Episode 6 Pet School

Hello, I'm Luke Franks

and welcome to the second week of term here at Pet School.

Our nine Pet Heads have just one week left to prove that they can be

responsible enough to have a pet of their own.

But after the ups and downs of last week, they're going to have to

work really hard, and what they don't know is that things

are all about to change. Isn't that right, Effy?

-CAT MEOWS

-She knows.

Nine pet-crazy kids.

I would like to have a dog.

I would really like a rabbit.

I really want a pet rat.

101 animals needing care and attention.

CHEERING

Two incredible weeks.

THEY SCREAM

But have our Pet Heads got the animal know-how...

Ew, they poo! Ew!

..to persuade their parents they've got what it takes

to have a pet of their very own?

Has she proved to you she can be a responsible pet owner?

Is she getting a pet?

Previously on Pet School...

Pet Practice turned wet practice.

You ruined the whole set of clothes.

And a special visitor snaked its way in to meet the Pet Heads.

I'm really happy right now.

Coming up...

Breaking up is hard to do.

HE SNIFFS

And X Factor boyband District 3 drop by

with a few extra members of their group.

I'd like you to meet Luke and Frank, our gerbils.

I didn't know you named them after me.

Time for morning assembly, Pet Heads. Don't be late.

Good morning, Pet Heads.

ALL: Good morning, Luke.

Hello. This is it, the second and final week of Pet School.

So, it's the first Pet Practice of week two.

-Shall we find out our groups?

-ALL: Yes.

It's a good idea, isn't it? Group one - Sam and Ananya and Chloe.

You are going to be with...

-the chickens.

-Oh, you're joking.

Joking? I'm not joking. Why would I be?

-Why don't you want to be with them?

-I just hate chickens.

OK, some work to do. We'll find out, good luck.

Group two - William, Thomas, and Courtney.

You're with the dogs.

-Yes!

-Yes!

Group three - Faramarz, Lauren, and Tommy,

you are with the goats.

No!

Now, a bit of a change this week, OK? Because you've been here

a week already, you know how to look after young animals a bit better.

You're all, you know, sort of experts now,

so you're going to lose a third of your time to do the Pet Practice.

Instead of 45 minutes you're going to have 30 minutes

to complete all the tasks. You're very welcome, don't mention it.

Now, to help us a little bit,

give us a little advice, we are saying hello to Pet School veterans.

Give a big welcome to Chris and his dog Smooch and Julia and Bella.

CHEERING AND LAUGHING

Chris spent his time at Pet School working hard

to convince his parents he was ready for a dog.

And now he is the proud owner of Smooch.

Julia fell in love with rats at Pet School but her mum

felt that she should stick with Jue-Jue, the dog she already owned.

But Jue-Jue's story took an unexpected twist

when Jue-Jue was sadly stolen.

Julia was heartbroken but her parents decided she had

proven herself enough to get new dog, Bella.

Welcome back, Pet Heads.

What would be, like, your main advice to this year's Pet Heads?

As long as you're here you need to work hard,

but you also need to have fun.

Awesome, and Julia, how about you? What would you say to these guys?

Just enjoy yourself, that's all you have to do.

It's going to get harder. I'm just telling you now.

Any other questions, Pet Heads, now's your chance. William.

How hard was it to persuade your parents to get a pet?

It just depends on what sort of pet you want.

If you want, like, a cat or a dog you need to persuade them by not only

doing that with a dog or a cat but you also need to persuade them with

other animals, so it just depends on how badly you want to get your pet.

Good to know, good to know. Awesome.

OK, Pet Heads, give our expert resident Pet Heads a little clap.

Are you up for it? Has that inspired you?

Well, let's not waste any more time.

Pet Practice is awaiting. Off you go.

And I've asked Chris and Julia to stick around

to share more top tips later.

At this stage I can't emphasise enough just how crucial

a week it is for our Pet Heads.

They've got to finish their tasks in the time, and so teamwork

and organisation is now more important than ever.

There's no room to be chickening out of tasks. In fact, scrap that -

this is serious, there's no room for chicken jokes.

