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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...
00:27Not 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.
00:48...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.
00:56The teams are united...
00:59Oh!
01:00...and always determined to hit their target.
01:03Yay!
01:05Yes!
01:06...as they help animals of all shapes...
01:09It's trying to grow an extra pair of legs.
01:11...sizes...
01:12Hello, God, yes.
01:13...types...
01:14Catch!
01:15...and temperaments.
01:17No, don't be nasty.
01:18...it's definitely not glamorous.
01:21Cut that mucus out.
01:22But it's varied.
01:23So we've actually found gold.
01:25Literally found gold.
01:26It's rarely easy.
01:27You've won Mr. Wet t-shirt.
01:29But they continue the Herriot tradition.
01:32Hello.
01:32Treating all creatures...
01:34It's moving.
01:35I can't believe it.
01:37...great...
01:39You're all right, little bird.
01:40...and small.
01:41How are we out then?
01:42Yay!
01:53The darkness...
01:56...and the light.
01:59A relationship that's always fascinated scientists...
02:03...and inspired poets.
02:08These intertwined symbols of hope...
02:12...and life.
02:15Despair.
02:18Or even death.
02:22And on a night shift...
02:24...when a Yorkshire vet hears about lives on the line...
02:28...there might need to be a rage...
02:31...against the dying of the light.
02:35At the Huddersfield Practices Farm Animal Centre...
02:39...Shona's bracing herself...
02:42...after an emergency call.
02:46It's about 8 o'clock at night.
02:47I'm on call.
02:48And we've got a sheep farmer coming down...
02:50...with what's probably going to be a caesarean.
02:53I've got everything ready...
02:54...and then we'll crack on.
02:56Speed is of the essence.
02:57Helen and her daughter Karen have just arrived.
03:01Right, pop us in there...
03:03...and to the right...
03:04...with the ewe who's struggling in labour.
03:08Right, so one's too big.
03:10The lamb's going backwards.
03:12Right, OK.
03:13I'll just put my wellies on.
03:15We knew she'd been messing about...
03:18...getting up and down.
03:20We'd been inside...
03:22...but couldn't figure anything earlier on.
03:24She's not really progressing with anything.
03:26It ain't ever going to come out.
03:28It's coming backwards.
03:30And then it's like, we've given her enough time...
03:34...more time than she would have done...
03:36...if she'd have had a natural birth...
03:38...and decided...
03:39...it's a better job.
03:41We'll do it legs under.
03:42We'll go that way.
03:43We'll have a look.
03:45Come on, boss.
03:46And do it legs.
03:47Good girl.
03:47Right, let's get you cooked up already.
03:51Has she been straining a lot or not much?
03:53Not that much, really, has she?
03:55Right.
03:58We know that she's in labour.
03:59We know from Karen having a feel...
04:01...that everything is too small.
04:03I'm not going to go in and have another feel...
04:05...because that's just more trauma inside there.
04:07There's no point in me doing that.
04:08I know that Karen knows what she's doing.
04:11She's had calcium.
04:12She's had everything else we can do...
04:13...so it's definitely straight in for the cesarean.
04:16Right.
04:17Is it the first time you've had the vet this year?
04:19Yeah.
04:20There's nine left that's got twins in.
04:23This is a twin.
04:26Ideally, the quicker you can get the lambs out, the better, really.
04:29The more chance of survival, usually.
04:31OK, you all right at your end, Karen?
04:32Yeah.
04:33We just want to get everything done as efficiently as possible.
04:36Minimal stress to the sheep.
04:37Minimal stress to the lambs.
04:41Oh, there's plenty in there.
04:44Like, I think we need a bigger hole.
04:46Sorry, girl.
04:48Said, didn't you?
04:51Good girl.
04:55Good lady.
04:56This uterus is full of a lot of fluid.
04:59So I'm just trying to...
05:00It's just making it a little bit more awkward than normal to get hold of anything.
05:05So I can't tell if it is that it's a big lamb yet, because there's just so much fluid around
05:10it.
05:11It might be because not much water bag's come out the back end,
05:14but it might be because there's something abnormal going on in here.
05:17Hopefully it's the former.
