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Coming up on Junior Vets...

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Manfreda the stray tortoise needs urgent surgery.

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Penguins and snakes get the full Junior Vet treatment at the zoo.

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And the Junior Vets go it alone

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as they work with poorly Casper the boxer.

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When pets are poorly, wildlife gets wounded or farm animals feel unwell,

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they need top vet help.

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The really lucky ones come here,

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to Edinburgh University's amazing super-high tech Vet School.

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And now, six kids, chosen from 1,000,

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have become the first ever children allowed to enrol here...

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I'm all ready.

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..and work alongside the school's top vets.

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Who wants to take this cow's urine?

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They're facing an intense training programme...

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-Have you done that anaesthetic before?

-What is this? What's that?

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..And are being pushed to the limit at animal hospitals,

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vet practices, wildlife parks and working farms.

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I'm Paul Manktelow.

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It took me five hard years to train to be a vet,

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but this lot have only weeks to show me what they're made of.

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My Junior Vets have hardly been around animals before.

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That's so cool.

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Now they are facing real heavy duty vet work.

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It's like everything's just so bonkers.

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-That is amazing.

-That's cool.

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Have they got the stomach to succeed?

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I feel like a real vet.

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And can they stay calm under extreme pressure?

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Six raw recruits.

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But I can only choose...

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One winner.

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The first ever Junior Vet to win the prestigious Head Vet title...

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Is...

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Day six. My Junior Vets have completed half of their training.

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And every single one is now in with a real chance of winning

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the Head Vet title.

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Junior Vets, you're smiling and you have a right to.

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It was impossible to pick out a single winner in the last

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set of challenges.

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You all performed to an exceptionally high standard.

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Today's pairings are...

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Amblessed and Lauren.

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Saira and Will.

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Morgan and Sam.

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There's a packed day of vet work ahead

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working with real animals that need their help.

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I'll be keeping a close eye on everything they do,

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so I can decide who will win today's all important Vital Vet Work award.

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And get one step closer to the coveted Head Vet title.

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The competition is now really close.

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Sam's had a mixed start.

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He got off to a flier helping Brie the pony

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but then reacted badly to the surgery on Stella's leg.

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Since then he's dug in and dealt with exotic lumps

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and an upside-down pony like a true pro.

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Sam's still got time to prove he's up there amongst the leaders.

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Lauren might have had a slowish start,

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but she's now showing me her full potential.

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A brilliant understanding of vet work

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has earned her two Vital Vet Work awards in a row,

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and she is really racking up the skills credits too.

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She is now on a roll, and she's within touching

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distance of the current leaders, Saira and Will.

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At the Vet School Small Animal Hospital,

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an unusual stray patient needing urgent attention is being

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brought in by Scottish SPCA officer Lee Williams.

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And Lauren and Amblessed are the Junior Vets

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standing by to receive the mystery case.

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Aww, tortoise!

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You're absolutely right.

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What's her name?

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We've called her Manfreda.

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So how did you come across the tortoise?

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We got a call from the member of the public who had noticed her

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walking down the side of the road or pavement.

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We don't know whether she has been deliberately abandoned

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or whether she's strayed.

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Oww.

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No-one knows how long she had been roaming the streets

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and she could be injured or poorly.

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I felt quite, like, determined to find out what was wrong with her

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and put it right.

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Because obviously she was homeless and no-one really cared.

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My Junior Vets must complete an immediate examination.

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Well, she can clearly move her legs, so she's fine there.

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So shall we have a look in her eyes?

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She's got quite small eyes.

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Is it clear or cloudy?

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They're not streaming, they're both the same as well.

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And Lauren spots something unusual.

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-Can you see there is a bump on that side?

-Yeah.

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That sides like straight. And then there's like a bump there.

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When I saw the lump on the side of Manfreda's head

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I was quite worried especially because it looked quite painful.

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That is quite big, isn't it?

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Yeah.

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This side is straight but she has a bump on that side of her.

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So that's not normal.

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The Junior Vets call in exotics expert Kevin Eatwell for advice.

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That is her eardrum.

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So her eardrum sits on the side of her head,

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if you go back and look at this side,

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You can see the swelling that we've got here is right on that eardrum.

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What is most likely to be happening there is we've probably got

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infection behind it and that's probably going to be surgical.

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We may have to go in and remove this infection.

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Kevin's setting up the little tortoise on the CT scan there.

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I've never seen something like that before.

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This super hi-tech scanner uses high-powered X-ray beams

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which Will pass painlessly through Manfreda.

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A computer then receives information from the scanner and uses it

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to produce a picture of what's hidden behind Manfreda's shell.

