.
07:44That's it.
07:45Danny.
07:45Hi.
07:46How you doing?
07:47How you doing?
07:48Who's a smart chap?
07:50Isn't he?
07:51He's a nightmare.
07:52Really?
07:53Yeah.
07:53He's a bit naughty.
07:54Oh, he's murder.
07:57Do you want to come in or...
07:58...do you want to stay here?
07:59No, no.
07:59I'm not getting near him.
08:01No.
08:02No.
08:02I'm alright here.
08:04Right.
08:05I think I'm getting the measure of Pip now.
08:07It looks as if Pip's going to be a bit of a challenge.
08:09No, he's not a challenge.
08:10He's going to be a fight.
08:11I think you need armoured gloves.
08:13Yes.
08:15I'll leave him with you.
08:16Right, lovely.
08:18If you have any cries of anguish, it won't be Pip.
08:21Oh, I will.
08:21I will hear it.
08:22It'll be me.
08:25Pip's reputation as gangster number one...
08:29...means Nurse Tony is taking Danny's glove advice.
08:33Tony, is...
08:34Oh, he's a bit scared, isn't he?
08:36I don't know whether he's scared, but I'm trending.
08:38His owner says he's a killer.
08:40He's a nasty piece of work, apparently.
08:41Okay, alright.
08:48Coming up...
08:50With a dog given no hope because of cancer...
08:53It's gotten bigger, quite quickly.
08:55Julian isn't giving up.
08:57I reckon I can get underneath there.
08:59And stitching up Amber...
09:01It's so tense, because if you miss it, I'll get it wrong, it looks an absolute mess.
09:05Matt's on red alert.
09:06I'll leave too much.
09:09It is!
09:20In Kirby Moorside, Peter and Nurse Tony need their wits about them.
09:25What's that, Pip?
09:26With a notorious East End bad boy.
09:29Alright, Pip.
09:30As they prepare to trim Pip the parrot's overgrown claws.
09:34Okay.
09:35Alright.
09:36Well done.
09:37Sick.
09:38You got it, little man.
09:39I had an African grey when I was younger.
09:42And I loved her.
09:43So I'm quite used to birds, quite used to handling them.
09:45Vanya was a little bit spicy as well, so...
09:47Don't say spicy, you went naughty.
09:50Yeah, I used to bite my dad's.
09:52Really?
09:53Yeah, but she was a nightmare.
09:54But she was loving as well.
09:55Well, let's hope Pip's got a nice side as well.
09:57Yeah, let's hope so.
09:58But Pip's only ever shown his soft side to one person.
10:06And since owner Danny's wife passed away, he's being a hot-headed, beaky blinder.
10:12It's alright.
10:13It's alright, Pip.
10:15Yeah, fight him.
10:16Really, really fight him.
10:18He's a nightmare.
10:20He talks.
10:21He swears.
10:22He sings the football songs.
10:24He goes, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep, beep.
10:27Well, he does.
10:27Because every time I have something to eat, he wants a bit.
10:30And I give him a bit.
10:32And if I don't, he does his nut.
10:38I think you could do some damage if you wanted to, Pip.
10:41I think you could.
10:42I think he's lulling us into a false sense of security.
10:45That's a brute, isn't he, that one?
10:47Yeah, very lovely.
10:49Well done.
10:51I think Tony's been fantastic because he's quite relaxed.
10:56Yeah.
10:58Stop making noise.
11:00I think he knows he's been held by an expert.
11:08Are you alright, Pip?
11:10Alright.
11:10Well, I think I'm happy at that.
11:12What do you think?
11:13I agree, yeah.
11:14You took quite a good length, haven't you?
11:16Yeah.
11:17And I think even Pip's been impressed, so thank you.
11:20No problem.
11:23Well.
11:24Have you done him?
11:25All done.
11:26He was a remarkably good patient.
11:29Was he?
11:29Blimey.
11:30I heard him starting in there, though.
11:31Well, he did.
11:32But I think when he met Tony, I think he realised he'd met his match.
11:36It was quite relaxed.
11:37Alright, baby.
11:38Good.
11:38And, yeah, I'm quite happy with the length of those now.
