1 00:00:03,795 --> 00:00:05,255 DR. MICHELLE OAKLEY (off screen): Cue the rain. 2 00:00:06,297 --> 00:00:08,508 Make sure you put on your windshield wipers. Woo. 3 00:00:08,591 --> 00:00:10,343 -SARAH HOWARD: Make sure we can see. -DR. OAKLEY: Yes. 4 00:00:10,427 --> 00:00:11,469 SARAH: That helps a lot. 5 00:00:12,012 --> 00:00:13,805 -DR. OAKLEY: Woo! -SARAH: Here we go! 6 00:00:14,931 --> 00:00:16,474 What a day to do Twix! 7 00:00:16,558 --> 00:00:17,934 DR. OAKLEY: Yeah! 8 00:00:18,018 --> 00:00:19,519 Oh, oh, there she is! 9 00:00:19,811 --> 00:00:20,812 Porcupine. 10 00:00:22,230 --> 00:00:23,648 SARAH (off screen): This is Twix. 11 00:00:24,774 --> 00:00:27,944 A couple days ago, we noticed Twix got a little bit of a sore. 12 00:00:28,028 --> 00:00:29,237 DR. OAKLEY (off screen): Ooh! Maybe she got quilled. 13 00:00:31,197 --> 00:00:32,824 SARAH: It's almost like right in the middle of her chest. 14 00:00:32,907 --> 00:00:35,076 DR. OAKLEY: Oh okay. Maybe it's an inverted nipple. 15 00:00:36,327 --> 00:00:37,328 SARAH: Is that real? 16 00:00:37,412 --> 00:00:38,705 DR. OAKLEY: Also a potential medical complication 17 00:00:38,788 --> 00:00:40,665 that I have never seen in porcupines, but... 18 00:00:40,749 --> 00:00:42,417 SARAH: You've seen inverted nipples? 19 00:00:42,500 --> 00:00:45,962 DR. OAKLEY: Yes, my pug has one. They need to be constantly... 20 00:00:46,046 --> 00:00:47,589 SARAH: Austin thinks you're full of baloney. 21 00:00:47,672 --> 00:00:48,798 DR. OAKLEY: I swear. I'll show you. 22 00:00:48,882 --> 00:00:49,966 -Yeah. -SARAH: Huh! 23 00:00:50,341 --> 00:00:51,760 DR. OAKLEY: But anyway, back to Twix. 24 00:00:51,843 --> 00:00:53,720 SARAH: Yeah. Come here, Twix! 25 00:00:53,803 --> 00:00:56,556 DR. OAKLEY: Today we're here at the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center, 26 00:00:56,639 --> 00:00:57,974 and about a week ago they noticed 27 00:00:58,058 --> 00:01:00,977 a really gooey spot on Twix's side. 28 00:01:01,644 --> 00:01:03,730 Transport her to the infirmary stat. 29 00:01:04,439 --> 00:01:06,775 It kind of sounds like there's some type of abscess there. 30 00:01:06,858 --> 00:01:09,944 We'll just have to look more closely and find the cause of it. 31 00:01:10,403 --> 00:01:11,905 What a good girl. 32 00:01:11,988 --> 00:01:13,490 She might've injured herself on the fence. 33 00:01:13,573 --> 00:01:15,033 Sometimes they get poked with a little stick 34 00:01:15,116 --> 00:01:16,159 as they're climbing around. 35 00:01:17,285 --> 00:01:19,037 Good girl. You're being really good. 36 00:01:19,537 --> 00:01:20,705 (engine starts) 37 00:01:22,832 --> 00:01:24,501 We know and love Twix. 38 00:01:24,584 --> 00:01:27,295 She came to the wildlife center when she was just a baby. 39 00:01:27,378 --> 00:01:28,755 She's about a year and a half old now. 40 00:01:29,089 --> 00:01:32,425 She was just the cutest little, like, ball of prickles. 41 00:01:32,509 --> 00:01:34,344 Incoming, porcupine. 42 00:01:34,969 --> 00:01:39,474 24.8 pounds, female, abscess on her side. 43 00:01:40,225 --> 00:01:41,601 (whimpering) 44 00:01:41,684 --> 00:01:42,977 Okay, friends. 45 00:01:43,061 --> 00:01:45,438 So we're getting ready to give her a little bit of sedation, 46 00:01:45,522 --> 00:01:48,775 but getting a poke into a porcupine is a little tricky, 47 00:01:48,858 --> 00:01:51,444 because, you know, she has about 30,000 ways to poke me, 48 00:01:51,528 --> 00:01:53,154 and I have one to get into her. 49 00:01:54,114 --> 00:01:55,990 This is my new porcupine shield. 50 00:01:56,407 --> 00:01:59,077 We found a lid that kind of has a handle 51 00:01:59,160 --> 00:02:01,955 and fits perfectly in the crate, so it can be kind of a shield. 52 00:02:02,038 --> 00:02:03,081 You can be like... 53 00:02:04,457 --> 00:02:05,458 SIERRA OAKLEY: Yeah. 54 00:02:06,584 --> 00:02:09,504 DR. OAKLEY: Injection. Injection. 55 00:02:09,587 --> 00:02:12,173 And see if I can reach in and either grab a tail or grab a foot. 56 00:02:12,549 --> 00:02:14,968 Oh, I'm gonna get quilled, I just knows it. 57 00:02:15,385 --> 00:02:19,097 (whimpering) 58 00:02:20,682 --> 00:02:22,851 Okay. Got her in her left hind. 59 00:02:24,978 --> 00:02:26,521 These are great shields. 60 00:02:28,773 --> 00:02:31,526 A lot of people don't realize they make noises at all, 61 00:02:31,609 --> 00:02:34,737 let alone such, like, ridiculously cute cartoon noises. 62 00:02:36,114 --> 00:02:37,157 Alright. 63 00:02:37,740 --> 00:02:39,993 Her entire body is quilled, really. 64 00:02:40,660 --> 00:02:43,830 A lot of people think that porcupine actually shoot their quills out. 65 00:02:43,913 --> 00:02:45,373 That is not the case at all. 66 00:02:45,456 --> 00:02:47,750 They can't do anything about getting the quills out. 67 00:02:47,834 --> 00:02:51,254 It's only if the quills contact something that they stick, and then they pull out. 68 00:02:51,754 --> 00:02:53,047 SIERRA: Everyone is always saying, 69 00:02:53,131 --> 00:02:54,799 "My dog was attacked by a porcupine!" 70 00:02:54,883 --> 00:02:57,886 And I'm like, I don't think these guys are chasing after your dog 71 00:02:57,969 --> 00:02:59,304 trying to jump into their mouth. 72 00:02:59,387 --> 00:03:01,556 It's your dog that's chasing after the porcupine. 73 00:03:01,973 --> 00:03:04,309 DR. OAKLEY: Ow! Duh, duh, ow! 74 00:03:04,726 --> 00:03:07,145 I get quilled every single time I work on a porcupine. 75 00:03:07,228 --> 00:03:08,313 I poke them, they poke me. 76 00:03:08,396 --> 00:03:10,982 (buzzing) 77 00:03:11,858 --> 00:03:14,736 So she's here because it looked like she had a pus-y abscess. 78 00:03:16,029 --> 00:03:18,448 That's her nipple, and that's her nipple. 79 00:03:19,616 --> 00:03:20,658 I'm not sure. 80 00:03:23,036 --> 00:03:24,871 Now it just kind of looks dried up. 81 00:03:24,954 --> 00:03:26,706 I can't find anything else. 82 00:03:26,789 --> 00:03:27,790 That could be anything. 83 00:03:27,874 --> 00:03:29,250 Sometimes she crawls on the fence, 84 00:03:29,334 --> 00:03:30,793 and she might have injured herself on the fence. 85 00:03:30,877 --> 00:03:32,378 She could've gotten a scratch. 86 00:03:32,462 --> 00:03:34,005 So it's just, who knows? 87 00:03:34,088 --> 00:03:35,798 I think it's just, like, been a bunch of irritation 88 00:03:35,882 --> 00:03:37,258 from whatever was stuck on there. 89 00:03:37,342 --> 00:03:38,384 SARAH: Huh. 90 00:03:39,385 --> 00:03:40,386 We thought we saw something, 91 00:03:40,470 --> 00:03:42,430 but it's always awesome when you don't see anything 92 00:03:42,513 --> 00:03:44,390 and she's totally healthy and totally fine. 93 00:03:44,974 --> 00:03:46,351 DR. OAKLEY: Hi, beautiful. 94 00:03:46,434 --> 00:03:48,937 Twix looks great. She's in fantastic shape. 95 00:03:49,020 --> 00:03:50,730 Let's get ready to do the next one. 96 00:03:51,314 --> 00:03:53,775 We also have another porcupine to look at, Kit Kat. 97 00:03:54,275 --> 00:03:55,276 Hey, buddy. 98 00:03:55,360 --> 00:03:56,653 You're just here for a checkup. 99 00:03:58,363 --> 00:04:00,865 SARAH: Kit Kat is our six-year-old North American porcupine. 100 00:04:00,949 --> 00:04:02,617 SIERRA: He's a handsome boy. 101 00:04:02,700 --> 00:04:04,702 SARAH: He arrived here when he was about a year old, 102 00:04:04,786 --> 00:04:06,996 and this will be where he kind of lives out his days. 103 00:04:07,080 --> 00:04:09,624 DR. OAKLEY: Okay, my friend, we're ready. 104 00:04:09,707 --> 00:04:11,000 (whimpering) 105 00:04:11,084 --> 00:04:14,921 He's basically getting his once-per-couple-year physical. 106 00:04:15,004 --> 00:04:16,714 -DR. OAKLEY: There we go. -SIERRA: Alright! 107 00:04:16,798 --> 00:04:18,675 DR. OAKLEY: Because I've never examined Kit Kat before, 108 00:04:18,758 --> 00:04:20,885 we're just not 100 percent sure if he's a male. 109 00:04:21,427 --> 00:04:23,012 I'm sorry, friend. 110 00:04:23,721 --> 00:04:25,098 SARAH: I'm pretty convinced he's a male. 111 00:04:25,181 --> 00:04:26,933 He's very territorial and very smelly. 112 00:04:27,016 --> 00:04:29,644 DR. OAKLEY: Phew. Oh, he stinks. He is so much stinkier. 113 00:04:30,186 --> 00:04:31,813 Porcupine have a very strong smell anyway, 114 00:04:31,896 --> 00:04:34,315 but a male porcupine in breeding season 115 00:04:34,399 --> 00:04:35,984 takes it up about ten notches. 116 00:04:36,067 --> 00:04:38,069 So we will see if he's a male or not. 117 00:04:39,237 --> 00:04:40,697 Alrighty. Let's get blood. 118 00:04:42,615 --> 00:04:44,242 They have short, fat, little arms. 119 00:04:44,325 --> 00:04:46,494 They're rodents, so they have, their vessels are a little bit different 120 00:04:46,577 --> 00:04:47,578 than a dog. 121 00:04:48,204 --> 00:04:49,747 (gasps) Ow! 122 00:04:49,831 --> 00:04:51,541 Argh, that hurts. 123 00:04:51,624 --> 00:04:53,293 (winces) 124 00:04:53,376 --> 00:04:54,669 Mmm. 125 00:04:56,421 --> 00:04:58,631 Oh my god, that hurt so bad. 126 00:04:58,715 --> 00:05:01,592 It just makes me think instantly, like, how would you like to have, 127 00:05:01,676 --> 00:05:03,803 like, hundreds of them in your face? 128 00:05:04,220 --> 00:05:05,847 Oh man, did that hurt. 129 00:05:06,848 --> 00:05:09,017 Okay. I want to ultrasound his belly. 130 00:05:10,685 --> 00:05:12,729 I'm just doing a real quick scan 131 00:05:12,812 --> 00:05:15,064 of his liver, which I see right now. 132 00:05:15,148 --> 00:05:16,149 It looks normal. 133 00:05:16,733 --> 00:05:20,320 I saw his right kidney already, and now I'm looking for his left. 134 00:05:20,778 --> 00:05:22,280 Ooh, there it is. 135 00:05:22,363 --> 00:05:25,616 Porcupine can get tumors and cancer like anything else. 136 00:05:26,242 --> 00:05:29,454 And now I'm just kind of checking out his intestines, 137 00:05:29,537 --> 00:05:32,999 make sure it feels normal, don't feel any unusual lumps or bumps. 