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In Scotland, half of all homes have a pet. | 0:00:12 | 0:00:15 | |
Here, boy. | 0:00:17 | 0:00:18 | |
And behind every animal... | 0:00:19 | 0:00:20 | |
Do you want it? | 0:00:20 | 0:00:22 | |
..lies a very human story. | 0:00:22 | 0:00:24 | |
A lot of people say it's wrong. | 0:00:26 | 0:00:28 | |
They don't know my dog, they don't know my daughter, | 0:00:28 | 0:00:31 | |
they don't know nothing. | 0:00:31 | 0:00:32 | |
People are always judging you. Animals never judge you. | 0:00:34 | 0:00:37 | |
No, I don't want you to get bitten. | 0:00:39 | 0:00:41 | |
If they weren't here, I'd rot. I wouldn't get out of bed. | 0:00:41 | 0:00:45 | |
If you've never had a pet, you don't appreciate how important they are. | 0:00:48 | 0:00:52 | |
For some people, their wee dog or their wee cat is their life. | 0:00:52 | 0:00:55 | |
If their pet gets sick and they don't have the funds | 0:00:55 | 0:00:57 | |
to kind of get their pet better, you know, | 0:00:57 | 0:00:59 | |
that could mean them potentially losing | 0:00:59 | 0:01:01 | |
their only friend in the world. | 0:01:01 | 0:01:03 | |
I want to bring him back home. | 0:01:05 | 0:01:07 | |
We cannae bring him home tonight. | 0:01:07 | 0:01:09 | |
You couldnae buy Sophie off of me for £10 million. | 0:01:11 | 0:01:14 | |
See if you pulled a cheque out for £10 million the now | 0:01:14 | 0:01:16 | |
and said, "I'll buy Sophie off you," | 0:01:16 | 0:01:18 | |
I'd probably crack you right in the nose. | 0:01:18 | 0:01:20 | |
I think a lot of people think being a vet's just about helping animals, | 0:01:21 | 0:01:24 | |
and it's not, it's about helping people. | 0:01:24 | 0:01:26 | |
The People's Dispensary for Sick Animals, or PDSA, | 0:01:40 | 0:01:43 | |
was founded 100 years ago by social worker Maria Dickin. | 0:01:43 | 0:01:47 | |
Horrified by the plight of animals in London's East End, | 0:01:47 | 0:01:50 | |
she resolved to take action. | 0:01:50 | 0:01:52 | |
-RECORDING: -'We must get everywhere, all over Britain with our message. | 0:01:53 | 0:01:57 | |
'Bring your sick animals, do not let them suffer.' | 0:01:57 | 0:02:00 | |
'All animals treated, all treatment free.' | 0:02:01 | 0:02:05 | |
By 1942, her mission had reached Scotland. | 0:02:06 | 0:02:09 | |
-NEWSREEL: -This was the first PDSA dispensary to be opened in Scotland | 0:02:10 | 0:02:14 | |
and the reason for its being here is solely to carry out the purpose for | 0:02:14 | 0:02:17 | |
which the charity was founded - | 0:02:17 | 0:02:19 | |
to provide a free veterinary service for people, like this little girl, | 0:02:19 | 0:02:24 | |
who genuinely cannot afford private veterinary treatment for their pet. | 0:02:24 | 0:02:28 | |
Today there are five PDSA hospitals in Scotland, | 0:02:30 | 0:02:33 | |
providing 300,000 treatments every year. | 0:02:33 | 0:02:36 | |
Morning. | 0:02:38 | 0:02:39 | |
To qualify, owners must be able to prove that they're on benefits. | 0:02:39 | 0:02:44 | |
I had my pet before I was ever on benefit. | 0:02:44 | 0:02:47 | |
You know, the fact that I was in hospital last year, | 0:02:47 | 0:02:50 | |
I took a bilateral stroke, | 0:02:50 | 0:02:52 | |
which means a stroke on both sides of your brain, | 0:02:52 | 0:02:55 | |
which basically put me out the game. | 0:02:55 | 0:02:57 | |
Through benefits, we're allowed to come here and use this service. | 0:02:57 | 0:03:02 | |
Without that, we wouldn't be allowed to take our dog to the vet. | 0:03:02 | 0:03:05 | |
Shamrock Street in Glasgow is Scotland's biggest | 0:03:07 | 0:03:10 | |
and busiest PDSA hospital, with over 30 employees. | 0:03:10 | 0:03:14 | |
The reception staff, they're the first person to see the clients. | 0:03:14 | 0:03:19 | |
Some of the clients could be crying or upset | 0:03:21 | 0:03:26 | |
and you try to calm them down. | 0:03:26 | 0:03:28 | |
Then we've got VCAs, they're not nurses, they're just below a nurse, | 0:03:28 | 0:03:31 | |
then you've got the nurses, then you've got the vets, | 0:03:31 | 0:03:36 | |
then you've got the head vet | 0:03:36 | 0:03:37 | |
and then you've got the big people up the stairs. | 0:03:37 | 0:03:40 | |
I don't know what they do up there - have a party, maybe, who knows? | 0:03:40 | 0:03:44 | |
I'm the bottom of the pile, I'm the scrubber. | 0:03:44 | 0:03:47 | |
You want it? | 0:03:47 | 0:03:48 | |
Stefan Day lives in Govan with his two Chihuahuas, Lulu and Coco. | 0:03:50 | 0:03:54 | |
Good girl, Lulu. | 0:03:54 | 0:03:55 | |
His involvement with the PDSA | 0:03:57 | 0:03:58 | |
began 11 years ago with a poodle named Charlie. | 0:03:58 | 0:04:01 | |
Charlie got sick one night and I wasn't working at the time, | 0:04:01 | 0:04:07 | |
so I phoned the PDSA and they told me to bring him down and sadly, | 0:04:07 | 0:04:14 | |
they couldn't do anything for him, | 0:04:14 | 0:04:16 | |
but the bill would have been about £2,500, | 0:04:16 | 0:04:19 | |
so I couldn't pay that to them, | 0:04:19 | 0:04:22 | |
so that's why I decided to volunteer, to give something back. | 0:04:22 | 0:04:26 | |
Oh, are you sore, darling? Are you sore? | 0:04:26 | 0:04:30 | |
-Are we going to make you better? -Yes. | 0:04:30 | 0:04:32 | |
I thought when I took the job I'd be going in there to cuddle the pets | 0:04:32 | 0:04:37 | |
and just sit and play with them, it was all animals to me - | 0:04:37 | 0:04:41 | |
I came right down to earth with a thud. | 0:04:41 | 0:04:43 | |
This is one of the jobs that I hate. | 0:04:43 | 0:04:45 | |
It's just horrible picking up somebody's poo. | 0:04:47 | 0:04:49 | |
It's bad enough your own, never mind some dog's, | 0:04:49 | 0:04:52 | |
you know what I mean? | 0:04:52 | 0:04:54 | |
When it's hard like that, it's fine. | 0:04:54 | 0:04:57 | |
When it's... | 0:04:58 | 0:04:59 | |
..the skids, no, no thanks. | 0:05:00 | 0:05:03 | |
Treatments can range from major surgical procedures | 0:05:09 | 0:05:12 | |
to a simple checkup. | 0:05:12 | 0:05:14 | |
One of the most common problems is obesity. | 0:05:14 | 0:05:17 | |
-She gets a cone and sweeties and that. -Oh, my goodness. | 0:05:17 | 0:05:20 | |
Yeah, she likes a vanilla cone, 99, with a Flake in it. | 0:05:20 | 0:05:25 | |
What's the weirdest thing you've heard of a dog eating? | 0:05:25 | 0:05:28 | |
Probably a McDonald's, like, quite often... | 0:05:28 | 0:05:31 | |
like, as a regular meal on a Friday and Saturday night, | 0:05:31 | 0:05:35 | |
they have a McDonald's and the dog has a McDonald's. | 0:05:35 | 0:05:38 | |
I would say probably half the pets we see are overweight. | 0:05:40 | 0:05:43 | |
Yeah, I know, it's quite shocking. It's a really big thing. | 0:05:43 | 0:05:47 | |
It puts so much pressure on their joints, on their heart, | 0:05:47 | 0:05:49 | |
on their internal organs. | 0:05:49 | 0:05:51 | |
Tony Lindy's dog Sophie has been diagnosed by the PDSA | 0:05:51 | 0:05:55 | |
with a serious health issue. | 0:05:55 | 0:05:57 | |
See, to hear her being described as obese was... | 0:05:57 | 0:06:02 | |
I cannae say it was a surprise, cos it wasnae. | 0:06:02 | 0:06:05 | |
I mean, people had says to me previously, "Is your dog pregnant?" | 0:06:05 | 0:06:09 | |
And, er, that's not something that any female wants to hear, is it? | 0:06:09 | 0:06:14 | |
Tony lives in Paisley and first met Sophie five years ago. | 0:06:18 | 0:06:22 | |
Her previous owner was working all the time. | 0:06:22 | 0:06:24 | |
Sophie was basically left in the house from six in the morning | 0:06:24 | 0:06:27 | |
till ten o'clock at night, | 0:06:27 | 0:06:28 | |
so a couple of times I said to him, | 0:06:28 | 0:06:29 | |
"Can I take her to the park? Take her out." | 0:06:29 | 0:06:32 | |
And he went, "Aye, on you go, take her to the park." | 0:06:32 | 0:06:34 | |
Me and her, we just seemed to hit it off | 0:06:34 | 0:06:36 | |
right from the first moment I set eyes on her | 0:06:36 | 0:06:38 | |
and I think the first moment she set eyes on me as well. | 0:06:38 | 0:06:41 | |
I think she seen it as a way out, do you know? I don't know. | 0:06:41 | 0:06:44 | |
I just fell in love with that wee dog, honestly, I did. | 0:06:45 | 0:06:48 | |
That's Sophie's walk. | 0:06:48 | 0:06:50 | |
That's what she ends up doing. | 0:06:51 | 0:06:53 | |
She just lies there. | 0:06:53 | 0:06:55 | |
That's your exercise, isn't it, Sophie? | 0:06:55 | 0:06:58 | |
And he said to me, "Look, give me 500 quid and you can have her." | 0:06:58 | 0:07:03 | |
I didnae have the 500 quid at that moment in time, | 0:07:03 | 0:07:05 | |
you know, I didnae. I went and borrowed it. | 0:07:05 | 0:07:09 | |
And he handed me Sophie. | 0:07:09 | 0:07:10 | |
You see the thing is, he thought he was away laughing, I was laughing. | 0:07:10 | 0:07:13 | |
