1 00:00:07,465 --> 00:00:09,009 DR. OAKLEY: Okay, it's musk ox Monday. 2 00:00:09,092 --> 00:00:11,052 SIERRA: Musk ox Monday, here we go. 3 00:00:11,136 --> 00:00:12,512 DR. OAKLEY: Are you ready? 4 00:00:15,598 --> 00:00:18,309 So we're here today at Todd Pettit's Musk Ox Farm. 5 00:00:18,393 --> 00:00:20,854 We're actually gonna move some musk ox around, 6 00:00:20,937 --> 00:00:22,897 a little bit of a shell game with musk ox. 7 00:00:23,440 --> 00:00:26,609 We're gonna hopefully remove the two youngest ones. 8 00:00:26,693 --> 00:00:28,820 Um, it's time for them to be weaned. 9 00:00:28,903 --> 00:00:31,156 And, um, they're both males, they're not going to be left 10 00:00:31,239 --> 00:00:32,866 in this group to breed of course 11 00:00:32,949 --> 00:00:35,410 because they're too related, and they're going to a new farm. 12 00:00:35,493 --> 00:00:37,162 SIERRA: So if everything goes to plan, 13 00:00:37,245 --> 00:00:40,749 we're darting four musk ox, two moms and two babies. 14 00:00:40,832 --> 00:00:41,833 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Right. 15 00:00:41,916 --> 00:00:43,626 SIERRA: And we're relocating the babies to their new home. 16 00:00:43,710 --> 00:00:44,753 DR. OAKLEY: Yup. 17 00:00:44,836 --> 00:00:46,254 It could be dangerous. 18 00:00:46,337 --> 00:00:48,131 I mean, it's probably one of the most complicated 19 00:00:48,214 --> 00:00:49,799 anesthesias I've ever done. 20 00:00:49,883 --> 00:00:53,178 There's a lot of moving parts, a lot of moving hooves here. 21 00:00:56,973 --> 00:00:59,017 TODD (off-screen): We have a pretty unique animal. 22 00:00:59,100 --> 00:01:03,229 They frustrate me probably more than most animals. 23 00:01:03,313 --> 00:01:05,356 They're difficult to raise. 24 00:01:07,025 --> 00:01:10,445 They don't like me, they really don't like much of anything. 25 00:01:12,363 --> 00:01:15,366 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Musk ox have been farmed for over 100 years 26 00:01:15,450 --> 00:01:18,203 and in Alaska, they're still used to get fiber, 27 00:01:18,286 --> 00:01:19,621 which is really nice. 28 00:01:19,704 --> 00:01:21,498 TODD (off-screen): This is what it's all about. 29 00:01:21,581 --> 00:01:23,833 This fiber is called qiviut, 30 00:01:23,917 --> 00:01:26,169 it is considered the warmest for weight. 31 00:01:26,669 --> 00:01:30,298 Just holding this little tiny fluff makes my hands warm. 32 00:01:30,381 --> 00:01:31,549 It's amazing. 33 00:01:31,925 --> 00:01:33,218 DR. OAKLEY: So let's talk our overall plan. 34 00:01:33,301 --> 00:01:37,263 We're just trying to get the young ones to move to Mark's farm, right? 35 00:01:37,347 --> 00:01:38,389 TODD (off-screen): Yup. 36 00:01:38,473 --> 00:01:41,017 MARK: Todd and I, we've been talking for the last couple weeks 37 00:01:41,101 --> 00:01:43,895 about how this might best possibly work. 38 00:01:43,978 --> 00:01:47,482 The musk ox we raise at the Musk Ox Farm are very well socialized 39 00:01:47,565 --> 00:01:49,067 from the moment they're born. 40 00:01:49,150 --> 00:01:50,860 They're very relaxed, very calm. 41 00:01:50,944 --> 00:01:53,404 Todd's animals on the other hand, 42 00:01:53,488 --> 00:01:55,740 they're not being worked with in any way. 43 00:01:55,824 --> 00:01:58,409 They've been rather feral, so they really revert to that 44 00:01:58,493 --> 00:02:00,703 musk ox-y behavior. 45 00:02:00,787 --> 00:02:05,125 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Musk ox are grumpy, prehistoric cave creatures. 46 00:02:05,208 --> 00:02:09,045 This giant head it is so thick with all this spongy material 47 00:02:09,129 --> 00:02:11,339 because when they get mad, they ram heads. 48 00:02:11,422 --> 00:02:13,466 And these guys have been known to flip vehicles, 49 00:02:13,550 --> 00:02:18,388 to tear tires off of trucks, so it will be really tricky 50 00:02:18,471 --> 00:02:20,181 to make sure we can stay safe. 51 00:02:20,723 --> 00:02:22,725 MARK (off-screen): We've talked about so many different great plans, 52 00:02:22,809 --> 00:02:25,562 but we also know that the more we try to plan what these guys 53 00:02:25,645 --> 00:02:27,605 are gonna do, the less it's gonna happen. 54 00:02:27,689 --> 00:02:29,399 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): It's gonna go just like we planned. 55 00:02:29,482 --> 00:02:30,483 TODD (off-screen): Exactly. 56 00:02:30,567 --> 00:02:32,235 DR. OAKLEY: Either A, B, C, D, or E. Okay? 57 00:02:32,318 --> 00:02:33,361 MARK (off-screen): Yup. 58 00:02:35,572 --> 00:02:37,031 TODD (off-screen): All aboard. 59 00:02:38,741 --> 00:02:40,118 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): This is gonna work! 60 00:02:44,789 --> 00:02:47,167 Those musk ox are like, "Here comes our grub!" 61 00:02:47,250 --> 00:02:50,420 And we're like, actually. 62 00:02:52,005 --> 00:02:54,841 So plan A is just to go in there with this big hay truck 63 00:02:54,924 --> 00:02:57,468 that Todd's been feeding them with kind of regularly. 64 00:02:57,552 --> 00:03:00,471 TODD (off-screen): All right. We're going into stealth mode. 65 00:03:00,972 --> 00:03:03,266 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): We're going to hide actually in the hay truck 66 00:03:03,349 --> 00:03:05,059 and hopefully they won't get suspicious. 67 00:03:05,143 --> 00:03:06,769 And they'll just kind of walk over, 68 00:03:06,853 --> 00:03:09,939 and that gets us within about 20 yards where we can get a shot. 69 00:03:10,648 --> 00:03:12,692 If anything happens, just get out. 70 00:03:12,775 --> 00:03:14,986 Like if I say get out, don't worry about me, 71 00:03:15,069 --> 00:03:16,237 you just get out. 72 00:03:16,321 --> 00:03:17,655 SIERRA: Okay. 73 00:03:17,739 --> 00:03:19,449 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): You can usually outrun them going around something 74 00:03:19,532 --> 00:03:21,117 but not always, so it's super important 75 00:03:21,201 --> 00:03:23,119 to have eyes on the back of your head for this. 76 00:03:29,500 --> 00:03:30,627 TODD (off-screen): Come on musk ox! 77 00:03:31,961 --> 00:03:33,922 DR. OAKLEY: So far, they're just staring at us, 78 00:03:34,005 --> 00:03:37,717 like, "Hmm. Nope. Something smells weird." 79 00:03:40,595 --> 00:03:42,138 Aw, they're running away. 80 00:03:42,972 --> 00:03:45,725 So they are not doing their usual thing where they come up 81 00:03:45,808 --> 00:03:47,352 to the hay truck, so. 82 00:03:47,435 --> 00:03:49,062 Patience is a virtue. 83 00:03:53,483 --> 00:03:55,068 TODD (off-screen): I think they're trying to wait us out. 84 00:04:04,577 --> 00:04:05,578 DR. OAKLEY: I can do my TikTok. 85 00:04:07,789 --> 00:04:09,040 DR. OAKLEY: When you're sitting around waiting, 86 00:04:09,123 --> 00:04:10,625 what else are you gonna do, you know. 87 00:04:10,708 --> 00:04:12,293 Whip out the TikTok. 88 00:04:12,377 --> 00:04:16,297 ♪ I want you to come a little closer. ♪ ♪ 89 00:04:16,381 --> 00:04:17,966 DR.. OAKLEY (off-screen) I can see Sierra's face. 90 00:04:18,049 --> 00:04:19,384 She's like, "Mom, you're ridiculous." 91 00:04:19,467 --> 00:04:20,468 You know? 92 00:04:20,551 --> 00:04:22,345 Sometimes I think she's more mature than me. 93 00:04:22,720 --> 00:04:25,848 ♪ ♪ Please, please, come a little closer. ♪ ♪ 94 00:04:26,766 --> 00:04:30,144 SIERRA: Whenever we get a free moment mom seems to be on TikTok. 95 00:04:30,228 --> 00:04:32,689 So she maybe is just trying to relieve some of the stress 96 00:04:32,772 --> 00:04:34,315 of the moment at this time. 97 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:36,484 Or she's just addicted to TikTok, 98 00:04:36,567 --> 00:04:37,902 I don't know which one. 99 00:04:38,194 --> 00:04:39,195 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): What do you think, 100 00:04:39,279 --> 00:04:40,571 do you think they're gonna come over? 101 00:04:40,655 --> 00:04:41,823 TODD: I don't know. 102 00:04:41,906 --> 00:04:43,074 They know something's up. 103 00:04:43,157 --> 00:04:44,867 DR. OAKLEY: And they have all the time in the world, so. 104 00:04:44,951 --> 00:04:47,328 TODD: Right? Let's go to plan B. 105 00:04:47,412 --> 00:04:48,621 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Okay. 106 00:04:52,375 --> 00:04:53,584 SIERRA (off-screen): All right. 107 00:04:57,297 --> 00:05:00,216 DR. OAKLEY: So our plan is to, they seem to be kind of 108 00:05:00,300 --> 00:05:02,051 hanging in one spot in the corner there, 109 00:05:02,135 --> 00:05:06,639 so we're gonna climb the fence here and go wide around 110 00:05:06,723 --> 00:05:08,099 and come up to that spot. 111 00:05:11,144 --> 00:05:12,562 DR. OAKLEY: Sierra, if I fell... 112 00:05:12,645 --> 00:05:13,896 it would hurt. 113 00:05:18,568 --> 00:05:20,361 DR. OAKLEY: I see them. They're just up here, 114 00:05:20,445 --> 00:05:21,696 so let's just stay close. 115 00:05:30,580 --> 00:05:36,586 ♪ ♪ 116 00:05:38,421 --> 00:05:39,505 (shot) 117 00:05:39,589 --> 00:05:40,965 SIERRA (off-screen): Here we go. 118 00:05:42,133 --> 00:05:43,343 (shot) 119 00:05:44,344 --> 00:05:45,928 Woo-woo! 120 00:05:46,346 --> 00:05:48,723 DR. OAKLEY: So we just, we just darted the two females. 121 00:05:48,806 --> 00:05:51,309 SIERRA (off-screen): We're hoping that the little babies will stay close enough 122 00:05:51,392 --> 00:05:53,353 so that we can dart them too. 123 00:05:53,436 --> 00:05:55,480 Let the males take off. 124 00:05:59,275 --> 00:06:00,735 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Uh-oh. 125 00:06:01,611 --> 00:06:02,653 Now they're both, 126 00:06:02,737 --> 00:06:04,906 one is really sedate and the other one is starting to go down. 127 00:06:05,740 --> 00:06:06,949 And here comes the bull. 128 00:06:08,159 --> 00:06:10,703 (grunting) 129 00:06:12,038 --> 00:06:14,749 TODD: I'm really worried about these bulls acting aggressive. 130 00:06:14,832 --> 00:06:16,959 when these cows go down. 131 00:06:17,543 --> 00:06:18,878 (grunting) 132 00:06:18,961 --> 00:06:20,797 DR. OAKLEY: She's not interested in you, dude. 133 00:06:20,880 --> 00:06:22,548 That's not what that's about. 