[ Down-tempo music plays ] ♪♪ [ Indistinct conversations ] [ Music builds, continues ] -Oh.

These rings are not solid.

That one's already loose.

[ Indistinct conversations ] ♪♪ Yeah.

Bring me the net.

-Right.

♪♪ [ Whistles ] ♪♪ Back.

-Okay?

[ Indistinct conversations ] -Okay.

Oh.

He's out.

Okay.

Start pulling up the net so that there's room so he can't swim.

-Okay.

Put the dog inside.

-Yeah, yeah.

Just a sec.

-Yeah.

-There we go.

Go, go, go.

♪♪ Hey.

It's Cliff here.

How you doing?

Good.

Thanks.

I was gonna come and get Abby from you.

How you doing, man?

My name's Cliff Redford.

I've been a veterinarian for 22 years, and I own a companion animal hospital in Toronto.

Thanks.

I'll give you guys a heads-up.

We'll take care of her.

I started out as just a regular cat-and-dog veterinarian, and I quickly realized I kind of have a flair for the adventure.

-I ain't never had no Canadian meat before.

-I'm a vegetarian, man.

This is lean meat.

[ Laughing ] I don't know if I should stay here.

-Oh, I'll watch him.

-Stay right there.

-People don't realize the difficulties that veterinarians have, whether they're traveling around the world working with wild animals or working with cats and dogs.

Wellington Vet Hospital is a three-exam-room, two-surgery-room animal hospital.

We have seven staff, not including the veterinarians.

Probably have about 4,500 patients, and we'll see anywhere from 10 to 30 animals a day.

It's busy.

Lost a couple of pounds.

Got a good exam, Gideon.

Helps that he has has one of the most loving families possible.

-This is our family cat, Sunshine.

-I love working with cats and dogs and with animals because they're honest.

They tell you flat out if they don't like you.

[ Cat yowls ] Mm.

Back in there.

-Yeah.

-Oh, Sunshine.

♪♪ All right.

He checks out great.

Cell number?

[ Dog whimpers ] [ Dog barking ] -Hi.

-Hi.

-My name's Emily Redford.

I work at my dad's vet clinic as an animal care assistant.

You can follow me to the exam room if you want to.

And then I also work at Boston Pizza as a server.

Can we get it off?

-Yeah.

Okay.

-Emily, my daughter, my little baby.

She made me pretty happy when she finally told me that she wants to follow her dad's footsteps and get into the animal-care field.

-I'm gonna go get my dad, and I'll be right back with him.

I was the one kid nobody thought would ever work with animals growing up.

I was squeamish of blood.

Whenever anybody would talk about it at the dinner table, I would start screaming immediately, going, "No!

No!"

-She's traveled with me.

She's volunteered with me.

Hold that up.

It's a real pleasure working with her.

-I love being busy.

My dad loves being busy.

We live for chaos in a way and just being go, go, go all the time.

We get a lot of cats and dogs.

Things like ear infections, skin infections, masses.

Do a lot of, like, dental surgeries.

-It's almost 99% of the time just cats and dogs.

The wild-animal work -- I mean, originally 20 years ago, when I started the practice, probably only happened once a year.

But not until I started to volunteer here at Shades of Hope, this wildlife rescue, did people really start to realize that, "Hey.

This guy is actually willing to help out the raccoons and squirrels and the bunnies."

-By far one of the most crazy places I've ever been, ever.

And the work that they do is unlike anywhere I've ever seen before.

-This place is special.

We heal animals, and we get them ready to go back out into the wild.

-Every time I'm here, I feel just so lucky to be a part of something so important and so great, because they're literally saving thousands of lives.

-We have Dr. Cliff come in.

He does any of the surgeries that we need.

-This young porcupine has, unfortunately, broken both shins.

-Porcupines, skunks, opossums.

You get deer.

-So, he's got a uveitis.

He's lost the fluid pressure in this damaged eye.

So it's soft, like a marshmallow.

So, I started volunteering here two years ago.

I was basically trying to educate myself more.

They actually asked me to become their main veterinarian because I was willing to learn from the non-veterinarians that run this place that are quite brilliant in what they're able to do.

-On our busiest days, we can intake anywhere up to 80 animals in a day with a very small, dedicated team that we work hard and we work well together.

-So, most of my wildlife work is done off site at a wildlife rescue, and they see foxes quite regularly.

But this is the first time we've had a fox here.

All righty.

Hit by vehicle.

-This case was brought in to us on June 23rd.

Someone brought him in first thing in the morning.

They found him lying on the side of the road.

When they went to investigate, he didn't move, didn't get up.

-It's typically due to traumatic contact with people.

A lot of hit-by-cars, unfortunately.

The big thing is getting their blood pressure up and getting their vitals under control.

♪♪ What do you say?

You want to give it a try?

-I can give it a shot.

Yeah.

-Front arm?

-Yeah.

-Yeah?

All right.

For anyone who thinks doctors and veterinarians are the cat's meow, it's the nurses and the technicians that save the day more often than not.

-We're suspecting he was hit by a vehicle due to the fact that he has a fracture in his left front leg.

He had some pretty heavy head trauma.

-I'm only gonna be able to get one pin in below and maybe two, maybe three above to kind of stabilize it all together.

A lot of bad things could go wrong, and this guy needs this arm to be perfect or else he won't be releasable.

And if he's not releasable, they have to euthanize him.

So we got to come together and figure this one out.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] He is a muscular guy.

-He works out.

[ Monitor beeping ] So the fracture is in the humerus.

Without orthopedic surgery, it likely would not heal on his own.

So we really do appreciate Dr. Cliff being able to do this surgery.

So I was very nervous.