I would have gave him everything I owned. That's what he didnae know. | 0:07:13 | 0:07:16 | |
You couldn't buy Sophie off of me for £10 million. | 0:07:16 | 0:07:20 | |
See if you pulled a cheque out for £10 million the now | 0:07:20 | 0:07:22 | |
and said, "I'll buy Sophie off of you," | 0:07:22 | 0:07:24 | |
I'd probably crack you right on the nose. That's the truth. | 0:07:24 | 0:07:27 | |
Oh, my God, Sophie. | 0:07:27 | 0:07:28 | |
The barrel of the chest, probably put her at 69 centimetres. | 0:07:28 | 0:07:33 | |
You need a new bra, Sophie, man. | 0:07:33 | 0:07:36 | |
You've just got to think of the long-term, don't you? | 0:07:36 | 0:07:39 | |
-I've got to be more strict with her. -Absolutely. | 0:07:39 | 0:07:41 | |
I would happily have a cake every day, but I don't think that | 0:07:41 | 0:07:45 | |
my heart or my waistline would like it very much, or my husband. | 0:07:45 | 0:07:48 | |
Aye, that's great. Thank you very much for that. | 0:07:48 | 0:07:51 | |
-Thank you. -Thank you. Bye. Cheerio. | 0:07:51 | 0:07:53 | |
Do you have a weight problem like me, or not? | 0:07:53 | 0:07:55 | |
-She does, aye. -Me and her can do a diet sheet together, then. | 0:07:55 | 0:07:59 | |
Laura Brown has come to the PDSA for help of a different kind. | 0:08:09 | 0:08:13 | |
Hi there. | 0:08:13 | 0:08:14 | |
My cat Dusk who's registered here, he's been missing since... | 0:08:15 | 0:08:19 | |
She's partially-sighted | 0:08:19 | 0:08:20 | |
and her cat Dusk has been missing for six months. | 0:08:20 | 0:08:23 | |
I describe him as my fur baby. | 0:08:24 | 0:08:26 | |
I don't have children, but he is my baby and it's heartbreaking | 0:08:26 | 0:08:31 | |
to think that he's been taken or he is lost or he is scared. | 0:08:31 | 0:08:38 | |
Up to last year, I was ten stone. | 0:08:40 | 0:08:44 | |
That's me. | 0:08:44 | 0:08:45 | |
Me very thin and before I became a big balloon | 0:08:45 | 0:08:49 | |
or a white panda, as I call myself. | 0:08:49 | 0:08:52 | |
Laura's battled with her weight all her life | 0:08:52 | 0:08:55 | |
and thought she'd finally solved her problems with the help of surgery. | 0:08:55 | 0:08:59 | |
But her gastric band eventually failed | 0:08:59 | 0:09:01 | |
and she put all the weight back on. | 0:09:01 | 0:09:03 | |
When somebody gets a weight-loss operation from the government, | 0:09:03 | 0:09:08 | |
yes, I've been slated that, you know, | 0:09:08 | 0:09:10 | |
why all this money should be wasted on people like myself. | 0:09:10 | 0:09:14 | |
Well, let me tell you this, not everyone who's fat is lazy. | 0:09:14 | 0:09:20 | |
Yes, I'm sure there's people out there who, you know, | 0:09:20 | 0:09:23 | |
are quite happy living on benefits, | 0:09:23 | 0:09:25 | |
but I'm not one of these people that just sit about doing nothing. | 0:09:25 | 0:09:30 | |
It's all low-fat, swear to God, everything's light. | 0:09:30 | 0:09:33 | |
I'm a fighter, I don't want to be stuck in a prison. | 0:09:33 | 0:09:37 | |
I try and hide, you know, | 0:09:38 | 0:09:40 | |
so I don't have too much interaction with the human race. | 0:09:40 | 0:09:44 | |
People are always judging you. | 0:09:44 | 0:09:46 | |
For me, personally, | 0:09:46 | 0:09:48 | |
I find that animals never judge you and they're my best friends. | 0:09:48 | 0:09:53 | |
Dusk being missing enhances, you know, | 0:09:54 | 0:09:58 | |
your emotions and wanting to eat and, of course, I comfort eat. | 0:09:58 | 0:10:06 | |
Of course I do. | 0:10:07 | 0:10:08 | |
I love my animals. | 0:10:23 | 0:10:24 | |
I would have them any day than anything in my life. | 0:10:24 | 0:10:27 | |
Ain't they? My babies. | 0:10:27 | 0:10:29 | |
Told my son not to come back cos he was allergic to them. | 0:10:29 | 0:10:32 | |
One of them, aye. "Don't come back." | 0:10:32 | 0:10:34 | |
-My wean. -SHE LAUGHS | 0:10:34 | 0:10:37 | |
-He was only seven, as well. -No, he wasn't! | 0:10:37 | 0:10:40 | |
-Terrible. -He was 15 or something! Or 16. | 0:10:40 | 0:10:43 | |
As long as he gets his medical checkups, that's all I worry about. | 0:10:47 | 0:10:52 | |
I'll worry about that until I die. | 0:10:52 | 0:10:54 | |
See this place. | 0:10:54 | 0:10:56 | |
If I didn't have this place, that would be it. | 0:10:56 | 0:11:00 | |
I said to my daughter, I said, | 0:11:02 | 0:11:04 | |
"What's going to happen to that animal if anything happened to me?" | 0:11:04 | 0:11:08 | |
For Angie, the waiting room is a second home. | 0:11:08 | 0:11:12 | |
She has been a PDSA client for over 30 years. | 0:11:12 | 0:11:14 | |
It's a shame when they put pedigree cats on adverts. | 0:11:16 | 0:11:20 | |
Why can they not put somebody like him on a tin of cat food? | 0:11:20 | 0:11:24 | |
He's due a lucky break in his life! | 0:11:24 | 0:11:26 | |
-Hello. -Oh, hi. I've got the young boy. | 0:11:28 | 0:11:31 | |
-I call him... -The young boy today! | 0:11:31 | 0:11:33 | |
My mum said it was born into me. | 0:11:33 | 0:11:36 | |
I've always liked animals. | 0:11:36 | 0:11:39 | |
Cats, mainly. | 0:11:39 | 0:11:42 | |
Lots and lots of cats. | 0:11:42 | 0:11:45 | |
Today, Angie's brought Leo, as she's worried he's overeating. | 0:11:45 | 0:11:48 | |
-So, will we do a wee general checkup today? -Yeah. What he's got... | 0:11:50 | 0:11:53 | |
-Right, I put him in a Primark bag and I put him on the scales. -OK. | 0:11:53 | 0:11:57 | |
-He weighs half a stone, 5kg. -Oh, right, gosh, that's a good size. | 0:11:57 | 0:12:01 | |
-He'd kill you for food. -Really? | 0:12:01 | 0:12:03 | |
I'm going to see what he says... what weight he was last time. | 0:12:03 | 0:12:07 | |
I think that he's been very fortunate where he got... | 0:12:07 | 0:12:10 | |
I think he's come from...the father, | 0:12:10 | 0:12:14 | |
he's obviously had the looks. | 0:12:14 | 0:12:16 | |
Look, he's awful good-looking. | 0:12:16 | 0:12:18 | |
He's got that wee sort of look as if to say, "Ooh, I'm the boss." | 0:12:18 | 0:12:23 | |
Know why I got him? But don't burst out laughing. | 0:12:23 | 0:12:26 | |
My heart-throb's... What do you call him? | 0:12:26 | 0:12:29 | |
Liam Neeson. | 0:12:31 | 0:12:33 | |
-INTERVIEWER: -He reminds you of Liam Neeson? -Aye. | 0:12:33 | 0:12:37 | |
And I like Harrison Ford! | 0:12:37 | 0:12:39 | |
I prefer animals sometimes to people. Yeah. | 0:12:41 | 0:12:45 | |
-Why? -Cos people can be nasty, but animals wouldn't be nasty. | 0:12:46 | 0:12:51 | |
-Och, he's getting lovely and big. So, he was 2.1 last time. -Was he? | 0:12:53 | 0:12:56 | |
And 3.95 today. So I'm not too worried about him today at all. | 0:12:56 | 0:13:00 | |
I think he's a perfectly healthy wee boy | 0:13:00 | 0:13:02 | |
and he's coming on just as he should be. | 0:13:02 | 0:13:04 | |
What do I do about his food, then? How do I feed him? | 0:13:04 | 0:13:07 | |
-We would just let him eat. -Just let him do it? -Mm-hm. | 0:13:07 | 0:13:10 | |
He's certainly not overweight. | 0:13:10 | 0:13:11 | |
I think he's just a wee perfect example. | 0:13:11 | 0:13:14 | |
Thank you very much for your contribution towards the PDSA today. | 0:13:14 | 0:13:17 | |
Oh, God, I wish I could give...more. | 0:13:17 | 0:13:21 | |
It makes a real difference. You're a wee star. See you next time, OK? | 0:13:21 | 0:13:24 | |
-Right, thanks. -See you later. -Right, bye. -Bye-bye. | 0:13:24 | 0:13:27 | |
Right. | 0:13:27 | 0:13:29 | |
I couldn't actually find anything abnormal with Leo at all. | 0:13:29 | 0:13:32 | |
I think for a lot of people, | 0:13:32 | 0:13:33 | |
maybe this is a point of social contact as well, | 0:13:33 | 0:13:36 | |
where it's maybe elderly clients | 0:13:36 | 0:13:38 | |
or maybe if there was another client with a mental health disorder, | 0:13:38 | 0:13:42 | |
having somebody to talk to, | 0:13:42 | 0:13:44 | |
not necessarily about what's wrong with their pet | 0:13:44 | 0:13:46 | |
but about what's going on in other aspects of their life. | 0:13:46 | 0:13:49 | |
I think that's quite important to them. | 0:13:49 | 0:13:52 | |
I've got nobody now. My mother's got dementia. | 0:13:52 | 0:13:55 | |
She's in a hospital bed in our living room. | 0:13:55 | 0:14:00 | |
All I've got's they two cats now. | 0:14:00 | 0:14:02 | |
How horrible it would be without them. | 0:14:02 | 0:14:04 | |
If I didn't go there, I wouldn't meet anybody either. | 0:14:06 | 0:14:09 | |
That's a day out, going there, seeing those lovely animals. | 0:14:16 | 0:14:20 | |
DOG BARKS | 0:14:31 | 0:14:32 | |
I feel like I look like a gangster walking down the street with my dog! | 0:14:36 | 0:14:40 | |
She's just a muscle. Like, she's just big, huge. | 0:14:42 | 0:14:46 | |
In Aberdeen, 17-year-old Jamie Leigh Duncan lives with Kabana, | 0:14:48 | 0:14:52 | |
her American bulldog. | 0:14:52 | 0:14:54 | |
