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Whether to Spay/Neuter or Not with CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: is doctor Marty Greer, recognized as Veterinarian of the Year
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  Speaker 1: from the Westminster Kennel Club. Doctor. How you doing this?
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  Speaker 2: I'm great? Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's good to talk to you. And we've got a
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  Speaker 1: great conversation ahead about about unwanted pregnancy and pets and
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  Speaker 1: talk about the importance and reasons to spay your dog,
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  Speaker 1: and uh, we'll talk about all of that. A couple
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  Speaker 1: of things though, I want to I want to mention
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  Speaker 1: email we're going to touch on in just a moment,
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  Speaker 1: but uh, the phone calls are always are always best.
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  Speaker 1: And Doctor, before we get to get talking about this
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  Speaker 1: week's conversation, let's talk about Checkout Veterinary and about the
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  Speaker 1: clinic itself. And you guys do such an amazing job
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  Speaker 1: treating and taking care of pets. And it's I mentioned
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  Speaker 2: Wasn't it You bet it's really about the pets, right,
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  Speaker 2: It shouldn't be about us. Well, I mean, you know, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: So we really focus on the pets comfort and there's
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  Speaker 2: been a whole movement toward low stress and I fear
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  Speaker 2: free and all these buzzwords that go along with making
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  Speaker 2: the visits more comfortable, and some of them include giving
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  Speaker 2: treats to the pets, which we've done for decades. This
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  Speaker 2: isn't new for us, and for most veterinarians. It may
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  Speaker 2: include medications before the appointment so that the pet is
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  Speaker 2: more comfortable dogs certainly, and cats even more importantly, because
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  Speaker 2: a lot of cats get very stressed out by the
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  Speaker 2: you Veterinar's here in your car like that just makes sense?
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  Speaker 1: It does, And it's such a revolutionary design. And I
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  Speaker 1: more online checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Before we get into the conversation about to
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  Speaker 1: spay or not to spay emails and we do get
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  Speaker 1: emails from time to time from folks, and Christy took
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  Speaker 1: the time to email she says, good morning, Doctor Greer
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  Speaker 1: and Sean big fan of the show, particularly appreciate Doctor
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  Speaker 1: Greer's advice on the importance of getting cats and pairs.
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  Speaker 1: I'm writing today with a sat update and a question.
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  Speaker 1: We recently lost one of our two fifteen year old kittens.
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  Speaker 1: She was a litter maate to our remaining cat and
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  Speaker 1: we've had them since they were little. I suspect her
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  Speaker 1: life was shortened by the amount of time she spent
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  Speaker 1: outside as her sister, who always stayed strictly indoors. As
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  Speaker 1: an excellent health Our remaining cat is doing well and
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  Speaker 1: it has a very friend relationship with the dog and
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  Speaker 1: they frequently cuddle with each other. My main question is
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  Speaker 1: should we consider adding a second kitten now or should
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  Speaker 1: we just stick with our one remaining senior cat. Want
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  Speaker 1: to ensure that she has the best quality of life,
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  Speaker 1: and wondering if a new kitten might be too much
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  Speaker 1: disruption for her. At this age, even though she is
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  Speaker 1: currently bonded with the dog. Thank you so much for
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  Speaker 1: taking the time to read this, and that email is
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  Speaker 1: from Christy and that well spelled out Christy, I will
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  Speaker 1: give you credit very perfect details on that, doctor Greer.
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  Speaker 1: What's kind of the advice and guidance on a situation.
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  Speaker 2: Like that well, as always so it will depend on
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  Speaker 2: whether the other cat is in really good health or
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  Speaker 2: if there's some kind of health problem that would start
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  Speaker 2: to just signol a decline. So before when you bring
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  Speaker 2: into the cat into the house, I would go into
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  Speaker 2: your veterinary clinic have a full senior panel done, which
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  Speaker 2: would include a blood count, a check for the kidneys,
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  Speaker 2: check on the livers, see the thyroid function. A lot
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  Speaker 2: of cats in this stage category are starting to show
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  Speaker 2: signs of early kidney disease. Diabetes or thyroid diseases are
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  Speaker 2: really common, and I wouldn't want to bring a kitten
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  Speaker 2: into the house if it was going to stress this CAP.
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  Speaker 2: So that's first and foremost where I would start is
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  Speaker 2: with a blood panel and probably your analysis, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: a really complete work up on the CAP. If the
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  Speaker 2: cat seems incredibly healthy and everything else seems great. Then
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  Speaker 2: you may want to consider bringing two kittens into the house.