134 00:06:22,632 --> 00:06:24,467 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): These bulls are starting to go into rut. 135 00:06:24,550 --> 00:06:26,552 And when they see a female not moving, 136 00:06:26,636 --> 00:06:29,013 it just flips some kind of switch and they're like, 137 00:06:29,097 --> 00:06:30,598 "Okay, she wants to breed." 138 00:06:30,681 --> 00:06:33,351 SIERRA (off-screen): No! They can't do that! 139 00:06:33,434 --> 00:06:36,729 They will either try and get her up and they could potentially gore her, 140 00:06:36,813 --> 00:06:40,149 or if he gets on top her she won't be able to breathe. 141 00:06:40,233 --> 00:06:42,110 Either way, she could die. 142 00:06:42,735 --> 00:06:44,195 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Bring a truck! 143 00:06:44,278 --> 00:06:45,863 Bring a truck! 144 00:06:48,950 --> 00:06:50,243 Fortunately, Todd's over there. 145 00:06:50,326 --> 00:06:52,495 We're gonna get his attention so that he comes over 146 00:06:52,578 --> 00:06:53,996 and maybe helps us move the rest of the group 147 00:06:54,080 --> 00:06:55,164 away with the vehicle. 148 00:06:58,251 --> 00:06:59,544 Holy moly. 149 00:06:59,627 --> 00:07:01,963 The bull is watching me, but he's moving away, 150 00:07:02,046 --> 00:07:03,172 which is great. 151 00:07:05,091 --> 00:07:06,175 TODD (off-screen): Are the calves darted? 152 00:07:06,259 --> 00:07:07,802 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): No. TODD (off-screen): Nope? Okay. 153 00:07:07,885 --> 00:07:08,928 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): We can't get close enough, 154 00:07:09,011 --> 00:07:10,430 but I gotta deal with the moms. 155 00:07:11,472 --> 00:07:13,349 They're on their sides, so that's not a good position 156 00:07:13,433 --> 00:07:15,184 for them to be in anesthesia. 157 00:07:15,268 --> 00:07:17,311 I don't want them not breathing properly, 158 00:07:17,395 --> 00:07:20,565 um, or aspirating, you know, they can inhale some of their 159 00:07:20,648 --> 00:07:22,692 saliva or women contents. 160 00:07:24,610 --> 00:07:27,613 DR.. OAKLEY: Okay, just watch she doesn't start running away. 161 00:07:33,453 --> 00:07:34,662 DR.. OAKLEY: Okay. 162 00:07:35,079 --> 00:07:36,414 One, two, three. 163 00:07:36,873 --> 00:07:38,791 We've got both moms in good position. 164 00:07:38,875 --> 00:07:40,918 Um, the calves are coming closer and closer, 165 00:07:41,002 --> 00:07:42,336 they're kind of looking at their moms, 166 00:07:42,420 --> 00:07:43,796 wondering what's going on. 167 00:07:43,880 --> 00:07:45,715 I'm gonna line up now and try to get a shot. 168 00:07:46,632 --> 00:07:48,176 Turn your little butt, come on. 169 00:07:51,596 --> 00:07:52,597 (shot) 170 00:07:52,680 --> 00:07:53,973 All right! 171 00:07:54,056 --> 00:07:55,099 Got 'em! 172 00:07:55,183 --> 00:07:56,476 Can you bring the truck? 173 00:08:00,521 --> 00:08:06,527 ♪ ♪ 174 00:08:07,820 --> 00:08:09,697 SIERRA (off-screen): Gotta go fast, gotta go fast! 175 00:08:11,157 --> 00:08:12,408 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): We've got both babies down, 176 00:08:12,492 --> 00:08:13,743 so we're gonna load them up on the truck 177 00:08:13,826 --> 00:08:15,161 and we're gonna drive them out. 178 00:08:15,244 --> 00:08:17,163 But I don't know that I've ever had four animals under 179 00:08:17,246 --> 00:08:18,664 anesthesia at once. 180 00:08:18,748 --> 00:08:20,541 And there's still bulls in this pen, 181 00:08:20,625 --> 00:08:22,543 so it's kind of a lot. 182 00:08:25,421 --> 00:08:26,506 He's, he's trying to get up. 183 00:08:26,589 --> 00:08:28,049 Put the towel over his head! 184 00:08:30,009 --> 00:08:31,302 SIERRA: Okay. 185 00:08:34,680 --> 00:08:35,681 DR. OAKLEY: You got it? 186 00:08:35,765 --> 00:08:37,266 TODD: Yeah. DR. OAKLEY: Okay. 187 00:08:37,350 --> 00:08:39,602 Sometimes I stop and I'm like, what am I doing? 188 00:08:39,685 --> 00:08:43,606 Why have I brought my daughter into this crazy situation? 189 00:08:43,689 --> 00:08:45,566 But, you know, she's really good at it. 190 00:08:45,650 --> 00:08:47,276 Okay. This one's lighter. 191 00:08:47,360 --> 00:08:48,402 SIERRA: Is it? 192 00:08:48,486 --> 00:08:50,947 DR. OAKLEY: I'm not going to be getting any mother of the year awards, I don't think. 193 00:08:51,739 --> 00:08:55,034 I hear you making noise, baby, but you got a long ways to go still. 194 00:08:59,789 --> 00:09:00,790 SIERRA (off-screen): Sorry. 195 00:09:00,873 --> 00:09:02,833 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Just protect his eyes there. 196 00:09:06,045 --> 00:09:07,630 That was Plan X, I think. 197 00:09:08,172 --> 00:09:09,298 There you go. 198 00:09:09,382 --> 00:09:11,551 So she's gonna stay and do IVs, 199 00:09:11,634 --> 00:09:14,262 try to get IVs in and monitor, and I'm gonna go back 200 00:09:14,345 --> 00:09:15,555 and reverse the females. 201 00:09:15,638 --> 00:09:16,722 Wake them up. 202 00:09:19,100 --> 00:09:20,685 MARK: So now that we've got them in the back of the truck, 203 00:09:20,768 --> 00:09:23,479 we need to give them a visual ear tag, 204 00:09:23,563 --> 00:09:27,149 insert a microchip, they get a nasal swab for DNA, 205 00:09:27,233 --> 00:09:28,943 and we're going to vaccinate them. 206 00:09:30,152 --> 00:09:32,029 DR. OAKLEY: I'm gonna dash back and check on these females. 207 00:09:32,113 --> 00:09:35,408 The goal here is just to get them on their feet as quickly as possible. 208 00:09:35,866 --> 00:09:36,867 Okay. 209 00:09:36,951 --> 00:09:38,452 So I'm just giving the reversal now. 210 00:09:42,415 --> 00:09:43,916 Oh, Todd, she's getting up! Heads up. 211 00:09:44,750 --> 00:09:46,544 As I've given one the reversal, 212 00:09:46,627 --> 00:09:47,753 the other one's getting up! 213 00:09:47,837 --> 00:09:48,838 Everybody get out. 214 00:09:48,921 --> 00:09:49,922 TODD (off-screen): Okay. 215 00:09:50,006 --> 00:09:51,424 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): It's just really important that everyone who's 216 00:09:51,507 --> 00:09:54,093 been helping or filming just gets up high, 217 00:09:54,176 --> 00:09:55,428 away from the musk ox. 218 00:09:55,511 --> 00:09:56,971 Look who's up there, Rob? 219 00:09:57,054 --> 00:09:58,306 He's stuck on the fence? 220 00:09:58,389 --> 00:09:59,473 Heads up, Rob! 221 00:09:59,557 --> 00:10:01,350 TODD (off-screen): Hey! Rob! 222 00:10:05,438 --> 00:10:07,106 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Todd, she's getting up! Heads up. 223 00:10:07,607 --> 00:10:10,151 Yeah. We're kinda quickly trying to reverse the musk ox mama. 224 00:10:10,234 --> 00:10:12,153 The other one's getting up. 225 00:10:12,236 --> 00:10:13,362 Everybody get out. 226 00:10:13,446 --> 00:10:15,197 TODD: Okay. He needs to get up there. 227 00:10:15,281 --> 00:10:16,365 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Okay. 228 00:10:16,449 --> 00:10:18,117 We're quickly injecting and running for the fence. 229 00:10:18,326 --> 00:10:19,327 Who's up there, Rob? 230 00:10:19,410 --> 00:10:21,579 He's stuck on the fence. Heads up, Rob! 231 00:10:21,996 --> 00:10:23,664 TODD: Hey! Rob! 232 00:10:24,206 --> 00:10:27,543 DR. OAKLEY: As physically fit as our sound guy Rob is, 233 00:10:27,627 --> 00:10:29,837 to see him trying to get up the fence and the musk ox 234 00:10:29,920 --> 00:10:32,715 running in that direction made me pretty nervous. 235 00:10:34,216 --> 00:10:35,926 TODD (off-screen): Boy, you move like a squirrel. 236 00:10:37,470 --> 00:10:38,929 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): I kind of knew we wouldn't get through this day 237 00:10:39,013 --> 00:10:40,723 without somebody running for the fence. 238 00:10:40,806 --> 00:10:42,350 How's it going? 239 00:10:43,934 --> 00:10:45,144 Okey-dokey. 240 00:10:46,270 --> 00:10:49,899 Okay. Now, I can talk to you and kiss you. 241 00:10:52,151 --> 00:10:55,488 Musk ox kisses are so awesome, you already know that. 242 00:11:03,037 --> 00:11:04,038 Now we're at Mark's. 243 00:11:04,121 --> 00:11:05,748 I would be a happy musk ox to live here. 244 00:11:05,831 --> 00:11:06,874 SIERRA: Me, too. 245 00:11:06,957 --> 00:11:08,167 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Yeah, if you die and become a musk ox, 246 00:11:08,250 --> 00:11:09,543 this is where you want to be. 247 00:11:09,627 --> 00:11:10,628 WOMAN (off-screen): Can we put him over there? 248 00:11:10,711 --> 00:11:12,296 DR. OAKLEY: Sure, yeah. Wherever you like. 249 00:11:12,380 --> 00:11:14,173 MARK (off-screen): We've got 75 acres out here. 250 00:11:14,256 --> 00:11:16,384 We have 83 musk oxen living on the property, 251 00:11:16,467 --> 00:11:18,177 so each one of them has got a lot of room, 252 00:11:18,260 --> 00:11:19,387 a lot of food. 253 00:11:19,470 --> 00:11:21,013 We're all about this low stress, 254 00:11:21,097 --> 00:11:22,640 gentle animal husbandry. 255 00:11:22,723 --> 00:11:24,350 Yeah, it's a great place to be a musk ox. 256 00:11:25,184 --> 00:11:26,394 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): It's okay, baby! 257 00:11:27,770 --> 00:11:29,689 MARK (off-screen): Oh, hold on little buddy. 258 00:11:30,314 --> 00:11:31,315 There you go. 259 00:11:31,399 --> 00:11:33,150 DR. OAKLEY: There was nothing about this day was not hard, 260 00:11:33,234 --> 00:11:36,320 but I'm really glad that despite all of our plans, 261 00:11:36,404 --> 00:11:38,406 a different plan happened and it all worked out. 262 00:11:39,031 --> 00:11:40,533 MARK: Yay, buddy! 263 00:11:40,616 --> 00:11:43,619 It's gonna be fun to watch them grow up and just become 264 00:11:43,703 --> 00:11:44,787 part of the herd. 265 00:11:44,870 --> 00:11:46,247 Bam? 266 00:11:46,330 --> 00:11:48,040 DR. OAKLEY: High elbow, bam! 267 00:11:48,374 --> 00:11:49,583 MARK (off-screen): Welcome home, guys! 268 00:11:52,878 --> 00:11:58,300 ♪ ♪ 269 00:12:00,261 --> 00:12:01,804 SIERRA: Come on, Drogo. Oh! 270 00:12:03,639 --> 00:12:05,766 DR. OAKLEY: So today is spay and neuter day in Haines, Alaska 271 00:12:05,850 --> 00:12:08,144 and these days are super busy. 272 00:12:08,227 --> 00:12:10,104 VET ASSISTANT (off-screen): Hello! Good boy! 273 00:12:10,187 --> 00:12:11,564 SIERRA (off-screen): Whenever we do spay neuter clinics, 274 00:12:11,647 --> 00:12:14,024 we always are booked to the brim. 275 00:12:15,025 --> 00:12:16,527 We're always running behind. 