People don't expect me to have a big dog. | 0:14:54 | 0:14:56 | |
They expect me to have a Chihuahua, but it's just my lifestyle. | 0:14:56 | 0:14:59 | |
-DOG BARKS -Kabana! | 0:15:02 | 0:15:05 | |
Kabana isn't Jamie Leigh's only responsibility. | 0:15:06 | 0:15:09 | |
I moved out when I was 16, | 0:15:11 | 0:15:12 | |
cos I had a daughter when I moved out, | 0:15:12 | 0:15:15 | |
and she was a year old when I was 16. | 0:15:15 | 0:15:19 | |
So I had to get my own place. | 0:15:20 | 0:15:22 | |
-..A doggy sandwich. -Doggy sandwich? | 0:15:22 | 0:15:25 | |
-INTERVIEWER: -Do you think having a big dog like this | 0:15:25 | 0:15:27 | |
is partly because you are on your own? | 0:15:27 | 0:15:30 | |
No. Not at all. Like, I've always loved big dogs. | 0:15:30 | 0:15:33 | |
It wouldn't matter if I was on my own or not, | 0:15:33 | 0:15:36 | |
I would always have her, like, she's my baby, she is. | 0:15:36 | 0:15:39 | |
BARKING | 0:15:39 | 0:15:42 | |
She's like my daughter. She's just like her. | 0:15:42 | 0:15:45 | |
A bit bigger, but... | 0:15:45 | 0:15:47 | |
Like, I treat them both the same now, both equal to me. | 0:15:47 | 0:15:51 | |
I was a hairdresser, hair and beauty, | 0:15:53 | 0:15:55 | |
for about two years, | 0:15:55 | 0:15:58 | |
and then I had to go onto benefits and that, | 0:15:58 | 0:16:01 | |
but people on benefits don't bother me at all, like, | 0:16:01 | 0:16:04 | |
cos they have their reasons. | 0:16:04 | 0:16:06 | |
I have my reasons. | 0:16:06 | 0:16:07 | |
I've got a two-year-old daughter and I can't get her watched | 0:16:07 | 0:16:10 | |
until she's in full-time education, so that's why. | 0:16:10 | 0:16:14 | |
Jamie's local PDSA hospital in Aberdeen is the UK's smallest. | 0:16:15 | 0:16:19 | |
BARKING | 0:16:19 | 0:16:21 | |
Kabana hasn't been well, | 0:16:21 | 0:16:22 | |
and she's come in for a checkup with head vet Fiona. | 0:16:22 | 0:16:25 | |
-She's a big girl, isn't she? -Yeah. -What can we do for her today? | 0:16:26 | 0:16:30 | |
I'm just wanting to get a checkup to make sure she's all OK. | 0:16:30 | 0:16:34 | |
She keeps losing weight and being sick | 0:16:34 | 0:16:36 | |
-and then putting it all back on. -Right, OK. | 0:16:36 | 0:16:38 | |
And how often is she actually sick? | 0:16:38 | 0:16:40 | |
Sometimes she'll be sick up to five times a day. | 0:16:40 | 0:16:42 | |
But then she can go without weeks of being sick. | 0:16:42 | 0:16:45 | |
-Is she due in season just now? -She's in season. | 0:16:45 | 0:16:48 | |
She's in season at the moment. Is this her first season? | 0:16:48 | 0:16:51 | |
No, she's had three. | 0:16:51 | 0:16:52 | |
Are you thinking about getting her neutered? | 0:16:52 | 0:16:54 | |
No, I want her to have one set of puppies, then get neutered. | 0:16:54 | 0:16:58 | |
Right. | 0:16:58 | 0:17:00 | |
I'll come back to...! | 0:17:00 | 0:17:01 | |
Right, because she's putting her fingers in her mouth... | 0:17:04 | 0:17:07 | |
that... They're classed as dangerous dogs. | 0:17:07 | 0:17:09 | |
It shows you there that they're not that dangerous | 0:17:09 | 0:17:11 | |
if you treat them right. | 0:17:11 | 0:17:13 | |
Kabana must switch to a gentler diet | 0:17:13 | 0:17:15 | |
before a follow-up appointment in a week's time. | 0:17:15 | 0:17:18 | |
But this dog's upset tummy is the least of Fiona's concerns. | 0:17:18 | 0:17:22 | |
Quite often, you do get an inkling from some of the dogs | 0:17:22 | 0:17:28 | |
just what their temperament really is like. | 0:17:28 | 0:17:31 | |
BARKING | 0:17:31 | 0:17:34 | |
I don't think he likes me. | 0:17:34 | 0:17:36 | |
But in a strange environment | 0:17:36 | 0:17:38 | |
that they're picking up strange vibes, | 0:17:38 | 0:17:41 | |
but the dog seemed to be quite happy with the child about. | 0:17:41 | 0:17:45 | |
Again, you do worry | 0:17:45 | 0:17:46 | |
just because of the nature of how some of these dogs have been bred | 0:17:46 | 0:17:49 | |
and the reasons they've been bred, | 0:17:49 | 0:17:51 | |
like some of the banned breeds that were used for fighting dogs. | 0:17:51 | 0:17:55 | |
A lot of people say it's wrong, | 0:17:55 | 0:17:57 | |
I shouldn't have a type of dog like that around an infant. | 0:17:57 | 0:18:01 | |
But people just don't understand | 0:18:01 | 0:18:02 | |
you can have dogs, like me, and they'll be fine. | 0:18:02 | 0:18:05 | |
It's all go in here. | 0:18:13 | 0:18:15 | |
Back at Shamrock Street, | 0:18:16 | 0:18:18 | |
it's not just animals that need treatment. | 0:18:18 | 0:18:20 | |
I got a new coffee table and fell over it, so hence... | 0:18:20 | 0:18:25 | |
the sore nose. | 0:18:25 | 0:18:27 | |
I mean, I say a sore nose, I mean a sore nose. | 0:18:27 | 0:18:29 | |
Oh, well. That looks like a mess, doesn't it? | 0:18:31 | 0:18:34 | |
It's going to be horrendous. | 0:18:36 | 0:18:38 | |
I can be a bit cheeky at times. It can get me into trouble. | 0:18:42 | 0:18:45 | |
I make up a lot of stories about myself... | 0:18:48 | 0:18:52 | |
just to wind them up. | 0:18:52 | 0:18:54 | |
Morning, Glenda. ..No, I'll get him out. | 0:18:54 | 0:18:56 | |
-What? -Aye. | 0:18:56 | 0:18:58 | |
-Are you all right? -I'm fine. | 0:18:59 | 0:19:01 | |
Och, you wee soul. | 0:19:01 | 0:19:04 | |
Five lasses mugged me. | 0:19:04 | 0:19:05 | |
-What?! -Mm-hm. | 0:19:05 | 0:19:07 | |
-Are you being serious? -I'm being serious. Look. -Where was that? | 0:19:07 | 0:19:10 | |
-At the Sign Centre. I know. -What, so...? | 0:19:10 | 0:19:13 | |
What age were these girls? | 0:19:13 | 0:19:15 | |
It's pity I get off them. | 0:19:15 | 0:19:16 | |
"Oh, you poor soul, you. That's a sin." | 0:19:16 | 0:19:20 | |
For all his storytelling, | 0:19:21 | 0:19:23 | |
the truth is that Stefan volunteers his services four days a week | 0:19:23 | 0:19:26 | |
for no financial reward, | 0:19:26 | 0:19:28 | |
and does so in spite of a debilitating condition. | 0:19:28 | 0:19:32 | |
I've got osteoporosis. | 0:19:32 | 0:19:33 | |
And it's very painful. | 0:19:35 | 0:19:37 | |
Ohh! See, this is what I hate. | 0:19:37 | 0:19:39 | |
This is when I feel the pain bad. | 0:19:39 | 0:19:41 | |
Oh, my God. | 0:19:41 | 0:19:43 | |
HE SIGHS | 0:19:44 | 0:19:47 | |
There's nothing I can do for it. | 0:19:47 | 0:19:49 | |
I was the life and soul of the party. | 0:19:52 | 0:19:55 | |
And now I don't do anything, | 0:19:55 | 0:19:57 | |
apart from going to PDSA and take my dogs walks. | 0:19:57 | 0:20:01 | |
-Do you have a social life? -No. | 0:20:01 | 0:20:04 | |
Why? | 0:20:04 | 0:20:06 | |
Cos I don't... As I say, I don't keep well. You know... | 0:20:06 | 0:20:09 | |
It's like... | 0:20:09 | 0:20:11 | |
Somebody asks you, "Can you come out for the night? | 0:20:11 | 0:20:13 | |
You go like that, "I'll come." But then... I'm too ill to go | 0:20:13 | 0:20:16 | |
because I'm in pain. | 0:20:16 | 0:20:18 | |
So... People get fed up. | 0:20:18 | 0:20:20 | |
And they just peter off. | 0:20:22 | 0:20:24 | |
Pets don't drift away. | 0:20:26 | 0:20:29 | |
They stay with you. | 0:20:29 | 0:20:30 | |
That's why I like going into work. | 0:20:33 | 0:20:36 | |
I feel like I'm doing something because I'm getting benefits. | 0:20:36 | 0:20:39 | |
So I feel... It's just the way I feel. I feel that... | 0:20:39 | 0:20:43 | |
I'm giving something back. | 0:20:43 | 0:20:45 | |
Do you ever worry it might get so bad you can't work here any more? | 0:20:45 | 0:20:48 | |
Yes. Uh-huh, that frightens me. | 0:20:48 | 0:20:50 | |
That really frightens me. | 0:20:52 | 0:20:53 | |
-Why? -Because this is the only place where I interact with people. | 0:20:55 | 0:21:00 | |
'You know, if I'm at home I don't interact with anybody. | 0:21:00 | 0:21:04 | |
'That's it.' So it does, it scares me a hell of a lot. | 0:21:04 | 0:21:07 | |
A hell of a lot. | 0:21:07 | 0:21:08 | |
DOG WHIMPERS | 0:21:09 | 0:21:12 | |
This is Neil. After Neil Lennon, the Celtic manager! | 0:21:12 | 0:21:16 | |
-I didn't choose it. -What kind of names do you get in here? | 0:21:16 | 0:21:19 | |
Can I say them? Really? | 0:21:19 | 0:21:21 | |
Minge. There's a wee cat called Minge. | 0:21:21 | 0:21:24 | |
Spliff. | 0:21:24 | 0:21:26 | |
Wee Bastard. Things like that. | 0:21:26 | 0:21:29 | |
In Paisley, Sophie's diet has altered Tony's eating habits. | 0:21:32 | 0:21:36 | |
I feel terrible, man. | 0:21:36 | 0:21:38 | |
It's dead hard to say no to her. | 0:21:38 | 0:21:40 | |
So I've been kind of hiding in the kitchen and so on. | 0:21:40 | 0:21:43 | |
I'm not sitting and eating in front of her all the time. | 0:21:43 | 0:21:46 | |
No, Sophie. | 0:21:50 | 0:21:52 | |
You can't get any, I don't know what you are wagging your tail for. | 0:21:52 | 0:21:56 | |
Oh, my God. | 0:21:56 | 0:21:58 | |
I cannae, Sophie. | 0:21:58 | 0:21:59 | |
