Animal Hospital Episode From 1994 (3)
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00:00G'day, welcome back to the RSPCA's Animal Hospital.
00:28It's been quite a dramatic week here, one way or another.
00:31It all started when two men turned up in Richard Andrews' clinic with a large box that was
00:35completely sealed up.
00:37Hello?
00:38Right, let's have a look at this other one.
00:41Okay, batten down the hatches, I think.
00:44Yeah.
00:45What are you expecting to happen when we open it?
00:48World War III.
00:49So what's he got?
00:50Red mic.
00:51Red light.
00:52He's a little insect climber.
00:53Okay, here we go.
00:55Okay, here we go.
00:56Are you going to be able to keep a reasonable hold on him?
00:59If we can avoid the head, if we can get a hold of the body, the thing is he's going
01:03to start whipping, so just avoid the head.
01:06Just keep behind the head.
01:08Just avoid behind the head.
01:10Okay, well if you grab his head and I'll...
01:13That's it.
01:14Okay.
01:15That's it.
01:16There we go, we got him.
01:18Just keep a hold of that tail for me.
01:21Hold at the base.
01:23He gets you, Rob.
01:25Yeah, jump backwards and the spikes are all facing backwards, aren't they?
01:29Yeah, his claws are very, very sharp.
01:31Whereabouts have you seen most of these?
01:33They're normally up on his head.
01:35Now, let's have a look, see if we can track some of these things down.
01:40How long have you had him?
01:41About a year and a half.
01:42There's one on his head there, sir.
01:43Yeah, these, all these here.
01:45Yeah.
01:46All right.
01:47That guy knocked it after he sucked the blood.
01:50Have you had some before?
01:51Yeah.
01:52Had somebody over, had a couple of them.
01:54But they were like the smaller ones.
01:56The females are normally the smaller of the two.
01:59Why the fascination with them?
02:02They're different, I suppose.
02:04They're different, yeah.
02:06They've got quite good characters on them, obviously, apart from now.
02:10But before, obviously, the mites, yeah, they're very nice.
02:14Stroke them, get them out.
02:16What do you call him?
02:17Satan.
02:18Satan.
02:20Richard collected some of the mites to examine later.
02:24They're like balloons.
02:26They're like blood balloons.
02:28They start small and they suck the blood and grow.
02:31And obviously, as soon as you get older, then they pop.
02:34It's definitely a mite.
02:36So the way we're going to treat that is to give him an actual injection of a chemical
02:42that will kill the mites when they feed.
02:46Pop under the skin.
02:52That's it.
02:53Is that it?
02:54That's it.
02:56That was quick.
02:58He's a beautiful looking fellow, isn't he?
03:02Later on, Richard confirmed his diagnosis in the lab.
03:06Here we go, Rolf.
03:07There's the little culprit.
03:09Excellent.
03:10There you go.
03:11If you have a look, you can see the biting mouthparts there and the sucking mouthparts.
03:15On the right.
03:16That's it on the front.
03:17And that bladder at the bottom on the left, that's where he collects all the blood.
03:21That's right.
03:22That's what gives them their red color after they've had a blood feed.
03:25Yeah.
03:26So you're confident that the injection will sort them out?
03:30Well, certainly their mites are in for a little bit of a surprise next time they try and feed.
03:34Yeah.
03:35That was the biggest iguana I've seen since I've been in this country.
03:38Certainly the trickiest to deal with.
03:40At this time of year, a lot of people and animals seem to be suffering from coughs and colds.
03:45But when a dog turned up in David Grant's clinic with a bad throat,
03:48the owner thought it was because the dog had swallowed something.
03:51Who have we got here?
03:52Sam.
03:53Sam.
03:54Yes.
03:55Sam, what's he been up to?
03:56Well, he's been choking all evening and all day yesterday.
03:59I'm not sure if he's actually swallowed a chicken bone or something.
04:01I was a bit worried about him.
