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Vet Josh Davis Q&A from October 7th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's our veterinarian friend, Dr. Josh Davis. Dr. Davis is
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  Speaker 1: the proprietor of the, what's it called?
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  Speaker 2: Trilogy.
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  Speaker 1: Trilogy and Sandy, yep. Trilogy Veterinary Clinic in Sandy. He
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  Speaker 1: can answer questions for you about your dogs and cats.
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  Speaker 1: He's an expert on that sort of thing. So anything
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be up with your animal, please, you
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  Speaker 1: can call us.
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  Speaker 3: I'm curious, as seasons are changing, what are some things
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  Speaker 3: we need to look out for for our pets?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the big one coming up is, of course, Halloween,
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  Speaker 4: and we do see a lot of trouble with candy
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  Speaker 4: and treats and even decorations laying around and everything, so
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  Speaker 4: I think being really careful about that. And big ones
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  Speaker 4: are chocolate. We definitely don't want them eating that. But
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  Speaker 4: anything candy is just not great, and the wrapper is
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  Speaker 4: not great, all of that. So watching out for that
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  Speaker 4: definitely for Halloween time.
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  Speaker 1: And if you have a black cat, it might be
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  Speaker 1: best to keep them in.
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  Speaker 4: That is also not a bad idea, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see. Here's a text question. My black lap.
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  Speaker 3: Lab.
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  Speaker 2: Voice to text.
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  Speaker 1: Come on.
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  Speaker 5: My black lap German shepherd mix, Vanellope, has an ear infection.
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  Speaker 5: We've been using ear medicine for her, but when should
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  Speaker 5: I bring her in?
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  Speaker 4: It kind of depends on how the therapy is going.
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  Speaker 4: Ears are very difficult sometimes. And so if we're still
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  Speaker 4: not getting improvement on the medicine, it's worth being seen.
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  Speaker 4: And sometimes we have to take just more aggressive measures
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  Speaker 4: to try and get things under control.
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  Speaker 1: What is it when.
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  Speaker 5: When their ears are hot on the inside, you know,
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  Speaker 5: when you stick your finger in there and it's hotter
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  Speaker 5: than usual, does that mean anything?
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes, yeah, especially if there's any odor or any gunk
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  Speaker 4: coming out of there. Their ears will get really hot
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  Speaker 4: when they have ear infections, and it's painful, too. So
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  Speaker 4: if you've ever had one yourself, they're very painful.
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  Speaker 2: My groomer checks that all the time.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah. Just the heat?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, she says, yeah, you know, his ears are fine.
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  Speaker 1: And, you know.
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  Speaker 2: They're not hot?
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  Speaker 3: I've noticed, though, when my dog's ears sometimes get hot,
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  Speaker 3: I wonder the same thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: But also when they're just, if they get nervous or
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  Speaker 4: anxious or have been playing hard, they'll, you know, just
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  Speaker 4: like us, they'll get hot that way, too.
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  Speaker 5: Now, I've got a lot of questions. And, again, I
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  Speaker 5: wish you all would call in so we can ask
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  Speaker 5: follow-up questions.
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  Speaker 1: The number is 877-602-9696. I have a 35-year-old goldfish. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's start there.
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  Speaker 6: What?
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe that. I don't believe... That seems really old, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: That goldfish lasts that long. A koi, maybe.
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  Speaker 4: I think koi can live a long time.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and that's what.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's what... They're giant goldfish, kind of, yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Okay. See, again, we could have followed up.
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  Speaker 5: I have a 35-year-old goldfish that I would like to
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  Speaker 5: get rid of.
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  Speaker 1: Oh.
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  Speaker 2: Where and how do I do that?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, you can't flush a koi down the.
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  Speaker 1: Assuming that's what it is.
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  Speaker 6: I mean.
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  Speaker 4: I think we had this one a long time ago,
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  Speaker 4: but I think that unless they're ill or having problems
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  Speaker 4: that way, I would just try to rehome it if
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  Speaker 4: you could, rather than doing things like flushing them. But
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  Speaker 4: if it's ill, I know that you can find ways
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  Speaker 4: to euthanize them humanely as well.