138 00:05:33,082 --> 00:05:35,626 We are looking for signs of any masses in their lungs 139 00:05:35,710 --> 00:05:36,919 or elsewhere in their, in their belly. 140 00:05:37,754 --> 00:05:39,047 Looks really good. 141 00:05:39,130 --> 00:05:40,298 Things look normal. 142 00:05:41,215 --> 00:05:42,508 Okay, my friend. 143 00:05:42,592 --> 00:05:44,635 Kit Kat is an alleged male. 144 00:05:45,094 --> 00:05:49,057 And since it's breeding season, we may be able to evert a penis 145 00:05:49,140 --> 00:05:51,517 and see it a lot more easily than other times of the year, 146 00:05:51,601 --> 00:05:53,436 and also the testicles may be, 147 00:05:53,519 --> 00:05:55,063 like, more descended into the scrotum. 148 00:05:55,521 --> 00:05:57,065 There's a little bit of a trick to telling 149 00:05:57,148 --> 00:05:59,025 if it's a male or female porcupine. 150 00:05:59,108 --> 00:06:01,527 Sometimes you can actually, by putting pressure 151 00:06:01,611 --> 00:06:03,780 around the base of their, kind of, belly, 152 00:06:03,863 --> 00:06:05,865 you can actually evert the penis and see it. 153 00:06:06,366 --> 00:06:08,034 Ooh! Boom! 154 00:06:08,117 --> 00:06:09,786 -SIERRA: Is that it? -DR. OAKLEY: There it is! 155 00:06:11,162 --> 00:06:13,373 We need to video that for Sarah because I don't think she knows that. 156 00:06:13,456 --> 00:06:15,625 SIERRA: It's a boy! (laughs) 157 00:06:15,708 --> 00:06:18,002 DR. OAKLEY: This is a male porcupine 158 00:06:18,086 --> 00:06:20,838 and see his testicle, it's not normally that visible. 159 00:06:20,922 --> 00:06:22,965 And now look at this business. 160 00:06:25,051 --> 00:06:28,096 I don't know, is it a male or is it a female? 161 00:06:29,055 --> 00:06:30,556 My vote is boy. 162 00:06:30,640 --> 00:06:33,434 It's really rare to see a porcupine penis, 163 00:06:33,518 --> 00:06:35,978 but when you see it, it is something to behold. 164 00:06:36,771 --> 00:06:39,232 It's kind of cool to see the custom design 165 00:06:39,315 --> 00:06:41,567 that Mother Nature makes for each species. 166 00:06:41,651 --> 00:06:43,736 It's also really important as a veterinarian 167 00:06:43,820 --> 00:06:45,238 that you understand all those differences, 168 00:06:45,321 --> 00:06:46,989 and you know what's normal and what's not. 169 00:06:49,450 --> 00:06:51,369 -Well, hello. -SARAH: Whew! 170 00:06:51,452 --> 00:06:52,703 DR. OAKLEY: Very good checkup for him. 171 00:06:53,079 --> 00:06:55,623 We literally probed every orifice that he had, 172 00:06:55,706 --> 00:06:57,166 and it all looks normal. 173 00:06:57,250 --> 00:06:58,918 SARAH: Did you see anything to indicate... 174 00:06:59,502 --> 00:07:00,962 -DR. OAKLEY: Oh, did we? -SARAH: Oh yeah? 175 00:07:02,046 --> 00:07:03,297 DR. OAKLEY: Shall we show the video? 176 00:07:03,881 --> 00:07:04,882 SARAH: Video? 177 00:07:06,759 --> 00:07:07,760 Whoa! 178 00:07:07,844 --> 00:07:09,053 DR. OAKLEY: And now look at this business. 179 00:07:10,763 --> 00:07:13,474 SARAH (laughing): There's a lot going on there. 180 00:07:13,558 --> 00:07:16,310 DR. OAKLEY: I don't know. Is it a male or is it a female? 181 00:07:16,394 --> 00:07:19,188 What's your call? Male or female? 182 00:07:19,272 --> 00:07:20,731 SARAH: I'm... that's a boy. 183 00:07:22,608 --> 00:07:24,068 DR. OAKLEY: Kit Kat looks really healthy. 184 00:07:24,152 --> 00:07:26,112 Fantastically healthy boy. 185 00:07:26,195 --> 00:07:27,697 Everything looks really good. 186 00:07:27,780 --> 00:07:30,283 I feel like we did a really good, thorough job of checking him out today. 187 00:07:30,783 --> 00:07:31,826 (whimpers) 188 00:07:34,996 --> 00:07:36,581 SIERRA (off screen): Twix was big. 189 00:07:36,664 --> 00:07:37,748 DR. OAKLEY (off screen): I know. 190 00:07:38,749 --> 00:07:41,711 SIERRA: Got to get me home before midnight or I turn into a moose. 191 00:07:42,211 --> 00:07:43,212 DR. OAKLEY: Long drive. 192 00:07:43,838 --> 00:07:45,006 SIERRA: Yeah. 193 00:07:45,089 --> 00:07:47,049 (cell phone ringing) 194 00:07:49,218 --> 00:07:50,511 DR. OAKLEY: Hello? 195 00:07:50,595 --> 00:07:51,846 Oh no. 196 00:07:51,929 --> 00:07:53,598 We have an emergency coming in. 197 00:07:53,931 --> 00:07:56,809 Apparently, Pedro has gotten into porcupine quills 198 00:07:56,893 --> 00:07:58,603 and did a pretty good job of it. 199 00:07:58,686 --> 00:08:00,480 Oh goodness! 200 00:08:00,563 --> 00:08:02,023 -No fun at all. -(whimpering) 201 00:08:02,899 --> 00:08:04,567 Porcupine quills is definitely an emergency. 202 00:08:04,650 --> 00:08:05,818 His face is covered in 'em. 203 00:08:05,902 --> 00:08:07,987 They're close to his eyes, they're in his mouth. 204 00:08:08,070 --> 00:08:09,363 We've got to get 'em out quick. 205 00:08:09,822 --> 00:08:12,575 Why are you wagging your tail, you poor little love? 206 00:08:12,658 --> 00:08:14,911 I've had four or five quills just stuck in my hand, 207 00:08:14,994 --> 00:08:16,746 and those hurt like crazy. 208 00:08:16,829 --> 00:08:18,331 So you can imagine what the dog is going through. 209 00:08:18,414 --> 00:08:19,790 Okay, come on. 210 00:08:19,874 --> 00:08:22,835 I know. I know your feet are sore. 211 00:08:22,919 --> 00:08:23,920 (whimpering) 212 00:08:24,003 --> 00:08:25,838 We'll call him 62 even. 213 00:08:25,922 --> 00:08:27,298 NANCY MCGREW: His name is Pedro. 214 00:08:27,381 --> 00:08:29,800 He's two years old, and he's a mixed breed. 215 00:08:30,426 --> 00:08:31,886 MAYA OAKLEY: Oh, he's gagging. 216 00:08:31,969 --> 00:08:34,263 NANCY: He was just kind of playing around in the backyard, 217 00:08:34,347 --> 00:08:37,391 we have a shed in the back, and he ran underneath it. 218 00:08:37,475 --> 00:08:40,144 And that's where he had his brawl with the porcupine. 219 00:08:40,228 --> 00:08:41,395 (whimpering) 220 00:08:41,479 --> 00:08:43,940 DR. OAKLEY: Okay, buddy. Okay, buddy, hang on. 221 00:08:44,023 --> 00:08:46,317 Let's see how fast I can pull up sedation for you, 222 00:08:46,400 --> 00:08:48,277 and get your pain controlled. 223 00:08:48,361 --> 00:08:50,154 NANCY: He has a super sweet temperament. 224 00:08:50,238 --> 00:08:51,614 He's just a lover. 225 00:08:52,532 --> 00:08:54,116 It's painful to see him like that. 226 00:08:54,575 --> 00:08:55,576 It's very traumatic. 227 00:08:55,660 --> 00:08:56,869 -(whimpering) -MAYA: I know. 228 00:08:56,953 --> 00:08:59,372 DR. OAKLEY: It's okay, love. I'm hurrying, I'm hurrying. 229 00:09:00,623 --> 00:09:04,877 Seeing Pedro's face full of quills, all around his eyes, 230 00:09:04,961 --> 00:09:07,255 suspecting that they're all in his mouth as well. 231 00:09:07,338 --> 00:09:08,714 This is going to be intense. 232 00:09:08,798 --> 00:09:11,384 -(yelps, whimper) -I know, another poke. 233 00:09:11,467 --> 00:09:12,718 It's really painful. 234 00:09:13,511 --> 00:09:16,347 Quills migrate in really difficult spots to remove. 235 00:09:16,430 --> 00:09:17,431 They can lose an eye. 236 00:09:17,890 --> 00:09:19,559 It can be a very big deal. 237 00:09:19,642 --> 00:09:21,477 MAYA: He just got his sedation, so hopefully 238 00:09:21,561 --> 00:09:24,355 he'll be quieting down really soon and we can start pulling. 239 00:09:24,772 --> 00:09:26,232 He's definitely in a lot of pain. 240 00:09:26,983 --> 00:09:29,694 NANCY: I volunteer at a rescue shelter 241 00:09:29,777 --> 00:09:31,988 in southern Baja, Mexico. 242 00:09:32,071 --> 00:09:35,950 He was actually rescued from the landfill in southern Baja. 243 00:09:36,325 --> 00:09:38,744 DR. OAKLEY: There you go. Good boy. 244 00:09:38,828 --> 00:09:40,663 NANCY: I just fell in love with him down there, 245 00:09:40,746 --> 00:09:43,374 and I brought him back, and then I found him his forever home. 246 00:09:43,457 --> 00:09:44,917 DR. OAKLEY: Can I look in your mouth? 247 00:09:46,085 --> 00:09:48,087 Color is good. That's great. 248 00:09:48,170 --> 00:09:52,174 NANCY: I'm actually doggy-sitting him now, and this happened. 249 00:09:52,258 --> 00:09:53,259 Poor little dude. 250 00:09:53,759 --> 00:09:56,721 DR. OAKLEY: Now, first things first is we're just kind of getting him stabilized, 251 00:09:56,804 --> 00:09:58,472 getting a catheter in, 252 00:09:58,556 --> 00:10:00,725 getting the anesthesia to a good level. 253 00:10:00,808 --> 00:10:03,686 And then we're gonna start pulling quills. 254 00:10:05,896 --> 00:10:07,857 -DR. OAKLEY: Oh my lord. -MAYA: Oh! 255 00:10:10,943 --> 00:10:13,571 DR. OAKLEY: Pedro has gotten into porcupine quills. 256 00:10:15,615 --> 00:10:17,325 This is gonna be a while. 257 00:10:18,200 --> 00:10:21,704 He has quite a few in his mouth and at the edges of his throat. 258 00:10:21,787 --> 00:10:24,874 It's bad, it's definitely in the top five worst ones I've seen. 259 00:10:24,957 --> 00:10:26,917 We're using an injectable sedation, 260 00:10:27,001 --> 00:10:29,003 because to try and put a tube in can be tricky. 261 00:10:29,629 --> 00:10:31,380 I don't want to push more quills further back. 262 00:10:31,464 --> 00:10:33,507 We have an IV in, so I can keep topping up, 263 00:10:33,591 --> 00:10:35,426 but you don't want to start fighting with them 264 00:10:35,509 --> 00:10:37,136 when you got a lot to do. 265 00:10:38,721 --> 00:10:40,890 Okay, Maya. Get busy. 266 00:10:41,807 --> 00:10:43,809 (beeping) 267 00:10:47,897 --> 00:10:49,273 Alright. 268 00:10:51,192 --> 00:10:52,610 Here we go. 269 00:10:53,027 --> 00:10:54,695 Sorry about that, friend. 270 00:10:55,112 --> 00:10:56,530 But I want to get these away from your eyes 271 00:10:56,614 --> 00:10:58,366 before you start moving like that. 272 00:10:59,116 --> 00:11:00,868 Any movement of the animal's muscles, 273 00:11:00,951 --> 00:11:02,411 you know, even its facial muscles, 274 00:11:02,495 --> 00:11:05,122 that kind of helps push that quill in deeper. 