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Coming up on Junior Vets...

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There's a double emergency at vet school...

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Go, go, go.

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..as alarm bells ring in the middle of surgery.

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And junior vets get to grips with a sick cow.

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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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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 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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And 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're 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...is...

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It's day eight and my junior vets are notching up some

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awesome veterinary experiences.

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Junior vets, welcome back to vet school. Today's working pairs are...

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..Morgan And Will. Lauren and Sam. Amblessed and Saira.

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Let's get down to business.

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Business is full-on real world vet work.

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And real animal emergencies are the order of the day today

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for my junior vets.

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I'll be keeping tabs on everything they do.

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Only those who really stand out will be in with a chance of winning

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one of my vital vet work awards.

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The competition for my head vet title is now opening up.

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Lauren, Saira and Will have each won an impressive four

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vital vet work awards.

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They're closely followed by Sam and Morgan who have three awards each.

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And while Amblessed only got two...

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..she's won four vet skills credits,

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more than any other junior vet.

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Now she needs to turn her star performances in the training zone

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into top-level vet work in the real world.

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That's perfect.

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She consistently proves she can pick things up fast and

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is technically skilful.

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But can she handle the unpredictable nature of veterinary life?

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If Sam wants to fulfil his dream of becoming a vet,

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he needs to prove to me that he can be more confident around animals.

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It's good experience but it's just really scary.

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He's right up there with the leaders.

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Now I want to see whether he can handle the unusual

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and the unexpected.

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Not only does vet school have it's own animal hospitals

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and vet practices, it also has it's very own working dairy farm,

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which is home to over 400 cows.

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Today, junior vets Sam and Lauren have a busy shift ahead of them

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as they join up with farm vet Isabelle who needs to make sure

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her cows are healthy.

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The plan for today is that we'll go into the parlour and we'll

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help the dairy men and the process of preparing the cows for milking.

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I'm a vegetarian and I don't particularly like the idea

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of animals being made to produce things for us.

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So I felt quite worried and wary about going to a dairy farm.

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Opinions aside, Lauren's right to be wary, working with any

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farm animal can be hazardous.

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They're clearly very large animals and they're not necessarily

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aggressive, but they could be potentially dangerous.

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So be aware as to where you stand.

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Make sure that you don't get knocked over or you're

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not in a position where you get kicked by a cow.

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Cows are very big,

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much bigger than I thought they were going to be, and Sam picked up

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on that quite a lot and he was quite worried, as well.

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So if we stand to the side and then the cows will walk past us

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-in a minute. If you just stand...

-What?

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I was quite scared when they were just, like, there

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and they're all bashing about and pooing everywhere.

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I was a bit scared.

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That's massive.

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The herd are coming in for milking.

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This is the ideal opportunity for the junior vets to spot any

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poorly-looking animals as they file past.

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Just come across.

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-Oh, oh, oh!

-It's OK.

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-They're not going to attack you, Sam.

-That's OK. You're not going

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to get hurt by them. Right, just come over here.

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They're more scared of you.

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At first glance, the herd seem perfectly healthy

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and head to the milking stalls.

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Isabelle wants Sam and Lauren to be more confident around cows

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and suggests they help farmer Steve with the milking today.

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Great work, Lauren.

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And despite his nerves, Sam seems willing to get stuck in.

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-That's it. Easy-peasy, eh?

-Yeah.

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Yet again, he's facing up to his anxieties and is working well

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with these huge animals.

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Lauren, what's it like being this close to cows?

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It's mad, it's really cool, just because they're

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so big, it's just really weird, because they're just beautiful.

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They're absolutely gorgeous.

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I'm finding it a bit nerve-wracking, scary, cos they're just big animals.

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I've seen cows before, but once you're this close to them,

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-they're huge.

-Have they told you what to do when their tails go up?

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-Run.

-Oh. Oh, OK, I get it.

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Later, the junior vets hunt for clues to a cow's mystery illness.

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Who wants to take this cow's urine?

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Late last night, a very poorly patient was admitted to the

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vet school's small animal hospital.

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Ferret Edward had been brought in by his worried owner.