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  Speaker 1: The average lifespan of koi between 25 and 35 years,
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  Speaker 1: though some may comfortably reach 50 years under ideal conditions.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, I think this is why you need to
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  Speaker 3: think long and hard about getting a pet that can
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  Speaker 3: live that long.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely, yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Some birds that live that long.
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  Speaker 4: Some of the birds, 70, 80 years sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, they can live a long time. I would check
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  Speaker 1: with landscapers. Call some landscaping, you know, big firms, big
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  Speaker 1: landscaping firms that do water features. The koi ponds and
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  Speaker 1: things like that. Yeah, specialize in water features. I bet
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  Speaker 1: somebody has a koi pond.
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  Speaker 4: If they're healthy, yeah, just find a different way to.
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  Speaker 4: If you can't have them, find some way to get
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  Speaker 4: rid of them, yeah.
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  Speaker 1: We got several people on the phone who want to
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  Speaker 1: talk to our veterinarian, Dr. Josh Davis.
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  Speaker 2: Let's begin with Chris. Hello, Chris.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, what's your question?
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  Speaker 8: My 10-year-old cat was recently diagnosed with EPI.
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  Speaker 1: What's your cat's name? Quasi. Quasi. And he was diagnosed
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  Speaker 1: with what?
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  Speaker 8: EPI, which is exocrine pancreatic insufficiency.
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  Speaker 1: Okay.
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  Speaker 8: So basically, she can't digest her food properly.
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  Speaker 9: Because her pancreas isn't producing the enzymes that she needs
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  Speaker 9: to break down food.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, gotcha. And your question is?
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  Speaker 8: Other than making sure she gets the enzymes, the enzyme supplement,
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  Speaker 8: what can I do to maximize her quality of life and,
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  Speaker 8: you know, help her live as long as possible?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good question. And that's actually I don't
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  Speaker 4: know that I've ever actually diagnosed that in a cat.
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  Speaker 4: It's much more common in dogs for sure.
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  Speaker 6: But.
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  Speaker 4: The biggest thing is being able to maintain their weight
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  Speaker 4: and also trying to not have just chronic diarrhea all
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  Speaker 4: the time. Those are big things there. So the enzyme
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  Speaker 4: is really important for that because you kind of pre-digest
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  Speaker 4: their food for them a little bit. So I think
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  Speaker 4: if you can keep all that under control, theoretically... Unless,
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  Speaker 4: you know, again, age-related things catch up with them. They
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  Speaker 4: should live a relatively normal life, but it's about keeping
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  Speaker 4: all of that managed for sure. So, you know, so
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  Speaker 4: using the enzyme with the right foods and giving the
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  Speaker 4: enzyme time to work too, that's one thing that's really important. But, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: that's really interesting. Yeah, it's much more common in dogs
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  Speaker 4: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right. There you go.
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  Speaker 4: All right, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 8: Have a great day, guys.
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  Speaker 1: All right, see you later.
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  Speaker 5: We just had a couple of lines drop, so 877-602-9696.
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  Speaker 5: If you're trying to get in, talk to Dr. Josh Davis.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Jesse. Hello, Jesse.
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  Speaker 1: Jesse, what kind of animal and what's the animal's name?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I actually am not calling for a question. I'm
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  Speaker 7: calling for the guy who texted about the goldfish.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
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  Speaker 7: So I would be interested in potentially taking the goldfish,
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  Speaker 7: depending on how big he is. I have a 65-gallon
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  Speaker 7: tank with goldfish. I've pet goldfish for probably a decade
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  Speaker 7: at this point.
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  Speaker 1: There you go.
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  Speaker 8: Cool.
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  Speaker 7: Yes, I love goldfish.
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  Speaker 1: I'm obsessed.
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  Speaker 7: So if you want to reach out to me, either
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  Speaker 7: at Pitchhacker and Scram, it's space underscore toast underscore cadet.
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  Speaker 7: And if he's too big for me to take, I
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  Speaker 7: have a few other resources or pet stores that may
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  Speaker 7: be willing to take him and rehome him.