275 00:11:05,581 --> 00:11:08,376 They can travel inches in a very short period of time, 276 00:11:08,459 --> 00:11:09,960 and you just won't find them at all. 277 00:11:10,544 --> 00:11:12,546 -(whimpers) -I'm gonna have to give him more. 278 00:11:12,922 --> 00:11:15,591 You are sneaky, huh? You just suddenly just get light. 279 00:11:16,842 --> 00:11:18,344 I'll try propofol for now, 280 00:11:18,427 --> 00:11:20,846 but we're probably gonna have to eventually intubate him. 281 00:11:21,722 --> 00:11:24,975 So I'm just giving him a little something to knock him flatter. 282 00:11:26,018 --> 00:11:27,436 Let's start again. 283 00:11:28,979 --> 00:11:30,940 Ooh, this one's right in the corner. 284 00:11:32,191 --> 00:11:33,901 Yes. 285 00:11:34,360 --> 00:11:36,570 You got into the real deep ones, didn't you? 286 00:11:36,654 --> 00:11:38,656 (whimpering) 287 00:11:38,739 --> 00:11:40,574 The porcupine definitely won this round. 288 00:11:41,200 --> 00:11:43,452 Let's intubate. Is our gas all ready to go? 289 00:11:44,412 --> 00:11:48,040 Removing so many of these quills from Pedro's mouth is so painful 290 00:11:48,124 --> 00:11:50,543 that he's just breaking through that sedation. 291 00:11:50,626 --> 00:11:52,044 It's just not enough. 292 00:11:52,128 --> 00:11:54,714 I'm gonna give him more and then we'll see if I can intubate him 293 00:11:54,797 --> 00:11:56,716 without shoving more quills down there. 294 00:11:57,258 --> 00:11:59,135 I'm gonna switch to a general anesthesia. 295 00:11:59,218 --> 00:12:01,637 I'm gonna intubate him and get him on a really nice, 296 00:12:01,721 --> 00:12:03,389 constant, deeper plane, 297 00:12:03,472 --> 00:12:04,974 so I can keep pulling the quills 298 00:12:05,057 --> 00:12:07,184 without having him feel any of the discomfort. 299 00:12:07,601 --> 00:12:09,937 Ooh, there's two back in his throat. 300 00:12:10,604 --> 00:12:13,107 But first, I want to clear his airway. 301 00:12:13,190 --> 00:12:14,400 Oh, that's huge. 302 00:12:14,483 --> 00:12:17,111 Ooh, that was all the way in the back of his throat. 303 00:12:17,194 --> 00:12:19,780 When you get quills kind of at the back of the throat, 304 00:12:19,864 --> 00:12:22,366 they can migrate into his trachea and lungs. 305 00:12:22,450 --> 00:12:24,660 They can migrate down his GI tract. 306 00:12:25,161 --> 00:12:26,203 Past his tonsils. 307 00:12:26,620 --> 00:12:27,872 Tonsils are brutal. 308 00:12:28,456 --> 00:12:29,457 There we go. 309 00:12:29,957 --> 00:12:31,459 Now that the airway is cleared, 310 00:12:31,542 --> 00:12:33,627 I need to get him on the gas anesthesia 311 00:12:33,711 --> 00:12:35,337 so that he is solidly down. 312 00:12:35,421 --> 00:12:36,672 Go night-night, okay. 313 00:12:36,756 --> 00:12:39,425 You got to really get them flat to do a good job. 314 00:12:39,717 --> 00:12:40,718 Okay, good. 315 00:12:41,218 --> 00:12:44,680 ♪ Lullaby and goodnight ♪ 316 00:12:44,764 --> 00:12:46,682 ♪ Doo, doo, doo, doo... ♪ 317 00:12:47,975 --> 00:12:49,018 Alright. 318 00:12:50,060 --> 00:12:51,812 We're getting down to the nitty-gritties, bud. 319 00:12:53,814 --> 00:12:54,982 Yeah! 320 00:12:57,151 --> 00:13:01,530 Ooh, look at that. One, two, three, four, five-for-one sale. 321 00:13:01,614 --> 00:13:02,948 MAYA: We should make it a competition. 322 00:13:03,032 --> 00:13:04,492 DR. OAKLEY: Oh yeah, who gets the most. 323 00:13:04,575 --> 00:13:06,827 I tease her a little bit about who can pull the most quills, 324 00:13:06,911 --> 00:13:09,246 but we both know it's most important that we get 325 00:13:09,330 --> 00:13:11,499 all the quills completely out quickly 326 00:13:11,582 --> 00:13:12,917 so that we can wake him back up. 327 00:13:13,459 --> 00:13:14,794 MAYA: No broken ones. 328 00:13:14,877 --> 00:13:17,129 DR. OAKLEY: Is that seven? One, two, three... 329 00:13:17,213 --> 00:13:18,214 -I think it is. -MAYA: I can't count. 330 00:13:18,589 --> 00:13:20,549 DR. OAKLEY: That was a record of most at once. 331 00:13:21,091 --> 00:13:23,844 Ooh, look at these under his tongue. Ow! 332 00:13:23,928 --> 00:13:25,304 How did they get under his tongue? 333 00:13:26,555 --> 00:13:28,516 Holy moly. 334 00:13:30,476 --> 00:13:32,311 I don't see anything else in there, so... 335 00:13:32,394 --> 00:13:34,021 I think we're pretty much done now. 336 00:13:34,480 --> 00:13:37,483 With quills, it's usually an amazingly fast recovery. 337 00:13:37,566 --> 00:13:40,027 Like, he'll for sure be sore for, like, two or three days, 338 00:13:40,110 --> 00:13:41,862 but the mouth heals so fast. 339 00:13:41,946 --> 00:13:46,575 It's just time, pain meds, antibiotics, soft food, 340 00:13:46,659 --> 00:13:48,994 and hopefully gives him time to think about what he did. 341 00:13:51,205 --> 00:13:52,998 There you go, buddy. 342 00:13:54,750 --> 00:13:56,335 Winner, winner, chicken dinner. 343 00:13:57,211 --> 00:13:58,254 Look at that. 344 00:13:58,337 --> 00:14:00,422 Look at this mat of quills that I have. 345 00:14:00,506 --> 00:14:01,966 That's like 400. 346 00:14:02,675 --> 00:14:03,717 MAYA: I think you won. 347 00:14:03,801 --> 00:14:04,844 DR. OAKLEY: I definitely won. 348 00:14:06,554 --> 00:14:08,097 Oh, his tail! 349 00:14:08,180 --> 00:14:09,807 Oh. 350 00:14:09,890 --> 00:14:12,643 What a good boy. 351 00:14:12,726 --> 00:14:14,311 You wake up happy. 352 00:14:15,062 --> 00:14:16,689 Like, he can't get his tongue back in his mouth, 353 00:14:16,772 --> 00:14:18,774 but he can wag his tail this fast. 354 00:14:20,860 --> 00:14:23,404 Okay. Hello. 355 00:14:23,487 --> 00:14:25,990 NANCY: Hi. Hey, buddy. 356 00:14:26,073 --> 00:14:28,659 This is not his first time with a porcupine encounter. 357 00:14:28,742 --> 00:14:30,703 It's more like his fourth or fifth. 358 00:14:31,078 --> 00:14:33,163 So you'd think he would have learned to stay away from them, 359 00:14:33,247 --> 00:14:34,915 because he's a smart dog. 360 00:14:35,374 --> 00:14:38,627 But he just doesn't get the porcupine thing yet. 361 00:14:38,711 --> 00:14:40,921 -DR. OAKLEY: You were really good. -NANCY: He's a good boy. 362 00:14:41,005 --> 00:14:42,548 DR. OAKLEY: You were so good! 363 00:14:42,631 --> 00:14:43,966 NANCY: You ready to go home? 364 00:14:44,049 --> 00:14:45,301 DR. OAKLEY: I hope Pedro learns, 365 00:14:45,384 --> 00:14:47,803 but I think really he needs to be just on lockdown, 366 00:14:47,887 --> 00:14:50,806 especially in the fall when it's porcupine breeding season. 367 00:14:50,890 --> 00:14:51,932 NANCY: There we go. 368 00:14:52,016 --> 00:14:53,642 DR. OAKLEY: I'm just glad I was here in town to help him out. 369 00:14:57,062 --> 00:14:58,939 MAYA (off screen): Been driving a lot lately. 370 00:14:59,023 --> 00:15:00,107 DR. OAKLEY: I know. 371 00:15:00,941 --> 00:15:03,652 We need to start breaking it up with a little, like, yoga 372 00:15:04,236 --> 00:15:06,405 or dancing in our driving. 373 00:15:06,488 --> 00:15:08,407 Let's put on music and just kind of... 374 00:15:08,490 --> 00:15:10,492 MAYA: I'll just take a little nap, Mom. 375 00:15:15,915 --> 00:15:17,458 DR. OAKLEY: Today, we're at Williams Reindeer Farm. 376 00:15:18,042 --> 00:15:20,169 Denise runs the show here. 377 00:15:20,753 --> 00:15:21,962 DENISE HARDY: Here we go. 378 00:15:22,713 --> 00:15:24,381 DR. OAKLEY: They run a real family farm. 379 00:15:24,465 --> 00:15:26,884 In addition to reindeer, they have some alpacas, 380 00:15:26,967 --> 00:15:29,094 they have a little pig, who's my favorite. 381 00:15:29,595 --> 00:15:32,056 Just a great educational spot for people to visit. 382 00:15:32,640 --> 00:15:34,516 Let's see if we can do it here, buddy. 383 00:15:35,684 --> 00:15:36,727 Denise asked me to come today 384 00:15:36,810 --> 00:15:38,354 because she's got a couple animals that are a little sick 385 00:15:38,437 --> 00:15:39,939 that she wants me to check in on them. 386 00:15:40,022 --> 00:15:41,565 That sounds awesome. 387 00:15:42,691 --> 00:15:43,943 What you doing? 388 00:15:44,485 --> 00:15:45,569 Barp, barp, barp! 389 00:15:46,111 --> 00:15:47,279 I one hundred percent want a reindeer. 390 00:15:48,030 --> 00:15:49,198 Reindeer are lovely. 391 00:15:49,281 --> 00:15:51,659 They're really sweet to work with. 392 00:15:51,742 --> 00:15:54,411 Of course, we have our dogs, and now we have a clinic cat, 393 00:15:54,495 --> 00:15:56,163 but I think a reindeer would round that out nicely. 394 00:15:56,997 --> 00:15:58,290 One of these days. 395 00:16:00,918 --> 00:16:02,336 DENISE: Oh, here's our broken antler baby. 396 00:16:02,419 --> 00:16:03,629 Come on, baby. 397 00:16:04,588 --> 00:16:07,341 We have a little reindeer that just recently was weaned 398 00:16:07,424 --> 00:16:09,843 from her mom and was trying to get back to her mother, 399 00:16:09,927 --> 00:16:12,805 and got her head stuck in the fence and broke her antlers. 400 00:16:13,263 --> 00:16:15,182 DR. OAKLEY: That antler is totally flopping. 401 00:16:15,265 --> 00:16:16,475 Her name is Poppy. 402 00:16:16,558 --> 00:16:18,769 She's about a five-month-old calf at this point. 403 00:16:18,852 --> 00:16:19,937 Poor lovey. 404 00:16:20,020 --> 00:16:22,481 The antler velvet is holding it in place. 405 00:16:22,564 --> 00:16:23,691 DENISE: It's okay. 406 00:16:23,774 --> 00:16:25,526 I was just sick to my stomach when I saw it. 407 00:16:26,110 --> 00:16:28,362 You can tell she's in a lot of pain. 408 00:16:29,071 --> 00:16:30,364 They are like my family. 409 00:16:30,447 --> 00:16:34,201 I feel a big responsibility to take care of them. 410 00:16:35,828 --> 00:16:37,913 DR. OAKLEY: Do you want to run her through the chute? Is that how we'll do it? 411 00:16:37,997 --> 00:16:40,207 DENISE: Yeah! Let's do that. That'll be probably the safest. 412 00:16:40,290 --> 00:16:41,542 DR. OAKLEY: Okay. 413 00:16:41,625 --> 00:16:43,168 We're gonna get Poppy to go out from one of the pens, 414 00:16:43,252 --> 00:16:45,587 and then we'll catch her right as she comes through the squeeze. 