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He'd stopped eating and had lost so much weight that he was

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nearly unconscious.

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Vet Emma Keeble gave him emergency treatment and though he

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survived the night, he is still very poorly.

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Junior vets Morgan and Will have been called in

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to help with the investigation.

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It's a bit of a detective case this one,

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because we don't exactly know what's wrong with him.

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He came in yesterday really not very well at all.

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In fact, we actually thought he was going to die.

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And he has had fluids, he's had some pain relief.

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So what we're needing to find out today is why he's not been eating.

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One thought is possibly his mouth.

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So we'll need to have a look in there and see.

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My junior vets have learnt how to handle most kinds of animals,

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and they know the right questions to ask before they touch anything

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-potentially dangerous.

-Is he a biter?

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No, he doesn't bite at all, he's very friendly.

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-Would you like to hold him?

-Yeah.

-This is a first for Morgan.

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He's never seen a live ferret before,

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but he really wants to help poorly Edward.

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I've always wanted to actually hold a ferret.

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Edward's in the best possible hands, but the team need to know why

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he's lost his appetite and need to get him eating again.

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Come here, sweetheart.

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Emma has a good idea where to look first.

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Little bit worried about his mouth.

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And maybe I could get you guys to find anything

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that you're worried about there.

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What would be the worst case?

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Well, I suppose the worst thing that could happen with his mouth

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is we could find that his teeth are really rotten and falling out.

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Toothache might not seem that serious,

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but if it's stopping Edward eating, it could be life-threatening.

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As an owner, what can you do to make sure the ferret has clean teeth?

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Owners can actually get the ferret used to cleaning teeth

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and we have little toothbrushes that fit onto a finger.

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And we also have meat-flavoured toothpaste,

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so they can get used to that.

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The other thing is feeding a dry food diet can really help.

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To get a really good look inside Edward's mouth, he needs to

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be unconscious for the delicate procedure.

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But giving anaesthetic to a small, weak animal is very risky.

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He isn't a brilliant candidate for an anaesthetic

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so we're going to have to be quite quick with this and get on.

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And later, the junior vets get to the root of Edward's problem.

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-Can you see that that tooth there is quite wobbly?

-Oh, yeah.

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Look at that. Wow.

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In the small animal hospital...

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Hey, darling.

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..new arrival, Coco the African Grey Parrot is waiting to be seen

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with owner, Glenda.

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Normally chatty, Coco's lost her voice and is sounding very poorly.

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She's making a rattling noise and we don't know what that noise is yet.

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But she's still a bit nippy.

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You show him your tongue, he'll bite it.

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Junior vets Saira and Amblessed are on hand to take care of Coco today.

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African grey. Well, I love parrots.

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I was amazed when I first saw Coco. I wouldn't think that

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I would be working with an African grey and I was just quite shocked.

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Wow, he looks really friendly.

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Does it bite?

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What, Coco? Never(!)

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Coco is under the care of exotics expert, Kevin Eatwell.

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Coco had suffered from serious breathing problems in the past.

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Kevin is concerned and wants the junior vets to help him examine her.

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If she bites you, it's going to be really painful.

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This beak is designed for cracking nuts.

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We've got to be careful how we hold her, cos if she flaps,

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she might injure her wing and things like that.

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Right, we best get going.

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First, Coco needs an X-ray, which means she has to be

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anaesthetised so she stays still for the process.

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And Kevin has a big job for Amblessed.

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We need you to be monitoring the anaesthetic and this bird

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continuously. So no distractions, no walking off.

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We need you to be listening to this heartbeat and watching it breathe.

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I had to measure Coco's heartbeat through the operation,

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cos if it dropped, she could be in serious danger.

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Saira's assisting with the X-ray and straps Coco down so they can

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take a clear picture.

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Need to stick the legs down, too.

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But Kevin's not happy with what he sees.

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There's a little bit of a shadow here, which might not be

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perfectly normal. So we're going to take her through into theatre.

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Something is wrong inside Coco's chest.

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They need to check it right now.

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We've just moved Coco from the room that we just took her

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X-rays from and we've put her into the theatre.