276 00:12:16,610 --> 00:12:20,364 So, it's always kind of like a tag team go, go, go. 277 00:12:20,698 --> 00:12:22,283 Hello! 278 00:12:22,616 --> 00:12:24,493 This is Herschel, this is Bindi's baby! 279 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:29,665 Small town, everyone knows everybody including their dogs. 280 00:12:30,416 --> 00:12:33,127 DR. OAKLEY: Wow, one of the more glamorous parts of my job. 281 00:12:34,295 --> 00:12:37,131 SIERRA: It's always prepare for an elephant and hope for a mouse. 282 00:12:37,214 --> 00:12:39,300 So, we're preparing for a lot of different emergencies, 283 00:12:39,383 --> 00:12:43,137 a very busy day, and anything less than that would be great. 284 00:12:43,679 --> 00:12:44,930 All right! 285 00:12:47,141 --> 00:12:48,476 Woo! That's everyone! 286 00:12:49,310 --> 00:12:50,728 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): We've got a lot of people waiting. 287 00:12:50,811 --> 00:12:52,688 We've got a waitlist like this long. 288 00:12:53,022 --> 00:12:54,732 ALL (off-screen): One, two, three. 289 00:12:55,191 --> 00:12:56,567 DR. TUOMI: Got it! 290 00:12:58,319 --> 00:13:00,738 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): When we start getting a backup like this, 291 00:13:00,821 --> 00:13:06,118 I try to pull in another vet and Dr. John's perfect, he's awesome. 292 00:13:06,202 --> 00:13:08,788 Like, he's really fast at surgeries and we're gonna try 293 00:13:08,871 --> 00:13:10,748 and burn through as many of these as we can. 294 00:13:10,831 --> 00:13:12,041 Oh, you're a chunky girl. 295 00:13:12,124 --> 00:13:13,417 This is gonna be a nightmare. 296 00:13:13,501 --> 00:13:15,294 You gonna do the cutting? 297 00:13:15,377 --> 00:13:16,629 You do the honors. 298 00:13:16,712 --> 00:13:17,838 DR. TUOMI (off-screen): Okay. 299 00:13:17,922 --> 00:13:19,924 I'm mostly retired at this point, 300 00:13:20,007 --> 00:13:22,802 so it's pretty, pretty exciting. 301 00:13:23,135 --> 00:13:24,929 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Jeez, all the fat. 302 00:13:25,012 --> 00:13:26,222 DR. TUOMI (off-screen): Yeah. 303 00:13:26,305 --> 00:13:29,517 Probably the number of the spays and neuters that I've done, 304 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:32,186 I would say 15,000, probably more than that. 305 00:13:32,812 --> 00:13:34,104 DR. OAKLEY: Nice work, John. 306 00:13:34,188 --> 00:13:35,189 DR. TUOMI: Thanks. 307 00:13:35,272 --> 00:13:37,107 DR. OAKLEY: Good one. That was awesome. 308 00:13:37,191 --> 00:13:39,443 (snoring) 309 00:13:39,527 --> 00:13:42,112 KIM: You're okay! You are all okay. 310 00:13:42,446 --> 00:13:44,907 SIERRA: Ah, puppy! 311 00:13:45,699 --> 00:13:47,326 Ohh! 312 00:13:48,494 --> 00:13:51,163 One of the best parts of my job are definitely the babies 313 00:13:51,247 --> 00:13:54,792 that come in of any species but golden retriever puppies 314 00:13:54,875 --> 00:13:56,877 are definitely up there and one of my favorites. 315 00:13:57,378 --> 00:13:58,921 Got you! 316 00:14:01,048 --> 00:14:04,218 KIM (off-screen): My golden retriever just had 13 puppies, 317 00:14:04,301 --> 00:14:07,388 and they're all going to great homes and that was a big thing. 318 00:14:07,471 --> 00:14:09,807 SIERRA: Who else gets to do this and call it work? 319 00:14:10,724 --> 00:14:13,394 A lot of these puppies have already gone off to their new homes, 320 00:14:13,477 --> 00:14:15,563 but we're getting them all back together, 321 00:14:15,646 --> 00:14:18,440 as many as we can, so they can come in for their checkup. 322 00:14:20,025 --> 00:14:22,611 KIM: The one with the green, Sadie, right here, 323 00:14:22,695 --> 00:14:25,197 she's got something on her leg that the owner just showed us. 324 00:14:26,115 --> 00:14:27,157 SIERRA: Oh! 325 00:14:27,241 --> 00:14:28,325 KIM (off-screen): Yeah, see that? 326 00:14:28,409 --> 00:14:29,743 SIERRA (off-screen): Oh, that's strange. 327 00:14:29,827 --> 00:14:31,203 It kind of feels like a little bug bite. 328 00:14:31,287 --> 00:14:32,746 We'll definitely take a look at that. 329 00:14:32,830 --> 00:14:33,956 That's not cute! 330 00:14:34,039 --> 00:14:35,207 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Hey, everybody! 331 00:14:35,291 --> 00:14:36,292 Oh my goodness! 332 00:14:36,375 --> 00:14:38,210 Hey! How are you? 333 00:14:38,294 --> 00:14:40,045 SIERRA (off-screen): Your stethoscope just became a chew toy. 334 00:14:40,129 --> 00:14:42,172 DR. OAKLEY: Hey! Oh my goodness! 335 00:14:42,256 --> 00:14:44,049 As busy as we are with the spays and neuters, 336 00:14:44,133 --> 00:14:47,803 I'm not gonna complain about getting in this big mass of 337 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:49,430 golden retriever puppies. 338 00:14:49,513 --> 00:14:51,932 We'll just give them a thorough going over 339 00:14:52,016 --> 00:14:54,018 and a thorough sniffing of that puppy breath. 340 00:14:54,101 --> 00:14:55,519 So heart and lungs sound great. 341 00:14:55,603 --> 00:14:57,938 I'm feeling all the lymph nodes. 342 00:14:58,022 --> 00:15:01,400 Okay, he passed his health certificate and his cuteness check. 343 00:15:01,483 --> 00:15:02,902 KIM (off-screen): All right! That's Sadie. 344 00:15:02,985 --> 00:15:04,028 DR. OAKLEY: Sadie. 345 00:15:04,111 --> 00:15:05,237 KIM (off-screen): That's, that's the one with the little. 346 00:15:05,321 --> 00:15:06,572 DR. OAKLEY: This is the one with the little lump? 347 00:15:06,655 --> 00:15:07,865 KIM (off-screen): Yeah. 348 00:15:07,948 --> 00:15:09,742 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Oh, yeah. What the heck is that? 349 00:15:09,825 --> 00:15:11,410 So did you ever notice, no limping or anything like that? 350 00:15:11,493 --> 00:15:12,745 KIM: No! Nothing. 351 00:15:12,828 --> 00:15:14,496 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Okay, let me have a look 352 00:15:14,580 --> 00:15:17,249 and open that leg up as much as you can. 353 00:15:17,333 --> 00:15:18,542 There we go. 354 00:15:20,252 --> 00:15:21,670 SIERRA: I'm thinking it looks like a bug bite. 355 00:15:21,754 --> 00:15:24,465 In Alaska, we have a lot of mosquitos, 356 00:15:24,548 --> 00:15:28,385 black flies, and puppies can have big reactions to some of 357 00:15:28,469 --> 00:15:29,887 the bugs that we have here. 358 00:15:30,638 --> 00:15:32,264 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): I can see that funny little lump. 359 00:15:32,348 --> 00:15:35,851 It's not a lymph node because lymph nodes would be deeper or back here. 360 00:15:36,352 --> 00:15:37,686 It's thicken. 361 00:15:37,770 --> 00:15:39,438 You know, at first, she was wondered if it was a bug bite 362 00:15:39,521 --> 00:15:41,899 and I thought, "Oh, maybe," but as I'm looking at it I can 363 00:15:41,982 --> 00:15:45,444 see it's actually kind of long and flat and it is a little 364 00:15:45,527 --> 00:15:48,197 unusual and doesn't entirely look like a straightforward bug bite. 365 00:15:48,280 --> 00:15:49,323 SIERRA: There's like a crust on it. 366 00:15:49,406 --> 00:15:50,407 DR. OAKLEY: I know. 367 00:15:50,491 --> 00:15:52,201 So I'm gonna take a few pokes. 368 00:15:52,284 --> 00:15:53,535 I know! 369 00:15:53,619 --> 00:15:55,996 I'm just gonna take a little aspirate sample, 370 00:15:56,080 --> 00:15:58,123 with just a little needle to pull out some of the cells 371 00:15:58,207 --> 00:15:59,750 and then we'll send the puppy home. 372 00:15:59,833 --> 00:16:03,420 They can also get these little totally benign little puppy tumors. 373 00:16:03,504 --> 00:16:05,839 But other kinds of tumors are pretty rare in these guys. 374 00:16:05,923 --> 00:16:07,216 All we gotta do. 375 00:16:07,299 --> 00:16:08,550 So I took some of it, put it on the slide, 376 00:16:08,634 --> 00:16:09,843 we'll look at it here. 377 00:16:09,927 --> 00:16:11,387 I can call you with the results later. 378 00:16:11,470 --> 00:16:12,471 KIM (off-screen): Sure. Yup. 379 00:16:12,554 --> 00:16:15,933 DR. OAKLEY: It's not common at all for puppies to get tumors, 380 00:16:16,016 --> 00:16:18,352 but I don't want to ignore it because it is important that 381 00:16:18,435 --> 00:16:20,312 we check this out and make sure it's nothing to worry about. 382 00:16:20,854 --> 00:16:22,523 SIERRA (off-screen): Bye, Sadie! 383 00:16:25,985 --> 00:16:27,194 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): All right. 384 00:16:27,277 --> 00:16:28,487 Send in the Herschel. 385 00:16:28,570 --> 00:16:30,364 There you go. 386 00:16:31,865 --> 00:16:33,617 This is my grand-puppy. 387 00:16:33,701 --> 00:16:36,245 Herschel is the love child of Bindi, 388 00:16:36,328 --> 00:16:39,123 my Australian Shepherd, and a golden retriever neighbor 389 00:16:39,206 --> 00:16:40,582 named Finn. 390 00:16:40,666 --> 00:16:42,876 Finn is actually the daddy of Sadie as well. 391 00:16:42,960 --> 00:16:44,336 He's a cheating you-know-what. 392 00:16:45,713 --> 00:16:48,841 Herschel is starting to want to wander and hump everybody's leg, 393 00:16:48,924 --> 00:16:50,676 so he's gonna be neutered today. 394 00:16:51,927 --> 00:16:53,887 SIERRA (off-screen): Mom, mom. 395 00:16:53,971 --> 00:16:56,140 Sadie just came back in and she won't stop throwing up, 396 00:16:56,223 --> 00:16:57,391 the little puppy. 397 00:16:57,474 --> 00:16:59,560 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Uh oh, okay, okay. 398 00:16:59,643 --> 00:17:01,186 Let's just take her over here because she might have parvo. 399 00:17:01,520 --> 00:17:03,230 SIERRA (off-screen): An hour after we poked Sadie's mass, 400 00:17:03,313 --> 00:17:06,191 Sadie's owner Krystal rushes in with Sadie. 