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Vet Q&A From March 25th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Hey pet honors, get your pet's teeth cleaned, and mention
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  Speaker 1: trilogyvetsandy dot com.
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  Speaker 2: It's doctor Josh Davis. He is the Trilogy Vet. He's
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  Speaker 2: the guy. He's the one who runs that joint, and.
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  Speaker 3: He's here to for free answer your questions about what
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  Speaker 3: may be ailing your puppies and your kiddies, your dogs
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  Speaker 3: and your cats.
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  Speaker 1: I've had Oakley, my puppy, having some issues lately, and
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  Speaker 1: doctor Davis and his whole staff actually been very helpful
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  Speaker 1: and trying to troubleshoot what's going on with her and
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  Speaker 1: following up and checking on her. And she's turned the corner.
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  Speaker 1: She's on the man, So thank you for taking good care.
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  Speaker 4: Absolutely, she's awesome. So we don't have any problem with that.
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  Speaker 5: Now you're saying that the increased heat is going to
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  Speaker 5: affect Oh yeah, I'm sure it will your pet's right now.
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  Speaker 2: Talk about that a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it can, especially this time of year. We're not
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  Speaker 4: really supposed to be in so yet, but it's kind
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  Speaker 4: of getting as hot as that or you know, early summer,
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  Speaker 4: and so it's always a good idea just to remember
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  Speaker 4: that heat can be really difficult on pets just in general.
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  Speaker 4: Pavement gets really hot, so watch their feet and then
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  Speaker 4: of course never leave them in your car like ever, ever, ever,
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  Speaker 4: don't do that because that's a really big safety issue.
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  Speaker 4: But sometimes they can just slow down a little bit,
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  Speaker 4: so maybe not eating as much, not eating as much,
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  Speaker 4: a little less active sometimes, but you know it always
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  Speaker 4: if you're worried, it's best just to get get looked at,
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  Speaker 4: get seen, and then we can decide if there's any
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  Speaker 4: major issues.
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  Speaker 1: Because like with Oakley, it's hard to tell because she's
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  Speaker 1: she's so damn happy and easy going. It's hard to
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  Speaker 1: tell when she's not feeling well. So you need someone
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  Speaker 1: like doctor Davis to examine.
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  Speaker 3: It's the kind of dog that goes, oh no, no,
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  Speaker 3: I'm fine, exactly fun okay, no, no, no, that's.
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  Speaker 2: Exactly what was going on. It's like you were there.
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  Speaker 2: It's like you were there. No, I'm okay.
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  Speaker 5: And then there's uh, it's parade season and it gets
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  Speaker 5: so hot, but people bring their dogs to parades and
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  Speaker 5: and and it's so hot on the on the tarmac,
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  Speaker 5: on the pavement.
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  Speaker 2: They don't think about that.
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  Speaker 5: They just think that their dogs toes are magically thick.
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  Speaker 2: Well, they're just to this kind of thing. They're animals.
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  Speaker 2: They'll be fine. No, No, keep that in mind.
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  Speaker 4: In this time of year especially, they they haven't been
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  Speaker 4: as active usually over the winter, so you know, you
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  Speaker 4: got to build those calluses back up and defeat. You
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  Speaker 4: have to be tough and bring water when you're doing
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  Speaker 4: events and things like that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it looks like we have somebody settling in there online.
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  Speaker 3: One Bridget is here, high Bridget. Hi, what your dogs make?
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  Speaker 6: The name was Daddy?
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  Speaker 2: Uh huh.
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  Speaker 6: She just died on Saturday.
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  Speaker 2: I'm sorry, No.
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  Speaker 6: That's okay, okay. So we thought it was vertigo. All
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  Speaker 6: signs led to vertigo, and then you know, her heart
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  Speaker 6: and her lungs were good, her blood work came back normal.
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  Speaker 6: They pulled out some boxtails out of her left ear.
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  Speaker 7: They were really deep.
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  Speaker 6: The vet got them out, but then she just died
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  Speaker 6: two days later. I'm just wondering if you think it
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  Speaker 6: was like a brain tumor or brain bleed, like, I
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  Speaker 6: just don't know what else it could have been.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that one gets.
