Animal Hospital Episode From 1994 (5)
Transcript
00:00G'day, welcome back to the RSPCA's Animal Hospital.
00:27You know, being a vet can be positively dangerous sometimes and it isn't necessarily the biggest
00:32animals that cause the biggest problems, as Jeremy Stewart found out when a parakeet with
00:36a bad eye was brought into his clinic.
00:39Is he handleable?
00:40You can't handle him, but preferably with a glove.
00:43Preferably with a glove.
00:44Yeah.
00:45What do those do?
00:46Let's try that.
00:47Let's see what we can do.
00:48There we go.
00:49Okay.
00:51There we go.
00:54In.
00:56Down.
01:01And, oh.
01:02Can't get it.
01:03There you go.
01:06Oh.
01:07Okay, leave it, leave it.
01:09There you go, don't bite me, don't bite me.
01:11Okay.
01:12Don't bite me.
01:13There you go.
01:14There you go.
01:16Right, Rolf, I'll give you that pen.
01:18Just hold that in his beak.
01:19That's great.
01:20Okay.
01:22Yes, that's quite a nasty swelling there, isn't it?
01:24Is he eating okay at the moment?
01:26He is.
01:27He's a bit picky, but it's alright with giving him bananas and apples and stuff like that.
01:32And he's still taking seed, is he?
01:35Yes, he is.
01:36Okay.
01:37And you can actually feel his breastbone here, really very clearly.
01:40So, he's lost a little bit of weight now.
01:44Now, what happens with these eye infections around the eyes,
01:48they tend to be as a result of airway infections,
01:52and it's sort of a respiratory disease that tends to cause this sort of problem.
01:57How are we, how are we?
01:58Oops, oops.
01:59Watch yourself, Rolf.
02:00You alright?
02:01Yes, it's just the initial shock.
02:07That would be nice solved.
02:08Some good biter, isn't it?
02:10Okay.
02:11What I'm going to do today is I'm going to give him an injection.
02:14I'm going to give him two injections.
02:15One's a multivitamin injection, and the other is an antibiotic.
02:18And it's like, ow, ow, ow.
02:24Not totally funny.
02:27Why am I laughing then?
02:28It's the initial shock.
02:32Shall I hold him while you do that?
02:33Yeah, if you want to.
02:35Come here, kid.
02:36Here, just watch.
02:38Ow.
02:41That's it.
02:47Yeah, that's it, that's it.
02:49Come on.
02:50There you go.
02:51There you go.
02:53There you go.
02:54Does he bite a lot?
02:55Does he bite you a lot?
02:57I haven't sort of like tempted to hold him, you know,
03:00because apparently I've been told they do really bite.
03:03Yeah.
03:04I can vouch for that.
03:05Oh, you're on.
03:08Yeah, he's a good bird.
03:09If you could resist that,
03:10it would be really good.
03:11All right, here we go for a little injection.
03:16If you can put that cage front on again for us, please.
03:19Yeah.
03:21Ow.
03:25Okay, I've got him.
03:26Just try the front on there.
03:28You're in trouble, aren't you?
03:30I'm going to give you some medicated semen,
03:32because I want you to give him.
03:35And I'm also going to give you some cream
03:37that I want you to try and apply onto this area around his eye
03:41with some cotton wool buds.
03:46And let the lip as a goodbye.
03:47Thank you.
03:48If he hasn't got any better within the next seven days,
03:51then I think really at that stage,
03:52you're going to have to start thinking about
03:54referring him to an expert.
03:56Okay.
03:57So it's called spying.
03:58Thank you very much.
03:59Thank you.
04:00See you when he gets on, okay?
04:01Thank you.
04:02Bye then.
04:03Bye.
04:07So how's yours?
04:08Well, I think I got a good one.
04:10Broke the skin, did he?
04:11Yeah, it's just...
04:12How's yours?
04:13No, he didn't break the skin there.
04:14He's got a nip there.
04:15Ah, that's what they go for.
04:16They go just in the corner of the nail there.
04:19Yeah.
04:20I certainly know where it hurts most.
04:21A sense of humour deserts you at that moment, does it?
04:23A little bit of a sense of humour failure, I think.
04:27If you get a kitten as a pet,
04:28you know more or less how big it's going to be when it grows up.
04:31But with some animals, it's not so easy to judge.
04:34Mary McAfee went with the RSPCA's Richard Thompson
04:37and Inspector Simon Benson
04:39when they were called out to deal with a pet
04:41which had become a sizeable problem.
