All Creatures Great and Small
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I will never get over this opening scene with its gentle piano music.
I love it so much.
This week is all aboutadjustment and also saving baby cows.
Saving the baby cows is important.
(Dont you mean calves?
And no, I mean baby cows, for it is cuter.)
Fortunately, he has Mrs. Hall (whom he should marry) to push him in the right direction.
May we all have a Mrs. Hall in our lives.
Like I said, it is a time of adjustment.
These crazy kids all have to figure out how to adapt to a Helen living among them.
A Helen who keeps rolling her dirty bike through the hallways, which would drive me nuts, personally.
Mrs. Hall tells him that he made James a partner and has to keep treating him like one.
Siegfried accedes very quickly.
The main animal emergency is the baby cows, who are sick with gastroenteritis.
They live on the Billings farm, and I would die for Miss Billings.
One of them dies (noooooo!!)
and another is not doing well, and James cant determine whats causing it.
Its like that scene inJurassic Parkwith the sick Triceratops that was eatingthe West Indian lilac.
He thinks it could maybe be lead and has some tests run at a lab.
Jamess troubles are not over, though!
Oh no, Siegfried!
Better go feed more cake to your pet rat.
Helen, it turns out, is incredibly organized, and has all the receipts sorted in no time.
Shes even going through aledger.
Its all very impressive.
Every rustle of paper is an icicle stab to his soul.
He finally explodes and goes off about how he has a system.
During all this, Tristan pays a house call on a sick Dalmatian named Daisy.
Daisy is owned by (dun dun dun) Florence Pandhi, daughter of George Pandhi, rival veterinarian!
Tristan looks at her for two seconds and says shes probably okay.
Florence and I are unimpressed.
Unfortunately, its also controversial among farmers, and Siegfried doesnt want to test their relationships with their clients.
(Look at the Frustrating Eradication section.)
Quick shout-out to the beautiful Richard the Cat, who makes a quick cameo at the practice.
More Richard the Cat on this program, c’mon.
He gets the pebble out with forceps, but good lord, Tristan.
Florence is aghast at how messy the surgery is, but grateful that Tristan saved her dogs life.
Tristan, who had no clean surgical tools due to said messiness, decides to get it together.
Its baby steps for Tristan.
Okay, I know were all on tenterhooks about the baby-cow mystery.
It was the MILK.
Unfortunately, the bottle was antimony, which is a straight-up poison.
The horn buds fell off into the milk while the cows drank it, so they drank poison.
I know they were cow actors, but still.
James and Siegfried figure this out together, so now theyre friends again, and everyone eats downstairs together.
Now lets get through an episode where a cow doesnt die.
