Y Fets, S4C

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Y Fets Dafydd Jones

A fascinating insight to the work of Aberystwyth vets

 

Popular series such as Love Island, First Dates and One Born Every Minute and S4C’s Y Salon  have used fixed rig cameras. But 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 starting on 7 June.

 

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

 

Ahead of the series, Dafydd Jones 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, we also meet some traditional domestic pets and farm animals – as well as a few more exotic creatures such as geckos and coatis.

 

Dafydd Jones 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.”

 

This can lead to a daily rollercoaster of emotions at the surgery. As well as treating animals, there will be sad occasions where treatment isn’t possible, as Dafydd Jones explains.

 

“The viewers will see that there are very sad occasions but also happy ones; we won’t give a false impression of what’s going on. Things go wrong with animals and every animal reaches the end of its life, but hopefully we can keep the animal happy. A large part of the work is making sure that the end of their life is painless too. It’s an inevitable part of the job.”

 

Y Fets

Thursday 7 June 8.00, S4C

English subtitles

Available on demand: s4c.cymru, BBC iPlayer and other platforms

A Boom Cymru production for S4C

Y Fets

Bywyd bob dydd y Fets

 

Mae cyfresi poblogaidd fel Love Island, First Dates a One Born Every Minute ac Y Salon ar S4C – wedi hen arfer â defnyddio camerâu rig sefydlog. Ond cyfres newydd Y Fets yw’r gyfres filfeddygol gyntaf yn y Gymraeg i ddefnyddio’r dechneg hon.

 

Yn y gyfres sy’n dechrau nos Iau, 7 Mehefin ar S4C, mae’r camerâu wedi’u gosod o amgylch milfeddygfa Milfeddygon Ystwyth yn Aberystwyth. Maen nhw wedi’u cuddio mewn mannau lle na fyddai dynion camera yn gallu cyrraedd – gan gyflwyno naws realistig ar gyfer y gyfres chwe phennod hon.

 

Pâr priod yw dau o’r perchnogion, Phil Thomas a Kate O’Sullivan, a’r ddau ohonyn nhw’n filfeddygon. Kate, sy’n enedigol o Ogledd Iwerddon ac sydd wedi dysgu Cymraeg, sy’n ymgymryd â holl lawdriniaethau mawr y practis. Mae Phil, sy’n frodor o Aberystwyth, wedi gweithio yn yr Alban a Chambodia yn hyfforddi milfeddygon. Cawn gwrdd â’r pâr o’r dechrau’n deg wrth i ni ddod i adnabod rhai o brif gymeriadau’r gyfres.

 

Cawn gwrdd hefyd â Dafydd Jones, un o bartneriaid y practis sy’n arbenigo mewn anifeiliaid fferm. Mae’n briod â Diane Heyder-Bruckner, sydd hefyd yn gweithio fel milfeddyg yn y practis. Cafodd hithau ei geni yn Sbaen a’i magu yn Ffrainc. A hithau’n amlieithog, mae ganddi hi a Dafydd ddau o blant bach sydd yn siarad Cymraeg a Ffrangeg yn unig.

 

Cawn flas ar holl agweddau gwaith y milfeddygon wrth i ni eu dilyn yn y filfeddygfa ac allan yn y gymuned, lle mae’r tymor wyna wedi dechrau. Wrth ddilyn y camerâu rig sefydlog, y camerâu sengl a’r drônau, rydyn ni’n gweld pob eiliad o gyffro a phrysurdeb gwaith y milfeddygon.

 

Ar drothwy’r gyfres, dywedodd Dafydd Jones, “Dyma’r tro cynta’ i mi wneud dim byd fel hyn ac roedd o’n gyffrous iawn. Chwarae teg, roedd y criw yn wych yn torri mewn i’r cefndir. Roedden ni’n anghofio bod y camerâu yna, dyna oedd y syniad, yn enwedig yn y feddygfa. Gweithiodd hynny’n dda, a gobeithio bod hynny’n dod drosodd yn y rhaglen bod ni ddim yn ymwybodol o beth oedd yn cael ei recordio.”

 

Drwy gydol y gyfres, cawn gwrdd hefyd ag anifeiliaid anwes ac anifeiliaid fferm traddodiadol – a hyd yn oed ambell anifail mwy ecsotig fel y geco a’r coati.

 

Ychwanegodd Dafydd Jones, “Ar yr ochr fferm, mae lot o waith y practis efo’r gwartheg, y defaid a’r ceffylau. O ran yr anifeiliaid anwes mae’r amrywiaeth yn parhau yn fan’no hefyd achos nid yn unig cŵn a chathod sydd, mae cwningod a phob math o bethau’n dod mewn – nadroedd ac adar er enghraifft. Eto, gobeithio bod hynny’n dod drosodd yn y gyfres, does dim dal be’ ddaw fewn o un funud i’r llall ar unrhyw ddiwrnod.”

Dafydd Jones

Ac fe all hynny arwain at bob math o emosiynau o ddydd i ddydd yn y feddygfa. Yn ogystal â rhoi gwellhad i anifeiliaid, fe fydd adegau trist pan na fydd hynny’n bosibl, fel yr eglura Dafydd Jones.

 

“Bydd y gwylwyr yn cael gweld bod adegau trist iawn ond adegau hapus iawn hefyd. Fyddwn ni ddim yn rhoi ffug-argraff i bobol o be’ sy’n mynd ymlaen. Mae pethau’n mynd o chwith efo anifeiliaid ac mae pob anifail yn cyrraedd diwedd ei oes a gobeithio y gallwn ni, yn y cyfamser, gadw’r anifail yn hapus. Rhan fawr o’r swydd yw gallu gwneud yn siŵr bod diwedd eu hoes nhw’n ddi-boen hefyd. Mae’n rhywbeth sy’n rhan annatod o’r swydd.”

 

Y Fets

Nos Iau 7 Mehefin 8.00, S4C

Isdeitlau Saesneg

Ar alw: s4c.cymru; BBC iPlayer a llwyfannau eraill

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