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00:00He's a good cat.
00:05Presented today with a really big abdominal mass.
00:07Hopefully, we can rectify the problem.
00:10You're going in.
00:12Wow.
00:13There is considerable amount in there.
00:16He's very special to me.
00:18I love that cat so much.
00:20Can you see that?
00:21Yeah, I can see that.
00:23I feel a bit like Houdini.
00:26Oh, my word.
00:29I'm Eugene Grodeski.
00:34Over the years, I have removed many weird and wonderful foreign bodies out of animals.
00:39Going in.
00:40My dad, he's like, there was a disgusting magician doing a trick.
00:44Oh!
00:45Dr. Grodeski is a legend.
00:46Going in.
00:47Bingo.
00:48I have removed an intact light bulb, a two-carat diamond ring, a garden hose from a lion.
00:54Underwear.
00:56Yuck.
00:59Look at his face.
01:04He's real.
01:05It's believed Mimi has indulged in a surprising snack.
01:09The owners let us know that little Mimi had gotten into some kind of wallet.
01:28The big thing with a foreign body is it's a very highly skilled procedure to go and retrieve
01:36it.
01:37Dr. Grodeski is very experienced at these things.
01:40Thanks.
01:41Oh, the star of the show.
01:43Hey, how are you?
01:44Hey, guys.
01:45Okay, so here's Mimi.
01:46Looks like it's still in the stomach.
01:47Sure it is.
01:49Yeah.
01:50What I see on the x-ray is a bright circular area that looks like metal.
01:53I suspect, based on its size, it is either a dime or a penny.
01:57Let's hope we can get that out.
01:59If we can't remove it with a scope, then the animal needs to go to surgery, causing more
02:03problems.
02:04Okay.
02:06Okay.
02:19Okay.
02:24Show me the money.
02:28Dr. G's scoping confirms the
02:34a strange item inside Mimi to be some sort of coin.
02:41It's like a hitting jackpot on a slot machine.
02:44Oh boy.
02:46There's been a lot of weird things
02:47pulled out of animals here.
02:49We haven't had a lot of money.
02:52It's very uncat-like.
02:54Eh, I've seen a few.
02:56I have seen a cat, and I'm not making this up,
02:58named Penny, who had two pennies.
03:01Really?
03:03Why would you eat that?
03:05If I ate a coin for every joke
03:08that's being made in this room right now,
03:09Yeah, yeah.
03:10I would have to call Dr. G immediately.
03:16Da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum, da-dum.
03:20Okay, let us try.
03:24The best tool to use here is the rat tooth forceps.
03:29It provides you with a strong bite, if you will.
03:33Dr. G needs to precisely position the forceps to grasp and retrieve the small, thin coin.
03:47I am going to try and see if it works, and if not, then we'll play with something else.
03:52A foreign body procedure, it's nerve-racking in a gross way.
03:59You're kind of excited to see what comes up.
04:01I am going to try and see if it works.
04:03And I am going to try and see if it works.
04:04What's the thing?
04:05I am going to try and see if it works.
04:07Okay.
04:08Da-da-da-da-da-da-da-da.
04:09And coming up.
04:14Nice.
04:18Nice!
04:23Found it!
04:28Amy swallowed a Canadian dime.
04:32Most cats are completely indifferent to coins.
04:35However, there are a few unfortunate exceptions.
04:38You can see how thin it is.
04:40It looks like it has been eaten away to an extent by the gastric assets.
04:44Ten dirty cents.
04:48Coins get gradually digested.
04:51I have seen cats with only half of the coin left, literally.
05:03I'm drawn to shiny things.
05:04I wouldn't blame Mimi if Mimi went for that.
05:09Recovery from endoscopy is really, really quick.
05:14Okay, little one.
05:17Okay.
05:19The cat will go home and feel great.
05:21How's it going?
05:23Hi.
05:25All right, you guys have a good day.
05:27Bye.
05:28Bye.
05:48He's a good cat.
05:49He's a nice cat.
05:50Across town, a similar tabby has been rushed to the vet after an alarming discovery.
05:57We've noticed over the past couple weeks, he had lost a bit of weight.
06:02I was feeling his belly and just felt this really hard mass.
06:07I never thought I would be crying over a cat.
06:09Hello.
06:10Hello, sir.
06:11How are you doing?
06:12Good day.
06:13I am well, thank you.
06:14And you?
06:15Good.
06:16Eight male cat presented today with like a really big abdominal mass.
06:17Uh-huh.
06:18We were worried about the tumor.
06:19Dr. Mick was concerned that it might not be in foreign material, but it is not cancer.
06:30What we are seeing is accumulation of things that have been swallowed that do not belong there.