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Amblessed tries to monitor Coco's heart rate.

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But a parrot's heartbeat is so fast,

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it's tricky to detect small differences.

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Things are getting tense in theatre.

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-Have you done the anaesthetic before?

-What is this? What's that?

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-That's the ET.

-What's that?

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-Right, heart rate, what's happening to your heart rate?

-It's slowed down.

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OK, so do you think that is something you should have told us?

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Amblessed hadn't noticed that Coco's heart rate has dropped

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dangerously low. Thankfully, the theatre nurse has spotted it.

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So she's probably too deep under anaesthetic now

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and if you're detecting a change in heart rate, that's something

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you should have told us.

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And things get alarming later when Coco's operation turns into a

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blue light situation.

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-You have to leave the building.

-Go, go, go.

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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 for handling real animals

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in real situations.

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For impressive training zone performances,

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I give out vet skills credits.

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And along with the all-important vital vet work awards,

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they'll help me decide who will eventually be named head vet.

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Today's training zone session will test my junior vets'

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hand-to-eye co-ordination skills in a very unusual way.

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First, farm vet Isabelle is on hand to set up this

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mysterious-looking machine. And what is it?

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Oh...

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Yep, it's a cow's behind.

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They're about to be trained on a model of a cow's bum,

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used by students at Glasgow University to perfect the art

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of doing internal examinations on cows.

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All farm vets have to complete regular pregnancy tests on cattle.

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The most straightforward way to test if one is pregnant is to put

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your hand inside and feel around.

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Can we have our first junior vet? Lauren.

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Looking very excited, Lauren, about this challenge.

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Put your arm in the back of the cow.

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The junior vets need to learn exactly where to find each part

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of the cow's insides by touch alone.

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Move to the left and to the right.

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A special device hidden inside the fake cow is linked to the screen.

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So you're the blue dot in the middle here.

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When they move the mechanical arm with their finger,

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it moves a blue dot around.

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The red bit is the uterus and the green oval shapes are the ovaries.

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OK, off you go. You tell me when you're at your first point

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and your second point.

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My junior vets can't see the screen.

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What they feel is a virtual reality of the cow's insides.

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I think that's the uterus.

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OK.

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I think that's the ovary.

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Lauren finds the body parts immediately.

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Off you go.

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But it's a struggle for Saira.

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And Sam.

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Is that the uterus?

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And neither identify any of the anatomy.

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The junior vets are not only judged on their ability to find

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the uterus and ovaries...

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Is that the uterus?

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..but also on how they use the kit.

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-Get yourself in the middle. Yep.

-Yep.

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The machine is very delicate and requires small, gentle

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movements from Morgan.

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-Is that the first bit?

-All right, well done.

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-Is that the right ovary?

-Excellent.

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So who knows their cows inside out?

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Lauren, Amblessed and Morgan all identified the uterus and

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both ovaries, and handled the equipment brilliantly.

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So all three win vet skills credits.

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You can see how you get on as a virtual vet in the junior vets game

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on the CBBC website.

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

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of today's show.

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At the vet school dairy farm, one of the cows is struggling

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to produce milk.

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Vet Isabelle is worried that it means she's in pain.

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Junior vets Sam and Lauren are helping her investigate the problem.

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First, a smelly and messy test which might just give up some clues

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to the cow's health problem.

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Who wants to take this cow's urine?

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-Me.

-I want to do it.

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Oh, there seems to be a dilemma here.

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We're going to have to decide.

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We both wanted to take the wee sample. I don't know why.

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I wanted to get stuck in with collecting the wee from the cow.

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And, in fact, me and Sam had a little bit of a disagreement

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about who was going to do it.

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BOTH: Rock, paper, scissors?

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Go on, then.

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Rock, paper, scissors.

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Oh. Damn.

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So the way to try and make this cow pee is to actually give her

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a little bit of stimulation just under her tail.

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It looks strange, but this is a guaranteed way of getting that

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all-important wee sample.

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Well, to get the wee sample, I had to massage near its bum.

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It wasn't very nice.

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-Keep going. Keep going.

-Well done.

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Ooh, yay!

