
Second Chance Pets
Super playful Huck needs a front leg prosthetic and Fudge, a miniature Doberman Pincher, needs a brace to help fend off old age.

Super playful Huck needs a front leg prosthetic and Fudge, a miniature Doberman Pincher, needs a brace to help fend off old age.

Leo needs a front leg brace to be able to walk, while champion show dog, Sergio, needs a knee brace to get back to his career.

Chevy is an ideal candidate for a brace, while Toby participates in My Pet's Brace's first-ever pressure mat study, measuring how much weight dogs can put on their legs after receiving braces or prosthetics.

Frost bite caused Paddington to lose both front paws, so new prosthetics get him up and about. Chooch is a police dog needing a brace to get back to work patrolling the streets of Pittsburgh.

Buddy, rescued in Pennsylvania after coming from Kentucky, receives a brace to help him walk again. Rigby, still recovering from a torn Achilles, uses a leg brace to speed up her healing process.

Cleo, an affectionate pup from Delaware, needs a brace to support her injured back leg. Hannibull, a unique pit bull cadaver dog, receives a custom brace that allows him to continue his important work.

Teddy Bear, a Samoyed from Maine, gets a prosthetic for a missing rear paw and Lola Gray learns how to swim again after getting a brace.

The North Shore Animal League must tame and groom Shooter, a wild dog discovered in a junkyard in the Bronx, so that he may graduate from junkyard dog to family pet.

Charley, crippled by Parvo, may never walk again. Charley's nurse uses everything she can to get Charley back to his family, including play therapy, exercise, and a souped-up walker.

There are senses we share with most animals, but what about those senses that human is equipped with? Infrared light, electromagnetic waves and ultrasound, are all found within a spectrum of sensory information that just passes by ordinary humans.

The young Echo travels with her family, keeping close to her mother, from whom she absorbs lessons passed down through generations.

For Echo and her family, the weeks after the rains are good times. They have time to take a mud bath together. Baby Evaline is a handful, and new mother Elettra still hasn't learnt to stay close to her.

In Echo's family, her niece Elettra is a mother for the first time. She has a lot to learn. Three-day-old baby Evaline finds the going tough, as her mother fails to watch over her, and the others send the adventurous youngster packing.

Zamir and his new troop raid a jewelry store and break into a hotel store room leading to a run-in with little Kavi, who becomes the troop's latest recruit.

A diverse group of distantly related families and species sharing a few common traits, marine invertebrates include polyps, octopus and jellyfish.

Rodents exist everywhere on earth making up over 40% of all mammal species. This episode takes a look at the muroid family of rodents as well as beavers and squirrels.

From the deserts to the densest jungles, one group of mammals can be found unlike all the rest. A few predatory but many carnivorous, marsupials include the red kangaroo to the tiny mouse.

Our closest relatives, primates are a diverse group of highly intelligent mammals. Over 440 species, with varied social structures and behaviours, explore chimpanzee's, gorillas, orangutan and more.

Once highly endangered but now flourishing thanks to a concentrated effort to preserve their natural habitat, these ancient creatures continue to stalk waters as one of the last remaining predators on earth.

Over a hundred people are killed every year by enraged elephants in India alone… with an additional 400 worldwide, though often seen as a symbol for calmness, patience and exotic nobility these true giants of the wild will need protection in the years to come.