Fears For Tiny Dog After Traumatic Attack | Bondi Vet Double Episode

Twelve-year-old Tosca is in trouble after a backyard brawl with one of his canine housemates. You didn't see him being shaken? No, I didn't see anything. By the time I got off there, my dog was off him. Never fought before? No, he's always growling at him and having goes at him, but he's always backing off. He's never done it before, no. Can we get some oxygen? He's getting away today, didn't he, Tosca? Just keep calm there, mate. It's a nightmare family feud. The injured Tosca belongs to Aaron's girlfriend. She's going to kill me. What the mess is? He had a bit of hemorrhage in the corner of that eye too. So it may have been when he was shaken. The biggest worry with these dogfight injuries is essentially that it's not just the actual impact of the bite, it's more the shaking and the twisting that occurs after that. It's sort of like a whiplash situation where one part of the body goes in one direction and the other part goes the other. And what's left in the middle is stretched, is broken, is torn. And if that's the spinal cord, then we have big problems. I just hope he's alright. Come on, let's go. You just can see that she hops more than separates and runs, you know. You can just sort of see that she's in a bit of pain. Come on, come here. Brooklyn is just a year old, but she's already battling debilitating arthritis in her hips and back legs. She struggles with stairs, even just in and out of the car. It's a bit of a struggle. She can't get into the car. And then when she gets out, she kind of waits for you to give her a little bit of support. Go on, get in there. The only reason she can move around now is daily painkillers. She looks like she's a 90-year-old woman. Look at that. She just, like, she's got no strength there. Ollie and Sasha have arranged to meet up with their friend, emergency vet Lisa Chimes, for advice. My concern is that Brooklyn's got something called hip dysplasia, so it's a genetic problem. They're born with it. It is so much worse than you described. I'm going to say I'm shocked. A hip should be a ball and socket, and in Brooklyn's case, I fear that her socket is underdeveloped, so the ball doesn't fit in the socket. It slips out every time she walks. It's not a curable disease, so we have to do pretty drastic surgeries to fix it. OK, come on. Here you go. So what we need to do now is get Brooklyn over to Sash, get the surgeons to have a look at her and take some X-rays to see exactly what's going on. My worry is that there's going to come a time, which is going to be pretty soon, where she's going to be so crippled that she won't even be able to get up. If we just feel around here... OK, that's all right. OK, so he certainly does have some neck pain there. Whether it's just soft tissue damage, just bruising to the muscles around there, or whether it's more serious, we'll find out in a second with these X-rays. Aaron is stressed. His girlfriend's dog, Tosca, is now being checked for spinal injuries after a fight with his bull terrier. The concern I've got is this area here, from C1 to C2. So there's just a bit of a step there. It's certainly not severed, but it's an area of concern I'll just flag now, because if there are any issues later on, then that's probably where it's going to be coming from. OK, so we're moving through. Aaron's living out a nightmare right now. This is a fight within his own family of dogs. Inside, he must just be going through the worst of emotional turmoil. Do you want to call? Yeah, I'm going to have to. How did you go? She's pretty cranky. Probably not the news she wanted to hear. No, no. She's another Tosca. She's only a little girl, but she goes for the throat and growls and bites. She's a pretty scary woman herself. Little Tosca's still in a lot of shock, but his anxiety levels are nothing compared to Aaron's. I've never seen a man so scared. I don't think if anything had happened to him, she would have left me. You're not joking, are you? No, I'm not. I would have been scooted out the door, quick smart. It's more just stealing a bit. Tosca has survived an attack by his canine housemate with no major injuries, but there's still a problem. The terrier is the beloved pet of Aaron's girlfriend. She's furious because it was Aaron's dog who attacked little Tosca. So incredibly lucky. You reckon this might be mild compared to what you were going to call? The question now is, what will happen when Tosca returns home? Tosca's got the first bite in. Now, that changes things. What we have here is a big struggle for dominance and a struggle that could be fatal unless we can sort it out. Tosca now needs to rest and recover from his shock while Aaron goes home to face the music. I've heard so much about this woman. I've got to say, I can't wait to meet her. She's certainly very under-muscled. Ollie and Sasha have brought Brooklyn in to see specialist surgeon Andrew Marchewski. You all right? Good girl. The French Mastiff is only a year old, but already crippled with painful arthritis in her hips and back legs. So, this is her hip joint. Right, so it's a ball and socket joint. And what her hip at the moment is, it's sitting out there. And every time she walks, it's just crunching against