05:25When you work at a Yorkshire vet practice...
05:28Would you like one of these?
05:30...you end up thinking deeply about animals.
05:34And in Weatherby, Bev and Claire are feeling spiritual.
05:39So Bev, what's your spirit animal?
05:42I'd like to be a Lippitzana horse.
05:45A what? A Lippitzana.
05:46They're beautiful, they're white.
05:48OK.
05:48And they have special schools in Austria.
05:52OK.
05:52Where they literally have them all trained.
05:54Oh, really? Yes.
05:56And while Bev sees herself as a well-groomed white horse...
05:59They're the ones that do the, like, gymnastics almost.
06:03Yes.
06:03Claire feels like a wild thing.
06:05What would you think?
06:08I think I'd probably be something a bit more feral.
06:13I'd be a bear.
06:14A bear?
06:14I'd get to hibernate all winter.
06:17That would be so good.
06:19What do you think Julian would be?
06:21Oh, I don't know.
06:23He'd be a squirrel, maybe.
06:25That would be a squirrel.
06:28What would Lucy be?
06:30She'd be a spaniel.
06:31Yeah, absolutely a spaniel.
06:32Yeah, Lucy would be a spaniel.
06:36With their spirit animals decided...
06:39Can you walk?
06:40Julian and Lucy have a real spaniel to deal with.
06:44Whoa!
06:45Let me go!
06:46A white spaniel called Ghost.
06:50You suit your name.
06:52Don't see many this colour, do you?
06:54Three-year-old Ghost has a potentially life-threatening problem.
06:58His owners are worried they've seen something swollen and big in his abdomen.
07:02And they've literally seen it sticking out through the bulge under his skin there.
07:06We think it's a tumour on the spleen.
07:09We see splenic growth quite often in dogs.
07:13It's one of the more common tumours.
07:16They vary.
07:17Some of them are highly cancerous and spread.
07:20Ghost's owner Ryan has a nervous weight in store.
07:24He's only young so you don't expect at this age it comes at a bit of a shock when you
07:28hear a mass inside them.
07:30We're worried but we're hopeful that the vets will be able to sort him out.
07:35No way there.
07:39You can sit there, look.
07:41God, that is massive. There's no wonder we saw that.
07:44Hard as well.
07:45Generally the more aggressive cancers we see in older dogs, so that makes it rather unusual.
07:50But we'll see, hopefully, if something that we can easily remedy.
07:56Julian's asked vet Nat for some help.
07:58Nat is our resident expert scanner.
08:01So we're just going to get an expert's view.
08:06Do you want your lights off?
08:08Yeah, let's turn them off.
08:14It's quite irregular. What do you think it is?
08:17This is lump.
08:19With like this mottal sort of patchy.
08:23Generally it doesn't look recognisable as anything else organ-wise.
08:28Because the spleen would typically be on the other side.
08:31Yeah, so that's the head of your spleen, up on that side.
08:34And then if we follow it, it does kind of sit, it should at some point join up with the
08:40lump.
08:41If it is part of the spleen.
08:46There's an odd thing with this lump, because whilst it's very obvious to feel and to see through the skin,
08:51it's not quite in the right position for a splenic mass.
08:55Which raises the question, is it something else?
08:57It could be on the liver.
08:58Now if it is a cancerous growth on the liver, then that makes it altogether more complicated.
09:04They don't think it's on the liver, do you?
09:09The liver also looks fine.
09:12I guess it could be in the intestines, do you think?
09:15It's odd, isn't it?
09:16This might be a bit of a...
09:18open the box and see what's...
09:21present is inside.
09:23With the benefit of modern imaging, we can get a really good idea,
09:27most cases what we're dealing with, but this seems to be a little bit of a...
09:30a strange one.
09:36Coming up...
09:37This is not an easy one.
09:38In the C-section, Shona doesn't like Plan B.
09:42The worst case scenario on these is that I have to cut them open,
09:44with the uterus still inside the abdomen.
09:47And Peter meets the green's calf, Frosty.
09:49What are you going to do, turn it into snow?
09:51Who's a bit of a hothead.
09:53He's a bit feisty.
09:54He takes after the owner then, does he?