-I'm focusing on finding the bone with as little tissue between it and the screw 'cause I don't want to drive the screw through a muscle, a ligament, or the worst would be a vessel or a nerve, 'cause that could potentially be fatal.

If you go too hard, it goes too fast, and you can cause some damage and actually cause some microfractures.

As I started to drive this toothed pin into his bone, he started to feel it.

His heart rate went up.

Okay.

So that is through.

[ Sighs ] The problem with this fracture is there's not a lot of space between the fracture and the elbow.

I can't find it.

-No heartbeat.

Miranda, the technician, she couldn't find a heartbeat, and the machine wasn't picking up one.

Arthur?

Arthur!

-Coming.

-See if you can pick up a heartbeat.

Anything?

-No.

[ Monitor beeping ] ♪♪ ♪♪ [ Monitor beeping ] ♪♪ -Oh.

It's picking something up.

-Give him the other dose of epi.

Heart's going.

Put him on 1% iso.

[ Monitor beeping ] Okay.

You keep listening.

I'm almost ready for this last pin.

[ Sighs ] ♪♪ If we don't get this in, he's not gonna live anyway.

So we got to do this, 'cause he can't be released with a broken arm.

So I go right back to fixing the bone and driving in the final pin, and bang -- the heartbeat stops again, for a second time.

-Heart's gone.

-It stopped?

-Yep.

-Okay.

Start compressions.

I know it sounds crazy, but I got to do this.

I was terrified.

Heart rate's really soft.

-There's the other.

-Epi's flushed.

-Another epi.

-Thank you.

[ Monitor beeping rapidly ] One more.

Come on, buddy.

Keep waking up.

Keep waking up.

[ Beeping continues ] Oh, he's feeling that epi.

It's pounding again.

♪♪ It's like a jackrabbit.

Bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam, bam.

He's breathing on his own.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] Hey!

Good boy!

-Whoo.

-There we go.

Hi, honey.

-Let's get that in there.

-There we go.

There we go.

Good boy.

-So he died twice.

His heart stopped twice.

-Stressful, emotional, nerve-racking.

It was probably the most stressful and difficult anesthetic I had ever done.

-I had been containing all that emotion.

And finally, my body just said, "Time to let it go."

The tears were just almost relief and just finally able to release the emotions that we were feeling.

Good boy.

-You get attached, especially to ones you put a lot of work into.

I think Dr. Cliff did a miraculous and wonderful job.

-Real good chance he's gonna do okay, I think, actually.

And he's a fighter.

We know that for sure.

-I want them to make it so that I can release them and they can go back into the wild and be where they're supposed to be, in the environment they're supposed to be in.

-Yeah.

The fox is, uh... You know, he's not out of the woods, so to speak.

I'm actually gonna bring him home with me with all the emergency drugs.

We'll keep him on IV fluids.

We'll have a little sleepover.

♪♪ It's always really inspiring to be able to work with animals and especially wildlife.

A big part for traveling for me is taking care of new animals, new, interesting species.

I mean, when I travel, I want to be overloaded.

♪♪ -I love traveling.

Similar reason that my dad loves traveling.

I love to be challenged, and I love to experience things that are out of my comfort zone.

[ Indistinct conversations, dog whimpering ] ♪♪ -We've been to Jamaica.

We've been to Egypt as well as India.

These volunteer travel trips, they are hard work.

I mean, we're doing 14-, 15-hour days.

There we go.

We never go to the beach.

We never go sightseeing.

We go and we work.

Now we're dealing with other mammals, birds.

Completely different.

Heck.

I mean, I've done some work on crocodiles and monkeys... and giant flying bats.

Go easy.

This guy will bite me.

-When we went to India, it was completely overwhelming from the moment that we stepped off the plane.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] -This little rhesus monkey arrived at the People for Animals shelter in India I think the second or third day we were there.

She had broken her jaw right down the center, she had a laceration over her forehead, and she had damage to her hand.

Self-cannibalization is when a creature eats themselves.

And in Clementine the monkey's condition, it was because she was losing feeling in her hand.

But it was also she was so stressed.

-The monkey did start to eat away at his hand.

-I did not know this existed in monkeys.

You have more experience with monkeys than I do.

This is the first time I've ever dealt with one.

No penicillin, amoxicillin.

[ Monkey screeching ] Just the meloxicam.

-Right.

Right.

-Okay.

-I remember looking at it and starting to cry and just thinking that, you know, there was no way that we can do anything to help.

-Keep it so the blood comes all the way up.

We ended up having to amputate the arm, unfortunately.

How do you keep an e-collar on a monkey that has fingers that are more dexterous than ours?

She would just untie the knots and pull it off in two seconds.

♪♪ We were able to make her wear this cute little sleeper onesie, which protected her completely.

We picked a clementine color 'cause that was her name.

So that helped a lot, but it was a challenging case.

I learned a lot and it was great working with the people there.

Aww!

I'm gonna miss you.

Bye.

♪♪ And eventually I look forward to being on that plane again and going around the world and seeing who I can meet and who I can help and what I can learn.

[ Dramatic music plays ] So Hyderabad, I think, is sort of the mid-south of India.

It's in the state of Telangana.

Just 10 million people in this city, all packed together.

So we literally just jumped in the van.

The PFA ambulance is in front of us.

I think there's two cases that we're dealing with.

One, I believe is either a broken leg or bleeding.

And the other one, I don't know if it was hit by a car, but there's something not working with its legs or back.

♪♪ Can you reach him up?

Aww!

Okay.

Good.

-Hi, puppy!

-Yeah.

You got hit in the head, didn't you?

Yeah.

Broken jaw.

-Broken jaw.

You can see right there.

-Okay.

This is street medicine here in India.

