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Check In Veterinary with the Checkout Vet · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts with check out
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Speaker 1: Veterinary online. The website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. Great website and resource to learn more
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Speaker 1: about checkout Veterinary. We'll talk a little bit actually this
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Speaker 1: morning about what makes checkout Veterinary so unique. I will
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Speaker 1: tell you it is a great concept. You can learn
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Speaker 1: more again on that website checkout vet dot com. All right,
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Speaker 1: twelve number six so eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's three one eight sixty seven hundred. Open Monday, work
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Speaker 1: every day except for Thursdays. I'm gonna say Monday through Friday,
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Speaker 1: but that would not be true because they're also open weekends,
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Speaker 1: closed on Thursdays from nine am until five pm. And
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Speaker 1: of course joining us at studio this morning is doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer.
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Speaker 2: Doctor.
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Speaker 1: There's got to be got to figure a smoother way
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Speaker 1: to point that out. You guys are open though on
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Speaker 1: weekends and all that great stuff. I'll figure it out.
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Speaker 1: How you doing this morning, I'm great.
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Speaker 3: And we're closed on Thursdays at checkout because it tended
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Speaker 3: to be our slowest day. But we're open Monday through
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Speaker 3: Friday at check in. Its sister clinic, so you're not abandoned.
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Speaker 3: It's not like Thursdays you're on your own. And then
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Speaker 3: we also will have the Marshall Pet Care clinic as well.
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Speaker 3: That will be Monday through Friday, so we'll have two
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Speaker 3: Monday through Friday locations and then the other location will
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Speaker 3: be closed on Thursdays until we doctor up a bit
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Speaker 3: more and can get to that point.
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Speaker 1: But have you mentioned that on the area yet or
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Speaker 1: as I know, we talked about the new clinic off
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Speaker 1: their Is this the first time it's come up on
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Speaker 1: the show.
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Speaker 3: I think maybe we mentioned it a couple times ago.
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Speaker 3: But yeah, so that's new and exciting for us. So
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Speaker 3: Marshall Petcare's veterinarian, doctor lu Schumacher, after a long and
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Speaker 3: very great career, has elected to retire, so she's going
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Speaker 3: to be handing the clinic off to us at the
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Speaker 3: beginning of September. So we're very excited to be able
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Speaker 3: to keep that clinic open in that small community. It
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Speaker 3: was going to look it was looking a little bleak
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Speaker 3: there for a bit. We want all of their clients
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Speaker 3: to know that we're there for them. We're going to
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Speaker 3: keep as much staff is interested in staying. We're going
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Speaker 3: to keep as many things the same. The phone number
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Speaker 3: is the same, the website, it's the same. We're not
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Speaker 3: going to change anything up. I have a new manager.
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Speaker 3: My CVT that it's been working for us for a
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Speaker 3: year is going to be managing that. She has twenty
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Speaker 3: years of experience in the veterinary field, so it should
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Speaker 3: be really great. And we're going to be for the
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Speaker 3: short term substituting doctors in and out until we finally
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Speaker 3: get somebody in there that can be solid, but we
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Speaker 3: will be available there as much as possible based on
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Speaker 3: doctor availability.
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Speaker 1: It's great to hear and I think sometimes you know,
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Speaker 1: and we deal with it as people and our you know,
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Speaker 1: I had a doctor that I had for years and
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Speaker 1: he retired, and you kind of go, oh, yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: great to have that continuation of saying, and especially for
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Speaker 1: a great community where a smaller community has that great
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Speaker 1: relationship with the clinic and you know, and that type
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Speaker 1: of thing, having somebody that's able to take that honestly
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Speaker 1: enough to worry about going to a new city, new environment,
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Speaker 1: those type of things too. So we'll definitely right.