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OK guys, the CT scan is finished so we can now come and look at

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the images on the computer and see what's wrong with this tortoise.

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The team's looking for any other problems

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aside from the ear infection.

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What do you see sort of coming through on there?

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-Can you see anything?

-Like grey splodges.

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And what do you think these splodges might be?

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-Erm...

-Are they the lungs?

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That's the lungs and that looks like normal lung tissue.

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The lungs look really nice on that particular view.

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You could see underneath her shell. So that allowed us

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to see that there was nothing wrong with her breathing.

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But her infected ear needs sorting out - fast.

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The Junior Vets must now scrub in and prepare to help Kevin

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with the tricky operation.

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Later, the scale of Manfreda's ear problem is revealed.

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So that's the stuff that needs to come out.

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This is Casper, a slightly deaf boxer,

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who's come for a check-up at a vet's practice

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a few miles away from Vet School.

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His owner Mrs Hedrick thinks Casper has been

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a bit down in the mouth recently.

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She normally leaves her much-loved pet

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in the capable hands of vet Adam Tjole.

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But today, Adam is handing over full responsibility

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to my junior vets Saira and Will.

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They have no idea what might be wrong with Casper,

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and will need to use every bit of their Vet School training

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to get to the bottom of his possible ailments.

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I'm a bit nervous because we've actually got

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to go up to Mrs Hedrick now, who I've never seen or met before.

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But I suppose you've just got to do it.

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They'll be completely on their own.

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But Adam has a camera set up that will allow us

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to watch their every move as they complete Casper's consultation.

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Here they come, look.

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Hi, Mrs Hedrick.

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I'm Will.

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He's greeting her nicely. That's good.

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-And who's this? MRS HEDRICK:

-This is Casper.

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-Hi, Casper.

-We'll do a general check-up on him.

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-ADAM:

-The two of them are both making the dog

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and the owner feel at ease, which is really important.

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'Poorly pets can't explain what is wrong with them.

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'So asking an owner the right kind of questions

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'is an essential vet skill.'

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It was quite challenging to work out what was wrong with Casper,

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because we were on our own.

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Will's spotted Casper's sore-looking eyes.

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How long has his eyes been like this, then?

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Because they look a bit red, don't they?

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Good question.

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He has a recurring problem with his eyes.

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And Will's all ears now.

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I think there is a little bit of wax

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but Will just be easy to clean out, so that's good.

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Will's reassuring the dog there, isn't he?

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-I think he's working his way around the dog really well.

-Yeah.

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I'm not sure about Saira if she's doing very much, is she?

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Saira arrived at Vet School very scared of dogs

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and seems happy for Will to take the lead.

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I did kind of take a little bit of a step back

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and Will kind of just took off.

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My mind kind of went a bit blank cos I was a bit nervous.

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Has he been eating properly and things like that?

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And running around.

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-MRS HEDRICK:

-He has a special diet that's been chicken and rice.

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She asked a good question there about the food.

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Has he had any operations or any major things before then?

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Yes, he had an operation in February.

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And what was that on? Was that on his eyes?

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No, no, that was on his leg.

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Is that where he has had his operation?

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Yeah, it's growing again.

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How much has it been growing recently?

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It's growing quickly.

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Growing quickly?

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Will's line of questioning has paid off.

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He now knows Casper had a lump removed by Adam six months earlier.

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And it seems to have returned.

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Are you surprised how quickly they got to that?

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They've been really confident, they've not got nervous,

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they've asked all the right questions,

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and they've got the answers that we've required, so, brilliant.

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I think we are going to have to get a second look on its eyes.

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They look to be just really sore especially around the socket area.

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And with the leg we need to make sure that it's not been

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infected or anything.

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Impressive work so far!

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We're going to take Casper back to Adam

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and report back to him what we found.

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And hopefully we're on the money, but we'll see.

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Later, Will and Saira get to work to make poorly Casper better.

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Steady, steady, that's it.

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Just 20 minutes from Vet School

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is a colony of 30 rockhopper penguins.

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Edinburgh Zoo's Romain Pizzi is on his way to check on Mr Green.

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A rock hopper with a poorly looking eye.

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Junior Vets Sam and Morgan will be assisting him today.

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They've been given special permission

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to work behind the scenes here.

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As soon as he said penguins I thought like, yes!

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But the boys need to tread carefully.

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Penguins will try to protect their home from intruders...

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Hello...

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..with these snappy beaks.

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So see if you can see him.

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Just take small steps and they won't panic.

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There's penguins everywhere.

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It was so funny, it was the funniest thing,

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cos all the penguins were like squawking around us.