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  Speaker 2: And I know this sounds a little weird, but the
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  Speaker 2: two kittens can keep each other company, still be interacting
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  Speaker 2: with her, but not end up in another situation several
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  Speaker 2: years from now. Say she gets to be eighteen and
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  Speaker 2: then she starts to fail. What happens to that other cat?
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  Speaker 2: And then can you introduce a new cat into that household.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of cats are not really social with other
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  Speaker 2: cats that they don't know when they get into that
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  Speaker 2: age category. They've grown up in families. As you already
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  Speaker 2: have experienced, that two cats family is a really effective
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  Speaker 2: tool of having the cats really be social. So if
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  Speaker 2: she's healthy and everything else looks great, I'd probably get
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  Speaker 2: two kittens. If she doesn't look healthy, if there's early
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  Speaker 2: kidney disease, if you've got to put her on a
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  Speaker 2: particular diet because of that, if you've got medications to
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  Speaker 2: start administering, I'd probably just leave her to be happy
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  Speaker 2: with the dog in her life. And then once that
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  Speaker 2: cat fails, then look at another pair of kittens.
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  Speaker 1: What about it? And I love the insight on that doctor,
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  Speaker 1: and I love getting a chance to and I know
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  Speaker 1: Christy probably really appreciates that too. Is get your perspective
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  Speaker 1: on that. Can dogs and cats, you know, dogs and
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  Speaker 1: cats living together? I mean, can they can? Can they
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  Speaker 1: perform a bond as well? Is that something that that
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  Speaker 1: in this situation are they are? Is it a similar
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  Speaker 1: type of relationship there?
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  Speaker 2: It's different because it's different species that they can have
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  Speaker 2: very good relationships with one another. So there really isn't
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  Speaker 2: any reason to think that the cat doesn't have some
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  Speaker 2: kind of a social interaction with another animal, because the
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  Speaker 2: dogs and the cats do get along pretty well. I
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  Speaker 2: used to have, oh my gosh, a bunch of cats.
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  Speaker 2: I used to have seven cats and a bunch of dogs,
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  Speaker 2: and they, you know, different cats have different interactions with
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  Speaker 2: the dogs. The dogs ever chased the cats because they
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  Speaker 2: grew up with them and they never saw any reason
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  Speaker 2: to do that. And I think that's really important is
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  Speaker 2: a lot of people when they bring a new pet
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  Speaker 2: into the house, there ends up to be this sort
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  Speaker 2: of chase thing that goes on, and it's not really
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  Speaker 2: fair to the kitten or to the puppy if they're
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  Speaker 2: the young, small one in the family, to be hunted down.
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  Speaker 2: So you want to really make sure your introductions are
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  Speaker 2: done appropriately and that you're really careful that there isn't
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  Speaker 2: any of that kind of behavior that get started, because
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  Speaker 2: once it starts, then it perpetuates. There's just no reason
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  Speaker 2: for a chase to take place.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk about about accidental breeding and reasons
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  Speaker 1: to spay, and it's not I think For some folks,
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  Speaker 1: they think, well, it's it's it's clearly a black and
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  Speaker 1: white thing. Yes, of course you spay and neuter. Bob
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  Speaker 1: Barker told us to do that. And then for others say, wait,
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  Speaker 1: wait a second here, for a variety of different reasons,
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  Speaker 1: maybe not. It's not a simple it's not a simple
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  Speaker 1: thing that can that can always just be answered right
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  Speaker 1: or wrong. This is important conversation to have with your vet.
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  Speaker 1: But things like accidental breedings, other things, pets are going
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  Speaker 1: to do what pets are going to do, and that's
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  Speaker 1: how we end up with more pets. I do believe.
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  Speaker 1: Let's talk let's talk a little bit about this, about
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  Speaker 1: this subject, doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Right, and many years ago, you know, back when I
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  Speaker 2: was a kid, people used to have a little of
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  Speaker 2: puppies just sort of, you know, just because they had
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  Speaker 2: a female dog and they wanted to show the children
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  Speaker 2: and the miracle of life. And you know, that kind
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  Speaker 2: of philosophy is really largely passed. I rarely see clients
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  Speaker 2: coming in with a breeding that has that as an explanation. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if you look at overall how we have animals in
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  Speaker 2: our lives, we have these big dairy farms, not little
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  Speaker 2: dairy farms anymore. We have really consolidated those animal husbandry
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  Speaker 2: kind of events where there's big places they raise chickens.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, people still have vacuum chickens, but they're breeding
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  Speaker 2: chickens in their backyard most of the time. So we
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  Speaker 2: have these big places that raise chickens and big places
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  Speaker 2: that raise beef cattle, and big places that raise dairy cattle.
