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starring tommy rettig as jeff miller

jan clayton as his mother ellen

george cleveland as gramps

and of course

come on

now sit down

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open your mouth

open your mouth it's not gonna kill ya

oh stop it you don't hear me crying i

gotta take medicine

are you gonna open your mouth or do i

have to lock you up in the barn

yeah what are you doing

giving her some medicine

what's the matter with her nothing open

your mouth

well if there's nothing to matter with

her why are you giving her medicine

what is this

open your mouth

jack now wait a minute what is this what

are you giving now you made me spill it

what is it

water

are you sure

of course i'm sure

well why are you giving her water this

way why can't you drink it out of the

bowl

there now that wasn't so bad was it

now would you mind answering me answer

you would why would you give her water

in the spoon obviously she doesn't like

it i'm practicing

practicing what i decided i was going to

be a vet like doc weaver so i gotta

practice

why don't you practice on a chicken i'm

sure lassie doesn't understand all this

hi miss miller hello porky how's your

mother no she's still coughing but she's

better oh that's good that's what don't

torment this poor dog so

which man are you do something wrong if

you're a kid you're always doing

something wrong golly they never want

you to learn anything how do they ever

expect you to grow up

my cop says he doesn't think i'll ever

grow up

what you got in a bottle medicine

medicine you sick no it's dog medicine

rashy sick

no animals don't have to be sick to get

medicine sometimes they gotta have a

tonic and this is a tonic

what's it do

well it makes them peppier and it helps

their appetite

we ought to give some to poke there's

nothing wrong with his appetite lift him

up

we don't need any medicine jeff it's

good for him lift him up

hold his mouth open

you sure about this jeff i told you

yesterday i'm gonna be a vet when i grow

up doc weaver loaned me a book and i've

been reading it i know all about these

things hold his mouth open

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nothing wrong with her as far as i can