04:02Do you give him any chickens?
04:03No, I don't give him any.
04:04Unless he's picked something up and he went for a walk.
04:06I'm not sure.
04:07Is he friendly?
04:08He's normally friendly.
04:10Come on then.
04:12Oh, sorry.
04:13Oh, dear.
04:14I thought I'd best bring him in just to be on the safe side.
04:16No, no.
04:17I'll just take his temperature.
04:18Would you like to hang on to his collar?
04:19Oh, lovely.
04:20Thank you.
04:21All right, Sam.
04:22Come on.
04:23Sometimes with coughing, when people say a dog sounds like it's got something stuck in its throat,
04:26it's usually an infection called kennel cough.
04:29Oh, it's kennel cough, that is.
04:30Well, normally when you touch the larynx, though, that makes them cough.
04:33That's what I was trying to do just now.
04:35Boy, come on.
04:36Have you got a temperature?
04:38Yes.
04:40Yes, you have.
04:42104.
04:43That's quite high.
04:44Yes.
04:45Now, Sam, we're going to have a look at your throat, boy.
04:48It's probably easier if he can see you.
04:50If you come just slightly this side.
04:52So he knows you're around, otherwise he thinks you've cleared.
04:54That's it.
04:55There she is.
04:56Don't worry.
04:57See how he's relaxed straight away?
04:58There now.
04:59Now we'll have a look.
05:02There's nothing stuck down there as far as I can see.
05:04Come on.
05:05Oh, dear.
05:06Are you going to show me again?
05:08Come on now.
05:09Be good.
05:10Be good.
05:11Open wide.
05:12Open.
05:13Good dog.
05:14Sam.
05:15Good dog.
05:16All right.
05:17All right.
05:18Strong as an ox, isn't he?
05:19He is very strong, very powerful dog.
05:22He's got a very, very sore throat.
05:28He's got a sore throat and his glands are up.
05:31He has got tonsillitis.
05:36Is that serious for the dog, would that be?
05:38No.
05:39No, it's not serious.
05:40It's no more serious than it is with us, but it's very painful.
05:44You know, it had never occurred to me that dogs had tonsils.
05:48Anyway, a quick course of antibiotics and he was absolutely fine.
05:53Now some of you may remember a little puppy that was brought in to vet Gabriel Haggard's clinic a couple of weeks ago.
05:58The puppy was just five weeks old and he was having trouble getting about.
06:02This one has just started walking, but this claw seems to be, it sort of drags it.
06:09See, look, that looks dead.
06:11It was decided to put the puppy's leg in a splint to try and straighten it.
06:16Well, splinting the leg didn't work and a fortnight later Harry, the little puppy, was back.
06:22Right, how's Harry getting on?
06:24He walks around and he can walk because he drags it along with him.
06:28Does he ever put any weight on the paw at all?
06:30No, sometimes when he walks he lifts it up as he goes along and he hops along.
06:34Right.
06:35Come on, let's put the box down.
06:36Come on, Harry.
06:38We hoped with the bandage on for a while it might straighten out naturally itself,
06:43because often these problems, once they begin to carry weight on the leg,
06:46the leg will kind of remodel and sort itself out after a while.
06:49He's only a tiny little fellow and we're hoping that with time he might begin to heal on its own, basically.
06:53So is there anything that you can do about it or will he stay like that?
06:57Well, no, obviously we can't leave him like that, basically.
06:59What we're going to do is give him a week or two longer and see how he gets on.
07:03If there's no improvement after that, then he might require an operation.
07:07OK.
07:08Maybe straighten the leg out permanently for him.
07:10Yeah.
07:11At the moment, as he's walking, he looks cruel.
07:14Leave him like that.
07:15Yeah, you're quite right.
07:16Yeah, it's not right at all and we certainly can't leave him that way, basically.
07:20Unfortunately, things didn't improve, and a couple of weeks later Harry was back for an operation.
