It's Autumn, and the start of what will prove to be the most punishing year of training for the students have ever faced. With places on the course more in-demand than Oxbridge, only the very best of over four thousand applicants have made it past the selection process, but now the lucky twenty-five must show they've got what it takes to go all the way.

In springtime, the trainees shadow qualified inspectors; Georgie rescues two cats and a swan in jeopardy; Natalie helps police stamp out an illegal blood sport.

The Trainee RSPCA Inspectors have reached the halfway point in their extraordinary year of teaching, testing and on-the-job assessment. If they make it to the end, the students will become fully-fledge Inspectors, but should they fail at any point, they'll be off the course.

It's late spring, and the trainees are seven months into the year-long course that should see them graduate as RSPCA Inspectors at the end, but they'll only make it that far if they're able to impress tutors with their handling of real-life cases and pass the final round of make-or-break physical trials.

Debs deals with a potentially deadly snake; Rowena rushes to rescue a rabbit; Jess helps a boxer with a lump.

Becky helps an injured bird, Rowena investigates alleged cruelty to dogs; both Natalies help cats that need care.