Calf pulling and puppy worming: rural vet Dr. Pol is reality TV's most unlikely star

He's plucked countless porcupine quills from the snouts of dogs, delivered calves in snowstorms and castrated a petite house cat and a 2-ton bull in the same day.

There isn't much that rural veterinarian Jan Pol, 75, hasn't seen or done in a half-century of practicing animal medicine in and around his Weidman, Mich., clinic.

Reindeer with a head cold? Check. Dog with a chronic erection? Check. But even weirder than that case of the bovine with a fifth leg is the twist his career has taken over the last seven years.

While most of Pol's peers have long since retired, the no-nonsense, Dutch American doctor who can fashion a goat's leg splint out of parts from an old apple barrel has become a reality TV star of global proportions.

Now in its 12th season - there are two seasons per year - Nat Geo Wild's "The Incredible Dr. Pol" surpassed the 100-episode mark