07:26First he needed to be x-rayed so that Jeremy Stewart could see how the bones were looking now the pup was bigger.
07:32So really what's happened is the bones of the forearm have rotated round
07:37and are sitting at the side here, really at 90 degrees to the position that they should be sat in.
07:42And that throws the hand facing out that way.
07:44It just pops everything completely out and everything is really very abnormal.
07:48This is why Harry can't put any weight on his leg.
07:51Jeremy was planning to put two pins through Harry's elbow to hold the bones in place.
08:02It's going to be quite tricky to do something like this, I think.
08:05We'll see what we can do, but really I want to try and stabilise the joint.
08:08I'm not so concerned about having a functional joint at the end of it.
08:13I'm more concerned about actually having a functional leg.
08:16Well, we're now actually within the joint space and you can see how horrendously deformed things are really.
08:23What I'm thinking we might have to do is we might just have to try and put a pin down here anyway.
08:28Try and hold things in position and then stitch the outside of the joint capsule back really tightly to try and hold everything stable.
08:36If that doesn't work, then I really think we've probably got to the stage where we're not going to be able to do anything for this.
08:43We're going to have to maybe consider amputation.
08:46Now, what we need to do is we need to find a pin that's going to, because it's so small,
08:51something that's going to be strong enough to hold.
08:56It's still small enough.
08:57It's still small enough.
08:59If you put something too big in there, then it's going to split the bone.
09:04Oh dear.
09:06There really is a lot of complications with this.
09:14The pins were finally pushed into place through the tiny bones
09:17and an hour after the operation had begun, Harry's leg was stitched and re-X-rayed.
09:24The bone that was sitting around at 90 degrees, we've now got held in position by these two pins
09:30and you can see it's actually sitting in a much more normal position at the end of the humerus there
09:35and that's where it should be, hopefully.
09:39Yeah, amazing.
09:4124 hours later and Harry was looking quite perky.
09:46Well, it's still too soon to know if the operation has been a success,
09:49but we'll keep an eye on him and we'll let you know how he gets on.
09:53From time to time, the RSPCA takes on animals when their owners can't look after them anymore.
09:59The other day, Inspectors John Storey and Mark Martin were called out to pick up seven animals at one go,
10:05all in need of new homes.
10:07Their owner runs a lock-up shop in a converted railway arch in the East End
10:11and he no longer had enough room for all his pets.
10:14Steve Knight went along to lend a hand.
10:17When the inspectors arrived, the street was full of furniture
10:21and geese and a goat and some chickens, but there was no sign of their owner.
10:28He's had these animals 18 months, two years at least now
10:34and he sort of has taken them on because he felt that if he hadn't have done that,
10:40they'd have been killed or they wouldn't have lived the life they live now.
10:45He's found homes for a lot of the larger animals.
10:49We're just taking away the smaller farmyard animals, the geese, the duck, the chickens.
10:55The animals needed to be signed over before the inspectors could take them away,
10:59so they had to contact the owner.
11:01He's given me his permission on the phone for Donald here to sign the animals over,
11:06so all we really need to do now is go and catch them.
11:13The best thing we can do is try and herd them into a corner somewhere,
11:16if we get a couple of us around them, at least we can isolate them.
11:19OK.
11:21Herd them off the road first.
11:23If we herd them off the road, then at least if we start chasing them about, they're not going to...
11:26Can we not herd them into this arch?
11:29Well, it's very dark at the back. Oh, right.
11:32And without too much bother, they could get lost behind the furniture,
11:35because there's a lot of furniture.
11:38In fact, the hens would follow anyone who had food
11:42and Donald was able to lure them off the road without any problem.
11:45So it seemed the inspectors might just be able to pick them up quite easily.
11:53That's it.
12:05That's it.
12:07It's not light, is it?
12:12Compromising poses with geese.
12:24Donald and Charlie the goat looked on as one goose,
12:28one duck and three chickens were finally bagged and boxed.
