Vets in Practice

Trude Mostue deals with an incontinent rabbit and a boxer dog called Jessica which has eaten some poison. Julie Richards has to put a dog to sleep. Steve Leonard adopts some orphaned kittens. Emma Milne finds herself with an emergency on her hands.

The young vets have been at work for almost a year. Alison Lee performs an emergency blood transfusion on a kitten called Chip. Joe Inglis plays Cupid to tortoises Ben and Bluebell. Emma Milne has to deal with one of her regular and most troublesome patients, Reggie, a large Vietnamese pot-bellied pig.

The young vets are now 18 months into their careers. Trude Mostue, Emma Milne and Joe Inglis each have a difficult case to deal with in their surgeries. Joe is attempting to remove an abscess from Gizmo the snake, a tricky enough procedure, but then his patient stops breathing. Trude has to remove a lump, too, which is attached to Wilbur the Vietnamese pot-bellied pig. Unfortunately pigs don't do well under general anaesthetic so it's a nerve-racking operation. And Emma has to open up a German shepherd dog who seems to have a large, chewed-up lump of carpet wedged inside her.

Trude Mostue faces a crisis when a disturbance causes her to make a potentially-fatal error in the operating theatre during a routine castration on a guinea pig named Pepper. In King's Lynn Craig Beck battles to save the life of a black and white farm cat named Boris, while his wife Alison tries to solve the mystery illness of a West Highland terrier.

Trude Mostue refuses to let her anxiety about her application to the Garston Veterinary Group affect her concentration when performing a life-saving operation on a Labrador named Jenny. Meanwhile, Joe Inglis has to deal with the nastiest job of his career to-date. Pepe the cat has been missing for a week and has returned in deep distress and stinking the place out. It transpires that his bottom has been infected with maggots which have eaten away at the flesh.

Joe Inglis' routine caesarean on a heavily pregnant foxhound produces puppy after puppy, but there's not an entirely happy ending. Meanwhile, his wife Emma treats and then releases a pheasant that has travelled four miles trapped in the grille of a car. Trude Mostue performs an operation on a Chihuahua with a malignant tumour, and gives a temporary home to an orphaned kitten.