We're gonna figure it out.

Hopefully things are easy and we can treat the animal right there and then release it back to its home.

If it's more serious, then we load up the ambulance and bring it back to the PFA shelter and do our treatments there and hope everything works out.

♪♪ I mean, he's too young to have rabies, but most likely distemper case.

He may not survive this, but he needs some supportive care.

-The culture shock of being here is extreme.

-They just found him on the road.

I guess he got hit by a car.

But he was dead on impact, I'm sure.

-Yeah.

♪♪ I mean, it's a lot, being here.

It's so different than all of our rescues at home, just the environment, the stimulation of being here just to be treating animals right on the streets and to be doing sort of, like, cowboy medicine, you know?

Just doing what we can.

Trusting your skills and that you'll know what to do when the time comes in order to just make the split-second decision to do what's best for the animal and everything else will follow.

[ Vehicles passing, horns honking ] -So the worry with this guy is he was crossing the street.

This gentleman saw him get hit by a car.

And then the gentleman went out, rescued him, and then brought him over here.

I'm just checking his nerves here to see.

I don't see anything that's broken, but it's very easy to miss that sort of situation.

He's extremely pale.

His gums are white, so he's in shock.

And it's basically that he's in so much pain, his heart is beating so fast that it's not pumping the blood properly, as well as the body is taking the blood away from the gums, that aren't that important, and shunting it to the heart, to the liver, to the lungs, to the brain -- all the sort of critical organs.

Yeah.

He's really painful in the belly.

[ Dramatic music plays ] My biggest worry is the way he's breathing.

It's called paroxysmal breathing.

He's breathing using his abdominal muscles instead of using his ribs, like using his diaphragm.

So he's doing these tiny, sort of belly pants.

we call it.

And that shows that he's got a lot of pain in his midsection.

This is a guy that we are -- I'm gonna see what they have for pain medication here.

Okay.

So, we got meloxicam, which is an anti-inflammatory, and then an antibiotic.

That's all we have?

Okay.

So neither of these are safe for him right now.

So we need to get him back to the shelter to get some X-rays done.

Let's go.

Let's get him back.

And I'll contact Dr. Lakshmi and get him to her clinic.

Is this a boy or a girl, first of all?

Little girl.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] -So this puppy is about three months old.

Seems like just an Indian street dog.

So mixed breed.

Her breathing, although not great, is pretty stable.

Her color's improved slightly.

-We can call her Heidi since she's our first female rescue from Hyderabad.

[ Music builds, continues ] -If you want.

-Yeah.

Heidi?

All right.

Hey, Heidi.

She likes it.

Look.

-Oh, you like that?

Yeah.

-Aww.

She likes it.

-Oh!

Thank you.

Her tail's wagging.

-Oh.

Keep doing that.

-Thank you.

Thank you.

-How are you?

-Hi, Doctor.

-Excellent.

Nice to meet you.

Cliff.

My daughter, Emily.

-Hi.

-Okay.

So, Anthony, this little girl was hit by a car.

-Okay.

-A gentleman saw her get struck by the vehicle and then went and picked her up, brought her out to safety, and then called PFA.

-Mm-hmm.

-When I first examined her, she was having a lot of trouble breathing.

She's very, very pale, like in pain and shocky.

And she really has pain in the abdomen, in the belly.

So let's first get an IV into her, get her on some fluids, intravenous, and then get some pain medication into her.

♪♪ -Okay.

-Okay.

Can we now get her on a constant drip of fluids?

-Yeah.

-This just slides into this, right?

And I can turn it off.

-Yes.

-Okay.

[ Music builds, continues ] ♪♪ So you get us started, and I'll figure out positioning.

Okay.

So lay her down.

-Okay.

-Thank you.

-So get ready for the X-ray, and then you can turn off the light, guys.

-Okay.

♪♪ -Bones are okay.

Can you zoom in on her lungs?

-Okay.

-Really open that up.

Pelvis, hips, spine is good.

No ribs broken.

She definitely has some fluid, maybe bruising or a bit of bleeding in her right chest cavity, in the right side of her lungs.

But nothing too serious.

So we can manage this.

She was very, very lucky.

That's for sure.

All righty.

-Here we go.

-She's gonna be right in that cage there.

-Let's go.

Let's go.

-Heidi, your new home for a few days.

Just put her in.

We'll lock her up safe.

-Okay.

Ohh!

-Oh.

Come here.

Let's shut this up.

Hey.

So the plan is she's gonna be here for a few days just to get a little bit stronger.

And then we can't bring her back to where she was.

It's too much of a high-traffic area.

So maybe the rescuer who called or the person who called in the rescue would want to adopt her.

Or if not, we'll find her another forever home.

We'll see.

She's already making herself at home, eating.

Bye, Heidi.

You've forgotten us already.

-She's had a long day.

[ Mid-tempo music plays ] ♪♪ -Coming back to India was a pretty easy choice.

There are some great teams here to work with as well.

So the nice thing is, we knew by coming back that not only was there a need but there was the infrastructure and support for us to work with these teams.

-I've been an animal lover since many years.

Since childhood, I used to play with my stray animals.

I started seeing a lot of stray animals.

Whenever I see some animal is injured, I take them to hospital.

It's been almost 17 years since I've been doing these stray and wild animal rescues.

The container was broken.

So there is a chance the dog can bite you.

So the idea of capturing this dog is like, we have to make sure there is no escape route for the dog.

We'll try to make it very quick.

So we ensure that area, monitor that area, and block the escape routes.

-They've already located the dog.

-The dog has been located.

-I feel like we're going on a spy mission.

♪♪ So, we're at a university campus right now.

We were called here because somebody found a dog with a big plastic container around his head.