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But how Will the team locate the sore-eyed Mr Green,

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when he looks exactly the same

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as the 29 other resident penguins he lives with?

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Can you move please? You're kind of in the way.

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This is really cool, isn't it?

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-Shall we communicate?

-HE PRETENDS TO SQUAWK

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We had to find a penguin

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with the green and black ring around its foot.

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Just as the rockhoppers begin to lose their patience

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with the search team, Sam spots Mr Green.

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There we go.

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They look quite cute and cuddly,

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but they can actually give you quite a nasty nip.

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And they can be quite grumpy. Come on.

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Rockhopper by name, rockhopper by nature.

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So this little guy has been having problems with a weepy sore eye

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so we're going to have a quick look now.

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We're gonna get some drops for you to put in with a little dye

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that will show us if there is any ulcers or an injury

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where another penguin maybe has pecked them in the eye.

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Adding dye will make any scratches or injuries on the eyeball

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change colour. Over to Sam for this one.

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You have to squeeze it. It has to be quite a big drop.

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-OK.

-Come on. Come on.

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It was quite nerve-racking when I was putting the drop in

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because the penguin just couldn't keep still.

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Make a big squeeze so that there's a drop that falls onto the eye.

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Sam carefully drops the dye into the first eye.

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Yeah, ready, go, squeeze, squeeze, squeeze. Brilliant.

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But Morgan is finding the other eye more challenging.

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There we go. Yep, oop, you missed.

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Don't get too close to the eye cos you'll injure it.

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It must drop onto the eye.

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Third time lucky or otherwise I'll have to do it.

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There you go, perfect.

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But he finally completes the job.

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So has Mr Green suffered any injuries?

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-We shine a little light on the eye.

-And there's nothing there.

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And there's no marks on there so he hasn't been pecked on the eye.

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Perfect. He's not badly injured.

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Romain thinks the rockhopper has had nothing more than a sore, runny eye!

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And Mr Green is rewarded with a soothing bath in the plunge pool.

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There we go.

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Later, Sam and Morgan's next patient is a fanged predator!

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Don't keep your face right over here

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because he's all uptight. He'll come shooting out towards your face.

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My Junior Vets are completing an intensive training programme

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here at Vet School.

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Each session is designed to prepare them

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for handling real animals in real situations.

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For impressive training zone performances,

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I give out Vet Skill Credits.

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Along with the all-important Vital Vet Work awards,

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these will help me decide who will eventually be named Head Vet.

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And today's training zone session will test

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my Junior Vets' practical skills and their animal handling abilities.

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They have already learned

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how important dressings are to injured animals.

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They protect healing wounds from infection

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and prevent pets picking at stitches.

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For this test, I've recruited three willing volunteers.

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Awww.

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Real dogs!

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Meet Copper, Otis and Alfie.

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It's a real dog!

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Right, Junior Vets, let the challenge begin.

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Working as a team...

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Good boy.

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..the Junior Vets must neatly bandage one paw per pair.

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We do this one.

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Will and Saira show great team work skills from the off...

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So it needs to be quite small, as it's got a small foot.

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..and hatch a plan to bandage Otis...

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-And you do this one and I'll do the last two, yeah?

-Yep.

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..who looks more than happy with their work so far.

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Bend that down.

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Lauren occupies Alfie while Amblessed works quickly

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and neatly on the dressing.

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-And then round, yeah.

-OK.

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Morgan, I'll just prepare the stuff, Morgan?

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-Morgan? Morgan?

-Yeah.

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Come and prepare the stuff with me.

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Sam needs Morgan's help

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if they are ever going to finish Copper's bandage.

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Put that there.

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OK.

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A good bandage fits snugly around the wound.

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I think I have done it a little loose.

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I would take that off and start again, actually.

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That's too loose. So it's a restart for Team Otis.

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And just go round.

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Junior Vets, you've got a couple of minutes left.

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This is a tricky test.

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And Morgan looks like he's losing his rag a little.

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Alfie doesn't know what all the fuss is about.

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Good boy.

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His Junior Vets, Lauren and Amblessed, are the first to finish.

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OK everyone, that's a wrap!

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Blame it on you.

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I heard that, Morgan!

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Don't blame it on the dog.

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So who did the neatest bandaging and kept their dog calm in the process?

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I loved seeing Lauren and Amblessed work so tightly

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and precisely together.

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So I'm giving them a Vet Skill Credit each.

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You can see how you get on as a virtual vet

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in the Junior Vets game on the CBBC website.

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And don't forget to look for the special game code

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at the end of today's show!

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In the Vet School Small Animal Hospital,

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Manfreda the abandoned tortoise is about to have surgery to remove

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an infected lump from her head.