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  Speaker 4: It's tricky sometimes with that. And it sounds like you
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  Speaker 4: did some work up and some diagnostics to try and
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  Speaker 4: rule out some of those other things, but vertigo. Depending
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  Speaker 4: on the severity, there are some diseases that cause that
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  Speaker 4: that aren't the life threatening, but there are some cases
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  Speaker 4: where they can get brain tumors or other things that
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  Speaker 4: can affect them as well. So it's the only way
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  Speaker 4: to truly know that kind of stuff, unfortunately, is to
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  Speaker 4: usually get like CT scans or MRI scans. You know,
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  Speaker 4: we can be suspicious, but it's hard to tell. And
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  Speaker 4: but those are tough situations for sure. And they ever
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  Speaker 4: do autopsies on animals, we can, Yeah, they're called knee
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  Speaker 4: cropsies for animals. But and sometimes you can find an
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  Speaker 4: answer that way too. It just depends. And even with
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  Speaker 4: healthy blood work and a healthy exam, there are still
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  Speaker 4: some things that just don't show up on blood work,
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  Speaker 4: And that's why it's tricky sometimes to diagnose cancers and
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  Speaker 4: other things, because bloodwork can be very normal with even
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  Speaker 4: severe disease sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: Sorry, sorry for your lost bridge.
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  Speaker 6: That's okay, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
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  Speaker 2: See you later.
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  Speaker 5: And those those fuck foxtail weeds they oh man, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: they can do a lot of damage.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I have a feeling We're gonna have a really
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  Speaker 4: bad season for those because it's so warm right now.
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  Speaker 4: And yeah, if you have those in your yard, they
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  Speaker 4: look kind of like a little wheat stock when they're
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  Speaker 4: growing and fresh, and then they dry out and just
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  Speaker 4: blow up everywhere, and they will get in any possible
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  Speaker 4: opening in your pet, pause the ears, the eyes, everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: They can even inhale them and get down in their lungs.
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  Speaker 4: They can be really nasty.
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  Speaker 5: So taking your dog up in the canyons or someplace
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  Speaker 5: like that, it has those.
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  Speaker 4: Be very careful, very careful. Check all their check their ears, everything.
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  Speaker 2: Wove We got here. Sophia, Hi, Sophia, how are you today?
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  Speaker 8: Ye?
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  Speaker 7: Good?
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  Speaker 8: Thank you?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 8: Coraline?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's the what's the problem?
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  Speaker 8: She's old, she's twelve thirteen years old. In the past years,
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  Speaker 8: so she's really started pacing a lot at night, and
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  Speaker 8: she gets up and down and walks up and down
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  Speaker 8: the hall and she just so I don't know if
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  Speaker 8: there's something we can do to help her, like relax
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  Speaker 8: and sleep, because she's she doesn't. I mean, she slips
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  Speaker 8: a lot during the day, but at night, I don't
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  Speaker 8: know what's up.
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  Speaker 1: With her because she's an old lady.
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  Speaker 3: That's what all grandma, grandma used to do that, that's
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  Speaker 3: what old lady humans do.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: There there's a couple of potentials I think for you.
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  Speaker 4: So one is that older dogs can get that cognitive
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  Speaker 4: dysfunction from being older, and sometimes you will see some
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  Speaker 4: behavior changes there. So I definitely urge you to if
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  Speaker 4: you just google that. There's kind of a short list
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  Speaker 4: of things, and if you start checking those boxes, then
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  Speaker 4: you might lean towards that type of thing. Also, older
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  Speaker 4: dogs can have pain from arthritis or other things, and
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  Speaker 4: pain can also change their behavior too a little bit.
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  Speaker 4: So if there's any of that going on, I think
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  Speaker 4: it's good to get checked out and then we can
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  Speaker 4: help you determine what we're dealing with and make sure
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  Speaker 4: we're managing pain. Make sure if there is some that
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  Speaker 4: cognitive decline, there are ways to try and manage that
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  Speaker 4: or mitigate that too.
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  Speaker 10: All right, Okay, all right, thank you, thank.
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  Speaker 2: You very much, Sophia. All right, you could try to
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  Speaker 2: turn it on the TV for the dog.
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  Speaker 3: We're back with doctor Josh Davis, and the phone lines
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  Speaker 3: are jam packed, so let's get right to questions for
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  Speaker 3: our veterinarian extraordinaire eight seven seven six two nine six
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  Speaker 3: nine six if you can get through and ask your ques.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Brett is here, Hi, Brett? What do you thought?