There's a pet shop just here. Sophie usually runs in and grabs stuff. | 0:22:01 | 0:22:05 | |
Come on, then, Soph, come on. Come on, go down here. No... | 0:22:05 | 0:22:10 | |
Come on. Naw... | 0:22:10 | 0:22:13 | |
You're on a diet. Come on, | 0:22:14 | 0:22:16 | |
you're just going there for treats, you're not going in, nae treats. | 0:22:16 | 0:22:19 | |
I just wanted to spoil her. See because of where she had come from, | 0:22:19 | 0:22:23 | |
she had been locked in a house and she was a wee skinny thing | 0:22:23 | 0:22:26 | |
and all. Naebody was spoiling her, naebody was giving her | 0:22:26 | 0:22:28 | |
any attention. So I did. And I overdone it. | 0:22:28 | 0:22:31 | |
At Angie's flat in Glasgow's Southside, Leo is free | 0:22:42 | 0:22:45 | |
to enjoy his dinner again. | 0:22:45 | 0:22:47 | |
I live here with the cats. | 0:22:48 | 0:22:50 | |
I couldn't live on my own without them. There's no way. | 0:22:52 | 0:22:57 | |
You know, four bare walls. Me, I watch the soaps on television, | 0:22:57 | 0:23:03 | |
which takes me right up... till late at night. | 0:23:03 | 0:23:09 | |
So basically... | 0:23:12 | 0:23:14 | |
You're looking at the cats... | 0:23:16 | 0:23:18 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:23:18 | 0:23:19 | |
..and the soaps! | 0:23:19 | 0:23:22 | |
Well, I had a good life when I was young. | 0:23:27 | 0:23:30 | |
I had... I was a resident hairdresser in the Southern General. | 0:23:30 | 0:23:35 | |
And I had a husband. | 0:23:35 | 0:23:36 | |
But he died at a young age and then I had the two children | 0:23:36 | 0:23:41 | |
and I had to bring them up on my own. | 0:23:41 | 0:23:44 | |
Do you have friends that you go and see or anything like that? | 0:23:45 | 0:23:48 | |
None. Absolutely no friends. | 0:23:48 | 0:23:51 | |
Erm, I'm actually stuck in this house with the cats, permanently. | 0:23:56 | 0:24:02 | |
The only...life I've got is going out to supermarkets. | 0:24:02 | 0:24:08 | |
That's about it. | 0:24:08 | 0:24:09 | |
That's basically it. | 0:24:13 | 0:24:14 | |
I'd like a better life, but it doesn't seem to be happening. | 0:24:16 | 0:24:20 | |
Angie is 55, and has been looking after her mother's cat, Daisy. | 0:24:37 | 0:24:42 | |
She's worried Daisy might be overeating too, | 0:24:42 | 0:24:44 | |
so she's heading back to the PDSA. | 0:24:44 | 0:24:47 | |
Hiya. Hi, it's Daisy. | 0:24:49 | 0:24:51 | |
Would you like to make a contribution just now, at all? | 0:24:51 | 0:24:53 | |
Oh, yeah, I forgot about that, | 0:24:53 | 0:24:54 | |
I don't have an awful lot but I always give something. | 0:24:54 | 0:24:57 | |
Well, we appreciate that, thank you very much. | 0:24:57 | 0:25:00 | |
I like they wee dogs, the wee, tiny ones! | 0:25:00 | 0:25:03 | |
If I had a dog like that, I'd pure spoil him. | 0:25:03 | 0:25:06 | |
-Does he wear clothes? -No... | 0:25:06 | 0:25:09 | |
-No, I think that's a bit much. -Aye. | 0:25:10 | 0:25:13 | |
I probably... If I had a garden, I would have a dog. | 0:25:13 | 0:25:18 | |
You can meet other people because you've got a dog. | 0:25:18 | 0:25:21 | |
The same with cats, you meet an awful lot of people | 0:25:21 | 0:25:25 | |
-when you come up. -INTERCOM: -Daisy to room two. | 0:25:25 | 0:25:28 | |
Oh, there's Daisy going in. | 0:25:28 | 0:25:30 | |
She's a ton-weight now. | 0:25:30 | 0:25:31 | |
-Hi. -Hi, come on in. | 0:25:31 | 0:25:33 | |
She's very... Getting very, very heavy now. | 0:25:33 | 0:25:37 | |
So do you not think she's eating as much as she used to eat? | 0:25:37 | 0:25:40 | |
-She's eating more. -Eating more than she used to. OK. | 0:25:40 | 0:25:43 | |
Would you be able to lift her? Or do you not think | 0:25:43 | 0:25:45 | |
-she would let you lift her? -Aye, aye. -Oh. | 0:25:45 | 0:25:48 | |
-She'll barely. Oh, aye, she's a biter. -Uh-hm. | 0:25:48 | 0:25:50 | |
-Aye, but she mellowed out, with old age. -OK. | 0:25:50 | 0:25:54 | |
-Her recent...checkups have went...very smoothly. -Right. | 0:25:54 | 0:25:59 | |
CAT SNARLS | 0:25:59 | 0:26:01 | |
No, I don't want you to get bitten. | 0:26:01 | 0:26:03 | |
She is not...the best-natured, she's never ever been good-natured. | 0:26:03 | 0:26:08 | |
I'm noticing that! So, I wonder... if we could...somehow weigh this... | 0:26:08 | 0:26:14 | |
Oh, oh, no, I've broken it. | 0:26:14 | 0:26:16 | |
LAUGHTER | 0:26:16 | 0:26:17 | |
I'm sorry, I've broken your cat carrier! | 0:26:17 | 0:26:20 | |
Daisy has no intention of getting on those scales. | 0:26:20 | 0:26:22 | |
So lovely Louise is going to give us a hand. | 0:26:22 | 0:26:25 | |
You're OK. | 0:26:25 | 0:26:27 | |
CAT SNARLS | 0:26:27 | 0:26:29 | |
That's it, that's it. Here we go. | 0:26:29 | 0:26:32 | |
-She's killed a lot of...pigeons... -Do you want to start... | 0:26:32 | 0:26:34 | |
-..when she was young. -Did she? | 0:26:34 | 0:26:36 | |
Do you want to start the supplements as well today? | 0:26:36 | 0:26:39 | |
-It's too dear, isn't it? -Too dear. -15.50? | 0:26:39 | 0:26:42 | |
-Let us know at any point. -No... Know what the plan was? | 0:26:42 | 0:26:45 | |
-Right... My daughter's birthday is Wednesday. -Mm. | 0:26:45 | 0:26:49 | |
I went to that shop Lush... | 0:26:49 | 0:26:52 | |
You're always going to get some people that | 0:26:52 | 0:26:53 | |
go off on tangents and want to tell little stories and things like that | 0:26:53 | 0:26:56 | |
and it is really lovely... if you've got time. | 0:26:56 | 0:27:00 | |
So that's sort of the challenge, a little bit. | 0:27:00 | 0:27:02 | |
Just to sort of keep them on track. | 0:27:02 | 0:27:04 | |
For some people it's harder than others. | 0:27:04 | 0:27:07 | |
-Right, I got her a lipstick. -Uh-huh. -A MAC lipstick. -Oh, yeah. | 0:27:07 | 0:27:11 | |
-She says that I decided it was pink... -Uh-huh. | 0:27:11 | 0:27:14 | |
-..to suit me! -Oh. -But I don't like pink, I'm a red... | 0:27:14 | 0:27:17 | |
A red woman. No, I see that. | 0:27:17 | 0:27:19 | |
I'll need to give them money for that. | 0:27:20 | 0:27:23 | |
I'm going through cages like hot dinners. | 0:27:24 | 0:27:27 | |
Thomas and Anne-Marie Davies are bringing in their bulldog, Brody. | 0:27:39 | 0:27:42 | |
He's not been eating and is being seen as an emergency case. | 0:27:42 | 0:27:46 | |
So, what kind of timescale has this been happening on? | 0:27:46 | 0:27:48 | |
-Just last week. -Just the last week? -Last week. -OK. | 0:27:48 | 0:27:51 | |
-Any vomiting or diarrhoea? -No. | 0:27:51 | 0:27:53 | |
-OK, I'm very concerned. -Yeah? | 0:27:55 | 0:27:57 | |
He's very, very pale. He's going to need to be admitted today | 0:27:57 | 0:28:00 | |
for sure. I'm worried he's got... I think I hear a heart murmur. | 0:28:00 | 0:28:03 | |
It could be because of blood loss, potentially, as well. | 0:28:03 | 0:28:05 | |
Just looking at him now, I'm not sure what's going on with him | 0:28:05 | 0:28:08 | |
but I'm really, really worried. What we'll do today is we're going to | 0:28:08 | 0:28:11 | |
do some imaging and get him on some supportive medication. | 0:28:11 | 0:28:13 | |
Do you have any questions at all? | 0:28:13 | 0:28:15 | |
-I'm totally shocked. -I know it's really surprising | 0:28:15 | 0:28:18 | |
but he's a very sick little dog just now. OK. | 0:28:18 | 0:28:21 | |
You feel as if people think you're not feeding it, you know? | 0:28:21 | 0:28:24 | |
We'll do our best for him, | 0:28:24 | 0:28:26 | |
but I want you to be prepared for the worst, OK? | 0:28:26 | 0:28:29 | |
Brody is admitted for urgent tests. Thomas and Anne-Marie | 0:28:30 | 0:28:34 | |
face an anxious wait for news. | 0:28:34 | 0:28:35 | |
I'm very concerned about this dog. | 0:28:39 | 0:28:41 | |
Anne-Marie and Thomas have been together since they were 14. | 0:28:43 | 0:28:46 | |
He's always done gardening fae... Since he left school. | 0:28:46 | 0:28:49 | |
He had his own business in it and then here... That was me, | 0:28:49 | 0:28:54 | |
I took the brain haemorrhage. | 0:28:54 | 0:28:55 | |
And since then he's been watching, now looking after me. | 0:28:56 | 0:29:01 | |
I had aneurysms, three aneurysms. And one burst and... | 0:29:11 | 0:29:17 | |
A brain haemorrhage. And then I took two strokes | 0:29:17 | 0:29:21 | |
and then a seizure. | 0:29:21 | 0:29:23 | |
I had to learn how to swallow. I couldn't swallow. | 0:29:23 | 0:29:25 | |
Couldn't even swallow. | 0:29:25 | 0:29:27 | |
I forget things. | 0:29:27 | 0:29:29 | |
You know? Sometimes, like when I'm walking, my balance is away, | 0:29:30 | 0:29:34 | |
sort of thing. And the nerve endings...are away. | 0:29:34 | 0:29:38 | |
Now, with the two strokes. | 0:29:38 | 0:29:40 | |
Do you ever feel like... | 0:29:45 | 0:29:47 | |
I'm a burden to him? I do. I feel sorry for him | 0:29:47 | 0:29:50 | |
cos he's... | 0:29:50 | 0:29:52 | |