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Speaker 3: Your pets used to it. You're used to it, so
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Speaker 3: the website will be the same, the same person. I'll
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Speaker 3: be answering the phone. It should be as smooth as
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Speaker 3: transition as we can possibly make. So we're trying to
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Speaker 3: keep everything as level as possible so that it doesn't
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Speaker 3: shake anybody up. And you know, it's a really nice
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Speaker 3: little clinic and it's a nice little town and I
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Speaker 3: kind of like small towns and I just didn't want
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Speaker 3: to see this place disappear.
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Speaker 1: It'll be great. Well, of course, we'll keep folks posted
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Speaker 1: on all the developments. And speaking of learning about the clinics,
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Speaker 1: check out vet, let's talk about checkout Veterinary and the
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Speaker 1: clinic and Sun Prairie. Just just a very very cool
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Speaker 1: concept for people that haven't heard you talk about. And
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Speaker 1: let's talk about what kind of the start of this,
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Speaker 1: the idea, and then of course what it's become.
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Speaker 3: Sure, so the idea really came from a garage that
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Speaker 3: we built at their clinic and the Mayra. So to
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Speaker 3: be clear, we are a family owned business and myself
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Speaker 3: and my husband and we have one associate there, so
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Speaker 3: we're not corporate. We're a small, family owned business. We've
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Speaker 3: been in business for forty three years, so we've been
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Speaker 3: around a bit. So we built it originally a garage
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Speaker 3: in the clinic and the mayra for client convenience. They
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Speaker 3: could pull in and their pets could go in and
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Speaker 3: out after surgical procedures and if the weather wasn't good,
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Speaker 3: and those kinds of things, litters of puppies, you know,
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Speaker 3: the things that we want to protect from the weather.
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Speaker 3: So about ten years ago I started kind of playing
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Speaker 3: around in my head after a meeting the opportunity to
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Speaker 3: do something on a larger scale along the same lines.
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Speaker 3: So we have four garage bays. They each have two doors.
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Speaker 3: You drive up to the door, we open the door,
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Speaker 3: You pull into your vehicle into the garage bay. That
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Speaker 3: becomes your exam room. So it's the biggest exam room
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Speaker 3: that you'll probably ever be in. So you pull into
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Speaker 3: the garage, we close the doors. If you have a
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Speaker 3: dog that's comfortable in the car, or they have mobility issues,
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Speaker 3: they can stay in the vehicle. If you have mobility issues,
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Speaker 3: you can stay in the vehicle. You never have to
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Speaker 3: get out, so you can have all the care provided
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Speaker 3: in the car. If your dog wants to get out,
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Speaker 3: roam around the garage bay or dogs, so you can
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Speaker 3: bring you know, as many as you want at one time.
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Speaker 3: We'll do the whole family at the same time. They
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Speaker 3: can come out. We have an exam table in the
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Speaker 3: garage base so that they can be on that. And
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Speaker 3: then if you have a small dog or a cat
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Speaker 3: that's more comfortable on an exam table, there's an adjacent
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Speaker 3: examroom with a window, so you can stay in the
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Speaker 3: car and see your pet through the window. Your pet
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Speaker 3: can see you through the window. You never have to
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Speaker 3: get out of the car. If you have kids with you,
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Speaker 3: say the kids are sleeping in the car, you don't
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Speaker 3: want to leave them in the parking lot. That's day.
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Speaker 3: We don't want to do that. If you have grandma
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Speaker 3: with you and you're worried that she might take off,
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Speaker 3: you know, forget that she's not supposed to be driving,
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Speaker 3: and she takes off and goes over to McDonald's. So
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Speaker 3: you can keep an eye on everybody, they're all right
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Speaker 3: there together. You never have to go into a lobby
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Speaker 3: a waiting room. There's never a rottweiler staring at your
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Speaker 3: little dog or your cat. There's never a cat screaming.