401 00:17:06,275 --> 00:17:07,860 KRYSTAL: I picked her up from Kim's house 402 00:17:07,943 --> 00:17:09,528 and then we got in the car 403 00:17:09,611 --> 00:17:11,739 and all of a sudden Sadie started puking. 404 00:17:11,822 --> 00:17:14,074 And we pulled over and cleaned up the mess 405 00:17:14,158 --> 00:17:16,118 and she just had a lot of diarrhea, 406 00:17:16,201 --> 00:17:18,495 and it was just really intense, really fast. 407 00:17:18,579 --> 00:17:20,831 And it's just extremely terrifying. 408 00:17:20,914 --> 00:17:22,541 I don't know what's going on with my dog. 409 00:17:22,624 --> 00:17:24,293 DR. OAKLEY: Um, okay, okay. 410 00:17:24,376 --> 00:17:25,753 So Let's start with the parvo test. 411 00:17:25,836 --> 00:17:28,047 This puppy is really sick. 412 00:17:28,130 --> 00:17:30,215 You have to worry that they ate something toxic when it 413 00:17:30,299 --> 00:17:31,925 comes on really acutely. 414 00:17:32,009 --> 00:17:34,219 You also have to think about parvo. 415 00:17:34,303 --> 00:17:35,596 SIERRA: Aw. 416 00:17:39,391 --> 00:17:42,019 DR. OAKLEY: Parvo's a nasty virus that we definitely have 417 00:17:42,102 --> 00:17:43,729 around town here. 418 00:17:43,812 --> 00:17:45,064 It's very common in the north. 419 00:17:45,147 --> 00:17:48,150 SIERRA: It basically just makes the puppy poop until it dies 420 00:17:48,233 --> 00:17:49,693 and vomit until it dies. 421 00:17:50,569 --> 00:17:52,196 No! 422 00:17:52,279 --> 00:17:55,282 DR. OAKLEY: If it's parvo we've got a huge problem on our hands. 423 00:18:00,329 --> 00:18:01,955 SIERRA: Oh, are you going to throw up again? 424 00:18:02,831 --> 00:18:04,500 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Sadie is not doing really well. 425 00:18:04,583 --> 00:18:07,836 She's still vomiting, um, she's had a couple little 426 00:18:07,920 --> 00:18:09,171 bouts of diarrhea. 427 00:18:09,254 --> 00:18:11,548 I'm gonna come over and give a little booty swab. 428 00:18:12,007 --> 00:18:14,760 We're definitely gonna do a really quick check to look for parvo. 429 00:18:15,135 --> 00:18:17,513 It's very contagious and it can be fatal. 430 00:18:17,930 --> 00:18:19,515 There we go. Yeah. 431 00:18:19,598 --> 00:18:21,141 SIERRA (off-screen): All right. 432 00:18:21,225 --> 00:18:22,935 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): I'm just gonna put this in here, 433 00:18:23,018 --> 00:18:25,104 swirl it around. 434 00:18:27,439 --> 00:18:29,441 And the good news is it's looking like it's negative, 435 00:18:29,525 --> 00:18:32,444 so that makes me very happy, I'm glad it's not parvo, 436 00:18:32,528 --> 00:18:36,240 but then the question is why is she suddenly vomiting and diarrhea. 437 00:18:36,657 --> 00:18:38,700 SIERRA: Aw, it's okay. 438 00:18:39,284 --> 00:18:41,703 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Now one thing I did was poke a mass on her leg. 439 00:18:41,787 --> 00:18:45,040 There is one type of tumor that if you poke it 440 00:18:45,124 --> 00:18:47,709 and get it angry it can cause a release of histamine 441 00:18:47,793 --> 00:18:49,628 that can cause vomiting and diarrhea. 442 00:18:49,711 --> 00:18:52,965 It's not common in puppies, so it's kind of unusual if that's 443 00:18:53,048 --> 00:18:56,093 what it is but it certainly could be what's called a mast cell tumor. 444 00:18:56,176 --> 00:18:58,470 So, we're going to have a quick look at that slide as well. 445 00:19:03,308 --> 00:19:05,144 I'll be durned, have a look at this. 446 00:19:06,395 --> 00:19:07,688 Looks like mast cells to me. 447 00:19:14,403 --> 00:19:16,029 DR. TUOMI (off-screen): Boy, it does look suspicious. 448 00:19:16,113 --> 00:19:20,033 DR. OAKLEY: I don't know that they look like tumor-looking mast cell. 449 00:19:21,201 --> 00:19:23,704 DR. TUOMI (off-screen): If it was going to be a mast cell tumor on a puppy, 450 00:19:23,787 --> 00:19:25,247 it would be a golden retriever. 451 00:19:25,330 --> 00:19:29,126 Golden retrievers are a cancer-prone breed, 452 00:19:29,209 --> 00:19:31,211 and at this age, it'd be questionable. 453 00:19:33,213 --> 00:19:35,549 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Mast cells are normal cells in our immune system 454 00:19:35,632 --> 00:19:37,968 that kind of helps us with allergic reactions. 455 00:19:38,051 --> 00:19:42,306 But a mast cell tumor is cancerous growth, 456 00:19:42,389 --> 00:19:45,267 and the mast cell gets angry and it starts dividing way too 457 00:19:45,350 --> 00:19:47,728 much and it forms this big ugly mass. 458 00:19:47,811 --> 00:19:51,481 I think it's really unlikely it's a mast cell tumor. 459 00:19:51,899 --> 00:19:52,941 Maybe it was a bug bite 460 00:19:53,025 --> 00:19:55,027 and mast cells would normally show up to that, 461 00:19:55,110 --> 00:19:57,446 you know to try and help with the inflammation. 462 00:20:00,157 --> 00:20:04,077 A lot of figuring out these cases is forensic-y detective work. 463 00:20:04,161 --> 00:20:06,955 You know, you just have to keep going through the symptoms, 464 00:20:07,039 --> 00:20:08,457 think of what can cause it, 465 00:20:08,540 --> 00:20:11,710 so my next biggest rule-out is that she ate something bad. 466 00:20:12,377 --> 00:20:13,462 We have the vomit. 467 00:20:13,545 --> 00:20:15,088 I might peek at the vomit. 468 00:20:15,172 --> 00:20:17,216 She was definitely eating like grass. 469 00:20:17,799 --> 00:20:19,760 Krystal saved some of her vomit when she threw up, 470 00:20:19,843 --> 00:20:22,471 so we can actually have a look at it because sometimes 471 00:20:22,554 --> 00:20:23,889 the proof is in the pudding. 472 00:20:25,015 --> 00:20:27,935 It sounds gross, but you need to actually go through the vomit 473 00:20:28,018 --> 00:20:29,561 and you can find things in it that could give you 474 00:20:29,645 --> 00:20:31,104 clues on what's going on. 475 00:20:31,772 --> 00:20:34,858 Digging around, that looks like a mushroom to me. 476 00:20:36,485 --> 00:20:37,736 DR. TUOMI (off-screen): Yeah, it sure does. 477 00:20:37,819 --> 00:20:40,364 DR. OAKLEY: I mean, the ridges on it and this kinda thin. 478 00:20:40,447 --> 00:20:43,533 DR. TUOMI (off-screen): And it's certainly not dog food. 479 00:20:43,617 --> 00:20:45,827 DR. OAKLEY: Little stinker, she's into the shrooms. 480 00:20:47,621 --> 00:20:49,498 We're finding little tiny bits of mushroom, 481 00:20:49,581 --> 00:20:51,416 and even some of the tiny ones can be toxic. 482 00:20:51,500 --> 00:20:53,377 Especially to a little puppy this size. 483 00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:55,295 So, this is all starting to make sense. 484 00:20:55,379 --> 00:20:57,923 There are no treatments for when they eat these toxic mushrooms. 485 00:20:58,006 --> 00:20:59,758 It's really just supportive care. 486 00:21:00,717 --> 00:21:02,052 SIERRA (off-screen): Poor little bug. 487 00:21:02,135 --> 00:21:03,387 So, we're gonna pop an IV in her, 488 00:21:03,470 --> 00:21:06,431 get her started on some fluids. 489 00:21:07,474 --> 00:21:09,017 DR. OAKLEY: This is a drug to stop vomiting. 490 00:21:09,101 --> 00:21:11,103 Another poke for you, you poor little baby. 491 00:21:11,186 --> 00:21:12,980 It's been a tough day, I know. 492 00:21:18,485 --> 00:21:20,821 ♪ ♪ 493 00:21:20,904 --> 00:21:23,031 SIERRA (off-screen): All right, Herschel, you ready to go buddy? 494 00:21:23,573 --> 00:21:24,574 He was a good boy. 495 00:21:24,658 --> 00:21:26,785 OWNER: Oh, good. Come on buddy! 496 00:21:26,868 --> 00:21:28,120 SIERRA: Oh! (laughter) 497 00:21:30,122 --> 00:21:31,248 KRYSTAL (off-screen): Oh, Sadie! 498 00:21:31,331 --> 00:21:33,375 DR. OAKLEY: Okey-dokey. Look at this happy puppy. 499 00:21:33,458 --> 00:21:35,585 KRYSTAL: Hi, my baby! Hi! 500 00:21:35,669 --> 00:21:36,878 MAYA (off-screen): She's so excited! 501 00:21:36,962 --> 00:21:38,338 KRYSTAL: Oh, baby! 502 00:21:38,422 --> 00:21:41,174 SIERRA (off-screen): So Sadie's perked up a lot after some IV fluids 503 00:21:41,258 --> 00:21:43,260 and all the medication that we were giving her, 504 00:21:43,343 --> 00:21:45,595 and she's ready to go home, and I hope we don't have to 505 00:21:45,679 --> 00:21:47,431 see her back in the clinic any time soon. 506 00:21:48,098 --> 00:21:49,891 DR. OAKLEY: So she actually got quite a few mushrooms in a 507 00:21:49,975 --> 00:21:51,393 very short period of time. 508 00:21:51,476 --> 00:21:53,145 We're pretty convinced that it's mushrooms, 509 00:21:53,228 --> 00:21:56,189 but she still has this lump on her leg and I did see mast cells, 510 00:21:56,273 --> 00:21:58,650 so what we're gonna do is give it some time. 511 00:21:58,734 --> 00:22:01,153 If it's still around two or three weeks from now, 512 00:22:01,236 --> 00:22:02,946 there's something seriously wrong. 513 00:22:03,030 --> 00:22:05,866 Puppies are so goofy how they'll just eat anything. 514 00:22:05,949 --> 00:22:07,075 KRYSTAL: Yes, they are. 515 00:22:07,159 --> 00:22:08,660 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): We'll stay in touch. No shrooms for you! 516 00:22:13,874 --> 00:22:18,587 ♪ ♪ 517 00:22:18,670 --> 00:22:20,339 DR. OAKLEY: So today is wolf day. 518 00:22:20,422 --> 00:22:24,760 One thing I want you to not do today is cry wolf. Okay? 519 00:22:25,886 --> 00:22:27,929 Unless you need to cry wolf, like if a wolf is loose, 520 00:22:28,013 --> 00:22:29,723 feel free to cry wolf. 521 00:22:29,806 --> 00:22:31,099 SIERRA: Yes, I will. 522 00:22:32,476 --> 00:22:37,647 (howling) 523 00:22:37,731 --> 00:22:39,441 SARAH (off-screen): Deshka is our five-year-old female tundra wolf. 524 00:22:39,524 --> 00:22:40,901 So they can be called tundra wolves, 525 00:22:40,984 --> 00:22:42,152 gray wolves, timber wolves. 526 00:22:42,235 --> 00:22:44,029 It just kind of depends on the area that you're in. 527 00:22:44,112 --> 00:22:48,075 Deshka is certainly a queen, she is the top wolf in the pack, 528 00:22:48,158 --> 00:22:49,284 and the woman runs the show, 529 00:22:49,368 --> 00:22:51,119 so she's the boss lady. 530 00:22:53,789 --> 00:22:55,374 But it's also tough being the boss lady. 531 00:22:55,457 --> 00:22:57,709 You can't show weakness, and unfortunately for Deshka 532 00:22:57,793 --> 00:23:00,253 she's kind of got something going on with her left eye. 533 00:23:00,587 --> 00:23:02,089 It's okay, baby girl. 534 00:23:02,172 --> 00:23:03,757 She's been scratching at it and pawing at it, 535 00:23:03,840 --> 00:23:06,385 and you can clearly tell that she's uncomfortable. 