He does do a lot. He does do a lot for me. | 0:29:54 | 0:29:57 | |
I didn't want to go out - I didn't want anybody to see me like that. | 0:29:59 | 0:30:02 | |
We said, if we get a dog again, it'll get Anne-Marie out. | 0:30:04 | 0:30:08 | |
-If you like. -Aye. -You know, it sort of... | 0:30:08 | 0:30:11 | |
work off each other, you know? | 0:30:11 | 0:30:14 | |
And it has worked. | 0:30:14 | 0:30:15 | |
I mean, I have been getting out, you know, wi' the dog, but... | 0:30:15 | 0:30:19 | |
I don't know what I would do without him. | 0:30:21 | 0:30:24 | |
Brody's undergoing scans and blood tests | 0:30:27 | 0:30:29 | |
to try and determine what's wrong. | 0:30:29 | 0:30:31 | |
At a regular vet hospital, the cost would run to hundreds of pounds. | 0:30:31 | 0:30:36 | |
If you didn't have the PDSA and the same thing was to happen, | 0:30:36 | 0:30:40 | |
to me, there would only be two options. | 0:30:40 | 0:30:42 | |
You would either have to get the money, or... | 0:30:42 | 0:30:45 | |
-Put it down. -Yeah. | 0:30:47 | 0:30:49 | |
-Aye? -Well, what other option have you got? | 0:30:49 | 0:30:51 | |
Oh, I'm praying to God. | 0:30:55 | 0:30:57 | |
Praying to St Francis of Assisi, I was saying to you, wasn't I? | 0:30:57 | 0:31:00 | |
I'm saying to him... He's Protestant as well, | 0:31:00 | 0:31:04 | |
and I'm saying, "Pray to St Francis of Assisi." | 0:31:04 | 0:31:07 | |
She's pregnant. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:16 | |
So she's only had one... One puppy since three o'clock this morning. | 0:31:16 | 0:31:21 | |
That's why I'm in now, | 0:31:21 | 0:31:23 | |
to see if there's any more puppies inside her. | 0:31:23 | 0:31:26 | |
I get benefits because I've got two young kids, | 0:31:29 | 0:31:32 | |
so I'm entitled to come here. | 0:31:32 | 0:31:34 | |
The lady's just checking you. | 0:31:34 | 0:31:36 | |
What I'm going to do, I'll pop her through and just do a little scan | 0:31:36 | 0:31:39 | |
of her tummy to see if there is anything left inside. | 0:31:39 | 0:31:42 | |
We were going to keep one, and then the rest we were going to sell. | 0:31:44 | 0:31:48 | |
How much do they sell for, the puppies? | 0:31:48 | 0:31:50 | |
Between £300 and £400. | 0:31:50 | 0:31:52 | |
So you could get a lot. | 0:31:54 | 0:31:55 | |
The PDSA doesn't support breeding, | 0:31:55 | 0:31:57 | |
but unborn puppies can pose a medical emergency. | 0:31:57 | 0:32:01 | |
She was absolutely fine, but I can't see anything | 0:32:01 | 0:32:03 | |
that's still in the womb that needs to come out. | 0:32:03 | 0:32:06 | |
-So there's no more babies? -I can't see anything on that scan. | 0:32:06 | 0:32:09 | |
'I'm aware of the cost that puppies and kittens, even, are selling for. | 0:32:09 | 0:32:14 | |
'She could have a home lined up for puppy two, puppy three, puppy four.' | 0:32:14 | 0:32:18 | |
She may very well be disappointed, | 0:32:18 | 0:32:21 | |
but...that's the way it is. Can't change it. | 0:32:21 | 0:32:24 | |
She always gets a bad reaction when I'm walking down the street. | 0:32:30 | 0:32:34 | |
If I'm in town with her, standing at a bus stop, | 0:32:34 | 0:32:37 | |
they'll all move out from the bus stop. | 0:32:37 | 0:32:39 | |
They won't say things, but I'll see them looking, and talking, | 0:32:39 | 0:32:43 | |
and I'll say to them, "She's not a dangerous dog, | 0:32:43 | 0:32:45 | |
"I wouldn't let her out if she was, she'd have a muzzle on." | 0:32:45 | 0:32:48 | |
And they just look at me. | 0:32:48 | 0:32:49 | |
Jamie Leigh has come back to the PDSA | 0:32:53 | 0:32:56 | |
for Kabana's follow-up appointment. | 0:32:56 | 0:32:58 | |
Kabana, gonnae just chill out? | 0:32:58 | 0:33:01 | |
How's she been since I saw you last week? | 0:33:01 | 0:33:03 | |
She's not been eating as much as I thought she would be eating, | 0:33:03 | 0:33:06 | |
-but she's not been sick or anything. -Right, OK. | 0:33:06 | 0:33:09 | |
I just want to get a wee feel at her tummy, OK? | 0:33:09 | 0:33:12 | |
But I think just to calm her down, | 0:33:12 | 0:33:14 | |
-I want you to pop a wee muzzle onto her for me. -OK. -OK? | 0:33:14 | 0:33:17 | |
That might be easier said than done. | 0:33:17 | 0:33:19 | |
Come on, it's OK, it's OK. | 0:33:19 | 0:33:22 | |
Oh, she's just took it off. | 0:33:25 | 0:33:27 | |
She won't bite, at all. But I know... | 0:33:27 | 0:33:30 | |
She's a big dog, and it's a strange place, a strange person - | 0:33:30 | 0:33:34 | |
we've got to sort of play on the safe side. | 0:33:34 | 0:33:36 | |
I'll hold her for you. | 0:33:36 | 0:33:38 | |
-Do you have a collar for her? -Yeah, it's at home. | 0:33:38 | 0:33:41 | |
I might get somebody to come and help us, just as a backstop, OK? | 0:33:41 | 0:33:45 | |
-OK! -She's a big dog. | 0:33:45 | 0:33:48 | |
This is hard. | 0:33:48 | 0:33:50 | |
Come here, please. | 0:33:50 | 0:33:51 | |
I know you don't like it, sweetie, but we're going to put it on to you. | 0:33:54 | 0:33:58 | |
I've got a hold of it. | 0:33:58 | 0:33:59 | |
If I can just pull out... | 0:33:59 | 0:34:01 | |
I'm fairly certain that her vomiting is to do more with her diet, | 0:34:03 | 0:34:08 | |
coming in season, all these sort of issues. | 0:34:08 | 0:34:11 | |
Because we don't, as an organisation, | 0:34:11 | 0:34:15 | |
recommend breeding, | 0:34:15 | 0:34:16 | |
I would seriously ask you to consider getting her neutered. | 0:34:16 | 0:34:19 | |
She's quite a snuffly dog - you've got to be aware that | 0:34:19 | 0:34:22 | |
that's something that could be passed on to future generations. | 0:34:22 | 0:34:26 | |
Erm, and again... | 0:34:26 | 0:34:27 | |
You've got think of, sometimes, the dog's sort of temperament. | 0:34:27 | 0:34:30 | |
She is a big, powerful dog. | 0:34:30 | 0:34:33 | |
Yeah, and you're saying that... Why are you saying that? | 0:34:33 | 0:34:35 | |
I know how to control my dog and how my dog acts. | 0:34:35 | 0:34:38 | |
-She's not a dangerous dog at all. -No, no, I'm just pointing out | 0:34:38 | 0:34:42 | |
the general sort of recommendations that we have. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:45 | |
But it's more important... I've got to give you this letter. | 0:34:45 | 0:34:48 | |
Because we're using PDSA money, | 0:34:48 | 0:34:50 | |
we can't be seen to be supporting people wanting to breed. | 0:34:50 | 0:34:54 | |
-No, that's fine. -If she is sick or injured, | 0:34:54 | 0:34:57 | |
we don't have an issue with seeing her, | 0:34:57 | 0:35:00 | |
but if she did get pregnant, | 0:35:00 | 0:35:02 | |
-you'd have to make arrangements... -I've got a private vet for that. | 0:35:02 | 0:35:06 | |
You've got a private vet for that? OK. | 0:35:06 | 0:35:08 | |
Just the other thing is just, with the legislation at the moment, | 0:35:08 | 0:35:11 | |
-she is supposed to have a proper collar. -She does have a harness. | 0:35:11 | 0:35:14 | |
No. She's supposed to have a proper collar on. | 0:35:14 | 0:35:16 | |
-I'll get her a proper collar. -OK. | 0:35:16 | 0:35:18 | |
-It's just part of the legislation. -Yeah, no, that's fine. | 0:35:18 | 0:35:21 | |
I think you'll find that, rather than that lead slipping, | 0:35:21 | 0:35:24 | |
you'll have a wee bit more sort of control over her. | 0:35:24 | 0:35:28 | |
I do... Not really... Like, I know my dog, that lead's better for her. | 0:35:28 | 0:35:31 | |
But if you're saying I need a collar for her, I'll get a collar. | 0:35:31 | 0:35:33 | |
-It's legal. -Yeah, that's what I'm saying, I'll get it. | 0:35:33 | 0:35:36 | |
But I'm just saying, if they get startled, maybe, | 0:35:36 | 0:35:38 | |
if you're walking along the street, | 0:35:38 | 0:35:40 | |
you've got to have something you're sure you can hold her with. | 0:35:40 | 0:35:43 | |
I know I can hold her. | 0:35:43 | 0:35:45 | |
-OK. -OK. | 0:35:45 | 0:35:47 | |
-Right, bye. -Bye. | 0:35:47 | 0:35:49 | |
Thanks. | 0:35:50 | 0:35:51 | |
Come on, then. | 0:35:52 | 0:35:54 | |
'She's a very, very powerful dog, just pure muscle,' | 0:35:54 | 0:35:58 | |
and they can easily drag someone off their feet. | 0:35:58 | 0:36:01 | |
Don't even know what to say, like, I am just raging about it. | 0:36:03 | 0:36:06 | |
I am... | 0:36:06 | 0:36:08 | |
Just the way she was looking at me and the way she was saying it, | 0:36:08 | 0:36:12 | |
like basically putting across that | 0:36:12 | 0:36:14 | |
I can't really handle her as much as I... | 0:36:14 | 0:36:16 | |
Don't know. It stresses me out. | 0:36:16 | 0:36:19 | |
I am stressed out cos of that. | 0:36:19 | 0:36:21 | |
In Glasgow, there's still no sign of Dusk, | 0:36:26 | 0:36:29 | |
and Laura now faces a difficult situation. | 0:36:29 | 0:36:31 | |
She's moving house. | 0:36:31 | 0:36:33 | |
Obviously with Dusk being missing, | 0:36:34 | 0:36:37 | |
and if he does try and come back and I'm not here, | 0:36:37 | 0:36:40 | |
