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THE WITCHER 3 GAMEPLAY PART 31313131
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00:00Dr. Jeff faces a tricky procedure on an animal he's never treated before.
00:04He's about 600 pounds, so if he decided to get up all of a sudden and give us a kick,
00:08you can imagine how that would feel.
00:10You really need to pick up the pace, man.
00:14Denver, Colorado.
00:15Home to one of America's busiest bets.
00:1970,000 clients.
00:21A battle-hardened staff of 30.
00:23Hey, listen up.
00:24See, I'm a co-wreck.
00:25And a practice that knows no bounds.
00:28Another day in paradise.
00:31That was fun.
00:33Dr. Jeff's challenge is keeping it all under control.
00:38This is me.
00:39This is what I love.
00:49The long Denver winter is nearly over.
00:52The locals and their pets are getting stir-crazy.
00:55And that means it's going to be a busy day at Dr. Jeff's clinic.
01:01This morning, a woman who's already had her puppy seen at another clinic is hoping Dr. Jeff can help.
01:07She broke her leg.
01:08Broken leg.
01:09She broke her femur this side.
01:11How did that happen?
01:13She jumped off a counter when she was being bathed.
01:16So let's have you fill this out.
01:18We need to get her to the back so she can get on some pain medication.
01:21Go ahead and fill that out.
01:22Thank you very much.
01:23Yeah.
01:25It's this little tiny puppy right over here.
01:29Pebbles has a special place in our heart.
01:32My son and his girlfriend are the owners.
01:35We take care of her during the day and then she goes home to her mom and dad at night.
01:40So you're a Pebbles owner?
01:43How'd you break that?
01:44Well, it's actually my son's dog.
01:46So what he told me was that the dog jumped off of the counter that he's size when he was
01:52bathing.
01:53Ah, okay.
01:55We took her to our regular vet and it's going to be anywhere from $2,500 to $4,000 or
02:00more.
02:01My son and his girlfriend have insurance for the pets, but it doesn't cover up to that much.
02:08Hey, Jeff, you want to come and look at the sex rate?
02:10What do we got?
02:13Well, there's a fracture.
02:15It's a distal femur fracture.
02:16So this is the end of the femur, this part here, this is the kneecap.
02:21This needs to come back around and sit here.
02:24Is it a fracture?
02:25The question is how many pieces and is it something that could be under these or more complex?
02:30Pebbles jumped off a countertop, so I mean, probably shouldn't be on a countertop when
02:33you weigh two pounds, you know?
02:35So, I mean, it doesn't surprise me.
02:37She's lucky that she broke, quite frankly.
02:40So, basically, the distal part of the femur, right at your kneecap, is broken here and it's
02:45just pulled back around, which is what it does because of the muscles.
02:47We put that back into place.
02:49I do a cross-pin technique and then put a cast on it, you know?
02:53And usually, two to six a week kind of healing period.
02:55These guys heal really fast.
02:57They're probably looking right around $600 for that, so.
03:00Wow.
03:01That's amazing.
03:03They'll be grateful for that.
03:05It's a pretty routine charge that we do here.
03:08There's no need to act like we're in the human field and charge $4,000.
03:11We really are people trying to help animals.
03:14I've always tried to do things with a little bit of heart.
03:16I thought it was morally, ethically correct.
03:19I always try to do what is in the animal's best interest.
03:22I don't know how you make that $4,000 surgery.
03:24I don't know.
03:25It's pretty amazing.
03:26I guess you drive a nicer car than I drive.
03:29Pebbles will rest up before her surgery later today.
03:41Most of Dr. Jeff's patients are cats and dogs.
03:45But he treats plenty of exotic pets, too.
03:53Today is a first for the clinic.
03:55A box of hedgehogs.
03:57I brought you some hedgehogs.
03:59Oh, wow.
04:01This is the first time I've ever seen one in person.
04:04Oh, she's licking my finger.
04:07What are they here for?
04:09Um, they're here because they're about eight weeks old
04:12and they're about the size of a six-week-old hedgehog.
04:15They're not growing like they should be.
04:18Deanna, you'll get some paperwork going with you
04:19and then I'll get Dr. Young out to come and see you.
04:21Okay, thank you.
04:22You're so cute.
04:25Hi, I'm Jeff.
04:27Dr. Young.
04:29Oh, look at the head.
04:30Yeah, it's pretty darn cute.
04:34Everybody thinks they're so pokey that it hurts.