the edge. And she's getting lots of arthritis from that. So, from what you're telling me and looking at her X-rays, I think a hip replacement will make a huge difference to her. For such a young dog, a total hip replacement is a major operation. If we do nothing, she might be able to live for a few years, but it might be only four or five rather than eight or nine or ten. So, I think it's also quality of life, quality of life. It's better to know now. I think we've tried to kid ourselves for a while, just going, oh, it's not that bad. It's not good that she's just constantly rubbing bone on bone when she walks. She hides it well. It's expensive, it's invasive, and there is the potential for things to go wrong. Come on, you're with me. Brooklyn will be the first hip replacement ever performed at SASH. Everybody has a lot at stake. I do feel almost a sense of fear and, you know, a sense of responsibility that if something does go wrong, and I've kind of pushed them to be proactive about it. You know, it's not risk-free, and we just have to keep our fingers crossed that she's in the successful group. You don't tickle her head in the right spot, she lets you know. Back at the Bondi Clinic, a new patient has arrived for Chris, a pet cockatiel called Cheeky. We go almost everywhere together. Shower, shops, bike riding, car, bank. Yep. Do you both want to come through? Who do I ask, Cheeky or you, Prim? Both. Both, OK. I've noticed some drops of blood today on the bathroom floor, so she is bleeding, not from her feet, I think from her genitals, so I was really quite worried about that. You sort of just have to tell her, not ask her. Oh, really? She's a strong woman. She is. So if you just tell her what you want to do, she'll do it. She likes assertive men. She does. It's always been a problem. Now, Cheeky, no, you're going to get up there. Thank you. That's the way you go. That's how you treat a woman. So I guess a few drops of blood doesn't sound like much, but in a bird that's... Quite a bit. Yeah, quite a bit. OK, so I just want to have a good look at her. There is a little bit of blood around here. What's this going on? Oh, my God, what is that? Wow. Oh, my God, what is that? Chris has found the source of Cheeky's dangerous bleeding. At the base of that gap is a hole. Yes. And that's where the blood's coming from. Yes. So I think she's actually lost a fetter. Sweet man. What we'll do is just clean it up with some antiseptic and just try and clean around the base of where that fetter's coming out. So I guess we need to work out how she's done this, because the worry is that if she does this when you're not around or when you're asleep and she actually has a decent bleed, she can actually get into quite serious trouble. So has she been doing anything abnormal behaviour-wise? She... What Prem's struggling to say is that the naughty Cheeky spends too much time self-pleasuring. How often? She does it every day. For how long? Sometimes a lot every day. Sometimes for 15 minutes. 15 minutes? Yeah. Cheeky is so incredibly sexually frustrated, so wound up, that not only is she pleasuring herself, she's gone to the next step. She's pulling her own feathers out. What does she do it against? There's a part of the tweak that she always kind of backs up against. She stands on one leg to get, like, right in the right position. It's really funny. She'll, like, lower herself right down on one leg. I think that comes under the title of a little bit too much information. Cheeky, get on the hand. That's it. So what is the solution to stop Cheeky's harmful habit? She's doing that right now because the weather's just warmed up. And because of that, she has all this energy, but also all these messages in her body saying, you must mate, you must breed. But there's nothing around her that she can mate with. So what you need to do to lower that sexual frustration is to convince Cheeky that it's actually not springtime. And the way you do that is actually lessen the daylight hours. Put Cheeky to bed in a darkened room at 5 o'clock in the afternoon. So, Cheeky, sounds like you're going to get the treatment you deserve. Early to bed like all bad girls. There you go. Hey, Cheeky. I'm getting nervous now. The surgical team is preparing for Brooklyn's hip replacement. So my incision's here. Yeah, it's a little tense. Absolutely. There's a lot to gain and there's a bit to lose. I think because this is Sash's first one, it's exciting. First incision. This is major surgery for a one-year-old dog. It's a ball and socket joint we're replacing and the cup is the socket part of that joint. McCain, you'll be able to tell me if I'm getting in. Ready? In human terms, it would be the same as a complete hip replacement for a 14-year-old. We're putting a metal rod down the middle of the thigh bone that's then going to attach to part of the ball and socket joint to make up the hip. So we'll push it down and just hammer it in and it'll stay there. The biggest problem with this part of the procedure is us actually splitting the bone and if we do that, that's a major problem. Yes! Position looks good. Overall, I think it went well. Nice. It's perfect canal fill. We had a few hiccups. This is our first one and I sort of half expected it wasn't going