Peter gets up close and personal with a couple of boisterous calves. Daisy the bloodhound has a fast-growing lump. Essex moggie Socks has just moved oop North and is clashing with the locals. Miss Timothy the tortoise is a force to be reckoned with.

Julian is called out to help a mother who is having trouble calving, Old Bob, a dearly beloved hamster, comes in for surgery, and four polecats pay the practice a visit seemingly intent on getting their teeth into something.