All right, maybe one more. This group had better get cracking.

"Hey, Chicken Heads. So the chickens need a good clean-up today

"and it's your job to do it.

"Catch the chickens and place them in carriers, changing the wood shavings

"and straw after giving the coop a good brush

"and poo-pick the enclosure.

"You only have 30 minutes to complete your Pet Practice."

Yay, I'm the team leader. "Good luck."

As soon as we've got the chickens in there we can start

really working, so that's the thing we're trying to do first.

Hang on, get the door open. We can't let them in if the door's not open.

Hold on, no, one sec, one sec, one sec. Hang on, Hang on.

How not to catch chickens, part one. Hope they wander into their cages.

I'm not really sure how we're going to catch them.

-And what's this? There's two.

-Shut it in.

Close one in for now.

How not to catch chickens part two.

Chase the chickens with their cages.

No. No!

This is not going to work, we are going to fail.

Yes, yes, yes, good on you.

Oh!

This is going to be a long day.

Well, not that long, you only got 30 minutes to complete those tasks.

Over in the dog room, William, Thomas and Courtney are seeing who

will take the lead on their doggy duties.

They will have to brush the dogs' coats,

check for fleas

and exercise them with their toys.

"Thomas, you are the team leader, good luck."

My approach is, looking after dogs, is to take your time

and read the files and see what they like and see what they don't like.

-Hi, how we doing? All right?

-Yeah.

-Great, thanks.

You look sort of organised, that's a good sign.

Julia and Chris are here as well, and Smooch the dog.

These guys are like your walking, talking care books.

Any advice at this stage?

You need to give them comfort.

She looks pretty happy.

I think she's enjoying it.

-Because he's a big dog I would say, like, you need a bit of help.

-Yeah.

As these Pet Heads pick up more tips from Chris and Julia,

over at the goats, Tommy's having a little break

because of a sprained ankle.

Really want to be in there and helping my team.

It's a bit worrying because we've got the goats

and they're not the easiest animals ever to try and do tasks with.

Since we've only got two people at the moment,

I think we might fail, but it just depends on teamwork.

"Welcome. You guys have a great task to do today with out resident goat."

And they'll have lots of work ahead with only 30 minutes to bathe Ben.

"Faramarz, you are team leader, good luck."

Right, which one's Ben?

We can't check the collar cos I'm scared it's going to head-butt me.

-All right, you're going in first.

-Yes, I know that.

Be careful, they're looking at ya.

I'm scared for you.

Take it nice and slowly.

Slowly.

We need help, Faramarz.

First off, I'm the leader, and you're coming here.

CRICKETS CHIRP

They're not even attacking me. Who needs help?

We need help. We don't know which one's which.

If Lauren wants to get started off on the right foot - sorry, hoof -

she might want to try learning their names first.

Um...that's better.

Read the file, like the whole thing.

Now that's an idea, Lauren.

We really need help with this. We need Marie.

Right, OK, point taken.

Maybe if Lauren knew more about the goats

she might be able to tell them apart and get over her fear.

When Ben, Billy and Tommy are not at Pet School

they live at an animal rescue centre.

The goats were in quite poor condition when they arrived.

They had quite a lot of dandruff, a lot of hair loss.

Ben, Billy and Tommy really are looking much, much better

since they arrived at the centre.

Goats can be quite unpredictable so the children really are going to

need to be on their toes with these guys.

However, if they have got a little bit of tasty willow nearby

or give Ben a little bit of a scratch they're going to get on just fine.

GOAT BLEATS

Meanwhile, over with the dogs, they are running out for a, well, run.

Good boy. Go on, then!

-Where's Meadow? You've lost Meadow, guys.

-We haven't.

You've lost Meadow, how could you?

You check there.

This won't look good, Pet Heads,

if you can't keep control of your canine crew.

Oh, they let Meadow just run away.

-Meadow!

-While William wrangles Meadow back to her, uh, meadow...

Courtney's got her hands full too.

Come on, Meadow. Come on, come on, girl.

With Meadow safety returned, the group gets back to business.

Thomas, here's some treats.