to go perfectly. It was a little frustrating. The biggest threat now is an infection setting in around the implants. It will be two months before Andrew can tell if Brooklyn will make a complete recovery. It is high stress because the implants themselves, they're $2,500 worth of just the implants. It's high stakes. Aaron's much-talked-about girlfriend Christine has finally arrived at the clinic and so far, he's still in one piece. Oh! Hey. You all right, baby? Oh, I'm so sorry. Love you. Love you so much. He looks a lot happier than he did this morning. He doesn't look happy at all. Look at him. He's, like, going, oh, my God, I just want to fall asleep standing here. He's not happy at all. He's just kind of... He looks happier than he did when it happened. He didn't look too happy then. I'm going through, like, feeling really upset to feeling grateful to feeling kind of like, oh, you little bugger. Sorry, it's my French. But, like, I'm just going through a whole bunch of different emotions because I'm so happy that he's alive. Could be a good night for you then, Aaron. Could be a really good night for you. I thought one fight was enough for today. To have two presented to me, don't think I could have handled that. So to see Aaron and Christine getting along for now was nice. See, I thought that was going to be the most challenging case of the day. You guys rather than this one here. Well, I've learned out when her left hook's coming now, so... She signals it, doesn't she? Yeah, she's got this twitch going on. It's pretty clear that Tosca means everything to Christine. Aaron has dodged a bullet today. If this was more serious, he would have been facing a lot more serious punishment, I'm sure. The family must wait for Tosca to fully recover before he can head home. I'll be thinking about you tonight, all right? A bit apprehensive, huh? Not too sure about this, are you? Hey, Tosca. Hey, buddy. Look who's home. Welcome home. Chris has brought Tosca back to the scene of the crime. You all right? Hey. Hey, little man. But can he and housemate Frankie sort out their differences? Come here. Frankie, you've got visitors. Come here. Who's this? Oh, it gives him a sniff. Come over here, Frankie. Frankie. Frankie! Right. Get out there. I'm nervous. I'm nervous to see her. I'm just worried that she's in pain or that she's, um... She's not really sure what's going on. There you go, darling. It's all right. The next day, Ollie and Sasha visit the hospital's very first hip replacement patient. Brooklyn is doing really well. 24 hours post-op, she's using the legs. She's tentative on it, but she doesn't have any major problems. Who's that? Hello, darling. You're a good girl. Sasha looked a little gobsmacked. I don't think she realised exactly what was going to happen. I think she saw the size of the incisions a bit. Oh. All right, sweet. Come on, then. We'll get you back. One more week, and Brooklyn will be ready to go home. If she were a human, she'd still be in bed, or if she wasn't in bed, she'd be on crutches and really hobbling in a hell of a lot of pain. I've seen my father-in-law go through it, and she's doing much better. Good girl. You've got to battle for supremacy when there can be only one captain of this team. It has to be Frankie. Frankie has been let out and given a second chance. All right, whoop! Chris believes he has the solution to this sibling stouch. He still is in tyre, still hasn't had his balls removed. Yeah. Now... Would that be a good thing to do? That would certainly help. You reckon? OK. But what I can give him in the meantime is an injection to block the effects of testosterone in his brain, so stop him from being the big guy in the small body. So it's not going to seem like much, but one mil of this drug here should change his whole attitude. OK. So in a way, what we're doing is chemically castrating him. OK. Just lucky this didn't happen to you yesterday. Yes. Could have been you getting the injection. Well, you've got more than a mil in there, don't you? No? No? Steady, tiger. Fix you while you're here. The fact is, once we remove that testosterone that's really revving Tosker up, then he's going to pull back. He's going to be more relaxed, he's going to acknowledge that Frankie is the boss. Once there's stability there, Christine and Erin have their happy family back together. There's a lot of love there, but it's got to make it work. And this will make it work. You better... Oh, yes. I love you too. I do. I love you too. You happy to be home? Good luck, guys. Thank you. Thank you so much for everything. No more growling. Talk to you, Christine. Sorry I saw you there. Three-month-old Archie is suffering severe convulsions. So what's happened? You've just come home and he's been like this? Yes. The Labrador puppy is confused and frightened. Have you got any baits or anything in your backyard? Not that I know of, no. Has he vomited at all? Not that I know of, no. OK, let's open through straightaway. We just need to see what's in his stomach, because to me this looks like a poison, like he's taken on board some sort of toxin. We'll just get a thermometer. I'm just worried if he has ingested something, he could be overheating and going into some sort of hypothermia. Yeah, so it's 41.3 