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Speaker 3: None of those things are happening. That pets are really
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Speaker 3: comfortable in that environment. So we find that in that
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Speaker 3: fear free kind of opportunity where pets just don't want
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Speaker 3: to be stressed and you don't want to be stressed
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Speaker 3: by your pet being stressed, that this offers opportunities for that.
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Speaker 3: So people that have dogs that are uncomfortable or cats
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Speaker 3: that are uncomfortable in those settings, you don't have to
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Speaker 3: do that anymore. You just pull in and all you
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Speaker 3: want to do is just come look at us. You
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Speaker 3: don't have to pay us a penny. You can come over,
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Speaker 3: you can drive in, you can let your dog out,
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Speaker 3: you can bring your cat in. They can just wander around.
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Speaker 3: If you don't want anything done, oh then I just
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Speaker 3: want to see this place. I want to meet the doctor,
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Speaker 3: I want to meet the staff. I want to understand
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Speaker 3: how it works. I want people to feel one percent
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Speaker 3: comfortable and that that's why we're doing first visit free.
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Speaker 3: So your first exam is free. After the exam, if
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Speaker 3: you do bloodwork, need heartwre medications, any of those things
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Speaker 3: in there's a charge for that. But the physical exam
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Speaker 3: the doctor will do on your pet is done at
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Speaker 3: no charge, so that you can feel completely comfortable with
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Speaker 3: the level of experience that the doctor has with their
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Speaker 3: way they interact with you and your pet. We want
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Speaker 3: you to be really comfortable. So that's what this is about,
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Speaker 3: is really making people feel safe in a world that
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Speaker 3: doesn't always feel that safe.
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Speaker 1: It's really it's a really great concept. Today's a great data.
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Speaker 1: Of course, you mentioned the website checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: You can request appointment right online. Of course, you can
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Speaker 1: stop on in right at twenty seven to ten Prairie
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Speaker 1: Lakes Drive in Sun Prairie. That's twenty seven to ten
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Speaker 1: Prairie Lakes Drive in Sun Prairie, open every day except
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Speaker 1: Thursdays from nine am until five pm. And you mentioned
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Speaker 1: check in VET available Monday. I got to write those
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Speaker 1: days down Monday, Monday through Wednesday, Friday, Monday through Friday.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to right there we go.
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Speaker 3: I got check in Checknday. So check in is the
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Speaker 3: inpatient clinic, check out is the outpatient clinic. And so
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Speaker 3: we rebranded. We took nature Preserve pet Care, which we
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Speaker 3: purchased about six years ago as the foundation for this
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Speaker 3: that was named originally pet care Center than Nature's Preserve,
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Speaker 3: and now it's called check In. We actually did have
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Speaker 3: a client that ran through the wall of the building
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Speaker 3: last September, she accidentally hit the gas instead of the
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Speaker 3: brake and she drove into the building. That wasn't really
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Speaker 3: the intention when we called it check in, but that
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Speaker 3: kind of helps you. Distinguished check in is the inpatient
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Speaker 3: We can have surgery, dentals, X rays, ultrasounds, any of
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Speaker 3: the complete care that you need that needs to be
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Speaker 3: done for your pet, dog or cat can be done
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Speaker 3: at check in. And then the outpatient things the less
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Speaker 3: serious no diagnostics, no, well, we send out blood work,
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Speaker 3: but we don't do any in house blood work. So
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Speaker 3: anything that you need that just needs a looxie and
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Speaker 3: some medication, your routine annual wellness, your routine heartworm test,
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Speaker 3: your fecal analysis, your booster vaccinations, puppy oh gosh, love
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Speaker 3: having puppies and kittens. That is really fun to come
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Speaker 3: in with a puppy or a kitten because that's what
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Speaker 3: they get to know from the very beginning. And if
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Speaker 3: that's all they know is this is how veterinary care
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Speaker 3: is provided, you're going to have started them with a
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Speaker 3: great foundation of being comfortable at the vet clinic.
