FRONTLINE VETS: HEROES TO THE ANIMAL RESCUE S3 – E2 | Véto de choc | W9

In “Frontline Vets”, Stephanie Renouvin tells us the stories of vets unlike any others. Action, suspense, excitement: we dive into the very heart of their most remarkable interventions. Florence, a traveling vet specialising in wild life, has been summoned by the head of the Jurques zoo in Normandy to sterilize some bighorn sheep. It’s a highly risky operation because the animals are perched atop a 30-meter chasm. With no operating theatre, the vet will have to improvise and operate on the two rams in the open air on the cliff face. Meaux is home to one of the 7 veterinary medical centres in France and so has the most advanced technology at its disposal. Every year, the finest experts treat more than 16,000 dogs and cats. One of them is Philippe, an expert ophthalmologist. He is one of the only people in France to practise the laser removal of cysts from animals eyes. A technique that is not without its risks! Three years ago, at the age of just 30, Heloise cofounded her own vets clinic in the Aquitaine devoted to “new pets”. In her establishment, she treats birds of prey, turtles and reptiles, animals that are particularly fragile. During an operation, the anaesthetic dose on a Gabon grey parrot sends her into a cold sweat. When you love animals, you can choose to treat them or, like Anne-Claire, to protect them when they are mistreated. We followed her in Brittany with the Animal Assistance Foundation. What she discovers in a house sends shivers down the spine… more than forty dogs are locked up there!