11:41Pip came with a reputation as being a bit of a hooligan, but that was as sweet as it
11:47gets, really, for clipping nails.
11:49Come on, Pip.
11:50Let's go home.
11:50That's where we live.
11:51Be a good boy, Pip.
11:54Salah.
11:54Thank you very much.
11:56I do believe that Danny has had a bit of a toric time, and I think the companionship
12:03that you get from a bird like Pip can be very, very comforting.
12:07And I think in this situation that Danny and Pip have a pretty strong bond.
12:13Alright, baby.
12:14I know.
12:15And that's very special.
12:22At Cannon Hall Farm, Matt's helping Phil and Georgie with Amber, the shire horse who
12:28suffered a nasty cut to her eye.
12:30Bring her into here.
12:33He's just given her a sedative.
12:36Rob and Dave on a Friday night.
12:38Yeah.
12:39Which is vital if he's going to restore the young show horse to former glory.
12:44So this is really thin, but really strong suture material that's attached to a cutting
12:50needle, so I can do really precise stitching around about the eyelid.
12:56And all she needs to do is stay still for five minutes.
12:59Alright then.
13:01I'm just going to give the eye a flush with just this saline water.
13:07Lovely.
13:09Lovely.
13:09All that detritus coming out.
13:13Oh, it's horrendous.
13:16It's just local anesthetic here.
13:19Right.
13:19If one of you can just hold her head just slightly up.
13:22That's it.
13:23There.
13:24Perfect.
13:26I can breathe too much.
13:30That's a tiny needle, isn't it?
13:32It is.
13:35Just stay ever so still for me, Petal.
13:39There's one bit.
13:40And now this bit, just the bit to stay still for.
13:44What have you do?
13:45Don't blink to not move.
13:46No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no,
13:49no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
13:54This is essentially what I'm trying to do is I'm trying to get to healthy tissue.
13:58Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.
14:00So you can see here, when I pull the stitch tight, you'll see how it knits together.
14:08Stay still, stay still.
14:10Right.
14:11Here.
14:13Moment of truth.
14:15That should line up absolutely.
14:20Perfect.
14:21Spot on.
14:24Well done, Amber.
14:29He's so tense because if you miss it or get it wrong, it looks an absolute mess.
14:33The way that's been pulled in from five minutes ago, I didn't think it was going to look like that,
14:37to be honest.
14:39I'm going to give it a last flush.
14:40Yeah.
14:45Actually, that needs a stitch in, yeah.
14:47The initial greys at the corner of her eye that look like this will be alright, she's split it right
14:52at the corner,
14:53and the eyelid's actually starting to fold in on itself, so I'm going to need to put a stitch in
14:57that too.
15:01Thank you, too.
15:04Lovely.
15:07You can see the lid perfectly closes.
15:11Looking well.
15:12Perfect.
15:15Well done, Georgie, and well done, man.
15:18Good job.
15:18Thank you, Phil.
15:18Yes, we'll keep an eye on it.
15:20I wish to see you next time.
15:21Thanks very much.
15:21See you, bye-bye.
15:22Cheers, bye.
15:23It's always really unnerving doing surgery and procedures around an eye, because the structures are so fragile.
15:30The stitch that I put in has joined those bits of eyelid together beautifully, and I really hope that the
15:35body gets on and does its job,
15:37and it heals up nicely within the next few weeks, but I don't know what on earth she's done, but
15:42I hope she doesn't do it again,
15:43because she's been very lucky this time to not cause damage to the eye itself.
15:54Horses hold a special place in the heart of Matt's colleague Shona.
16:01Can you join your grass?
16:02Yes.
16:04She's a keen rider in her spare time.
16:06Good lad.
16:07As well as running the equine side of the Huddersfield practice.
16:11When we're X-raying feet, we need the whole foot on the X-ray.
16:15If you stand here, you're nearer the back end and things if she swings round.
16:20And after a long day at work, she's at a local pony club to educate the next generation of horse
16:27enthusiasts about first aid.
16:30As with anyone who's got their own hobby, it's nice to see young ones getting involved in it.
16:35So I'm hoping the kids are going to get quite engaged.
16:37I'm hoping they're going to learn something and take something away from this evening.