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  Speaker 2: What's your what's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 11: My dog's name is Scooby.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, and what's up?
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  Speaker 7: Well?
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  Speaker 11: Scooby loves to go outside, He loves to play, loves
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  Speaker 11: to go on walks. But whenever he comes back in
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  Speaker 11: after a walk or after we let him out to run,
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  Speaker 11: he smells so bad body odor or something, and it
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  Speaker 11: for quite some time. He wants to jump up and
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  Speaker 11: and love on you and everything, but he reeks, so hi,
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  Speaker 11: heaven't is he?
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  Speaker 2: Is he rolling in something while he's out there?
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  Speaker 11: Or is this no? This is no, It is entirely
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  Speaker 11: coming just from him.
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  Speaker 2: Is there such thing as doggy doggy? Yeah?
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  Speaker 11: Poof, poof spray. We've tried all kinds of different things
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  Speaker 11: and it's just all right, like spraying perfume on a turn.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, what do you got the dog?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah? I think we had this question a while back too.
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  Speaker 4: But so some of the things that can go on
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  Speaker 4: with them is dogs just like us, They do have
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  Speaker 4: oils in their skin and and different skin and hair
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  Speaker 4: textures and everything there. So that's one possibility is that
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  Speaker 4: they're just getting some build up and when they get
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  Speaker 4: warmed up or heated up, you notice that more so,
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  Speaker 4: I think that making sure to do good routine bathing
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  Speaker 4: and sometimes even with medicated shampoos if they do have
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  Speaker 4: any yeast or oils or any like excessive oils going on.
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  Speaker 4: Also making sure it's not something like the anal glands,
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  Speaker 4: because some dogs, when they get really excited, they can
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  Speaker 4: have some expression of that and that can have a
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  Speaker 4: bad odor.
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  Speaker 2: To sure, happens to me, I.
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  Speaker 4: Know, yeah, and it's it's just it's probably some of
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  Speaker 4: that body odor or oil or just build up. So
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  Speaker 4: getting dead skin cells and oil, keeping that stuff low
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  Speaker 4: can help with some of that odor too.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, try that, Okay, all right, see yeah, all right,
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  Speaker 9: bright bread, it's happy with our I don't know what
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  Speaker 9: he wants.
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  Speaker 2: Natalie, Hi, Natalie, how are you today?
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  Speaker 7: Hi? Hi?
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  Speaker 12: I'm all okay, how are you good?
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  Speaker 2: What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 6: Oh?
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  Speaker 12: His name was Donnie. He passed away like about a
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  Speaker 12: week ago.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, No, I was just.
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  Speaker 9: Curious. He had.
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  Speaker 12: Cataracts real bad and so like he was getting to
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  Speaker 12: the point where he couldn't see. He was sixteen years old,
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  Speaker 12: and I was just curious if dogs could get like
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  Speaker 12: a form of dementia.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, dogs definitely can get the cognitive decline as they
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  Speaker 4: get older, So that does affect especially a dog that age.
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  Speaker 4: That's certainly possible. Also, when they get hearing loss or
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  Speaker 4: vision loss through cataracts or other things, then they also
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  Speaker 4: obviously they have to figure that out and figure out
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  Speaker 4: a new routine. So sometimes that can greatly alter their behavior.
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  Speaker 4: On top of when they're old, other things are going
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  Speaker 4: on too, So I think any of that's definitely a possibility.
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  Speaker 4: And cataracts can be tough, you know, it's just it
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  Speaker 4: hurts their vision. But for some dogs it can also
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  Speaker 4: cause other problems and even pain sometimes depending on what happened.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, he was in a lot of pain.
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  Speaker 2: Sorry, Natalie, Yeah.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, it was sad.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, well, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks. Let's go to leah Ai Leiah. What's your old
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  Speaker 2: dog's name.
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  Speaker 10: You're welcome to old dog Chat name. It's Vega.
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  Speaker 8: Vega.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, So, Vega is about fifteen years old, and she
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  Speaker 10: has started leaking urine at night, not during the day
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  Speaker 10: unless she like goes into a deep sleep. But she
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  Speaker 10: absolutely hates wearing the diapers. It's like, I want to say,
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  Speaker 10: it's pride. She doesn't want to wear a diaper.
