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Our vets get hands on today.

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A giant goat needs darting so his hooves can be soothed.

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Pet chicken, Houdini, needs a lump to disappear.

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And homeless Border collie, Joker, needs a life-changing op.

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I'm Alex Riley and this is Junior Vets.

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Pets...

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Wildlife...

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Farm animals...

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All in need of expert help.

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And at Edinburgh's amazing vet school, six raw recruits

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have arrived.

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They're working alongside the school's top notch team.

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Ahhh! As if I just did that!

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And they are being pushed to their very limit.

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As they help to save the lives of sick and injured animals.

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Six new junior vets but I can only chose one...

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..winner.

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This year's Head Vet is...

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Are you all primed, prepped and ready for some serious animal?

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ALL: Yes!

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Yes! That's the spirit.

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Are you prepared to go the extra mile to help sick

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and injured animals get better?

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ALL: Yeah!

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Ooh, argh!

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OK. Today's pairs are as follows.

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Josh, you'll go with Robyn.

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Molly, you're with Bonte.

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BOTH: Yeah!

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And you're all staying here at Vet School.

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However, Nyatepe and Jamie, you're going off-site.

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And Jamie, just one thing.

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Are you sure you've overcome your fear of goats?

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Yes.

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Good!

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Phew!

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Jamie's buddy, Nyatepe, is a handy partner to have when things

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get tough and heavy-duty.

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This lad doesn't seem to have any fears or phobias, which is

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vital if you want to become a top vet.

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Ooh!

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Molly's another junior vet who never seems to get rattled or unsettled

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but she hasn't experienced surgery in the vet school

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animal hospital yet.

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Will it make her flap?

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Well, let's see, shall we?

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Joker, the Border collie, is in need of a new home.

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He was found wandering the streets seven weeks ago and has been

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staying at the Edinburgh Dog And Cat Home ever since.

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But today, he has come to the Small Animal Hospital for what

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might be life-changing surgery.

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Thankfully, there's an expertly trained, highly experienced

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team here to book him in.

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Hello! Small Animal Hospital.

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Junior vets Bonte and Molly.

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Good morning!

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Hello. Is this Joker?

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Yes, it is.

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If you'd just like to take a seat over there.

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Thank you.

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It's a big day for homeless Joker.

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He requires an operation called a castration.

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The op will mean he can't have unwanted puppies and it'll

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make it miles easier for him to find a nice new home.

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Come on, Joker!

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This is an important day for Molly, too.

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So, you're happy you can hear his heart beating nice and strongly.

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Yeah.

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It was my first dog patient and also my first time in theatre

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so I was really nervous.

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Because Bonte's done it before, so she knew what to expect

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and what was going to happen and she was just like, "You'll be fine."

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-So, she was really good.

-Yeah.

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First, Joker is prepared for an anaesthetic injection,

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so he'll be unconscious for his surgery.

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Aww!

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I know. It doesn't hurt them that much.

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It doesn't really hurt. It's a little nick.

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What's he feeling like right now? Is he, like, a bit drowsy, or...?

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Yeah, he's a little bit drowsy and he's probably still a little

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bit worried about what's going on because he's in a

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very strange place...

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Yeah.

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..with strange people.

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Within seconds, Joker is out for the count.

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Bonte leads the way as he's connected to a heart monitor.

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Marvellous!

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There we go!

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Well done, girls! That's his heartbeat.

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But there's an issue...

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the testicle that needs removing from Joker is not

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where it should be.

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I've never seen that.

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Senior surgeon, Anna, arrives on the scene to try and sort things out.

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There's two options. One, they are either up in his tummy.

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The other option is that he's been castrated in the past

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and no-one's reported that.

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OK?

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What was a simple surgery job is now not so simple.

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If a missing organ stays inside Joker's belly, it could cause

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problems in the future, so they're going to operate straightaway.

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-Are you happy to help me with that?

-BOTH: Yeah.

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Where do you want them to clip?

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-Perfect.

-There we go.

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Joker's ready. So get yourselves scrubbed in for surgery, you two.

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-Are you looking forward to doing an operation?

-I am, are you?

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Yeah.

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If the missing organ is found and removed, Joker will be one

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step nearer to finding a new home.

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Hopefully, they'll find it as well.

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-Yeah.

-Cos they couldn't find it before.

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And later, it's all about steady hands and tricky kit as the team

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zero in on Joker's problem.

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You're actually doing surgery now.

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I know. That just felt really cool!