Stay. Clark, stay. Clark, sit.

Wait, wait, wait.

There may be a lot of treats

but there's not a lot of tricks going on.

I'll give you one for sitting.

Roll over.

No? OK.

Clark, roll over. Roll over, Clark.

Keep trying, Courtney.

Over at the chicken coup, it's all about chicken poop.

Ew, that smells.

I know it smells. They lay out the eggs in there. It's going to smell.

Two chickens, yes.

I don't know how you're supposed to do this up,

-cos I've got two in here.

-Well done.

-So...

See if I can do it.

OK, that's good, that's good.

So that leaves Ananya on her own while two people fasten the cage.

Ahh, I'm going to puke. This is horrid.

I'm not going to eat anything at lunch.

SHE GAGS

Meanwhile, Lauren and Faramarz are still butting heads over who

needs a bath. A little help, Marie?

How are we doing? You've got ten minutes left,

-I don't know if you knew that.

-We don't know which one's Ben.

-That's what's slowing us down the most.

-Have a little look and see

if you can work out who looks like they need a bath.

I think all of them do.

-That one! He or she looks like the most.

-Yeah?

Sometimes we do have a dog.

He's got a dog lead on so we need to just get a hold of the hook.

That's it, fabulous, well done.

Nice work, Faramarz. Now, about that bath...

We really need to start hatching a plan here.

Come on, let's crack on, what are we doing? Work as a team.

OK, um, first we need to brush it, don't I?

OK, just quickly wash him and broom him afterwards.

-Let's get this goat bathed, guys, come on.

-Come on, it'll work, see?

Well done, mate, well done.

I mean, I'm getting wetter than this goat here.

That's it. And this little bit right here.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. It's working,

I knew we'd pass.

We used teamwork to get to our objective.

Worked. Done. Finished.

Back at the chicken coup, with only minutes to go,

our team still seems stuck in the muck.

Guys, you need to start filling it with new sawdust.

Yeah, but it's not empty yet, there's loads of it.

I'm just taking out the poo bits, I'm not taking out all of it.

Oh, whatever. I give up. I actually give up.

Come on, Chloe, if you're going to be the leader

you'll have to step up, not give up.

Since day one, Chloe has been struggling to bond

with our animals and complete the challenges.

I give up. You know I give up.

Your parents are not going to change their minds

if you keep giving up on tasks.

Don't like them.

I think if Lauren hadn't said she'd been bitten or pecked

then I would have got them up,

but they ran away from me so it's not a chance.

30 minutes goes very quickly, and that is time on Pet Practice.

So, will our Pet Heads have completed their task

and be getting full marks?

Or will they be staying around to complete them later?

-Thank you, Chris and Julia, for coming back.

-Thank you.

Nice to see you. Thank you, Smooch and Bella as well.

Good work. And let's hope they've taken some of your advice.

Coming up...it's all change for the Pet Heads.

Feels weird.

Oh, that's very creepy indeed.

And X Factor stars District 3 get crafty.

That sounds good.

Thomas, William and Courtney successfully finished

all their doggy duties.

As did Lauren, Faramarz and Tommy - they get maximum pet buddy time.

Whilst the other Pet Heads are with their buddies, Chloe, Sam and Ananya

are still trying to finish their chicken tasks.

The chickens have really got to be in the carriers

before we start cleaning.

There's also still quite a bit of poo in the nest box as well.

So we need to check that, and lastly none of the nest boxes have

straw in there and the chickens like to have some straw to make

a nice little nest out of them, so we need to sort out all that.

First of all, shall we do a quick crash course in chicken catching?

Chloe, are you ready?

Not a chance.

We're going to do this, come on, let's get these guys catched.

That's it, that's it, straight down.

While she's standing up, pin that hand straight down onto her.

Nearly. Bring her wings in too, Sam.

Yes, perfect. Gold star for Sam.

-Which one are we putting...?

-Right, we can pop her in this one.

Sam is doing well but how will Ananya,

who is afraid of animals, do?

You are being amazingly brave.

You need to bring her straight into you, under that arm. Got her?

-Yeah.