04:47Hello.
04:48Hello.
04:49It's difficult to measure her.
04:50She's about 15 and a half feet to 16 feet long.
04:5316 feet?
04:54I have never seen anything like this before.
04:56Is it all right to touch her?
04:58Yes, oh, yes, she won't hurt you at all.
05:00She might hiss at you, but it's only because you're strange.
05:02Uh-huh.
05:03You're not one of the family.
05:04And what's her name?
05:05When we thought it was just a male, it was called Benny
05:08because we got it when Benny Hill died.
05:10But, of course, then we found out that it was a lady,
05:13so we called it Benita in the end.
05:15So what are you feeding her?
05:17Only rats, dead ones.
05:19She has roughly seven a week, maybe eight.
05:22That's unbelievable.
05:23Richard, is this the first time you've had a cat?
05:26Yes.
05:28That's unbelievable.
05:29Richard, is this normal for the snake to grow this big in five years?
05:34Well, it's been well fed, hasn't it?
05:36Uh-huh.
05:37And that's what's happened.
05:38If you keep feeding these constrictors,
05:40they just keep growing and growing and growing.
05:42So where does he go when he comes out to see the cats?
05:45He just slithers about the room, climbs over the furniture.
05:49Oh, you said he likes a bath as well, didn't you?
05:51Oh, yes, he goes upstairs to the bathroom, has a bath.
05:53He goes up the stairs?
05:55Yes, he slithers up the stairs.
05:57Oh, my goodness.
05:58Goes in the bath, slithers into the bath,
06:00and when he's ready, he slithers out.
06:02Or should I say, when she's ready, she slithers out
06:04and down the stairs again.
06:06This is what the size of it used to be.
06:09My goodness, it's still quite big though.
06:11Is this the original?
06:13This is not when we first got it, no.
06:16This was when she was about four foot long, I would say.
06:19Gosh.
06:20This is the one that was taken off recently.
06:24Oh, my goodness.
06:25But this one, it's got torn as she's come out of it.
06:32Is it poisonous?
06:34No.
06:35So, I mean, is that constrictor then?
06:37I mean, would it kill a person if it wanted to?
06:41Put it like this, it could kill a person if it wanted to.
06:44They round themselves around their prey,
06:47and they'll just constrict until it stops the animal
06:50from being able to breathe.
06:52And then once it's lifeless, they'll eat it whole.
06:54So, do you need a licence to have this kind of snake?
06:56Not for this sort of snake, no.
06:58It's not down on the register of dangerous wild animals.
07:01Do a lot of people have these snakes?
07:03They do, yeah.
07:04They buy them at a small size, and like Yvonne,
07:06they grow larger and larger and larger.
07:08And, of course, you know, they take over your household, really.
07:11I just wouldn't like her to go just anywhere.
07:14I've always looked after her,
07:16and I want to make sure she's still well looked after.
07:19We'll have a word with some collectors and people we know
07:22and places where they're going to have the space and expertise,
07:25and that's where we'll take it to.
07:27It's obviously pretty difficult to find a new home
07:30for an animal that size.
07:32Even when they've found somewhere for it to go,
07:34the inspectors reckon it'll take four people to lift it
07:37cos it's so long and so heavy.
07:39Anyway, we'll let you know what happens.
07:41Now, some of you may remember a little puppy called Harry
07:44who was brought into the hospital
07:46because he'd been born with a badly deformed front leg.
07:49At the moment, as he's walking, he looks cruel.
07:51They leave him like that.
07:53Yeah, you're quite right. It's not right at all,
07:55and we certainly can't leave him that way, basically.
07:58Harry needed surgery.
08:00Jeremy decided to put two pins through his leg
08:03to try and hold the bones in place.
08:05It's going to be quite tricky to do something about this, I think.
08:08We'll see what we can do, but really I want to try and stabilise the joint.
08:12I'm not so concerned about having a functional joint at the end of it,
08:16I'm more concerned about having a functional leg.
08:19After the operation, Harry went home to convalesce,
08:22and earlier this week he was back in clinic
08:24so that Jeremy could see how well the leg was healing.
08:27How's little Harry getting on? Hello, Harry.
08:30How are we doing? Any weight-bearing?
08:32No.
08:34Right, well, we can see that the leg is a lot straighter now.
08:37Yeah, it's lovely and straight.
08:39It's just a question of...
08:41He does try to go down, doesn't he?