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Jamie and Nyatepe are at the Highland Wildlife Park.

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All sorts of rare and endangered beasties live here.

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Today my junior vets are meeting vet Jane from Strathspey Vets,

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and head keeper Morag, for some extreme vet work on a mystery beast.

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Right Jamie, Nyatepe, I'm needing a hand today.

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I've got somebody who's needing a manicure,

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needing their toenails done.

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A foot manicure with a gun? What's going on, Jane?

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It's quite an excitable animal, so we might have a little

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bit of trouble catching it, so we put an anaesthetic drug in the dart.

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-Are one of those pink fluffy things going to go on the end?

-Yeah.

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We have nice bright ones because if Morag misses, which she

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doesn't very often, we need to be able to find the dart as well,

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so we need to see where it is. OK?

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So, we just need to go find our animals now.

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-Oh! I spot some heads.

-Oh, wow!

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-There. You see the heads?

-Wow!

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There he's...right up there.

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Oh, yeah, ha-ha!

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He's really beautiful.

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Meet your beasties, boys.

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Is that a deer?

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No, it's called a markhor.

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It's like a goat and they run up those rocks like Spider-Man.

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Markhors are related to domestic goats, but the males are

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twice the size.

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In the wild, these curly, horned, Asian giants spend most of

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their day hopping from rock to rock, which wears their hooves down.

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But there's a lot less rock in the Highlands, so they need the

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team's help to get their hooves all tidy so they don't become

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infected and overgrown.

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Jamie might have just conquered his fear of little farmyard goats,

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but today they're treating the mighty Joachim.

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Check out his metre-long horns!

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I'm quite anxious but obviously I've done goats the other day,

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so, I think I'll be better with them today.

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I don't want to get near them, no, cos, like, their horns are so huge

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and they seem quite strong.

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-You're in my shoes for a day.

-Yeah.

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Before the junior vets can enter the enclosure,

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Joachim needs to be anaesthetised with the dart gun.

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So, as soon as that dart goes in,

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I need somebody to write down the time. OK?

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Is there any danger to the goat itself?

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Yeah. I mean, they get quite stressed so that's obviously a danger,

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if you're anaesthetising something that's a bit stressed

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but the important thing, once you've got them down,

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is keeping an eye on their heart

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and their breathing. OK, let's go.

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The junior vets must record the time Joachim is darted

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so they know how long he's been unconscious.

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The last thing the team want is

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a wide-awake, giant, grumpy goat on their case.

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Sharp-shooter Morag moves into position.

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All right!

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Right, so stay nice and quiet when this bit's happening, OK?

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We'll just have to wait.

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(Which one's she looking for?)

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-One of the big males. That one there.

-Yeah.

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Joachim's in Morag's sights.

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Carefully does it.

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Spot-on, Morag!

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-(What time was it? What time was it?)

-(8:58.)

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I think it went in the muscle, so I think that was fine.

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Were you happy with the shot?

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I am happy with the shot but I would like you to look

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through your binoculars just to see that the dart's gone off.

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Easier said than done, Morag.

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The junior vets can't see if the dart's delivered a full dose

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of anaesthetic, because Joachim's done a runner.

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Well, I think I would have run off if I was darted in the bum!

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Later, Joachim is stretchered off

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as the junior vets prepare for heavy-duty vet work.

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-He's really big.

-He is a big boy, isn't he?

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Chickens. Not your average pet,

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but these girls all mean the world to owner, Jane.

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They were all rescued from a battery farm

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but they have a wonderful life now, scratching around in her garden.

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They're very affectionate,

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and so it's just constant love.

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But one of her brood, Houdini, seems to be in a bit of discomfort

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and might need junior vet help.

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This sounds like a job for Robyn and Josh.

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Right. Are you coming out? Clever girl!

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They're teaming up with exotics vet Kevin.

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Don't peck me. I'm not food!

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When I found out I was working with exotics,

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I didn't expect it to be a chicken, but I was really excited.

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I thought it would be like a snake or a spider or something.

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Hey, it looks like the team have put their finger on the problem.

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If you look on this side, can you see there's a little swelling?

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It feels quite solid.

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That lump might not look too big

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but remember, Houdini's got a small head.

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I bet that's causing a bit of bother.

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If you get an abscess forming or infection forming, it forms a solid.

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The only way we're going get rid of those thickening changes is

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to physically remove that tissue.

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Houdini definitely needs surgery, but before she goes in

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it seems something might need to come out.