536 00:23:06,468 --> 00:23:08,720 We've been trying to give her some meds that will help with 537 00:23:08,804 --> 00:23:11,264 any kind of pain, but it hasn't been making it better, 538 00:23:11,348 --> 00:23:13,141 it's actually gotten a little bit worse. 539 00:23:13,225 --> 00:23:15,519 (howling) 540 00:23:15,602 --> 00:23:17,354 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): They can certainly get eye infections, 541 00:23:17,437 --> 00:23:19,272 and we might end up having to remove her eye. 542 00:23:19,356 --> 00:23:22,109 So, we're gonna have to do everything we can to sedate 543 00:23:22,192 --> 00:23:23,360 her and get a good look. 544 00:23:23,860 --> 00:23:27,864 So I've got the special sedation pulled up. 545 00:23:27,948 --> 00:23:29,241 Should I not even be touching this? 546 00:23:29,324 --> 00:23:30,700 Is she gonna be like, "I smell Dr. Oakley." 547 00:23:30,784 --> 00:23:32,244 She might. 548 00:23:32,327 --> 00:23:33,954 She's so suspicious. 549 00:23:35,080 --> 00:23:37,124 Deshka is a very suspicious wolf. 550 00:23:37,207 --> 00:23:40,085 It's difficult to get a physical examine on her. 551 00:23:40,168 --> 00:23:43,130 We're gonna try one of the treats to be covered with a 552 00:23:43,213 --> 00:23:45,966 little bit of oral sedation, just to slow her down, 553 00:23:46,049 --> 00:23:48,009 just to cut a little bit of the suspicion. 554 00:23:48,885 --> 00:23:50,220 BRITTANY (off-screen): Hi, Deshka-Doo! 555 00:23:50,303 --> 00:23:51,763 Is everybody hungry? 556 00:23:52,347 --> 00:23:54,015 SARAH (off-screen): My keeper staff, Austin and Brittany, 557 00:23:54,099 --> 00:23:56,601 are gonna be the ones that kind of go give her the chicken. 558 00:23:56,685 --> 00:23:59,187 I'm hoping Deshka's not gonna pick up on the different scent 559 00:23:59,271 --> 00:24:01,481 on the chicken because sometimes she's, she's on it. 560 00:24:01,565 --> 00:24:03,442 You know, if you have the best laid plan, 561 00:24:03,525 --> 00:24:05,819 Deshka will be the wolf to screw it all up. 562 00:24:05,902 --> 00:24:07,070 BRITTANY: Bri-Bri! 563 00:24:07,154 --> 00:24:08,321 Gate. 564 00:24:10,240 --> 00:24:11,283 MARK (off-screen): Come on, boys! 565 00:24:11,366 --> 00:24:14,077 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Our plan today is to try to separate the other wolves 566 00:24:14,161 --> 00:24:15,996 and then sedate Deshka. 567 00:24:16,079 --> 00:24:18,081 MARK (off-screen): Bri is locked down. 568 00:24:18,165 --> 00:24:20,584 DR. OAKLEY: And the reason we don't want to sedate Deshka 569 00:24:20,667 --> 00:24:23,211 when she's mixed with the other wolves is as soon as she 570 00:24:23,295 --> 00:24:25,672 starts to look wobbly or sedate, 571 00:24:25,755 --> 00:24:28,216 another lower member of the pack might take that 572 00:24:28,300 --> 00:24:29,759 opportunity to attack her. 573 00:24:31,595 --> 00:24:33,555 BRITTANY (off-screen): Hi, Deshka-Doo. 574 00:24:37,309 --> 00:24:38,560 Gonna do it. 575 00:24:40,061 --> 00:24:41,480 Good girl. 576 00:24:41,563 --> 00:24:43,231 She ate it. 577 00:24:43,315 --> 00:24:44,399 SARAH (over radio): Heck yeah. 578 00:24:44,483 --> 00:24:47,277 Brittany just radioed and said Deshka actually took the laced chicken, 579 00:24:47,360 --> 00:24:49,821 which is super random cause nothing ever goes 580 00:24:49,905 --> 00:24:51,031 the way you want it to. 581 00:24:51,114 --> 00:24:52,532 So you always plan for the worst case scenario 582 00:24:52,616 --> 00:24:53,658 and you hope for the best. 583 00:24:53,742 --> 00:24:55,076 BRITTANY (off-screen): Head's getting a little droopier. 584 00:24:55,160 --> 00:24:56,328 SARAH: Okay. 585 00:24:56,411 --> 00:24:58,288 SARAH: I'm gonna come back with the syringe 586 00:24:58,371 --> 00:24:59,956 and we're gonna try to give her some meds. 587 00:25:00,040 --> 00:25:01,041 BRITTANY (off-screen): Copy. 588 00:25:01,124 --> 00:25:02,167 SARAH: (off-screen) So I'm gonna go ahead and go out there 589 00:25:02,250 --> 00:25:04,002 and see if Deshka will let me do a hand injection. 590 00:25:04,628 --> 00:25:06,588 A quick poke and it'll all be over. 591 00:25:07,214 --> 00:25:08,465 It's okay, honey. 592 00:25:09,049 --> 00:25:10,634 It's okay. 593 00:25:10,717 --> 00:25:12,427 Hi, yeah. 594 00:25:12,844 --> 00:25:15,555 We can't reach you when you're way over there. 595 00:25:16,348 --> 00:25:17,390 Look at that. 596 00:25:17,474 --> 00:25:18,683 SARAH: It's right there, just keep it there. 597 00:25:18,975 --> 00:25:19,976 - Please don't stab me. 598 00:25:20,477 --> 00:25:21,478 SARAH: I know. 599 00:25:21,561 --> 00:25:22,562 BRITTANY (off-screen): Hey come back! 600 00:25:22,646 --> 00:25:24,105 SARAH (off-screen): Good girl, Desh! 601 00:25:24,189 --> 00:25:26,024 Good girl, good girl. 602 00:25:27,192 --> 00:25:28,902 (yelp) 603 00:25:29,611 --> 00:25:30,695 It's okay! 604 00:25:31,029 --> 00:25:33,365 It's okay, Desh, it's okay. It's okay. 605 00:25:33,448 --> 00:25:36,368 Magically Deshka just lined up when she showed her right shoulder. 606 00:25:36,451 --> 00:25:38,870 She got pretty much all of the injection. 607 00:25:38,954 --> 00:25:40,997 It's okay, Desh! 608 00:25:42,707 --> 00:25:43,917 Desh? 609 00:25:44,000 --> 00:25:46,670 BRITTANY (off-screen): Of course now she's on the hill and is not coming down. 610 00:25:47,837 --> 00:25:50,006 SARAH (off-screen): Hey, Michelle, she's already on the ground almost. 611 00:25:50,090 --> 00:25:51,758 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Oh! Something just happened. 612 00:25:51,841 --> 00:25:52,842 SIERRA (off-screen): What? 613 00:25:52,926 --> 00:25:54,219 She's just rolled down the. 614 00:25:54,302 --> 00:25:56,054 BRITTANY (off-screen): Oh, oh! She just tumbled down the hill. 615 00:25:58,181 --> 00:25:59,599 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): She just rolled over on her back. 616 00:25:59,683 --> 00:26:02,185 Her head is completely twisted and tucked underneath her. 617 00:26:02,269 --> 00:26:03,853 If her head's kinked like this, 618 00:26:03,937 --> 00:26:05,981 she just won't be able to move enough air and she could 619 00:26:06,064 --> 00:26:08,191 actually choke because of that. 620 00:26:13,196 --> 00:26:14,281 Come on. 621 00:26:17,033 --> 00:26:18,577 I'm going to go ahead and give her a little bit of a push. 622 00:26:18,660 --> 00:26:21,079 Basically, stretching out her head and making sure that 623 00:26:21,162 --> 00:26:22,664 she's got really good air flow. 624 00:26:26,543 --> 00:26:27,836 So I've got her in a good position. 625 00:26:27,919 --> 00:26:29,087 She's on her chest. 626 00:26:29,170 --> 00:26:30,380 I've got her eyes covered. 627 00:26:30,463 --> 00:26:31,715 SARAH (off-screen): Whenever you're ready. 628 00:26:31,798 --> 00:26:33,425 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Okay. 629 00:26:33,508 --> 00:26:35,302 Three, okay. 630 00:26:36,261 --> 00:26:37,345 Phew. 631 00:26:40,015 --> 00:26:41,057 Good. 632 00:26:41,141 --> 00:26:42,434 SARAH (off-screen): Oh, we got her back here. 633 00:26:42,517 --> 00:26:43,893 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Okay. 634 00:26:43,977 --> 00:26:46,062 Oh my god, that's so stressful. 635 00:26:46,146 --> 00:26:47,689 I'm so relieved. 636 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:49,858 Oh my God, the moose! 637 00:26:49,941 --> 00:26:50,984 BRITTANY (off-screen): Yeah. 638 00:26:51,067 --> 00:26:52,444 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Here comes the big bad wolf! 639 00:26:52,527 --> 00:26:53,820 Run! 640 00:26:58,283 --> 00:26:59,618 Bending at the knees. 641 00:27:00,410 --> 00:27:01,411 TRACY (off-screen): Do you need a hand? 642 00:27:01,494 --> 00:27:02,996 DR. OAKLEY: Oh my God, yeah. 643 00:27:03,079 --> 00:27:04,289 Oh my goodness. 644 00:27:04,831 --> 00:27:06,249 Okay. Okay. 645 00:27:06,875 --> 00:27:08,752 I'm totally out of shape. 646 00:27:10,086 --> 00:27:12,255 I've got my COVID-19 pounds on. 647 00:27:13,006 --> 00:27:15,091 Today I've got Tracy here, she's a very good friend 648 00:27:15,175 --> 00:27:16,676 and a great vet tech. 649 00:27:16,760 --> 00:27:18,595 My, what big teeth you have. 650 00:27:19,262 --> 00:27:20,972 The better to bite you with! 651 00:27:22,390 --> 00:27:24,059 The first thing we want to do is to see what the heck 652 00:27:24,142 --> 00:27:25,977 is causing so much irritation to her eye 653 00:27:26,061 --> 00:27:27,312 that she just won't leave it alone. 654 00:27:27,395 --> 00:27:29,606 Okay, the eye. 655 00:27:30,607 --> 00:27:32,025 It's so red. 656 00:27:32,859 --> 00:27:34,486 Ooh. 657 00:27:35,945 --> 00:27:37,405 We're gonna open that eye right up. 658 00:27:38,281 --> 00:27:40,575 What I need to do is actually see if there's a certain spot 659 00:27:40,659 --> 00:27:42,911 within the eye that's actually, 660 00:27:42,994 --> 00:27:46,331 you know, got a foreign body or is showing a major defect 661 00:27:46,414 --> 00:27:48,792 because that can start a major infection. 662 00:27:50,085 --> 00:27:52,545 Oh gee, Lordy! 663 00:27:52,962 --> 00:27:54,756 TRACY: Oh! 664 00:27:58,843 --> 00:28:00,136 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Okay. 665 00:28:01,596 --> 00:28:02,847 It's so red. 666 00:28:03,598 --> 00:28:05,433 Deshka has been pawing at her eye. 667 00:28:06,351 --> 00:28:07,560 Ooh. 668 00:28:10,188 --> 00:28:11,398 I'm going to try to get in there to see what the heck 669 00:28:11,481 --> 00:28:13,316 is causing so much irritation to her eye 670 00:28:13,400 --> 00:28:14,567 that she just won't leave it alone. 