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  Speaker 5: Well, hopefully this person is still listening. I've got their
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  Speaker 5: phone number right here.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe put them on hold and maybe this person can
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  Speaker 1: call that person.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Katie?
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  Speaker 7: Katie?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: No. Not you.
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  Speaker 2: You're Jesse.
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  Speaker 7: I am Jesse.
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  Speaker 5: Katie, I'm going to put Jesse on hold, and if
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  Speaker 5: you can get her contact info in case Goldfish person
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  Speaker 5: calls back.
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  Speaker 1: Let us know what happens, will you, Jesse? I will, absolutely.
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  Speaker 1: Those goldfish, they aren't good eating, are they?
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  Speaker 6: No.
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  Speaker 7: They're not, unless they're the crackers.
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  Speaker 6: They're the only ones I recommend.
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  Speaker 2: They're carp, essentially.
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  Speaker 1: All right, see you later.
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  Speaker 2: All right, hang on. They're pretty carp.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 5: For the fish, they can also check with a local
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  Speaker 5: fish store to see if they might be able to rehome.
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  Speaker 2: Rusty's Reefs in West Bountiful.
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  Speaker 1: Rusty's Reefs? Rusty's Reefs.
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  Speaker 2: Let's see.
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  Speaker 5: Besides poodles and the hairless Mexican dog breed, are there
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  Speaker 5: any other hypoallergenic dog breeds?
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  Speaker 3: Is that a thing or is that just a wish?
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  Speaker 1: You know, I hear they were trying to breed beagles.
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  Speaker 1: Have you heard about that? Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Beagles are, they use it for a lot of research
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  Speaker 4: things and testing things like that. So I would say
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  Speaker 4: there's no true 100% like hypoallergenic pet or animal, but
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  Speaker 4: there are some that you can do better with because
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  Speaker 4: it can be different things that people are allergic to
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  Speaker 4: as well. So sometimes the really short haired or slow
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  Speaker 4: growing hair types of pets can be better for some people,
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  Speaker 4: but there's still saliva. There's still dander. There's all the
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  Speaker 4: things you have to think about, but there are some
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  Speaker 4: that you can do better with sometimes.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Jennifer. Hello, Jennifer.
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  Speaker 6: Hey, good morning.
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  Speaker 9: Hi.
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  Speaker 1: What's Jennifer, what kind of animal do you have and
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  Speaker 1: what's its name?
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  Speaker 6: So, I have a five-year-old dog named Raven and a
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  Speaker 6: four-month-old cat named Gigi.
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  Speaker 1: Okay. And what's the question?
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  Speaker 7: So, I got our kitten.
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  Speaker 6: She's a new addition about a month ago. And they
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  Speaker 6: really haven't acclimated. They get along well enough. I guess
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  Speaker 6: they tolerate each other, but they haven't really bonded. So
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  Speaker 6: I'm just wondering what more I should be doing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that one.
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  Speaker 4: It's always tough when you introduce a newer and especially
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  Speaker 4: really young and rambunctious kittens tend to be pretty high
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  Speaker 4: energy and pretty crazy. And so I think that. Taking
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  Speaker 4: your time with it is going to be really important.
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  Speaker 4: Making sure they have space to not be around each
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  Speaker 4: other and always supervising when they're around each other because
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  Speaker 4: things can escalate over time. So you do have to
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  Speaker 4: watch out for that. And then trying to do things,
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  Speaker 4: I think calming things in the environment. And then there
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  Speaker 4: are great calming supplements. There's calming things for both. dogs
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  Speaker 4: and cats. And so trying those types of things may
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  Speaker 4: help too. And then as the kitten gets older and
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  Speaker 4: there's more time going by, once we're getting less and
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  Speaker 4: less rambunctious, they may I think tolerance is at least
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  Speaker 4: a minimum, but they don't always become best friends, which
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  Speaker 4: would be awesome. But I think as long as they're tolerant,
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  Speaker 4: nobody's getting in fights or getting hurt, and they can
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  Speaker 4: occupy the same space, I think that's always a good
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  Speaker 4: initial goal to have for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right. All right.