06:49I think this is a good candidate to be scoped and hopefully we can rectify the problem.
06:55Just lift his head a bit.
06:58Okay, going in.
07:04All right, so.
07:19Yeah, there is considerable amount of crap in there.
07:25Okay.
07:26We are going to start with reticator forceps and see what I can accomplish.
07:39I separate the first piece of foreign material from the aggregation.
07:47And you might want to give me a bowl or something to put the stuff in.
07:57Oh, my word.
08:00Oh.
08:01Oh.
08:02Oh.
08:03Wow.
08:04That's so much.
08:05Dr. G has coaxed curious stringy stuff out of seven-year-old George.
08:13It turns out to be quite long.
08:14I expected it to be shorter, but whatever comes, comes.
08:26Hey, we have another something, something.
08:27Can you feel it?
08:28Yeah, I can feel it.
08:29Come on.
08:30Oh.
08:31Oh.
08:32Oh.
08:33Oh.
08:34Oh.
08:35Oh.
08:36Oh.
08:37Oh.
08:38Oh, my God, that's big.
08:39Oh, it's good.
08:40It's pretty smelly.
08:41Well, no surprises there.
08:42I feel a bit like Houdini.
08:43Whew, it's getting stronger.
08:44Oh, it's good.
08:45Yeah.
08:46It's like a mess, something, something.
08:48Yes, something, something.
08:49Can you feel it?
08:50Yeah, I can feel it.
08:51Come on.
08:52Oh.
08:53Oh.
08:54Oh.
08:55Oh, my God, that's big.
08:59Oh, it's good.
09:00It's pretty smelly.
09:05Well, no surprises there.
09:08I feel a bit like Houdini.
09:09Whew.
09:10I need a second mask?
09:12Yeah.
09:13It's entertaining to look at people around me
09:15and see how surprised, disgusted, amazed they are.
09:24Oh, that's a long one.
09:26Man, it looks like worms.
09:29Strings.
09:31Silly cats.
09:33How long have I been in there for then?
09:36For a month and possibly years.
09:39Typically, a cat eats one piece of foreign material,
09:44whatever that might be,
09:46and another piece of a mask like that builds over time.
09:50Something's coming up.
09:52Oh!
09:59George, he's just completely changed
10:02how I understand, like, relationships with animals.
10:06I had a very mean cat growing up,
10:09and I was very resistant to the idea of getting a cat.
10:13It's been really special.
10:15I love that cat so much.
10:17Dr. G has coaxed curious stringy stuff out of seven-year-old George.
10:34All right, there's something else that is red.
10:43George is a talented individual.
10:45What does the appeal to that?
10:47Well, have you ever been a cat?
10:49But wait, there's more.
10:51There's more.
10:52He made a good effort to get himself into trouble.
10:58Wow.
10:59That's quite a variety.
11:01We have various colors,
11:04various shapes.
11:06Oh, that's a big one.
11:08Hair balls would be my guess.
11:10George's amount of foreign material is impressive.
11:14Some kind of plastic.
11:16Almost done.
11:19Come on, kitty cat.
11:20Give me the last little bit,
11:22and I'll leave you alone.
11:24It can come as a surprise
11:26how peculiar the objects inside might turn out to be.
11:32Okay.
11:33Our last bit.
11:36Stomach is empty.
11:38This is certainly more than a typical accumulation of foreign material in the stomach.
11:49The large mass of unidentified oddities was initially feared to be a tumor.
11:55Okay.
11:56We are going to be collecting some biopsies.
11:59Oh.
12:00Dr. G believes George's exceptional appetite may have an underlying cause.
12:05There is a proven connection between pica,
12:10pica being $10 worth for eating things that are not supposed to be edible,
12:15and inflammatory bowel disease.
12:17Oh.
12:18So if this cat does indeed have inflammatory bowel disease,
12:22this is something that we might want to know about.
12:26If indeed George's pica is due to inflammatory bowel disease,
12:31potentially it can be manageable.
12:33And out and done.
12:35If we happen to rule it in, then we can treat it.
12:39Hopefully that will prevent him from eating things in the future.
12:43All right, let's set up.
12:45Thanks for that.
12:46All right, thank you guys.
12:47Yes.
12:48All right, let's go buddy.
13:03You ready to go home?
13:08Here's George.
13:11Hi buddy.
13:12Hi.
13:13Hi.
13:14All right.
13:15And I got one more thing for you.
13:16And here we are.
13:17This is what came out of him.
13:21Oh my God.
13:22I don't even know how all of that fit in his stomach,
13:25and it's no wonder that he was not wanting to eat and losing weight.