671 00:28:18,738 --> 00:28:20,115 Poor love. 672 00:28:20,949 --> 00:28:23,034 Yeah, that needs to come out. 673 00:28:25,829 --> 00:28:28,039 As I'm looking at her eye, wah! 674 00:28:28,123 --> 00:28:30,417 I mean, it looked like there was a giant stick 675 00:28:30,500 --> 00:28:31,793 coming out of her eye. 676 00:28:32,127 --> 00:28:34,462 Oh my goodness, what is that? 677 00:28:35,088 --> 00:28:36,131 I don't even know. 678 00:28:36,214 --> 00:28:37,507 Oh, boy. 679 00:28:37,590 --> 00:28:39,843 That looks like a spear. 680 00:28:41,219 --> 00:28:43,930 I mean it's definitely stuck somewhere in her eye, 681 00:28:44,013 --> 00:28:46,141 but I'm hoping it's not stuck in the surface of the cornea 682 00:28:46,224 --> 00:28:48,351 or even puncturing into the eyeball itself. 683 00:28:49,686 --> 00:28:52,731 When I remove it, we could lose some of the internal workings of the eye, 684 00:28:52,814 --> 00:28:54,607 and we might end up having to remove her eye. 685 00:28:55,066 --> 00:28:56,693 SIERRA: Hey, I'm gonna try to get a video of it. 686 00:28:56,776 --> 00:28:57,819 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Yeah. 687 00:28:57,902 --> 00:28:59,988 SIERRA (off-screen): Ooh. DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): What? 688 00:29:00,071 --> 00:29:01,406 SIERRA (off-screen): Oh. It just kind of came out. 689 00:29:03,908 --> 00:29:05,827 TRACY (off-screen): I pushed the bottom part of the eye ball. 690 00:29:05,910 --> 00:29:07,120 SIERRA (off-screen): I got it. 691 00:29:07,203 --> 00:29:08,538 DR. OAKLEY: Okay. Just hold on. 692 00:29:08,621 --> 00:29:10,248 Oh, yes. 693 00:29:10,331 --> 00:29:11,750 Voila! 694 00:29:11,833 --> 00:29:13,334 SIERRA (off-screen): Voila. 695 00:29:13,418 --> 00:29:16,004 DR. OAKLEY: Foxtail. Nasty little things. 696 00:29:17,505 --> 00:29:19,674 What I pulled out of Deshka's eyes was a grass seed, 697 00:29:19,758 --> 00:29:21,551 or sometimes called a grass awn, 698 00:29:21,634 --> 00:29:23,636 and there's a lot of different types of that around here. 699 00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:25,346 The most common one is a foxtail, 700 00:29:25,430 --> 00:29:27,807 and it's just a type of plant that grows a really tall 701 00:29:27,891 --> 00:29:30,852 grass-like stalk full of seeds. 702 00:29:30,935 --> 00:29:32,562 It looks like a furry foxtail. 703 00:29:32,645 --> 00:29:34,898 They tend to get into the animal's mouth, 704 00:29:34,981 --> 00:29:37,692 they get into their eyes, they can even get down into their skin, in their coat. 705 00:29:37,776 --> 00:29:40,278 And for whatever reason they'll start to migrate in further 706 00:29:40,361 --> 00:29:41,654 and get really attached. 707 00:29:41,738 --> 00:29:42,906 Oh my goodness. 708 00:29:42,989 --> 00:29:45,533 It was in her conjunctiva; it was in her lid. 709 00:29:45,617 --> 00:29:46,618 SIERRA (off-screen): Yeah. 710 00:29:46,701 --> 00:29:47,702 DR. OAKLEY: It was not in the eyeball. 711 00:29:47,786 --> 00:29:48,995 SIERRA (off-screen): Yes. 712 00:29:49,078 --> 00:29:51,164 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): But there is, you can see, a corneal irritation. 713 00:29:51,247 --> 00:29:53,249 So we'll put a little stain and then flush it. 714 00:29:53,333 --> 00:29:57,295 There's a lot of swollen tissues around her eye right now, 715 00:29:57,378 --> 00:29:59,422 so I'm going to go ahead and flush out this eye really well, 716 00:29:59,506 --> 00:30:01,007 use lots of saline to get it out 717 00:30:01,090 --> 00:30:02,759 and then we're gonna put a stain on 718 00:30:02,842 --> 00:30:06,429 and just see if any of that stain sticks to any major erosions 719 00:30:06,513 --> 00:30:07,889 or ulcers on the surface. 720 00:30:09,182 --> 00:30:11,059 Way down in there I can see there's a little bit of stain 721 00:30:11,142 --> 00:30:13,311 stuck at the cornea, but down low. 722 00:30:14,103 --> 00:30:16,064 Otherwise it looks pretty good. 723 00:30:16,940 --> 00:30:19,192 The most important thing was to get that foreign body out, 724 00:30:19,275 --> 00:30:21,110 and then I think with, you know, 725 00:30:21,194 --> 00:30:23,738 we'll give her some oral antibiotics and I think she'll 726 00:30:23,822 --> 00:30:26,199 just be able to heal it on her own now without that irritation. 727 00:30:27,158 --> 00:30:29,577 We're really lucky that we caught this early with Deshka. 728 00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:31,913 It was going to continue to migrate in to the point where 729 00:30:31,996 --> 00:30:34,123 it could have really caused some serious damage. 730 00:30:34,958 --> 00:30:36,167 SARAH: Hey. 731 00:30:36,251 --> 00:30:37,669 DR. OAKLEY: Dude, foxtail. 732 00:30:37,752 --> 00:30:41,005 So I think all we're seeing is just irritation. 733 00:30:42,465 --> 00:30:44,717 SARAH: It's a huge sigh of relief to know that we figured out 734 00:30:44,801 --> 00:30:46,135 what's going on with Deshka. 735 00:30:46,219 --> 00:30:47,679 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): One, two, three. 736 00:30:47,762 --> 00:30:50,890 SARAH: Thankfully Deshka's not going to have to be a one-eyed wolf. 737 00:30:50,974 --> 00:30:52,183 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): She's not on her feet yet, 738 00:30:52,267 --> 00:30:53,560 but she's trying. 739 00:30:53,643 --> 00:30:55,603 SARAH (off-screen): It's been really sad to watch her pawing at her eye, 740 00:30:55,687 --> 00:30:57,480 and I don't want the other wolves to go through the same things, 741 00:30:57,564 --> 00:30:59,732 so we're just gonna weed whack the heck out of the pen 742 00:30:59,816 --> 00:31:01,901 and get rid of all those seed pods and, 743 00:31:01,985 --> 00:31:03,736 hopefully, they won't get into any more trouble. 744 00:31:04,571 --> 00:31:05,905 Good girl, Desh. 745 00:31:05,989 --> 00:31:07,115 It's okay! 746 00:31:07,198 --> 00:31:08,491 It's okay, honey. 747 00:31:08,575 --> 00:31:09,617 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Aww, love. 748 00:31:09,701 --> 00:31:13,496 Deshka has a very important role in the pack as the alpha female. 749 00:31:13,580 --> 00:31:15,832 Being able to help her with her problem, 750 00:31:15,915 --> 00:31:18,793 get her right back in there really keeps the order. 751 00:31:18,877 --> 00:31:21,421 And there's peace in this wolf pack right now. 752 00:31:22,338 --> 00:31:26,134 (howling) 753 00:31:26,634 --> 00:31:28,636 SARAH (off-screen): So thankfully, Dr. Oakley was able to help me get Deshka, 754 00:31:28,720 --> 00:31:29,846 but while she's here, 755 00:31:29,929 --> 00:31:31,681 I still need help with our next tough customer, 756 00:31:31,764 --> 00:31:33,433 and that's Snappy the Great Horned Owl. 757 00:31:36,519 --> 00:31:40,398 Because Snappy is snappy, he will come after you. 758 00:31:40,481 --> 00:31:41,691 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Yup. Oh yes. 759 00:31:41,774 --> 00:31:43,276 SARAH (off-screen): Snappy is one of our older residents. 760 00:31:43,359 --> 00:31:44,694 He's the victim of a gunshot wound, 761 00:31:44,777 --> 00:31:46,988 and he certainly has the attitude to match the name. 762 00:31:47,530 --> 00:31:49,365 He's actually taloned me a time or two. 763 00:31:49,449 --> 00:31:51,993 I do have a couple battle wounds on some of my fingers. 764 00:31:52,535 --> 00:31:54,871 DR. OAKLEY: Oh, he's like totally giving me stink eye. 765 00:31:54,954 --> 00:31:56,247 SARAH (off-screen): Look at him! 766 00:31:56,331 --> 00:31:58,499 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): He's so judgy. 767 00:31:59,667 --> 00:32:01,044 Yeah, exactly! 768 00:32:01,127 --> 00:32:02,629 SIERRA (off-screen): Exactly. 769 00:32:04,505 --> 00:32:06,466 SARAH (off-screen): We noticed some of his feet might be starting to show 770 00:32:06,549 --> 00:32:09,260 early signs of bumble foot, which for birds in captivity 771 00:32:09,344 --> 00:32:11,304 is a really serious problem, which means we really need to make sure 772 00:32:11,387 --> 00:32:13,473 that we take care of those feet. 773 00:32:13,556 --> 00:32:15,475 So we really amped up the care this year, 774 00:32:15,558 --> 00:32:17,393 so I just want to make sure he's looking okay 775 00:32:17,477 --> 00:32:19,312 and maybe we've started to correct our problem. 776 00:32:20,063 --> 00:32:21,230 Okay, Snaps. 777 00:32:22,065 --> 00:32:24,359 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): The plan is to go into the enclosure with Snappy. 778 00:32:24,859 --> 00:32:26,611 We're just gonna try and get the blanket over Snappy, 779 00:32:26,694 --> 00:32:29,072 let him settle down and then I'm gonna give him the sedation 780 00:32:29,155 --> 00:32:30,615 and we'll take him out to the infirmary. 781 00:32:31,741 --> 00:32:33,159 SARAH (off-screen): Snappy. 782 00:32:35,203 --> 00:32:37,455 (owl hooting) 783 00:32:44,379 --> 00:32:46,005 SARAH (off-screen): Snappy, Snappy. 784 00:32:46,089 --> 00:32:49,384 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Snappy is not an animal that we can handle every day. 785 00:32:49,467 --> 00:32:51,594 He's not a fan of being touched anywhere. 786 00:32:51,678 --> 00:32:53,137 SARAH (off-screen): Stay down! 787 00:32:53,221 --> 00:32:56,265 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Great horned owls are kind of like the tigers of the sky, 788 00:32:56,349 --> 00:32:58,059 they're major predators. 789 00:32:58,142 --> 00:32:59,560 SARAH (off-screen): Don't fly on me! 790 00:32:59,978 --> 00:33:01,896 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Two feet with four talons each 791 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:04,232 that are really long for the size of their body, 792 00:33:04,315 --> 00:33:05,775 they're basically like four knives. 793 00:33:07,110 --> 00:33:08,319 SARAH (off-screen): Go into the corner. 