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  Speaker 2: And so we also seen that happen on the dog side,
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  Speaker 2: as we do have large, larger scale commercial breeders, and
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  Speaker 2: that's not a bad thing. A lot of these large
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  Speaker 2: scale commercial breeders do a fantastic job of raising the puppies,
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  Speaker 2: selecting their breeding stock, doing their health clearances, socializing the puppies,
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  Speaker 2: finding great homes for them. I mean, there's some very
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  Speaker 2: very skilled people out there and that's what they spend
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  Speaker 2: their life doing. So I think it's important that we
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  Speaker 2: distinguished from the beginning that there are different kinds of breeders. Now, Unfortunately,
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  Speaker 2: for people that don't want to say their female or
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  Speaker 2: neuter their male dog, they may end up with an
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  Speaker 2: accidental breeding if they have a dog in the house
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  Speaker 2: that may be eligible. If they have a neighbor dog
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  Speaker 2: if they have friends dogs. If you know, those kinds
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  Speaker 2: of things happen, and we want to be really clear
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  Speaker 2: that accidental breeding shouldn't happen. You should have good control
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  Speaker 2: over your pets. You should have If you can't control
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  Speaker 2: the situation, you're not certain that you can one prevent
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  Speaker 2: a breeding, then spaying and neutering or doing a vazectomy
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  Speaker 2: or an over ea sparing spay is an alternative, is
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  Speaker 2: a good choice. But there are people who are really
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  Speaker 2: resistant to taking out the hormones, to removing the ovaries
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  Speaker 2: of the testicles, because there are definitely health benefits to it.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to be really clear that there are
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  Speaker 2: options to doing a spean neuter, a regular span neuter,
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  Speaker 2: to saying we can do a vzectimy on the male
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  Speaker 2: so he can still have his parts and he doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have the ability to breed a female. Effectively, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we can leave the ovaries on a female and she
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  Speaker 2: can still have heat cycles, still have all the benefits
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  Speaker 2: of ovaries, but not have the concern about a pregnancy
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  Speaker 2: or a piometra. But if you choose to leave your
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  Speaker 2: dog intact, and you choose to have that happen, sometimes
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  Speaker 2: we have accidental breedings. Then that's kind of how this
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  Speaker 2: came up this week is we got a phone call
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  Speaker 2: at four point thirty on Monday afternoon from a client
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  Speaker 2: who had a dog that he didn't realize was pregnant
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  Speaker 2: until she was very advanced in her pregnancy. There are
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  Speaker 2: some things we can do to intervene if we need
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  Speaker 2: to earlier on, and those are a whole different conversation
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  Speaker 2: for another day. But by that point it was too
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  Speaker 2: late for him. The female was already going into labor
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  Speaker 2: and he was in trouble because she wasn't successfully delivering
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  Speaker 2: her puppies. And we don't want that to happen to anybody,
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  Speaker 2: and unfortunately, it happens more often than we'd like, probably
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  Speaker 2: five to ten percent of all pregnancies, and more in
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  Speaker 2: certain breeds like French bulldogs. And bulldogs can end up
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  Speaker 2: ending up as a dystocia, which means difficult labor and
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  Speaker 2: birth and a c section, which then ends up being
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  Speaker 2: a fairly significant bill. So bottom line is, don't just
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  Speaker 2: breed for the miracle of life. There are plenty ways
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  Speaker 2: that your children can understand the miracle of life. They
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  Speaker 2: can go to a petting zoo, they can go to
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  Speaker 2: the zoo, they can go online. There's lots of ways
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  Speaker 2: for children to learn that. So having a litter of
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  Speaker 2: puppies that you end up not being able to find
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  Speaker 2: homes for, that's really not a good choice. So if
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  Speaker 2: you deliberately want to bread your dog, great dog in.