it's very worrying that... | 0:36:40 | 0:36:42 | |
..you know, he won't understand what's going on. | 0:36:44 | 0:36:46 | |
Would you mind keeping a look out for Dusk when I'm away? | 0:36:46 | 0:36:49 | |
I'm always looking all around when I'm going about. | 0:36:49 | 0:36:52 | |
If I hear anything from Dusk | 0:36:52 | 0:36:55 | |
-or anyone that phones or... -Hopefully he doesn't call you! | 0:36:55 | 0:37:00 | |
Can you get that? | 0:37:01 | 0:37:03 | |
It used to come apart, but it had to get screwed together. | 0:37:06 | 0:37:09 | |
Aye. Sorry. Cos I broke it. | 0:37:09 | 0:37:12 | |
I went through the couch! | 0:37:14 | 0:37:15 | |
I'll get the screwdriver. | 0:37:15 | 0:37:17 | |
Oh, my Tampax! Don't look. | 0:37:17 | 0:37:20 | |
-We're embarrassed now! -Sorry! | 0:37:20 | 0:37:23 | |
How to embarrass workmen - talk about your Tampax. | 0:37:26 | 0:37:29 | |
Laura's big move is less for her benefit than for her cats'. | 0:37:32 | 0:37:36 | |
I've got an ongoing issue with my neighbours. | 0:37:36 | 0:37:40 | |
They don't particularly like my cats. | 0:37:40 | 0:37:43 | |
Some people just look at them as vermin, unfortunately. | 0:37:43 | 0:37:47 | |
I can't wait to move out of here, | 0:37:47 | 0:37:49 | |
because I'll be happy when my cats get their new home. | 0:37:49 | 0:37:53 | |
I'm leaving behind some really good neighbours | 0:37:56 | 0:37:59 | |
and I'm leaving behind neighbours that are... | 0:37:59 | 0:38:02 | |
not particularly animal-friendly. | 0:38:02 | 0:38:05 | |
I'm not happy that I'm leaving without him. | 0:38:05 | 0:38:08 | |
I'm very upset. | 0:38:09 | 0:38:11 | |
But I know it's the best thing for my cats. | 0:38:11 | 0:38:13 | |
Would you like to make a contribution today? | 0:38:13 | 0:38:16 | |
-The PDSA provides free treatment... -Thanks very much. | 0:38:16 | 0:38:18 | |
..and relies solely on donations and client contributions. | 0:38:18 | 0:38:22 | |
-And how much of a contribution are you making today? -£10. | 0:38:22 | 0:38:25 | |
That's lovely. | 0:38:25 | 0:38:27 | |
Sherlock for Lilley? | 0:38:27 | 0:38:30 | |
But not everyone is happy with the way their system works. | 0:38:30 | 0:38:33 | |
Every time I come in, I get asked, do I want to make a donation? | 0:38:33 | 0:38:37 | |
I pay by direct debit every month. | 0:38:37 | 0:38:40 | |
I haven't been here for over two years. | 0:38:40 | 0:38:43 | |
I've been in twice and I've had the life pestered out me. | 0:38:43 | 0:38:46 | |
It's not actually to this hospital, your direct debit, | 0:38:46 | 0:38:49 | |
so we don't know about it. If we don't ask, we don't get. | 0:38:49 | 0:38:52 | |
-It's meant to be on that screen. -It's not. | 0:38:52 | 0:38:54 | |
But it was...? Don't tell me it's not, hen. | 0:38:54 | 0:38:57 | |
-I was told yesterday... -What I mean is, the direct debit isn't linked | 0:38:57 | 0:39:00 | |
-to our records. -They were going to link it, and they never done it. | 0:39:00 | 0:39:03 | |
Detrimental to my health, out there. | 0:39:03 | 0:39:05 | |
I've had four heart attacks, | 0:39:05 | 0:39:07 | |
and to be asked, do I want to gie somebody money, | 0:39:07 | 0:39:10 | |
and have to say no half the time... | 0:39:10 | 0:39:12 | |
With my experience, you know, you just learn to be calm - | 0:39:12 | 0:39:15 | |
there's no point in getting angry back with them | 0:39:15 | 0:39:17 | |
because you don't know what kind of hard day they've had. | 0:39:17 | 0:39:19 | |
What's up with my cat? | 0:39:19 | 0:39:21 | |
What's thingmy? Because I'm starting to get upset with you as well. | 0:39:21 | 0:39:24 | |
'I suppose when you start out in PDSA, you kind of think | 0:39:24 | 0:39:27 | |
'well, surely they're really grateful that there is such a thing. | 0:39:27 | 0:39:30 | |
'But, you know...people are all different.' | 0:39:30 | 0:39:33 | |
-This is Jen, our client services manager. -Hiya. | 0:39:33 | 0:39:36 | |
..that door. | 0:39:36 | 0:39:37 | |
'A donation's meant to be something that you want to do. | 0:39:37 | 0:39:40 | |
'You shouldn't be embarrassed into paying somebody something.' | 0:39:40 | 0:39:42 | |
This place is here because we don't HAVE money. | 0:39:43 | 0:39:47 | |
So... | 0:39:47 | 0:39:48 | |
-I think some people just come in in a bad mood. -Yeah. | 0:39:48 | 0:39:51 | |
Sometimes they're having a bad day. | 0:39:51 | 0:39:53 | |
Anne-Marie and Thomas have come in for Brody's test results. | 0:39:57 | 0:40:01 | |
And would you like to make your contribution today? | 0:40:01 | 0:40:03 | |
Eh, I haven't got anything with me, sorry. | 0:40:03 | 0:40:05 | |
No problem at all, no worries. | 0:40:05 | 0:40:06 | |
-You just take a wee seat and I'll call you through, OK? -No bother. | 0:40:06 | 0:40:09 | |
But yesterday, I put some money in, you know? | 0:40:09 | 0:40:12 | |
I never knew they would ask for another one again. | 0:40:12 | 0:40:16 | |
-Are we going to have enough for... -Aye, aye. | 0:40:16 | 0:40:19 | |
..for the gas and that cos we've still got to put money in the gas? | 0:40:19 | 0:40:22 | |
-Yep. -Aye? -Mm-hm. | 0:40:22 | 0:40:23 | |
'How do you work out how much to donate?' | 0:40:23 | 0:40:26 | |
Well, we've got to work out how much it is to keep us. | 0:40:26 | 0:40:30 | |
There's enough there, don't worry about it. | 0:40:30 | 0:40:32 | |
I know, we've got that... | 0:40:32 | 0:40:34 | |
We've got their catalogue and all. | 0:40:34 | 0:40:36 | |
They're helping us out at the end of the day, you know what I mean? | 0:40:36 | 0:40:39 | |
That is what it's all about, innit? | 0:40:39 | 0:40:41 | |
We've got the report back from the overnight hospital. | 0:40:49 | 0:40:52 | |
They did a blood smear last night and found that | 0:40:52 | 0:40:54 | |
he does have very low amounts of clotting factors in his blood, | 0:40:54 | 0:40:59 | |
which can be an indication of a cancer or something as well, | 0:40:59 | 0:41:03 | |
so we're still not 100% sure what's going on here | 0:41:03 | 0:41:06 | |
but the fact that we've seen an improvement overnight - | 0:41:06 | 0:41:08 | |
he's eating, he's drunk, he's walking - | 0:41:08 | 0:41:10 | |
that's very, very positive. | 0:41:10 | 0:41:11 | |
Let's get you all set up, shall we? That's lovely, we'll see you back... | 0:41:11 | 0:41:15 | |
The possibility that Brody has cancer changes everything. | 0:41:15 | 0:41:19 | |
Oh, I don't feel well at all. | 0:41:19 | 0:41:21 | |
Everyone knows that word, | 0:41:23 | 0:41:24 | |
everybody has had someone in their lives - | 0:41:24 | 0:41:27 | |
a pet, a family member, a friend - | 0:41:27 | 0:41:29 | |
who's been affected with it | 0:41:29 | 0:41:31 | |
and it does strike fear into everybody's hearts. | 0:41:31 | 0:41:33 | |
If that is an option, | 0:41:33 | 0:41:34 | |
it's something they need to be made aware of, unfortunately. | 0:41:34 | 0:41:38 | |
I've just got a feeling, I don't know what it is, | 0:41:38 | 0:41:40 | |
but I've just got a wee feeling that he'll pull through. | 0:41:40 | 0:41:43 | |
Well, we'll just need to wait and see, eh? | 0:41:46 | 0:41:49 | |
There we go. | 0:42:04 | 0:42:06 | |
A week on from his injury, Stefan's lies have been found out. | 0:42:06 | 0:42:09 | |
The story I got told was that four 17-year-old girls jumped him. | 0:42:09 | 0:42:14 | |
-I heard it was boys. -Oh, no, he told me girls. | 0:42:14 | 0:42:17 | |
And then I think it turns out that he fell over... | 0:42:17 | 0:42:21 | |
-A coffee table. -..a coffee table. | 0:42:21 | 0:42:23 | |
He's trying to make amends with chocolate. | 0:42:23 | 0:42:26 | |
I got a Kinder Egg because he lied to me and made me upset. | 0:42:26 | 0:42:30 | |
I got an egg. | 0:42:30 | 0:42:32 | |
I did not get an egg. | 0:42:32 | 0:42:34 | |
I complained cos I didn't get an egg and then I did get an egg. | 0:42:34 | 0:42:37 | |
-But chocolate doesn't cut it with the boss. -Bye, everybody. | 0:42:40 | 0:42:44 | |
'Being professional is easy. I see it as having fun. | 0:42:44 | 0:42:48 | |
'You've got to have fun in your job as well.' | 0:42:48 | 0:42:51 | |
I wasn't harming any pets, I was just having a wee giggle. | 0:42:51 | 0:42:54 | |
But I always do. | 0:42:56 | 0:42:57 | |
But I always get into trouble for it. | 0:42:59 | 0:43:01 | |
Brody the bulldog is facing a cancer diagnosis and the PDSA team | 0:43:15 | 0:43:19 | |
have placed him on steroids in a bid to boost his system. | 0:43:19 | 0:43:22 | |
When you're dealing with something like that | 0:43:23 | 0:43:26 | |
when they've got such low red-blood-cell counts, | 0:43:26 | 0:43:29 | |
it is always really, really sort of touch and go from the start | 0:43:29 | 0:43:33 | |
but there's nothing to be lost from trialling treatment | 0:43:33 | 0:43:36 | |
