I thought the show would flop ..now I am recognised in India

The Yorkshire Vet Peter Wright on programme's 10 years of success

- BY SAM ELLIOTT

IT has been 10 years since The Yorkshire Vet hit screens and won over two million viewers as three vets take on nail-biting rescue missions complete with northern charm.

Fans of the Channel 5 show have been taken on many emotional roller coasters over a decade including when horrified vet Peter Wright, 69, treated a bulldog injured while trying to have sex with a hedgehog.

Colleague Matt Jackson-Smith, 36, was given the grisly job of removing Gideon the goat's testicles, while Julian Norton, 53, helped Gary the donkey with a huge cyst on his penis.

All in a day's work for the trio. The show originated at Skeldale Veterinary Centre in Thirsk, first made famous by James Herriot and All Creatures Great and Small.

Animal dignity - or lack of - aside, no one is more stunned that such jobs could amass a global audience than Peter.

He says: "We were approached by a television production company to make a programme about a country vet in Yorkshire.