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  Speaker 2: Thanks, Jennifer.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Bye-bye.
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  Speaker 5: I'm against this because, as we all know, dogs and
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  Speaker 5: cats living together.
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  Speaker 2: Mass hysteria. Mass hysteria. Stephanie with our final question. Go ahead, Stephanie.
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  Speaker 6: Hi, everybody. Hi.
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  Speaker 9: So my cat has pica. He eats clothing.
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  Speaker 1: What's his name?
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  Speaker 2: Magic.
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  Speaker 1: Magic. Magic, okay. I have pika as well. It eats clothing.
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  Speaker 1: What do you eat? I pick things up off the
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  Speaker 1: floor no matter what it is, and I put them
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  Speaker 1: in my mouth.
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  Speaker 9: The infinite second rule.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So your cat eats pieces of clothing and what else?
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  Speaker 1: Does he actually swallow them?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he does.
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  Speaker 9: And we've had him since he was a kitten, and
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  Speaker 9: he's a COVID baby. So we've had him six years.
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  Speaker 9: He's never had a blockage. We're constantly watching him just
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  Speaker 9: in case. But we have tried, you know, Prozac. We've
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  Speaker 9: tried CBD. We've tried all different kinds of play therapy.
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  Speaker 9: And he just still keeps clothing. We have to keep
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  Speaker 9: him in.
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  Speaker 1: Is this hurting him or is it making your life
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  Speaker 1: miserable because he's eating up your clothing?
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  Speaker 9: You know, once we figured out that that's what was happening,
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  Speaker 9: we now just keep him out of the bedroom and
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  Speaker 9: the closet where there's any clothes. And in the rooms
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  Speaker 9: that he occupies, we don't leave any clothing out. And,
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  Speaker 9: you know, we make sure that we now know which
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  Speaker 9: fabrics he prefers.
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  Speaker 1: It's corduroy, isn't it? It's corduroy. Cats are crazy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, they're definitely crazy like that.
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  Speaker 8: And they.
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  Speaker 4: I have a cat who had a similar issue, but
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  Speaker 4: it was always, you know, string. String is always a
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  Speaker 4: favorite of cats. Clothing, I've seen exercise mat, Nerf darts,
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  Speaker 4: Nerf balls, all that kind of stuff. And so it
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  Speaker 4: sounds like to me you're really doing the recommended things
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  Speaker 4: for that. One is just keeping access to those things
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  Speaker 4: just as zero as possible. And it sounds like you're
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  Speaker 4: doing that. sometimes the behavior modifying things can work, the
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  Speaker 4: Prozacs or other things, but not always. And it sounds
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  Speaker 4: like in your case, that's true. But always finding ways
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  Speaker 4: to make sure cats are as enriched and possible in
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  Speaker 4: the environment, you know, lots of things to do, trees, scratchers,
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  Speaker 4: all that kind of stuff. And I'm just really trying
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  Speaker 4: to keep their focus elsewhere if you can. But When
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  Speaker 4: you exhaust, you know, all the options, I think that
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  Speaker 4: you are left with doing the avoidance and keeping those
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  Speaker 4: things out of reach as much as possible.
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  Speaker 1: I think you and your family members need to stop
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  Speaker 1: rolling around in catnip.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: And the risk is, of course, you know, obstruction, bowel obstruction.
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  Speaker 4: So I think it's awesome that you've been lucky this
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  Speaker 4: far and you're doing some intentional things. So I think
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  Speaker 4: that I would just really stick to that hardcore lifestyle.
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  Speaker 4: And just don't give an opportunity the best that you can.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Stephanie.
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  Speaker 1: There you go, Stephanie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, thank you. Bye-bye. That's all the time we have.
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  Speaker 3: You should go to TrilogyVetSandy.com. You can learn more about Dr.
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  Speaker 3: Davis' beautiful animal hospital.
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  Speaker 1: We just had our one-year open anniversary yesterday. Yeah, one
• 14:03
  Speaker 1: year yesterday. Time flies. I know, it really does. All right.
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  Speaker 1: We'll see you guys. Thank you very much, sir.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you.
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  Speaker 5: All right.