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  Speaker 1: This Morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary online,
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. And
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes people underestimate the drive, the ambition, the stealth,
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  Speaker 1: the cunning of animals when they they're like your dog
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  Speaker 1: that was perfectly fine and content, never jumped the fence,
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  Speaker 1: never did anything. That dog goes into heat, suddenly they've
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  Speaker 1: got they've got super superabilities and they are able to
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  Speaker 1: leap giant fences and other things. It is, it is
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  Speaker 1: really can be a pretty significant behavioral change, can't it.
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, The drive to reproduce is the strongest, probably
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  Speaker 2: the strongest drive that we see in the animal kingdom,
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  Speaker 2: humans included. So there's no question that there's We've had
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  Speaker 2: people that have been standing at the top of the
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  Speaker 2: stairs holding one dog and the other dog bolts up
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  Speaker 2: the stairs, knocks them over and manages to do a breeding,
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  Speaker 2: you know, instantly in front of them. So unfortunately those
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  Speaker 2: things can happen much too easily. So yes, it's really important.
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  Speaker 2: And if you are intending to breed your dog, deliberately
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  Speaker 2: get your health grinning's done. Make sure your veterinary clinic
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  Speaker 2: has had an assessment of the dog that everything is
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  Speaker 2: good before you do it. Don't just say, oh, you
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  Speaker 2: know what, she's a really cute dog and oh, I
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  Speaker 2: like him, let's breed them together. That is really not
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  Speaker 2: responsible breeding. There are good ways to do responsible breeding,
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  Speaker 2: but that is not the one. So please speak to
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  Speaker 2: your veterinary and your breeder and other people that are
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  Speaker 2: in the know to help you make good decisions about that.
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  Speaker 2: Because there are good reasons to breed dogs, but there's
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  Speaker 2: some really bad ones too. Someone should end up in
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  Speaker 2: a bad situation and end up at the emergency clinic
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night with a C section.
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  Speaker 1: What about, doctor, some of the health benefits you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: with having your pet spade pyometra pyametra prevents that what
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  Speaker 1: exactly I've heard that term before. I don't know that word.
• 15:35
  Speaker 1: I don't know what that is. And let's talk about
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  Speaker 1: some of those health benefits to spaying and neutering pets.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, So saying reduces the risk of a piometer, which
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  Speaker 2: is an infection in the uterus. It can be a
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  Speaker 2: life threatening infection requires immediate intervention, So it's not something
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  Speaker 2: that you can sit on for a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: If your dog ends up with it, you really need
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  Speaker 2: to go to surgery pretty quickly. Of course, it prevents
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  Speaker 2: memory tumors, breast cancer. I bathe them when they're young,
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  Speaker 2: under two years of age. For neutering, we see the
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  Speaker 2: reduction of prostate disease and testicular cancer. Now, testicular cancer
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  Speaker 2: is not that common in dogs as far as it
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  Speaker 2: being serious. A fair number of dogs will get it,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not as serious disease, as serious it is
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  Speaker 2: as it is in humans. If men get testicular cancer,
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  Speaker 2: it's really bad. Dogs, Yeah, you neuterum and they're fine.
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  Speaker 2: So there are definitely differences in the species. And I
• 16:25
  Speaker 2: want to be really clear about how those differences work.
• 16:28
  Speaker 2: So those are really important things for people to know.
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  Speaker 2: And certainly you know these again should be the individual
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  Speaker 2: conversations that you have with your own veterinary. And this
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  Speaker 2: is not something that I'm going to tell you to
• 16:39
  Speaker 2: do with a radio interview. This is really up to
• 16:43
  Speaker 2: you and your veterinarian and what their opinions are of
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: your pet, what your pet's life is, what their lifestyle is,
• 16:48
  Speaker 2: what your lifestyle is, because can you accommodate the liter
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: of puppies? Is that something that's a good idea, so
• 16:53
  Speaker 2: really important. In the Society for Seogenealogy, which is a
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: group of veterinarians that do reproduction, they recommend universally that
• 17:00
  Speaker 2: you have an individual conversation with your veterinarian about it.
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: And if your that's really opposed to it and you're
• 17:07
  Speaker 2: really going hope for it, then find a veterinary that
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: does reproductive services. We do them in some prairie, we
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: do them in Marshall. There are definitely places you can
• 17:16
  Speaker 2: go to get the information and then you can make
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: a good decision on whether breeding is for you and
• 17:22
  Speaker 2: for your family or not. So really important that you
• 17:24
  Speaker 2: have those conversations, and we are most open to that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm happy to do phone calls as well. So there's
• 17:30
  Speaker 2: a lot of things that we can do to help
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  Speaker 2: people at least initially make some decisions. And you may
• 17:34
  Speaker 2: decide after one phone call, one ten minute phone call, Nope,
• 17:37
  Speaker 2: this is not for me, and then just go ahead
• 17:39
  Speaker 2: and either scheduleist pay or schedule in or very experience
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  Speaker 2: day say, to keep you out of trouble. We just
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  Speaker 2: don't like to see people ending up in a situation
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: where they are in over their heads.