13:29Like, I'm trying to identify what it is so that I know what, like...
13:33Mostly hair ties, and a few hair balls, and then there's...
13:36We don't know what those are, but...
13:38Oh, it's probably my daughter's rainbow loom.
13:41Those little plastic woven bracelets.
13:44That makes sense.
13:45Yep, yep.
13:46George.
13:47Huge relief that there's nothing critically wrong with him.
13:51Hi.
13:52Can I come see me?
13:53The first step is just getting the results back from the biopsies.
13:56If it's something as simple as a diet change, that could help.
13:59Hey buddy.
14:00Hey.
14:02I don't know that he's particularly remorseful,
14:05but hopefully he's a happier boy now that he's got this out of his system.
14:11I'm just really happy that he's okay and that we're going home with him.
14:15Are you hungry?
14:21Piper, a 23-year-old cockatoo, is not her usual self.
14:35Let's go, Piper.
14:36Bye, Piper.
14:37Be a good girl.
14:39Birds don't typically vomit unless there's something wrong with them.
14:44My biggest fear is that there's a blockage somewhere.
14:51Birds are prey species, so they do not tend to show any problems until the problem is very advanced.
15:01They try to hide whatever is ailing them.
15:06For every hundred mammals that I do, I do probably one bird.
15:10It makes me a bit anxious, apprehensive.
15:15We'll see what this one brings.
15:17When you work with species that are small, diagnostics become much more complicated.
15:33What are you doing?
15:34I just ventilated a little bit more.
15:36I pushed some fluids.
15:38Can we rotate everything a little bit this way so she's at an angle like that?
15:43Like this?
15:44Mm-hmm.
15:45Yeah.
15:46That is good.
15:48They said that she, about a week ago, was chewing on some sort of fiberboard.
15:53And then this vomiting started.
15:57Going in.
16:03So far, I am failing to see what I'm doing.
16:05Yeah, we have a fair bit of contrast in there.
16:12Contrast dye in Piper's digestive tract, administered earlier today for x-rays, is obscuring Dr. G's view.
16:22The contrast, while visible on the x-rays, can be challenging to work with because it paints everything white.
16:31I think we have to wash it out.
16:33Okay.
16:34It is quite difficult to see through.
16:39So, I am just trying to dilute it with water and section it out.
16:43There is still some contrast, and that's my eternal problem.
16:58They certainly have a significant imposter syndrome every time I have to work with the bird.
17:05I am trying to stay more to the center, correct?
17:08So, the left-hand side, and about three-quarters of the way down.
17:11Okay.
17:12So...
17:14Sorry.
17:16Sorry, sorry, sorry.
17:17I don't do enough of them.
17:21I don't feel nearly as comfortable as I feel with mammals.
17:26Is she okay?
17:28No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no.
17:43Piper, the Moluccan cockatoo, may have been peckish for fiberboard.
17:50Piper was vomiting frothy mucus.
17:54We need to see what's going on in the digestive tract.
18:00Piper's digestive system includes several compartments just centimeters wide.
18:06Dr. G needs to investigate each one.
18:11If we turn off the lights in here, we can see better.
18:14Piper's anatomy is significantly different from cats and dogs.
18:21I would think that it would be over where my finger is, in that area there.
18:31I investigate whether there truly is foreign material to be removed.
18:38Nope.
18:40We can turn the light back on.
18:43Ultimately, there is no foreign material that we see in Piper's gastrointestinal shack.
18:49Possibly something was there and managed to pass.
18:53What Dr. G does discover is a sign of possible infection.
18:59Okay, it looks like yellow stuff.
19:02Microorganisms potentially could be causing the symptoms.
19:06So, from that area, if we could possibly suck something up.
19:13Now, my task is to collect samples.
19:17Okay, that's from there.
19:19That's great.
19:20Lovely.
19:22If you just pull out the scope, I'd like to get some slides just from that.
19:27All right.
19:29Anything else?
19:30Nope.
19:31That's good, thanks.
19:33Having Dr. Gorodensky do these things puts us on track for the future for Piper.
19:39Okay.
19:41Have a good night.
19:42Dr. McDonald will submit those samples to the lab and see what the pathologist thinks.
19:51Days later.
20:08Good girl.
20:10Good girl.
20:12Good girl.
20:13I know.
20:14Piper is back at the sanctuary.
20:17That is her home.
20:20We can definitely tell that Piper is feeling better.
20:23Samples taken were inconclusive.
20:26But prescribed meds seem to be getting results.
20:29She's taking antibiotics.
20:31She's not vomiting anymore.
20:33So, she's well on the road to recovery.
20:35You're very snuggly.
20:39Okay.
20:40I feel relieved.
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