-Oh, that's him right there.

-The dogs will drink from the containers, and their ears will just kind of get trapped right behind, and the container will be around their neck.

It can, you know, make their breathing really difficult.

It can also stop them from eating and drinking regularly.

So it can really be a serious health concern.

-So, obviously, our girl escaped.

This is a little trickier because the container is broken, so she can see, she can breathe, she can hear.

We did not know there were some exit points in those fences.

There's a couple of holes.

But everyone, including security around here, feels she's gonna come back.

-I know Cliff since three years, I've been associated.

And when he said he wanted to come to India, it was so surprising that he really came and started doing rescues.

-When we first had a talk with them, we felt like that was the first time when people are approaching us, and we felt like, "Wow."

And this is just, like, a good chance for us to work with them.

We are going to the other side because there are two escape routes -- this side and that side.

Pradeep went this side, just to see the dog.

We're going to the other side.

-And then we're just gonna be on hold and just wait.

It could be a couple of minutes.

It could be a couple of hours.

We'll see.

[ Music builds, continues ] I mean, we're not gonna find her, most likely.

Let's go back and check one more time.

[ Insects chirping ] Round two.

-Round two.

We'll see.

-The Animal Warriors Conservation Society does tactical rescues and wildlife rescues all over Hyderabad.

Few people get in these kind of voluntary jobs.

Only few have this concern about the animals.

I don't know.

We take it very personally.

We feel like our dog is stuck somewhere and, you know, it might be getting into a trauma.

So we feel like we just have to rescue it as quick as possible.

In Hyderabad, the worst part is we don't have a doctor who treats wildlife animals.

-I'm not very good at technical rescues.

One of the reasons why I'm working with Animal Warriors is they're the best in this state for technical rescues by far.

[ Indistinct conversations ] -This is Indian tea.

-Chai.

-Irani chai.

Yes.

-And is this the best tea in Hyderabad?

-Yes.

Yes.

Yes.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] [ Vehicles passing, horns honking ] -There's a pigeon stuck on the side of this bridge.

They're not gonna stop the traffic for one pigeon.

But hopefully he hasn't been up there too long, and hopefully the damage to the shoulder isn't so bad that he can't fly.

This is the craziest thing I've ever seen.

And there's -- This is like minutes.

We don't have a lot of time to figure this out.

So you can see he's flying around, back and forth, trying to free himself.

So we got to get up there.

I think they're gonna be setting up a harness system and some ropes and rappelling down to rescue this bird and then bringing it up with us.

That's the only thing I can imagine.

I'm gonna go up there and check it out.

And hopefully we can help save this bird real quick.

-So the team's up top, my dad included, and they're gonna be belaying down on ropes.

It's so scary!

I'm terrified of heights.

There's so much traffic down below that if they fall, they're gonna die.

Like, there's not really much else that's gonna happen.

It's too far, and there's so much traffic coming.

-The reality is, though, Santoshi and Pradeep are highly trained and certified in this sort of thing.

And being engineers, they understand where the proper anchor points would be.

But it's sort of getting through the bureaucracy and people with good intentions that are afraid of someone being hurt down below or the traffic being disrupted.

So we basically just have to wait and get everybody to be happy with what we're trying to do.

-I'm scared.

I don't know how this is gonna go.

I hope everybody stays as safe as possible.

But, I mean, they're going down a good 20 feet to try to get this bird.

You know, what is that?

Like 50 feet above the ground -- as traffic is coming.

[ Horns honking ] It's so scary.

Yeah.

It's so scary.

[ Groans ] [ Horns honking ] -The bird all of a sudden gets free of the manja wire and falls down into oncoming traffic.

And then the Warriors jump into the traffic to save this bird.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] -Right side has a small laceration underneath.

But it's just soft tissue.

Nothing huge.

By the elbow.

-Okay.

-Just swelling.

A lot of swelling.

-So far, all the joints move really smoothly.

-Patagium's okay.

-Patagium's really strong.

-[ Speaking native language ] Show some water, if he's drinking.

-Do you think he'll drink it?

-Yes.

I think he'll do that.

-You don't think he's too stressed?

Let's try.

No.

I think he's too -- Oh, look at that.

A little bit.

Oh, wow!

Good job, guys.

Oh!

Wow.

♪♪ -Pradeep was the team leader who used to train us, explain us.

He just have some kind of magic in him.

But he just, you know, understands what exactly the animal is going through.

He supports us.

He guides us.

He has a lot of patience.

-This wing is droopy very much, you know?

He's not lifting.

-Yeah.

-Santoshi's my wife, and I'm very happy to say that.

I'm very excited to talk about her, because she's like a mother of Animal Warriors now.

We say the better half of me -- at the same time, the NGO also.

[ Siren wailing in distance ] -Good job, guys.

♪♪ ♪♪ -Usually we feel like this is my area.

I save animals in my area.

But after seeing, listening, getting to know about Emily and Cliff, definitely their passion goes beyond the borders.

It was so inspiring.

So that actually boosted our team a lot.

So we worked with a little bit more energy after that.

And yes, we have lots and lots of things for the team to work here because there are so many animals which still need help.

-They need our help.

So that's one of the reasons why we came back.

There are so many stray animals, street dogs, wildlife.

And last but not least, Diwali.

My understanding is it's a Hindu celebration.

It's a five-day celebration.

People describe it to me as sort of like Christmas here in India and it's a celebration of good versus evil, success, and also compassion -- compassion towards humans and compassion for all life.

So I'm excited to see these wonderful celebrations.

-Diwali, Diwali.

-Happy Diwali.

-Diwali is actually a pretty beautiful festival in India, and everybody loves it, and everybody enjoys the Diwali.