to see if we can get them better because a proportion of them do | 0:43:36 | 0:43:40 | |
and some of them do respond really, really well to treatment. | 0:43:40 | 0:43:44 | |
Right, come on. Oh, well done. Out you come. | 0:43:44 | 0:43:47 | |
He couldn't even walk when he came in so I think this is... | 0:43:47 | 0:43:50 | |
I would say a slight improvement, | 0:43:50 | 0:43:52 | |
the fact that he's actually walking out. | 0:43:52 | 0:43:54 | |
-Are we going to go and find your daddy? -Brody. | 0:43:54 | 0:43:56 | |
-Who's that there to see you? -Hello. | 0:43:56 | 0:43:59 | |
We've got a waggy tail so that's a good thing, isn't it? | 0:43:59 | 0:44:03 | |
Shamrock Street isn't able to keep pets overnight, | 0:44:03 | 0:44:05 | |
so Thomas has to take Brody across town to the overnight hospital. | 0:44:05 | 0:44:09 | |
In an ideal world, we would have night staff here. | 0:44:09 | 0:44:13 | |
It's quite a big effort if you've got a really sick animal | 0:44:13 | 0:44:15 | |
and it needs intensive care. | 0:44:15 | 0:44:17 | |
They're here between nine and six during the day | 0:44:17 | 0:44:19 | |
and then up to our out-of-hours hospital at night-time. | 0:44:19 | 0:44:21 | |
He's probably going to have to do it for another three or four days | 0:44:21 | 0:44:25 | |
so it is quite a lot for them. | 0:44:25 | 0:44:27 | |
But Thomas soon learns that any hope for Brody is fading fast. | 0:44:30 | 0:44:34 | |
I went into the vets now, right, | 0:44:38 | 0:44:40 | |
and I says to the vet to give me it straight, right? | 0:44:40 | 0:44:43 | |
And she says he's got chronic leukaemia, right, | 0:44:43 | 0:44:46 | |
and there's no chance for him whatsoever. | 0:44:46 | 0:44:49 | |
Let's bring him back home. | 0:44:49 | 0:44:52 | |
We cannae bring him home at night. | 0:44:52 | 0:44:54 | |
It's gonnae happen, so you're better doing it the now. | 0:44:54 | 0:44:57 | |
I don't know cos you hear stories about they pull through. | 0:44:59 | 0:45:03 | |
I mean, how bad is it, between one to ten? | 0:45:03 | 0:45:05 | |
Anne-Marie, I would like nothing better to walk back from that town | 0:45:05 | 0:45:08 | |
with Brody at my side. | 0:45:08 | 0:45:09 | |
SHE SNIFFLES | 0:45:11 | 0:45:13 | |
But according to the vets now, it's no' happening. | 0:45:14 | 0:45:17 | |
-But they're no' releasing him? -No, he's not gonnae last. | 0:45:17 | 0:45:21 | |
He's on his way out the now, according to them. He's dying. | 0:45:22 | 0:45:25 | |
We can just leave it till the morning and go back and speak | 0:45:28 | 0:45:31 | |
to the PDSA cos the vets are all away from the PDSA just now. | 0:45:31 | 0:45:34 | |
I'll need to think on that cos I cannae just... | 0:45:34 | 0:45:38 | |
-Right, you've got two choices basically, right? -I know. | 0:45:39 | 0:45:42 | |
We go up to the vets now and dae what's got to be done | 0:45:42 | 0:45:45 | |
or leave it till the morning and speak to the PDSA. | 0:45:45 | 0:45:47 | |
-Leave it till the morning, if that's all right? -Fine by me. | 0:45:47 | 0:45:51 | |
Good morning. Coming in? | 0:45:53 | 0:45:55 | |
-Hiya. -Hiya. -Morning. | 0:45:56 | 0:45:59 | |
-I know... -Sammy Walker, please? | 0:45:59 | 0:46:01 | |
-That's... -That's me. | 0:46:01 | 0:46:04 | |
Come in, if you just want to pop Sally on the table for me? | 0:46:06 | 0:46:09 | |
Actually, if you look in there, | 0:46:10 | 0:46:12 | |
can you see that lump underneath her tongue? | 0:46:12 | 0:46:15 | |
Yeah. | 0:46:15 | 0:46:16 | |
So she's actually got a tumour at the base of her tongue | 0:46:16 | 0:46:19 | |
and that's why she's not eating her food. | 0:46:19 | 0:46:22 | |
-Really, the kindest thing would be to put her to sleep. -Oh. -OK? -OK. | 0:46:22 | 0:46:26 | |
I'm so sorry. I don't know if you were expecting that today. | 0:46:26 | 0:46:30 | |
OK, darling. Goodbye. | 0:46:30 | 0:46:31 | |
That's the hardest - little old ladies, | 0:46:33 | 0:46:36 | |
little old men where it's their best friend. | 0:46:36 | 0:46:38 | |
OK, baby. Love you. Eh? | 0:46:40 | 0:46:43 | |
It never gets any easier. | 0:46:46 | 0:46:48 | |
I'm just phoning to see if you can give me a wee update | 0:46:54 | 0:46:56 | |
on how Brody Davies has been overnight? | 0:46:56 | 0:46:59 | |
And there's more bad news. | 0:47:00 | 0:47:02 | |
After consulting with the overnight hospital, | 0:47:02 | 0:47:05 | |
senior vet Susie confirms Brody needs to be put to sleep. | 0:47:05 | 0:47:09 | |
He'd almost be easier to deal with if he was a wee 12-year-old | 0:47:09 | 0:47:12 | |
or a 13-year-old dog but what I was saying to Brody's dad | 0:47:12 | 0:47:15 | |
this morning is, you know, he couldn't have done anything differently. | 0:47:15 | 0:47:18 | |
Just like bad things happen to nice people, unfortunately, | 0:47:18 | 0:47:20 | |
bad things happen to nice dogs and nice cats | 0:47:20 | 0:47:24 | |
and we can't, you know, say why it happened. | 0:47:24 | 0:47:26 | |
Could people with lots of money pay for something else? | 0:47:26 | 0:47:30 | |
With Brody, I think, we always do have the option | 0:47:30 | 0:47:33 | |
of going for a referral to see a specialist | 0:47:33 | 0:47:36 | |
and I think maybe what specialists would be able to do | 0:47:36 | 0:47:40 | |
would be to tell Brody's dad exactly what was wrong with him, | 0:47:40 | 0:47:43 | |
give him a diagnosis. | 0:47:43 | 0:47:45 | |
Do I think they would have been able to save Brody? No. | 0:47:45 | 0:47:48 | |
Hand on heart, I don't think they would have got Brody back | 0:47:48 | 0:47:50 | |
even if they had all the money in the world. | 0:47:50 | 0:47:52 | |
I think Brody was just so poorly | 0:47:52 | 0:47:53 | |
that there was nothing anybody could have done. | 0:47:53 | 0:47:57 | |
No, that's him, it's the end of the road for him. | 0:47:57 | 0:48:00 | |
Come on, Sophie. Come on. | 0:48:10 | 0:48:12 | |
Aye, she's a bit heavy, isn't she? | 0:48:13 | 0:48:15 | |
Especially for somewhere like this, you know? | 0:48:15 | 0:48:17 | |
You'd think maybe he'd have the weight on level, | 0:48:17 | 0:48:19 | |
being a boxing coach and all that. | 0:48:19 | 0:48:21 | |
HE LAUGHS | 0:48:21 | 0:48:22 | |
Sophie's owner, Tony, is a coach with Paisley Amateur Boxing Club. | 0:48:22 | 0:48:26 | |
On you go. Good, good cross. | 0:48:26 | 0:48:28 | |
'Paisley's a rough area. | 0:48:28 | 0:48:30 | |
'See the guys who train in here, who train in here regular, | 0:48:30 | 0:48:32 | |
'they don't get involved in fights in the street. | 0:48:32 | 0:48:35 | |
'They don't cos we tell them in here,' | 0:48:35 | 0:48:37 | |
"You don't get paid for that shit, you get locked up." | 0:48:37 | 0:48:41 | |
You want to fight? Get paid for it, man. | 0:48:41 | 0:48:43 | |
The mirror willnae lie to you. See your pals and all that? | 0:48:43 | 0:48:45 | |
They'll tell you bullshit, they'll lie to you. | 0:48:45 | 0:48:47 | |
They'll say, "Oh, you're great, you're doing brilliant" and all that... | 0:48:47 | 0:48:50 | |
I talk to them about mistakes I made in my past. | 0:48:50 | 0:48:55 | |
Hopefully, they don't make the same mistakes | 0:48:55 | 0:48:58 | |
and trying to make money quick and stuff like that, | 0:48:58 | 0:49:01 | |
trying to take short cuts. | 0:49:01 | 0:49:02 | |
Get your arse right down. That's better. | 0:49:02 | 0:49:05 | |
I was brought up in a housing scheme, | 0:49:05 | 0:49:07 | |
Ferguslie Park, quite a rough area. | 0:49:07 | 0:49:10 | |
But Paisley Amateur Boxing Club was run by a man called Norrie Sweeney. | 0:49:10 | 0:49:15 | |
We used to train Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday | 0:49:15 | 0:49:18 | |
and a Sunday afternoon and I would know that he would be there. | 0:49:18 | 0:49:22 | |
He was the only constant in my life, you know? | 0:49:22 | 0:49:25 | |
It was guaranteed he would be there | 0:49:25 | 0:49:27 | |
but you didn't know what you were going home to, | 0:49:27 | 0:49:29 | |
you didn't know what your home life was going to be, | 0:49:29 | 0:49:31 | |
you didn't know what you were going back to. | 0:49:31 | 0:49:34 | |
But you always had the boxing club. | 0:49:34 | 0:49:36 | |
I used to get in a bit of bother and stuff like that, you know? | 0:49:36 | 0:49:39 | |
I was a bit of a rogue. | 0:49:39 | 0:49:40 | |
-I got in a bit of trouble. -What kind of trouble? | 0:49:42 | 0:49:45 | |
Armed robberies and stuff like that. | 0:49:45 | 0:49:47 | |
I got eight years and seven years for armed robberies. | 0:49:47 | 0:49:50 | |
Robbery in a post office, robbery in a building society, | 0:49:51 | 0:49:55 | |
stuff like that. | 0:49:55 | 0:49:56 | |
I was young and I thought I could make money quick. | 0:49:56 | 0:49:59 | |
I didnae have an education. | 0:49:59 | 0:50:01 | |
You've no' got money to live on, you've no' got any security. | 0:50:01 | 0:50:04 | |