08:44I've found his way.
08:46It's encouraging that he'll put weight on it when he's standing,
08:49but it's a little bit disappointing he's not using it more by now.
08:53This is just over two weeks since the operation.
08:56It might be because the pins are in there, he's fighting to use it.
08:59It hurts now and again.
09:01Yeah, it's still just a question of time at the moment.
09:04I'm going to make an appointment for him to come back
09:07and have some further X-rays taken,
09:09and that's going to be in another ten days' time,
09:12which is four weeks after the operation,
09:14just to see what's happening,
09:16make sure that everything's still in the right position.
09:19One of the pins which has gone through
09:21and is actually sticking in a little bit into the muscle
09:24at the back of the arm, we may need to remove that one.
09:27But I'm still sort of a little bit reticent to do that at the moment
09:31because we're still waiting for the joint to stabilise.
09:34Do you think he's better from the X-ray?
09:37I think there's a little bit of improvement.
09:40He's not as painful as he was, definitely, which is pleasing.
09:44He gets fought well, though.
09:46Jolly good.
09:48I bet he does.
09:50He's lovely, isn't he?
09:52Everywhere you go, how's Harry?
09:55Sure.
09:57He's as famous as you are.
10:00Oh, poor little thing.
10:02He's been through quite a lot in the 14 weeks since he was born.
10:06The ambulance drivers get called out to all sorts of places.
10:10But when Dermot Murphy went to collect a bird the other day,
10:13it was a particularly unusual location.
10:24Looks like this is where we report then.
10:27Hello.
10:29Hello, from the RSPCA, come to collect the injured bird.
10:32Sure.
10:34Oh, God.
10:42I'll just go in here.
10:44OK, this is the bird's condition at the moment.
10:47Oh, yes.
10:49Where did they actually find it?
10:51We found it this morning.
10:53It was known about the exercise yard.
10:55It went into a corner because the women were out in the grounds.
11:00We think he's a seagull.
11:02It looks like a seagull.
11:04Oh, what a shame.
11:07So it was in the gardens?
11:09Yes, it was in the grounds and the girls were getting very distressed.
11:13So, Dermot...
11:15Right, he's actually got a broken wing.
11:19There's nothing that can actually be done for him, I'm afraid.
11:22Once the wings are broken, you can see it there.
11:25It is actually really hanging down.
11:27It's really hanging at a funny angle.
11:30So, unfortunately, the only thing we can do for him is to put him to sleep.
11:35It's a very common type of call that we get called out to
11:38are birds found injured in gardens.
11:40OK, I'll tell the inmates.
11:42I'm sure that at least they'll...
11:44Will they be very upset?
11:46Yes, they will be, I think, because they have got quite attached,
11:49even though we'd only had it for a short time.
11:51They actually nicknamed him Syrup.
11:53So I'm sure that they're going to be disappointed,
11:56but we did try our best.
11:58So they couldn't really keep him?
12:00No, it's not fair, Ben. He's a wild animal.
12:02He's used to living out. I mean, there's no point sticking him in a cage.
12:05He's always going to be looking up at the sky.
12:07Obviously, there's no way for him to go.
12:10As you know, quite a few of the patients brought into the hospital
12:13are sick wild animals, like this little hedgehog.
12:16It's got a chest infection and it's too small to hibernate this winter,
12:19so it's going to be looked after at the RSPCA's wildlife hospital
12:22in Norfolk until the spring.
12:25Like a lot of the wild animals that end up here,
12:27it was brought in by someone who found it and took pity on it.
12:31A woman came into Stan McCaskey's clinic this week
12:34with an animal that she'd found.
12:36This is Stan.
12:38And what have you got for us?
12:40I've got a frog.
12:43Is this your own pet frog?
12:45No.
12:47Tell us the story, then.
12:49Well, it came out last night and I stepped on it and I heard a crack,
12:52so I think I might have hurt it.
12:54It's an amphibian and likes moist,
12:56so I usually moisten my hands before.
12:59And you see the nice, moist...
13:01LAUGHTER
13:07He's coming your way, Stan.
13:09Could you head him off of the path?
13:11Here we are.
13:13See, I thought I was the clever one, knew all about frogs, and he's away.
13:16But actually, that was good, because I saw him move across the table and on the floor.
13:19And he's moving very, very well.
13:21You haven't finished your work, then?
13:23Yeah, limb-wise, he's excellent.
13:25He's doing well.
13:27I was worried in case I hurt him and he might have died overnight.