see george and why don't she let her

melt down

i don't know

what do you mean you don't know

you're a vet ain't you if a cow don't

let her melt down something's got to be

wrong

morning milking was alrighty

how many more times you gonna ask me

that i'm just thinking

trouble is most people including you got

an idea doctrine animals don't take

anything

it takes a lot more thinking than doctor

than human beings

you've got a pain you can speak up and

say where it is cow can't do that

look all i'm asking you is how come

after three years milking her morning

and night winter and summer and she

don't let her melt down and she ain't

dry no

well then what's wrong with it

only thing i can think of george she

took a fright and her glands tied up

cows will do that well how can she take

a fright when she's out in the middle of

a pasture all day and not a living soul

around all right jeff

hi doc golly you're just the one i want

to see wash up jab is near time for

supper hug well i just want to show dr

split i put on vanity's leg how did he

break it we didn't break it i'm just

practicing who is it doc mighty

professional couldn't have done better

myself artists i'll run a long journey i

have no rush from george now we ain't

got no

time for a consultation with a fellow

veterinarian

yeah it's good work jeff good work

thanks doc

well now what are we going to do

nothing to do we pumped her and likely

she'll be all right by morning

doc weaver said the splint i put on

bandy's leg was real professional oh

that's wonderful

say what's graham so grumpy about oh

something's wrong with the cow

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i can't get over it

i just can't get over it

what can't you get over frank weaver

calls himself a vet

says the cow took a fright what

frightened her oh

he said she'd probably be all right in

the morning yeah might die during the

night for all i know

would you like a pie in here

i've had enough all right drink your

milk

too much booklet

that's the trouble everybody wants to do

things by a book

there's more to doctrine than what there

is in books

i get it

got to have a field production hello

yes birdie

oh good heavens i forgot all about it

oh yes of course

well

either one of the other

gramps if the cow did get frightened

what could you do to sort of make her

unfrightened oh how should i know i

ain't no vet dad please

yes brady

right we'll be ready to go in 15 minutes

fine bye

why is it every time i'm on the

telephone you have to shout well i got a

cow never mind never mind

i want you to change your shirt and put

on a tie we have to leave in 15 minutes

where are we going school board meeting

i forgot all about it

jeff you finish your milk honey

we're picking up matt and bertie are you

finished well i don't feel like going

out tonight

whether you feel like it or not we're

going now come on get a move on

yeah

we'll drop you off and you can play with

parking oh i i can't

why not

well

i got things to do

are you sure you feel all right i feel

fine

why couldn't porky come over here

well he can i suppose you better call

them though and have them pick us up

ellen where's mattai i can't find it

go on call

her i'm

coming you don't look frightened you

can't tell by looks cows have four

stomachs so when they get nervous it's

four times as bad boy i wish i had four

stomachs then i could eat four times as

much

how'd you frighten her

promise not to tell

cross my heart and hope to die

i was trying to look at her tonsils i

guess she got frightened

the cows have tonsils everybody has

tonsils

standing here ain't going to help much

what's to say in the book

i can't find anything about frightened

cows

i'm gonna try milking her maybe she's

all right now

okay nice bossy

nice bossy

you don't have to be frightened just

take it easy relax

hold her i got her

is anything coming nope

oh come on be a good cow just gonna get

plenty of trouble if you don't start

giving milk

maybe she understood me

nothing

did you try all the spickets there's

only four

try them all maybe it's like my house

sometimes the hot water doesn't run but

the cold water does

you better stop

she don't like it

not a draw what are we gonna do porky oh

gosh i don't know my cop says you can't

get blood out of a turnip cause you

can't get milk out of a frightening cow

maybe she's got a fever she feel hot to

you

oh hon is kind of supposed to feel

she feels hotter and lassy

maybe we ought to take her temperature

yeah it's me you better put her back in

the stall no i gotta get her fixed up

before gramps comes home go get the

thermometer what thermometer the one

hanging by the kitchen door go on

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you're gonna use this to take her

temperature

i'm gonna get my temperature taken with

nothing like this you're not a cow

i got it

her normal temperature is supposed to be

100. okay you hold her mouth open and

i'll put the thermometer in

me hold her mouth open sure it's easy

but if it's so easy then you do it i

gotta put the thermometer under her

tongue that's hard hold her mouth open

cows don't bite no what she got teeth

for for chillin

oh all right i'll hold her mouth open

you put the thermometer in but put it

under her tongue

nice bossy open your mouth come on put

it in

it take it out

oh now look what you did me i didn't do

nothing with you that's all never mind

go call doc weaver she's really gonna be

sick now and hurry up

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jeff do me a favor just wait until doc