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Why do you think it's important to feel your chicken

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before you go for surgery?

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-She might lay an egg.

-Yeah.

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Kevin suspects Houdini wants to lay an egg

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and they can't start her surgery until she does.

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And how do you get the egg out?

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Erm...

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Good question, Josh. Kevin?

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It's a question of gentle pressure, a little bit of lubrication,

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and you just find the right bit,

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and it's slowly, slowly getting the egg out.

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Your chicken's going to be fine

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and we'll give you a ring when she's ready to go home.

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-She likes it if you whisper to her.

-OK.

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Don't worry, Jane.

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These two will make Houdini's health problems disappear!

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But first they need nature to take its course and that egg to drop.

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CLUCKING

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And later, the junior vets need to keep their focus

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as Houdini the chicken goes under the knife.

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So this is the pus within this sinus.

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Over in theatre two, Joker the Border collie is about to undergo

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his surgery with Bonte, Molly and surgeon, Ana.

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Joker has a problem called a retained testicle

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and it needs removing.

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He doesn't have an owner, but this surgery will stop him

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having unwanted pups, which might help him find a new home.

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Now what we need to do is to make a little hole in his tummy.

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But the bit they need to remove from Joker isn't where it should be,

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and the team need to find out where it is.

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I had to hold the camera, which was quite hard, it was quite heavy,

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and I had to, like, move it around.

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Can you see my blade coming in?

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-You'll be able to see me there, right?

-Yeah.

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Bonte keeps a steady hand

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allowing Ana to locate the missing organ.

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-Ooh!

-Oh, that's huge!

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I got really nervous cos I saw Bonte was doing really well

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and everything and, of course, she'd been in theatre before

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so then it was my chance to do something.

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I was getting quite scared and I didn't really know what to expect.

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-OK Molly, do you want to do this?

-Yes, please.

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Hey! The pressure's on Molly here.

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It's her first time in surgery and she's only gone and got control

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of the surgical graspers, hasn't she?

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How does it feel, Molly,

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to be actually removing something from a dog?

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Erm, quite scary, actually!

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You're doing a good job.

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Molly needs to keep the organ in position so Ana can cut it free.

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-Oh, I'm sorry!

-It happens all the time.

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Oof! This is some serious first-time surgery Molly's got going on here

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and her buddy's supporting her all the way.

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I think you can get it this time, Molly.

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-It's hard cos...

-I know. It looks really hard.

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It dropped at first and then you did it in the end, didn't you?

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You did really well!

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-There we go!

-Yay!

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But I was really pleased when I got it cos it had taken,

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like, a few chances.

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-Like that?

-Yeah, cut there.

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-You're actually doing surgery now.

-I know, that just felt really cool!

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-Under there?

-No. On top.

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Aw! As if I just did that!

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I was really warm with all the lights on us and everything

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and I just started to feel really faint.

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-Are you OK?

-Yeah, I just feel a bit sick.

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Molly's done a cracking job

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and takes a well-earned breather out of surgery.

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Are you feeling OK, Bonte?

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Yeah, I'm absolutely fine.

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So Bonte finishes off with Ana

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before going straight out to check on her partner.

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-Are you all right, Molly?

-Yes, thanks!

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-How are you feeling, Molly?

-I'm OK, thank you.

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Sorry!

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I think you did the right thing by saying that you felt a bit rough.

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I didn't want to just faint on the dog!

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-No, exactly, and...

-Or on you, Alex!

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Or on me, more importantly, on me, yes.

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Don't faint on me, whatever you do.

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Here comes surgeon Ana. What does she think of their efforts?

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You happy, both of you?

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Yeah, I've really enjoyed it, thank you.

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You've done really well, very good assistants. Good job!

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-High-five!

-High-five!

-Thank you.

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Theatre is really hot and she just felt a bit fainty,

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which happens a lot, you know, for some of the staff members as well.

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I actually didn't have any other vet scrubbing in with me

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and I felt very confident with both of them that we,

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you know, the patient's safety was at the highest standard at all times.

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-You did really well!

-Thank you. So did you.

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-Good teamwork.

-Yeah.

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It feels really good that we've helped him

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and now he might be able to find a new home and family and stuff.

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-Hello!

-Back at the wildlife park, Jamie and Nyatepe are on the trail

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of a super-sized markhor mountain goat called Joachim.

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Jamie's not a big goat fan and he's definitely not a fan of big goats.

