Best mates since university, vets Anthony Bennett and James Carroll have set up practices in beautiful Shoalhaven region of NSW, working on farm animals, domestic pets and wildlife. Today they help an Alpaca mum feed its new born, tend a horse who’s eaten chook pellets, extract a glass marble from a bearded dragon lizard, and assist in a calf birth.
Whilst the vets struggle to save the life of a horse during an operation to remove a skin tumour, their young protégé Bryden gets a chance to perform a cow stomach operation and Anthony attends a snuffly wombat.
Anthony checks on a pig named Kevin Bacon, while James struggles with a pregnant cow. Meanwhile, a sheep needs a blood transfusion, Annie the dog has torn her knee bone and Anthony's engagement party plans are interrupted.
The vets tend to some complaining cows, they castrate a ferret, perform major stomach surgery on a sick cow, tend to a dying alpaca and open their clinic for all the pets in the district, including a snappy croc.
James finds trouble at his backdoor in the shape of a red belly black snake, Jaxson the dog has a suspicious lump, and a kangaroo in Nowra Zoo has smashed its teeth. Anthony visits the Royal Sydney Show as honorary vet.
This brand new local production for The LifeStyle Channel follows country vets and long-time best mates Dr. James Carroll and Dr. Anthony Bennett as they work with animals big and small. The series highlights their tight-knit community and the real-life dramas, triumphs and emergencies at the heart of their rural veterinary practice. Filmed across the picturesque Shoalhaven region of NSW’s South Coast, Village Vets Australia is about the bonds between people and their pets, farmers and their animals and the friendship of two great mates.
This episode explores the concept that vets are one of the few professions that are present at the birth of a patient, and still there when the patient passes on after a full life – from the rescue birth of a puppy stuck in its mother’s birth canal, to the untimely death of a child’s pet lizard, and ending with the harrowing decision of James and his family to put their own elderly dog Bailey down.
Country fair favourite Toby the miniature horse is critically ill. Young Vet Hannah takes on a dramatic operation. A prize bull is in danger after tangling its leg in wire. Will the Vet's be able to help before it's too late?
Anthony is called on to care for Peter the Rabbit who needs surgery, while James makes a discovery in Ginger the cat. Anthony calls to Fiesta the horse who needs urgent attention.
James is hoping for some down time as he and Ronnie nervously await the birth of their second child, but the clinic is busier than ever. A cat with a broken hip requires a procedure that defies belief.