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Speaker 1: It's an amazing model. Check it out the website. Look
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Speaker 1: at that check out vet dot com. That's check out
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. I want to ask you about blood
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Speaker 1: work in just a moment. But first last week we
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Speaker 1: started talking about healthy weights for your pet, and diet
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Speaker 1: came up and I was going to ask you and
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Speaker 1: we ran out of time, and thank goodness, we've got
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Speaker 1: a chance to talk today. Life stage diets is I
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Speaker 1: see you know you'll see like puppy food or adult
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Speaker 1: or senior? Is there actually a difference between those? Is
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Speaker 1: this marketing or is it something as a pet owner
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Speaker 1: you really want to pay attention to.
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Speaker 3: No, it's for real. The older pets, we have lower calories,
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Speaker 3: more fiber, different quantities of fat, sometimes put in some
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Speaker 3: amino acids to help with weight loss. There's definitely differences
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Speaker 3: in life stage. Puppies need to have that higher caloric
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Speaker 3: intake so that they can grow. Their little tummies aren't
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Speaker 3: big enough to hold the amount of food they need
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Speaker 3: for growth, so those are important things. Of course, we
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Speaker 3: have prescription diets that veterinarians can sell that are specific
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Speaker 3: for medical conditions, and again those are very specific, so
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Speaker 3: we can treat bladderstones and diabetes and kidney failure and
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Speaker 3: joint disease. And you know, if humans ate as well
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Speaker 3: as our dogs do on these prescription foods, we'd all
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Speaker 3: be a lot healthier. Unfortunately we're not that good at it.
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Speaker 3: And then oil Canaan has a line of foods that
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Speaker 3: are breed specific, both for cats and for dogs, and
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Speaker 3: again people kind of roll their eyes a little bit
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Speaker 3: and they think, well, this is just marketing or just gimmick,
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Speaker 3: and it's really not. The Docsin diet is meant for
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Speaker 3: low long dogs that have a tendency to get too
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Speaker 3: heavy and it's not good for their backs. So corgies
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Speaker 3: do well on docks and diet. German shepherd diet works
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Speaker 3: really well for dogs that have a sensitive stomach. Those
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Speaker 3: dogs German shepherds in general streuss for their gut, so
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Speaker 3: they don't always do well on certain kinds of foods.
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Speaker 3: So this is a highly digestible diet, the most highly
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Speaker 3: justible food you can get without a prescription. Bulldog food
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Speaker 3: is like Persian cat food. They make it shape so
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Speaker 3: that those little flatter faces can pick the kibble up
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Speaker 3: off the bottom of the bowl. Labrador food has a
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Speaker 3: hole through the middle of it, so as they gulp
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Speaker 3: down their food, they swallow less air. They have all
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Speaker 3: these things really well designed, both from a nutrient perspective
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Speaker 3: and from the shape of the kibble and the size
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Speaker 3: of the kibble so that they're more specific for breeds.
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Speaker 3: So if you're having a particular problem with food, are
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Speaker 3: you not sure? Maybe you don't even know if you
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Speaker 3: have a problem. Every time you go to the vet,
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Speaker 3: your veterinary clinic is more than happy to discuss nutrition
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Speaker 3: with you. So ask the vet tech, ask the veterinarians.
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Speaker 3: Many people are well trained in nutrition, so don't hesitate
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Speaker 3: to jump in and say, hey, can you tell me
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Speaker 3: if there's a better food I should be feeding? Is
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Speaker 3: this one? Okay? You know there are people that just
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Speaker 3: don't understand nutrition, and part of the problem is when
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Speaker 3: you read the label on the food, people are reading
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Speaker 3: an ingredient list, not a nutrient profile, and so they're
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Speaker 3: a little concerned about what some of the dry kibble
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Speaker 3: has in it. And you know, there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: great marketing going on right now on TV for some
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Speaker 3: of these pet foods that aren't actually as healthy for
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Speaker 3: your pet as the marketing people at the companies would
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Speaker 3: like you to believe. So listen to your veterinary clinic.
