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Vet Q&A From October 8th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, let's remind you that doctor Davis has opened his
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  Speaker 1: brand new animal hospital what to.
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  Speaker 2: Call Doctor Davis.
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  Speaker 1: It's Trilogy Veterinary Medical Center in Sandy.
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  Speaker 3: We're ready to rock why trilogy.
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  Speaker 1: So it's the kind of the three parts of the
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  Speaker 1: doctor's and you guys's pet owners and then the pets.
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  Speaker 1: So it's kind of that trio of we're all working together.
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  Speaker 1: That's exactly right.
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  Speaker 4: If you have any questions about your dogs or cats,
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  Speaker 4: your puppies, your kiddies, call us Doctor Davis here to
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  Speaker 4: answer those questions about your the strange behavior that your
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  Speaker 4: your cats or dogs might be exhibiting. Maybe there's some
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  Speaker 4: sort of symptom that you're kind of curious about.
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  Speaker 5: Let's let's start with with Klaus the cat.
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  Speaker 2: If you could bring that picture up, Oh my cat, Klaus.
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  Speaker 5: Because you were talking about how overweighted he is he is,
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  Speaker 5: But then we had a text or say that that
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  Speaker 5: belly flap is actually there to protect is eternal organs
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  Speaker 5: or something like that.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's true.
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  Speaker 3: It's supposed to be like, well, so is that correct?
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  Speaker 1: I would say, you know, without getting my hands on Klaus,
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  Speaker 1: I would say we're probably in the overweight category. So
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  Speaker 1: we kind of have normal and then overweight and obese.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't think he's quite fallen into the obese category.
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  Speaker 1: And that flappy thing that you guys are talking about,
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  Speaker 1: we call that an apron, and that's actually a place
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  Speaker 1: where cats store extra fat.
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  Speaker 3: So you'll see store a lot of it.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And the more I say low that gets and
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  Speaker 1: the more it's swinging around, then that's that's more fat
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  Speaker 1: that they're storing. So there may be some you know,
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  Speaker 1: aspect of that in the wild potentially helping n.
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  Speaker 4: Things over with it it swings in.
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  Speaker 2: He's crazy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's you know, maybe in the wild something
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  Speaker 1: like that, But in general, for your housecats, they're just
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  Speaker 1: stored in fat there and that's one of the things
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  Speaker 1: we look at for their body condition.
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  Speaker 2: He's not what you would call sleek, but he looks
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  Speaker 2: like a big framed cat. He is a big he
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  Speaker 2: is a big guy.
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  Speaker 5: Is Let's see, I have a thirteen year old shitsu.
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  Speaker 5: We're starting to be worried or concerned about quality of life.
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  Speaker 5: What are symptoms or behaviors we should be watching out
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  Speaker 5: for to make sure his quality of life is still good?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the quality of life thing gets to be especially
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  Speaker 1: at that age for that breed is a big topic there.
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  Speaker 1: So there there's a quite long list, and there is
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  Speaker 1: some good resources and tools about things to look for,
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  Speaker 1: but you know, think about the general things. So how
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  Speaker 1: well are they getting around? Do they seem like they're
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  Speaker 1: in pain? Are they eating their normal amount at will?
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  Speaker 1: Are they able to do their bathroom things?
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  Speaker 2: You know?
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  Speaker 1: So those are some very basics. But if you're worried
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  Speaker 1: about that, like, let's let's talk. Let's look at your
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  Speaker 1: pat let's talk about it, because that's the only way
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  Speaker 1: we can really help you and partner with you is
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  Speaker 1: to see how they're doing and talk about it.
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  Speaker 6: Right.
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  Speaker 5: Stephanie is here.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Stephanie, Hello.
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  Speaker 7: Good morning, Thanks for letting me listen.
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  Speaker 2: What's your animals? Now? Is a cat? What's your cat's name?