04:36Yeah, well, it actually did.
04:38They're not like porcupines.
04:39Yeah.
04:41Never treated a hedgehog before.
04:43And my guess is they don't get a lot of treatment.
04:46You know, most rodents and small mammals in general
04:48just are pretty healthy overall.
04:51They're African.
04:52Obviously, these are out of the climate,
04:54so temperature becomes really important.
04:56These guys are definitely a little underweight for their size
04:58because they're almost eight weeks.
05:00They should weigh around 6 1⁄2 ounces.
05:03Well, what's their diet?
05:05I feed them Spikes Delight, mealworms, crickets.
05:10Okay, mealworms, crickets, that's all good.
05:12What kind of temperature are you keeping them in?
05:14What kind of temperature?
05:15Yeah.
05:16Between 75 and 80 degrees.
05:19They're a little underweight,
05:20but you're doing everything right.
05:21You have them in a good temperature,
05:23you're feeding them right,
05:23so they'll grow up pretty darn cute.
05:26I'm surprised they made it out of here
05:28without someone trying to buy one from you.
05:30Oh, it's so sweet.
05:32With clear eyes and noses,
05:34Dr. Jeff thinks the hedgehogs are healthy,
05:36so in this case, small is okay.
05:44Thank you for calling.
05:45I hope they help you.
05:48Dianne is one of my best front office people.
05:50It's just a grind-up front.
05:52People getting in your face.
05:54What color is your carrier?
05:56And that takes a certain kind of personality
05:58to be able to handle that.
05:59I enjoy the stress and the pee and the loud barking.
06:02That doesn't bother me.
06:04Our reception is the problem.
06:06So for any emergency,
06:07Dianne is going to be the first to deal with it.
06:22Dianne is going to be the first to deal with it.
06:36What?
06:37I lost your turn.
06:38Guys, the dog is down.
06:39I need help.
06:41Damn it.
06:43What is this?
06:48I got a tube down.
06:49Give me a tube over here.
06:50Give me my ascetic scope.
06:54We have no idea what we're dealing with.
06:57I'm going to Catherine get fluids in them.
07:00I don't have a heart.
07:01I don't have a heart.
07:02I don't have a heart.
07:03I don't have a heart.
07:03I don't have a heart.
07:04I don't have a heart.
07:05Dr. Jeff is draining the fluid from Chico's lungs
07:08and is trying to get the dog's heart beating.
07:12Boom.
07:13Boom.
07:17All right, let's get the Catherine.
07:18It's real slow, but it's there.
07:21One beat every six or eight seconds.
07:23It's really slow.
07:25Can we find out what it's not doing right?
07:28Like how?
07:29The dog has been falling over, vomiting, having diarrhea.
07:34That just started yesterday.
07:35We're going to need a PACBC.
07:38This gets to be too much.
07:39Pull that tube, put a mask on for oxygen.
07:41It's when the heart stops.
07:43That's the biggest single emergency that I worry about.
07:45But we can get tubes down and we can breathe for them.
07:47That's not an issue.
07:48As long as it has a heart, we're winning.
07:50When it doesn't have a heart, you've got to hustle.
07:52Yeah, let's get a quick x-ray.
07:57Chico's owners are relieved to learn he's been revived.
08:01He's 14 years old and we've had him since he was four months old.
08:04Are we doing chest?
08:05Yeah.
08:06One day we were in school, he was so tiny.
08:09He would climb up my arm and my shirt sleeve and lay down on my chest.
08:15So he's been my baby pretty much.
08:23The x-ray's dead.
08:24Let's get the dog back over here on the table.
08:30I do think this is a lung heart issue.
08:32His lungs are filling with fluid and he can't breathe.
08:35This is a 14-year-old dog.
08:37This is like doing something with your 90-year-old grandmother.
08:39I mean, we're limited to what we can do.
08:41All right, so do 20 milligrams of Lasix.
08:43I'm giving him a diuretic to help drain the fluid from his lungs.
08:47Well, I'm definitely breathing better.
08:48Yeah, the heart's normal now.
08:53I'm hoping a few nights in oxygen cage is going to make Chico breathe easier.
08:57The medications we have Chico on should help reduce the fluid in the chest and make the
09:01heartbeat more efficient.
09:05Well, there's definitely another problem.
09:08These medications are not cheap and the owners really can't afford them.
09:12The situation with Chico is the two ladies live in a car.
