TV Schooltime - See and Do Time: Animals in Need part 1

it's TV school time WOI TV in association with iowa state university presents another program on the iowa TV school time series see and do time today's topic is the animal doctor your teacher is Betty Lou McVeigh the wo ITV staff well Emmett it's just about time to go yes well I'm glad you're wagging your tail because you'll have it you had a nice time yes you owe the people are so nice mm-hmm dr. Baker is so nice you know I was just thinking about the time that Domino went to visit the veterinary clinic and to see dr. Baker hi Emma and I are just about to go for well Emmett's going really key because it's it's time for him to have his checkup and his rabies shot and when that time comes it's necessary for him to go to the veterinarian veterinarian a doctor an animal doctor a doctor whose patients are animals you have a doctor you go for a check-up your doctor keeps you well and that's what a veterinarian does only he does it for animals and I was just telling em it about the time that Domino now yes you don't mind if they look at the picture it's a very good picture of dammit and domina and this is a picture of Domino oh now wait a minute they'll see it yes amat oh he's very proud of these pictures this is a picture of Domino and one day last summer it was time for Domino to go for his checkup he also was going to have a rabies shot because each dog should have one once every year and you can see that he didn't really mind going to the veterinary clinic at all he went racing up the walk the charles-henri staying memorial clinic this is a hospital where they take care of animals we went into the waiting room and Domino was on a leash now when you take an animal to the clinic there's a little sign that says all animals must either be on a leash or held in your arms and Domino was too big to hold so of course he had to be on the leash this is to make sure that if there are four other or five other dogs in the waiting room that they don't decide to dislike each other and have a fight the secretary took Domino's name and his weight and his age Domino thought he'd sit on the Davenport but that is for owners not for dog records are kept of all of the animals that are treated at the clinic and dr. Baker Domino's veterinarian came out of his office said hi de domino and asked if we'd come in dr. Baker took us to the examining room this is a part of the Iowa State University College of Veterinary Medicine so that students are here to learn to and a mr. Tillman was helping dr. Baker and one of the things he did was to check domino's weight by holding Domino stepping on a scale that gave him the toll of how much they both Wade then mr. Dillon who knew how much he weighed subtracted and that was dominoes wait it's all very complicated because you can't just always get dogs to stand on a scale and hold still Dallow didn't mind sitting on the examining table which was high so that dr. Baker didn't have to stoop way over as he looked at Domino's eyes and his mouth and his throat he examined Domino's teeth said they were very good he felt Domino's neck mr. Dillman held Domino very very still while dr. Baker examined his eyes with an instrument called in the thalamus scope as your doctor ever looked in your eyes with one or in your ears with an otis scope this helps the veterinarian see inside the ear and make sure that everything is just as it should be examined Domino again by feeling him by checking his legs moving them and that Domino didn't seem to mind but a veterinarian can't tell everything he wants to know about an animal just by looking at him or feeling him he wanted to listen to domino's heart and he used a stethoscope it's very much like the stethoscope that your doctor uses when he wants to hear your heart dr. Baker also listen to domino's lungs and Domino seemed to be just fine notice how gently and how carefully dr. Baker and mr. Dillman who is learning to become a veterinarian handle Domino veterinarians are very kind and very gentle it was time for Domino to have his rabies shot this is to keep Domino healthy and it should be done once every year now you've had polio shots haven't you well Domino needed to have a rabies shot and he also needed to have a bath so when mr. Dillman lifted him down from the table I took him to another part of the clinic to have a bath because by the way notice how clean mr. Dillman is making the examining table this is so that it will be very clean and just perfectly sterile for the next patient that comes into the examining room one of the things we found out was that Domino weighed seventy five pounds and he so it's a good idea to have someone else give him a bath because he's pretty bouncy in a tub of water while I was taking him mr. Dolman was cleaning the table Domino had been deposited for a bath and I noticed a sign on a door that said clinical laboratory inside was dr. Margaret schloss one of three hundred women veterinarians in the whole United States she's the only lady veterinarian on the staff of Iowa State University she works with students and she works with animals and she has lots of interesting things in her laboratory that help her to do her work dr. Schloss put a slide into the microscope and she said that I could look too and so could you now what we see doesn't mean very much to us but it helps dr. Schloss to learn about what may be wrong with a certain animal because this is a sample of the animals blood she helps diagnose or decide what's wrong with an animal not just dogs or cats but large animals to horses and cows dr. Schloss helps to train the Veterinary Medicine students so that when they are practicing in your town or another town they will know what equipment to use they'll know how to prepare slides as dr. Schloss is doing here she takes some of a sample bulls it part way up through the tube puts it I machine that spins it very quickly once it's in the microscope on a slide she counts different cells that she sees in the blood she has this counter and this will help her by counting the different kinds of cells that she sees to find out what may be wrong with a certain animal a student came in with a little poodle named Polly and Polly poodle wasn't feeling very well you