794 00:33:09,404 --> 00:33:10,613 That's the corner you like. 795 00:33:13,992 --> 00:33:15,243 Nope! 796 00:33:15,326 --> 00:33:17,078 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): If a great horned owl grabs you 797 00:33:17,161 --> 00:33:18,997 and gets its talons into you, 798 00:33:19,080 --> 00:33:23,459 it's pretty unlikely that you're going to be able to easily get those talons out. 799 00:33:24,085 --> 00:33:25,712 SARAH: Go ahead and put that down on top of him. 800 00:33:27,171 --> 00:33:28,172 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): In order to go to the ER, 801 00:33:28,256 --> 00:33:29,966 you may have to take the owl with you. 802 00:33:30,049 --> 00:33:31,467 KEEPER (off-screen): I don't see where his head is. 803 00:33:31,551 --> 00:33:32,552 SARAH (off-screen): I think it's right there. 804 00:33:32,635 --> 00:33:33,636 KEEPER: Okay. 805 00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,805 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): I think that's his little head right there. Yup. 806 00:33:35,888 --> 00:33:37,140 SARAH (off-screen): Yep. There's his beak. 807 00:33:37,223 --> 00:33:38,599 Oh, oh, oh! 808 00:33:38,683 --> 00:33:40,018 You angry little bird. 809 00:33:40,560 --> 00:33:43,771 It's a little intimidating, but at the same time it's also my job. 810 00:33:44,605 --> 00:33:46,399 I could see his talons coming up after me. 811 00:33:46,482 --> 00:33:48,276 So, I just need to take a moment, 812 00:33:48,359 --> 00:33:49,402 I need to collect myself. 813 00:33:50,278 --> 00:33:51,946 Okay. I don't know, Dr. Oakley. What do you think? 814 00:33:52,030 --> 00:33:54,449 Uh! Oh. 815 00:34:03,249 --> 00:34:06,544 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): He starts to kind of fuss around and Sarah freezes. 816 00:34:07,920 --> 00:34:10,840 The advice I got from Maya earlier was commit to it. 817 00:34:10,923 --> 00:34:14,635 You know I get that, it can be really intimidating. 818 00:34:14,719 --> 00:34:17,680 Especially knowing that Sarah was previously injured by Snappy. 819 00:34:18,264 --> 00:34:20,683 SARAH (off-screen): Oh, angry, angry bird. 820 00:34:20,767 --> 00:34:21,976 KEEPER (off-screen): Oh, there it. 821 00:34:22,060 --> 00:34:23,102 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Yeah, that's it. 822 00:34:23,186 --> 00:34:24,270 SARAH (off-screen): You got gloves. 823 00:34:24,353 --> 00:34:25,646 KEEPER (off-screen): Grab them. 824 00:34:25,730 --> 00:34:26,814 SARAH (off-screen): Grab both of them? 825 00:34:26,898 --> 00:34:27,940 KEEPER (off-screen): If you can. 826 00:34:28,024 --> 00:34:29,067 SARAH (off-screen): With a finger in the middle? 827 00:34:29,150 --> 00:34:30,318 KEEPER (off-screen): Yeah, with a finger in the middle. 828 00:34:30,401 --> 00:34:31,861 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Once you're in there, you're in there. 829 00:34:31,944 --> 00:34:33,362 You've got to commit, you're in it to win it. 830 00:34:33,446 --> 00:34:34,739 You've got to just finish it. 831 00:34:34,822 --> 00:34:35,948 Like a boss! 832 00:34:36,032 --> 00:34:37,116 SARAH (off-screen): Yes. 833 00:34:37,200 --> 00:34:38,367 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): You're Sarah Howard. 834 00:34:38,451 --> 00:34:40,119 All right. Let's bring him here and I'll give him his injection. 835 00:34:40,203 --> 00:34:41,537 SARAH: Thankfully Dr. Oakley is standing by 836 00:34:41,621 --> 00:34:43,081 to give me a little bit of verbal encouragement. 837 00:34:43,164 --> 00:34:44,665 I got his feet, so. 838 00:34:44,749 --> 00:34:47,168 Apparently I just need to commit, because it's that easy. 839 00:34:49,545 --> 00:34:50,880 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Injection time. 840 00:34:51,756 --> 00:34:52,757 Mark it. 841 00:34:55,968 --> 00:34:57,720 Great horned owl in the house! 842 00:34:58,805 --> 00:35:02,183 My biggest concern working with Snappy is all about safety. 843 00:35:03,851 --> 00:35:04,977 Whoopee, whoopee, whoopee, whoopee. 844 00:35:05,061 --> 00:35:06,896 Sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry, sorry! 845 00:35:06,979 --> 00:35:07,980 You still got his feet? 846 00:35:08,064 --> 00:35:09,065 SARAH (off-screen): Yep! 847 00:35:09,148 --> 00:35:10,399 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): He's got three different weapons. 848 00:35:10,483 --> 00:35:11,484 He's got his beak and, you know, 849 00:35:11,567 --> 00:35:13,027 his two sets of talons. 850 00:35:13,111 --> 00:35:14,112 SARAH: Oh. 851 00:35:14,195 --> 00:35:15,905 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): He can really quickly grab somebody 852 00:35:15,988 --> 00:35:18,241 and it would be very painful. 853 00:35:18,324 --> 00:35:21,828 Make sure we're not squishing him too much so that he can breathe. 854 00:35:22,829 --> 00:35:26,290 We want to carefully restrain him and that's because birds 855 00:35:26,374 --> 00:35:30,628 don't have a muscular diaphragm to kind of move their chest. 856 00:35:30,711 --> 00:35:32,755 And they have to do that to get air in, 857 00:35:32,839 --> 00:35:35,591 so if you hold them too tight they can smother just because 858 00:35:35,675 --> 00:35:38,344 they can't kind of move any air in and out of their lungs. 859 00:35:38,427 --> 00:35:39,720 I'm gonna take a look in his mouth, 860 00:35:39,804 --> 00:35:41,305 that all looks good. 861 00:35:41,389 --> 00:35:42,890 There's his eye. 862 00:35:42,974 --> 00:35:44,183 These are not his ears. 863 00:35:44,267 --> 00:35:45,726 That's what's important about great horned owls. 864 00:35:45,810 --> 00:35:47,353 You see these little fluffy feathers? 865 00:35:47,436 --> 00:35:48,479 SARAH (off-screen): It's intimidating. 866 00:35:48,563 --> 00:35:49,647 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Those are not ears. 867 00:35:49,730 --> 00:35:50,940 You want to help with the ratchet? 868 00:35:51,023 --> 00:35:52,066 KEEPER (off-screen): Okay. 869 00:35:52,150 --> 00:35:53,609 DR. OAKLEY: So basically I'm holding kind of right at the toes where they bend. 870 00:35:53,693 --> 00:35:54,735 KEEPER (off-screen): Okay. 871 00:35:54,819 --> 00:35:56,362 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): And then I'm gonna go. 872 00:35:56,445 --> 00:35:58,447 And I'm committed, you gotta commit and you'll feel it like 873 00:35:58,531 --> 00:36:00,032 ratchet all the way back. 874 00:36:00,116 --> 00:36:02,118 Snappy has some amazingly strong talons, 875 00:36:02,201 --> 00:36:04,704 and each one of those has a little bit of a ratchet system 876 00:36:04,787 --> 00:36:07,957 that helps him kind of grab in and hang on. 877 00:36:08,124 --> 00:36:09,250 It's gonna feel like you're breaking it. 878 00:36:09,333 --> 00:36:10,334 It's gonna go... 879 00:36:10,501 --> 00:36:11,502 KEEPER (off-screen): I know. 880 00:36:11,586 --> 00:36:12,587 DR. OAKLEY: Tsk, tsk, tsk. 881 00:36:12,670 --> 00:36:13,796 KEEPER (off-screen): It scares me. 882 00:36:13,880 --> 00:36:14,922 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Okay, so you go ahead and do it again. 883 00:36:15,006 --> 00:36:16,841 I guarantee that he's out completely. 884 00:36:16,924 --> 00:36:19,844 Come on Chandelle, put your muscle into it. 885 00:36:20,261 --> 00:36:22,597 The advantage for us is if we open up that ratchet system 886 00:36:22,680 --> 00:36:25,057 it helps him hold his feet wide open. 887 00:36:25,516 --> 00:36:27,143 There you go. There you go! 888 00:36:27,226 --> 00:36:29,020 And that makes it safer for me to get in there 889 00:36:29,103 --> 00:36:31,063 and feel around and check out his foot carefully. 890 00:36:31,647 --> 00:36:33,733 Okay. And he has beautiful feet. 891 00:36:33,816 --> 00:36:37,236 Like, literally the best captive owl foot I've ever seen. 892 00:36:37,320 --> 00:36:41,240 And there's like no sore spots, like even there, that's nice. 893 00:36:41,324 --> 00:36:42,366 SARAH (off-screen): Awesome. 894 00:36:42,450 --> 00:36:43,492 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Lovely. 895 00:36:43,576 --> 00:36:45,328 So Snappy looks great. 896 00:36:45,411 --> 00:36:46,954 His feet are in fantastic shape, 897 00:36:47,038 --> 00:36:49,290 his talons were a little overgrown but we just kind of 898 00:36:49,373 --> 00:36:51,209 trimmed them and smoothed them out a bit. 899 00:36:51,292 --> 00:36:53,586 So these, these guys are captive, 900 00:36:53,669 --> 00:36:57,215 so, you know, they're not using their talons as much 901 00:36:57,298 --> 00:36:59,926 to go out and grab stuff and fiddle around. 902 00:37:00,426 --> 00:37:03,638 Overall, his physical exam, his body condition is excellent. 903 00:37:03,721 --> 00:37:04,847 SARAH (off-screen): That was nice. 904 00:37:04,931 --> 00:37:06,515 Snappy's never been such a good patient. 905 00:37:06,599 --> 00:37:08,351 DR. OAKLEY: Yeah! Good job, Snappy. 906 00:37:09,101 --> 00:37:10,269 SARAH: Oh. 907 00:37:10,353 --> 00:37:11,771 DR. OAKLEY: Okay, okay. Okay, buddy! 908 00:37:11,854 --> 00:37:14,357 In you go, just about ready. 909 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:15,441 KEEPER (off-screen): Yup. 910 00:37:15,524 --> 00:37:16,817 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Feet are ready. 911 00:37:16,901 --> 00:37:19,237 SARAH (off-screen): There's the Snappy we all know and love. 912 00:37:19,320 --> 00:37:22,698 It's really encouraging that Dr. Oakley was really impressed with his feet. 913 00:37:22,782 --> 00:37:24,575 Uh, you know, we work really hard to reverse 914 00:37:24,659 --> 00:37:26,702 what we thought Snappy's feet were going. 915 00:37:26,786 --> 00:37:29,497 So I'm really proud of my staff and I'm just proud of Snappy. 916 00:37:35,795 --> 00:37:41,175 ♪ ♪ 917 00:37:47,473 --> 00:37:49,517 DR. OAKLEY: So we weren't sure last time we saw Sadie 918 00:37:49,600 --> 00:37:53,062 if the lump on her leg you know was just a bug bite. 919 00:37:53,479 --> 00:37:54,897 Okay, let me have a look in. 920 00:37:54,981 --> 00:37:56,107 Open that leg up. 921 00:37:56,440 --> 00:37:59,902 And it's been three weeks, so it definitely should be going away. 922 00:37:59,986 --> 00:38:02,488 But it's not smaller, it's a little bit bigger. 923 00:38:02,571 --> 00:38:04,782 Um, it's not a bug bite. 924 00:38:06,409 --> 00:38:08,327 Unfortunately, that is a mast cell tumor. 925 00:38:08,703 --> 00:38:10,121 Plain and simple. 