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-That's one urine sample.

-Yep.

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And if you just dip that stick in the urine for a couple of seconds.

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That's right. OK.

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Now to test the sample.

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So what would be the most worrying?

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-When they go really dark purple.

-OK.

-OK.

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The test shows up no obvious illnesses.

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-So that's it for a urine sample.

-OK.

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Right.

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My junior vets are still no closer to working out why the cow

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is not producing milk properly.

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Now it's Lauren's turn. They need a milk sample for more tests,

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but it's not as easy as it sounds.

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Keep going. Just let it go and let it fill up again.

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Let it fill up.

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I'm not very good at this.

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That was Lauren's first ever try at milking a cow.

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I'm impressed. She gets our sample in no time.

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Can you do a couple more? That's it.

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If the cow has an udder infection, this chemical

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will make the milk thick. If she's OK, it will stay liquid-y.

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What do we want to happen?

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We actually just want it to just stay fluid.

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One of the samples turns lumpy. Not good.

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It indicates the cow has an infection called mastitis,

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an inflammation of the udders which can be really painful.

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So we've been able now to identify that there is a problem with

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this cow's udder, that she's got an infection in there,

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and that her two hindquarters definitely are inflamed.

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Thankfully, it should be easily treatable

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with a cow-size dose of antibiotics.

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What we'll do is we'll prescribe some antibiotics, the farmer

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will administer these over the next couple of days,

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and this cow should return to normal milk production.

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-So that's our job done here.

-Brilliant.

-OK, great.

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It's been a brilliant junior vet performance

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from both Lauren and Sam.

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Today, working on the farm has been a whole different experience.

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I don't know whether it's been exciting,

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good, or a mixture of both, but it's certainly been interesting.

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And an update on our cow - she's now pain-free, healthy,

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and producing lots of milk every day.

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Back over at the small animal hospital, Morgan and Will

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are trying to help Edward the ferret.

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He arrived late last night seriously ill and underweight, and there was

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a real worry he wouldn't survive.

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Vet Emma Keeble suspects that a dental problem may be the issue,

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and that because it's so painful to eat, Edward's been starving.

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This one, can you see that that tooth there is quite wobbly?

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-Look at that.

-Oh, yeah.

-Wow.

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The other tooth, you see that might have fractured a bit

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because that looks a bit dark and discoloured.

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So we'll have a look at that, as well.

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Poor Edward's teeth are in a terrible state.

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One is beyond repair and needs removing.

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So I think we may have found our problem here.

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It should be a quick and painless procedure.

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If I just give a gentle tug, we've just loosened the ligament around it.

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Job done.

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There we go.

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And the junior vets can get a closer look at the tiny tooth that's

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caused such a huge problem.

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I was really happy that removing that tooth

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meant that we saved his life.

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With the broken tooth removed,

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the team take full advantage of Edward being under anaesthetic and

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give the rest of his teeth a good clean to prevent further problems.

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That's great.

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Will does a great job on the first few.

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And Morgan makes sure the others are gleaming.

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That's it, brilliant.

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With the operation successfully complete,

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Edward just needs an antibiotic injection before waking up.

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But then...

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..alarm bells ring.

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FIRE ALARM WAILS

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We could hear the fire alarm, I was really shocked.

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I thought it was a practice but it turned out to be real.

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Everyone needs to leave the building. Immediately.

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And that includes the recovering Edward.

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It turns out that one of the students accidentally left

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a piece of toast in the toaster.

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-I can't believe that. What day we've had!

-I know.

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A bit nerve-wracking after we knew it was coming out of that

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-anaesthetic and we had to come out.

-It was. Did you feel that yourselves?

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-Yeah.

-Yeah.

-Yeah, I mean, that's really on the cutting edge, isn't it?

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Impressive work from both junior vets.

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Will and Morgan stayed calm when others might have panicked.

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And Edward came through his eventful surgery just fine.

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I think the end result of Edward being OK

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showed that we did quite well. And although all the drama happened,

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we still pulled through and managed to make him OK.

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They were both sort of interested.

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They were both trying to help as much as possible

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and having a go with the polisher, which was brilliant.