-You're fine. Right, let's bend down, let's get her in.

Yes, you've done it.

Well done, Ananya ,you've come such a long way.

On day one you wouldn't even go near the animals.

Scaring me! This dog is scaring me!

However, Chloe still has a long way to go.

-If you can walk a goat, you can hold a chicken.

-I don't know how.

-So, lift her, bring her straight into you.

-What? How? With what?

That's it, you're holding her, you are holding her, OK?

So, bring this hand here as well, underneath. There you go.

-I don't like it at all.

-Well done. But you're doing it.

You've done it.

All right, don't let go of her until you've got her head in there,

cos we need to keep her wings tucked nice and tucked in.

Pop her right in.

She's in.

You've got a chicken, you've held a chicken, OK?

I really don't like chickens or hens, and, you know,

the only time I want to see them is on the Sunday dinner.

So let's get these gutted out, we'll get the chickens back in.

Pop this lid down, Chloe.

-Can you bring Ananya...

-Ouch!

I think we're just about there, guys, we just need to get the last bit in,

tidy up all this area, and let's get the chickens back in and we're done.

With the chickens sorted, Sam, Ananya and Chloe can finally join

their pet buddies, but Marie and I have a surprise up our sleeves.

What do you reckon? Time to mix things up,

-change their pet buddies around.

-Let's mix it up.

-That's it. Cool, OK,

decision time. So, she's done well.

She has. It's been a tough week for her

and I really think she needs to be able to see that actually

some animals instantly want to get that bond.

He's done well so we just need to

throw him into something completely different.

I'm really proud of her and I think this is a good week for her

to get a reward from it.

He's not totally sure what he wants,

but he thinks he wants a small animal.

-Job done.

-Done it, yes.

How will the Pet Heads react to the news?

-Sam and the cats. Hi, mate.

-Hi.

-How we doing?

-Good.

-I know they're, like, up there with your best animals now.

-Yeah.

Yeah, that's good.

-Little bit awkward, mate, because pet buddies are changing.

-No.

One minute to say goodbye to all 11, starting now.

See you, goats!

-I'll see you down by the pigeonholes, all right?

-OK.

See ya. I hope I get a dog as my new pet buddy.

Sh!

She is sad to say goodbye, really.

Tommy, however, is definitely sad to be swapping buddies.

I'm really going to miss them, they're my little babies.

This is the... Basically, I've really got...

I just really enjoy being with the rats and now I've got to leave them.

I just really want rats as a pet when I go home.

Cheer up, Tommy, maybe you'll meet someone else you really like.

-Pet Heads, get over here! Hi.

-ALL: Hi.

Hi, we're changing pet buddies.

Behind me in your pigeonholes is a school letter with your name on.

It says your next pet buddy, OK?

Deep breath.

-I feel much better now.

-Go.

Yes!

Yes! Oh, my God!

I've got a snake, and I'm very angry.

I've got the rat.

I've got the hamsters and I'm quite happy.

I've got the ferret.

I've got the cats!

The rabbits.

I've got Meadow! Oh, my gosh, I'm so happy.

-Pet Heads! Hi. Talk to me, how we doing? Who's happy?

-Me!

You've got to go and check 'em out right now, go and say hello.

This is it. See you later.

Here's how the buddies have changed.

Lauren is with Meadow and Ananya's got Clark.

Chloe's got guinea pigs, Tommy's with the rabbits.

Courtney is handling the hamsters and Thomas has the snake.

William found the ferrets, Faramarz has scored the cats,

and Sam's with the rats.

Our Pet Heads are off to get acquainted with their new buddies.

Hello.

Ananya may have bonded with the bunnies

but her animal fears are dogging her again with Clark.

I'm bringing some treats out with me.

I'm only bringing two.

I'm not bringing any, I don't think I'm at the stage to feed them yet.

-Go, just go.

-Good boy.

-And let's go.

-Come on, come on.

Come on, come on.

You need to actually walk with him, Ananya.

-Oh, my God.

-Just walk off, it's fine, just keep walking.

-Good boy.

-You should be happy because you've got Clark.