You're terrified. | 0:50:04 | 0:50:06 | |
You're kidding on you're tough and you're acting tough - that's | 0:50:06 | 0:50:09 | |
all front. That's all bullshit. | 0:50:09 | 0:50:11 | |
Fear... | 0:50:11 | 0:50:13 | |
Fear, that's what you've got. Not toughness. | 0:50:14 | 0:50:17 | |
The toughness, the gangsterism and all that bullshit. | 0:50:17 | 0:50:20 | |
I got seven year, and then... | 0:50:20 | 0:50:23 | |
after that I come out and Norrie always kept his doors open, | 0:50:23 | 0:50:26 | |
always kept in touch with us and all that stuff. | 0:50:26 | 0:50:28 | |
And I went back down to see him, it was the only positive thing I knew. | 0:50:28 | 0:50:32 | |
I went to see him and he was like, "Help me train the boys," | 0:50:32 | 0:50:34 | |
and that's what I done, I helped him train the boys. | 0:50:34 | 0:50:38 | |
What would your life have been if you didn't have that? | 0:50:38 | 0:50:41 | |
I'd be dead. I'd have been dead a long, long time ago. | 0:50:41 | 0:50:45 | |
I'd either got murdered or I'd be doing a life sentence. | 0:50:45 | 0:50:48 | |
That time when I was young, I was young and running about wild, | 0:50:52 | 0:50:55 | |
it was hard to see anything good, anything positive. | 0:50:55 | 0:50:59 | |
So if you'd said to me, "You're going to have this wee dog, | 0:50:59 | 0:51:02 | |
"she's going to be a positive in your life and she's going to love | 0:51:02 | 0:51:05 | |
"you and you're going to love her and that, | 0:51:05 | 0:51:06 | |
"and you're going to have a great relationship and great fun. | 0:51:06 | 0:51:09 | |
"And this wee dog is going to make you smile every day," | 0:51:09 | 0:51:11 | |
I'd have thought you were off your nut. | 0:51:11 | 0:51:13 | |
That's what I would've thought. | 0:51:13 | 0:51:15 | |
Dusk is still missing and Laura's niece, Grace, | 0:51:26 | 0:51:29 | |
is leading a poster campaign to spread the word. | 0:51:29 | 0:51:32 | |
It's been about seven months, and it's quite hard to stay hopeful, | 0:51:32 | 0:51:35 | |
but you've got to keep trying. | 0:51:35 | 0:51:39 | |
While Grace goes with the traditional method of cat hunting, | 0:51:39 | 0:51:42 | |
Laura has returned to the scene to try a more unorthodox approach. | 0:51:42 | 0:51:45 | |
William O'Connor is one of Glasgow's best-known psychics. | 0:51:50 | 0:51:53 | |
He's been involved in a number of missing persons' cases. | 0:51:53 | 0:51:57 | |
This will be his first investigation into a missing cat. | 0:51:57 | 0:52:01 | |
-Pleased to meet you. -How are you? -Double kiss. Thanks for coming. | 0:52:01 | 0:52:05 | |
There's my wee baby boy. | 0:52:05 | 0:52:08 | |
What we want to do is try and just | 0:52:08 | 0:52:10 | |
go around to the left and the right of the area. | 0:52:10 | 0:52:13 | |
Just to get a good feel where he would have been. | 0:52:13 | 0:52:16 | |
A lot of people think, you know, going to a psychic about | 0:52:22 | 0:52:25 | |
a pet sounds absolutely ridiculous, | 0:52:25 | 0:52:28 | |
but do you know what, it's my choice. | 0:52:28 | 0:52:31 | |
Do you believe psychics are real? | 0:52:37 | 0:52:38 | |
Well... | 0:52:40 | 0:52:41 | |
I believe...in... | 0:52:42 | 0:52:45 | |
when I'm desperate. | 0:52:45 | 0:52:46 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:52:46 | 0:52:48 | |
I don't believe that the psychic can tell us where Dusk is. | 0:52:52 | 0:52:56 | |
I do think that he will turn up. | 0:52:56 | 0:52:58 | |
Even if the psychic tells us that he won't. | 0:53:00 | 0:53:04 | |
It's a bit difficult to say this, Laura, | 0:53:04 | 0:53:06 | |
-but he's not wandered off on his own. -What do you mean by that? | 0:53:06 | 0:53:10 | |
It's a deliberate act, is the only word I can use. | 0:53:10 | 0:53:14 | |
-That it's a deliberate act of taking him. -I get that. | 0:53:14 | 0:53:18 | |
Right. Unfortunately, it's not great news. | 0:53:18 | 0:53:21 | |
I must stress this to you, it's not... It's not random. | 0:53:23 | 0:53:27 | |
-No, it's deliberate. -It's malicious intent. -Yes. I believe that. | 0:53:27 | 0:53:31 | |
And it's because who the cat belonged to, rather than it's a cat. | 0:53:31 | 0:53:36 | |
-Yep. -If that makes sense to you. | 0:53:36 | 0:53:38 | |
The hope...of him being returned | 0:53:44 | 0:53:48 | |
-virtually goes to nil. -Nil. | 0:53:48 | 0:53:50 | |
Unfortunately. | 0:53:52 | 0:53:54 | |
In my heart... I want to think, oh, he's maybe with a nice family... | 0:53:54 | 0:54:00 | |
But my feeling is that he was taken deliberately because | 0:54:04 | 0:54:07 | |
the person knows me. | 0:54:07 | 0:54:09 | |
I'll never forget him if I never get him back. He's always in my heart. | 0:54:12 | 0:54:16 | |
The head vet had a quiet word with Stefan about his behaviour, | 0:54:21 | 0:54:26 | |
but it hasn't stopped him having the occasional laugh. | 0:54:26 | 0:54:29 | |
I call them the lambing hands because I can get two hands...in. | 0:54:29 | 0:54:34 | |
I know it's a bit disgusting, isn't it? | 0:54:34 | 0:54:36 | |
See what I've got to put up with? | 0:54:36 | 0:54:38 | |
You love my chatter, that's why you come to me. | 0:54:38 | 0:54:41 | |
Try and get two hands in ME. | 0:54:43 | 0:54:45 | |
-You could get a shovel up...? -THEY LAUGH | 0:54:45 | 0:54:48 | |
Come on, Soph. | 0:54:49 | 0:54:52 | |
Good girl. | 0:54:52 | 0:54:53 | |
Sophie's been on a diet for six months. | 0:54:53 | 0:54:56 | |
Mr Lindy with Sophie to room six, please. | 0:54:56 | 0:54:59 | |
-And the day of reckoning is here. -Aye, you're all right. | 0:54:59 | 0:55:03 | |
-Oh, look at the difference! -What's she at? -Down to just over 60 there. | 0:55:03 | 0:55:08 | |
-And that was 69! -69! -Good girl. | 0:55:08 | 0:55:11 | |
-14.7 today. -Well done! | 0:55:11 | 0:55:15 | |
Who's a clever girl? | 0:55:15 | 0:55:17 | |
So that's more than half a stone she's lost altogether. | 0:55:17 | 0:55:20 | |
-Is she still bossing you about? -Of course, aye. She always will! | 0:55:20 | 0:55:24 | |
She's got me wrapped around her wee paw. | 0:55:24 | 0:55:27 | |
It might say Boss on my jacket, | 0:55:27 | 0:55:28 | |
but Sophie is the real boss, aren't you? | 0:55:28 | 0:55:31 | |
In Aberdeen, love is in the air. | 0:55:36 | 0:55:39 | |
I've been looking for a stud dog to breed with Kabana. | 0:55:41 | 0:55:45 | |
And I was looking on Facebook and I came across Paul and his dog Sid. | 0:55:45 | 0:55:49 | |
The first time they met up, they weren't that keen on each other, | 0:55:49 | 0:55:52 | |
but the second time they met up, it was in my house, and they were... | 0:55:52 | 0:55:57 | |
together, I suppose. | 0:55:57 | 0:56:00 | |
And Kabana and Sid aren't the only ones. | 0:56:00 | 0:56:03 | |
We met up, the dogs got on well and then we got on well and we started | 0:56:03 | 0:56:07 | |
talking more and ended up in a relationship. | 0:56:07 | 0:56:10 | |
-So how are you feeling about it all? -Happy, obviously. | 0:56:10 | 0:56:13 | |
Over the moon. | 0:56:13 | 0:56:16 | |
So it's Kabana and Sid and me and Paul. | 0:56:16 | 0:56:19 | |
It's two months since Angie took her mum's cat, Daisy, to the PDSA. | 0:56:24 | 0:56:29 | |
Since then, her life's changed. | 0:56:29 | 0:56:31 | |
My mum died...on the 8th of August. | 0:56:32 | 0:56:37 | |
When I'm really at my worst... | 0:56:41 | 0:56:44 | |
..I could have called my mother. | 0:56:46 | 0:56:48 | |
I don't know what you can do when you lose your mother. | 0:56:52 | 0:56:55 | |
There's not a lot you can do. | 0:56:55 | 0:56:57 | |
I could've done with her staying around for another two years, | 0:57:06 | 0:57:10 | |
but she had dementia | 0:57:10 | 0:57:13 | |
and she had to go at that specific time. | 0:57:13 | 0:57:17 | |
It would've been cruel for her to stay alive. | 0:57:18 | 0:57:22 | |
So I'm happy that she's gone. | 0:57:22 | 0:57:24 | |
That she's not in pain. | 0:57:24 | 0:57:26 | |
I think it's an old saying... | 0:57:28 | 0:57:30 | |
..that women with cats ended up on their own. | 0:57:32 | 0:57:37 | |
Hopefully, that's not what's happening to me. | 0:57:37 | 0:57:40 | |
What would my mum do? | 0:57:42 | 0:57:44 | |
She'd say... | 0:57:44 | 0:57:46 | |
"Get on with it!" | 0:57:46 | 0:57:48 | |
So my son said he can put me on Match.com. | 0:57:51 | 0:57:54 | |
Well, my ideal man would need to be good-looking | 0:57:57 | 0:58:01 | |
and a personality and preferably a smoker. | 0:58:01 | 0:58:05 | |
SHE CHUCKLES | 0:58:05 | 0:58:07 | |
Oh, and he's got to at least talk French. | 0:58:10 | 0:58:13 | |
That's a tall order, finding all those things and somebody | 0:58:13 | 0:58:16 | |
that speaks French, in Glasgow. | 0:58:16 | 0:58:18 | |
Is it? Well... I think that's what I'd want. | 0:58:18 | 0:58:23 | |
That would be quite a happy ever after. | 0:58:24 | 0:58:27 |