09:17My sister passed away three years ago after being in the hospital for six weeks and a day.
09:23We lost our home.
09:25We lost our friends, our family, everything.
09:29And now we have Chico and Diesel on each other and that's it.
09:34Well, you go up there and talk to the lady crying and tell her that you're not going to do
09:37anything.
09:38Grandma's boy, aren't you?
09:39Yeah.
09:40Animals bring joy, their unconditional love, and their companionship to these people's lives.
09:46And that may be the biggest thing in their life that they have going for them.
09:50A lot of people just tell us it's a dog, it doesn't matter, but it's our family.
09:56If they have money, maybe like a $1,500 deposit?
09:59No, they have no.
10:00But Jim's...
10:01They have no money.
10:02They live in a car.
10:05Melody, she's my daughter.
10:06Melody's in charge of paying all the bills.
10:09Money's stressful.
10:10He doesn't look at the money.
10:12He'll be like, are we good in the book count?
10:14Yeah.
10:14Okay, thanks.
10:15Like, that's the gist of his worrying about what we have and how I'm making payroll or how I'm paying
10:22the bills.
10:23Melody's always bitching that I don't charge enough money, you know?
10:25And I mean, I'm always hounding, hey, we've got to make more money, hey, we've got to make more money.
10:28And I'm the first person not to charge people.
10:30Bottom line, we're going to do what we can to give Chico a decent life for however much longer he's
10:36going to live.
10:37Yeah, Chico, it's okay, bub.
10:39Who knows, you know, if we can get the heart issue under control, it's possible this dog will go out
10:43and, you know, live for, you know, I'm not going to say years, but potentially months, anyway.
10:49Chico will be kept at the clinic for the next few days so Dr. Jeff can keep an eye on
10:54his condition.
11:02Dr. Jeff and his team can now turn their attention to fixing Pebble's looking leg.
11:08Hi.
11:09It's okay.
11:10Oh, you like that?
11:11It's her right leg.
11:12It's fatter there, it's swollen on that side.
11:15Isn't that baby?
11:15Yeah.
11:16It's pretty amazing to see walks on it.
11:18That's just crazy to me.
11:20She's pretty hard, too.
11:24The femur is a ball and sine joint, all right, and I'm a horrible artist, so bottom line is, if
11:29you go down to the femur, this would be your knee, and there's a little fracture right here.
11:35The muscles pull it underneath, so we can bring it back up, align it, and then we just put a
11:39cross pin, put a little two pins in, cross them like that, and we put this dog in a cast.
11:45Not bad.
11:46This surgery is pretty routine with an adult dog, but with a puppy, it's getting a little more complex.
11:51A puppy's bones aren't necessarily more fragile, but they're definitely not as strong as adult bones, but in hens, it's
11:56a little trickier because they are kind of mushy, and they're actually just kind of ram them in kind of
12:00two pins and almost just squish the bone and crack it, so you've got to be a little more careful
12:04with younger growing animals.
12:10Just prepping the table for surgery.
12:13I mean, it's the most dangerous part of the whole job is anesthesia, and the longer they're on, you know,
12:17the more dangerous it becomes, so.
12:21Right now, I'm just shaving pebbles and legs.
12:24That way, it'll be nice and clean for Jeff to open wherever he's going to make his decision.
12:30It's weird how sometimes people judge the surgeon by the shave job, so you have to do a pretty good
12:36job.
12:40Hector's just a great human being.
12:42Truth is, I know I can call him at any point in time.
12:44He'd be over helping me out.
12:45He's my right hand.
12:47Hector's part of my family.
12:48I play in a set book.
12:49Oh, two in a row.
12:51I've been here since I was a teenager.
12:53It's not just about coming in and doing a job, you know, Monday through Friday.
12:57Hey, Jeff, how far up do you want the shave job?
12:59I would do anything for Jeff.
13:00Stop.
13:01I really care about that guy.
13:03Ultimately, he's my best friend.
13:12This is the fracture here, and this is the part that fractured off of it.
13:15It's kind of gone down behind here, so we've got to kind of pry it out and get it up
13:19and then put it back into place.
13:21This thing really doesn't want to come up very easily.
13:24There's a little bit more swelling in the knee area, and it's really hard to put the knee bone back
13:28up, so we're struggling a little bit.
13:32Well, the biggest problem is this is a really, really small dog, and I got fairly big hands, so I
13:36put my hands on the knee to manipulate it, and I can't see anything, essentially.
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