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But really considering they've never done anything like that before

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in their life, they were both amazing.

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And the very latest news on Edward - he's now back to his normal weight

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and eating plenty.

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At the small animal hospital,

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Coco the parrot is undergoing an operation to find out

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what's wrong with her chest.

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Saira and Amblessed are assisting vet Kevin Eatwell.

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Earlier in the op, Coco's heart rate dropped dangerously low,

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but now she's stable.

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Kevin makes a small hole in Coco's chest so a tiny camera scope

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can be inserted. And it soon identifies the problem.

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This should be clear, the grey stuff is abnormal

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so we do have some airsacculitis here.

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It looks like air sacs in Coco's lungs are infected,

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and this explains why she's lost her voice and has a wheezy cough.

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We've had a look. Her air bags aren't looking so normal,

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so we're going to give her some antibiotics for that.

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But as the operation reaches its final stages...

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..the fire alarm that disrupted

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the end of Edward the ferret's op strikes.

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If you're in the middle of an operation like this,

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-and then it goes off...?

-Providing we know where we're going to get out

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and we know how long it's going to take us, we can continue.

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Coco is still asleep and has an open wound in her chest.

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The team must work extremely fast.

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Just thinking, we've got to do some serious vet work now,

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and then the fire alarm goes off.

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Human safety comes first at vet school. They can only carry on

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for a few more seconds.

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And now Coco's heart rate has dropped dangerously low again.

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Is the heart rate dropping? How low?

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I don't know, it's just gone slower.

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We're just checking her heart rate

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and her respiration rate now, checking she's still alive.

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-She's still breathing all right.

-The chest is rising.

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Keep listening. Keep her ventilated.

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The emergency evacuation procedure kicks in.

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Coco's still under anaesthetic but the wound has been stitched.

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-Now it's time to go.

-We have to leave the building.

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Everybody has to go. That door there.

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Go, go, go.

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Keep going.

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We had to rush outside while I was just about the finish the operation.

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We just had to make sure that the parrot was OK.

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Is she going to be all right?

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They're soon given the all clear to go back inside,

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and Coco is showing signs of life.

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I think he was just kind of slowly opening his eyes, quite unsure

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but then he opened his eyes and he was all right.

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Coco has had a traumatic experience,

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and is put inside an incubator to keep her nice and warm.

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That was an unusual day at vet school and tested my junior vets

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more than I ever expected.

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The most difficult thing for me was monitoring the heartbeat

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because when it was really fast, it was really hard to count.

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It was quite relieving to know that the bird was safe.

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And the good news is that despite all the drama, Coco made a

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full recovery and is now back home.

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Good vets need to be able to handle the unusual and the unexpected.

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Today, all of my junior vets proved they have what it takes.

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But my vital vet work awards are only given to performances

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above and beyond the call of veterinary duty.

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Sam and Lauren handled dairy farm vet work very well.

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Sam overcame his nerves and they worked together to help a cow

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with a painful problem.

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But it was a fire alarm that provided an ultimate test

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for two of my teams.

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Saira and Amblessed were brilliant with Coco

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and threw themselves into surgery.

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But a little more focus was needed on more than one occasion.

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Morgan and Will also had to contend with the fire alarm.

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They handled the pressure well and I was particularly impressed

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by Will's delicate touch and compassion for his patient.

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It's impossible to pick out an individual winner today

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but my decision has been made.

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Three junior vets stood out today. And they were...

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Lauren, Sam and Will.

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Brilliant vet work, well done, guys.

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All three junior vets stepped up to the mark when it was asked of them.

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All put their patients before themselves today and fully deserve

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their vital vet work awards.

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I think I won today because I was inquisitive, and as well as it

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benefiting my knowledge, it also went towards helping the ferret.

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I was growing in confidence with the cows

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and I think we did a really good job.

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We really enjoyed ourselves

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and that just came together as being really good.

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Next time on Junior Vets...

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Tino the horse has a painful limp that needs urgent attention.

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Zoe the dog arrives with serious breathing difficulties.

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And Pollux the poorly alpaca gets much-needed junior vet treatment.

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