16:42First of all, I am going to pass you around some anatomy diagrams.
16:49If you get your horse in and find a cut, if it's bleeding, what should you do?
16:56Yeah?
16:56Bandage it.
16:57Yeah?
16:58What about if it's spurting lots of blood out?
17:00Clean.
17:01Yeah?
17:02Cleaning is a good idea if it's dirty.
17:03But first of all, I would do what you said down at the front here and try and stop it
17:07bleeding.
17:08If it's really dirty, I would give it a spray with the hose pipe first.
17:12You've got sort of an eight-hour window where if you can get the bacteria out, you're going to get
17:16much less infection.
17:18I think I should have brought more gory photos because the kids absolutely love them.
17:22Sometimes we can get hold of a dead leg and use that so they can see all the anatomy.
17:26I thought it might be a bit gruesome for them, but I think they would have absolutely loved it.
17:31Right, can we have some volunteers to come up to the front?
17:34Good.
17:35Right, come on.
17:37All of you come up.
17:38They've all got a nasty wound on their arm.
17:40We're going to take it in turns to put bits of bandaging material on.
17:42So I'm going to cut this up.
17:45That's yours.
17:46Oh, my God.
17:47With this one, what I would do is, on a horse, I would start at the bottom of the leg
17:53and wrap it round.
17:55Is it nice?
17:57Do you feel like a well-looked-after pony?
17:59Yeah.
18:01You don't kick very much, do you?
18:03You're not making it very difficult.
18:05Oh, now it's more realistic.
18:09I want to be a vet when I'm older.
18:11It's really, really good.
18:12I'm learning quite a lot of new things.
18:14This is a classic of a bandage being too tight.
18:18There you go.
18:18Very tight.
18:19Got it.
18:20I've enjoyed seeing them.
18:22Right, if anyone wants to come and have a go with Steffa skirts, I think we've got two at the
18:25front.
18:27You're alive.
18:29I've learned lots tonight.
18:32I'd just like to thank Shona very much. Poppy and Ali would like to just give you.
18:38Aww.
18:42Thanks very much, everyone.
18:43And thank you for being such a good audience.
18:45I really appreciated you getting involved.
18:47That was just what we needed.
18:48That'll keep me going right up until Christmas, that will.
18:51Some nice things in there.
18:54I think that's gone quite well.
18:55It might just make them all a little bit more prepared if anything happens to their pony.
19:00I'm very passionate about my job and I love all my animals and I think it's always great just passing
19:05on that knowledge to the young ones.
19:06They can go out, they can use it, which will be great.
19:13While a trip to the vets is rarely a good thing for pet owners, sometimes it can provide a glimmer
19:20of hope.
19:24In Wetherby, Neil and Mary are waiting anxiously with their rescue dog, Susie.
19:31Good, Susie.
19:32Good girl.
19:33She is a proper-esque street dog, brought her over to the UK.
19:37She has got cancer.
19:39We were advised previously that it's likely to be in amongst the nerves and tendons in the back legs so
19:43it's inoperable.
19:44No real treatment for it.
19:46Just give her the best life that she can while she was around.
19:49And we sort of resigned ourselves to that.
19:51But we came in to see Julian and Julian looked at it and just said, I think we can take
19:58this off.
20:00There's a big lump on the back leg.
20:02It is quite well attached.
20:04Good girl.
20:06Good girl.
20:06Well done.
20:08You're so great.
20:10Well done.
20:11It's been static for quite a few years, but it's suddenly changed and suddenly got worse.
20:17So we're not sure whether it's an aggressive cancer.
20:20But I'm worried that if we don't do something soon, it will be very difficult to remove.
20:25Oh, there we are.
20:29Come on, Sus.
20:33Fast asleep.
20:36This is a lump.
20:38It's like an egg.
20:40Oh.
20:42Oh.
20:44Oh.
20:44Oh.
20:44Oh, my gosh.
20:45Oh, they're heavier than you look.
20:47Have you got her?
20:48I've got her, yeah.
20:52The owners of Susie are very anxious today.
20:55I think they're keen to do the surgery, but they're worried about how it's going to go.
21:01So, a bit of a challenge, some stress now that, but I think it's going to be quite important
21:05to try and take this lump off.