12:36Two more to get.
12:38It's gone into the arch over there.
12:41Catching and boxing the first one was reasonably straightforward.
12:47Like that.
12:49That's crazy.
12:51That's crazy.
12:53So just one more to go, then.
12:55I'll take the box over here.
12:58Now we've got to find it.
13:01It's in here.
13:06There?
13:14Suddenly going very quiet, conveniently.
13:17It's hiding.
13:21Oh, my God.
13:25Got it. Well done.
13:28So finally they were all off to their new home,
13:31a smallholding in Buckinghamshire.
13:33Charlie's staying where she is.
13:35She can sleep in the shop at night
13:37and during the day she likes to mind the store.
13:41You wonder if she's a bit lonely there now.
13:45This little kitten was abandoned when she was just a few days old
13:49and the nurses have been hand-feeding her day and night since then.
13:53Looking after animals this small, it's always tricky.
13:56The smaller the animal, the harder they are to treat.
14:00Right. What's in here?
14:02It's a budgie.
14:04What's his name?
14:06Pecky.
14:07Pecky?
14:08Yeah.
14:09All right.
14:10He's got his thick neck.
14:12The neck is bent and he can't feed properly.
14:15Right. Come on, Pecky.
14:18I do allow it to fly around the house.
14:21Right.
14:22It goes back to the cage again.
14:24Right.
14:25Come on, Pecky.
14:27Come on, Peck.
14:28Poor little fellow. He's terrible, isn't he?
14:30What happened?
14:32Pecky.
14:33Pecky, come on.
14:35Do you want to hold him there?
14:37Yeah.
14:38Does he nibble you?
14:39No, he doesn't.
14:40He doesn't want to bite you?
14:41Yeah, he doesn't.
14:42So what happened?
14:43Two days ago, he suddenly became very cold
14:45and there are four of them very close to the window.
14:49We left them.
14:50And, of course, we have a maximum temperature in the house.
14:54But it is the only one that was affected.
14:56All of a sudden, it fell off from the stand
15:00and then started trembling down the cage.
15:03And we noticed this.
15:05And I took it quickly to the boiler room
15:08where the temperature is a little bit higher.
15:10Nice and warm. Good.
15:11Now, the other three birds are all perfectly OK.
15:13Yes, the rest are fine.
15:14They're eating OK?
15:15They're eating and they were worried when I was taking Pecky out.
15:18Right.
15:19They were shouting, what do you want to do with it?
15:21Well, I think you did the right thing.
15:22I think he may have got a virus infection
15:23probably from, as you say, the change in temperature.
15:25Possibly.
15:26I mean, birds are very sensitive to change in temperature.
15:28Yeah.
15:29And, like ourselves, we can get nasty infections there
15:31and make them go all funny and off balance.
15:33This happened two days ago?
15:34Yes.
15:35Come back in the box for a second.
15:38OK.
15:40What did you notice?
15:41He's actually breathing very heavily there.
15:43I think he may have an air sac infection.
15:45Possibly.
15:46But they haven't got lungs like we have.
15:47They've got air sacs.
15:48Right.
15:49And that's quite common in birds.
15:50And he's kind of ruffling his feathers there as well,
15:52which they do, trying to retain heat in their body, basically.
15:55It's also important to lower the perches
15:58because when they're not feeding well
16:00with these kind of respiratory infections,
16:02they tend to lose their balance.
16:03Oh, right.
16:04And fall off the perch very easily.
16:05That's quite a common sign of a sick bird.
16:07What I'm going to do is use an antibiotic medication,
16:10which you give with a small syringe into his mouth.
16:12I'll just show you how to do it.
16:13OK.
16:15I'll just hold it.
16:16Come on, Pecky.
16:17Yeah.
16:18Come on.
16:23How are we sure we'll survive?
16:26No, she's not taking it very well, I'm afraid.
