Can I have a
little look in your mouth?
My boy.
Whoa, whoa.
Oh, my God.
That is horrific, isn't it?
Wow.
It's like his whole mouth.
Has been taken over by barnacles
Hopefully going to be removing these warts,
like hot knife through butter,
slowly getting there.
But this is unbelievable.
Never seen anything like it
in Richmond, four year old French
bulldog Winston is coming in
with his owner Cara
Hi, Cara
Oh, hi.
Hi.
Hi Winston, hello champ
Winston is a popular visitor
to the clinic
especially with receptionist Kirsty
he's got a bit of an embarrassing
problem.
00:00:43:20 - 00:00:46:13 You might want to have a look at
00:00:46:20 - 00:00:47:18 It's not very nice.
00:00:47:18 - 00:00:50:16 Oh, you're not looking
very embarrassed
00:00:51:19 - 00:00:52:16 Perfectly gorgeous as always
All right.
Well, if you've got an embarrassing problem,
we should probably go in private
and talk about you
Come on, then.
All right.
You got him Cara.
That's it.
Good Boy
He's kind of everything,
really.
He makes us laugh every day,
and he's very popular,
and he's very sociable
and quite outgoing.
And, yeah, I love him to death.
So first thing's first, young man.
Embarrassing issue.
I'm guessing it's the back end
somewhere.
No, actually,
if you get a bit
closer to his face,
I think you'll probably smell
the problem
Oof!
Ooo my boy!
Oof, someone needs to
brush his teeth.
That is horrific.
How long has that been going on for?
Shocking breath
It's been going on
a few weeks now, and I've noticed
some lumps in his mouth
that's getting worse.
So I just thought it would be good
to have you to have a look at it.
Yeah, okay.
Can I have a little look
in your mouth, my boy?
Oh, whoa, whoa.
Oh, my God.
That is horrific, isn't it?
Wow.
It's like his whole mouth has been
taken over by barnacles
because he's got the bulldog chops
until we pulled them back
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we just didn't realize.
00:01:59:00 - 00:02:01:05 And they're even on this side
too look at that.
00:02:01:05 - 00:02:02:03 Oh, my God.
00:02:02:03 - 00:02:04:13 I've never seen anything like it
in my life, buddy.
When the vet says, Wow,
it must be pretty bad.
So basically what they see
is, is it's
the papillomavirus virus so the wart virus
that people have,
dogs can get it as well.
And generally,
it's only one or two.
You know,
you might get maybe five.
Yeah.
And after a few weeks,
it generally regresses.
They fall off and it goes away.
How long has this been going
on?
For about six weeks.
And he's such a tough
little dog, this guy.
So he wouldn't give much away.
But when you open his mouth,
I mean, that is so unbelievable
because one of those is actually
just going in right
between his molars,
which should just be
so uncomfortable.
It's not that unusual for young
dogs to have warts developed.
And they come and then they go
but this case is extreme
and incredibly unique
for a dog to have that many warts
present in his mouth.
It's nothing I've seen in the last
20 years.
We are going to have to perform
a procedure on you, my friend,
to try and debulk try and remove
some of them and then use
some medications to dampen down
the continued regrowth of more.
I think the best thing for us to do
is to have him in today,
give him an anesthetic
And then remove... harvest,
if you will, these barnacles
out of his mouth.
Yeah.
And start giving him
the comfort that he deserves.
Yeah.
No, that's great.
Thank you very much.
All right, then.
You want to say goodbye
to Mummy?
I probably wouldn't
give her a kiss, though,
because with that breath, she won't
thank you for it.
See you later.
Okay then.
Cara, I'll give you a call
once he's woken up.
Thanks very much.
Thanks Scott
Bye bye.
It's never nice.
You never want your dogs
to go under general anaesthetic,
especially the Bulldogs.
Who can have problems
with their breeding as it is.
00:03:49:00 - 00:03:51:05 And I'm hoping
that he's going to be alright.
00:03:51:05 - 00:03:52:11 He's in good hands,
00:03:52:11 - 00:03:55:06 and I'd be devastated
if anything happened to him.
So now
we're going to sort them out.
Yes, use a special bit of equipment.
Yes, we are.
You ready for this?
Wow.
Okay.
I've just never seen anything
like it.
No, I mean, I've seen one or two.
Yeah,
but that's.
That's like a colony.
Nathan's an experienced
nurse, has seen a lot, and together
we've worked on many cases,
but we're both quite shocked by how
severe Winston's wart problem is.
I am going to be removing these
warts by using electro cautery.
So basically a pen that cuts
and then coagulates
the blood at the same time.
So hopefully going to be removing
these warts like hot knife
through butter
That's going to take a while,
as well as making Winston
much more comfortable.
The surgery will also help
kickstart his immune system
to fight off the wart virus.
It's actually horrible.
Gross
poor boy
Just imagine how many of those
in between the top and the bottom teeth
So every time he chewed he would
have been biting on his own face.
What a brave soldier he's been.
The warts are coming away easily,
but there are so many of them.
It's going to be a slow process
slowly getting there.
But it's unbelievable
I've never seen anything like it
in Richmond, Scott is treating
a shocking infestation
of warts inside French bulldog
Winston's mouth
While the condition is not life
threatening,
it's likely at some stage Winston's
immune system was weakened,
allowing the warts
to multiply at an alarming rate.
Just make sure we've
completely cleared out this side
So can you put pressure on that?
So you need to use your fingers,
so push it down halfway.
And Scott is shocked is how far
the horrible growths have spread.
Some warts have gone
so far down his throat they're
actually hanging into his airway.
They're present in his soft
palate, which is in the back of your mouth.
And these warts then going right
into his larynx, his voice box
done.
I'm really happy with that.
It looks horrible now, but it will look a
lot better soon
it's been a really long procedure
way longer than I thought because of just
how many there were
and how extensively
they had spread.
So he'll take a little while
to recover.
But actually I think he's going
to feel a hell of a lot better
than when he first went under.
So it's a good result.
Winston will be started
on medication
to make sure the warts don't
grow back.
I know, I know.
Oh, poor boy.
For now, it's time
to sleep off the anesthetic
We're going to call your mummy.
Good boy.
I'm really looking forward
to seeing him, actually.
Hopefully he's not going to get too excited
I don't know
how sleepy is going to be,
but it'll be lovely to see him.
And he's normally super excited
even when I'm going away
for 5 minutes.
So [laughs] I'm sure he thinks I've left him
forever.
Hello, buddy.
So what's the first
thing you notice?
the smells gone
No smell
Woke up with a lovely fresh breath,
didn't you
He'll be a lot more comfortable.
Yeah, absolutely.
Look let me pass him to you
let me show you some of my handiwork.
So they were absolutely surrounding, smothering
the insides of his cheeks
they were under his tongue they were on his
hard palate.
And then also on his soft palate, that
you
can see