And actually it starts in the evening, and you can see lots of lights everywhere.

It's a festival of lights.

[ Fireworks popping ] At the same time, we have these crackers -- firecrackers.

I used to play with firecrackers, and later I came to know they are impacting nature in a very negative way because the loud noises, they scare a lot of animals.

-And from a distance when we first saw it, it was the most beautiful thing we had ever seen.

These gorgeous fireworks and the popping of the fireworks and just these amazing colors and lighting up the sky.

♪♪ The thing hit me.

I thought it was funny.

And then I felt it, like, like stick to my skin as it was melting a tiny piece of skin.

And I'm shaking my head and my hair, trying to get it out, not realizing it had, like, fused with my skin.

You got to help me out.

[ Chuckles ] Take a look at my skull.

-It's surprisingly big.

-I'm tough.

-And deep.

Like, it's a hole.

It's a charred hole.

Looks a little bit better now.

Good luck.

♪♪ [ Horns honking ] -We just couldn't help think about the animals in this situation.

-So, the dog is sleeping there.

So I think its leg is pretty badly entangled in this snare wire.

The snare wire, usually they try to keep some to hunt wildlife, you know?

Which is illegal, though.

We have to isolate the dog because the dog is with the pack.

So once we do any attempt, definitely the dog will get alerted because many other dogs will be alerting this dog.

So she may run into bushes or...

It's pretty dark.

It's getting dark.

-So we got one shot.

-We have to do that in one shot, hopefully.

If not, we just focus on where the dog is.

The major focus here is to isolate the dog so it will be easy for us to.

The one thing is, we'll try to lure them into one location, all the dogs, with food or something.

So the dogs will come to one area so we can isolate, and then we can immediately capture using our net.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] -This wire has probably caused a lot of pain and a lot of damage.

-Yes.

Yes, yes.

-So if it looks like we can't get it off easily, Emily can administer a sedative and painkiller.

-Santoshi and I are feeding the other dogs.

-We got the chicken.

-You are approaching that dog with a light while Ganesh sneaks up behind and tries to net him.

-Right now we have this light.

This light is facing her.

Ganesh can sneak there.

The dog will be looking at you because you are feeding.

-Okay.

'Cause I'm feeding his friends.

-Yeah.

-How fast do you think this guy can run on three legs?

-Faster than us.

Definitely.

For sure.

-Still.

-Yeah.

♪♪ -Ganesh, ready?

-[ Speaking native language ] Wait.

Wait.

-Gone.

-Santoshi, keep engaging.

Don't go there.

-The second this dog escaped out of sight into the shed at night, we knew things all of a sudden became much more urgent and much more difficult.

And we had to get to this dog quickly.

[ Music builds, continues ] [ Indistinct conversations ] ♪♪ -It's a python.

-It's a python snake.

Rock python.

-It's a python in the middle of the jungle.

-Is that poisonous?

-So as we're looking for this dog and right after we see this Indian python, we end up getting another rescue call.

♪♪ Now, what's going on with this monkey?

-We can get the monkey here.

-How far away from here?

-How far?

-It's 30 kilometers from here.

-So how about one of your rescue -- Can you spare one person to come with us and we'll go deal with the monkey?

-Yeah.

-You guys deal with the dog.

All right.

Let's get going, then.

Let's go see what's going on with this monkey.

So all of a sudden, we go from rescue A to rescue B.

Jump in the vehicles and see if we can get to this monkey as fast as possible.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] How long has the monkey been here?

-I saw her around 4:00, 4:30 in the evening, so it's been hardly for four to five hours.

-Okay.

All right.

Anthony, Emily, this is what we're gonna do.

Emily, you and I are gonna go around the back.

I'm gonna have, Ravi, you stand back here just in case.

'Cause you haven't been vaccinated for rabies, I'm gonna assume.

And then, Anthony, you're gonna be here with this blanket.

♪♪ All right.

So we're good.

Can you get the box of medicine from Shri?

-Do you want a hand?

-It's okay, girl.

So, her heart is nice and strong.

But what I'm seeing here is there's a definite wound on the right thigh between her hip and her knee.

It appears to be a burn.

So certainly an electric shock, an electrocution, is a high likelihood.

♪♪ [ Sighs ] -It's just electric shock wound or it can be a fight as well, right?

-It could be, but the wounds really do look like they're thermal burns.

-Yeah.

-So I think she touched a power line that wasn't safe.

She's got some burns on her thigh.

Her skin all in that area has lower-degree thermal burns.

And it shocks the heart like a bolt of lightning, so they usually fall.

That can cause some bruising and bleeding in the heart, almost like a cardiac arrest.

So I am gonna try and reach under her.

This is the dangerous part.

Yeah.

You lift that up, Emily.

You keep that head down to the ground, okay?

-Yeah.

-Guys, no noise for a second.

Are you seeing her breathe at all?

-No.

-Let's take this off.

[ Down-tempo music plays ] -Do you want me to try to give her mouth-to-mouth?

-No, I think her heart has stopped.

♪♪ ♪♪ Yeah.

She's gone.

You have the scissors?

[ Sighs ] ♪♪ ♪♪ I think she was just holding on for every last second.

We didn't do anything wrong.

We were slow.

We were quiet.

We kept her as stress-free as possible.

But obviously these wounds are just too bad.

This wound goes all the way as deep as the bone.

There's even some maggots that are in there.

She's already getting stiff, so her body was waiting for a chance to pass away.

Mm.

Sweetie pie.

All right.

We're gonna...

Us moving her around and having to keep ourselves safe and keep her safe was the last... sort of last straw, yeah.

This is the last stress to her body.

-Like, if people could have came early, could have been saved?