16:28We'll have to take her to the hospital instead.
16:30She isn't eating voluntarily, so what we'll do,
16:32we'll take her to the hospital instead for daily injections here.
16:35Right.
16:36Every day for the next three days,
16:38Pecky had to have an injection of antibiotics.
16:41How is he now compared to when he first came in?
16:44Better, worse?
16:45I think he's a bit better.
16:46He's actually a lot trickier than before.
16:48He's actually eating quite well in the hospital as well.
16:51I just want to see with the table,
16:52just make sure he doesn't run off the table.
16:54Oh, I see the tilt of the beak.
16:55You see?
16:56That actually is improving.
16:57He actually can stand upright now when he wants to.
17:00You see, he's actually still got it.
17:03He's kind of walking in a circle slightly as well.
17:07But he's a lot better.
17:08I'm quite happy with that progress, actually.
17:11Are there any particular dangers with the injection?
17:16I suppose there is a danger, right beside,
17:18behind the muscle, there's the heart.
17:20So if you were careless or used a very big needle or something,
17:23you could puncture the heart and the bird could die.
17:25And they are quite small little animals,
17:27and they can die of stress so easily.
17:29People often don't realise how susceptible they are to stress.
17:32As Barbara said, birds are very susceptible to stress,
17:38and, unfortunately, Pecky died unexpectedly at the weekend.
17:44The staff here have to be ready to deal with emergencies
17:46at a moment's notice.
17:48A few days ago, Inspector John Storey radioed in
17:51to say that he was on his way to the hospital
17:53with a seriously injured dog.
18:02The dog was in a critical condition
18:04and John needed to get it straight into the emergency room for treatment.
18:08Some of you may find what happened next quite upsetting.
18:19While vet Stan McCaskey and the team battled to save the dog's life,
18:23John explained what had happened.
18:25We got a call from Islington Police.
18:28They required an immediate response to an address in Islington.
18:34Where four of these dogs live, this dog attacked the owner.
18:38The three other dogs then set about this one.
18:42When I got there, this one was completely collapsed on the floor of the front room.
18:46The other three dogs were making a bit of a racket around it.
18:51I had to use a fair bit of protective equipment to get in,
18:54keep the other three dogs away,
18:56and just sort of haul this one out by its scruff.
18:59You felt the dog was near death at that time?
19:02Well, the quicker I can get it here, the better.
19:05I'm not a vet.
19:07We don't have animal paramedics,
19:09so it needs to be with these guys as quickly as possible if it's to stand a chance.
19:14He's had a lot of blood loss.
19:17I mean, these dogs are tough, though, to be fair.
19:20Did you get bitten?
19:21No, I didn't get bitten. This is all the dog's blood.
19:24In fact, the dog had lost so much blood,
19:26they needed to get fluids into him fast or he'd die.
19:30They're trying to find the vein which is standing up enough to get a needle in,
19:35to put drips in,
19:37and the blood pressure is so low that the veins are all collapsed
19:41and they can't get a needle.
19:43They can't find a vein.
19:46Eventually, they did manage to get a drip into the dog,
19:48but he was still losing a lot of blood.
19:53He's dying, isn't he?
19:54Yeah, the heart has actually stopped.
19:56The heart has stopped beating.
20:01So, the dog died.
20:04His owner, who he had attacked, had to go to hospital,
20:07but apparently she's fine now.
20:09The team actually spent some time and quite a lot of energy trying to save that dog,
20:14but John, surely if a dog has attacked someone, it's put to sleep?
20:18Our first priority in that situation is the dog's welfare.
20:22We brought the dog in. We had to try and save the dog.
20:26We worry about the wise and wherefores and implications afterwards.
20:30Well, given that it had attacked someone, would it have had to be put to sleep?
20:34Not necessarily.
20:35In this particular instance, the attack was carried out in the dog's own home.
20:39It wasn't in a public place.