21:08Nurse Jo will be helping Julian with the operation.
21:12It's gotten bigger.
21:13Quite big.
21:13All right.
21:14Quite quickly.
21:15See what you think.
21:17Gosh, yeah.
21:19Yeah.
21:20I reckon I can get underneath there.
21:34Right.
21:35Is that ready to go?
21:36Yep, all ready.
21:38Is she okay?
21:39Yep.
21:40It looks bigger than it did before.
21:41When the hair's all clipped off and it's all prepped and ready to go, things do look a
21:45bit different.
21:46I just hope it's going to be okay to do.
21:53Coming up.
21:54Does she look a little bit slow feverish, David?
21:56David has cow concerns.
21:58It's quite common with these.
22:00If you get what we call slow fever, then that could lead to a twisted stomach.
22:03For the Londoner in Yorkshire, the parrot's still boss.
22:06It sounds stupid, really, as if you've got a move because a parrot don't like it.
22:11And Peter's travelled the other way to show the locals what they've been missing.
22:16Never had Yorkshire pudding.
22:18You've got a treat in store.
22:19That isn't how we normally eat it in Yorkshire, but never mind.
22:22LAUGHTER
22:34At the practice in Wetherby.
22:36Right, so that's the skin bit done.
22:39Julian and Joe are in the theatre with Susie, the Romanian rescue dog.
22:44Yeah, we're really settled, lovely anaesthetic at the moment.
22:47Julian's hoping he can remove her large cancerous lump, which had been deemed inoperable.
22:54So this is sort of the moment of truth, really.
22:57Whether it's going to be possible to get the whole of the lump out.
23:02And it's not immediately clear whether they'll be able to or not.
23:09It's just, it's a bit odd, this.
23:11It's sort of, at first I thought it was going to be easy, and now I don't know whether it
23:16is.
23:21There's sticky stuff coming out of it.
23:26It's not gone into the muscle, but it's stuck to the surface of the muscle.
23:30So I'm managing to dissect it away from there.
23:34Just gently, gently.
23:39And that should be it.
23:41Excellent.
23:42The lump's come off quite well, actually.
23:44It was pretty big, quite angry looking.
23:46If it was invading into the muscle, it then becomes really hard to get it all out.
23:49But it was just kind of touching the surface.
23:51So it's come off nicely, actually. I'm happy with it.
23:55Let's just pop it in the pot.
23:58Ooh, that only just fits.
24:01This is just like a sticking plaster.
24:03But it's just to protect the wound.
24:06Dogs obviously often quite like to lick at themselves.
24:09So it'll stop anything like that happening.
24:13And just keep it protected.
24:14They don't always stay on for very long.
24:17Is that all right?
24:18Yep, fine.
24:26That was a snooze, Suze.
24:31So hopefully that's the end of Suzy's problems.
24:34She's recovering quite nicely now and at home later on today with the end of that nasty and ugly problem
24:40on her leg.
24:40So yeah, it's worked out very well today.
24:47In North Yorkshire, it's nearly a month since Peter met problem parent Pip.
24:54And with his claws cut back...
24:56Hello, my baby boy.
24:57Danny's Cockney Rebel by Justice Mello.
25:02Come on, be a good boy.
25:04That's it.
25:05That's it.
25:06He's just beginning to come to me.
25:10Beginning.
25:11That's it.
25:12I can't believe this Pip.
25:13You're not having me.
25:14Are you?
25:15I can stroke his head now.
25:16Where before I couldn't.
25:18I know my boy.
25:19His daddy's little boy boys.
25:21He likes that when the missus used to do it.
25:24Oh, he loves that.
25:26I met my wife August the 5th, 1965.
25:31It was on a Monday.
25:33And by the Friday, I asked her to marry me.
25:36And we'd never been apart.
25:39I was very lucky.
25:40I was very lucky, Trevor.
25:43It has affected him.
25:45It don't seem possible how a bird could love a human so much.
25:51I mean, the dogs, they miss her.
25:55I miss her terribly.
25:56But he misses her, I think, the most.
26:01And it seems Pip also misses his old East End home.
26:07Where he, Danny and Christine had many happy years together.
