2009

S2.E1 ∙ Episode #2.1

Wed, Jul 14, 2010

Chris likes on occasional exotic patient for variety, but Sydney Zoo's reticular python Atomic Betty is a bit over the top: Australia's largest constrictor needs handling by teams of at least five grown men. After hibernation, she seems to lack appetite, but checks out healthy, so he administers vitamin B. Back in the clinic, two girl house-mates fuzz even more about their beloved, spoiled-rotten canine 'baby' Marie, which swallowed a bikini cord. Chris's surgeon colleague operates a Boston terrier who was crushed by the owner's car.

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S2.E2 ∙ Episode #2.2

Wed, Jul 21, 2010

Chris rescues a duck family which nested near a swimming pool, but three stories high, to release them into the wild. He's also the last hope a boy and his parents who adore their young Labrador, whose badly-set paw is only getting worse. Finally a cat with badly infected bite wounds from a lost fight

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S2.E3 ∙ Episode #2.3

Wed, Jul 28, 2010

Chris is called to a cattle farm, where the kids' pet dog is obsessed with staying closer to the calves then is nearly normal or safe. Chris diagnoses and socio-psychological cause and comes up with a solution, after having been called away by the cocky, ever boastfully-competitive buckaroos to catch and treat and calf with a wounded leg. In the clinic, a cat's badly healed paw must be reset.

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S2.E4 ∙ Episode #2.4

Wed, Aug 04, 2010

Chris is incredulous when called to Bondi beach by senior life guard Dean for a stray rabbit, but actually finds trainee Maxi cuddling -and wetted by- a bunny, too accustomed to people to be wild. Chris takes it home, finds it healthy and posts fliers but no owner turns up, so Dean ends up adopting the fluffy pet. A cat's crushed paw must be reset, but now heals. A family's German shepherd with a mystery blood syndrome is treated and recovers, but only temporarily.

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S2.E5 ∙ Episode #2.5

Wed, Aug 11, 2010

Chris treats a dog with extensive injuries from hanging down for hours on his window-caught front paws. Then he's called away by zoo reptilian keepers who fear one of their American alligators may have swallowed a bottle, which would be fatal. Chris dares search manually once a tube is fixed into the monster mouth while his kin is kept away. IN hospital, a golden retriever needs treatment for tick poisoning.

6.4 /10

S2.E6 ∙ Episode #2.6

Wed, Aug 18, 2010

Chris has an unusual patient: a farmer dumped a lamb with a crushed leg. Chris resets it and takes care of rehabilitation, almost bonding too much. The clinic treats a small terrier he was nearly torn a part by a pit-bull's locked jaws. Chris also gives an unidentified mongrel a DNA test to determine if its lineage frightens off the family which planned to adopt it from a pound.

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S2.E7 ∙ Episode #2.7

Wed, Aug 25, 2010

Chris accepted an invitation form his father, also a vet, to visit Fiji, an islands state with only one veterinarian, carrying loads of there lacking equipment abandoned in Australia. The clinic is ambulant here, for such diverse animals as a drought horse and a pig in peasant villages and, in a retired couple's town home, a pet dog. At the end of the week, Chris rewards himself with a taste of the wold famous surfing waves.

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S2.E8 ∙ Episode #2.8

Wed, Sep 01, 2010

Chris has handled wildlife before, including zoo snakes, but this time it's a diamond python or worse, in a residential swimming pool, presumably part of shedding its skin, yet extremely slippery. A dog's wound after a serious crash prove hard to diagnose, alas worsened significantly between two X-ray sessions, spelling major surgery. The clinic fails in saving an orphaned 'kouskous' possum young.

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S2.E9 ∙ Episode #2.9

Wed, Sep 08, 2010

No exotic wildlife for Chris this time, just an endless night helping a dog deliver pups despite her breed's problematic anatomy for birth, so number two dies, the third requires a cesarean. The hospital team kills team by comparing their own pet dogs' "intelligence", until a real patient arrives, hard to diagnose for a snake bite, hard to treat as the serpentine species isn't clearly identified.

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S2.E10 ∙ Episode #2.10

Wed, Sep 15, 2010

Chris cheerfully responds to a call from the zoo for a koala bear whose maternal failures are diagnosed the result of a teat inflammation. The keepers however drag him along to treat an old alligator, which has been bitten by one of the thirty younger ones who render the operation rather nightmarish. The hospital treats a canine puppy.

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S2.E11 ∙ Episode #2.11

Wed, Sep 22, 2010

Chris agrees to help an orphaned lamb which lacks natural immunity normally passed on by the lactating mother, recruiting a country 'donor' ewe, a veterinary first. On his way back, he's called urgently to the reptilian zoo, which received a wandering young platypus, exhausted and covered in eighty ticks, luckily non-toxic parasites. The hospital must diagnose a tomcat with incurable, highly contagious feline leukemia, and has to test its playmate, daunting as the owner's third cat died undiagnosed fairly recently. By: KGF Vissers

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S2.E12 ∙ Episode #2.12

Wed, Oct 20, 2010

Chris pities a pit-bull's owner more then its victim, Sir's feared partner's badly-shaken pet dog, but achieves good healing and fixes the canine house mates' rapport by castration. The hospital operates a couple's beloved bulldog for a congenitally dysfunctional knee socket.

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S2.E13 ∙ Episode #2.13

Wed, Oct 27, 2010

Chris first treats a loving family's pet dog, who may die from yet unidentified (snail) poison due to his small size. The hospital treats a kitten. Then the reptilian zoo calls Chris for a pregnancy test in a rare species of kangaroo's breeding program, but catching them proves an athletic challenge even for the fittest men.

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S2.E14 ∙ Episode #2.14

Wed, Nov 10, 2010

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S2.E15 ∙ Episode #2.15

Wed, Nov 17, 2010

Chris diagnoses a choking Labrador puppy as poisoned and pulls him trough just in time. His clinic colleagues stitch up one of a collector's monitors who was bitten badly by a larger one. Chris goes check up in the zoo a a rare wallaby species breeding program, but catching them proves embarrassingly hard.

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