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Speaker 3: We're you know, people say, well, you veterinarians, you all
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Speaker 3: get kickbacks. No, no, actually we don't know. And yes,
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Speaker 3: actually we do have nutritional education when we're in vet school.
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Speaker 3: So your vetex, your vets, they're all skilled at this.
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Speaker 3: So don't overlook that resource when you're looking for what
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Speaker 3: to pick for your best pet food.
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Speaker 1: Interesting when you when you mentioned, as we talked this
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Speaker 1: morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary Doctor, when
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Speaker 1: you mentioned different breeds, and you know, when you break
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Speaker 1: it down like that and different dietary needs, it really
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Speaker 1: well illustrates and we always for I think oftentimes as
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Speaker 1: pet owners, we tend to forget that there's a there's
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Speaker 1: a whole history of of these breeds and where they
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Speaker 1: came from, what they're what they were bred for over
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Speaker 1: generations and generations, sporting and those type of dogs. They
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Speaker 1: all have very unique needs all around, whether it's exercise needs,
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Speaker 1: dietary needs, that stuff. And when you explain it that way,
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Speaker 1: it starts to make perfect sense. I let me ask
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Speaker 1: you about that too, different dogs, different exercise regimens. That
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Speaker 1: is that another area that maybe pet owners need to
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Speaker 1: really be aware of when they're oh about dogs.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, especially we've talked about this before, but especially the
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Speaker 3: break Thesecephalis's short face breeds like the Frenchies, the bulldogs
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Speaker 3: of course, the Frenchies and Emby one breed right now,
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of them out there. So we have
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Speaker 3: to be very careful in warm weather, hot weather, humid weather,
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Speaker 3: that we're not overdoing it for those pets. You don't
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Speaker 3: want to go out and run the lawnmower and have
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Speaker 3: the dog follow you through the yard every time you
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Speaker 3: make a pass, because we see dogs that come in
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Speaker 3: just heat exhaustion from things like that. So you want
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Speaker 3: to be careful and you want to be smart, be
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Speaker 3: careful when the weather's really hot, that if you're going
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Speaker 3: to take the dog out on the asphalt, that you
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Speaker 3: place your hand on the asphalt and hold it there
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Speaker 3: for five seconds and see how that feels to you
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Speaker 3: before you take your dog on a walk or to
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Speaker 3: the farmer's market or you know whatever.
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Speaker 1: I mean.
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Speaker 3: It's really fun to take our dogs places, but you
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Speaker 3: have to be smart about it. Be careful swimming certain
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Speaker 3: times a year, we see blue green blue green allergy
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Speaker 3: this time of year that can be toxic so be thoughtful,
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Speaker 3: be smart, and you know, just be careful with your pets.
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Speaker 3: Care because although they may really look like they're having
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Speaker 3: a good time, they don't have great judgment. Sometimes you
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Speaker 3: just have to put the brakes on. They're like your kids.
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Speaker 3: You know, enough, yeah, enough.
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Speaker 1: You gotta stop. One of the things I love about
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Speaker 1: my little Chiuala, I see's a leisurely walker. It's a stroll.
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Speaker 1: We're not not in any particular hurry. But yeah, it's
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Speaker 1: really good stuff. I want to ask you to and
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Speaker 1: I mentioned ask you about blood work. I want to
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Speaker 1: ask you about that, and it will do that in
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Speaker 1: just a moment as we talk with doctor Marty Greer.
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Speaker 1: Of course, doctor Grear comes to us from check Out
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Speaker 1: Veterinary the website checkout vet dot com. That's check out
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. Of course, doctor Marty Greer the twenty
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Speaker 1: twenty three Veterinarian of the Year from Westminster Kennel Club.