09:56Whoo-hoo!
09:57Ha-ha!
10:04At the Huddersfield Practices Farm Animal Centre...
10:08It's the head end of the lamb that I'm trying to pull up,
10:11and that's always harder to get hold of.
10:13Shona's performing an emergency caesarean on Helen and Karen's ewe.
10:18Sadie! Good girl.
10:19...to try and save the first-time mum's twins.
10:22We knew there was something wrong, so we thought we'd better get here fast
10:26and try and help the lives of the two lambs and the elk.
10:30The worst case scenario on these is that I have to cut them open
10:33with the uterus still inside the abdomen.
10:35Now, we try not to do that,
10:37because we don't want any of the fluid that's in there
10:40to end up in the abdomen, ideally,
10:43because it can end up causing an infection.
10:46So that's why it's quite important that we try and get the uterus out.
10:49This is not an easy one.
10:52Right, we've got it somewhere near.
10:54Can you grab its legs?
10:57Well...
10:57OK, that's one.
11:03Right, you all right for being a second?
11:12Got it?
11:13Yeah.
11:14Good.
11:17There's a little bit of fluid there, and that's what we're just trying to clear out.
11:25The squeezing of the normal birth process actually
11:30stimulates them to get wanting to move, wanting to breathe, wanting to go,
11:33and so it's really important, if they've not had that squeeze,
11:37give them lots of vigorous rubbing.
11:38Good, strong lambs, aren't they?
11:40You happy?
11:41Yeah.
11:42Made the right decision.
11:46Saves three lives, doesn't it?
11:48Definitely.
11:53Just concentrating on getting mum stitched back together.
11:56Are you talking to him, lady?
11:59That's a good sign.
12:01She's got a lam at the front of her, she's giving that a good...
12:05..a good bit of loving so she doesn't seem too bothered by the stitching.
12:11Hello.
12:12You're noisy.
12:14You are.
12:16They're up and they're eager, that's what we want.
12:19It's not so often they're this sprightly, is it, this quickly?
12:23The lambs are really big, like, good-sized lambs for twins,
12:26and especially for a first-time mum.
12:27It's really good as well to see the mum loving the lambs so much.
12:31Yeah, please.
12:33She's done a good job.
12:35Just take the lamb and it'll follow.
12:40Yeah, one, two, three.
12:45Good girl.
12:48What's up?
12:50It's, er, 20 past time we were in bed.
12:55We've been up since half past five.
12:58It's half past nine.
12:59Yeah.
13:00Long days.
13:01Get a brie when we go to bed.
13:04And back up again early in the morning.
13:06Safe journey back.
13:07Thank you very much.
13:08There's no more lamb in the back.
13:12It's good to have got that one underway, got everything sorted.
13:15Two live lambs a month, packed off back home.
13:19It's that waiting game now of just wondering when the phone's next going to ring.
13:30Most good sheep farmers...
13:32..need a good sheep dog.
13:34Awake.
13:35Good boy.
13:37Are we going to see Peter?
13:39And in Kirby Moorside, Peter's friends, Abby and Trevor...
13:43Sit down. Sit.
13:45Good boy.
13:47..have brought their newest four-legged workmate to see him.
13:51Abby.
13:51Now then, Peter.
13:52How are you?
13:53Come on.
13:53We're going to see Peter.
13:56Who's this, Abby?
13:57Moss.
13:57Moss.
13:58Moss has just turned one.
14:01This one's just training at the minute.
14:04Ah, right.
14:04Let's have a look at you.
14:05See?
14:07A lot of smells in here, isn't there?
14:08To cut it as a successful sheep dog.
14:11Well, he looks fit to me.
14:12Yeah.
14:13Then you do a booster.
14:15Is that right?
14:15Yeah.
14:16He'll need a sound temperament.
14:18Don't worry, Moodles.
14:19I don't like them either.
14:21Now then.
14:22Just pop the seat back over your neck.
14:23Good lad.
14:24Your dad's got you.
14:25Along with speed, agility and stamina.
14:28There we are.
14:30Good boy.
14:32Well done.
14:33As well as intelligence.
14:35Is it showing promise?
14:36Yeah.
14:37Is it?
