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Joy is gowned and gloved up and exa up at Joy with scared, brown eyes

"That’s it, darling girl," Joy croons to the canine "These little ones are stuck, aren’t they?"

She frowns up at the owner "This is what happens when you let a dog get pregnant too young She’s not even a year old Her body isn’t developed enough to give birth"

Joy’s all business All doctor I’ her every ht up in all of it that I can’t move

"We need to do a C-section, Charity," she says to her nighttime tech

"Is that necessary?" the owner asks "I mean, it’ll be so expensive"

"Get her out of here," she says to Charity, who iery roo her to fuck off

See gently with one hand while the other continues to exa to let you take a nap while these babies are born You rest now"

"Do you need ot I was here "I’m an extra pair of hands I’ll do whatever you want"

"Actually, I ht need you," she says with a nod "Go ahead and wash your hands and suit and glove up I may need you to hold puppies"

"Jesus, that lady is a piece of work," Charity says when she hurries back into the rooet her"

"Thank you," Joy says as she reaches for an IV "We need to put her under and get these puppies out They’re stuck in the birth canal They’re just too big for her She’s too young for this"

"Pisses me off when people don’t listen," Charity h I scrub, pull on gloves and a surgical gown, and walk toward Joy, but stay back, just waiting to help if she needs me

I’ve never watched her in action before I knew she was an animal doctor, and that she’s an excellent one, but I’ve never seen her perfor a scalpel, already elbow-deep in the abdo

"Here’s puppy two," she says since the first puppy was born naturally Charity takes it, wraps it in a towel and begins to rub it vigorously "She’s keeping it warm," Joy informs me "Feels like there are four still in here"

"Six puppies?"

"That’s pretty small for a German Shepherd litter," she says as she pulls out another puppy, passing it to Charity again

"Here’s a towel," Charity says "They’ll start co In less than two o to rapping the sure they’re breathing

Which, thankfully, all of theether under a heating lamp while Joy takes care of the mama

"Her uterus is destroyed," Joy e to clean up some of the blood "Charity, I have to do a hysterectomy"

"That’ll piss the owner off," Charity says "She wanted her as a breeding dog"

"Idiot," Joy mutters "Jace, pass ery for the first time sinceon this ani doesn’t work out, you could be an OB/GYN," I suggest with a srin "Sutures, please"

I co her up and suturing the wound