Dra. T: Clínica de Animais Exóticos

Unlike another review, I have seen three episodes so far and I have seen no repeated use of material. A lot of exotics that you don't usually get to see on the usual vet shows. Story telling can be a little slow and I would give it a higher rating if they edited it to shorter episodes.

I enjoy seeing the exotic pets that many vets don't treat, and having seen "Dr T" on the "Doctor K" show I was interested. The animals are still fascinating, and I appreciate the staff telling viewers about the need to be properly prepared before taking on an exotic pet, but after a few episodes "Dr T's" cutey-cute persona starts to grate. The constant baby talk in the too-loud, too-excited voice, the constant response to every new exotic as "Oh, I want one so bad", are bad enough, but then there's her habit? Of making every statement? Sound like a question? When she's explaining to the audience? This is one of the most annoying speech tics I've ever come across. I teach ESL, and I advise my students to watch her show to understand that making everything they say sound like a question will really annoy the examiner when they take their finals, and may count against them. They get it the first time they listen to her.

Having watched Dr. Thielen on Dr. K's show, I have always been impressed by her knowledge and care for the animals. In her own show, I have been further impressed by her humor and dedication. I found each episode to be entertaining, moving and educational. I certainly hope there are more episodes to come. I have gone back and watched more Dr. K after watching the first season of this show. She seems to have more knowledge than her age allows, and I am always amazed by how accurate her diagnoses are. I'm a fan!

I have watched my share of vet shows (Critter Fritters, Dr. Oakley, Dr. Pol, Love & Pets and Heartland Docs) and this one was the worst one of them all. She didn't know what she was doing half of the time, she would deliberately put animals in more discomfort than they were already in, whenever an animal was starting to flatline, she wouldn't treat it as an emergency (I remember watching Critter Fritters and they stopped everything they were doing, called everyone on deck and addressed the emergency immediately. She did none of these things, instead chose to walk to the table slowly, listen to to the heart beat, sigh, say the animal's breathing was shallow, sigh again and continue to listen until it eventually died). When an animal would die, she had very little bedside manner with the owners and wouldn't seem to care about the animal's passing. All of these occurred in ONE episode. I was finally over screaming at the TV and decided I couldn't even finish the first season.

I loved Her when she started with Dr. K but her ego got the best of her. She was so stinking full of herself. I was happy to hear she was leaving. I love watching the vet shows and I did watch some of her show but it was very awkward. THe staff etc was just badly done. Noone looked comfortable. It was bad and the worst of the vet shows. SHe is a smart girl and a great vet but not a fan of her on tv.