415 00:16:48,424 --> 00:16:50,676 The squeeze is actually a couple mattresses 416 00:16:50,759 --> 00:16:53,220 that you just sort of catch the animal in nice and gently. 417 00:16:53,679 --> 00:16:55,597 That really catches you. 418 00:16:55,681 --> 00:16:57,141 -Woo! -(chuckles) 419 00:16:57,224 --> 00:16:58,225 DENISE: You got her? 420 00:17:01,353 --> 00:17:02,396 MAYA: Tell me when. 421 00:17:05,065 --> 00:17:07,985 DR. OAKLEY: Hi, baby. Hi, baby. 422 00:17:08,068 --> 00:17:09,862 -TERRY: Good girl. -DR. OAKLEY: Okay. Good one. 423 00:17:12,865 --> 00:17:13,866 It's broken there. 424 00:17:15,117 --> 00:17:16,118 Darn it. 425 00:17:16,660 --> 00:17:18,662 -DENISE: It's totally broken. -DR. OAKLEY: It's totally broken. 426 00:17:18,746 --> 00:17:21,373 The antler's just broken right off the base of her skull. 427 00:17:21,457 --> 00:17:23,125 We're hoping that they haven't actually caused 428 00:17:23,208 --> 00:17:24,585 any fracture in the skull itself. 429 00:17:24,668 --> 00:17:28,130 But it's possible if the fracture is at the base and a fracture of the skull, 430 00:17:28,213 --> 00:17:30,007 you can even get an infection that goes in the brain. 431 00:17:30,507 --> 00:17:32,176 It's definitely painful. 432 00:17:32,259 --> 00:17:34,344 First thing we'll do is put a block in. 433 00:17:34,428 --> 00:17:36,305 Oh, honey. 434 00:17:36,388 --> 00:17:39,183 We won't know how bad the damage is until I get in there 435 00:17:39,266 --> 00:17:41,560 and remove the broken antlers and can take a look. 436 00:17:42,061 --> 00:17:43,687 It needs to be really clean 437 00:17:43,771 --> 00:17:45,564 so we don't close in a bunch of bacteria. 438 00:17:45,898 --> 00:17:48,442 If you just were to leave a broken antler, it'll rot the way it is. 439 00:17:48,525 --> 00:17:50,778 It'll just be dead tissue that'll start a big abscess. 440 00:17:52,654 --> 00:17:55,574 Okay. Ready, Freddies? 441 00:17:56,617 --> 00:17:58,410 She is at higher risk of infection. 442 00:17:58,494 --> 00:18:01,705 I know it's not sterile, but none of this is perfectly sterile. 443 00:18:03,248 --> 00:18:04,500 DENISE: It's very hard to watch. 444 00:18:06,251 --> 00:18:08,587 I'm just worried about how deep it is. 445 00:18:10,756 --> 00:18:12,508 Is the skull fractured? 446 00:18:13,300 --> 00:18:15,677 DR. OAKLEY: It's basically just fractured right off the skull. 447 00:18:16,470 --> 00:18:19,098 I can see it's not only sheared away from the skull, 448 00:18:19,181 --> 00:18:20,599 it's taken a little bit of the skull with it. 449 00:18:20,682 --> 00:18:24,144 So I can see down into her sinus, so it's like, ah. 450 00:18:24,228 --> 00:18:25,854 Never seen that in a reindeer. 451 00:18:25,938 --> 00:18:26,939 Holy moly! 452 00:18:29,149 --> 00:18:30,734 DENISE (off screen): Is the skull fractured? 453 00:18:30,818 --> 00:18:33,112 DR. OAKLEY: It's basically just fractured right off the skull. 454 00:18:33,195 --> 00:18:34,321 You can see into her sinus. 455 00:18:35,197 --> 00:18:39,576 Where Poppy's antlers fractured are basically right off the skull. 456 00:18:39,660 --> 00:18:42,746 And in fact, one little piece of the skull has opened up. 457 00:18:42,830 --> 00:18:45,332 Right now, I'm just closing, like, the underneath tissues. 458 00:18:45,916 --> 00:18:49,461 This is certainly one of the worst cases of fractured antlers I've seen, 459 00:18:49,545 --> 00:18:51,672 and that's because it's left her so exposed 460 00:18:51,755 --> 00:18:53,382 with her sinus wide open. 461 00:18:53,465 --> 00:18:55,008 Do some skin sutures. 462 00:18:55,342 --> 00:18:57,594 This is not really brain surgery, but it's close enough 463 00:18:57,678 --> 00:18:59,138 that I'm concerned about an infection. 464 00:19:00,472 --> 00:19:02,099 A serious sinus infection in this area 465 00:19:02,182 --> 00:19:04,309 could track into the braincase over time. 466 00:19:04,393 --> 00:19:05,769 So I'm just gonna give her some antibiotics 467 00:19:05,853 --> 00:19:07,646 to help her fight any potential infection. 468 00:19:07,729 --> 00:19:09,064 (grunts) 469 00:19:09,148 --> 00:19:10,482 Can you hold her head just like that? 470 00:19:11,900 --> 00:19:13,068 Okay. 471 00:19:13,152 --> 00:19:14,653 So now, number two. 472 00:19:15,487 --> 00:19:16,655 I know. 473 00:19:17,823 --> 00:19:18,991 Sad. 474 00:19:19,366 --> 00:19:22,661 I suspect her ability to grow a big, beautiful rack 475 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:24,746 may be in jeopardy. 476 00:19:24,830 --> 00:19:26,790 Because she's lost all the germinal tissue, 477 00:19:26,874 --> 00:19:29,418 like, that entire pedicle has been swept away, 478 00:19:29,501 --> 00:19:32,588 I just don't know what's left to grow antlers. 479 00:19:32,671 --> 00:19:33,964 I'm getting there. 480 00:19:34,047 --> 00:19:36,258 The pedicle is the source of the new growth. 481 00:19:36,341 --> 00:19:38,468 And if you lose the pedicle or you mess up the pedicle, 482 00:19:38,552 --> 00:19:39,678 you either won't get antlers 483 00:19:39,761 --> 00:19:41,763 or you'll get really funky, weird antler growths. 484 00:19:42,306 --> 00:19:44,975 Oh yeah, lift it a bit so I can see where to cut. 485 00:19:47,269 --> 00:19:49,688 So whatever you see there is where it's broken off that. 486 00:19:49,771 --> 00:19:51,231 I didn't cut any bone at all. 487 00:19:51,315 --> 00:19:53,233 So it literally was just sitting there. 488 00:19:53,734 --> 00:19:56,153 I'll show you where it's fractured. Do you see that? 489 00:19:56,236 --> 00:19:57,237 -DENISE: Yeah. -DR. OAKLEY: Now, there's, like, 490 00:19:57,321 --> 00:19:59,656 that's just normal ridge. 491 00:19:59,740 --> 00:20:01,408 Definitely not as serious. 492 00:20:01,491 --> 00:20:03,660 It's just sheared away right at the skull, 493 00:20:03,744 --> 00:20:05,579 and at least the sinus is protected. 494 00:20:06,246 --> 00:20:07,915 I'm not a hundred percent sure 495 00:20:07,998 --> 00:20:09,708 if she's gonna regrow these antlers or not. 496 00:20:10,083 --> 00:20:11,668 Almost done. 497 00:20:11,752 --> 00:20:13,837 Poppy could end up being a bald reindeer. 498 00:20:14,421 --> 00:20:15,839 Poor little beauty queen. 499 00:20:15,923 --> 00:20:18,383 So we'll just have to see next year if she grows antlers again. 500 00:20:18,967 --> 00:20:20,093 TERRY: There! 501 00:20:21,803 --> 00:20:23,096 DR. OAKLEY: Aww! 502 00:20:23,764 --> 00:20:26,308 DENISE: To not have antlers is kind of putting her 503 00:20:26,391 --> 00:20:28,393 in the lowest pecking order. 504 00:20:28,477 --> 00:20:31,271 I have a feeling she'll become a pretty good pet 505 00:20:31,355 --> 00:20:32,356 pretty quick here. 506 00:20:32,773 --> 00:20:34,733 DR. OAKLEY (off screen): I'll bet that feels so much better. 507 00:20:34,816 --> 00:20:36,777 I know she'll get nothing but the best TLC here. 508 00:20:37,319 --> 00:20:38,528 I think she's gonna be just great. 509 00:20:41,365 --> 00:20:43,367 (phone ringing) 510 00:20:44,451 --> 00:20:45,452 Hi, Bonnie. 511 00:20:45,535 --> 00:20:46,536 BONNIE HEDRICK: Hi, DR. OAKLEY. 512 00:20:47,746 --> 00:20:49,581 DR. OAKLEY: I just got a call about an emergency that's coming in. 513 00:20:50,207 --> 00:20:51,959 Sorry to hear about Taku. 514 00:20:52,042 --> 00:20:54,878 Taku is a Malamute/Lab mix, and he burned his paws 515 00:20:54,962 --> 00:20:57,005 a few days ago, but it's getting a lot worse. 516 00:20:57,547 --> 00:20:58,799 BONNIE: Taku, come on. 517 00:20:59,424 --> 00:21:02,094 DR. OAKLEY: Oh, my love, with the sore feet! 518 00:21:02,177 --> 00:21:04,596 BONNIE: Okay, so you'll text me on my cell when I should come back? 519 00:21:04,680 --> 00:21:05,889 DR. OAKLEY: Yes, I will. Yup. I'll let you know. Okay. 520 00:21:05,973 --> 00:21:07,683 -BONNIE: Oh, thank you so much! -DR. OAKLEY: You're welcome, Bonnie. 521 00:21:07,766 --> 00:21:09,309 Good boy, Taku. 522 00:21:09,393 --> 00:21:10,978 We're gonna get you feeling better. 523 00:21:12,187 --> 00:21:14,606 Oh, Taku burned three of his feet. 524 00:21:15,649 --> 00:21:17,526 BONNIE: These people are having a new driveway built, 525 00:21:17,609 --> 00:21:20,153 and to build the driveway, they had to cut all the trees. 526 00:21:20,237 --> 00:21:21,738 And they had been burning the stumps. 527 00:21:21,822 --> 00:21:24,157 DR. OAKLEY: Good boy. Stay. Stay. 528 00:21:24,241 --> 00:21:25,951 Yeah. He's a big boy. He's 95 pounds? 529 00:21:26,034 --> 00:21:27,077 SIERRA: 95, yeah. 530 00:21:27,160 --> 00:21:30,956 BONNIE: He stepped into the ash. He started yelping like crazy. 531 00:21:31,331 --> 00:21:33,208 DR. OAKLEY: Both of his left feet are burned. 532 00:21:33,792 --> 00:21:36,837 And his right front also but maybe not so bad. 533 00:21:37,254 --> 00:21:39,798 BONNIE: We drove about a quarter mile right next to the river, 534 00:21:39,881 --> 00:21:41,883 and I had him hop out and put his feet in the water. 535 00:21:42,467 --> 00:21:44,469 And then we got home and I let him out of the car, 536 00:21:44,553 --> 00:21:46,972 and he kind of frolicked to the house, 537 00:21:47,055 --> 00:21:49,057 and that's what gave me a false sense of security 538 00:21:49,141 --> 00:21:50,434 that it wasn't so bad. 539 00:21:51,018 --> 00:21:53,895 DR. OAKLEY: Burns often don't look too bad at first, 540 00:21:53,979 --> 00:21:56,064 and as days go by, 541 00:21:56,148 --> 00:21:57,566 burns will continue to get worse. 542 00:21:58,150 --> 00:22:00,736 MAYA: It smells like anal glands or something. 543 00:22:00,819 --> 00:22:01,820 -DR. OAKLEY: Oh, his feet? -MAYA: Yeah. 544 00:22:01,903 --> 00:22:03,488 DR. OAKLEY: Oh, they're probably massively infected. 545 00:22:04,072 --> 00:22:05,407 I know that smell. 546 00:22:06,408 --> 00:22:09,828 Just guessing from the smell alone, we're talking about a serious infection. 