Vet emergency : a profession at risk for animals in danger | TF1 | Appels d'urgence

France is home to nearly 20 million pets, of which there are 10 million cats, 8 million dogs and more than 2 million “new pets” (reptiles, monkeys, etc). Despite the crisis, three out of four French people are often ready to sacrifice a large part of their budget to care for those they consider as a member of their family. At the slightest sign of suffering they won’t hesitate to call the vets at V.A.D. “Vets at Domicile”, the biggest private company providing home veterinary treatment in the Paris region. The vets work there like S.O.S Doctors and carry out more than 100,000 visits per year. The most serious cases in the Lyons region are handled by the medical teams from the S.I.A.M.U. of the Lyons veterinary school. This E.R. for animals in distress is the only one in France equipped with an intensive care department based on the American model. In this state institution skills unique in Europe have been developed, in particular in the equine clinic of Professor Lepage, where race horses and draft animals arrive from the four corners of the Hexagon for extreme emergency treatment. There are also vets specializing in the treatment of wild animals who intervene regularly to care for this population in the zoos and circuses on French territory. Elephants, panthers, monkeys… every emergency is different. In the rural world, the loss of a calf or a cow can, in times of crisis, threaten the survival of a whole herd. In this man’s world, the baton is being taken up by women and breeders often display a certain anxiety when a young female vet turns up on an emergency…