Teddy the shih-tzu cross with severely deformed front legs is brought in to see Professor Noel Fitzpatrick. He lives with 24-year-old Ellen who wants him to live a life without pain but it proves a challenge to come up with a surgical solution. Ollie, a five-year-old golden retriever, is referred to Fitzpatrick's for an operation to remove a tumour in his leg. And it's puppy love overload when a young couple bring in their four-month-old bulldog with a fractured elbow who wriggled from their arms.