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  Speaker 7: Her name is Drew. She's twelve years old. She's a
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  Speaker 7: main coon mix. And this is gonna sound I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: I'm having personally some issues because she has arthritis. She
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  Speaker 7: gets her Salencia treatment monthly, but I also can give
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  Speaker 7: her her liquid Gaba pitton when she needs it because
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  Speaker 7: she seems to be pulling out her fur in certain
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  Speaker 7: areas that seem to be causing her pain. But when
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  Speaker 7: I do that, she just runs and hides from me
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  Speaker 7: and she won't come near me for the rest of
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  Speaker 7: the night. And I'm wondering if I'm doing more harm
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  Speaker 7: by causing her more stress by doing this to her.
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  Speaker 3: The so if it's after doing oh go ahead.
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  Speaker 7: It just hurts my heart to see her be so
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  Speaker 7: scared of me.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, absolutely no. And that's anything we do to
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  Speaker 3: try and help them.
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  Speaker 1: We want to always be careful about breaking that bond
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  Speaker 1: in that friendship that you have too, because that's that
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  Speaker 1: is really important for them and for you to to
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  Speaker 1: monitor that. So and and medications like GABA penton are
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  Speaker 1: you know, they can change their behavior a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: I mean, we use them a.
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  Speaker 1: Lot for office visits because cats don't often prefer to
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  Speaker 1: be you know, kenneled and brought into the office and
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  Speaker 1: looked at.
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  Speaker 3: So so there may be a part of that.
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  Speaker 1: And gabapentin alone isn't necessarily the best, you know, pain management.
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  Speaker 1: We'll use it a lot with things to help with
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  Speaker 1: pain management, but it doesn't directly do a great job
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  Speaker 1: at that.
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  Speaker 2: Where so the thing maybe that you could stop the
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  Speaker 2: GABA p.
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  Speaker 1: Potentially, yeah, especially if it's causing more trouble than it's helping.
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  Speaker 1: And injections like silentia are they're very good to help
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  Speaker 1: manage pain, but often we need to do other things
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  Speaker 1: to help with that. So, you know, joint supplements or
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  Speaker 1: or injections can help with some of that. There are
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  Speaker 1: anti inflammatories that that can work better than silentia or
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  Speaker 1: work different, but they're usually oral medications, you know, So
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  Speaker 1: there's different ways to go about it. But it's probably
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  Speaker 1: worth getting looked at because pulling out hair could be
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  Speaker 1: a sign of pain, but it could be a sign
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  Speaker 1: of skin issues too, you know, and even dental issues. Actually,
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  Speaker 1: cats will start pulling out hair sometimes if they've got
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  Speaker 1: oral pain too, So there's there's a different areas we
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  Speaker 1: got to check out what happens.
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  Speaker 2: What does it mean when they start pulling out your hair?
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  Speaker 1: Man just is with mister Crinkles, you'll know about that.
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  Speaker 1: They're being cats and wild sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: Does that help Stephanie?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, I just hope that she doesn't hate me forever
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  Speaker 7: when I give her medicine. It's just really sad to
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  Speaker 7: see her hate me so much.
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  Speaker 3: Right, she doesn't hate you, no, she doesn't hate you.
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  Speaker 3: It's part of that.
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  Speaker 2: She's just frightened to death of you.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, exactly, exactly.
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  Speaker 7: Well, well, thank you so.
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  Speaker 5: Much, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, we're back with doctor Josh Davis. We have
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  Speaker 4: lots of phone calls about puppies and kitties. Let's get
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  Speaker 4: to them.
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  Speaker 2: Begin with Glenna. Hey, Glenna, Hey, Glenna, what's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 8: I have a few dogs, Roxy and Ellie.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's your question?
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  Speaker 8: Well, Roxy is fifteen, Ellie is a little bit older
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  Speaker 8: than that. Roxy is she's not completely blind that she's
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  Speaker 8: got cataracts, and Ellie is deaf. Yeah, it's a real combination.