26:12I'm sorry to say, we're moving, Pip, aren't we?
26:15And we're going to go back to where you used to live.
26:19It's a beautiful village that I live in.
26:21But it's not me.
26:23It sounds stupid, really.
26:25As if you've got to move.
26:26Because a parrot don't like it.
26:28You know?
26:28But he's not happy.
26:30And hopefully, when I move back, he'll be his normal self.
26:34Because he's still got many, many years.
26:36Because they lived to a day about 80.
26:38Worse luck.
26:42You could have him in millions.
26:44I wouldn't part of him.
26:54While Danny and Pip are Londoners in North Yorkshire.
26:59Today, London's calling for Peter.
27:02Who, as an ambassador for a dog food company,
27:05is leaving North Yorkshire on a special assignment.
27:08The event is a pop-up, one-day,
27:12Yorkshire embassy in the heart of London.
27:15This embassy is to meet some of our southern four-legged friends
27:19and to promote dog food and to promote Yorkshire as well.
27:24They need to have a vet on site
27:26and, as fellow Yorkshiremen themselves,
27:28they've asked me to join them for the day.
27:31If you ask me, the Yorkshire embassy in London
27:34should be a permanent thing.
27:36Not that I'm biased, but for one day,
27:40it's going to be a bit of fun, at least.
27:43The big smoke.
27:50And while it might feel a world away from the Yorkshire countryside,
27:54maybe Peter won't have such a language barrier to overcome.
28:02He isn't the only one here with Yorkshire roots.
28:05So, Terry, is he a Londoner?
28:07Yeah, he lives in London.
28:09Throughout my career, I've seen lots of Yorkshire terriers.
28:12One day, Terry, I think you need to visit your homeland.
28:16But he's on a mission to educate some new furry friends from the south
28:20about God's own country.
28:23Harry, have you ever had Yorkshire pudding?
28:26Have you?
28:27No.
28:28Never had Yorkshire pudding?
28:29No.
28:29You've got a treating stop.
28:32Now, let's pick you a nice Yorkshire pudding, Harvey,
28:34and I think several slices of this posh nosh.
28:39Harry, what do you think of this, eh?
28:42Would you like some?
28:43Great, Harvey, wait.
28:44There's a good boy.
28:45Great.
28:46Just try that.
28:49Oh, I think he likes it.
28:51The meat's gone first, which is not surprising.
28:56Oh, now the Yorkshire pudding, now, yeah.
28:59You're very dainty to start with, Harvey.
29:02Now, old manners have gone by their way now, haven't they?
29:05That isn't how we normally eat it in Yorkshire, but never mind.
29:10Doesn't matter where you are in the country,
29:12Yorkshire puddings always go down well,
29:15and London is no exception.
29:17One thing Yorkshire folk and Londoners have in common,
29:20apart from enjoying a brew or rosy league...
29:23Nothing like a good cup of tea.
29:25..is having some fun with the great north-south divide.
29:29So, we've got some passports that we need you to be issuing,
29:32if that's all right?
29:33Passports?
29:34Passports for the pets.
29:35Right. To go to where?
29:37To Yorkshire.
29:38Ah, right. Count me in, yeah.
29:41Lead me to me workstation.
29:42That's great. Take a seat, please.
29:47So, who have we got here?
29:49This is Pepe.
29:50Vaccination's fully up-to-date?
29:52Yes, they are.
29:53Excellent.
29:53I don't see any reason why Pepe can't travel to Yorkshire.
29:57Awesome.
29:59Here we are. Thank you.
30:01Enjoy your journey. Let's go.
30:02Next.
30:05It's been a very interesting day,
30:07and I've met lots of interesting characters,
30:10mainly of the four-legged variety.
30:13I can see why these people want to travel to Yorkshire.
30:16We've got fantastic countryside,
30:18superbly friendly people,
30:20and a culture that's to die for.
30:24And that's where I'm going now.
30:26Back home to where I belong.
30:28I'll see you soon.
30:37Down south, some say it's grim up north.
30:42And while that's not true,
30:43the weather really can be.
30:46David's heading out from the Huddersfield Hospital,
30:49ready to brave the elements.
30:51This rainy afternoon,
30:53we're heading over to one of our local dairy farms.