13:30Probably if you took him on your palm, then I can...
13:33Come on, sweetie.
13:35Come here, kid.
13:37One, two, three, up.
13:39Oh, dear.
13:41Are you frightened of frogs? Are you worried with them?
13:43I don't want it to jump on me.
13:45Well, you mustn't be frightened of them,
13:47because it's as if they're toads or something,
13:50and they exude sort of nasty, sticky stuff.
13:52It's a frog.
13:54But they're very resilient.
14:01Now, did you want to see underneath him?
14:03That's right.
14:05I was just saying how we definitely got a frog,
14:07because it's all moist and slimy,
14:09and the toes seem to be bigger and drier.
14:11They've got bumps and things all over them, haven't they?
14:13That's right.
14:15And I think she's in excellent shape,
14:17so you shouldn't fear that you cause any injury.
14:20So that's good.
14:22But it's just a matter of getting her back into an environment
14:24where she will do well.
14:26But the big question is, she's OK?
14:28She's OK. She's fine.
14:30Athletic.
14:32Alive and hopping.
14:34OK.
14:36Some of the patients that are brought in
14:38seem to have a wide variety of symptoms,
14:40and the vets have to sift through
14:42a tremendous amount of information
14:44so they can work out exactly what they think is wrong.
14:46What would he feel?
14:48What can we do for Jan?
14:50At the moment, he's sort of listless.
14:52He's not eating.
14:54And I'm slightly worried about...
14:56He's lost about two or three pounds
14:58over the last six, seven days.
15:00Six, seven days?
15:02Yeah.
15:04And so I thought I'd bring him down,
15:06because I'm just not happy with him.
15:08OK. So he looks a little bit depressed, doesn't he?
15:10Let's pop him up on the table.
15:12Can you manage?
15:14When he's out on a walk,
15:16he's sort of...
15:18Like that noise that he made when he lifted him up there?
15:20Yeah.
15:22Like he's in pain a little bit.
15:24He certainly seems a little bit depressed.
15:26Is he weak on his back legs?
15:28Yes.
15:30Does he fall over on his back legs?
15:32Not quite fall over, but he stumbles
15:34every now and again.
15:36What I'm doing here is
15:38I'm just moving his neck around
15:40to see if there's any resistance
15:42to me actually moving his head.
15:44OK.
15:50OK.
15:52That sort of reaction we're seeing on the front legs
15:54I would expect him to do on his back legs as well.
16:00He will put his legs back,
16:02but certainly a little bit slowly.
16:04OK.
16:06Let's just have a listen to his chest.
16:08Oh, my God.
16:12OK. Well, listen to his heart.
16:14His heart is a little bit faster
16:16than perhaps we'd expect.
16:18I'll take his temperature first
16:20and I'll explain what I want to do.
16:22OK. Because at the moment
16:24the way,
16:26you know, because he's not eating,
16:28he won't last much longer.
16:30Is he
16:32drinking normally? Yeah, he's drinking fine.
16:34Not drinking excessively?
16:36No, he's not doing nothing excessively.
16:38Sure.
16:40He's drinking fine and
16:42not eating.
16:44I'm really worried about him not eating.
16:46Sure, sure. OK.
16:50His temperature's not particularly elevated.
16:54But what I'm going to do
16:56is I think
16:58one of the main things that we're seeing here is
17:00quite a lot of discomfort.
17:02Really, I want to
17:05listen to his heart. There are some changes there that I want to
17:07investigate further. He's a little bit
17:09sore with his neck as well and again I want to
17:11investigate that further. So I think really
17:13the best thing to do is make an appointment
17:15for him to come into the hospital.
17:17What we'll do is we'll run some blood tests on him
17:19and we'll take some X-rays. We might even
17:21put an ECG on his heart because
17:23I think this is certainly quite serious
17:25and I think that your
17:27concerns about him not eating are well justified.
17:29Let's just pop him on the floor
17:31and we'll manage, OK?
17:35I'm just going to take him out of the way.
17:37I just want to see how he is on his back legs.
17:39If you just get him to stand up and just walk.
17:41Come.
17:43He's very well behaved, isn't he?
17:45Yeah.
17:47Come.
17:49Dobmans do have a
17:51predisposition.
17:53They are prone to getting problems with
17:55the base of their neck
17:57and that can mean that the bones are a little bit
17:59loose there. They're not as
18:01held together as well as they should be
18:03and you can get the bones actually pushing up
18:05and touching the spine. If they touch the spine
18:07then it causes him to suddenly
18:09come out from his back legs.
