Vets in Practice - Season 4

First aired: 1/7/1999 10 episodes

Episodes

1. Breaking And Entering

Aired: 1/7/1999

Trude Mostue faces a crisis when a disturbance causes her to make a potentially-fatal error in the operating theatre during a routine castration on a guinea pig named Pepper. In King's Lynn Craig Beck battles to save the life of a black and white farm cat named Boris, while his wife Alison tries to solve the mystery illness of a West Highland terrier.

2. A First Time For Everything

Aired: 1/8/1999

Cheltenham vets Joe and Emma Inglis come back to earth with a bump after their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. Joe is forced to amputate a fawn's leg if it is to survive an injury, while Emma faces an ethical question of how best to treat a family cat which has seen its best days. In Hull, Sam Robinson has to deal with a guinea pig's mystery pregnancy and then helps when a show pony has to undergo a tail amputation.

3. All Things Weird And Wonderful

Aired: 1/14/1999

Keith Leonard is called out to help a collapsed cow, and Fiona Green treats an injured woodpecker. Meanwhile, Keith's elder brother Steve, who is now happily settled in Lancaster, treats a litter of orphaned hedgehogs ready for release back into the wild.

4. Under Pressure

Aired: 1/15/1999

Trude Mostue fights to save the lives of a litter of kittens who have lost a large amount of blood. She tries heart massage, adrenaline injections and even mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Later she tells her friend Maria Lowe about a new man in her life. Meanwhile, Alison Beck works against the clock operating on a cat with severe internal injuries following a road accident and her husband Craig treats a rabbit with an ulcer.

5. Bonnie And Clyde

Aired: 1/21/1999

Keith Leonard is called out to perform a blood transfusion on a cow, and Trude Mostue takes care of Bonnie, a dog with a skin irritation. Meanwhile, Fiona Green attends to Clyde, a cat who was hit by a bus.

6. On Call

Aired: 1/22/1999

Being on call at night is an integral part of a vet's job, and Sam Robinson spends an evening struggling to save a horse with a potentially fatal condition, while Emma Inglis is called out to help Megan, an epileptic dog.

7. Love And Marriage

Aired: 1/28/1999

Craig and Alison Beck's celebrations of their first wedding anniversary are muted as Craig struggles to help Boss, a much-loved gun dog. Meanwhile, Emma Inglis turns inventor, and her husband Joe proves a reluctant father.

8. Affairs Of The Heart

Aired: 1/29/1999

Trude Mostue thinks her new boyfriend Patrick Evans could be Mr. Right, but then has to worry about a Doberman's possible pregnancy. Hannah Pollard has a new look after shedding three stones, and then puts an overweight rabbit on a diet. Sam Robinson, who has little time to socialise, has to castrate a young stallion.

9. A Walk On The Wild Side

Aired: 2/4/1999

Trude Mostue introduces her boyfriend Patrick to her sister Lene over a meal of Norwegian reindeer stew. Then Trude has a job interview with a practice whose clients include Longleat safari park. Meanwhile, Alison Beck tries to help a jaundiced cat called Lucky, and her husband Craig treats a dog with bladder stones.

10. Making The Move

Aired: 2/5/1999

It's all change for Keith Leonard and Fiona Green. Keith is preparing to leave his job in Carmarthen but first, has to tackle his first hernia operation, on a calf. Fiona is off for a year on a working holiday as a diving instructor in the Caribbean but before that has to fit contact lenses on a King Charles spaniel.