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I'm a little bit nervous of the goat

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but, erm... I've just got to deal with it.

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Joachim needs vet work on his feet to prevent them becoming infected.

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He's just been hit with an anaesthetic dart.

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Now the vet team can enter the enclosure and approach with caution.

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Just nice and quiet.

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He's quite sleepy, but sometimes they can be a wee bit twitchy.

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Like, when you are far away you didn't quite like realise

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how big the horns were.

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You see, there's the dart there, so we have to take that out

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before we move him cos obviously there's a needle in it

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and we don't want any of us getting stabbed, do we?

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So, just pull it out like that.

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And the other thing we want to check is to make sure

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it's gone all the way down, cos that means he's had all the drug.

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So I'm quite happy he's had all the dose.

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Just to be sure Joachim's completely unconscious,

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the team check his reflexes.

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Yes. He is heavily sedated but he is just sedated.

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He's not blinking, which is a good sign.

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One, two, three...

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Right, let's get this sleeping giant to a safer working area.

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-Right. Is everybody quite happy and quite comfy?

-Yeah.

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Just take your time so nobody falls over.

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-He's really big.

-He is a big boy, isn't he?

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Do you just want to see if you can pop his foot back on there?

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-That's it. Good.

-So where are we taking him?

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Just down here. Right, gently put him down. That's it.

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OK, right. Do you want to see if you can find his heart for us?

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The team don't know exactly how long Joachim's anaesthetic will last,

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so it's Jamie's job to alert them if he thinks it's wearing off.

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So how can you tell when he's going to wake up?

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Well, you listen to his heart, and see how the speed it's going?

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It's nice and steady, and we just keep like that

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and his breathing should just stay like that as well.

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And if there's any twitching round his head

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-or if he gets up and runs away!

-OK.

-It'll be too late by then!

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Keep looking and listening, Jamie,

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so Nyatepe can get to work on those huge feet.

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You see, they're very, very overgrown.

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So, what we need to do is trim his feet back.

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They need to work carefully and quickly.

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-Like that?

-Yeah.

-Oh, no!

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That's it. Squeeze.

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Excellent! Good!

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That's quite tough!

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It never really hurt him,

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so it was good, just like cutting your own nails.

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How we getting on there, guys?

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It's quite steady at the moment, so I think he's fine.

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-Quite happy?

-Yeah.

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It's quite ace, actually, cos I thought I didn't think

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I'd actually get close to a goat again but, I am, so...

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Wow! there's no stopping Jamie now!

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Hand over those clippers!

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Right. Try cutting that.

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Squeeze!

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A good antibacterial scrub to stop any infections...

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That's it.

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And finally, the nerve-racking bit. Joachim needs to be revived

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with an injection to reverse the anaesthetic.

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I was worried that he was going to be a little bit dizzy

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and just run towards one of us.

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-Are you putting it into his jugular vein?

-Yeah. That's right.

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Here we go!

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Phew! Joachim's up and off!

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He's away. There you go!

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Ha-ha! It's woke up!

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The best thing he can do now is go and find himself somewhere quiet

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with his pals, and go to sleep and just sleep it off.

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How did my junior vets get on, Jane?

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I think overall, they both coped really well.

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If I had to pick one over the other, probably, Jamie.

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He certainly concentrated a lot and he seemed to be quite happy

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and quite comfortable working with the markhor here.

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I thought it would just come and attack you but it just ran off

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when you lifted it up, cos it was scared that we shot it in the bum!

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Yeah!

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Great work, both of you!

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I've definitely beaten goat phobia.

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-They were really big though, weren't they?

-Yeah!

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And their horns were spirally.

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See? He's away up the rock there, already.

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And there he goes.

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That's what I like to see.

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A giant mountain goat with a spring in his step.

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Houdini the poorly chicken

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needs surgery to remove a lump from her face.

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But the operation can't get under way yet.

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Everything's on hold for junior vets Josh and Robyn

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because they've discovered Houdini needs to lay an egg first.

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CLUCKING

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Ah, lovely! We're back on track.

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We're about to go into surgery and she's laid her egg,

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which is good cos we won't have to help her lay it before surgery

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so now she won't have to go through all that stress

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before we go into the operation.

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The lump on her nose is causing Houdini real discomfort

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but hopefully our junior vets' work can help cure her today.

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It's going to be quite rare, doing an operation on a chicken.

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Josh has a key role in surgery.

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He's monitoring Houdini's vital signs with vet nurse tutor Caroline.