• 17:50
  Speaker 1: Well, you know, one of the things and I love
• 17:53
  Speaker 1: getting a chance to talk with you each and every week,
• 17:55
  Speaker 1: is the openness and that conversation. The importance of having
• 17:58
  Speaker 1: an open line of conversation with your vet. And I
• 18:02
  Speaker 1: know one of the one of the big important parts
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  Speaker 1: of what you guys offer at Checkout Veterinary. You know,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about all the different services and then but
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  Speaker 1: we all I tend to I think, as as caretakers
• 18:13
  Speaker 1: and as pet owners, we tend to forget that that
• 18:16
  Speaker 1: are our veterinarians are such great resources for information conversation
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  Speaker 1: as far as conversations about about your pet, and these
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: type of conversations are so vital to have with your
• 18:27
  Speaker 1: with your vet. Net reinforces the importance of getting in
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  Speaker 1: have that first visit at checkout Vet. Don't forget it's
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  Speaker 1: going to be free, that exam is going to be
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  Speaker 1: free for your pet. Great chance for you to get
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  Speaker 1: to know the veterinarians at Checkout Veterinary as well. You
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  Speaker 1: do all that online. You can set an appointment and
• 18:41
  Speaker 1: learn more about Checkout Veterinary all on the website checkout
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  Speaker 1: patients right now. You can also call the office six
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• 18:57
  Speaker 1: Marty Greer. We will do that next as ask the
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• 19:03
  Speaker 1: wu iv A talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer
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  Speaker 1: of Checkout Veterinary. Don't forget. You can learn more online
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. It's
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  Speaker 1: got a couple of minutes and doctors. As I'm quickly realizing,
• 19:17
  Speaker 1: this topic is a whole lot more complicated than that
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  Speaker 1: I thought. I always felt like you do where you don't,
• 19:25
  Speaker 1: and it really highlights the importance of having that conversation
• 19:28
  Speaker 1: with your vet about about what you want, what's best
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: for your pet, and having that that conversation and real
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  Speaker 1: quick at Checkout VET. I do think that's one of
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  Speaker 1: the things that we've talked about this on the program.
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  Speaker 1: Really important for you in the in the vets is
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  Speaker 1: having that that conversation and that openness to talk with
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  Speaker 1: with pet owners. That's a really important quality when you
• 19:50
  Speaker 1: when you're finding new vets to work at Checkout Veterinary.
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  Speaker 1: Really important quality that you look for is really good
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: communication skills, and folks should really take advantage of that,
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  Speaker 1: shouldn't they.
• 20:00
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And if you go to a veterinary clinic
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: and you feel like they're just shutting you down, if
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: they're not willing to have these conversations with you, you know,
• 20:07
  Speaker 2: there's a lot of other choices. So I'm not suggesting
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: that you jump ship right away, but if you feel
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: like you're not connecting with the veterinarian or the veterinary staff,
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: then you know we have other options for you. So
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: come in, get to know us, you know, meet us,
• 20:20
  Speaker 2: because we're going to do that first visit. And if
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: you think that we're the place for you that you
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: can communicate with us, then by all means, come back.
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: We're happy to see you. And I think it's important
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that people know that they have those options. I love
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: my nurse practitioner because I really feel like I am
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: heard when I go to hear her, and there's a
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: lot of good conversation. So those are the same kinds
• 20:41
  Speaker 2: of relationships that you should have, not only with your
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: nurse practitioner, with your physician, but with your veterinarian as well.
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: And if you feel like that's just really hard and
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: it's really rocky, then find somebody else. You have lots
• 20:54
  Speaker 2: of choices.
• 20:54
  Speaker 1: There are great opportunities out there, and definitely check out
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Greer, it's always great hanging out with you, talking
• 21:06
  Speaker 1: with you, learning from you. Thank you so much for
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: taking this time this morning, and we'll talk soon.
• 21:11
  Speaker 2: Thank you.
• 21:11
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