20:41It was up to the owner whether they wanted the dog put to sleep,
20:44and I was informed before I left the scene with the dog
20:47that the person who was attacked requested it wasn't put to sleep,
20:50and we tried to save it.
20:52Thanks, John.
20:54Now, the ambulance drivers sometimes get called out
20:56to deal with some very strange things,
20:58but when Dermot Murphy went to collect some abandoned animals
21:01that someone had found, it was definitely a first.
21:04Steve Knight went with him.
21:06Hello.
21:07We got here then.
21:09Well, I'm not sure. I think they're African land snails,
21:13but I found them dumped in a carrier bag outside my window
21:17on the other side of the estate.
21:19I went to throw some rubbish. I saw the bag moving,
21:21and I thought somebody had dumped a puppy or a kitten,
21:24but when I looked, there were a load of snails,
21:26and they were alive, obviously.
21:28There's nine of them, and they just was in a bag crumpled up.
21:32They're really sort of beautiful, but I don't know how to look after them.
21:35They are, actually.
21:36I mean, I wouldn't even like to hazard a guess as to what exactly they are,
21:40but, I mean, they're snails of some kind.
21:43They're huge, aren't they?
21:45Yeah, they're massive.
21:47Look, they're bigger than my hand.
21:49That one's out. Look, they are definitely alive, look.
21:52What's the best thing to do then, Janet?
21:54Right, I mean, we've been in touch with the zoo already,
21:56but they've actually got a problem with them.
21:58They're overrun with them at the moment.
22:00So now I've actually got the office trying to ring round at the moment
22:03to see if we can maybe find a park or a small zoo that will take them in.
22:07No one wanted the giant snails,
22:09so eventually London Zoo relented and agreed to take them.
22:12Thanks, go ahead.
22:15Right, these are West African giant land snails.
22:19Which is the West we were missing then.
22:21Oh, yeah, yeah, because there's lots of different species.
22:23We really normally don't take them because we don't have the space for them all,
22:27but we will take these ones off your hand.
22:29What's the problem? Why do you get so many?
22:31Well, the problem is that they breed too easily.
22:33They're fairly easy to keep, and if you're keeping them well, they breed well
22:37because they're actually hermaphrodites.
22:39So every snail carries male and female body parts,
22:43and so any two should be a successfully breeding pair.
22:46So you often can't stop them.
22:48So what will happen to these now?
22:50Well, we'll keep these ones. These are nice ones.
22:52We'll probably put them on our display.
22:54But no more? You don't want any more?
22:56We really can't house any more. We're full to capacity now.
23:00Well, I suppose as pets go, they'd be fairly undemanding,
23:04even though they do breed like, well, like land snails.
23:08Of course, some pets are far more trouble to their owners than others.
23:12As Barbara O'Malley found out when she met a dog called Bonus.
23:16Why's he called Bonus?
23:18Well, people were treating him cruelly.
23:22So I kicked up such a row that they pushed him into my arms
23:25and said, he's yours then.
23:27They gave him to you instead?
23:28So I took him home, and while the family were all discussing
23:31what name to call him, and I was cuddling him,
23:34and I said, oh, he's my unexpected Bonus.
23:37He's untrainable.
23:39Untrainable?
23:40Untrainable.
23:41He's very good here.
23:42I telephoned the Kennel Club.
23:44Why?
23:45That was 10 years ago. I was 70 then.
23:47Why?
23:48And I said, in my lifetime, I've had many dogs,
23:50and trained them all without the slightest trouble.
23:53Not silly tricks, but basic six-day help.
23:55Yeah, basic obedience stuff, yeah.
23:57I said, what's the best obedience class in London?
23:59So the man said to me, I'll send you to a place,
24:02there's a miracle worker, the trainer, he'll soon sort him out.
24:05So I booked for 12 lessons.
24:07Sent Bonus off to school?
24:09And I went with him, of course.
24:11At the end of the 10th lesson, a great big church hall,
24:14this is what the trainer did.