14:37He's got the eye.
14:38Which he's already displaying enough of.
14:41I've still been listening to them big ears.
14:43Yeah.
14:44Kind of like satellite dishes, aren't they?
14:47To know when he's being insulted.
14:50Hey.
14:51He's just saying the purpose.
14:53Excellent.
14:53Very good.
14:54Excellent.
14:55Well, it's nice to see you.
14:58See you.
14:59Take care.
15:04Over in Weatherby, Julian and the team are puzzled by Ghost the Spaniel's mysterious lump.
15:11I think it might be something totally abnormal.
15:14With scans inconclusive.
15:16It's hard.
15:17It's a hard, hard thing.
15:20Julian and Lucy are preparing for surgery.
15:23It's weird because it's just so prominent there.
15:27I've literally, like, never seen anything like it.
15:30It's, like, not movable at all.
15:31With all exploratory surgery, you know, we can tell much more accurately with our eyes what
15:37we're dealing with.
15:38So, once they're in there, we'll know for sure.
15:42Are we ready?
15:44I'm ready. Are you ready?
15:45Ready.
15:46Patient ready?
15:47Patient ready.
15:51It's relatively close to the surface and an abdominal mass.
15:56Usually, by this time, would have sunk in into the abdomen.
16:01Do you want me to put the head torch down?
16:03Can you see enough?
16:03I can feel the spleen.
16:06It's definitely not the spleen.
16:07It's actually attached to the body wall.
16:10So, that's why it's so hard.
16:11That's why it's not dipping in.
16:13But it's all above my hand there, so it's actually in the muscle layer.
16:19Does it feel as big inside?
16:21Yeah.
16:22But I can't take it out because there's been no abdominal wall left.
16:26So, we've discovered that it's actually totally encapsulated within the muscle wall.
16:32It's not in the abdominal cavity itself.
16:34So, I suspect this is going to be a reaction to some kind of foreign body or some infection in
16:43the muscle.
16:44We'll take some samples just to check.
16:47Nat is taking the samples.
16:49If you pick your target.
16:52I can't feel it.
16:53So, is that central?
16:54Yeah.
17:03So, really the main thing I'm looking for is if this is an infectious cause, in which case you get
17:11a lot of white blood cell called neutrophils, which like to hang out in abscesses.
17:19Anything good?
17:19Do you want the good news or bad news?
17:22I've got loads of neutrophils.
17:23Excellent.
17:24So, there might be a foreign body in the middle of your dog's lump.
17:26Yeah.
17:26Well, I thought so, but I'm hoping that it'll work its way out.
17:30So, it seems ghost's lump is down to something strange that shouldn't be there.
17:36I feel the same, like a fern playing on the sand of a decent size.
17:41No.
17:41It's going to be tiny.
17:42Something like a grass seed or a piece of a stick or a kebab stick.
17:50At least we now know where it is and that it's not an abdominal mass.
17:55We're going to treat with some antibiotics and that should shrink it down.
18:00So, if we do need to investigate further, if it's a lot smaller, it'll be easier to know exactly where
18:06to cut.
18:06For the moment, it's a bit of a reprieve of a ghost.
18:12So, with this mystery almost, if not completely solved,
18:17it's a question of whether medicine will give ghost a new lease of life.
18:21I suppose this spectra of illness will hang over ghosts for a bit longer.
18:32In first, at the Greens Farm...
18:35Hi, Frosty!
18:36I'm Frosty, yeah.
18:38..one of the newest arrivals is Frosty,
18:40a calf Steve and Gene bought from Abbey a few months ago.
18:44It's a good long calf.
18:46It is a good long calf Steve, yeah, it has a good frame.
18:49They're good calves, they can't falter.
18:51Good.
18:52I'm pleased she's settling in well for you.
18:54That's fair praise indeed, coming from Mrs Green.
18:57Fair praise.
19:00But today, Frosty has an appointment that could cause a meltdown.
19:04He don't know what's coming last.
19:07He's gonna lose the horns.
19:09But he needs his horns off.
19:12It is a bit of a dangerous job.
19:15And Peter's going to have to keep his cool.
