It's Dog Eat Dog in 'All Creatures Great and Small' Season 6
James explores the cutthroat world of Dog Racing in 'All Creatures Great & Small' as Tristan bonds with a sad parrot.
The original Season 6 penultimate episode of All Creatures Great and Small, “Fixes,” begins with James Herriot attempting to fix the pressing problem of Skeldale’s chaotic accounts even before he gets out of bed. Among the paperwork, he discovers a letter from the nearby Hensfield Dog Track, which is looking for a veterinarian to attend races – something Siegfried has ignored and discarded. But maybe this will bring in extra income and fix the practice’s shaky finances. What it does achieve is to open James’s eyes to a different sort of fixing.
(As usual, PBS will tack on the Christmas special as a special finale episode as the U.S. Season 6 finale.)
James asks Siegfried about the opening at Hensfield Dog Track and gets an earful of complaints about how animals are treated in both dog racing and horse racing. Despite Siegfried’s refusal to be involved, James arranges to visit the dog track that day. To make a good impression, he takes Siegfried’s precious Rover. (Siegfried has fallen out with the horse racing elites several times in the past; as he says so often, it’s the humans, not the animals, who are the problem.)