30:58They've got a cow.
30:59I know she's still held on to a bit of her placenta after carving recently.
31:03If it's left inside, it can introduce an infection,
31:05which really can make the cow quite sick.
31:08As an experienced farmer...
31:10Come on, Babby.
31:12Chris is aware there could be all kinds of problems.
31:16Come on, baby.
31:17She might have a little bit of slow fever,
31:20or a little bit of shortness of calcium.
31:22So hopefully David can have a check-over,
31:25and we'll see what we can go from there.
31:27It's really important to get rid of the placenta after carving.
31:30It's actually a common cause of them getting a twisted stomach,
31:34and unfortunately we do lose cows to twisted stomachs.
31:39Come on.
31:40Come on.
31:41This nice vet.
31:42Come on, this is.
31:44Come on.
31:44Push in.
31:45That's it.
31:49When did she carve?
31:51It'll be four or five days since.
31:53Four or five days.
31:53Did she carve all right?
31:55Yeah, yeah.
31:56Carved okay on her own.
31:58She just looks a little bit like slow fever,
32:01or milk feverish round her eyes.
32:03Yeah, definitely we'll check her.
32:04So just check her over and see what we come up with.
32:07Right, let's have a look.
32:08Got some water there, aren't we?
32:10And a bit of roll.
32:12It's quite common with these.
32:13If they're left, then they go rotten.
32:15It would lead to infection.
32:16She'd go down, she'd stop eating.
32:18She'd get what we call slow fever.
32:20Then that could lead to a twisted stomach.
32:24Does she look a little bit slow feverish, David?
32:26She's a little bit steady.
32:28So we'll see what we've got in there.
32:30So what I'm doing here is listening to the side of the body wall
32:34while percussing in a few areas to see if we get a characteristic metal ping sound,
32:39which is indicative of a twisted stomach.
32:41And that's really bad news.
32:45Still to come.
32:46I've stitched my crotch together.
32:48Lucy's pants are sorted.
32:50But as for Susie's stitches...
32:52What's happened?
32:53She's ripped the stitches out.
32:55So that's totally opened up then, isn't it?
32:57While Matt's hoping there's been less horsing around with his handiwork.
33:01How are things with Amber?
33:14At one of the Huddersfield practice's dairy farms...
33:18Just with the rice being slightly puffed, like a little bit...
33:22Slow fever or...
33:23Yeah, definitely.
33:25David's examining Chris's cow, who has a retained placenta.
33:29Just check her temperature, see if, you know, she's got an infection from it.
33:33He's worried it might have led to something more life-threatening.
33:36Temperature's normal.
33:37Like a twisted stomach.
33:39No sign of a twist, which is good.
33:42She hasn't got one, so that's really good news.
33:44Things are looking positive, but he has to make sure it stays that way.
33:48You can just smell it, it's just starting to go sour.
33:50So we'll see what we've got in there.
33:54So I'm lifting the tail with my right elbow.
33:56I've got to keep my right hand clean, so I'm not cleaning it with my right hand.
33:59And even though there is some cleansing in there,
34:02I don't want to introduce any contamination from the outside world
34:06and contribute to an infection.
34:09So I'm just cleaning that off first.
34:11Not the most glamorous job in the world, but it's important for this cow.
34:15Look at it nice and steadily.
34:18Just gentle traption.
34:19If it's coming that way nicely.
34:22Do you feel to be much in?
34:23There is a bit, actually.
34:24There's more than I thought.
34:25I thought it just looked like a bit of a tail end, but there is a decent amount of...
34:29Obviously it wants to be coming out, doesn't it?
34:31It does, yeah, yeah.
34:37So all that retained, that placenta there.
34:41You see these yellow bits here, and they're going off now,
34:45but that's the remnants of the cotyledons,
34:46and that'll be all the exchange between the nutrients,
34:50between the blood vessels of the mother and the calf.
34:53Now it's all dead tissue, it's going to go nasty.
34:55I'll just double check if there's not anything else left.
34:59She's cleaning now.
35:00Just a mild infection in there.
35:04Are you putting some pesters up a lot, David?
35:06Yeah, yeah.
35:07But it puts a little bit of antibiotic in there to deal with the infection.
