When a farmer isn't able to deliver a lamb with large legs, it becomes a huge job for Peter and some abandoned kittens are discovered at the local farming museum. Matt and Martin perform pioneering spinal surgery on a three-year-old cocker who's been experiencing pain on his walks. Plus, Shona receives an emergency call from a friend who's worried about her young Shire horse.

A heavily pregnant basset hound is rushed into Julian's Thirsk practice, where it's all hands on deck to save her puppies. Peter's feeling the pressure from the pupils as he performs a procedure on a school's pet sheep and one of Cannon Hall Farm's residents, Gary the donkey, is struggling to walk and needs Matt's help.

A lame Scottish wildcat's x-rays give Matt a shock, Julian operates on a special Cavalier King Charles Spaniel, and Shona visits a sheep with a nasty looking wound - he might have been shot.

In a first for Peter Wright, he has to deliver a stuck lamb with building work going on all around him. Shona Searson and David Melleney strive to save a cow with a twisted stomach.