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The animal comes in, and you have to say, I should have seen this one last week-no.”ĭr. Pol said, but is just part of his practice. “You don’t do that, even when they are not filming. That has nothing to do with the show, Dr. And then they come to the clinic, and that’s it.” And this is what we see now with cancer, especially,” he said, “because it happens so gradually, they have no idea. Why not? “Many people have no idea that their pet got sick. But we don’t dwell on it we don’t make it so obvious that it makes the owner feel bad or anything.” And sometimes, yes, you see it a little bit. We don’t want anybody to look bad, to be honest with you. “We don’t want to say, Okay, look at this. When does that happen? When “people are not taking care of the animal, and we see that way too much,” he said. Pol himself will sometimes keep cameras away. “The camera’s always in the way because the rooms are not that big.”Įven if a pet owner is willing to be filmed, Dr.
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Then they put the extra lights on in the exam room, and we just walk in and do our work,” he said. If someone agrees to have their vet visit filmed, their file is tagged so that he knows “the film crew is going to be there. Producers have started, in recent seasons, to follow-up with clients. “Now, what I like very much, is that they sometimes come back, a couple months later, and visit the owner and show how it is,” he said. “NatGeo WILD can have a lot of money, but they don’t pay for the cases. There is also no compensation, nor do pet owners receive their veterinary services for free. Producers will approach pet owners, but there is no pressure. “People can say yes or no-if it’s no, fine!” Dr. And he says, Hey, this is interesting, so let’s see if they want to be filmed.” “Probably one in 10 at the most,” he said, and that’s because “a lot of it is routine.” A producer, “Justin, is sitting their playing with Tater, the three-legged cat, and he’s watching what comes in. Only about 10 percent of the animals who come into the clinic are actually filmed for The Incredible Dr. It’s just his usual veterinary practice, which is filmed for about 100 hours a week for eight months every year. “Nothing is done specifically to make a show” “it’s not scripted it is real,” he said. “That format has stayed,” Dr. Pol told me. Don’t look at the camera, don’t do anything for the camera.” Pol said that Charles told him, “Dad, do your work.
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“Heck yes, it surprised me-it surprised everybody! How do you know when you make a hit show?” he said. “This show is watched by everybody-all kinds of life, all ages, big family show, and I think this is what is so fantastic.”Ī big part of why it works, he says, came from his son, Charles, who is a producer on the series and initially pitched his dad’s work as a reality TV show.ĭr. When I interviewed him earlier this year, Dr. Pol thinks about the show’s success, when he won’t let cameras film, why no-kill shelters can be problematic, and more. Watch an exclusive look at a season 13 scene, and read on to see what Dr. Pol are not on Netflix, but seasons 11 and 12 are on NatGeo’s site, and all seasons are on Amazon.) Season 13 will be a larger season than, with 13 episodes instead of the typical 10 episodes. Pol, is NatGeo WILD’s top-rated series, and before season 13 even debuts this weekend (NatGeo WILD, Saturdays at 9), it has already been renewed for season 14, which will air in January 2019.Īnnouncing the renewal earlier this year, NatGeo WILD said that the show “continues to break ratings records for the network” and “ranks in the top three most watched shows on ad-supported cable” among all viewers age 2 and up. A 76-year-old Michigan veterinarian, who immigrated from the Netherlands in the early 1970s, is now the biggest star on one cable television network.ĭr.