35:10It's better than, obviously, giving her injections of antibiotics,
35:13which will spread all around the body,
35:14whereas this is obviously acting locally in the uterus,
35:18so I just have to very gently place it in there,
35:21and it'll just prevent this infection from going too far.
35:24Let's check her ketones.
35:27Just checking that this cow's got appropriate energy levels.
35:31This is a ketometer, so it reads the level of ketones in the cow's blood.
35:38Ketones are produced when the cow uses fat to feed itself off its back
35:43rather than actually getting the energy from its food.
35:47That's okay.
35:48It's maybe slightly higher than normal,
35:50but cows at this stage after calving always have a little bit more than normal,
35:54and it'd be well up from that if she really had a bad slow fever.
35:58Yeah.
35:58So I'm happy with that.
36:00All right, well, thanks very much.
36:01Thank you, David.
36:02No worries. We'll see you again.
36:03I'll be well. Everything's okay.
36:04Thank you very much.
36:05Absolutely, yeah.
36:06I've checked the cow over.
36:08I've removed the cleansing.
36:09Checked she's not got a twisted stomach.
36:10We'll take care of her over the next few days,
36:12but it's a good result for her.
36:22Suturing is a vital skill in any veterinary practice.
36:27But in Wetherby, rather than pets,
36:31Nurse Lucy has been stitching pants.
36:34I've stitched my crotch together.
36:38It's good stitching work.
36:39That is good stitching.
36:41Frank, what do you think is my stitching?
36:43So you've been wanting to use some nylon?
36:45That is nylon.
36:46That's nylon.
36:47I didn't check them off.
36:48I could have done it at home,
36:49but I decided to do it with me wearing them.
36:51Yeah, I think it's safe.
36:52So I basically just did that and just...
36:55There's a...
36:55Oh!
36:55I've just made another hole.
36:57Stop that and get back to work.
36:58I feel like I need to.
37:01Right.
37:01Right.
37:02I'm going.
37:03I'm coming.
37:04Lucy's isn't the only stitching issue at the practice today.
37:09It's a week since Julian's challenging surgery
37:12to remove Romanian Rescue Susie's cancerous lump.
37:16Good girl.
37:18And Mary and Neil have just had an eventful walk
37:21with Susie and their other dog, Dottie.
37:25We took them out as we usually do on varying errands
37:28and we looked up and, oh, Susie's stitches have all gone.
37:36The nurses warned us that they thought that was the risk,
37:40that if the stitches got itchy, she would pick at them.
37:44And that's obviously what she did.
37:46She wouldn't let us redress it.
37:48She wouldn't have anything to do with that, would she?
37:49So we just rang here first thing and said,
37:53Help!
37:53What do we do?
37:55Susie?
37:57Have we got problems?
37:59What's happened?
38:01Have we had an accident?
38:03Err, from her point of view, yes.
38:09So that's totally opened up then, isn't it?
38:11Completely, yeah.
38:12And what happened?
38:14Licking or running or...?
38:15We didn't give her a cone or anything like that
38:18because we thought that she wouldn't be able to handle it.
38:21Yeah.
38:21But she's done the opposite now.
38:22She's ripped the stitches out.
38:24Yeah.
38:24Right.
38:25I think the best thing to do with that would be to redo it.
38:29Restitch it.
38:30Restitch it, yeah.
38:31What we'll do actually is we'll just trim the edges back
38:33and make a fresh wound and start from scratch.
38:39You're coming with me again?
38:41I'll give you a ring when she's ready.
38:43OK.
38:44Go on, Sus, we're going this way.
38:45Stay in a bit, then.
38:47It's quite a big gaping hole,
38:49so we should knock her out again and fix it.
38:51It happens from time to time.
38:53It's not ideal, but it's one of the challenges
38:56that we're faced post-operatively,
38:58so hopefully she'll be good before too long.
39:04It's quite big, doesn't it? Do her girl?
39:06Yeah.
39:07She's done a good job.
39:14It's going quite well.
39:15It looks a lot of needed.
39:19Susie chewed her wound open.
39:20Oh, no.
39:21Yeah, she chewed her stitches out.
39:23Oh.
39:27That's done now.