24:16Will someone shoot that dog?
24:18And I shouted back, give me a gun then.
24:23He was just that bad, wasn't he?
24:25Was he expelled from the class then, was he?
24:27Well, I was given very strong hints.
24:29To leave?
24:30Yes.
24:31He's quite a character, isn't he?
24:33So what does he wrong with him today, anyway?
24:35Well, he's had a skin allergy, and...
24:37Right.
24:39He's had all sorts of injections for it.
24:41Right.
24:42And I noticed a small little lump on his chest,
24:46just round about there.
24:50That wouldn't be anything very serious.
24:52It's a little small fatty lump, actually.
24:55What happens when they get a bit of middle-aged spread,
24:58he's getting a bit now, he's a bit...
25:00He likes me.
25:01He likes you.
25:02It's called a lipoma, which means a fatty lump.
25:06And it's quite common in little porky dogs,
25:08they get middle-aged spread, so...
25:10I think he's got a bit of a tummy on him there, hasn't he?
25:13What you could do is add some extra vegetables
25:15or maybe some brown into his food
25:17to kind of fill him up slightly,
25:19and that's lowering calories.
25:21I don't think he's remarkably overweight.
25:23The strange thing about it all is,
25:25he just tolerates me.
25:27He has never once licked me or shown me
25:29any signs of affection.
25:31What, bonus?
25:32Bonus.
25:33Really?
25:34My sister, who doesn't even live with us,
25:36he screams with pleasure if he sees her come in.
25:39OK, I think you should call him Jekyll and Hyde,
25:41not Bonus anymore.
25:43So he'd be on top...
25:44See, he likes me, and I'm horrible to him.
25:46I give him injections, don't I?
25:48Bonus, hello.
25:50He just turns his face away.
25:52Another dog would lick its master or mistress,
25:54or try to, wouldn't they?
25:56He never licks you at all.
25:57He never has done.
25:58Really?
25:59Bonus, come on.
26:00Bonus, come on.
26:02Ooh, perhaps I should use different toothpaste.
26:06What a character.
26:08Do you remember David Grand's cat, Penny?
26:11Well, she's made a great recovery
26:12after that road accident.
26:14She can see all right out of her one eye,
26:16and she's eating on her own now.
26:18In fact, David's taking her home with him tonight.
26:21Now, a lot of you have been asking about Suki.
26:24She was brought in because she was choking on a ball,
26:26and her owner just never came back to fetch her.
26:30Well, she was sent out to the rehoming centre at Southridge,
26:33and it wasn't long before she was chosen by a new family,
26:36and Suki certainly struck it lucky.
26:39Her new owner turned out to be a vet.
26:42Mary McAfee met him and his daughter
26:44when they went to collect Suki.
26:47There she is.
26:48Hello, Suki.
26:49Hello, Suki.
26:50Hello, Suki.
26:51Hello.
26:53Good girl.
26:55All right.
26:56Who is this?
26:57Oh, yes.
26:59Oh, yes.
27:00She's going home now.
27:05Oh, stand back.
27:06Stand back.
27:07Stand back.
27:08Oh!
27:09Come on, then.
27:10Going home.
27:12Where are you going?
27:14Oh, look at you.
27:16So what was it about Suki that attracted you
27:18to her more than any other animal?
27:20I've had our sessions at home for more than 30 years,
27:24and we lost our old girl last year.
27:27And we're looking for the right replacement.
27:30And I think the family saw this one on the television,
27:34and she won their hearts.
27:36Oh, yes.
27:37Yes, she's just dying to go home, aren't you?
27:46It wasn't a very long trip to Suki's new home
27:48where there was a large garden and a new playmate
27:50waiting to meet her.
27:52I'll leave you with that.
27:53See you next week.
27:54Bye.
27:57Bye.
28:06While the cat's away, the mice will play.
28:08The British Empire is next.
28:27Roll it.