547 00:22:10,746 --> 00:22:12,497 Animals can easily become septic, 548 00:22:12,581 --> 00:22:14,750 which means the bacteria travels inside. 549 00:22:14,833 --> 00:22:16,710 They can get totally sick with high fever 550 00:22:16,793 --> 00:22:18,670 and die from a septic infection. 551 00:22:19,504 --> 00:22:21,298 MAYA: Ow, those feet hurt. 552 00:22:21,381 --> 00:22:23,258 But he's still being so sweet. 553 00:22:23,342 --> 00:22:26,011 DR. OAKLEY: Let me get his sedation ready. I'll listen to his heart. 554 00:22:27,596 --> 00:22:29,348 SIERRA: How old is he? Is he, like, 10? 555 00:22:29,431 --> 00:22:30,557 DR. OAKLEY: Almost nine. 556 00:22:30,640 --> 00:22:31,892 Can I see your color? 557 00:22:33,060 --> 00:22:34,811 Good boy. 558 00:22:34,895 --> 00:22:36,646 BONNIE: Pets are kind of like your children, 559 00:22:36,730 --> 00:22:40,150 so I'm concerned that Taku has to go under general anesthesia. 560 00:22:40,233 --> 00:22:42,569 But there aren't any better hands than Dr. Oakley 561 00:22:42,652 --> 00:22:45,280 for him to be in if he's got burn problems. 562 00:22:45,364 --> 00:22:47,032 DR. OAKLEY: Okay, Taku, 563 00:22:47,115 --> 00:22:49,534 we're gonna do old man anesthesia for you. 564 00:22:50,035 --> 00:22:52,788 Where we're gonna start is just getting Taku sedated. 565 00:22:53,163 --> 00:22:55,624 This has to go in a muscle, and it's a lot. 566 00:22:55,707 --> 00:22:57,834 It's gonna be way too painful to deal with him awake. 567 00:22:58,210 --> 00:23:01,296 Are you ready, buddy? I'm sorry about this. 568 00:23:01,380 --> 00:23:04,007 Big injection. Sorry. 569 00:23:04,091 --> 00:23:06,885 I gave him a protocol that is very safe for older dogs, 570 00:23:06,968 --> 00:23:09,888 like really mild and really mellow. 571 00:23:09,971 --> 00:23:11,139 SIERRA: It's okay! 572 00:23:11,973 --> 00:23:13,934 DR. OAKLEY: Remote Alaska Burn Unit, ready. 573 00:23:14,017 --> 00:23:15,852 -SIERRA: Yeah! Alright. -DR. OAKLEY: Awesome! Okay, let's do it. 574 00:23:17,145 --> 00:23:19,356 Hold on, I'm gonna take this off. 575 00:23:19,439 --> 00:23:22,234 -Aww, it's okay. -SIERRA: Oh, twitchy, twitchy, twitchy. 576 00:23:22,317 --> 00:23:24,194 DR. OAKLEY: Oh. Oh. Oh. What's up? 577 00:23:24,653 --> 00:23:26,613 As I'm getting Taku sedated, 578 00:23:26,696 --> 00:23:29,991 he suddenly starts to be a little reactive and kind of twitchy. 579 00:23:30,534 --> 00:23:32,661 Let's put a catheter in right now while he's down here. 580 00:23:32,744 --> 00:23:36,039 And it feels to me like it's about to progress into a seizure. 581 00:23:36,123 --> 00:23:37,124 Okay, love, okay. 582 00:23:37,624 --> 00:23:39,459 That can be really hard on his heart. 583 00:23:39,543 --> 00:23:43,171 It can have a whole lot of other effects that I can't predict or control. 584 00:23:43,588 --> 00:23:45,632 Whoa, whoa, whoa. Quick with the catheter. 585 00:23:45,715 --> 00:23:47,759 Maya, pull up three mils of Valium, please. 586 00:23:48,260 --> 00:23:49,678 Son of a gun. 587 00:23:52,180 --> 00:23:53,432 DR. OAKLEY: Oh, oh, oh. 588 00:23:53,515 --> 00:23:54,850 What's up? What's up? 589 00:23:55,267 --> 00:23:57,144 A little minor seizure there, buddy? 590 00:23:57,519 --> 00:24:00,439 Taku suddenly starts to be a little twitchy. 591 00:24:00,522 --> 00:24:01,815 Okay, love. Okay. 592 00:24:01,898 --> 00:24:04,985 And it feels to me like it's about to progress into a seizure. 593 00:24:05,068 --> 00:24:07,320 Maya, pull up three mils of Valium, please. 594 00:24:11,491 --> 00:24:14,119 Why are you twitching, my friend? It's okay. We're okay. 595 00:24:14,202 --> 00:24:16,788 Okay. Whoa, whoa, whoa. Really slow. 596 00:24:17,164 --> 00:24:18,623 I'm pulling up Valium... 597 00:24:18,707 --> 00:24:20,250 -(whimpering) -Okay, love. 598 00:24:20,333 --> 00:24:22,294 ...because I want to prevent a seizure altogether. 599 00:24:22,752 --> 00:24:24,129 Let go, Maya. 600 00:24:24,212 --> 00:24:27,883 (whimpering) 601 00:24:27,966 --> 00:24:29,217 Okay, my love. 602 00:24:29,301 --> 00:24:32,262 Slow you right down. What the heck? That made you twitchy. 603 00:24:33,555 --> 00:24:35,265 We're gonna put a catheter in, run fluids, 604 00:24:35,348 --> 00:24:37,309 make sure he's stable before we continue. 605 00:24:38,143 --> 00:24:40,312 Because he just seems so reactive, 606 00:24:40,395 --> 00:24:42,647 I'm gonna get him under general anesthesia. 607 00:24:42,731 --> 00:24:45,233 What a good boy you are, Taku. 608 00:24:45,609 --> 00:24:46,902 Now I'm in there. 609 00:24:46,985 --> 00:24:48,320 Okay, buddy. 610 00:24:49,029 --> 00:24:50,405 Oh, that's better. 611 00:24:50,489 --> 00:24:52,032 His vitals are good and stable. 612 00:24:52,532 --> 00:24:54,701 Now we can actually do what we need to do. 613 00:24:55,869 --> 00:24:57,120 Good. Thanks. 614 00:24:58,038 --> 00:25:00,457 Taku has burned three of his paws 615 00:25:00,540 --> 00:25:02,751 by walking across some really hot coals from a fire. 616 00:25:03,877 --> 00:25:05,962 We're just gonna use IV bags with some saline 617 00:25:06,046 --> 00:25:07,631 and do a really rough wash, 618 00:25:07,714 --> 00:25:09,841 like koosh, koosh, koosh, koosh, koosh, koosh. 619 00:25:09,925 --> 00:25:11,510 It's almost like a little washing machine. 620 00:25:11,593 --> 00:25:13,637 You want to just shake loose all that dead tissue 621 00:25:13,720 --> 00:25:14,930 that shouldn't be there anyway. 622 00:25:15,013 --> 00:25:16,640 Get all that yuck away. 623 00:25:17,349 --> 00:25:18,767 Now that we're washing it and looking at it, 624 00:25:18,850 --> 00:25:20,519 there are some pretty bad burns. 625 00:25:21,019 --> 00:25:22,270 Ee-yuck! 626 00:25:22,812 --> 00:25:24,606 There's both second and third degree burns 627 00:25:24,689 --> 00:25:26,608 on the left front and the left hind. 628 00:25:26,691 --> 00:25:30,111 It's sloughed the top layer of skin here and here and here 629 00:25:30,195 --> 00:25:33,740 and around the nail beds, it's really quite infected. 630 00:25:33,823 --> 00:25:37,410 Part of that pad is peeled away and is dead. 631 00:25:37,494 --> 00:25:38,495 Okay. 632 00:25:38,578 --> 00:25:40,330 I'm gonna start dealing with this. 633 00:25:41,748 --> 00:25:43,208 Bummer, Taku. 634 00:25:43,792 --> 00:25:45,377 This is a big deal, buddy. 635 00:25:46,628 --> 00:25:49,714 Edge of this pad is peeling away, just dead right there. 636 00:25:50,423 --> 00:25:53,510 With burns, the key is to get the dead tissue away 637 00:25:53,593 --> 00:25:54,970 as quick as you can. 638 00:25:55,053 --> 00:25:57,806 Otherwise, infection is very likely to set in, 639 00:25:57,889 --> 00:25:59,182 and it's hard to get rid of it. 640 00:25:59,975 --> 00:26:01,518 I'm just debriding, and I'm getting 641 00:26:01,601 --> 00:26:03,770 some of the dead pad material out of the way, 642 00:26:04,271 --> 00:26:06,439 because that's just gonna hold bacteria in there, 643 00:26:06,523 --> 00:26:09,401 and I want it to go away. 644 00:26:10,527 --> 00:26:13,363 There's like little rings of dead tissue around his toenails. 645 00:26:13,947 --> 00:26:16,116 Those will kind of dry and tighten up, 646 00:26:16,199 --> 00:26:18,118 and then they'll cut off the circulation to the toenail, 647 00:26:18,201 --> 00:26:20,579 and he can even lose his whole toe from that. 648 00:26:21,037 --> 00:26:23,665 So all this kind of pad right here is dead, 649 00:26:24,082 --> 00:26:26,751 so I'm taking away the edge of that pad. 650 00:26:27,961 --> 00:26:29,921 Ooh, that's good, that's bleeding nice. 651 00:26:30,797 --> 00:26:34,342 Bleeding is good, because I want to get to the tissue that's able to heal. 652 00:26:34,426 --> 00:26:35,802 If it's not bleeding, it's dead, so... 653 00:26:35,885 --> 00:26:37,929 We don't want to leave any of that behind. 654 00:26:38,013 --> 00:26:39,014 Yech! 655 00:26:39,389 --> 00:26:42,559 So if you want to rinse that a little bit. 656 00:26:42,642 --> 00:26:45,061 What you see looks really awful. 657 00:26:45,145 --> 00:26:48,857 It looks like this raw, painful, red, exposed tissue. 658 00:26:48,940 --> 00:26:52,193 But what I see is a really healthy-looking tissue bed 659 00:26:52,277 --> 00:26:56,156 that now can heal and allow new cells to cover it and grow. 660 00:26:56,239 --> 00:26:57,365 Alright, the silver. 661 00:26:58,533 --> 00:27:01,953 All of that now is very open to infection from bacteria. 662 00:27:02,037 --> 00:27:05,165 So what we need to do is kind of cover it 663 00:27:05,248 --> 00:27:07,042 with a little bit of a false skin 664 00:27:07,125 --> 00:27:10,086 until the skin can kind of get back in and cover that up. 665 00:27:10,503 --> 00:27:14,799 This is a silver-impregnated dressing that leaches silver onto the burn tissue, 666 00:27:14,883 --> 00:27:18,428 and so that's a really good anti-bacterial for burn tissue. 667 00:27:19,512 --> 00:27:21,640 There we go. That's nice. 668 00:27:21,723 --> 00:27:24,392 You can leave the bandage on them for, like, five to seven days 669 00:27:24,476 --> 00:27:26,019 instead of taking it off all the time. 670 00:27:26,353 --> 00:27:28,772 We're gonna also help him along with some oral antibiotics 671 00:27:28,855 --> 00:27:31,775 so that his own body will get some help in fighting the infection. 672 00:27:32,776 --> 00:27:33,818 SIERRA: Oh, good morning. 673 00:27:33,902 --> 00:27:36,112 -(whimpers) -DR. OAKLEY: Good morning. 674 00:27:37,489 --> 00:27:40,283 We're gonna send him with some medications for pain, for sure, 675 00:27:40,367 --> 00:27:42,243 but also some meds to slow him down. 676 00:27:42,327 --> 00:27:43,411 Let's go, buddy. 677 00:27:43,828 --> 00:27:46,539 He's walking lifting his feet up, it's so sad. 678 00:27:46,623 --> 00:27:47,666 SIERRA: Aw! 679 00:27:48,458 --> 00:27:50,126 BONNIE: Ohh, Taku. 680 00:27:50,543 --> 00:27:52,295 Oh, hello! 