19:20The problem with Frosty is now that the horns have developed
19:24to such an extent that it's not possible just to burn the buds out.
19:28We're going to have to saw the horns off first
19:30before we burn the tissue that forms the horns to grow.
19:35So, er, slightly more tricky
19:37and we'll need a little bit more cooperation from Frosty.
19:41Let's hope so.
19:44Ah, Mrs Green!
19:46Hi, Stranker!
19:47You've got a job problem with Frosty, I understand.
19:49Is that right?
19:50Yeah, what are you gonna do? Turn him into snow?
19:55I think he's one that slipped through net, isn't he?
19:57Yeah, he did.
19:58He slipped through net and he needs his taken off.
20:01Yeah, otherwise he'll bully the others wanting.
20:04He'll bully you as well.
20:05He's bullying us now!
20:06Don't worry!
20:06Is he really?
20:07Is he? Is he a bully?
20:08Ah, he's a big bully.
20:11He's a bit feisty.
20:13Is he?
20:13He takes after the owner then, does he?
20:17Well, if he's a little bit tricky to hold...
20:20Yeah, he is.
20:21Well, I think we'll sedate him,
20:22which luck is a painkiller as well, James,
20:24so it'll kill two birds with one stone.
20:26Yeah, he couldn't knock one of us over.
20:29Is that sort of thing?
20:30Right.
20:31Well, we're not having any of that going on.
20:33This is a respectable house.
20:34Now, let's make sure we get this right.
20:37We'll see how we know.
20:39Right.
20:40Now, I'm now going to try and get this, er,
20:43this onto him.
20:48The right stone, can we?
20:50Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh!
20:52Do you see what I mean, yeah?
20:53I do, yeah!
20:58Yes, I think we're going to have a bit of fun here, Jean, aren't we?
21:04coming up hello mrs conveniently in the corner shona's sheep seems spooked
21:12does julian's ghost story end with no more fears there's a photo that's just come through
21:19oh god while matt and rohan hit the trail of the legendary tale this story has just blown my mind
21:25beyond any expectation of what i thought i would discover of their town's friendly neighborhood
21:30tiger she never harmed anyone she calls some alarm yeah west georgshire instead of indonesia exactly
21:37yes it's a couple of weeks since shona performed an emergency cesarean on helen and karen's you
21:51during a night shift she's quite a young sheep so the lambs were quite big for her to deliver
21:59hopefully the lambs are looking good i'm hoping that mum looks good she should be eating well
22:04hopefully not losing weight and hopefully no signs of infection at that cesarean wound
22:10hello grafters hello there hello are you surviving lamin who else you've picked a dry day today yeah it's not
22:17not so bad today so how's she been doing since the surgery really well yeah has she yeah one of
22:23the best
22:23ones we've had oh right okay so did she take the lambs okay because i was a bit worried about
22:29her with
22:29her being a first time she loves some debates yeah good yeah do you think she's gonna let us catch
22:33her and
22:34take these stitches out hello you what are you wanting hello mrs conveniently in the corner
22:45the last steady steady steady so looks really good just from looking at her across the pen stitches are
22:55all intact skin is healing nice i'll get these stitches out and then you shouldn't have to fuss over her
23:01anymore she can go out with the others right guys you can let her go least straight to her lambs
23:12looks
23:12good doesn't it oh good she can have some more next year then can't she
23:40go out with the rest of helen and karen's flock
23:48go out with the rest of helen they look great it's nice seeing them running around the field
24:02she's an absolutely fantastic mum she's looking for them the minute that they've gone feeding them
24:07really well and they've grown really well as well so they're a credit to her they look awesome
24:11thank you very much shauna nice happy lambs and sheep you're welcome you're welcome anytime you know
24:16stay all night i'll be there
24:20bye
24:28at the practice in weatherby it's a month since julian and lucy operated on ghosts
24:35the spaniel with a mysterious lump but there's a photo that's just come through which they decided
24:40to treat with antibiotics oh my god the lump's completely gone surprising because it was massive
24:46wasn't it after originally suspecting it was cancerous his wound looks good as well well looks okay it's a
24:53bit bumpy but not too bad so it's just work antibiotics work then yeah yeah yeah that's good
24:59that was massive i was thinking i wonder how that's gonna go because we thought we might have to go
25:04back in didn't we yeah i'm glad we didn't do anything more dramatic um at the time but uh yeah
25:10totally mended
25:20and ghost is definitely in good spirits good boys out for his walk with ryan good boys