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Speaker 1: And of course we get the chance to talk with
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Speaker 1: doctor Greer each and every Thursday at eight thirty. Don't
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Speaker 1: forget if you miss any part of the show, you
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Speaker 1: can always listen back to the podcast. You can subscribe
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Speaker 1: as well online at WIBA dot com. We'll continue our
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Speaker 1: conversation with doctor Career next as ask the Experts with
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary continues right here on thirteen ten double U
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Speaker 1: I B A thirteen ten double U I B A
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Speaker 1: and ask the experts with Checkout Veterinary and doctor Marty Greer.
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Speaker 1: Of course, doctor Greer does come to us from Checkout Veterinary,
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Speaker 1: the website check out vet dot com. That's checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. I'm talking earlier just about different life stage
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Speaker 1: diets and also a little bit about Checkout Veterinary. What
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Speaker 1: makes it so unique? And doctor when you were talking
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Speaker 1: about I'm bringing your pet in. Some of the things that,
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Speaker 1: of course, as pet owners you want to get is
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Speaker 1: things like like blood work and other tests. What is
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Speaker 1: and I hear that term blood work obviously as a
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Speaker 1: pet owner, I've seen my pets, my dog's blood and
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Speaker 1: cat's blood be drawn before. What are you looking for there?
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Speaker 1: What's how does that, how does that all work? What's
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Speaker 1: going on there? And is it a is it a
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Speaker 1: very helpful useful tool?
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Speaker 3: Sure? And that's a great question. So there's a lot
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Speaker 3: of things that we test. Probably the one thing that
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Speaker 3: most people hear the most frequently is about the heartworm test,
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Speaker 3: So we do a test frequently, usually once a year,
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Speaker 3: a heartroom test, and many clinics are also running a
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Speaker 3: test that includes lime disease, anaplasmosis, and er lichia, and
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Speaker 3: those are kind of a mouthful. A lot of people
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Speaker 3: know what lime disease is. It's a tick born disease
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Speaker 3: that can cause arthritis. We can see kidney failure from it.
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Speaker 3: It's a pretty serious disease. So we want to make
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Speaker 3: sure that if our pets are exposed to ticks that
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Speaker 3: are carrying anaplasmosis, aer lichia, or lime disease, that we're
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Speaker 3: testing for it and diagnosing it early enough before the
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Speaker 3: pet has symptoms that we can treat that and eliminate
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Speaker 3: it from their system. Some dogs, once they're positive for
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Speaker 3: lime disease, and sometimes for the other two as well,
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Speaker 3: anaplaus and air lichia, they may be positive for many years. Now.
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Speaker 3: There's an additional follow up test that is run right now.
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Speaker 3: It's just run by one lab. It's called a C six.
15:44
Speaker 3: It's a confirmatory test that tells you what level of
15:47
Speaker 3: lime disease exposure your pet has. So if it's under thirty,
15:51
Speaker 3: it's an old infection and something in the past, maybe
15:53
Speaker 3: two years ago they were exposed and you cleared it
15:55
Speaker 3: with antibiotics. But if it's above thirty and we've seen
15:59
Speaker 3: them as hot is eight hundred that these pets have
16:02
Speaker 3: a pretty serious and active infection to lime disease. So
16:05
Speaker 3: we need to get a handle on that before they
16:06
Speaker 3: go into kidney failure or end up with other organ dysfunction.