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  Speaker 2: I didn't like it either, but it really helps.
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  Speaker 10: Exactly. But I'm wondering if there's anything medically that can
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  Speaker 10: be done to that, or if it's just she's just old.
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  Speaker 10: And this is where we are.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So it sounds like what you're dealing with is
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  Speaker 4: what's called urinary and continent and it does tend to
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  Speaker 4: happen with older dogs, and we see it more often
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  Speaker 4: in dogs that are spade as well. So the biggest
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  Speaker 4: thing you want to do is rule out that there's
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  Speaker 4: any urinary tract issues or anything else going on. And
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  Speaker 4: if all that's clear, then there are medications to help
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  Speaker 4: with that. There's a couple different options for that, and
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  Speaker 4: so I would get it, make sure to get the
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  Speaker 4: ear and tested, make sure there's no problems there, and
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  Speaker 4: then get started on something like that because wearing the
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  Speaker 4: diapers it does make them more predisposed to urinary tract
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  Speaker 4: infections because you can trap moisture, so it's it's convenient
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  Speaker 4: to minimize the messes, but also you can cause problems
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  Speaker 4: for them. Also can irritate the skin and cause skin
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  Speaker 4: infections too, so i'd.
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  Speaker 2: Be careful with that.
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  Speaker 4: And then once you get started on meds, most dogs
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  Speaker 4: do quite well with that.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go. Oh, just after your vat we
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  Speaker 2: lost her. Hopefully she heard all of that.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, Lena listening to the radio. Lena, you were told
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  Speaker 5: not to listen to the radio with that. And then
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  Speaker 5: get all right, Rick is here?
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  Speaker 11: Hi?
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  Speaker 2: Rick rj RJ.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah J right.
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  Speaker 7: Didn't know if it was Rick or arg.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: So I have a five year old husky named Coda,
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  Speaker 7: and he's doing what all husky's doing, this brain and
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  Speaker 7: blowing his coat, and he's incredibly madd at around his tail,
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  Speaker 7: but he won't let us touch it.
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  Speaker 2: Well, do you blame him with four of us?
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  Speaker 7: No, not really, but it takes like four of us
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  Speaker 7: to pin him down. And I'm just wondering if you
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  Speaker 7: have any other suggestions, I mean any I thought about
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  Speaker 7: doing like a Bene girl to calm him down or something,
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  Speaker 7: but I don't know if that's a good idea or not.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The when they get especially husky's, they're just notorious for
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  Speaker 4: not liking to be messed with. For a lot of things,
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  Speaker 4: whether it's nail trems or brushing or whatever. So in
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  Speaker 4: those situations, the more you pile onto him, you tend
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  Speaker 4: to make it worse, and then they're going to be
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  Speaker 4: worse in the future when they see that stuff coming.
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  Speaker 4: So usually what we'll recommend is to do some mild
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  Speaker 4: to moderate amounts of sedatives and that can just help
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  Speaker 4: calm them a little bit and help with that. Benadryl
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  Speaker 4: certainly probably won't hurt anything, but for really high stress
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  Speaker 4: or high anxiety, it also may not be enough to
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  Speaker 4: accomplish that your goal with that, and if they're really resistant,
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  Speaker 4: when the hair gets really madded, sometimes that's painful too,
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  Speaker 4: so that's also part of why some dogs don't like that.
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  Speaker 2: So I guess try the bend a drill and see
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  Speaker 2: if that works, and then you.
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  Speaker 4: Can also just get a scene and get on some
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  Speaker 4: medications that will do better. Usually we use for dogs
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  Speaker 4: medications called trazodone or gabapentin or sometimes a combination of those,
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  Speaker 4: and our goal is just to take the edge off
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  Speaker 4: enough where they'll tolerate it without freaking out about it
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  Speaker 4: and having four people holding them down, because that's just
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  Speaker 4: never you're never gonna win situation.
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  Speaker 2: That's what they had to do with me.
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  Speaker 1: And you agree with all the all of these things
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  Speaker 1: have happened to you.
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  Speaker 2: You may have.
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  Speaker 4: It's a old dog day.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting rough. I got matted around my tail and
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  Speaker 2: it was terrible. It's not a ray, Hey, Ray, good morning. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 11: First of them? And what's seven year old German shepherd?
