So that's fun to see her comments and reactions. She thinks she's really serious when she says something and she has just very dry sense of humor. And Maya, my middle daughter, is very deadpan, and she's always been like that. So when we watch it, we're kind of cracking up about, who said what. And so humor has been a good way and I love how we've put in a lot of humorous moments and that's fun. I think because there's no way you don't get attached to your patients, at least not for me. So when you have that up and down all day, you have to find coping mechanisms. So the next minute we could have a serious trauma and the next one is a health certificate for an animal to travel or routine work. We can have puppies in one minute and the next minute we have a senior dog who needs end-of-life care. It's kind of your lifeline when you have such an up and down rollercoaster of the day. Not because we don't feel bad for the animals or we don't take our jobs seriously. And that's why we have so much humor in what we do. She throws them in there and it lightens up the mood, which you need. But there's a lot of humor in there and I love how Nat Geo and specifically some of our editors like Gina Camp, who's just amazing, she just watches for this humor. I feel like we laugh the whole time because our show, of course, there's tense moments and some sad moments. Not all of them and all the time, but we all happen to be in the same place so we'll pull an episode and watch it. I feel like I'm completely off the hook for scrapbooking… But yeah, we sit down and watch them together. And I think pulls in a whole range of people now, which is a lot of fun.Īlex: Do you ever actually sit down and watch the show? Is it weird reliving some of these moments? Or you just mentioned, with your daughters, is it almost like home movies watching them grow up through the seasons?ĭr. So I think that whole dynamic of me as the vet, the family fun, a little bit of family tension sometimes, a little bit of silliness, how each of us approaches helping animals, that's been kind of cool to share. And I think a lot of people identify with that too, but see her still stick it out and she knows what she has to do for the animals. And then Maya is a little more, I wouldn't say squeamish, a little more reactive about some of the bodily fluids, some of the yucky parts of the veterinary medicine. Because Sierra is really into science and she just finished going to vet school herself, which is really cool. And I think the reactions are really fun with Sierra and Maya. Or kids in middle school, young women in high school they're all excited to watch Sierra and Maya helping out. And now all of a sudden I'm getting tons of fan mail from little kids who want to be a vet. But it's just been really neat for them to be a part of it because I think they pull in a lot of younger folks too. Sierra's now 24, Maya's 22 and Willow's 17, which blows people away if they've watched earlier seasons because they kind of get to see the girls grow up over eight years. I have three daughters, it’s a family business, they're all working with me. And I think also as we progressed in the season, my daughters. Are you aware of the wider reach your show has? Has it changed your life at all? Do you get fan mail from an audience that maybe wasn't watching Nat Geo WILD before?ĭr. So it's a cool season ten because it's a little bit of everything, which is fun.Īlex: Your audience recently expanded with the launch of Disney+. So we had lots of fun winter things, and then we got spring and then we got summer. We started in late February and got a bunch of winter stuff because it's still lots of snow and winter here until end of April. For season ten, is that they got a little bit of all seasons, three out of four, I'd say. A lot of my work is seasonal and it was really fun this year. Michelle Oakley: It's in chunks and it's pretty seasonal. Is the filming actually in season chunks or is it constant and then things get grouped into seasons for viewers?ĭr. Alex: Congratulations on ten seasons, that's a big milestone.
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