681 00:27:52,379 --> 00:27:55,590 DR. OAKLEY: It's really important that he just kind of takes it easy, 682 00:27:55,674 --> 00:27:57,467 takes the weight off his feet as much as possible, 683 00:27:57,550 --> 00:27:59,302 and just allows the healing to continue. 684 00:27:59,719 --> 00:28:01,805 I don't think he's gonna need any more debriding, 685 00:28:01,888 --> 00:28:03,390 but he is gonna need a bandage change, 686 00:28:03,473 --> 00:28:06,226 like, in five to seven days and again in five to seven days. 687 00:28:06,309 --> 00:28:08,103 I'm mostly worried about the nail beds. 688 00:28:08,186 --> 00:28:09,187 BONNIE: Oh. 689 00:28:09,270 --> 00:28:10,855 DR. OAKLEY: So nail beds really tend to get infected 690 00:28:10,939 --> 00:28:12,023 on these type of burns, 691 00:28:12,107 --> 00:28:14,943 and I'm leaving tomorrow for almost two weeks. 692 00:28:15,026 --> 00:28:17,445 I talked to you about maybe getting to Whitehorse. 693 00:28:17,529 --> 00:28:19,739 DR. OAKLEY: There is a clinic called All Paws in Whitehorse, 694 00:28:19,823 --> 00:28:21,741 so we're gonna send him up there. 695 00:28:21,825 --> 00:28:24,494 And in five days, he's gonna go under anesthesia again 696 00:28:24,577 --> 00:28:25,745 and have the bandages changed. 697 00:28:26,454 --> 00:28:27,706 Bye, Taku! 698 00:28:28,164 --> 00:28:30,959 BONNIE: I think Taku is just going to lay in his bed. 699 00:28:31,042 --> 00:28:32,627 And he'll probably just let himself be pampered. 700 00:28:32,711 --> 00:28:35,213 DR. OAKLEY: You guys take care. We'll be in touch. 701 00:28:35,296 --> 00:28:37,298 BONNIE: He's a member of the family, and I can't think 702 00:28:37,382 --> 00:28:40,009 of doing anything short of everything I can 703 00:28:40,093 --> 00:28:42,220 to make sure he's healthy and happy. 704 00:28:45,014 --> 00:28:46,433 DR. OAKLEY (off screen): Road trip! 705 00:28:50,228 --> 00:28:53,523 -Oh my gosh, there's Holsteins. -SIERRA: Look at all the cows. 706 00:28:53,606 --> 00:28:56,067 -DR. OAKLEY: Oh my goodness. -SIERRA: I love cow colors. 707 00:28:56,151 --> 00:28:58,319 The black and white splotches, I love that. 708 00:28:58,403 --> 00:29:00,989 DR. OAKLEY: We're down just past Homer, Alaska, 709 00:29:01,072 --> 00:29:04,200 in a gorgeous spot that kind of looks over Kachemak Bay, 710 00:29:04,284 --> 00:29:05,410 an amazing part of Alaska. 711 00:29:05,910 --> 00:29:07,954 Hey, how's it going? 712 00:29:08,037 --> 00:29:10,165 Today we're at the Jones farm with Ina and Spek, 713 00:29:10,248 --> 00:29:12,292 and they've got a milking cow for me to look at. 714 00:29:13,376 --> 00:29:14,836 So this must be Petunia. 715 00:29:14,919 --> 00:29:16,713 -INA JONES: Yep, this is Petunia. -SPEK JONES: Yup, that's her. 716 00:29:16,796 --> 00:29:17,797 DR. OAKLEY: Nice. 717 00:29:18,465 --> 00:29:20,800 Ina has been like kind of a vet around here really, 718 00:29:20,884 --> 00:29:24,304 because she did not have a vet around. 719 00:29:24,387 --> 00:29:26,848 SPEK: We moved here in 56. 720 00:29:27,265 --> 00:29:29,517 That was before Alaska became a state. 721 00:29:29,601 --> 00:29:32,437 INA: When there's no one else, you figure out the best way you can. 722 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,565 So I had every vet book I could get about horses and cows 723 00:29:35,648 --> 00:29:39,360 to try to learn to take care of as much as I could on our own, 724 00:29:39,444 --> 00:29:42,530 because there wasn't anyone else to help. 725 00:29:43,031 --> 00:29:44,908 DR. OAKLEY: I feel like I could definitely learn a thing or two 726 00:29:44,991 --> 00:29:46,409 from her today, you know, 727 00:29:46,493 --> 00:29:48,995 and I'm happy to help her with whatever I know, too. 728 00:29:49,579 --> 00:29:50,580 What's going on with her? 729 00:29:50,663 --> 00:29:53,041 INA: Well, I would like to see if she's pregnant. 730 00:29:53,124 --> 00:29:55,376 Hopefully she got bred in an early heat, 731 00:29:55,460 --> 00:29:58,630 and it's large enough for you to actually feel if she got bred. 732 00:29:58,713 --> 00:29:59,714 DR. OAKLEY: Right. 733 00:29:59,798 --> 00:30:02,425 INA: And then she has a number four quarter 734 00:30:02,509 --> 00:30:04,719 that has never produced milk. 735 00:30:04,803 --> 00:30:07,222 The tit has had an obstruction in it. 736 00:30:07,305 --> 00:30:11,559 And from what I can feel, it's a little smaller than a pea, 737 00:30:11,643 --> 00:30:13,603 and it's kind of right in the milk canal. 738 00:30:13,686 --> 00:30:15,146 DR. OAKLEY: Let's have a look at it and see what we can do. 739 00:30:15,230 --> 00:30:16,439 INA: Okay. That'd be awesome. 740 00:30:16,523 --> 00:30:18,983 DR. OAKLEY: The udder on a cow is basically divided 741 00:30:19,067 --> 00:30:21,653 into four sections, quarters they call them, 742 00:30:21,736 --> 00:30:24,155 and each compartment has its own little teat. 743 00:30:24,239 --> 00:30:26,866 So you have to milk each of the four compartments 744 00:30:26,950 --> 00:30:28,243 to get all the milk out. 745 00:30:28,326 --> 00:30:29,577 INA: Come on. 746 00:30:29,661 --> 00:30:33,081 Petunia is a seven-year-old Holstein. 747 00:30:33,164 --> 00:30:35,583 Even with three quarters, she's an amazing cow. 748 00:30:35,667 --> 00:30:38,545 If she calves and she's full of milk, 749 00:30:38,628 --> 00:30:41,506 she gives me about four gallons of milk a day. 750 00:30:41,589 --> 00:30:42,882 Come on in, 'Tunia. 751 00:30:42,966 --> 00:30:46,052 We make mozzarella, cheddar, cream cheese. 752 00:30:46,135 --> 00:30:49,013 If it can be made out of milk, we try to figure out a way to make it. 753 00:30:49,097 --> 00:30:51,975 But I can't do anything if she isn't pregnant. 754 00:30:52,767 --> 00:30:55,395 Tell me when you're ready and I'll put her in the chute for you. 755 00:30:56,896 --> 00:30:58,398 DR. OAKLEY: First thing, we're just gonna do a preg check 756 00:30:58,481 --> 00:30:59,732 and see if she's pregnant. 757 00:31:00,817 --> 00:31:03,820 To preg check Petunia, we're gonna put her into a squeeze. 758 00:31:08,491 --> 00:31:09,868 Good catch. 759 00:31:09,951 --> 00:31:10,952 Perfect. 760 00:31:11,703 --> 00:31:13,371 (moos) 761 00:31:13,872 --> 00:31:16,165 So I'm moving really slow and gentle 762 00:31:16,249 --> 00:31:19,294 in through the end of her colon there and her, into her rectum. 763 00:31:20,003 --> 00:31:23,256 And then through the rectal wall, I can actually feel her uterus 764 00:31:23,339 --> 00:31:25,008 where the baby would be underneath it. 765 00:31:25,550 --> 00:31:27,260 -SIERRA: You feel anything? -DR. OAKLEY: Alright. 766 00:31:27,343 --> 00:31:29,345 Not yet, just gas and poop. 767 00:31:29,429 --> 00:31:30,597 (Petunia expels gas) 768 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:33,433 There we go, that's the sound of music. 769 00:31:33,975 --> 00:31:34,976 Moo-sic! 770 00:31:35,768 --> 00:31:36,769 (moo) 771 00:31:37,437 --> 00:31:38,479 That's better. 772 00:31:38,897 --> 00:31:41,357 Okay, I'll take that ultrasound over here. 773 00:31:43,735 --> 00:31:47,155 Right now, she's considered a dry cow, which means she's not making any milk, 774 00:31:47,238 --> 00:31:50,074 and that's because she didn't have a calf last year. 775 00:31:50,158 --> 00:31:52,243 Okay. So I'm going in there. 776 00:31:52,702 --> 00:31:54,370 And that's important, because she's a milking cow, 777 00:31:54,454 --> 00:31:56,831 so once she calves, then she'll make milk. 778 00:31:56,915 --> 00:31:58,791 Now I can kind of feel stuff. 779 00:31:59,459 --> 00:32:01,461 I can feel if she's pregnant or not. 780 00:32:01,544 --> 00:32:03,504 If she's not pregnant, then we might be able to give her 781 00:32:03,588 --> 00:32:05,173 some treatments to bring her into heat 782 00:32:05,256 --> 00:32:07,342 and get her bred again quickly before it's too late. 783 00:32:08,760 --> 00:32:11,721 And that is a uterus right there, I think, hang on. 784 00:32:12,555 --> 00:32:13,598 INA: Whoa, mama. 785 00:32:13,681 --> 00:32:15,058 DR. OAKLEY: If she's not pregnant, 786 00:32:15,141 --> 00:32:18,019 Ina knows she's in for a whole another year plus 787 00:32:18,102 --> 00:32:19,479 of no milk for the family. 788 00:32:20,396 --> 00:32:21,898 The verdict is... 789 00:32:24,901 --> 00:32:27,028 DR. OAKLEY (off screen): You're being so good, Petunia. 790 00:32:27,695 --> 00:32:31,157 Petunia is a milking cow, and Ina wants to know, is she pregnant? 791 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:34,035 Because if she doesn't have a calf, she's not gonna be making any milk. 792 00:32:34,118 --> 00:32:36,412 Okay. Where's your uterus? Okay. It's over here. 793 00:32:36,996 --> 00:32:38,373 There's your ovary. 794 00:32:40,041 --> 00:32:41,709 I see a baby! 795 00:32:41,793 --> 00:32:43,169 INA: Wahoo! 796 00:32:43,252 --> 00:32:44,379 SIERRA: Baby. 797 00:32:44,796 --> 00:32:46,047 That's the butt. 798 00:32:46,130 --> 00:32:48,424 DR. OAKLEY: Yay! Well, that's exciting. 799 00:32:48,508 --> 00:32:50,343 That's the ribs, and you see those lines. 800 00:32:50,426 --> 00:32:51,427 INA: Yeah, yeah, yeah. 801 00:32:52,095 --> 00:32:53,471 DR. OAKLEY: I can see the heartbeat, if you kind of look... 802 00:32:53,554 --> 00:32:55,264 INA: Yup, yup, yup! 803 00:32:55,348 --> 00:32:57,642 DR. OAKLEY: The size of it feels like about a 60-day pregnancy, 804 00:32:57,725 --> 00:32:59,686 so sometime in April she should be calving. 805 00:32:59,769 --> 00:33:01,688 INA: That's what I was hoping for. 806 00:33:02,230 --> 00:33:04,273 Fresh milk, cheese, ice cream. 807 00:33:04,357 --> 00:33:05,441 SIERRA: Oh yum! 808 00:33:05,984 --> 00:33:08,069 INA: I really wanted to be prepared, 809 00:33:08,152 --> 00:33:11,239 and we can get that baby born in the best conditions possible, 810 00:33:11,322 --> 00:33:12,448 so that's all good. 811 00:33:12,949 --> 00:33:14,492 DR. OAKLEY: Do you want to get in there and try the palpation? 