Name: Luke Gamble's Vet Adventures
Released: 2010-08-24T17:00:00.000Z

TV Show · Documentary

Veterinarian Luke Gamble ventures to places where animal welfare is low on the agenda and vets are often non-existent. While helping and saving as many animals as possible, Luke immerses himself into the culture of each country he visits.

2010 · 1h 1m

EPISODE 1

Zambia

Luke goes to stop the illegal practice of selling puppies on the streets. Helps an abused baboon, a pack of lions, finds the sex of infant cats and tests monkeys for tuberculosis. He investigates the death of buffaloes, and visits an elephant orphanage.
EPISODE 2

Costa Rica

Luke is outside his comfort zone as he travels the Central American rainforests helping a host of different animals. Luke must pass a local surgical exam before he is allowed to operate on castaway dogs.
EPISODE 3

Thailand

Luke aids a dog shelter that is desperate for veterinary help, visits a hill tribe village where he meets a monk who rescues chickens used for fighting, and helps elephants marred by land mines.
EPISODE 4

Malawi

Luke visits a country with hardly any vets where he faces the challenges of saving a starved dog with a new litter of pups, anesthetizing a leopard, and tracking in the bush, where he meets a troop of over familiar baboons!
EPISODE 5

Nepal

Luke goes to work helping neglected equine and battling an STD blighting many street dogs. After a visit with an injured steppe eagle, he heads up the mountain to help an isolated community, where he gets his hands on some hairy yaks.
EPISODE 6

Grenada

Luke visits the Caribbean adventures take him island hopping to help wild and domestic animals, including a sea turtle caught in a fisherman's net. One of his patients requires an unusual operation and Luke discovers a new use for buttons!