18:11I'm more concerned about getting some blood tests taken
18:13and see exactly what his heart is doing at the moment
18:15because it sounds like it might be a little bit enlarged.
18:17I'll make an appointment
18:19as soon as we can.
18:23Poor dog. He really doesn't look at all
18:25well. We'll let you know
18:27what Jeremy's diagnosis is when he's got the
18:29results of all the tests.
18:31We've seen the RSPCA call
18:33out the emergency services for help
18:35with difficult rescues but earlier
18:37this week the boot was on the other foot
18:39when the fire brigade called out the
18:41RSPCA to lend a hand.
18:43When we arrived there was a
18:45serious fire at the top flat.
18:47There was a lady in the flat
18:49that keeps cats and she's got a couple
18:51of dogs. She was in a serious
18:53situation in so much as the fire was burning
18:55behind her and the crews
18:57had to rescue the lady.
18:59After we got her out they searched the flat
19:01and it transpires that she had
19:0315 cats and 2 dogs
19:05and they were all brought out
19:07and at the time they were brought out
19:09they were all alive but whether they remain that way
19:11we don't yet know.
19:13The occupant was rushed to hospital
19:15suffering from smoke inhalation.
19:17While the fire crew were still controlling the fire
19:19neighbours and police had been
19:21rescuing the animals.
19:23When I arrived they were starting to
19:25take some of the animals out
19:27and subsequently since then we've taken some of them
19:29down to the veterinary college which is just
19:31down the road from here. In fact there was a lady
19:33passing by who was in the vets at the time
19:35and she took some of the animals down in her own car
19:37had a baby seat on the front seat
19:39and a load of cats on the back seat
19:41and in the meantime we got
19:43a police van down from Kentish Town
19:45and took the remainder down
19:47and there was I think 2 or 3 dogs
19:49and about 8 or 9 cats.
19:53But in the confusion no one was sure
19:55of how many had been accounted for
19:57Ned had 2 when a neighbour turned up
19:59with another.
20:01We're just going to check around
20:03make sure there's nothing underneath
20:05any cupboards or anything like that
20:07just have a look around.
20:09Amazingly 2 goldfish were still alive
20:11although some caged birds
20:13hadn't survived
20:15but there was no sign of any more cats.
20:21Now Ned could get the last
20:233 cats to the hospital without any
20:25further delay.
20:27These are the cats that have been
20:29in the fire are they?
20:31Let's pop
20:33that one down on the floor
20:35So what's happened?
20:37Fire brigade managed
20:39to pull them out
20:41these were still in the property at the time.
20:43The problem
20:45with fires is that
20:47first of all you're going to have problems with inhaling smoke
20:49and that in itself
20:52can cause problems with carrying oxygen
20:54around the blood
20:56can actually itself
20:58combine with
21:00secretions actually within the lungs
21:02to cause toxic chemicals
21:04that then damage the lining
21:06the problem is they can look really
21:08quite bright at this stage
21:10and you can't
21:12tell until sort of 24 hours
21:14to 48 hours after the initial
21:16exposure
21:18to the smoke
21:20I don't know whether they're going to be ok or not
21:22poor little thing
21:24I can't see any superficial
21:26injuries here
21:28let's just have a listen to the chest
21:36I mean although she doesn't look
21:38too bad just now you really can smell
21:40the smoke off her can't you?