degrees. So he's very hot. So can we get a cool bag of fluids now? Just going to settle down, mate. I know what's going on, OK? Just keep calm, mate. So before we even get the fluids in, I'm just going to give him something to make him vomit straightaway. Because the longer this toxin, or what I think is a toxin, sits in his stomach, the worse off he's going to be. Hello. Hi. Do you know how long you were out? We all left home about quarter to eight this morning for school and work. Archie's owner, Danielle, arrived home early after she had an unexpected trip to the dentist. I'm grateful that I had to leave work and get his tooth taken out in an emergency, and otherwise I wouldn't have been home until after four o'clock this afternoon. By four o'clock, Archie would have been dead. Looking at the total hold over Archie's body that that poison has right now, if it gets much more serious, he'll die. Elise? Yeah? Guess what we've got coming down? A what? A lace monitor. A what? A goanna. Goanna? Yeah. It's coming down? Yeah, just got a phone call. This guy is a pet goanna that's been attacked by one of these bigger ones, so the one that attacked him was probably about that big, and the one that's coming down is probably only about a kilo. It's pretty bad. It's a couple of centimetres deep and all across from one side to the other. Peter has a collection of 20 goannas at home, and one of the larger family members has attacked the much smaller five-year-old belly. To be honest, I am a little bit scared of reptiles. They give me the creeps, and treating or handling one of these is a bit of a nightmare for me. Hi, little one. You can't really trust him. I've been bitten by her actually a while back when she was small and I had to go to hospital for that. I'm going to actually, if you don't mind, take her out the back and get Jess, our nurse, to help me get that bandage off and we can take a look. We're supposed to learn about all animals at uni, but quite honestly, all I can remember about lizards and reptiles are a few lectures we had back in third year. Yeah, if you can be comfortable that you're going to hold her and that she's not going to bite me, because honestly, I don't deal with reptiles very often and I'm instilling all my faith in you. Okay. I used to work up at Australia Zoo Wildlife Hospital and we did a lot of lace monitors up there, wild ones, so I don't have a problem with a pet one. They're really cute as babies. Very, very cute. So they're just misunderstood. It's the claws and the tails that you need to watch out for in these guys, not necessarily their mouth. All right. Now her tail, is there a spike? No, they flick it really, really hard. They just flick it hard. Okay, so I'm just going to get my bruise from that and it's scratched and shredded from the claws. This will target his brain and actually make him vomit and vomit quite thoroughly. Archie's life is hanging in the balance. There's a massive amount of toxin racing through his system. Hopefully the result is that we remove whatever is in his stomach as much as we can. For a young puppy that's already immature and fragile, it's really damaging. Looks like a snail bait. Here we go. All right, so that's green, so this looks like a snail bait, guys. Snail bait is designed to kill. It kills snails and it kills dogs too. It works by causing the nervous system to go haywire. When Archie takes on huge amounts of it like he has, it's like hooking him up to electricity and turning up the voltage and there's no antidote. 42.5. 42.5, so up again. Three-month-old Archie is in a fight for his life after eating snail bait. His temperature's gone from 41.3 to 42.5. It's going the wrong way, we need to bring it down. The only way you can do that is through giving cool fluids, cool towels, fans, cold water enemas and stop the convulsions. The muscle contractions are right now what's putting that temperature quite high. OK, mate, you've just got to keep coming. I'm going to do some things to you you're not going to like, all right? And if you keep calm, you're going to come out the other side. Just because he's vulnerable doesn't mean that Archie's out of danger here. Because there's no antidote, the treatment is all about getting rid of that toxin out of their body as quickly as you can and you just hope they stay alive long enough. Watch, watch, watch, watch, watch. Unless we can get him through the next hour, then I'm not going to be confident. Stick with us. Stick with us, all right? I'm a bit nervous. I've got him. I'm looking at his claws. Belly the lace monitor has been savaged by one of the huge goannas she lives with. I don't even like the feel of this. But before Lisa can treat the severe wound, she wants to give Belly a general anaesthetic. Finding the right spot is proving extremely difficult. Oh, my God. It's not the easiest thing to do because you can't really see the vein. I guess if I was taking blood for a dog or a cat, I could feel the vein and I could see it. Here we're kind of going in blind. There it is. Yay! What is that? I anaesthetised a lace monitor. Maybe the first and last time. All right, hun, just take some deep breaths. Talking to a lizard here. Oh. Oh, she's really been ripped to pieces here. I see all the flesh and