weaver gets here he said he was out on a

call

yeah but mrs weaver said that she'd tell

him as soon as he came in that could be

10 hours i'm just doing what it says

here in the book

maybe it says in the book but

she looks like she's dying

cows always look like they're dying

she's right here to keep their bodies

warm and their heads cool that's just

what we're doing what does it say about

swallowing thermometers she wouldn't

have swallowed it if you would have put

it under a toner you were supposed to am

i supposed to know the cows eat

thermometers wait a minute here's

something

foreign objects cattle very frequently

pick up foreign objects in their grain

or forage such as nails pieces of baling

wire etc if the stress develops large

quantities of water should be given if

the animal refuses water resort to

drenching

go get a pill of water

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yes yes come on just water

she don't want it

oh then we got a drencher we got a what

adventure pump water down her throat i

saw doc weaver do it to domino once when

he had some kind of stomach trouble

the only thing is we haven't got a pump

jeff please leave her alone until doc

weaver gets here what do you mean leave

her alone she's got that thermometer

inside her but it don't seem to be

bothering her annie how can you tell you

can't see inside her stomach

now be quiet let me think

i'm sure glad you decided to be a vet

instead of a doctor for people or you'd

be sticking thermometers in my mouth and

pumping water down my throat i've got it

the tire pump

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you can say that again

you better tie the cow up first she's

liable not to like this where are you

gonna tire

lassie

come here

come on

hold that

she's not so dumb

lassie come here

now you hold on to that

she dropped it

come here

now you hold on to this

and don't let go of it if you know

what's good for you she knows what's

good for

nobody asked you

now hold it

okay now we're ready well i'm sure that

pokey isn't smart he was you'd

have them feeling the cows pulse or

something don't talk so much

okay now pull the plunger up to get the

pump full of water

push it down

easy

i'll pull it up again

okay

i've got to get the tip of this into the

side of the cow's mouth when i do you

push the plunger down not far down all

the way but don't push it till i get in

her mouth

move closer

okay you ready you ready watch out you

don't need it

you just pay attention to what you're

supposed to do

come on now open your mouth that's right

push it

suffering catfish you push it so hard

for we didn't tell me to push it soft

can't you figure anything out for

yourself look out i'll work the pump you

put the holes in her mouth

okay but don't blame me if she eats it

the same way she ate the thermometer she

won't if you put in the side of her

mouth like you're supposed to wait a

minute we gotta get the pump full of

water

take it out and pinch it

okay now put it back in

all right now put it in the side of her

mouth

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car coming

i guess stock weird

it's my fault i'm not a go

come on bobby

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thanks a lot matt call you tomorrow

birdie where are you jeff in the board

keep going pop

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what's going on in here

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it's all right grams i was just trying

to

jump in g hoster

what entire nation you're doing

well all right

what's this

well uh hi mom it's a nice bag gramps i

was just trying to ice bag you trying to

kill this cow and it enough she won't

give any milk dad you don't have to shop

shout i should shout to the house tops

the minute i get my back turn something

what's this doing here i was trying to

tell you gramps when them tell me

well i guess it was my fault that cow

wouldn't give milk i must have

frightened her when i was trying to look

at her tonsils but i was just practicing

like doc weaver told me somebody mention

my name

what are you doing here

got a call when i get a call i come i

didn't call you i did oh well porky did

really after she ate the thermometer

ate the what a thermometer

who ate a thermometer a cow

whoa hold on a minute you're going a

little fast for me i had a hard day

you got to spell things out

i suppose you start yet

well like i told gramps i must have

frightened the cow this afternoon while

i was trying to look at her tonsils but

i was just practicing like you told me

practicing

go ahead jeff

well tonight me and porky

porky and i

thought maybe we'd try to unfrighten her

putting ice bags on her head covering

her with blankets and lord knows what

else let him finish george go on jeff

well she felt hot so we tried to take

her temperature but she ate the

thermometer

where'd you get the thermometer the one

hanging next to the kitchen door

so after that i read in the book that if

a cow eats foreign objects he got a

drencher so we tried it with the bicycle

pump

you got no more sense than a day old

calf no i wouldn't say that george

seems to me like jeff here followed

standard procedure

except for the thermometer

let's get a look at him

oh my god

i just tried to do what it said in the

book

everybody wants to do what it says in

the book that's the way it is george

the man learns something doing it then

he puts it in a book so other people can

learn about it too

been that way long before you're born be

that way long after

now let's put a bridle on the talk and

see what's hailing this animal

if anything

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well temperature's down to normal what's

wrong with it

ever hear catabolisus

no

didn't think so it's pretty rare

i should have known it when i looked out

of this afternoon

only one way to treat it

keep her head cool her body warm and

drench her that's what i did yep

now i'll drench it some more jeff you'll

go out to my car and get me the syringe

you'll find it in the back right in the

car

that boy will make good bet someday

george all i want to know is she gonna

give milk

that's pretty much up to the cow

well looks like we pulled that one out

of the fire hey partner

what's catabol stock

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well no i was kind of hoping you

wouldn't ask that jeff

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but since you did i guess i gotta tell

you

catabolism is kind of like those pink

sugar pills that the doctors give to

some of the patients just to make them

think they're taking medicine no i

didn't tell your grandfather the cow had

it i just asked him if he ever heard of

it you mean it's nothing

well no not exactly

it's nothing for the cow but it's

something for your grandfather to hang

on to

but he'd have been mighty disappointed

if i said the cow was mailing

and you might have gotten a good tannin

thanks a lot doc

that's all right

but don't you go walking again before

you can crawl

it's a good rule to keep in mind

if you don't know what you're doing

don't do it

good night now

good night take everything for me i will

well good morning dear

where's gramps

in the barn

is the cow okay

i don't know here he comes now

morning sun dark wheel was right you're

gonna make a good bet someday the cow

gave eight quarts of milk

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you