[music playing]
DR. POL: Crystal has a turkey
that is not doing good.
It's OK, Feathers.
DR. POL: The name is Feathers,
and nobody wants to look at it.
So she drove two
hours to come to us.
CRYSTAL: We'll get you
fixed up, little lady.
She is a pet.
That's why I'm here.
If she was just going to
be Thanksgiving dinner,
I think I would have just let
her go through the motions,
so got to do what I got to do.
There's the lady
that drove fast.
I told her to get her butt
over here as fast as she could.
CRYSTAL: Yes, you did,
and I left a meeting--
DR. POL: Are these
kids with you?
Yes, sir.
DR. POL: Didn't nobody threw up?
CRYSTAL: Nope.
DR. POL: Well, that's--
then you drove all right.
CRYSTAL: Yeah.
DR. POL: I'm always glad to help
clients that have sick animals.
And yes, if you drive that
far just for a turkey,
it means that they do
like their animals.
And this is why
I help everybody.
OK, guys, come on.
Come on, guys.
DR. POL: Too full here.
CRYSTAL: She wouldn't
eat or drink,
and I noticed that she was just
carrying her head in her neck
really close to her body.
What scratched you?
You did?
Yes.
No!
Mommy!
DR. POL: Hey, you've
got to open it.
When the turkeys aren't
eating or drinking,
it's a dead turkey usually.
A lot of phlegm in there.
No worms.
You cannot wait too long, and
make sure that you do something
in order to keep them happy.
It smells good.
Holy cow.
See that?
CRYSTAL: Oh!
DR. POL: That's why
the leg has swollen.
See that?
That's why she's sore.
That's bumblefoot.
Most of the
bumblefoot infections
are a staph infection that
comes from some kind of injury.
Now you can tell why it
hurts for her to walk.
And then it just starts
collecting pus around it
but does hurt very much for
those animals to walk on it.
Well, let's see if I can get
that bumblefoot taken care of.
[turkey cries]
Oh, oh, oh!
You're OK, you're OK!
DR. POL: Sometimes that
pus is almost rock hard.
But see, that's the staph
infection, and it hurts.
CRYSTAL: Yeah.
DR. POL: Because they walk
on it and pack it down,
and then they sit there, and
they don't move because--
CRYSTAL: It hurts.
DR. POL: Exactly right.
It all depends how far this
condition has gone, what I do
and what I use.
OK.
NARRATOR: In this case,
an oral antibiotic
should clear up
Feather's bumblefoot
and have her up and
eating in a few days.
I can't believe
she had bumba foot.
Bumble.
Bumble.
B-U-M-B-L-E. And
just like this--
CHILD: Oh, oh, oh.
You're OK.
DR. POL: She is fine.
It tastes good.
Do you want some?
CHILD: No, it's been
in the turkey's mouth!
DR. POL: OK, so now you know.
CRYSTAL: Yes.
She should have a full recovery.
So it was a long drive
for just a little visit,
but it was well worth it.