-I mean, there's always a possibility.

I don't think anything else could have been done.

It is...

It's a very common question.

Even I want to know -- What could I have done differently?

And in this situation, nothing.

It just, unfortunately, was her time.

But I do feel a little less sad knowing that, you know, she didn't die in a ditch somewhere by herself being attacked by animals or something like this, that we can now remember her briefly, you know?

I wish it had gone differently, obviously.

♪♪ -The reality is, we do see animals pass away in front of our eyes sometimes.

And that can be really hard.

And knowing that there's not really more that you can do and just feeling the compassion for what they're going through and thinking about how they must be feeling and how scared they must be.

[ Fireworks popping ] ♪♪ -Hello, hello.

-Hi.

-Hi, guys.

-Hi.

-Hi.

Hello.

Good to see you guys.

All right.

Thank you for the call.

Happy Diwali.

Let's take a look.

Where's the bird?

-It's inside.

-All righty.

And how long has it been here?

When did you guys rescue it?

Like, what happened?

-When we got outside, this guy is stuck behind a tree.

So I took it out.

When I took it out, I saw the wing was hurt.

It was bleeding.

-And then we put it inside.

-So I think all the excitement of Diwali yesterday, the fireworks, the firecrackers, they scare these birds so much and hurt their heads so much that they fly into walls and fly into cars.

Lucky to have the bird here.

Lucky for your house.

But lucky for the bird that you guys have given it such good care, okay'?

-Thank you.

-So I'm gonna take this guy over to the local clinic, to Animal Care Clinic, and we're gonna take some X-rays.

I'm gonna examine it over there.

Thank you very much.

Happy Diwali.

-Happy Diwali.

-Thank you, guys.

-Happy Diwali.

-So scary.

[ Fireworks exploding, crackling in distance ] [ Down-tempo music plays ] Gonna go right into X-ray.

Good to see you.

We're talking nice and quietly so as not to scare the bird.

So, it's a little bit past the elbow.

It's a bad spot to be broken.

Yeah.

That elbow is really bad.

Let's just check the good side.

Good.

His feet are okay.

-Yeah.

-His head seems okay.

All right.

I know.

I know.

Let's cover you up.

-Can you feel anything?

-The elbow is tight.

There seems to be an open wound, so the bone might have broken through, but the X-ray will tell us exactly what's going on.

Okay.

Go ahead.

[ Machine clicks ] -There.

-Very good.

All right, little dude.

Go hang out in here.

Five minutes.

We'll go look at that X-ray.

Yeah.

So it's broken high -- Right at the joint.

A little bit lower, another break there.

All of them so close to the joint that we're not gonna be able to pin that.

It's pretty bad.

So the only option is really amputation.

So we're gonna get ready for amputation.

Oh, yeah.

There's the bone sticking through.

And he's got fleas or something.

-He's so small.

-Oh, this is messed up.

It's just blood and scabs and stuff.

Yeah.

So, Dr. Vishnu, it's always better if we can intubate, 'cause then we can control the anesthetic a lot better.

-So this is the lidocaine.

It's like what they use at the dentist's to numb your mouth.

-We're off to the races.

-Can you just watch his breathing for me?

It's kind of hard to see with birds.

These guys have a tendency to just stop breathing and die.

It's something that you kind of have to watch all the time.

-All right.

I'm almost ready, Emily.

How's the patient?

-His heart's kind of weak.

-Take another listen now that I've made some cuts.

See if there's any feeling.

-It's there.

-If he hasn't been stimulated by my cuts, then we can lower the anesthetic.

What percentage is he on?

-0.5.

Okay.

His breathing is just really... -Really crummy?

-Yeah.

-Turn him right off.

I'm gonna rush through this.

-Okay.

[ Dramatic music plays ] -This is definitely a fresh break.

Definitely during the Diwali period.

It's in the last couple of days.

All right.

Final cut and this is off.

-Do you want to just see if you can hear a heartbeat?

-I got like one more throw here.

-I'm just gonna give him a little bit of a breath.

[ Exhales deeply ] ♪♪ -This guy is getting weaker and weaker.

The surgery is done.

Let's just wake this guy up.

-All right.

-It's really hard to tell.

-[ Inhales, exhales deeply ] -I think I can hear it.

It's fast, but really weak, eh?

I want you to stimulate him.

-[ Exhales deeply ] ♪♪ -Yeah.

I'm still not hearing anything that's obvious.

It should be super loud.

Come on, dude.

-[ Exhales deeply ] ♪♪ ♪♪ ♪♪ So hard with these guys, eh?

They can die so quickly.

Even though he was doing so well.

-I think he went into some kind of shock.

-Yeah.

♪♪ -All right.

Last try.

-[ Exhales deeply ] -Yeah.

There's nothing.

He's gone.

[ Sighs ] ♪♪ [ Down-tempo music plays ] All right.

Let's... Let's clean him up.

I'll bring him it back to that box.

These surgeries on wildlife are so hard, especially on birds.

They're so difficult to anesthetize.

I mean, it's great here at Animal Care Clinic.

They just don't see wildlife, so we had to do what we could.

And this poor thing couldn't -- couldn't wait.

The difficulty with wildlife -- and we saw it with the monkey as well -- is almost once you start to treat them and relieve them of some of their stresses, their adrenaline system shuts down.

And that's what was keeping him alive.

And it's a catch-22 because we have to give him anesthetic.

We have to give him pain medication.

We have to proceed with the surgery knowing that it may end up killing them faster.

But there was no option, and this poor little guy passed away without being in pain.

-I think from the outside, you know, one could say it might look like that we're fighting a losing battle.

And I think in certain moments, it can feel like that if you've had a really bad day.

