00:00How was your Christmas and New Year? Hey, were you well behaved?
00:05And these guys are super excited to see me.
00:10Nice demonstration, Lukey. All right, good morning everyone.
00:14Um, so I have been away for a couple of weeks and it's my first day back at the sanctuary.
00:20Super excited to see the animals. I hope they're excited to see me. Let's go and see Bobcat and
00:26Gabby. Hello little boy, look at you in that long grass, eh? Come out of the grass, my boy.
00:33Yeah, I want to have a good look at you. I want to have a good look at you, my
00:38big boy.
00:41Hello, my boy. Hello, my boy. How are you, my boy? Eh? Who's my boy?
00:52Who's my boy? Hello, my boy. How's it going? Eh? I see you sat down very quickly.
01:00I see you sat down very quickly, eh? I see you sat down very quickly, eh?
01:06Yeah. This is my boy. How is that back doing, eh? Shame, my boy.
01:27I see you sat down very quickly, I see you sat down very quickly, I see you sat down very
01:27quickly.
01:27Put that here.
01:39Look what I brought you. Look what I brought you. Your cat brush, hmm. Bobcat's cat brush.
01:55Oh, yeah. Where's the Gabbalicious? Hmm? I don't like what I see there.
02:02It looks like a bit of ringworm. That I don't like. We'll have to keep an eye on that.
02:27It looks like a bit of ringworm.
02:44Tight today, eh?
02:47What's your say, Bobcat? Hmm? What'd you say?
02:52Good boy. Nice to see you, my boy.
02:59I hope that isn't what I think it is.
03:03Where's that Gabby? Is she coming? Eh?
03:09Oh, that one's not looking good.
03:14That one's not looking good, my boy. Eh?
03:17When we do your tooth, we're going to have to do your claws. Hmm?
03:25So guys, that claw there. I don't know if you can see.
03:34Yeah, I want to see. Yeah, there you go. Can you see that?
03:38Okay. So guys, Bobcat is going to have to have a tooth extracted next week.
03:46So Peter will be coming out. We're going to have a look at that claw as well, but the tooth
03:52is here.
03:53Um, it seems to have healed up here though. Oh no, it doesn't. Let me see.
04:01It does look like it's healed up, my boy.
04:14Wow. It looks like it's healed up, but what we'll do is we do have to do this claw.
04:21So I think we can give him a thorough checkup and just make sure that that
04:35that that tooth isn't all necrotic there and rotting the jaw away because it was oozing.
04:43You can see that little mark there. So there was a little hole there and it kept on oozing out
04:50of
04:50that hole. So we've had him on antibiotics and we've been trying to clear up that infection,
04:55which we've successfully done. But I suppose the question is, is will it
05:03will it just persist? But that will be a Peter question and we'll be doing that next week, my boy.
05:12How was your Christmas and New Year? Were you well behaved? Hey, my big boy, were you well behaved?
05:27Oh my kids. Gabby! Gabby, no! No! Gabby!
05:40Oh, it's not even five seconds and we're screaming at Gabby. Gabby!
05:49Oh, look there, my boy.
05:54Yeah, I can see that leg's not good, my boy.
05:58Oh, that leg is sore. That leg is sore.
06:03All right guys, so while we get all the antifungal ointments that we need to treat this ringworm,
06:16I am going to quickly apply some of the germicidal cream that was part of the previous regime
06:27because at least that'll start the process.
06:31Good boy.
06:34Hello, my boy.
06:37Look here.
06:38Oh, whoa, whoa.
06:41Okay, there.
06:57There we go.
06:59There we go.
07:01On your leg there.
07:07Okay, he doesn't like the taste of that.
07:09Sorry, my boy.
07:12All right, so he does it.
07:14The initial like taste of it is not nice,
07:19but he'll get used to it.
07:21And then once he understands what I'm trying to do,
07:25then it'll be a lot easier.
07:27But yeah, this is going to be a tricky one because it's on his face.
07:37I must say, guys, honestly, it's hard enough treating ringworm on a lion that you can interact with.
07:47Now, I must just tell you, a lion that doesn't want to know you.
07:52Wow, it's a real, real problem treating a ringworm outbreak.
08:00So yeah, contrary to popular belief, ringworm is not a worm.