25:29he's been really good his recovery was really good the lump went down pretty quick with the antibiotics
25:35it cleared it up um it's not come back at all so we're happy really gusty get up good boy
25:46we were very worried about him obviously you hear the word cancer you just you automatically think the
25:51worst we're just happy that he's all right now come on then ghosty here i've lived in yorkshire all
26:00my life we just love coming out and having a good old walk in in the countryside around here especially
26:04when the nights are like this absolutely glorious uh many more to come ghosty quick good boy
26:17over in thirsk at the greens farm are you cruising for a bruising peter's struggling to get to grips with
26:24frosty the calf nearly nearly whose horns he needs to remove do you want me in i think i might
26:35be able to
26:36manage jim once i get going through his last words but we might be able to
26:43do you want to put him through here so i'll just tie it around there and then i'm going to
26:54just give
26:54him a sedative thing when i when i get that fastened around there right if you just hold me that
26:59mrs green
26:59thank you very much right i'll pop this into his bottom now i'm going to let that take effect
27:06a short while now so far so good it's frosty nil peter one at the moment i think he knows
27:14with you
27:15steve now he's met his master he's standing quite quietly he's not bad really i'm just making sure
27:22this is nicely numbed it's quieting him down hasn't it i think it's mr green he's bossing him from the
27:29other side that's a little bit of a haircut now thank you i've just had one it cost me 20
27:35quid you've
27:36been done i know i was doing i was like dick turpin you wore a mask when he grabbed me
27:45now he's got his painkiller and we've also numb the sight as well but this noise will upset him a
27:50little bit you want me no all right jane thanks it's very important that those horns are removed
28:00all right that's one side done they will become a lethal weapon as foster gets older
28:06just burning off the tissue now that causes the horn to regrow so this will stop any regrowth
28:12you've got that nicely burnt now that shouldn't be any more trouble so i'm happy with that that's it
28:18yeah good job peter it's it's looking grand steve hi i've got it in
28:30that's it one's bleeding a little more which happens i think we sorted
28:37well you've done a grand job steve oh you're gonna give him bloody credit i certainly am
28:48champion thank you jane thank you for supervising it was very good of you you did a grand job of
28:53it
28:54did we get paid pete well supervisors we all know we did all the graft didn't we steve
29:00now we are we do right well i suppose i better go and do some more work on that i
29:07say a letter peter
29:09i think he made a good job a week of ten days i would say to get a meal
29:15then we can let him out in trail with the others
29:23while gene and steve are normally feeding their calves donkeys and cats oh you're beautiful aren't
29:29you why they served a much bigger cat on a trip to a wildlife park with exotics lover matt we're
29:37loving this you're all right out your kid i never thought i'd be fitting a tiger i bet
29:44would you want this one sitting on your lap on a sunday afternoon you wouldn't would you she'd crush you
29:52but back in the 1940s in home firth near huddersfield a tiger was very much a loving family pet
30:02and as matt and rohan both live in the area all right matt wants to educate his colleague about the
30:09legendary tale today i've brought rohan to explore the story of the home firth tiger i've recently read
30:17a book from the library all the locations are around here i know nothing about the story so i'm
30:24really intrigued to find out more about it someone who can help there is local historian lawrence who
30:30oversees a library display dedicated to fenella the tiger who befriended a little girl called rosamond
30:39how did rosamond come across fenella in the first place her mother and her aunt and her grandparents
30:46were in the circus in south africa fenella was one of two cubs that needed a home and they took
30:55in
30:55these two cubs and cared for them sadly one of the cubs died this was around the outbreak of the
31:02second
31:02world war 1939 right and they decided they would bring um fenella still a cup back to the uk what
31:11an
31:12amazing story so she very much became part of the family is that right yeah that's right
31:19she never harmed anyone she caused some alarm
31:24the local community the local council was a bit concerned that was going on but fenella never
31:30caused any harm she just lived peacefully happily that's incredible um for i think about 11 years
31:38so we're very proud of this this is a mosaic that was done by local children children at the
