House Call Vets – Paws & Prayers Segment

[00:00.000] It's the start of a new day for the House Call Vets. [00:15.920] Hello, we're here. [00:17.920] Come on in, I'm in the kitchen. [00:20.920] Hey, what's up? [00:22.920] Hey, we have a busy day today. [00:24.520] I still have to feed the kids and we have a package that we have to restock and then [00:28.600] we gotta clean the truck before we get going. [00:30.720] Okay. [00:31.720] Balancing family life with my job has been a little bit tough. [00:35.240] It's been very, very crazy since we've been open. [00:37.760] Yes, there have been some late nights and unfortunately, you know, with having a young [00:41.400] baby at home, it has been a little bit tough. [00:44.160] Dr. Julia's house serves as the hub of the operation and the daycare for Morgan and Allie [00:48.500] under the watchful eye of Dr. Morrow's parents. [00:52.680] Okay. [00:54.600] Okay, baby sitting duties. [00:58.400] We live about an hour and a half away. We come here and babysit and we thoroughly enjoy it. We spend a couple of nights here. [01:04.800] But then [01:06.360] Jen, Julia's vet tech, well, she's got a baby, baby Morgan, who's just a couple of weeks older than Allie. [01:13.800] So we get double duty. We have them both to look after. [01:18.120] And although it's tiring, it's an absolute delight. [01:21.040] You know, occasionally they scratch at each other a little bit and we have to part them, [01:25.680] but they're just terrific. [01:27.680] We thoroughly enjoy it. [01:32.000] Being a small business, Jen and I have to do everything ourselves. [01:35.440] We have to order all of the supplies, stop the stock room, keep track of inventory, stop [01:40.080] the truck when things are getting low in there, and sometimes it just doesn't seem like there's [01:43.800] enough hours in the day to get it all done. [01:46.480] One of the things that we do is make sure that we get the truck cleaned up in between [01:51.480] each appointment and at the end of every day. [01:53.440] Just to make sure that there's no germs and nothing left over from any other appointments [01:57.920] and to be ready for the next one that we go to. [02:01.320] Sometimes Danny Girl likes to help out with inventory and unpacking boxes. [02:05.560] You can see right here she decided she wanted to chew open these Glucosamine chews. [02:11.400] Luckily she didn't get into them, but she got pretty close. [02:16.360] All right, so we're ready to start our day. [02:18.280] I'm gonna take some stuff out and stock the truck. [02:21.880] Ready for a big surgery day at Paws and Press. [02:27.600] ["Paws and Press"] [02:32.080] So what's our caseload look like at Paws and Press today? [02:35.720] Yeah, I think we have like 12 cat's bays [02:38.560] and a couple of neuters. [02:40.960] I think there's a couple other things [02:42.440] that they wanted us to look at. [02:44.040] Oh hey, here's Marcus. [02:48.440] Where is he? [02:49.440] Are you out today? [02:50.440] There he is. [02:51.440] There's that horny boy. [02:52.440] Hi buddy. [02:53.440] So we have names for everything. [02:56.440] We seem to find things just to make our day that much better. [03:05.640] Victor is the vet mobile. [03:08.280] We decided, I don't know why we decided a name in Victor, but I guess because it started [03:11.720] with a B that's just what we came up with. [03:13.800] As far as all the animals that we see, there's a cow that lives on her road that we've named [03:18.480] Marcus and there's a little groundhog that lives on her land. [03:22.680] His name is Griffey. [03:25.360] We have a lot of names that just make our day happier I guess. [03:34.700] We met Dr. Julia at an adoption event and we were very interested in her services because [03:40.320] it's a lot more convenient for her to come to us than for us to have to drive [03:43.640] 20 or 30 animals to a vet's office every week. When we first arrive at Paws and [03:48.200] Prayers we usually hook up with Chantel which is the medical director and she [03:53.080] kind of goes through the rundown of everybody that we're gonna be doing that [03:56.240] day and sort of surgeries and examinations and things like that. We get [04:01.360] the truck ready and prepped for all the things that we need and we get started [04:06.080] right away because we usually have a pretty busy day. Their first case of the [04:09.640] day is a Jack Russell Terrier named Colonel. [04:12.200] Colonel, we're going to be removing his toe today. [04:15.000] He has a large growth on it. [04:17.240] He's been on antibiotics for about a week now and I don't think it's really improved [04:21.640] it any. [04:22.640] So we're going to take the toe off and send it into the lab and find out what's going [04:25.160] on with his toe. [04:26.160] The suspicion is that there may be some cancer there. [04:32.600] However the Colonel wants nothing to do with this procedure and needs to be given a little [04:36.480] sedative to calm him down. While the sedative is taking effect, Dr. Marrow decides to move [04:43.060] on to her next surgery, which is a female cat that needs to be spayed. [04:47.060] So this is a cat who recently had kittens, and you can see there's a lot of vessels coming [04:55.740] here and the nipples are a little more prominent than usual. There's probably a little bit [04:59.240] of milk left in because I think her kittens are only about five or six weeks old. The [05:05.080] The noise in the background is just a way for us to be able to listen to the heartbeat. [05:10.000] She has an esophageal stethoscope in and it's a tube that runs down the esophagus and lies [05:16.480] right next to the heart and then the heartbeat is picked up with a doppler. [05:21.440] So that way we can listen and just kind of hear if her heart rate starts going up or [05:24.920] down and just make sure everything is okay. [05:28.480] While the space surgery continues, the tranquilizer is beginning to take effect on the kernel. [05:34.560] Colonel came from Adams County Dog Pounds and he's been in some pain from his toe. [05:43.400] He's also been suffering from seizures. [05:46.400] He does have some anxiety problems. [05:48.060] He's very fearful of like a broom and the vacuum cleaner. [05:54.400] He's pretty painful from his toe that's going to be removed today and hopefully he'll be [05:59.560] feeling better and he'll be a much nicer little guy, huh? [06:04.520] With a space surgery on the cat complete, Jen takes her to another room to recover. [06:11.520] The Colonel is out for the count and it's now time for his surgery. [06:16.520] The problem with any kind of leg or toe amputation is they do bleed a lot. [06:20.520] So we did put a tourniquet on him to kind of help curb bleeding during surgery. [06:26.520] So that I'll be able to see what I'm doing. [06:30.520] We're going to be taking the toe off at the first joint. [06:34.520] We're trying to make sure that we get all of the swollen, possibly cancerous or infected tissue out of here. [06:50.520] And there's the toe. [06:52.520] With all that swollen tissue in there. [06:54.520] With the kernel's toe removed, the wound can now be sewn up and then bandaged. [07:00.520] And his bad toe can be sent to the lab to be analyzed. [07:03.520] It's been a successful operation and the kernel should be much happier now.