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Speaker 3: So that's the test we most commonly know about. Of course,
16:12
Speaker 3: heartworm disease. Heartworm is really a worm that lives in
16:15
Speaker 3: the dog's heart. Not commonly seen in Wisconsin. It's more
16:18
Speaker 3: common in the dogs that come from the South, so
16:20
Speaker 3: a lot of the rescue dogs that come up from
16:22
Speaker 3: the southern tier of States are positive for heartworm. That
16:25
Speaker 3: again can be treated if we get it diagnosed and
16:27
Speaker 3: taken care of early enough. So important that you're doing
16:30
Speaker 3: that test every year. People want to push back and say, well,
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Speaker 3: do I have to really do it? I'm giving my
16:34
Speaker 3: heart room preventive, And the answer is heartworm preventive. Sometimes fail,
16:37
Speaker 3: your dog spits it out behind the couch, they vomit
16:39
Speaker 3: it up, you forget a lot of things happen, So
16:41
Speaker 3: it is recommended that that test is done annually. Now,
16:44
Speaker 3: a lot of dogs, as long as we're drawing that blood,
16:46
Speaker 3: we will run a summer wellness on them. So it
16:49
Speaker 3: does a CBC and a chemistry panel. A CBC is
16:53
Speaker 3: exactly what it is in humans. It checks three different
16:55
Speaker 3: kinds of blood counts. It checks the red blood cell
16:58
Speaker 3: count which measures for anemia, It checks a white blood
17:01
Speaker 3: cell count that checks for infection, and it checks a
17:03
Speaker 3: platelet count that checks for blood clotting. And Erlikia is
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Speaker 3: one of the tick born diseases that can make the
17:08
Speaker 3: platelet count drop and cause the dog to have hemorrhage,
17:12
Speaker 3: sometimes under the skin, sometimes overtly, so again that's important
17:16
Speaker 3: that we're monitoring that. And then the chemistry panel checks
17:20
Speaker 3: liver function, kidney function, checks for diabetes, checks electrolytes, so
17:25
Speaker 3: it checks for an array of different organ functions, metabolic
17:28
Speaker 3: diseases that we see in pets, young pets, and old pets.
17:31
Speaker 3: It doesn't have to be just an older pet that
17:33
Speaker 3: can have those problems. And it's very similar to the
17:35
Speaker 3: blood panel that your physician would order for you on
17:38
Speaker 3: an annual basis when you go in for health care.
17:41
Speaker 3: Sometimes we'll also check for thyrid disease. So it just depends.
17:45
Speaker 3: You know, if your pet's over age seven, we're probably
17:47
Speaker 3: going to be checking for that. So it depends on
17:48
Speaker 3: the age of the pet, it depends on what we're
17:50
Speaker 3: seeing on physical exam or your history of what kind
17:53
Speaker 3: of changes you're seeing. So those are all really commonly
17:56
Speaker 3: done tests. We're happy to share those test results with people.
17:59
Speaker 3: The problem is sometimes you look at those numbers and
18:02
Speaker 3: if you see something that looks a little bit off,
18:04
Speaker 3: you don't know if that's something to be a little
18:05
Speaker 3: concerned about, or not concerned at all, or a lot
18:07
Speaker 3: concerned about. You know, if the glucose is high, I'm
18:09
Speaker 3: going to get a lot more concerned than if when
18:11
Speaker 3: of the deliver inzimes is high in a fourteen year
18:13
Speaker 3: old dog. Many dogs that are in the fourteen year
18:16
Speaker 3: old category will have an elevated olcross because it goes
18:18
Speaker 3: up with arthritis. So yeah, those are things that as
18:21
Speaker 3: a veterinarian, I'm going to shrug my shoulder and say
18:23
Speaker 3: I'm not too worried about it. But you may look
18:25
Speaker 3: at that number and not really know how to interpret it.
18:27
Speaker 3: It's sort of like on EPIC when you go to
18:29
Speaker 3: your physician and they give you your results on EPIC through
18:31
Speaker 3: my chart. You look at it and you're you know, like, oh,
18:34
Speaker 3: like your hair catches on fire because you go is
18:37
Speaker 3: this bad?
18:38
Speaker 2: Like is this serious?
18:38
Speaker 1: To get to it? Yeah, exactly.
18:40
Speaker 3: So you want to make sure that your veterinarian or
18:42
Speaker 3: your veterinary technician is helping you with the interpretation. Don't
18:45
Speaker 3: go off the rails and start googling everything because you'll
18:47
Speaker 3: make yourself crazy doing that. Let's song.