08:06It is a fungus and he is not happy.
08:10Fungus likened to athlete's foot.
08:13So if you've ever had athlete's foot, you know it is a bugger.
08:17And it is, yeah, it's not easy to get rid of.
08:24Fungus likened to athlete's foot.
08:31The hyena boys.
08:57Nice demonstration, Luki.
08:59Nice demonstration, Luki.
09:07Nice demonstration, Luki.
09:08Nice demonstration, Luki.
09:32You can't do it since the history of a lion.
09:32Kito, walking away, there's Luke, and here is Tiko, and I must just say, that was,
09:51I must just say that was one of the friendliest, nicest greetings that I've had
09:58in a long time from this clan, and yeah, maybe the saying, absence makes the heart grow fonder,
10:09is a true statement in this case, because certainly this guy, who's normally full of beans,
10:21was actually super friendly, which is very nice to see.
10:28I think things in the clan, have been calm.
10:33Sorry, just got a little bit of hyena snot on the lens.
10:38One thing the rain does do, is it just brings out the flies, so today is going to be
10:48probably a lot of fly treatment day.
10:56He's trying to back into me here, tick tick, hello my boy, yeah guys, yeah yeah, hello my boys,
11:07yeah, don't get jealous. Oh those flies love to get in your hair.
11:22So Luke is just waiting on the periphery, um, to kind of get his chance.
11:37And ticker, he's saying, not today pal.
11:58Okay, so it's blisteringly hot this morning, still early, but incredibly hot.
12:24And I can see, it just come up.
12:31Good look at Vince.
12:34So we have Vince, we have Keto, we have Ticker, we have Lukster, and we have Nyaber.
12:45The only one we're missing is Bongo, and he won't come up.
12:49But I'm super impressed with, with Vincey.
12:51He's, yeah, from bottom dog, suddenly Vince is the Mats Nats.
12:59Hey, the Mats Nats, Vince.
13:02Look at you guys, look at you.
13:18Okay guys, awesome to see you.
13:24Awesome to see you guys.
13:27Naya, you see, he's much more tolerant.
13:29Okay, maybe not so much.
13:38But a lot more tolerant, um, of Luke.
13:48If, if I'd have come in here all excited and riled them up,
13:54Luke would have bore the brunt of that.
13:56Um, and that's why with hyenas it's not this high-pitched
14:02talk, because that's a surefire way to get them all riled up and excited.
14:07And then things get chaotic, because then they feel the need,
14:11uh, to put individuals in their places.
14:14So, today's gone really, really well.
14:18Um, these guys are getting along amazingly well.
14:23And, uh, that's fantastic.
14:25So, on to see the next group.
14:29Okay, so next up, we're going to be visiting Duke and Khan, uh,
14:37resident black leopards, uh, 15 years of age.
14:41So, also getting on, and he absolutely knows
14:46that I'm here.
14:49They've seen me with the hyenas.
14:52And now they are wanting,
14:57now they're wanting their greeting.
15:01But more than that, guys, they're wanting their pilchards.
15:04So, I think first of all, it's going to be a greeting.
15:09And these guys are super excited to see me.
15:13It's fantastic.
15:15Hello guys!
15:17They're looking in really, really good nick.
15:21And so, leopards, um, of this age are getting on, getting on in age.
15:30But because leopards are lighter boned and, you know, less robust than a lion,
15:39they tend to weather the storm of old age a lot better.
15:43So, even though they are getting on in age,
15:46uh, both Khan and Duke are in remarkable condition.
16:05Come, let him up, boy.
16:09Don't you hiss at him?
16:11Why are you hissing at him?
16:34Why are you hissing at him?
16:35Smelling the hyenas.
16:39Disapproval.
16:46Contrable.
17:14Davidесс.
17:22Oh, my God.
17:46Oh, my God.
17:53Oh, my God.
18:11Yeah, to say that these two love pilchards and tomato sauce is an understatement.
18:26Look at that, how quickly those pilchards got demolished.
18:47Okay, so that's actually what they were waiting for.
18:53Pilchards have been long overdue.
18:55It's been a couple of weeks since they've had their tasty treat.
19:00And yeah, they've absolutely destroyed a can of pilchards.
19:37Yeah, I think they've been doing an understatement.
19:40All right.