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Junior Vets Amblessed and Lauren are helping exotic animal vet Kevin.

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They need to remove a painful pocket of pus from the tortoise's ear.

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OK Lauren, I'm ready to start surgery,

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-are you happy the tortoise is asleep and doing OK?

-Yep.

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-What's the heart rate at the minute?

-24.

-OK.

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Lauren was monitoring the anaesthetic

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and I was helping with the operation.

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It was quite exciting doing Manfreda's anaesthetic.

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If something goes wrong, then she could die.

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You see that sort of yellow stuff?

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Yeah.

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Your ear cavity should be empty

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and what we've got here is solid yellow material.

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So that's the stuff that needs to come out.

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Removing the infected area is a delicate procedure

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and requires Kevin's expert hands.

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Are you ready for the gooey bit?

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Kevin gets to the pus-filled ear.

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And that basically is the pus.

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And two massive pieces of pus are removed from Manfreda's tiny head.

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The surgery has finished. You can now just wake up.

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But before she can come round,

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Manfreda needs a blast of antibiotics.

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Then I'm just going to inject this under the skin.

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As Manfreda is allowed to steadily wake up,

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Lauren must use a pump to keep oxygen moving

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through her delicate body.

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And the next day, Manfreda is up and about.

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Hi!

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Infection-free and breathing well.

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-She's doing well, isn't she?

-Yeah.

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It's good to see her eating as well.

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Good night, darling, bye bye.

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Bye, Manfreda.

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Both my Junior Vets showed real attention to detail today.

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She was probably in distress with her head

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and I suspect it was giving her a really bad earache,

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and she probably was quite deaf from it as well.

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And hopefully getting her back to full hearing

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will help her in the long term,

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and I think she will be much happier.

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And things got even better for Manfreda.

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She's now fully recovered and she has a new home!

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Back at the practice near Vet School, Will and Saira have

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completed their first animal consultation all by themselves.

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They've given 11-year-old Casper a thorough examination.

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And quizzing Casper's owner has helped them

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discover problems that need investigating.

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How long has his eyes been like this, then?

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Because they look a bit red, don't they?

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I've been watching their every move with vet Adam Tjole.

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And now the Junior Vets are ready to report their findings.

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Well done, guys. So what have you found for me today?

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Well, other than the bloodshot eyes,

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which look to be quite sore around the socket as well,

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we found where he has had an operation on his leg before.

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There is a scar and it seems to be swollen.

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Well, I was watching you on the television,

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and you did really well to find those lumps.

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Will and Saira were clearly on to something.

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Adam takes a closer look at Casper's leg.

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You can actually see there's one lump there and there's another lump.

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It's almost shows that the lump is spreading and that is a sign

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that it could be something that's not particularly nice.

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That's probably a lump that I would want to remove.

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Saira also suspected Casper might have an eye problem.

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OK, Saira, what did you find out about his eyes?

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Well, they are very red,

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and you can see that straight away by looking at him.

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They do look a bit bloodshot.

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And near the socket they seem to be a little worse.

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Casper has previously suffered from something called 'dry eye'.

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The team must test if the dangerous condition has returned.

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So what we're going to do is we're going to put these little

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strips in his eye.

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Saira is using a special strip of paper that will allow them

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to measure the amount of teardrops

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Casper is producing from his tear ducts.

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Just on the bottom there.

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Yeah, that's it.

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That's OK. You can pop it in there.

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It's quite hard to get it in.

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It was kind of tricky

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because you were shoving a paper into a dog's eyeball.

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One, you didn't know if it was going to hurt

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and second, it was just a little bit weird.

0:21:150:21:18

Fantastic. See, can you see there is a blue line

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-that's appearing on the eye there?

-Yeah.

-And we want a reading below 10.

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That's good, it's already below 10.

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So that means he's got plenty of tears.

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Casper's tear ducts are fine. The 'dry eye' has not returned.

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So what was causing Casper's bloodshot eyes?

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-Two drops.

-Two drops.

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This yellow dye might give us some clues.

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Any sore areas or infections will mean it quickly changes to green.

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Can you see any green patches on his eye?

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Yeah, I can see a little bit.

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-There's a bit.

-I think sort of in the middle.

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-Yeah there's a little bit of haziness, isn't there?

-Yeah.

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So he's got a slightly infected eye, so what we'll do is

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we will treat that, but apart from that his eyes are pretty good.

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Do you want to go and take him back to Mrs Hedrick?

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-Hmm.

-Brilliant.

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Both Junior Vets looked like fully qualified vets today.

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-Hello, Mrs Hedrick.