31:43primary school and basically celebrates the the fenella story who'd have thought it yeah
31:53yeah exactly yes no it's quite quite quite remarkable matt and rohan are now very much on the tiger trail
32:02this story has just blown my mind beyond any expectation of what i thought i would discover
32:07it's fascinating isn't it it really is and as rosamond still lives in homeworth where she grew up with the
32:13biggest cat in town they want to track her down still to come fresh air i've been promoted this morning
32:24to head gate boy come on a serious stench oh christ there's a bad smell in the waiting room it's
32:32gone
32:32right the way through to the back and 80 years on i'd like to show you something that i've not
32:38really
32:38shown many people the little girl whose tiger came for much more than tea we got a cine film of
32:44my mum
32:45on the field wrestling you can see if she's going come on if you like wrestling
32:57that's the practice in weatherby tom's just arrived with his spaniel daisy who's had a litter of puppies
33:03oh it's your babies how long are they two weeks tomorrow but the reason she needs to see julian
33:11is much less sweet no don't do that there we've just made a bit of a mess on floor oh
33:17my christ
33:19there's a bit of an aroma over here i do apologize
33:23there's a bad smell in the waiting room is this my next patient yeah you might be able to guess
33:30by the
33:30smell of what's going on through the practice it's gone right the way through to the back
33:36have we got diarrhea yeah it does really does smell doesn't it come through
33:43let's get some spray shall we choose a nice ball oh well no it's always a bit dangerous putting things
33:49up there when there's what's just happened has just happened because it sometimes makes things shoot out
33:58it's probably a bacterial infection because the temperature is 39.5 nearly so i think we should
34:05start on some antibiotics it's good that she's bright though that's good but if you don't treat it
34:09vigorously it won't go away and it'll get worse um good all right yeah back in the care and then
34:17she
34:17can then she won't deposit all of your waiting room again it'd be worse if it's on the old gear
34:22sticker on it cheerio cheers with the waiting room definitely not smelling as fresh as a daisy
34:35lucy is on a mission just smell that
34:39oh sweet bean citrus that's like a candle to find the perfect aromatic antidote oh that's nice
34:46i know it's i'd wear that stop it look into it it's not perfume
34:56yeah but it isn't perfume it's a broom spray i think you need the berry one there's a lavender
35:01one as well i think i don't like that one do you not it smells like do you know when
35:07you go to a
35:08public toilet the spray they're put in public toilets it makes it smell nice i don't like it
35:14sorry unfortunately even the carefully selected bouquet what is it we've got a cucumber
35:20it doesn't make things well fabulous but it smells a little bit better can't compete with daisy
35:26number two if i'm honest it doesn't really quite cut through the uh terrible stench of uh fetid diarrhea
35:33um but hey ho oh christ
35:47near huddersfield matt and rohan are learning about the legendary home firth tiger there's a perfect day
35:54for it fenello was the family pet of a little girl called rosamond in the 1940s
36:01and like matt and rohan rosamond still lives in home firth
36:06hi rosamond i'm matthew nice to meet you how are you and this is my colleague rohan
36:12i'm so excited to find out about this tiger i'm blown away well this is the house because it's only
36:17a
36:20small house there was a hut at the back yeah and my grandfather built what we should call the run
36:24as
36:25far as i know she was a sumatran tiger they're supposed to be the most ferocious type of tiger
36:30there well smallest but most ferocious thing is when i was born nella was already in the house
36:36oh so it wasn't unusual for me it was just part of the routine i guess it was part of
36:42our family
36:43i think if she had been younger it might have been more dangerous because she was very boisterous but
36:47by the time she was eight she was much calmer much more ladylike but she just accepted me
36:51that's half the thing isn't it that magic of that like bombs from day one wasn't it yeah
36:55she was very friendly to everyone but you know you always had to be with her and watch her people
37:02through the tiger this used to be a field right and this was further's exercising grounds one of
37:09one of if she wasn't going for a long walk yeah she'd come and exercise here how would she be
37:14walking
37:15these sort of semi-public places if she was walking with my mum she'd walk on the lead but if
37:21there's
