A three-week-old orphaned lamb with a swollen leg is brought into the practice to see Peter, and a greyhound with a badly broken leg requires complex surgery. Elsewhere, Julian pays a visit to Jackie as one of her alpacas has a large lump on its lip that ma need operating on.

A three-legged sheep called Star might be given a new lease on life with a prosthetic leg, but the rare procedure proves to be far from straightforward. Meanwhile, Julian meets Teddy, a very special 10-month-old dachshund and his owner Kerry, who believes Teddy saved her life when she went into cardiac arrest.