The doctors all want to be the one who goes to a vet conference in San Diego; Dr. Ross treats a young kinkajou, while Dr. Blue treats a Min Pin's drop-dead breath; Dr. Lavigne suspects a cat has a contagious disease.

Dr. Blue flies into action when a rottweiler in labor gets rushed into the hospital with two puppies stuck inside her; the three vets grab the reins and their cowboy hats to ride horseback into town for Houston's biggest rodeo parade.

The doctors visit their alma mater for a class reunion and become professors for a day; a shih tzu is rushed to the clinic after swallowing a large piece of rawhide, while the owner of a pit bull with a deformed leg must consider drastic surgery.