I'm still kind of scared of Clark

so I was just happy that you're also there.

If you feel really scared, right, just stay still.

Great suggestion, Lauren. At least Ananya knows Clark's name.

Clark, Clark, Clark.

-Right, if I have one treat and you have another...

-Sit!

Here, here, here.

No, no, no, no. Please don't.

No, just keep it in your pocket, he's fine.

Ananya's got a lot of work to do

if she's going to change Mum and Dad's mind about having a dog.

She needs to get comfortable and get over the fear of having an animal.

If I carry on being scared then I won't get a pet.

Maybe she could use a few tips from Lauren,

-who's loving being with Meadow.

-Meadow, sit.

I'm looking forward to the rest of the week with her because

she basically is my favourite animal ever,

and I'm just really loving this moment.

Because I've got to enjoy it and I am at the moment,

and she's the best thing that has ever happened to me. Yes, you are.

Over in the furries room, Sam is getting hands-on

with his new pet buddy.

Now rats, they don't really like to be held,

they like to use you as a bit of a climbing frame, OK?

You going to have a little hold?

-Yeah. So should I just let it walk all over me?

-Yep. First of all put

your hands out and hold her. And if it's more comfortable for you,

just pop her on your shoulder or just let 'em get in your hoodie

if you've got something like that, they love snuggling up there.

And a task you could be doing this week is doing treat training, so you

could get a little bit of mashed up banana and offer it to her.

-Where are you going?

-She's probably going to jump. I've got her.

Feels weird. When it was up there, I was...

So if I give her back to you, if you want to pop her in.

So I think you've done pretty well for today.

Good job, well done.

I'm not that keen on the rats but I think if I can do the rats

then there's a big proof I can look after these different animals.

In the reptile room, Thomas is also struggling

to get used to his new buddy.

That's creepy.

Oh, that's very creepy indeed.

-Thomas, how we doing?

-Bit scared.

-A bit scared?

-Yeah.

Would you like me to show you the best sort of way to pick him up

and handle, then you're able to get on with your pet buddy session

a bit more then, yeah?

Here she is. Are you all right?

-What are you thinking?

-A bit scared.

-Yeah?

-She's a bit bigger than I thought.

So she can see what's going on, OK?

So you see I just give her one little stroke and just lift her up.

You OK?

Yeah, she doesn't seem so bad.

So, nice and slow moves. Her food is mice and they move quite quick,

so you want nice and slow moves.

She has eaten, though, so she's all right. OK? Well done.

Brilliant. Slow moves, but keep it on, you're doing a fab job.

So I'll leave you to carry on. Keep practising with

the handling so you're getting used to her movements.

-Can I just put it back in?

-If you want to.

I think next time I think I might kind of try to feed it,

maybe clean out the water and maybe try and hold it and see

if I can do them things next time.

Maybe if he knew a bit more about Tweety Pie he wouldn't be so scared.

Tweety Pie lives at a reptile centre

where he is looked after by reptile expert Gary.

Tweety Pie came to us under unusual circumstances.

He was found in a garage trying to eat someone's pet budgie.

We get over 100 calls about rehoming snakes for various reasons.

Predominately they've got bored of their snake.

The most important thing to do with animals,

and definitely for exotics, is to do plenty of research.

Milk snakes are a great example of a friendly, small snake.

They are very relaxed and easy to hold.

As long is Tweety Pie is handled with care and the children

are relaxed then Tweety Pie will get on great at Pet School.

And that's it for pet buddy time. If you would like to find out more

about keeping your animals happy and healthy, go to the CBBC website,

where we've got lots of pet fact sheets to help you.

See ya.

So, just four more days to go, right?

To prove yourselves. Time is ticking, I know.

It's sad but there's still time.

So, you also know at Pet School

we like to have a few celebrity guests in, right?

They're queuing up to come in, you'll know them from the last

series of X Factor. Say hello to Dan and Greg from District 3.

# Here's my attitude... #

2012 X Factor finalists District 3 went from being a hit on the show

to having top-five chart success around the world.

They even had a tour hosted by me.

I'd like you to meet Luke and Frank.