37:22no one around okay she'd let her off the lead wow i just can't imagine that's amazing yeah wow
37:37we've got a cine film that my grandfather took of my mum on the field wrestling you can see us
37:43she's going come on if you like wrestling it just blows my mind the whole story for such a powerful
37:49animal to live amongst people in a community like this and be so friendly it's amazing
37:59children from this school as you see the logos on the side of the building
38:02they used to come out and stroke vanilla my grandfather's he brought the tiger up
38:08had my mum hold the lead and he walked her up and down and all the children came out
38:13yeah they all tattered her that is awesome as well as the memories rosamond has plenty of mementos
38:23i'd like to show you something that i've not really shown many people yeah
38:28so this was her color when she was a baby and this is what she grew into that's huge isn't
38:32it look
38:33it's so good is that bit bigger than your standard um capped collar let me see and the workmanship on
38:39it
38:39as well as you can tell it's from a bygone era isn't it look at that i just thought seeing
38:43your vets
38:43you might be interested in this when her whiskers fell off my mum used to put them into a little
38:50box
38:50little gentle whiskers you know little cats whereas this is a real solid piece of substantial isn't it
38:56you really put in perspective how powerful they really are now we're quite lucky and i think a lot
39:01of children have been to zoos and seen tigers but i imagine in those days but most people had never
39:05uh encountering these animals until they'd met fenella is that right even when i was at school
39:09people would think she was a lion people hadn't seen photographs or videos or television there was
39:16no documentaries and no awareness as there is now fenella died in 1950 age 10. was fenella buried
39:26yes yeah yeah she's buried up the road in someone's garden but i don't know exactly where
39:32i was about to ask where about i don't know my family never told me i think he wanted to
39:37keep
39:37it a secret and just as a memento oh rosalyn that is so that is amazing thank you that is
39:45absolutely
39:46incredible yeah thank you that's so nice that is ace that is going to go on the wall that is
39:52so cool
39:53what a terrific way to end that fantastic day i'm never going to forget everything i've learned here
39:59it's a remarkable piece of history that we're very lucky to have on our doorstep thank you very very
40:04much also steeped in rich history is the greens farm in thirsk oh you're beautiful that yeah
40:18where peter recently dehorned their six-month-old calf frosty i just popped in today just to see how frost
40:25is getting on and we've got the heads there we've got one or two cats strolling about so really
40:31everybody wants to be outside and it's time frosty was as well morning hey stranger how are you all
40:40right frosty's no worse for her or daily she she's uh fit and raring to go she'd be a trouble
40:46cause she's one of these that likes to be out anywhere she'll get out if she's good a bit like
40:53a loner eh yeah all right i'll tell you what the weather has suddenly taken a turn for the better
41:06yeah you know the size these are now they'll be able to go and join the mates won't they yeah
41:11but
41:11can you give an open hand oh of course i can shall that be gate boy
41:22we're letting uh frosty and you're the two younger calves out now to join the mates out here
41:28yeah yeah hey hey i've been promoted this morning to head gate boy here comes our party now come on
41:37yeah yeah hey hey come on
41:44the ornament there you go children are you having second thoughts frosty freedom freedom frosty
41:56that's a wonderful sight isn't it they're out now doing what they do best the heads will be down
42:02grazing shortly it's a nice sight isn't it it's a lovely sight gene indeed makes farming all
42:07more fun doesn't it you're absolutely right gene it was the right time to take the horns off frosty
42:12wasn't it just before she came out just right and she's no worse for having it done and she won't
42:18be able to use them now to catch her mates with them no you did it so well peter it
42:24it hardly knew
42:28well it's lovely to see that and i'm glad i did my job well and thank you for your helping
42:33hand
42:33sir you're very welcome i will give you a bar of truck that's lovely well i feel as if i've
42:38earned
42:38it this morning there's always a pleasure to come and see steve and gene and today the sun's shining
42:52where could you possibly be that makes you feel better than seeing these cattle turned out enjoying
42:59themselves mr and mrs green have gone in now to put their feet up and all's well in the world
43:11so
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