-Hello.

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We've looked at its eyes and they seemed to be doing fine.

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They've got the right amount of tears and not dry at all.

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Will was really confident, he asked the right questions,

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he was really good with Casper.

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I think he'll make a fantastic vet.

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With regards to his leg, we found three lumps on his leg.

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So if you could bring him in next week to have a check on that,

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that would be great.

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And Casper and a relieved Mrs Hedrick

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can go home for a well-earned rest.

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Over at the zoo,

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Morgan and Sam are assisting vet Romain Pizzi.

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Next up is a new resident who is moving here from another zoo

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and is currently taking a nap in a rubbish bin!

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Three...two...one.

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It's not heavy. I thought it was going to be heavy.

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Before they get to work with this mystery patient,

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Romain gives them a safety briefing.

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Don't keep your face right over here,

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because he's all uptight he'll come shooting out towards your face.

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So we always stand back a little bit and I'll open this towards me

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just so I can see where he is.

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And the reason for the safety briefing...

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Ah, wow.

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Our new arrival is a Taiwanese beauty snake called Petite.

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This snake is a particular favourite animal of mine

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so I was really, really excited. It was so cool, that.

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My Junior Vets need to check Petite has no infectious

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diseases before he can join the rest of the snakes here.

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But there's a problem. Morgan doesn't like snakes.

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At all!

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When the snake first came out of the bin that it was in, I shook a bit.

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-Do you want to hold his body?

-Yeah.

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So what you do is you just cup your hands and let him rest on them.

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You don't want to grab him or squeeze him.

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Petite isn't venomous. But a bite from him would definitely hurt!

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Well done for overcoming your fears, Morgan. Very brave handling.

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If you want to be like a vet or a zookeeper you're obviously

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going to be working with animals that you don't really like.

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The Junior Vets can now start checking Petite

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for signs of illness and disease.

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If he's fit and healthy,

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he'll be allowed to move in with the other resident snakes.

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-You can see its heart beating there.

-What's that?

-Wow.

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So know you're very lucky cause that's quite easy to see in him

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but in some snakes the heart sits between the ribs

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and we can't even see it. So we have to measure the body.

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-So that is why the heart is positioned there.

-Yeah.

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Petite is looking in great shape on the outside.

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PETITE'S HEART BEATS SLOWLY

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And is sounding all good on the inside.

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We've put ultrasound gel on the snake

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and we're checking the heartbeat.

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It's sounding healthy.

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So at the moment we're looking through the ultrasound

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and we're having a look into its heart

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and inside the body just to see if there is anything wrong.

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Romain is happy.

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Brilliant, let's pop him back in his box.

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Thanks to my Junior Vets' help,

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he is confident Petite is in tip-top shape, inside and out.

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He'll be allowed to live out his life in the comfort

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of the zoo's reptile enclosure.

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Today was a very good experience

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working with the penguins and the snake.

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I'm not a fan of snakes, but I think I overcame my fear.

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I loved working with the snake

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and the penguins were really good as well.

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So yeah, it definitely pushed me.

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Amazing hands-on work by my Junior Vets today.

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And, thanks to them, Petite has a comfortable new home!

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It's getting harder and harder for me to separate my Junior Vets.

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But I have to decide between them

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and choose who gets today's Vital Vet Work award.

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As always, Amblessed concentrated brilliantly on the job,

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while Lauren showed off some impressive

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anaesthetist skills in Manfreda's operation.

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I loved the way Sam kept looking for new ways to get involved.

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And he did a great job of motivating Morgan and helping him

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overcome his snake fears.

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Will and Saira made me so proud

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going it alone in Casper's consultation.

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It was Will who led the way and his confidence is now sky-high.

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But Vital Vet Work awards are only given to

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the very best performances. And I've now made my decision.

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Junior Vets, three individuals stood out today.

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And they are...

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Will.

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Sam.

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And Lauren.

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But it's not just me who's been impressed.

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All three made a real impact on the vets they were helping.

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Every one of them deserves their Vital Vet Work awards.

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-It feels amazing to win.

-It's a great feeling to win, yeah.

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It feels really good.

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I think I won because I was enthusiastic about the animal

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because I like the animal and I also think I did a good job.

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I asked the right questions and it went towards saving the dog,

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which was really happy.

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I think we won because we were just all good and we worked well.

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Think you can cut it as a top vet and make animals better?

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Head over to the CBBC website now and use today's game code,

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Next time on Junior Vets...

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Tuppence the dog has high-tech treatment,

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crocs Bob and Bindi get a bit bothered

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when the vet team enters their lair,

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and Junior Vets power up to help Trixie the pony.

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