-Yes. Yes, there they are.

-They're our gerbils.

-I didn't know you named them after me.

-They are named after you.

-Exactly.

-That's a beautiful moment.

Also, we're missing one of the boys. Micky's not very well, right?

Not feeling too good, his throat's a bit sore at the moment,

but he's on the mend.

Big love to Micky, that's cool.

Pet Heads, these are the experts, any questions? Tommy.

How did you go about catching them on the first day?

It was a struggle. It was a struggle because they're very fast.

Even now I struggle to keep them still.

Did it take you long to, like, bond with them?

-A little while.

-You've got to let them get used to a new environment,

do you know what I mean?

-That's cool. So we've got a little challenge today.

-Yes.

What are we going to do?

-We are going to make a little gerbil hotel.

-I've made one before.

Five-star sort of standard?

-Yeah, yeah, well, for them.

-Yeah.

If you split into your teams from Pet Practice this morning.

Underneath your tables you're going to find what you need

to make your very own gerbil hotel.

The Pet Heads will have to give this their best efforts

to impress gerbils Luke and Frank

and District 3 will judge the winning hotel.

-Shall we wander around?

-Yep.

-Yeah.

That looks pretty good.

Can we have an entrance on one end and an exit on the other?

Of course, mate. Of course, yeah, that sounds good.

They're thinking about two floors.

Two floors, I think they'll love that.

That's inventive, that's inspired. Good work.

-They sneak out.

-They can go in and out, that's fine.

Got that sorted, good work.

Greg, how we getting on?

Pretty good, we've actually gone for a triple tunnel.

No way. You're talking silly, stop talking silly.

Oh, no, this is big, this is big stuff.

You doing the safety check, Sam?

-Make sure they get through there all right.

-Health and safety.

-Cool.

Could we have something from there where they can go up to there?

Like a little...

Time to wrap up.

Five, four, three, two, one, that is time, Pet Heads!

Put down all your things that you were holding,

your toilet rolls and your boxes.

Boys, let's come and have a debrief chat. First thoughts.

I'm liking the slight incline on the tunnel there.

We actually made, like, a gerbil buffet and we've actually

-put food inside there so they can actually eat.

-Nice.

-They can't complain with that.

-No, exactly.

-Love that. Team two.

You can put them in here, which is kind of like the reception area.

-OK, nice.

-And then in here is, like, everything else.

-The idea is absolutely great, though.

-Exactly, yeah.

Team three, talk through yours.

Here we've got the tube you have to put them through, and then when

they're in they're safe in there and you know that they're in there.

The idea of it is great.

I can see the potential and I think they'd love that.

-OK, boys, back to the gerbils. We've got to make a decision.

-Yes.

Who do you think has won?

Where do you reckon Luke and Frank would stay?

I think you've all done a great job, to be honest.

My vote, personally, I'm going to go right here.

-Right here? Dan?

-I'm going to have to go...

Yes!

For the Pet Practice, our group failed miserably

so we were happy they thought our gerbil hotel was the best.

Pet Heads, say thanks to our guests today.

-Lovely to meet you guys.

-Yeah, it was good.

Good effort with the hotels, thanks for showing us how to do it.

And that is it for the day, see you tomorrow. Off you go.

See you later, bye!

-See you later, mate. Bye.

-Later on.

Since visiting Pet School, District 3 have split up.

But don't worry, Dan and Greg are still taking excellent care

of Luke and Frank.

School is out for today

and what an emotional start to the week it has been.

Our new pet buddies have certainly caused some drama, and, with

a big decision looming at the end of the week, can our Pet Heads step up

and impress their parents enough to get them a pet of their own?

We'll have to wait and see to find out.

What I do know is I will see you tomorrow.

Don't be late for registration and we've got all of this.

Pet Practice gets messy.

Chloe gets in a grump with the guineas.

You're worse than the goats.

And puppies!

Aw, so cute.

Have our Pet Heads completed their tasks and... Ah, sorry.

Right.. Whoop!

I got one of... My wire's out.

Thank you, Skootch - Smooch!

Anyway, um, shall I start?