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  Speaker 2: What's your question?
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  Speaker 7: So she keeps getting really dry skin on the top of
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  Speaker 7: her ears, and my wife will treat it with different
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  Speaker 7: moisturizers and it seems to.
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  Speaker 11: Go away, but as soon as we stop, it comes
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  Speaker 11: right back.
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  Speaker 2: That's never happened to me.
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  Speaker 7: Never.
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  Speaker 2: No, that's the one thing that is okay.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And those ear margin we kind of lump those
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  Speaker 4: into a category called just ear margin dermatosis, and they
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  Speaker 4: can happen for a variety of reasons. But making sure
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  Speaker 4: that there's no other issues on the skin can be
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  Speaker 4: important because sometimes the ears are where a problem manifest
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  Speaker 4: but it can be other areas, and so if there's
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  Speaker 4: any shaking, any scratching, we want to make sure there's
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  Speaker 4: no ear infections, and then also just keeping the skin conditioned.
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  Speaker 4: So some dogs really benefit from fatty acids like the
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  Speaker 4: fish oil types of supplements. Doing topical moisturizers is totally fine.
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  Speaker 4: Bagballe is one that's really good for like dry chapped areas,
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  Speaker 4: and you can get that at IFAs and things like that.
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  Speaker 4: And then some dogs even benefit from actual Durham diets
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  Speaker 4: to help with the undercode and help with the skin
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  Speaker 4: conditioning and and in some cases we have other strange
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  Speaker 4: things where we might need supplements or different medications. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, as long as they're not cracking and bleeding
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  Speaker 4: or super itchy, you can start with basic things for sure.
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  Speaker 11: All right, I appreciate it, all right, all right, get
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  Speaker 11: it very much.
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  Speaker 2: All right. I think we have Lena back, Hi, Lina, Yeah, Lena,
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  Speaker 2: what did you hear?
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  Speaker 6: What did I hear?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Never mind.
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  Speaker 6: I have a cat named Archie and he's some teen
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  Speaker 6: years old almost he does this weird thing. Yeah, he's
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  Speaker 6: overall pretty like he seems like he's good, like, he
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  Speaker 6: does sleep a lot more, but he does the scene
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  Speaker 6: where he obsessively meows, like he'll jump on the counter
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  Speaker 6: in the morning and he just obsessively meals. And I
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  Speaker 6: mean I've said him he does like to jump on
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  Speaker 6: the table and like eat food of off of our plates.
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  Speaker 6: Now he didn't used to do that before. He's super hungry. Maybe,
• 16:28
  Speaker 6: I don't know.
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: Rude.
• 16:30
  Speaker 4: Yeah, with older cats, especially if you see behavior changes
• 16:35
  Speaker 4: like that, there are definitely a couple of older cat
• 16:38
  Speaker 4: diseases I would want to rule out because vocalization or
• 16:43
  Speaker 4: behavior change increased appetite for old cats. One of the
• 16:47
  Speaker 4: more common reasons for that is a disease called hyper thyroidism,
• 16:51
  Speaker 4: where their thyroid hormone can get out of control and
• 16:53
  Speaker 4: it will make them hungry, it will make them vocal
• 16:56
  Speaker 4: usually it ups their metabolism, so they get kind of
• 16:58
  Speaker 4: wild and crazy and in cases, Uh, so that's one
• 17:01
  Speaker 4: thing i'd want to rule out. And then also if
• 17:04
  Speaker 4: if you had a kind of an overweight or obese
• 17:06
  Speaker 4: cat and they're super hungry all the time and doing
• 17:09
  Speaker 4: all that, sometimes diabetes can be a factor too, so
• 17:13
  Speaker 4: i'd want to check that stuff out.
• 17:15
  Speaker 6: Yes, actually I have noticed, like he's lost weight, so
• 17:19
  Speaker 6: he eats more, but he's lost weight.
• 17:21
  Speaker 4: So I would get blood work done for sure on
• 17:25
  Speaker 4: that one.
• 17:25
  Speaker 5: All right, all right, all right, you know, and we're
• 17:29
  Speaker 5: out of time. Oh sorry, Brodie, try to tell you brody.
• 17:33
  Speaker 2: We'll get to you. We'll get to you next time.
• 17:35
  Speaker 4: We're back next time, all right, see you guys very much.
• 17:41
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