muscle right underneath there. So that big lace monitor has obviously come up to her and just taken a chunk out of her neck. And this needs to be stitched. I guess the main thing that I'm concerned about is infection. Goannas have got really nasty bacteria in their mouth and in their claws. And that bacteria can almost be venomous, it's that bad. So if we don't stitch up this wound and get her on some antibiotics, she can die from septic infection. This is really no different to a stomach pump. We're putting fluid in to get fluid out. But when that fluid comes out, it brings with it that snail bait. That's the critical part of this whole procedure. Chris has now anaesthetised Archie so he can flush the poison out of the Labrador's system. It's amazing, isn't it? It just keeps on coming. That's what I'm finding so incredible, is that Archie's not a big dog, but geez, he went at this big, didn't he? Once I'm confident that I've actually got all the toxin out, I'm going to put some charcoal down through the same stomach tube. That's going to absorb any remaining toxin that's sticking to the intestinal wall. From there, we turn everything off and we wait. Hello, buddy. Hey. Confusing, isn't it? That's good with you, buddy. Do you remember us? There's no food here. What we don't want is that uncontrollable tremory, which we're not getting right now. This is good. I'm happy with this. This is good. Look, he's been through a lot. He's going to be exhausted. So he'll stay tonight? I suppose if he's too tired, the kids can't see him? Well, look, the kids can come in and see him if you want. He'll only pick up from here, won't he? Hopefully. The liver's the only worry I have, and we're going to test for that. It's tricky because right now everyone's relaxing and going, geez, that was close. But was it close, or are we just beginning to see the signs of something more serious in the form of liver damage and even liver failure? Bye-bye. We'll see you in a while. Blood tests need to be taken later today to find out if Archie has suffered any long-term organ damage. Rest up. You'll feel a lot better. While Archie recovers, Chris is on the road, heading to a difficult assignment at the Australian Reptile Park. The idea is we'll get him off the mound. We're going to push him to the sides. You'd come in and you'd wave your arms and bring him around a bit and stay in a line with your mate next to you and bring him down. Tim and his team of wildlife keepers need to round up these incredibly fast yellow-footed rock wallabies. Grab the tail, he'll swing down and we'll come straight in with the bag. First thing, in the bag, hang him up. Chris can then check the females' pouches for joeys to make sure the breeding program is working. These guys can jump metres high. They live on the side of cliff faces. It's not uncommon for one of them to go over your head. See, I've normally got the height advantage but here it looks like they've got it all over me, doesn't it? So we've just got to go through a little wallaby cage here first. In the wild now, it's sure to be less than a thousand yellow-foot rock wallabies left. In New South Wales, there's very small pockets and colonies under intense pressure from predators and feral pests and this captive breeding program is a good way of ensuring their survival. There's a couple over here on the rock here. One coming around there. Got one here, push over this way boys. Fast, isn't it? If there's an opportunity to grab a tail, you grab the tail. It's as simple as that. Yeah, good catch. Touch there. No, there was no touch. There was no touch. I think maybe I should have been chasing the brolga. He actually looked as though he was going to be a bit of an easier catch. They're laughing at me. It's really important that we're in and out really quickly because these guys get stressed pretty easily. It is quite warm today. Bring him right round. But they'll start to lick their forearms and they'll get a bit of moisture. Here he comes. Once we start to see those signs, if we haven't got them all, we pull the pin. We're done. Welfare of the animals is number one priority. Missed him. We've got to work pretty quickly here because they're obviously very sensitive animals, very prone to stress. Bally the lace monitor has had her neck ripped open by a much larger goanna. The muscle under there is really shredded. The good thing is it doesn't look like it's gone through to her spinal cord. If it had, she would probably be paralysed, but I really need to fix up this shredded muscle and treat any chance of infection. Even though these reptiles freak me out a little bit, looking at Bally, I actually feel quite sorry for her. She has been bullied by a big bloke and she has copped a terrible bite. Alright, here we go. Her skin is really thick and tough, so I need to use a very thick suture material in order to close that wound. In a dog or cat, I would use something a lot finer. I'm trying to do neat ones so that she still maintains her attractive looks. And we're done. Anti-inflammatory and antibiotic injections finish the lace monitor's treatment. So just before she wakes up, did you want to give her a bit of a kiss on the nose? I can't. I can't do it. We're going to bring him around the yard, push