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Once she's unconscious,

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you will start monitoring her anaesthetic for us.

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Josh uses a thingamajig called a Doppler.

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ECHOING WHITE NOISE

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That noise is actually the chicken's heart.

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It's really important. At any time, if we don't hear it,

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that means we need to sort something out quickly.

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While Robyn scrubs in for the operation

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Josh begins recording her vital signs.

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Oxygen, we're up to four litres.

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Josh must be very accurate.

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When surgery gets under way, Houdini's life may depend on it.

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-84.

-I counted that at 140.

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Do you want to have another go at counting it again?

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When I was doing the counting, I kept getting it wrong.

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Well, you have to times it by four.

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I'm not really good at my times tables.

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Finally, Josh has got his numbers right.

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Vet Kevin wants to get going.

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But his assistant Robyn is still scrubbing in.

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I was finished, like, five, ten minutes ago then

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I turned the tap off and tapped it and I had to start it all again.

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I'm feeling really stupid because it takes so long.

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The clock's ticking.

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Kevin cannot delay the op

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because it's dangerous for a small bird like Houdini

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to be under anaesthetic for a long time.

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-Hurrah!

-Phew!

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Junior vet, coming through!

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Anaesthetist Josh, are you happy for us to start operating?

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-Yeah!

-All stable. Good.

-Yeah? OK.

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Another cotton bud, another cotton bud.

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Stay focused, Robyn.

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-Another cotton bud.

-Sorry!

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I was struggling at first, but then as we got further

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and further into it, I kind of got used to it

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and then knew how important it was to stay focused.

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These ones?

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Nope, the others.

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There should be scissors. That's it. Beautiful!

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So this is the pus within this sinus.

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Brilliant, Houdini's lump is out.

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Ooh! Now that must have been uncomfortable.

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Robyn cleans Houdini's wound.

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It needs a steady hand...

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All right. Lovely!

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..and she's got one! Well done, Robyn.

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It's a tense moment for anaesthetist Josh

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as he waits for Houdini to recover.

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There you go, girl!

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And after 30 minutes on the ward, Houdini's up and about -

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minus that horrible lump.

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Oh, she's standing up!

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And a few hours later, she's ready to go home with happy owner, Jane.

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The type of surgery we did was a sinus surgery

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and it all went really well.

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Thanks for looking after my wee girl.

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Kevin, how did they do?

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You can be the best surgeon in the world

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but communicating with that client is actually the bottom line.

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It's that that's very important, and you've done that very well today.

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She trusted us to look after her chicken.

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I can't believe I've just done a chicken operation!

0:25:150:25:18

I never thought we'd be that hands-on with it. It was amazing!

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It's been a hard day for my junior vets

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but they're back happy, chatty, cleaned up and germ-free.

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The pressure's now on me. I have winners to pick.

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-Hi, junior vets.

-Hello.

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What I'm really impressed by is the fact

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that you're all maximising your opportunities.

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You're getting into a situation and you're not wasting it.

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You're focusing on it, and keeping that focus

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is an extremely important part of vet work, so well done!

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Nyatepe and Jamie hit the Highlands

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and fixed up Joachim, the giant goat.

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True to form, Nyatepe was handy with the vet tools

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and Jamie continued to bin his fears and phobias in style.

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It was no laughing matter when Joker the dog underwent important surgery.

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Bonte and Molly were brill in what was probably

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the trickiest small animal op any junior vet has handled.

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Robyn and Josh didn't chicken out of surgery work, either.

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Houdini was in real discomfort

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until these two helped get rid of her grisly lump

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and sent her home with a nice, neat beak.

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That was very impressive stuff. Well done.

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But my vets of the day are Molly and Bonte. Well done!

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Sensational vet work. These two were flying today.

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When we were helping Ana, like sewing

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and then like pulling with the camera and everything,

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it was, like, really disgusting, so I think we kind of deserved it.

0:26:510:26:55

Yeah, I think we did. And we helped Joker.

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Yeah.

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Come on, you lot. These cabinets won't stock themselves.

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They did deserve to win

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though because it sounded like a really hard operation.

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It must have been quite long if Molly nearly fainted.

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Fancy getting vetting yourself?

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Well, get over to the CBBC website right now

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and you'll find a special patient needing your expert help.

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Next time on Junior Vets,

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a thoroughbred horse is turned upside-down for surgery.

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Competition horses stay the right way up for vet checks

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and a sick lion is down and then up for a hi-tech examination.

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