-A little bit hard mentally doing one after the other in a row.

But you kind of just have to learn to take it as it is and know that you can't do everything and there are some things that you're just not gonna be able to help with and you're not gonna be able to save.

[ Horns honking ] [ Down-tempo music plays ] The people who are here helping, I mean, they're boots on the ground every day.

You know, all of the time they're going out and saving animals, and they're seeing so much, you know, unfortunately, struggle and hard times and death but also so many successes.

-In India, we coexist with a lot of animals, you know?

We are okay with many at olden times.

We are okay with many animals to be roaming out because we are very close to our animals.

We have cattle.

We have dogs.

We get a lot of calls during Diwali because animals, usually, they don't know where to go.

They just blindly run into something and get stuck or met with an accident or trapped somewhere.

So Diwali is very beautiful and at the same time, very horrible for animals also.

♪♪ -Here in India, we have agricultural wells.

There are different types of wells we have.

So, we received a distress call saying that a dog fell in a well, and it's been almost one hour by then it was stuck in a well.

So immediately we called Dr. Cliff.

-Okay?

-Yeah.

Sounds good.

That's comfy.

-Okay.

-He has a very good experience in surgeries.

But in their country in most of the times, they don't have the opportunity to do these kind of practical rescues.

-Okay.

Let's go.

I trust you.

-Okay.

Okay?

All ready?

-You want me to use the rings, right?

-Yes.

Yes.

-To go down.

All right.

-Once you go down there, we will lower you.

-Then you'll low-- -Yes.

Yes.

-All right.

[ Indistinct conversations ] Oh.

These rings are not solid.

That one's already loose.

[ Indistinct conversations ] Okay.

A little more down.

-Can you hold one minute?

Yeah.

Okay.

Okay.

Yeah.

[ Indistinct conversations ] -Okay.

-Okay?

-Yes.

-Good.

[ Indistinct conversations ] Okay.

I'm gonna take this.

You got my weight?

-Yes.

Yes.

Are you comfortable now?

-Yeah.

Bring me the net.

-Right.

It's a very narrow well, and we don't know exactly how the dog behaves.

Sometimes what will happen, even if the dog is friendly, when it's in a danger position, it's a confined space, it may aggress you, it may bite you.

♪♪ -Okay.

Oh.

He's out.

Okay.

Start pulling up the net so that there's room so he can't swim.

-Okay.

Put the dog inside.

-Yeah, yeah.

Just a sec.

-Yeah.

Do you want us to pull the net?

-[ Grunts ] No.

He had his arm trapped.

Here.

There we go.

Go, go, go.

-Perfect.

Perfect.

-Let's go, guys.

-Hi, puppy.

[ Indistinct conversations ] ♪♪ -[ Exhales deeply ] -Hey!

Good job.

-There we go.

-Good job.

-Wow.

Huh.

Thank you.

Thank you.

-That was pretty easy.

-All right.

Let's check him out.

And then we'll get ready to release him, yeah?

-Yeah.

We can release him here.

-He's been almost two hours, the dog, in the water.

-Two hours.

Wow.

-Two hours.

-So we expected... -Yeah.

He was really weak.

-...he's dead.

-He was really weak.

He was very, very weak.

And it was a lot deeper than it looked.

Definitely could have drowned.

No problem.

I'm just gonna check his pulse in here.

Okay.

He's got a strong pulse as well.

Good boy.

♪♪ -Oh -- Oh -- Okay.

Oh, not that side.

-Stay away from the well, dude.

It's like a massage.

-Good boy!

♪♪ -My puppy at home loves these towel rubs.

[ Explosion in distance ] Oh!

Did that scare you?

-Do you want me to get him some biscuits or something?

-Yeah.

Let's see.

[ Explosions in distance ] See what we have.

His color's pretty good.

He's not too pale.

Hey, you're still shivering, eh?

Let's dry you off.

And you ignore those scary sounds.

I know.

Get some food.

There you go.

I think he likes those cookies.

Do we have more of those cookies?

Eh?

You got a sweet tooth?

-Oh.

-Aww.

[ Explosions in distance ] -It's terrifying.

-He's like, "Give me the dessert.

Give me the dessert."

-[ Laughing ] Good boy!

-Ah, ah, ah, ah, ah.

-Whoa.

-Okay.

You ready to go?

You want to go?

-I've seen him out of his comfort zone a lot of the times.

And I've seen him, you know, putting himself in situations that are not always, like, you know, the most safe for the benefit of the animal.

It continues to impress me that, you know, he does this and loves to do this.

-I didn't expect this from you, but you handled it very well.

-Yeah.

I appreciate that.

Do you think the noise is what's scaring them in these wells?

-Yeah.

Most probably.

Now, what we do, we have rescued it, so we don't want it to happen again, so we'll close the well.

-It's a really hard job to be doing all the time, and it's, frankly, something that I don't know that I could do every single day, all the time.

It just takes such a physical and mental toll on the body.

So the fact that they're here, doing it and doing it better than anybody else is so inspiring.

-Hey, that wire-snare dog -- Varma caught him.

We're about 25 minutes away.

-Okay.

-We got a call from the particular location.

The dog has stuck wire on his leg.

So we called Cliff.

And I think the first attempt, unfortunately, we couldn't catch the dog in the first attempt.

So the next day we went there, and we caught the dog immediately.

-How exactly did you catch this guy?

-So, I have a video.

I will show you how we caught the dog.

We made a perfect plan with the coordination.

♪♪ -Ah!

Right into it.

-So, we showed up and the dog had already been captured.

But he did have this gnarly-looking... metal wire, I guess, caught around his paw.

So it was really stuck in there.