812 00:33:14,575 --> 00:33:15,576 INA: Sure. 813 00:33:16,494 --> 00:33:18,621 DR. OAKLEY: It's kind of cool to, you know, help out someone 814 00:33:18,705 --> 00:33:22,083 who's like, like a pioneer, like, she's a pioneer woman. 815 00:33:22,166 --> 00:33:24,585 Like, I'm kind of fan-girling here. I get to help out Ina. 816 00:33:24,669 --> 00:33:26,004 -You're gonna get poop on you. -INA: Yes, I am. 817 00:33:26,087 --> 00:33:27,422 -DR. OAKLEY: Yeah, let me give you this. -INA: If you don't mind me. 818 00:33:27,505 --> 00:33:28,589 DR. OAKLEY: I don't mind at all! 819 00:33:28,673 --> 00:33:30,591 INA: I wasn't expecting to get to do this. 820 00:33:30,675 --> 00:33:32,260 DR. OAKLEY: So nice and slow. 821 00:33:32,343 --> 00:33:35,513 Now get in more to your elbow and then reach down to the left 822 00:33:35,596 --> 00:33:37,640 and you'll feel like a water balloon 823 00:33:37,724 --> 00:33:40,435 like this big down there, and that's her uterus. 824 00:33:40,518 --> 00:33:41,811 INA: That is so cool. 825 00:33:41,894 --> 00:33:42,937 -DR. OAKLEY: Can you feel it? -INA: Yeah! 826 00:33:43,855 --> 00:33:44,856 Ah-hah! 827 00:33:44,939 --> 00:33:47,483 I really learned a lot from Dr. Oakley today. 828 00:33:47,942 --> 00:33:51,279 I know what I felt, but I didn't know why or what. 829 00:33:51,362 --> 00:33:53,322 I'm very thankful for her expertise. 830 00:33:53,948 --> 00:33:55,950 DR. OAKLEY: Okay. Let me have a lookie-loo. 831 00:33:57,285 --> 00:33:59,620 We know that Petunia is pregnant, so that's really good news. 832 00:33:59,704 --> 00:34:02,665 So now we're gonna go ahead and just have a quick check of the teat. 833 00:34:02,749 --> 00:34:05,543 She should have four quarters of her udder working, 834 00:34:05,626 --> 00:34:06,794 but only three work. 835 00:34:06,878 --> 00:34:08,880 Hi, Miss. Look, it's just me! 836 00:34:08,963 --> 00:34:11,215 I'm just checking out this bum teat you got. 837 00:34:11,299 --> 00:34:13,009 SIERRA: Do you know what they call what she's doing right now? 838 00:34:13,092 --> 00:34:14,802 -INA: I do not. -SIERRA: It's a "moo-magram." 839 00:34:14,886 --> 00:34:17,346 (laughs) 840 00:34:18,097 --> 00:34:19,599 DR. OAKLEY: That's interesting. 841 00:34:19,682 --> 00:34:20,933 Looking at Petunia's udder, 842 00:34:21,017 --> 00:34:23,269 you can see which one has never really given milk. 843 00:34:23,352 --> 00:34:25,396 One of these is not like the others. 844 00:34:25,480 --> 00:34:27,106 If you see the size of these three teats, 845 00:34:27,190 --> 00:34:28,900 they're big and chunky. 846 00:34:28,983 --> 00:34:30,943 And then there's this little wee cute thing 847 00:34:31,444 --> 00:34:33,237 that has been a bit of a dud. 848 00:34:33,321 --> 00:34:36,240 Initially, Ina was able to feel, like if you rolled it, 849 00:34:36,324 --> 00:34:38,117 you could feel like a pea in there, 850 00:34:38,910 --> 00:34:40,578 like a mass that was blocking it. 851 00:34:40,912 --> 00:34:42,747 INA: I haven't felt it for a long time. 852 00:34:42,830 --> 00:34:44,082 DR. OAKLEY: The princess and the pea. 853 00:34:44,624 --> 00:34:47,376 I don't actually feel any little pea in there. 854 00:34:47,460 --> 00:34:50,213 It feels really healthy. It feels nice and soft. 855 00:34:50,588 --> 00:34:52,757 I don't know if it, like, resolved itself? 856 00:34:52,840 --> 00:34:54,300 But let me put the ultrasound and just see what we see. 857 00:34:55,093 --> 00:34:57,011 (moos) 858 00:34:57,804 --> 00:34:59,055 That's all normal. 859 00:34:59,597 --> 00:35:02,558 INA: Well, I may just have a three-quartered cow, then. 860 00:35:03,101 --> 00:35:04,685 DR. OAKLEY: I see a perfectly normal teat. 861 00:35:04,769 --> 00:35:06,270 Come on, Petunia. 862 00:35:06,354 --> 00:35:08,981 I'm not sure if it's resolved, if something's happened 863 00:35:09,065 --> 00:35:11,859 to kind of break it down, but it's no longer there. 864 00:35:11,943 --> 00:35:15,238 SPEK: It's nice to know that she's gonna calve next spring. 865 00:35:15,321 --> 00:35:16,781 DR. OAKLEY: That's the good news I can give you. 866 00:35:16,864 --> 00:35:19,575 The bad news is I didn't find anything that we could fix on her quarter, but... 867 00:35:19,659 --> 00:35:22,120 -INA: Sure. -DR. OAKLEY: She's definitely pregnant, 868 00:35:22,203 --> 00:35:24,122 and you're headed for a perfect timing for calving, so... 869 00:35:24,205 --> 00:35:25,248 INA: Yeah, we are. 870 00:35:25,331 --> 00:35:28,793 Petunia, all she's got to do is eat and get fat 871 00:35:28,876 --> 00:35:31,337 and grow that big, beautiful, healthy baby. 872 00:35:31,879 --> 00:35:33,047 Petunia. 873 00:35:33,131 --> 00:35:34,340 SPEK: She's coming. 874 00:35:37,218 --> 00:35:38,719 DR. OAKLEY: We're logging the miles today, 875 00:35:38,803 --> 00:35:40,763 and once again Maya and I are on our way 876 00:35:40,847 --> 00:35:42,473 to the Alaska Wildlife Conservation Center. 877 00:35:42,890 --> 00:35:44,308 MAYA: Okay. We're here. 878 00:35:45,184 --> 00:35:46,936 DR. OAKLEY: So where are we going today, Sarah? 879 00:35:47,019 --> 00:35:48,729 SARAH: We're going to see Artemis. 880 00:35:48,813 --> 00:35:51,149 DR. OAKLEY: Arty farty, little party. 881 00:35:51,232 --> 00:35:52,567 (laughs) 882 00:35:52,984 --> 00:35:55,069 SARAH: Artemis is our yearling musk ox. 883 00:35:55,153 --> 00:35:57,363 She's a wild rescue musk ox from Deadhorse, Alaska. 884 00:35:58,197 --> 00:36:00,449 A bear was actively trying to get to her. 885 00:36:00,783 --> 00:36:02,535 It actually killed her mother and her siblings. 886 00:36:02,618 --> 00:36:04,162 But she's kind of a tough cookie, 887 00:36:04,245 --> 00:36:06,664 and she survived that and she got sent here 888 00:36:06,747 --> 00:36:08,207 to live out the rest of her days. 889 00:36:09,167 --> 00:36:11,169 -Artemis is super into the scratchies. -DR. OAKLEY: Okay! 890 00:36:11,252 --> 00:36:13,671 SARAH: So these guys can get her in the zone with the scratchies, 891 00:36:13,754 --> 00:36:15,047 and you can just come up and poke her. 892 00:36:15,131 --> 00:36:16,132 DR. OAKLEY: Okay, perfect. 893 00:36:17,049 --> 00:36:19,385 Today Artemis is due for her annual checkup. 894 00:36:19,886 --> 00:36:22,013 Maya and I are gonna do a very thorough physical. 895 00:36:22,096 --> 00:36:23,222 You know, nose to tail, 896 00:36:23,306 --> 00:36:25,266 and just make sure that everything is okay. 897 00:36:25,349 --> 00:36:26,350 Hi, beauty queen. 898 00:36:26,809 --> 00:36:28,519 I want to be able to get in there and sedate her. 899 00:36:29,187 --> 00:36:30,188 Hi. 900 00:36:30,521 --> 00:36:31,939 Austin knows her really well, 901 00:36:32,023 --> 00:36:34,567 but we do have to still be careful with her. 902 00:36:34,650 --> 00:36:35,902 SARAH: Good girl, Arty! 903 00:36:35,985 --> 00:36:38,529 DR. OAKLEY: Her skull is like that thick, even at her age. 904 00:36:38,613 --> 00:36:42,700 So one little flip and she could easily hurt someone. 905 00:36:43,242 --> 00:36:44,744 What a good girl. 906 00:36:45,453 --> 00:36:46,495 AUSTIN: Good girl. 907 00:36:46,579 --> 00:36:48,372 DR. OAKLEY: What was that? I didn't do it. 908 00:36:48,998 --> 00:36:50,124 SARAH: She's like, "No, I know it was you." 909 00:36:51,334 --> 00:36:52,501 AUSTIN: Come on, kid! 910 00:36:53,252 --> 00:36:55,421 SARAH: Artemis is actually a one-eyed musk ox. 911 00:36:55,504 --> 00:36:58,090 She accidentally got herself into a pickle last fall, 912 00:36:58,174 --> 00:37:00,509 and we had to have emergency eye removal surgery. 913 00:37:01,177 --> 00:37:02,511 DR. OAKLEY: It definitely was a freak accident 914 00:37:02,595 --> 00:37:04,138 that Artemis injured her eye, 915 00:37:04,222 --> 00:37:06,349 and we weren't sure how she would do. 916 00:37:06,432 --> 00:37:07,767 We put her back into the herd. 917 00:37:07,850 --> 00:37:10,645 Okay, are you gonna be okay with one eye by yourself 918 00:37:10,728 --> 00:37:12,605 joining a regular musk ox herd? 919 00:37:13,147 --> 00:37:14,941 She just was like, great. 920 00:37:15,650 --> 00:37:17,652 Why don't you walk her into the shed? It might rain. 921 00:37:18,361 --> 00:37:19,820 She's already getting sedate, I think. 922 00:37:22,031 --> 00:37:23,866 Look at her little butt. 923 00:37:26,244 --> 00:37:28,913 We're gonna protect that only eye that you have left, 924 00:37:28,996 --> 00:37:30,289 very carefully. 925 00:37:32,083 --> 00:37:36,420 These horns are the tiniest little horns I've ever seen on a musk ox. 926 00:37:36,504 --> 00:37:38,839 We're just putting tennis balls on the little horns 927 00:37:38,923 --> 00:37:41,342 because even though they're small, they're really spiky. 928 00:37:42,843 --> 00:37:44,720 So I'm just gonna do a quick exam. 929 00:37:44,804 --> 00:37:47,306 We've got her, like, stable and on oxygen. 930 00:37:48,057 --> 00:37:51,477 Let's check all her little joints. 931 00:37:52,561 --> 00:37:53,646 Okie-dokie. 932 00:37:53,729 --> 00:37:56,732 We'll have a look in that good eye. Make sure it still is good. 933 00:37:56,816 --> 00:37:59,402 I'm gonna get out the ophthalmoscope, have a really good look in there. 934 00:38:00,278 --> 00:38:01,862 Hi, Arty, it's okay. 935 00:38:01,946 --> 00:38:03,447 And I want to make sure that everything's healthy with it, 936 00:38:03,531 --> 00:38:06,450 because as a one-eyed musk ox, she's doing great. 937 00:38:07,243 --> 00:38:08,869 Oh, that eye looks so cool. 938 00:38:08,953 --> 00:38:12,081 But I don't know how well a blind musk ox would do. 939 00:38:12,164 --> 00:38:14,500 That eye is definitely her lifeline at this point. 940 00:38:15,126 --> 00:38:16,127 Huh. 941 00:38:16,585 --> 00:38:18,796 It's kind of marbly looking. 942 00:38:20,214 --> 00:38:23,426 It almost looks like kind of wavy on the cornea. 943 00:38:23,509 --> 00:38:27,513 As I'm looking into Artemis's eye, it looks a little unusual. 944 00:38:27,596 --> 00:38:28,848 The surface looks kind of like 945 00:38:28,931 --> 00:38:30,808 almost like you're looking at shimmery glass. 