him up in behind that, two or three roos in, you close the gate, and bang, we'll be on him, catch a few, bag him up. The Great Wallaby Roundup is continuing at the Australian Reptile Park to check how many females are carrying joeys. What do they do with a guy that can't catch the wallabies? He holds the bag. Ready? One, two, three. Glamorous. Too easy. I mean, even a 50 kilo great kangaroo, you put him inside a bag, they curl up into that fetal position, comfortable as long as they're cool. It's like they're back in the pouch, isn't it? Yeah, that's right. Well, that's good, we've got all but one, and it's a boy anyway. That'll have to do us for today. Now they do bite, and they bite really hard. Chris now checks the wallabies' microchips and updates their health records. One, two, three, off you go, mate. He doesn't want it. Finally, a sign the breeding program is working. Yeah, three months. Your eyes are already well developed, isn't he? Ears aren't quite up off the head. What do you reckon, about 100 days or so? Maybe just under, maybe two months. So a serious part of the exercise is checking those pouches, and we discover we've got two joeys inside there, a male and a female, which is great news. It's showing the breeding program is working. That is a joey. It doesn't do such good things for my ego, though, to know that I got outstepped by a mother and baby. That's a bit hard to take. Well, we're in the surprise, it's a girl. You're awake. It's important for me to see her moving like this. It emphasises the fact that there's no damage to her spinal cord, and she's recovered well from the procedure. I think now we'll pop her back to bed to wake up more. I'm feeling pretty chuffed with myself now. I think that all went very well. If another one came in, yes, I would treat it. While Lisa is congratulating herself on controlling her fear of reptiles, vet nurse Jess is still not convinced. You are evil, all of you. She's still a princess. Until she kisses a toad. You should be telling me how brave I was. I was so brave. Don't get too excited, but someone's here to see you. Back at the Bondi Clinic, Chris is happy enough with Archie's progress to allow his family to visit. But the young dog is still fragile, after eating a near fatal dose of snail bait. Your little puppy's been through a lot today. He's still very sick though, and he's still very frightened about what's happened to him and what's going to happen to him. Be really gentle with him and don't make any loud noise and just walk him very quietly and just keep calm. I love him so much. He's like another brother. He's just so special. Let's chat in the morning and fingers crossed his liver's okay and then he can push on through. Okay, thank you for everything. That's alright. Don't worry at all. I'm very lucky. Thank you. Try to relax tonight. Okay, we're doing everything we can for him. Thank you, bye bye. There is one more important test Chris needs to perform on Archie. So this blood in here is all about checking for that organ damage. He's been through a lot. How much his organs were affected during that two hours of chaos. We've got to find out. Put the food down, you're actually going to eat it. Are you sure? I think you might be sure. Archie's appetite is back after his snail bait ordeal. And so are his test results. It's fine. No. No way. Absolutely fine. Wow, amazing. The results are what we really weren't brave enough to hope for. His liver's fine, so it's managed to cop all that abuse it's been through. Come out the other side and not be showing any serious signs of damage. Do you want to go home before you eat the bowl? Okay, all done. She was very well behaved. Belly's going home after surviving an attack that nearly tore her neck apart. Bye bye. Who knows, maybe I'll become Sasha's resident lace monitor specialist. There's my role. But I'll never kiss one that is never, ever, ever going to happen. So Belly's in this one? Yeah, Belly's in here. A few days later, vet nurse Jess visits Peter's reptile resort. To check up on Belly's progress. There's a bit of a size difference here. The patient is being reacquainted with Big Rex, who nearly tore the lace monitor's head off. He's having a bit of a taste there. Don't want any fighting going on here. He's not very happy, is he? She's incredibly lucky, I think she should buy the next lotto ticket maybe. She's setting a bit of a pace there. Look at his hair. Archie! A happy Archie is back at home. And seemingly oblivious to his near-death experience. He'll probably end up sleeping in the bed with one of us. Yeah, just unconditional love. Danielle has finally tracked down the snail bait that nearly killed Archie. It had been spread over the lawn at the back of their house. I don't know where it's come from. And to see that there's still that much there, I can still see something. So the packet's here as well, so the whole box has been thrown over here. It's all through here. I'd hose it in, and then I'd put dirt over the top. And keep them inside until you can really be sure that that's been rinsed out. After all we've been through, where that snail bait came from may be a mystery. But the most important thing is that Archie's alive, he's happy, and the kids are over the moon. Incredible.