Dr. Pol and leg/hoof wrap - um

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

I’m home today, and the only thing on is Dr. Pol reruns. I’m okay with most of it, but there’s an episode where a horse gets bad cuts on the back legs, near the hoof. The vet (Brenda?) Stitched them closed, then proceeded to do the worst wrap job I’ve ever seen - a couple of loops around the fetlock, barely covering the wounds, and that was it! Seriously, is that a thing now?

I learned that when you wrap that area, you wrap from hoof to above the fetlock by at least a few inches (preferably to the knee, IIRC) to avoid the wrap slipping and cutting off circulation and making things worse. Am I wrong, or does that vet not understand how to wrap a horse properly? Color me confused.

[shiloh]

Yeah, I saw that episode too and went wha…ttt? It seemed so …pointless. Or uselesss. Or both. I, too, was always told to basically over wrap. That too much was better sloppy or not enough. Just know that you and I and a lot of other people were taught better and hope and pray that there aren’t a lot of people taking advice from a TV show.

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

Yeah. I want to go to their FB page and post a correction or something … my vets love to overwrap, but that wrap stays! As the horse in the episode walked away, you could see the wrap shifting already. WTF?

[luvmyhackney]

I can’t watch that show. It always frustrates me and I want to fix their work.

[Brown_Derby]

As I understand it, Dr. Brenda’s “expertise” was in dairy cattle. It seemed that Dr. Pol was the only person who would hire her. Pol himself is a quack, butcher, and criminal in my opinion. Absolutely hate that sick, sick show.

[Paint_Party]

@luvmyhackney

I can’t watch that show. It always frustrates me and I want to fix their work.

Same here. Everything is done so… roughly. I tried watching a few episodes. Ugh. Never again.

[Djones]

Horrible show. I can’t watch.

[Angela_Freda]

My dog loves the show, and I had it on for her yesterday while I was out.
Maybe that’s why she has an upset tummy today?

[RhythmNCruise]

I had to stop watching Dr. Pol because he really gets on my nerves. He seems to have zero sympathy for the animals.

Does anyone watch the Horse Plus Humane Society rescue group’s channel on Youtube? I love their vet.

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

Yeah. I’d never really seen it before now - I prefer Critter Fixers and Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER - but it was literally the only thing on TV yesterday. I was not impressed. It scares me that someone with that much media exposure can be that cavalier and just plain wrong about the things they do and say . . . the rapidity with which he jumps to a diagnosis also worries me.

[shiloh]

I like Dr Oakley and Heartland Docs. I saw a couple of Critter Fixers and they seem okay. Caught the one with the alpaca that has the parasite load that killed it. That made me cry. But I’ve been off vet shows since my cats passed. Too fresh, too hard to watch.

I think the idea with Pol making the super quick diagnoses is to show that he’s been around forever and has seen it all. I don’t like the way he handles the animals as I feel he is too rough. I saw a show where he was trying to place a NG tube with no sedation and the horse was fighting him and it was a mess. No thank you.

[Alex_and_Bodie_s_Mom]

I like those two as well. Heartland Docs reminds me of my vets - willing to jump in and do everything for their clients. Dr. Oakley really seems to love what she does.

That episode of Critter Fixers was sad. I get more angry at the people than the vets with that show. Your dog’s junk is injured, and you wait three days to take it to the vet?! Ugh. People.

[moonlitoaksranch]

My MIL has a thing for two of the vets on The Vet Life on Animal Planet (I looked it up, I think that’s the one). If it’s on when we visit, she practically drools, lol! She wants us to sit down and watch it with her. We don’t have AP, so we oblige. I do like them. They show empathy for their patients, but I’m happily married, rather than a lonely divorcee, like my poor MIL. Honestly, she probably just wants to feed them a home cooked meal and proudly show them her dog. I think it’s just, ahem, puppy love.

I heard about Dr. Pol…watched a little on YouTube, and backed away slowly in disgust.

[McGurk]

Me too!

I had friends recommend it to me and I watched a couple episodes and … Uh uh. No bueno.

[candyappy]

I enjoy watching Dr. Pol. Can’t stomach any of their other vet shows on Nat Geo Wild ( that you all seem to love).

I find the vets on the show very compassionate to both animals and owners so I don’t know what any of you are seeing??

Have they always treated an animal in the way I would expect? No , but then again my 2 regular current vets and any vet in the past I’ve used hasn’t either.

If you don’t like it you don’t have to watch.