18:49
Speaker 1: I want to ask you then about pet owner vet relationships.
18:53
Speaker 1: Is obviously we focus a lot on pets and their experience.
18:58
Speaker 1: Having that good relationship and that ability to communicate well
19:02
Speaker 1: with your vet's that's a big priority, is it.
19:05
Speaker 3: Oh yeah, we are part of the family when it
19:07
Speaker 3: comes to medical care. So I you know, people will
19:10
Speaker 3: call us that say my vet. Well, you know a
19:12
Speaker 3: lot of people's vets. But yeah, I'm glad you think
19:15
Speaker 3: of me that, right. But it's really important that you
19:17
Speaker 3: do have that good relationship that and you need to
19:19
Speaker 3: be kind and polite to everyone on the veterinary team.
19:23
Speaker 3: Call and be nice to the reception is be nice
19:25
Speaker 3: to the technician, you know, don't be that person that
19:27
Speaker 3: calls up and is difficult to manage, and then think
19:30
Speaker 3: that when you get in front of the doctor that
19:32
Speaker 3: you can make all that up by being nicely nice,
19:34
Speaker 3: because you know what, we all know what's going on. Yeah,
19:36
Speaker 3: And if you have something that your veterinary staff member
19:40
Speaker 3: especially went out of their way for, thank them for it.
19:43
Speaker 3: Take them up plate of cookies. It doesn't have to
19:45
Speaker 3: be anything fancy or expensive. Take them up plate of cookies.
19:48
Speaker 3: Buy a pizza for lunch someday. Many days they don't
19:51
Speaker 3: get a break for lunch. They don't get out on
19:52
Speaker 3: time at the end of the day to get home
19:54
Speaker 3: and get their kids to soccer practice. They don't get
19:56
Speaker 3: their errands run. You know, don't and don't tackle them
19:59
Speaker 3: at the grocery store.
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Speaker 2: You see them, they're like space, Yeah, exactly, like oh,
20:03
Speaker 2: just say hi to them, but don't you know, don't
20:05
Speaker 2: corner them and say hey, I have just a great
20:08
Speaker 2: question which turns into twenty five minutes later.
20:10
Speaker 3: It's not such a quick question. But be really kind
20:12
Speaker 3: to everyone at the veterinary clinic. They all have your
20:14
Speaker 3: pet's best interest in mind, and if you are kind
20:17
Speaker 3: to them, they will help you out when you need
20:19
Speaker 3: something managed. Because at some point your pet is going
20:22
Speaker 3: to have some kind of a crisis. I never want
20:25
Speaker 3: to see that that happens, but at some point, and
20:27
Speaker 3: I'll tell you that the most heartfelt thank yous that
20:30
Speaker 3: we ever get from a client is after a euthanasia.
20:33
Speaker 3: And to me, that's really touching because we know how
20:37
Speaker 3: important that if it goes well, that is how important
20:41
Speaker 3: that is to a pet owner to see that end
20:44
Speaker 3: of life care being done well for their pet. So
20:48
Speaker 3: you know, please please just be aware of that. And
20:51
Speaker 3: speaking of that, we do have a new book in
20:53
Speaker 3: our practices called Promises to My Pet, so we carry
20:57
Speaker 3: that at the practice. If you do need some help
20:59
Speaker 3: with making some of those decisions, you can buy it
21:02
Speaker 3: online at Amazon. But please realize that your veterinary clinic
21:06
Speaker 3: is there to help with those kinds of decisions, and
21:07
Speaker 3: their veterinary team is there to support you when you're
21:11
Speaker 3: making decisions. So if you have a quality of life decision,
21:14
Speaker 3: bring it up and talk about it. Your vet wants
21:16
Speaker 3: to help you.
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Speaker 1: Really good day to start that relationship, start that conversation.
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