Recently, my parents stopped by the clinic while I was filming The Incredible Dr. Pol, and they showed Dr. Pol how to use an atlatl. We filmed it, and NatGeo Wild turned this into a Behind-The-Scenes video and posted it on their website! Check out this video of Bob Berg and Cheryll Berg of Thunderbird […]
Year: 2013
Dr. Pol By The Numbers
A lot of people have asked me how much footage we shoot to make an episode of “The Incredible Dr. Pol,” and the answer I typically give them is: A LOT. Pol Veterinary Services is a real clinic, and there are often as many 100 cases a day, plus as many as seven or eight […]
Getting Dirty with Dr. Pol
…in which Dr. Pol teaches me how to rectally pregnancy check a dairy cow! NatGeo Wild recently posted this behind-the-scenes video from The Incredible Dr. Pol, where Doc and Charles teach a few of us crew members the art of sticking your entire arm into the rectum of a cow, in order to see how […]
Filming “The Incredible Dr. Pol” in Arctic Michigan, and taking the Pol’r Plunge
I recently took a job as a Field Producer on NatGeo Wild’s veterinarian series “The Incredible Dr. Pol,” and one of our very first shoots this season — in the middle of February, in icy cold Michigan — was at the Mount Pleasant Polar Plunge. This is an annual fundraiser for the Special Olympics, where […]