So we just gave him a small sedative to help him stay calm while we were doing the really painful things as well as some antibiotics.

-In this particular case, it was stuck almost one month.

So the dog has been stuck by the snare more than one month.

Just you can imagine how the dog is suffering.

I mean, pain and all.

-Oh!

He's like, "Yes.

That feels so much better, Cliff.

Thank you."

Imagine having that thing stuck around you, eh?

I mean, I understand the need for hunting, but there's got to be better ways than that.

-We just were able to remove the snare.

So yeah, we just got it off and then essentially let him go.

It was really nice.

He already seemed to be doing so much better as he was running away, so much happier.

So it was really nice to see, because we were searching for him for quite a while between yesterday and today.

So yay!

We found him, and he's all better now.

[ Horns honking ] The culture is completely different.

The people are completely different.

The volume of street animals that we see -- And where there's poverty with people, there's also poverty with animals too.

So there's a lot of work that needs to be done.

-Whether it's domestic animals and, say, street domestic animals, like street cats and street dogs, or wildlife, they unfortunately feel the same terror and fear when they're injured, and instinctively they want to get away from people, get away from other animals.

And, you know, they don't understand that they need our help.

[ Mid-tempo music plays ] [ Insects chirping ] So we're definitely gonna have a net person here and a net person over there.

And we're kind of gonna try and force her into an exit point.

-Don't move.

Don't move.

Don't move.

No one moves.

[ Indistinct conversations ] ♪♪ -For last one week, we are working with Emily and Dr. Cliff.

So I can clearly sense how they are passionate about the animals.

Not only treatment.

They are showing the same passion in the tactical rescues, where there might not be required the vet, but still they are coming to rescue, to save the animals.

That was amazing.

♪♪ [ Indistinct conversations ] [ Foliage rustling, dog yelps ] -Okay, okay, okay.

Okay, okay.

Okay.

Okay.

[ Dog yelping, barking ] Okay, okay.

-Wow.

Good job, guys.

-Good job, guys.

Good job.

-That's good.

♪♪ ♪♪ -Just do one more cut.

-It's all more caught on the net than anything.

Come on.

It's off.

-Ah!

Is that better?

[ Applause ] -[ Exhales deeply ] [ Indistinct conversations ] [ Cheers and applause ] -[ Laughs ] And she's like, "I'm picking my own way!"

[ Laughs ] Good job, Emily.

-Aww.

Yeah.

-Good job.

Good job!

-I do feel a sense of responsibility, especially when their suffering is caused by people.

A lot of the cases that we see are animals being hit by cars, animals being electrocuted, animals, like, falling down wells.

And all of these reasons for them being injured, a lot of the time, comes from, like, us, comes from our own interaction with these animals and us coming into their space, and it's our responsibility but beyond that, my responsibility to be a part of helping and to help in any way that I can in order to better the animals' lives.

[ Mid-tempo music plays ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -Good to see you again.

-Good to see you guys.

-Hey, Pradeep.

-Hey.

Hi.

♪♪ How are you?

-I'm fine.

How are you?

-Good.

How's the bird doing?

-Oh, she's fine.

Still droopy.

-Still drooping wing.

But that's all right.

Let's take a look.

Yeah.

-We felt like it's a great thing to do because there is no borders for compassion.

-This is just gonna take a couple of more days and some TLC and some rest.

And you'll be able to release this little guy in a few days.

Fly off back into the wonderful blue yonder.

-And Cliff and Emily are really going to bring an impact in animal welfare of India.

Really, there will be an impact change in the way we handle animals.

The way we handle distressed animals actually started changing.

We started seeing the rescues in a more professional way after Cliff has come to India.

We take a lot of suggestions from Cliff and Emily and take up the rescue in a better way.

-That's it.

We leave tomorrow.

We don't get to work with you guys anymore.

Big hug.

That was amazing.

Thank you.

-Thank you so much.

Bye, Santoshi.

-Thank you for joining us.

-You guys are such an inspiration.

The stuff you've taught me, the climbing.

-Thank you so much.

-You guys are doing really amazing things here.

-Thank you.

-Thank you.

-I don't think we'll ever stop doing these trips, even if it's minorly inconvenient or it can be hard sometimes.

But my own relationship with my dad and getting to have these memories that are gonna last a lifetime -- I think that in itself, you know, any daughter would be so lucky to be able to say, you know, they get to go travel the world with their dad, like, saving animals' lives, you know?

And so that's something I think I'm always gonna want to do.

-Hey, guys!

-Hello.

-Oh, my gosh!

-Hi.

How are you?

-I'm Emily.

It's nice to meet you.

-Welcome.

-This is Heidi.

-Yeah.

Heidi!

-How are you?

Nice to see you.

This place looks amazing!

You're gonna find her a great home.

This is amazing.

She's already made friends.

♪♪ -I'm so happy she's going to the shelter.

It's gonna be amazing for her just to have a proper home away from the traffic, away from the noise, to be able to just chill and live out her days.

-Emily -- This is where I start crying.

Um, Emily's my little baby girl, right?

Her and I are two peas in the pod.

She's always been adventurous like me and was never afraid to try something new.

She's one of my best friends, and I'm just so proud of what she's become.

-All that we can do is our best.

And it, in a way, feels, like, hopeful and feels like we are doing the right thing.

At least for me, I feel like I am where I'm supposed to be.

-I love what I do, and every animal deserves a chance.

But I'm never gonna quit.

[ Goats bleating ] [ Laughs ] [ Down-tempo music plays ] [ Indistinct conversations ] ♪♪ ♪♪ -Yeah?

Love it?

-I love it.

Love it.

[ Barks ] Sorry.

Habit.

Sorry.

-[ Laughs ] Don't do that again!