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  Speaker 8: But Roxy, if Ellie startles her at all, she'll attack her.
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  Speaker 8: She will turn around and you know, pin her to
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  Speaker 8: the ground and tell Ellie, yipes. Is there something that
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  Speaker 8: I can do to help with the anxiety and to
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  Speaker 8: keep them peaceful.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: When they're especially older dogs and as if they're hearing
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  Speaker 1: loss or site loss things like that, it is easier
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  Speaker 1: to startle them.
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  Speaker 3: And so you do have to be careful because they're
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  Speaker 3: they're just.
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  Speaker 1: Kind of defending themselves a lot of times as they're
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  Speaker 1: just trying to respond to those environments.
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  Speaker 3: So for the dogs that are losing.
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  Speaker 1: Site, one thing that can be helpful is to have
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  Speaker 1: like so on the other dog, put some bells or
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  Speaker 1: something that makes noise on their collar so that so
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  Speaker 1: that they can hear them coming and kind of get
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  Speaker 1: used to that. We'll even have people when we're doing
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  Speaker 1: you know, if dogs go immediately blind, even put bells
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  Speaker 1: on your shoes. Tie a bell on your shoes so
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  Speaker 1: they can kind of hear you coming, and it helps
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  Speaker 1: them kind of learn to navigate the environment. Don't move
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  Speaker 1: the furniture if you can help it, because they'll they.
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  Speaker 2: Kind of get used to it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they do. They get really good at that.
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  Speaker 2: Unless you want to have fun. Yeah, they can move
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  Speaker 2: the every day.
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  Speaker 1: It is sad to watch them banging into walls and furniture.
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  Speaker 1: So things you can do to help that is always
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  Speaker 1: nice for them, you know. And then for the dogs
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  Speaker 1: that are hearing deprived, it's they can't hear you. They
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  Speaker 1: can see you, so but they do sense vibrations and
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  Speaker 1: they can feel feel that kind of stuff.
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  Speaker 3: So you know, if you have to kind.
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  Speaker 1: Of walk a little heavier as you're approaching them, sometimes
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  Speaker 1: that can help, you know, kind of do that always
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  Speaker 1: try to approach them from the front whenever possible, you know.
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  Speaker 1: And then dugs too, is they get older, can have
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  Speaker 1: this cognitive they can kind of start to have weird
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  Speaker 1: behaviors there and that can be hard to differentiate from
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  Speaker 1: site loss hearing loss. But but those might be some
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  Speaker 1: quick things to try out and just to see if.
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  Speaker 4: That Glenna, try the bell thing and then let us
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  Speaker 4: know how that works, will you, yeah?
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  Speaker 2: I will that.
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  Speaker 6: Really that's a great idea.
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  Speaker 8: Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Cayden.
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  Speaker 4: Hi, Cayden, Oh, Cayden, you have a what kind of
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  Speaker 4: an what kind of animals this?
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  Speaker 9: I have two animals, one a poodle, one ale the
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  Speaker 9: power piece and good morning lords.
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  Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning. What are their names?
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  Speaker 1: All?
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  Speaker 9: Right? So I got Rose and Raymond, I got a
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  Speaker 9: human name and a flower.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 9: So the the piple has a air infection and he
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  Speaker 9: had this like four or five months ago, right, and
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  Speaker 9: we got medication for it. And then my poodle got
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  Speaker 9: an air in section, and I was wondering, is it
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  Speaker 9: wise to use the same medication that I got for
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  Speaker 9: raimond or there different types of air infections or right?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 1: So there, yeah, to answer both of those. So there
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  Speaker 1: can be different types of ear infection, so there's they're
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  Speaker 1: typically yeast or bacterial, or sometimes a combination of those,
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  Speaker 1: depending on how things have been going. So the risk
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  Speaker 1: with using the same medication is there's a chance that
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  Speaker 1: will be effective and it will be fine, you know,
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  Speaker 1: but there's also a chance if the doctor was targeting
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  Speaker 1: more a yeast infection and then there's a heavy bacterial infection,
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  Speaker 1: it may not work and you may actually make it
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  Speaker 1: worse in those instances, and because you can cause resistance
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  Speaker 1: and other problems to those therapies. And then if there
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  Speaker 1: happens to be something down in the ear so I'm
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  Speaker 1: getting foreign bodies, Foxtail weeds.
