Several veterinary clinics in Surrey, Langley, Vancouver and other B.C. cities are featured in a new CTV Wild docu-series focused on the questionable digestive choices of pets.
The hilarious, sometimes harrowing world of animal ingestion is explored by a father-son endoscopy team on My Pet Ate What?!, featuring Dr. Eugene Gorodetsky (aka "Dr. G") and his assistant, Ben Gorodetsky.
They're called when pets consume things other than food, including keys, coins, sewing kits, underwear, toys and much more.
Among the world鈥檚 only full-time travelling animal endoscopists, Dr. G tackles 12 to 15 cases weekly. Gorodetsky estimates he's removed 14,000 foreign bodies from dogs, cats, ferrets, birds, lizards, turtles, horses, pigs and one unfortunate lion.
"I have removed an intact light bulb, a two-karat diamond ring," he says in the series trailer. "I have removed a toupee, a garden hose from a lion, a bell pulled out of a Chinese water dragon."
Alysha Buckland, who manages a pet clinic in Port Moody, says it's never a dull moment when Dr. G is on the scene.
"I think it (the TV series) is going to open the eyes of a lot of people, just what some pets will actually eat 鈥� they can eat pretty much anything."
Some of the many Vancouver-area vet hospitals and clinics featured are Greyhaven Exotic Bird Sanctuary in Delta, All Critters Animal Hospital in Surrey, Brookswood Veterinary Hospital in Langley and Apollo Animal Hospital in Cloverdale.
The series' 12th episode, airing March 2, focuses on the devastating fire that led to a two-year renovation job to reopen Urban Safari Rescue Society's facility in South Surrey.
The first two of 14 episodes of My Pet Ate What?! air Sunday, Jan. 26, followed by two new episodes every Sunday on CTV Wild, free-previewed until Feb. 28 through participating service providers across Canada.
Narrated by Praneet Akilla and created/executive-produced by Ben Gorodetsky, the series is filmed by Tyson Media Productions in association with Bell Media.
