A lizard laying an egg suffers a prolapse, there's eye-watering surgery when vets perform a sex change on a tom cat, and a hedgehog undergoes plastic surgery after its face is ripped off in a cat attack. Plus, how a hamster trapped in a drain was airlifted to safety with a vacuum cleaner.

A pubescent pooch turns pensioner when he undergoes a hip replacement; a Harley Street dentist is called in to give an elephant a filling; and a tortoise belonging to Gavin and Stacey star Ruth Jones passes through a recycling plant and survives. Plus, a duck born with four legs.

Includes a cat that survived being mown down by a combine harvester and a budgie buried alive by a dog. Plus, how vets solved the mystery of a snoring horse and a hunt is launched for a leopard's missing testicle.