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  Speaker 3: Are one of the more common ones.
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  Speaker 1: But if you're trying to treat the ear and cleaning
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  Speaker 1: it and there's one of those down there, you can
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  Speaker 1: actually cause a lot of harm because you can puncture
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  Speaker 1: their ear drum and cause other problems with that. So
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  Speaker 1: I would just say if you can, I would get
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  Speaker 1: it looked at to rule out those types of things
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  Speaker 1: and then know exactly what you're treating because that can
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  Speaker 1: help you get a better resolution.
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  Speaker 4: And if if it's I mean the vet can tell you, oh,
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  Speaker 4: this is the same thing your other dog had, and
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  Speaker 4: you can say, oh great, I still have some of
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  Speaker 4: this medicine left.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, yeah, So it's good to check those boxes.
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  Speaker 1: And one other tip is often if one dog has
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  Speaker 1: an ear problem, make sure they're not licking each other's
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  Speaker 1: ears because that also perpetuates the problem. Moisture and saleva
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  Speaker 1: is not good for years, so watch out for that too.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, there you go.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, definitely, definitely. She has an appointment today and I
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  Speaker 9: appreciate it. Thank you, great day, see.
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  Speaker 2: You, Kayden.
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  Speaker 5: All Right, Kaiden, let's go to Rachel.
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  Speaker 2: Hi, Rachel, what's your boxer's name?
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  Speaker 6: His name is Loki.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's up?
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  Speaker 6: So he is he just licked his pause like all
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  Speaker 6: the time, and he has webbed feet and so he
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  Speaker 6: which I guess is kind of unusual. He's my first dog.
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  Speaker 6: I've always had cats. He's my first dog I've ever had,
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  Speaker 6: and he's pretty good. We'll tell him no Licky's and
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  Speaker 6: he'll stock but yeah, he but he does it pretty
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  Speaker 6: much all the time. An allergy, That's the thing is,
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  Speaker 6: I don't know if it's an allergy or if it's
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  Speaker 6: like yeats I don't know if I should take him
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  Speaker 6: to the vet and have him checked out.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's nerves, you know.
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  Speaker 3: No, those are all great, great questions for sure.
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  Speaker 1: And when it comes to boxers, they do tend to
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  Speaker 1: be in the breed list that we do see skin
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  Speaker 1: like allergies and skin issues with, especially if they're white,
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  Speaker 1: you know, or where they have white because a lot
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  Speaker 1: of times they're feet are white, so white white skin.
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  Speaker 1: I find white pities white boxers and or white skin.
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  Speaker 1: They can have more just issues there. But lick the feet,
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  Speaker 1: that is one of the classic spots for allergic dermatitis.
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  Speaker 1: If they're doing that a lot, and then what will
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  Speaker 1: happen is they will cause yeast infections because of that,
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  Speaker 1: and then now they have itchy skin, and then they
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  Speaker 1: have yeasts causing the skin to be itchyer, and so
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  Speaker 1: it's just a vicious cycle you get into. And so
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  Speaker 1: I do think it's worth checking out because there may
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  Speaker 1: be other spots affected. The ears can be another spot.
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  Speaker 1: They're armpits, belly growing, things like that. So but we
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  Speaker 1: can help you with that too. So you know, I
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  Speaker 1: think if you're if you're willing and able, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's worth getting checked out and boxers have plenty of
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  Speaker 1: other issues, so regular checkups is really important for them
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  Speaker 1: for like their heart health and things like that.
