A VETERINARY practice in Aberystwyth is the subject of a new TV series on S4C, and strategically placed cameras will offer viewers a fascinating insight to the work of both the vets and the animals they look after.

Series such as Love Island, First Dates and One Born Every Minute and S4C’s Y Salon have used fixed rig cameras before but, according to S4C, its new Thursday-night series Y Fets (The Vets) is the first Welsh-language veterinary series to use this technique.

Cameras have been strategically placed around Ystwyth Vets in Aberystwyth, in places camera operators couldn’t have reached, to film the six-part series which started on Thursday.

Two of the owners, married couple Phil and Kate, are also vets at the practice.

Kate, who is originally from Northern Ireland and has learned Welsh, undertakes all the practice’s major operations.

Phil, who is from Aberystwyth, has also worked in Scotland and Cambodia training vets.

We also meet Dafydd Jones, one of the partners in the practice who specialises in farm animals.

He’s married to Diane Heyder-Bruckner, another vet at the practice who was born in Spain and brought up in France.

A multilingual, she and Dafydd have two small children whose first and only languages are Welsh and French.

We’re given a taste of all aspects of the vets’ work as we follow them at the practice and out in the local community, where lambing season is underway.

The fixed rig cameras, single cameras and drones capture every second of the work of the busy vets.

Ahead of the series, Dafydd said: “This is the first time I’ve ever done anything like this but it was very exciting.

“Fair play, the crew were great in blending into the background.

“We’d forget the cameras were there, which was the idea, particularly in the surgery.

“It worked well, and hopefully it comes across in the programme that we weren’t aware of what was being recorded.”

Throughout the series, viewers will also meet some traditional domestic pets and farm animals – as well as a few more exotic creatures such as geckos and coatis.

Dafydd added: “On the farm side of things, a lot of the practice’s work is with cattle, sheep and horses.

“In terms of domestic pets, there is still variety there because it’s not just the cats and dogs, it’s also the rabbits and all sorts of other things coming in – from snakes to birds. Again, hopefully that comes across in the programme.

“You just can’t tell what will come in from one minute to the next.”

Y Fets is on Thursdays at 8pm on S4C, with English subtitles, and available on demand on s4c.cymru, BBC iPlayer and other platforms.

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