21:42Right ok
21:44not so good really
21:46I think we're probably seeing some signs
21:48of the lungs showing some damage
21:50I think it's
21:52going to be advisable to get
21:54them on some medication straight away
21:56give them some antibiotics
21:58give them something to reduce the inflammation
22:00and also because
22:02the way the lungs
22:04react is to produce
22:06fluid actually in the
22:08little airways we want to try and get rid
22:10of as much of that as possible so really for the moment
22:12it's just a question of seeing how they
22:14respond
22:16Meanwhile two dogs
22:18rescued from the flat were in shock
22:20but holding their own at the Royal
22:22Veterinary College where seven cats
22:24were also in intensive care
22:26The most
22:28severely affected were these
22:30two, Poppy Dox and Tom One
22:32both of whom required
22:34oxygen for at least
22:36two to three hours. Four of the
22:38other cats were mainly
22:40damp and cold
22:42and soaking wet so they
22:44primarily required warming up
22:46and drying off
22:50Fortunately within a few days
22:52all the animals were out of danger
22:54and RSPCA driver Mark Clements
22:56came to collect them
22:58Most could now go to boarding
23:00kennels until their owner is back in her feet
23:02and can decide what to do with them
23:04Right that's the last
23:06one
23:10Apparently the owner is out of
23:12hospital now and feeling a lot better
23:14Most animals are terrified of
23:16fire and a frightened animal usually
23:18runs away. You may remember a
23:20badly injured dog that was brought in
23:22here on bonfire night after being frightened
23:24by a firework
23:26He's been run over
23:28He was seen to be run over, the firework exploded
23:30very near him and he shot across the road
23:32and a car went straight into him
23:34He's got a broken jaw there
23:36Oh yes I can see it moving, oh no
23:38Well that was three
23:41weeks ago, the other day he was brought in here
23:43so that David could give him a check up
23:53Remember he had a broken jaw
23:55Let's have a look at that shall we
23:57Remember how it was moving
23:59Let's have a look and see how it's doing now
24:01Well at least that's fixed
24:03See that?
24:05Because he's a much nicer dog now
24:07He's not in any pain
24:09Pretty fellow aren't you?
24:11Remember he tried to bite me
24:13He's everyone's favourite
24:15The nurse, we all love him
24:2114.6kg
24:23because that's how much it weighed
24:27Well this is what we got to decide
24:29I mean I've had it supported
24:31to get the
24:33inflammation out of it and the swelling
24:35Now we've got to decide what to do with it
24:37We've got two options
24:39We can either put a plaster Paris on
24:41that's one thing
24:43or we can maybe put a plate and screws
24:45in it
24:47or we carry him like this
24:49The plate and the screws is the least favoured option
24:51because
24:53this dog doesn't have an owner
24:55as you might remember where no one's come forward
24:57and if you're going to do complex surgery
24:59like that you really need a loving home
25:01For recovery
25:03They don't do well in the cage
25:05Nurses do a fantastic job with them
25:07but there's no substitute for
25:09the old fire at home
25:11sitting in front of it
25:13cooking and all that
25:15Once the dog was anaesthetised
25:17David could have a closer look at the leg
25:21The leg is straight
25:23both ways
25:25so if we put a plaster Paris
25:27on that
25:29I think there's a pretty fair chance
25:31that in about 4-6 weeks time
25:33it will be healed sufficiently well
25:35for him to use the leg
25:37It's a very old fashioned
25:39technique this
25:41It still works
25:45I mean
25:47I've seen the most amazing fractures
25:49that you think are not repairable
25:51and I thought I'd put a plaster on
25:53because I didn't think of anything else I could do
25:558 weeks later the dog's walking on it
25:57You're reasonably optimistic
25:59about this one finding a home
26:01He's a nice dog and he's young
26:03so we'll find him a home
26:05one way or the other
26:07Are you ever tempted to take a dog home with you David?
26:09To be honest with you I say yes
26:11about twice a week on average
26:15He's round Rolf
26:17I'll get him back before he gets too excited
26:19Come on little chap
26:21He can see you
26:23Come on
26:25He's a good dog
26:27The next day 14.6kg
26:30was much better
26:32and ready to go off to one of the rehoming centres
26:36Fancy calling him that
26:38I hope when he finds a new owner
26:40they come up with a better name
26:42Well as David said
26:44there are various ways to mend broken bones
26:46but Stan McCaskey had a completely different
26:48sort of break to contend with
26:50We've got on this side
26:52a fractured beak
26:54You can see that he's
26:56in that little shard
26:58That looks incredibly painful
27:00Do you think it's painful to him?
27:02The beak is a tough protein
27:04and I think
27:06the way he's so relaxed and pecking
27:08it probably looks a bit more
27:10worse than it actually is for him
27:12Certainly he can get things caught in there
27:14and it may be painful then
27:16and even make it a bit worse
27:18so we're going to try and see if we can fix that
27:20and give it some stability
27:22and enable him to peck
27:24even better than he's doing now
27:26So, how do you go about
27:28mending a broken beak?
27:30I'll leave you with Stan's rather ingenious solution
27:32See you next week. Bye
27:34Something very simple
27:36like superglue I'm going to try and see if I can
27:38superglue it back together
27:40What if some of the superglue gets caught on the bottom
27:42but you're going to stick his beak together?
27:44I'll be very careful
27:46I may be a little bit gullible in thinking that I can do it with superglue
27:48but we will try
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