946 00:38:31,559 --> 00:38:32,977 Let Tracy have a look with that. 947 00:38:33,686 --> 00:38:35,896 Normally, the cornea should be totally clear, 948 00:38:35,980 --> 00:38:38,149 so I shouldn't really see too much reflection 949 00:38:38,232 --> 00:38:40,234 or any type of marbly-looking appearance. 950 00:38:40,318 --> 00:38:41,819 -TRACY: Oh wow! -DR. OAKLEY: Isn't that weird? 951 00:38:41,902 --> 00:38:43,696 -TRACY: Yeah. -DR. OAKLEY: That's what I thought. 952 00:38:43,779 --> 00:38:44,947 She only has one eye, 953 00:38:45,031 --> 00:38:47,742 and if she's starting to have some issues with her sight, 954 00:38:47,825 --> 00:38:50,119 that could be kind of a nasty game-changer for her. 955 00:38:50,619 --> 00:38:52,038 Oh, this makes me nervous. 956 00:38:55,249 --> 00:38:57,543 DR. OAKLEY: Look in this eye. It's just kind of weird. 957 00:38:58,377 --> 00:39:01,422 Artemis is the AWCC's one-eyed musk ox, 958 00:39:01,505 --> 00:39:04,050 and I'm seeing something in her eye that I've never seen before. 959 00:39:04,425 --> 00:39:06,635 Do you see how it looks kind of like stained glass almost? 960 00:39:06,719 --> 00:39:07,720 -MAYA: Yeah. -DR. OAKLEY: Yeah, 961 00:39:07,803 --> 00:39:08,804 it doesn't look quite normal to me. 962 00:39:08,888 --> 00:39:10,014 Actually, it could be, 963 00:39:10,097 --> 00:39:12,516 but I don't recall that from other musk ox. 964 00:39:12,975 --> 00:39:14,518 Her optic disc looks good. 965 00:39:15,519 --> 00:39:18,606 Everything in this eye is looking and behaving how it should be, 966 00:39:18,689 --> 00:39:20,441 except kind of this odd color. 967 00:39:20,524 --> 00:39:23,235 The eyeball itself, the size, the shape, 968 00:39:23,319 --> 00:39:25,196 she's certainly seeing normally 969 00:39:25,279 --> 00:39:26,822 from what we can tell, she's moving around. 970 00:39:26,906 --> 00:39:27,990 All of that is normal. 971 00:39:28,074 --> 00:39:31,202 So I suspect this could just be an anomaly in her. 972 00:39:31,786 --> 00:39:33,871 Okay. Injections. 973 00:39:33,954 --> 00:39:35,373 -Sarah? -SARAH: Huh? 974 00:39:35,873 --> 00:39:38,125 DR. OAKLEY: Maya did the last musk ox, so it's your turn. 975 00:39:38,209 --> 00:39:40,169 I'm gonna have Sarah get the blood sample. 976 00:39:40,252 --> 00:39:41,962 SARAH: Shouldn't she like double-do it? 977 00:39:42,046 --> 00:39:43,714 She's so good with musk ox. 978 00:39:43,798 --> 00:39:45,841 DR. OAKLEY: It's really good that we all kind of take turns 979 00:39:45,925 --> 00:39:47,426 and keep our skills going. 980 00:39:47,510 --> 00:39:49,678 SARAH: I wouldn't want to take Maya's thunder. 981 00:39:49,762 --> 00:39:52,473 Getting blood is honestly like going to the dentist. 982 00:39:52,556 --> 00:39:54,600 You know you have to do it, you don't want to do it. 983 00:39:54,975 --> 00:39:57,353 DR. OAKLEY: You're gonna be fine. You're gonna do it. 984 00:39:59,146 --> 00:40:00,648 SARAH: I know I'm gonna have to step up and do it, 985 00:40:00,731 --> 00:40:01,732 but I suck at it. 986 00:40:01,816 --> 00:40:03,567 And nobody likes to do something that they suck at. 987 00:40:04,110 --> 00:40:05,236 DR. OAKLEY: I know you're gonna do it, Sarah. 988 00:40:05,319 --> 00:40:06,529 I've got faith in you. 989 00:40:07,071 --> 00:40:08,114 Okay, right here. 990 00:40:08,948 --> 00:40:10,157 Find that jugular. 991 00:40:10,783 --> 00:40:12,701 Get your fingers in that dent 992 00:40:12,785 --> 00:40:14,954 and then basically try to poke your own fingernail. 993 00:40:16,372 --> 00:40:17,415 SARAH: I don't know. 994 00:40:18,332 --> 00:40:19,500 DR. OAKLEY: You can do it. 995 00:40:20,584 --> 00:40:21,794 But just go all the way in there. 996 00:40:23,212 --> 00:40:24,463 It should go easy. 997 00:40:24,547 --> 00:40:27,550 So if you're, if you have resistance, you must be in meat. 998 00:40:28,342 --> 00:40:31,387 I feel a bit bad because the jugular is tricky on a musk ox. 999 00:40:31,470 --> 00:40:32,763 Okay, another little secret is 1000 00:40:32,847 --> 00:40:34,598 that's the hardest one to do on a musk ox. 1001 00:40:35,516 --> 00:40:38,853 So we're gonna come to the back leg, which is way easier. 1002 00:40:39,353 --> 00:40:42,022 SARAH: It certainly felt like I was getting a little bit of hazing, 1003 00:40:42,106 --> 00:40:44,066 but that's just fun between Dr. Oakley and I. 1004 00:40:44,150 --> 00:40:45,401 We've worked together for so long, 1005 00:40:45,484 --> 00:40:47,486 and she knew that I was stressed out about getting blood, 1006 00:40:47,570 --> 00:40:49,613 so I'm sure she was just kind of poking the bear a little bit. 1007 00:40:51,282 --> 00:40:53,451 DR. OAKLEY: Okay. So I'll hold it off. 1008 00:40:53,534 --> 00:40:55,286 SARAH: Okay, here we go. 1009 00:40:56,787 --> 00:40:57,872 MAYA: There's blood. 1010 00:40:58,998 --> 00:41:00,166 DR. OAKLEY: Oh, Sarah. 1011 00:41:00,583 --> 00:41:01,584 See? 1012 00:41:02,001 --> 00:41:03,794 Oh yeah. 1013 00:41:04,253 --> 00:41:07,006 SARAH: Keeping up on skills like drawing blood 1014 00:41:07,089 --> 00:41:10,176 is really important and vital when you work out here in animal care. 1015 00:41:10,259 --> 00:41:12,094 DR. OAKLEY: See? No problem. 1016 00:41:12,178 --> 00:41:14,638 -SARAH: See, Maya? See? -DR. OAKLEY: See, Maya? 1017 00:41:14,722 --> 00:41:16,557 SARAH: Because what if there's a situation that comes up 1018 00:41:16,640 --> 00:41:18,267 that the vet can't come in to do that? 1019 00:41:18,809 --> 00:41:20,311 Just saying, I got that one. 1020 00:41:20,769 --> 00:41:22,104 But let's be honest, 1021 00:41:22,730 --> 00:41:23,772 I do kind of suck at it. 1022 00:41:24,648 --> 00:41:26,775 DR. OAKLEY: Now let's prop her up and get her moving. 1023 00:41:27,860 --> 00:41:29,028 Hi. 1024 00:41:29,653 --> 00:41:31,155 MAYA: Good morning, pumpkin. 1025 00:41:31,822 --> 00:41:33,407 DR. OAKLEY: Things went great with Artemis. 1026 00:41:33,491 --> 00:41:34,909 There we go. 1027 00:41:34,992 --> 00:41:37,953 She did really well with the sedation. 1028 00:41:38,037 --> 00:41:39,705 The anesthesia went perfect. 1029 00:41:39,788 --> 00:41:41,624 I forgot the tennis balls on her. 1030 00:41:41,707 --> 00:41:43,667 And she got up and recovered really nicely. 1031 00:41:43,751 --> 00:41:44,752 Everything looks good. 1032 00:41:44,835 --> 00:41:46,545 Austin, you need to come and reassure her. 1033 00:41:46,629 --> 00:41:47,671 She's looking for you. 1034 00:41:48,130 --> 00:41:51,050 She knows something happened, but she's not too sure what. 1035 00:41:51,133 --> 00:41:52,510 AUSTIN: Hi, kid! 1036 00:41:53,093 --> 00:41:55,137 DR. OAKLEY: Aw, she wants a hug. 1037 00:41:55,888 --> 00:41:57,848 She loves him. 1038 00:41:58,557 --> 00:41:59,767 That's cute. 1039 00:41:59,850 --> 00:42:02,436 Oh... good stuff. 1040 00:42:03,646 --> 00:42:04,813 Good work. 1041 00:42:15,699 --> 00:42:17,284 The best part of running a mobile clinic 1042 00:42:17,368 --> 00:42:20,204 is getting to travel all around this amazing country, 1043 00:42:20,788 --> 00:42:24,416 around the Yukon, Alaska, seeing incredible places and animals. 1044 00:42:24,750 --> 00:42:28,629 And the worst part is not being in one spot 1045 00:42:28,712 --> 00:42:30,339 for a lot of the patients that I leave behind. 1046 00:42:31,882 --> 00:42:33,717 Okay, Taku. 1047 00:42:34,260 --> 00:42:37,429 I've been treating Taku for some second and third-degree burns. 1048 00:42:37,513 --> 00:42:40,516 He walked across some smoldering ashes and didn't realize it, 1049 00:42:40,599 --> 00:42:43,727 so he had some very serious burns of three out of his four feet. 1050 00:42:43,811 --> 00:42:45,271 Bummer, Taku. 1051 00:42:45,354 --> 00:42:46,939 This is a big deal, buddy. 1052 00:42:47,606 --> 00:42:48,774 Let's go, buddy. 1053 00:42:49,191 --> 00:42:51,360 He's walking lifting his feet up, 1054 00:42:51,443 --> 00:42:52,778 -it's so sad. -SIERRA: Aww! 1055 00:42:52,861 --> 00:42:54,154 DR. OAKLEY: I couldn't do the second bandage change 1056 00:42:54,238 --> 00:42:55,489 because I'm traveling. 1057 00:42:55,573 --> 00:42:57,616 BONNIE: Ohh, Taku! 1058 00:42:57,700 --> 00:42:59,368 Oh, hello! 1059 00:42:59,827 --> 00:43:02,121 DR. OAKLEY: Bonnie had to take Taku to another clinic 1060 00:43:02,204 --> 00:43:03,789 for him to have his second bandage change, 1061 00:43:03,872 --> 00:43:05,624 and things are looking a lot better. 1062 00:43:06,083 --> 00:43:07,585 BONNIE: Taku, shake. 1063 00:43:07,668 --> 00:43:08,836 Yes! 1064 00:43:08,919 --> 00:43:10,212 He's doing great now. 1065 00:43:10,713 --> 00:43:11,797 DR. OAKLEY: He looks fantastic. 1066 00:43:12,339 --> 00:43:15,759 He's running around, no sign of any soreness in any of his feet. 1067 00:43:15,843 --> 00:43:16,969 BONNIE: Taku, good boy. 1068 00:43:17,052 --> 00:43:18,679 DR. OAKLEY: Totally back to his old self. 1069 00:43:20,889 --> 00:43:22,308 BONNIE: Good dog, Taku. 1070 00:43:23,350 --> 00:43:25,227 Hey, snowy-faced boy. 1071 00:43:25,311 --> 00:43:28,564 I'm just thankful that Dr. Oakley happened to be in town 1072 00:43:29,023 --> 00:43:31,066 and was able to fit him in. 1073 00:43:31,150 --> 00:43:34,278 I didn't know if he'd be able to... walk. 1074 00:43:34,361 --> 00:43:36,572 I mean, it's kind of a big deal. 1075 00:43:37,531 --> 00:43:39,575 DR. OAKLEY: All of our pets get into stuff. 1076 00:43:39,658 --> 00:43:42,328 They bump into porcupines and get quilled, 1077 00:43:42,411 --> 00:43:44,997 they end up getting injured, antlers get broken. 1078 00:43:45,998 --> 00:43:47,541 But it's very satisfying 1079 00:43:47,625 --> 00:43:50,085 to be the vet that comes along and helps them through this, 1080 00:43:50,169 --> 00:43:52,588 that makes them better and gets them back on their way. 1081 00:43:52,671 --> 00:43:54,089 BONNIE (off screen): (kisses) Taku, come here.