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  Speaker 2: All right, there you go, Rachel.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and he is white.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, there you go.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, all right, I'll look out, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Let's go to Shannon. Hello, Hi, Hi, Shannon. You got
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  Speaker 2: a dog. What's the dog's name? I do.
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  Speaker 10: Her name is Lucy. She's a legal their pitbull mix.
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  Speaker 2: Horrible.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, kind of goes into the She's had terrible allergies
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  Speaker 10: for the last three or four years and it just
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  Speaker 10: continually gets worse. And I know that's an issue with
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  Speaker 10: her breed, I mean like the eagles or the box
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  Speaker 10: or pitbull mix especially, but she's tried everything we've done,
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  Speaker 10: like the medicated baths, cortisol or not cortisol, the injections
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  Speaker 10: I can't remember what that is, and then the apoquil.
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  Speaker 10: We've tried changing her food and giving her, you know,
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  Speaker 10: gummies to help with gut health and and help with it,
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  Speaker 10: but nothing is helping and she's just ripping up her skin.
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  Speaker 10: I took her back to the vet after the cidal
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  Speaker 10: point injection, which only lasted a week this last time,
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  Speaker 10: and in addition to the apoquills. But the doctor that
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  Speaker 10: I saw, he wasn't a regular doctor I saw, and
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  Speaker 10: he said that she thinks that she's just doing it
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  Speaker 10: as a soothing, like her itching is herself soothing. And
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  Speaker 10: he said, with her having such a bad history with allergies,
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  Speaker 10: and he compared it to like a kid sucking it
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  Speaker 10: some where, she's.
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  Speaker 3: Just doing it.
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  Speaker 10: I've never heard that. Yeah, he gave her kind of
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  Speaker 10: a tranquilizer basically of that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: I think a lot of times when especially as doctors,
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  Speaker 1: if we feel like all options are exhausted, then you know,
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  Speaker 1: we kind of throw it in that behavioral bucket. But
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  Speaker 1: I think that you know, one is without seeing you
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  Speaker 1: and getting everything. That would be tough for me to say,
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  Speaker 1: but I would say in general, it's probably skin allergies,
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  Speaker 1: and there may be a behavioral component secondary to that,
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  Speaker 1: But I don't think you're probably never getting the skin
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  Speaker 1: under control or at least managed. You know, it's it's
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  Speaker 1: almost in those kind of cases you can't ever control
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  Speaker 1: it all the way, but you can manage it. So
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  Speaker 1: I think you've tried all of the things, but there's
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  Speaker 1: often finding the right combination, and there may be a
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  Speaker 1: couple of other things to do because skin can be
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  Speaker 1: really challenging. So I mean I would urge you, you
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  Speaker 1: know again, I know you've been seen, but maybe just
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  Speaker 1: either see a dermatologist or get another opinion. You know,
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  Speaker 1: I'd be happy to check you out for sure. But
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  Speaker 1: there's I think you just gotta keep pursuing the allergies
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  Speaker 1: because behavior just it's easy just call it that, but
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  Speaker 1: it's it's not always the full picture.
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  Speaker 3: You know a lot of times. And I'm not saying
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  Speaker 3: your other vet's wrong in.
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  Speaker 1: That situation, but it's it's just hard with those really
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  Speaker 1: allergic dogs.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Thanks Shannon, Thanks for calling Shannon all right,
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  Speaker 4: you trust.
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  Speaker 10: Save her eyeballs in the past, so.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you for that.
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  Speaker 5: So than thank you very much.
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  Speaker 4: All Right, Well we're out of time, sorry you guys
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  Speaker 4: any Eric, Jennifer, Sorry.
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  Speaker 3: Don't forget.
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  Speaker 1: all right, thanks you tell him again where it is
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  Speaker 1: and so yeah, it's in Sandy. It's the ninety eight
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  Speaker 1: seventy two South seventh East, and I'm just trilogy Vet Sandy.
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  Speaker 3: You can get a requestion so thank you, all right,
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  Speaker 3: you guys