[2] Pol met his wife, Diane Dalrymple, when he was a foreign exchange student at Mayville High School in 1961.

[3] In 2013, Pol testified before the Michigan House of Representatives in favor of a bill to prohibit authorities from investigating reports of misconduct or allegations based upon information obtained from viewing the broadcast of a reality program but the bill died in committee.

[5] Pol was fined $500 in 2014 and had his license put on probation by the Michigan Board of Veterinary Medicine for not wearing proper surgical attire during treatment of a Boston terrier.

[6] A year later, the sentencing was overturned by the Michigan Court of Appeals, which reversed and remanded, holding inter alia that there was no competent evidence that there was a breach of the standard of care.

[7][8] After 24 seasons over 14 years, National Geographic stopped making new episodes of The Incredible Dr. Pol but continues to show reruns of the program.