39:29It looks OK.
39:29Although it looks OK last time, doesn't it?
39:32So, yeah.
39:33I'm fairly confident this will work.
39:36Just don't lick the stitches.
39:39Before they head home,
39:41Neil and Mary just need some cone tips from Lucy.
39:44What you can do is,
39:45I've got this little tie,
39:46you can just tie that into a bow.
39:48Push it on the head.
39:49It does look tight,
39:49but it does need to be tight.
39:51We're not chewing anything.
39:52No, we're not chewing it off again.
39:54No.
39:54No.
39:54Or it will be your spends that we spend.
40:02A couple of months later...
40:04Good girl, sirs.
40:05Susie has come a long way since Mary and Neil
40:08were originally told her cancer was inoperable.
40:11We had her in a collar for a full two weeks
40:13and that was really traumatic.
40:15She didn't like it.
40:16Once she got to the point that Julian took the stitches out,
40:20really, she just let forward in leaps and bounds, didn't she?
40:26I mean, we're just pleased to have Susie back, aren't we?
40:28Yes.
40:29And know that we've got her for longer than we would have had.
40:32I think you can see we're up in one of their favourite spaces.
40:36Yeah.
40:36We just enjoy being up here with them
40:38and just love having them around, really.
40:41They're just the family, aren't they?
40:43When we thought we were going to lose Susie,
40:45neither of us could bring ourselves round to it, could we?
40:48They're just two superb dogs we wouldn't be without.
40:50No.
40:57At Callan Hall Farm,
41:00it's a month since Matt's emergency stitch job
41:03on Amber, the prize-winning shire horse.
41:06It was a really nasty cut.
41:09I don't know how she'd done it,
41:10but she'd managed to lacerate the lid
41:13right in the corner of her eye.
41:15It was a really, really awkward spot,
41:17but she had just enough tissue to close things up
41:20and I'm really hoping it's worked.
41:22But eyes can be a little bit tricky on the healing front.
41:28Hiya, Matt.
41:29Afternoon, Rob.
41:30How are you getting on?
41:31How are you doing?
41:32Well, how are you?
41:32Hello, Amber. I'm good, thank you very much.
41:34How are things with Amber?
41:35Well, as you can see, Matt.
41:38That's healed really, really nicely,
41:40and given it was in such a precarious position as well,
41:42it's not causing any irritation,
41:44it's not causing any bother to the eye of those structures,
41:47and that corner of the eye as well looks spot on.
41:50Excellent.
41:52I think she was very lucky to not actually damage the eye itself,
41:55you know, because the longer it's left,
41:57the more swelling occurs,
41:58the more chance it has of an infection,
42:00and then any stitching that you do do can break down,
42:03it doesn't have as high a chance of healing,
42:05it can cause further problems,
42:06so really the quicker the better
42:08when it comes to wounds in that spot.
42:11She's kept some good looks anyway.
42:13Yeah, well...
42:13Have another run at the Yorkshire shore.
42:15I can't tell the difference.
42:16She looks absolutely perfect.
42:17Yeah, it was a good job, George.
42:18You spotted it in time.
42:20What were you two doing?
42:21Dave was on holiday.
42:22Yeah?
42:23In fact, we've renamed him Judith Chalmers.
42:25Right?
42:25And I was working out elsewhere on the estate.
42:28I understand.
42:28Hour on the beach having a cold one.
42:29You know what?
42:30I can't blame you.
42:31It's hard life, isn't it?
42:33It's hard life.
42:35Right, shall we let her outside?
42:36Yeah, let's let her have a run around,
42:38and hopefully she doesn't do it again.
42:43Come on, missus.
42:44Come on.
42:45Group outing.
42:45There you go.
42:51She just said a nice thank you.
42:53I'd just like to say thank you before we go.
42:55How nice.
42:56You're welcome, Amber.
42:58I think there's a real bond between Amber and Matt now.
43:00She's saying thank you very much.
43:02Matt's made a friend for life, and we've got a mended horse.
43:05Yeah.
43:05And a beautiful looking house, Rob.
43:07And a beautiful vet.
43:08Thanks, I was waiting for that.
43:09Ha, ha, ha, ha, ha, ha.
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