926 00:38:11,247 --> 00:38:13,249 We verified that with an oncologist. 927 00:38:13,791 --> 00:38:16,335 That's a cancerous lesion, which is just shocking 928 00:38:16,419 --> 00:38:18,337 on a young puppy like that. 929 00:38:18,838 --> 00:38:20,172 KRYSTAL: She's a good girl. 930 00:38:20,256 --> 00:38:21,340 She's a good girl. 931 00:38:21,424 --> 00:38:22,425 Easy. Yes she is. 932 00:38:22,508 --> 00:38:23,759 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): And mast cell tumors in dogs 933 00:38:23,843 --> 00:38:26,887 can be fairly serious all the way to deadly. 934 00:38:28,347 --> 00:38:30,975 So, we're gonna get this taken care of right away. 935 00:38:31,058 --> 00:38:33,060 And of course the best thing to do is remove it. 936 00:38:33,561 --> 00:38:36,897 I'm bummed because Krystal I know was already nervous about 937 00:38:36,981 --> 00:38:38,733 just even having a puppy. 938 00:38:39,525 --> 00:38:41,319 And now I'm telling her her puppy has a mast cell tumor 939 00:38:41,402 --> 00:38:42,945 that we have to surgically remove. 940 00:38:43,029 --> 00:38:45,197 So, not my favorite day. 941 00:38:52,163 --> 00:38:53,789 KRYSTAL: Come on. Hold on, Sadie! 942 00:38:53,873 --> 00:38:55,916 SIERRA: Hello, Sadie! 943 00:38:56,000 --> 00:38:57,335 KRYSTAL: She has no clue what today's gonna hold. 944 00:38:57,418 --> 00:38:58,502 SIERRA: No! 945 00:38:58,586 --> 00:39:00,004 We're gonna make her feel so much better in the long run. 946 00:39:00,087 --> 00:39:01,422 KRYSTAL: I can't wait. 947 00:39:01,505 --> 00:39:03,049 Bringing Sadie into the clinic today, 948 00:39:03,132 --> 00:39:04,800 I'm very, very flustered. 949 00:39:04,884 --> 00:39:07,053 There's a lot of stuff, emotions going through my head. 950 00:39:07,136 --> 00:39:08,220 She is my baby. 951 00:39:08,304 --> 00:39:13,809 We got Sadie because I've been going through a bout of depression, 952 00:39:13,893 --> 00:39:16,896 and my husband wanted to bring joy and light into my life. 953 00:39:17,313 --> 00:39:19,732 And she has done a tremendous job doing that. 954 00:39:20,524 --> 00:39:21,817 SIERRA: Okay, bye! 955 00:39:23,861 --> 00:39:26,280 KRYSTAL: The last thing I need is another thing to worry about, 956 00:39:26,364 --> 00:39:28,074 but I think she's gonna do great. 957 00:39:28,824 --> 00:39:29,867 Sorry. 958 00:39:30,493 --> 00:39:32,536 SIERRA: Come on, Sadie! It's okay. Good, girl! 959 00:39:32,870 --> 00:39:34,872 I've never seen anyone this excited for the vet. 960 00:39:37,583 --> 00:39:40,753 DR. OAKLEY: Today is the big day to get rid of that mass on her leg. 961 00:39:40,836 --> 00:39:42,380 One, two, three. 962 00:39:42,463 --> 00:39:44,715 And it's certainly bigger than last time. 963 00:39:45,049 --> 00:39:48,844 A mast cell tumor is a cancerous growth on dog skin. 964 00:39:48,928 --> 00:39:50,471 The biggest issue is that when you remove them, 965 00:39:50,554 --> 00:39:51,680 you don't just have to remove the tumor, 966 00:39:51,764 --> 00:39:53,808 you have to get really wide margins around the tumor 967 00:39:53,891 --> 00:39:56,435 to kind of get all the cells, and that's a little tricky. 968 00:40:02,983 --> 00:40:04,193 Okay, okay. 969 00:40:05,653 --> 00:40:07,446 All right. We're cutting. 970 00:40:11,242 --> 00:40:12,493 SIERRA: Everything must go. 971 00:40:12,576 --> 00:40:14,245 DR. OAKLEY: Everything must go. 972 00:40:14,328 --> 00:40:16,080 You can see I'm going way out around it. 973 00:40:16,414 --> 00:40:17,915 I'm going to go way underneath it. 974 00:40:18,707 --> 00:40:21,460 I'm careful to keep a nice, wide margin all the way around 975 00:40:21,544 --> 00:40:23,212 the outside of the tumor and that's so that 976 00:40:23,295 --> 00:40:26,298 none of the cancer cells, none of those mast cell tumor cells 977 00:40:26,382 --> 00:40:28,759 that could be at the margins are left behind. 978 00:40:28,843 --> 00:40:31,554 Because anything left behind could regrow a new tumor. 979 00:40:32,388 --> 00:40:33,806 Taking a little bit of muscle too, 980 00:40:33,889 --> 00:40:35,683 which is why there's going to be a lot of bleeding. 981 00:40:37,435 --> 00:40:38,561 Yuck. 982 00:40:39,687 --> 00:40:41,856 We'll just watch to make sure her heart rate doesn't go up. 983 00:40:42,481 --> 00:40:44,483 SIERRA: Her heart rate's doing fine. 984 00:40:45,443 --> 00:40:47,403 DR. OAKLEY: Cancer can be cured surgically 985 00:40:47,486 --> 00:40:48,737 depending on the type of tumor. 986 00:40:48,821 --> 00:40:50,739 There's a lot we can do for cancer in dogs, 987 00:40:50,823 --> 00:40:51,824 and a mast cell tumor 988 00:40:51,907 --> 00:40:54,994 is one that's very treatable surgically. 989 00:40:55,077 --> 00:40:58,038 And although it's unusual in a young dog, 990 00:40:58,122 --> 00:41:01,792 the upside is that young dogs grow and heal so quickly. 991 00:41:01,876 --> 00:41:04,920 So I'm very hopeful for Sadie that she's gonna have 992 00:41:05,004 --> 00:41:06,213 a very quick recovery. 993 00:41:07,840 --> 00:41:09,091 Dun, dun dun. 994 00:41:09,592 --> 00:41:11,135 This looks massive! 995 00:41:11,218 --> 00:41:12,803 So, we got it. 996 00:41:14,972 --> 00:41:16,265 So suturing up a puppy, of course, 997 00:41:16,348 --> 00:41:19,351 you've got to think ahead to she's gonna be really wiggly, 998 00:41:19,435 --> 00:41:22,855 so you have to do some tension-relieving-type sutures, 999 00:41:22,938 --> 00:41:24,106 which I'm trying to do. 1000 00:41:24,190 --> 00:41:27,693 And also, we're gonna use some pharmaceutical helpers 1001 00:41:27,776 --> 00:41:29,403 for at least the first three days. 1002 00:41:29,820 --> 00:41:32,573 Keep her a little on the sedated side. 1003 00:41:34,783 --> 00:41:37,244 SIERRA: Look at all those baby teeth! Uh! 1004 00:41:37,328 --> 00:41:38,329 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): What? 1005 00:41:38,412 --> 00:41:39,955 SIERRA (off-screen): This tooth is barely hanging in. 1006 00:41:40,039 --> 00:41:41,290 As Sadie's under anesthesia, 1007 00:41:41,373 --> 00:41:44,043 I notice that she has a few teeth loose 1008 00:41:44,126 --> 00:41:46,879 and it's really, really hard to get a baby tooth from your puppy, 1009 00:41:46,962 --> 00:41:50,090 usually they swallow it or they lose it when you're not looking. 1010 00:41:50,174 --> 00:41:52,259 It's just hanging there by a thread, 1011 00:41:52,343 --> 00:41:54,428 so I grabbed it off for Krystal. 1012 00:41:56,138 --> 00:41:58,015 I thought mommy would like a little baby tooth! 1013 00:42:00,434 --> 00:42:01,685 DR. OAKLEY: Okay, we're done. 1014 00:42:02,603 --> 00:42:03,646 Woo. 1015 00:42:05,898 --> 00:42:06,899 SIERRA: Okay. Wait, wait, wait. 1016 00:42:06,982 --> 00:42:07,983 Where'd the tooth go? 1017 00:42:08,067 --> 00:42:09,276 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Uh-oh. 1018 00:42:09,360 --> 00:42:11,612 SIERRA (off-screen): Mom, I had it wrapped right here in some little tape. 1019 00:42:11,695 --> 00:42:13,280 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): I never touched the tape. 1020 00:42:13,364 --> 00:42:15,074 SIERRA: It was like a little ball. 1021 00:42:15,157 --> 00:42:16,659 DR. OAKLEY: A little tape ball? 1022 00:42:16,742 --> 00:42:17,868 This? 1023 00:42:17,952 --> 00:42:19,286 SIERRA (off-screen): That! 1024 00:42:19,370 --> 00:42:20,621 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): That looks like garbage. 1025 00:42:20,704 --> 00:42:22,289 I mean, I think we can all agree. 1026 00:42:22,790 --> 00:42:24,542 SIERRA: Wake up! Wake up! 1027 00:42:24,625 --> 00:42:25,626 Oh, oh. 1028 00:42:25,709 --> 00:42:27,127 DR. OAKLEY: Hi, well, hello! 1029 00:42:27,211 --> 00:42:28,546 SIERRA: Hello! 1030 00:42:28,629 --> 00:42:30,464 So now that Sadie's gone through this procedure, 1031 00:42:30,548 --> 00:42:33,801 I hope that she is cancer-free for the rest of her days 1032 00:42:33,884 --> 00:42:36,011 and I hope that she's a very healthy puppy. 1033 00:42:36,971 --> 00:42:39,223 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Sadie's going home now. 1034 00:42:39,306 --> 00:42:40,474 Her mom is here. 1035 00:42:40,558 --> 00:42:42,685 SIERRA (off-screen): Mom's here! Are you going home? 1036 00:42:42,768 --> 00:42:44,520 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): All right, miss! 1037 00:42:44,603 --> 00:42:45,980 MAYA (off-screen): You ready to go? 1038 00:42:51,402 --> 00:42:52,861 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Let's get you out! 1039 00:42:53,404 --> 00:42:55,155 KRYSTAL: Oh, there she is. 1040 00:42:55,239 --> 00:42:56,615 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): All right! 1041 00:42:59,535 --> 00:43:00,744 KRYSTAL (off-screen): My baby! 1042 00:43:00,828 --> 00:43:02,371 DR. OAKLEY: Yes! 1043 00:43:02,454 --> 00:43:04,623 I'm really happy to hand Sadie back over to her mom. 1044 00:43:04,707 --> 00:43:07,001 I know Krystal's been struggling with this. 1045 00:43:07,084 --> 00:43:09,253 She's a little staggery for one thing. 1046 00:43:09,336 --> 00:43:11,463 KRYSTAL: Oh. My little cone head! 1047 00:43:11,547 --> 00:43:13,549 DR. OAKLEY: But sunny days are coming. 1048 00:43:13,632 --> 00:43:16,135 And, you know, the healing's gonna start now. 1049 00:43:16,218 --> 00:43:18,220 KRYSTAL: I'm so glad she's doing so much better now. 1050 00:43:18,304 --> 00:43:19,638 DR. OAKLEY: You're sure sticking it out for her. 1051 00:43:19,722 --> 00:43:20,723 We think that's awesome. 1052 00:43:20,806 --> 00:43:22,516 KRYSTAL: Thank you. Thank you, guys. I appreciate it. 1053 00:43:22,600 --> 00:43:23,601 DR. OAKLEY (off-screen): Yeah. 1054 00:43:23,684 --> 00:43:24,935 KRYSTAL (off-screen): I'm so relieved that she's back. 1055 00:43:25,019 --> 00:43:29,648 Sadie's just brought so much joy and chaos 1056 00:43:29,732 --> 00:43:31,609 all at the same time to the family, 1057 00:43:31,692 --> 00:43:34,194 and I think that's a comfort right now. 1058 00:43:35,070 --> 00:43:39,241 Knowing that my new baby was gonna be fine made my heart 1059 00:43:39,325 --> 00:43:41,201 just feel so much better.