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Getting "Catty" with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Eight thirty eight thirteen ten Wiba and ask the experts.
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Speaker 1: Brought you by Checkout Veterinary Join this morning by doctor
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Speaker 1: Mardy Greer. Of course, doctor Greer is recognized by the
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Speaker 1: Westminster Kennel Club as Veterinarian of the Year. You can
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Speaker 1: learn more about doctor Greer. You can learn more about
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary all on their website checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Don't forget that first visit
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Speaker 1: that exam. It is free and they are open seven
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Speaker 1: days a week at checkout vet. Super convenient location, super
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Speaker 1: convenient setup. It is a phenomenal, phenomenal clinic. Again, you
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Speaker 1: can learn more online checkout vet dot com. It is
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Speaker 1: a fantastic day to start that relationship at checkout Vet. Oh,
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Speaker 1: I can just pick up phone, gave a call six
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Speaker 1: oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six
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Speaker 1: oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. They're located
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Speaker 1: Sun Prairie, right off the highway, right near the interstate.
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Speaker 1: So basically, if you hear our voice right now, if
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Speaker 1: you are in the area, you are near checkout Vet
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Speaker 1: and the docs would love to see you at Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: A great day to start that relationship. And speaking of
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Speaker 1: the doctors at Checkout Veterinary, the one and only doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer joins us. Doctor, how you doing this week?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Thank goodness, there's only one you are.
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Speaker 1: One of the things I love is obviously getting a
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Speaker 1: chance to talk with you each and every week on
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Speaker 1: the show. I also like getting to chat with you
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Speaker 1: a little bit when we're off the air, and I
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Speaker 1: really you know, the one of the things I really
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Speaker 1: enjoy about that is like just I got a question,
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Speaker 1: You've got an answer, And I really like that just
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Speaker 1: kind of that back and forth and just how comfortable
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Speaker 1: you are with talking about what you do, pet healthcare
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Speaker 1: and those type of things. And I know that that
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Speaker 1: that type of approach really runs throughout the clinic. I
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Speaker 1: know that's an important thing for you, is to really
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Speaker 1: have good conversation and good relationship with your patients and
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Speaker 1: their and patients and their families. I guess probably the
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Speaker 1: best way to phrase that.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And we feel pretty strongly that that's how we
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Speaker 2: select our team members, our doctors, and our staff, and
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Speaker 2: that that's a really important one of our core values.
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Speaker 2: But we work really hard at that. So I appreciate
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Speaker 2: hearing that, because you don't always hear the good stuff.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes you don't hear, you know, the complaints. I flew
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Speaker 2: last weekend and I at the airport, and I'm thinking,
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Speaker 2: I would not want to work in that hospitality industry
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Speaker 2: or in the airline industry, because does anybody ever say
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Speaker 2: anything nice about their flight? You were late, it was cold,
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Speaker 2: it was hot, you didn't bring me the drink I wanted.
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Speaker 2: You know, there's just a lot of negativity when you travel.
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Speaker 2: So we work really hard to have a positive environment
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Speaker 2: for the pets, and we work really hard for that
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Speaker 2: as well for the owners and the client. Our goal
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Speaker 2: is to establish a treatment care plan that really worked
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Speaker 2: for you and your pet, regardless of what your resources are.
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Speaker 2: Resources may be money, it may be time, it may
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Speaker 2: be you know, skill set. If you can't give your
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Speaker 2: cat a pill, well then we need to find another
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Speaker 2: way for you to medicate your cat. If your dog
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Speaker 2: is really sick and you have to know what your
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Speaker 2: treatment options are, we want to help you determine what
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Speaker 2: makes most sense, because there's no reason to do a
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Speaker 2: bunch of diagnostics that you're not going to do anything
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Speaker 2: to follow up on the answer that you find. So
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Speaker 2: we work really hard to make sure that those things
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Speaker 2: are happening. And I'm very proud of my doctor team
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Speaker 2: and my technician and lay staff teams that they understand
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Speaker 2: that is their core value and their their goals.
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Speaker 1: And you guys do such a great job with it.
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Speaker 1: And that's that's why. You know, we always talk about
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Speaker 1: starting that relationship, and it is a relationship, and it's
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Speaker 1: a really great day to start their relationship, start that conversation.
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Speaker 1: All I got to do is pick up phone, give
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Speaker 1: them a call. Doctor Greer, and the doctors and the
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Speaker 1: whole team at checkout fat would love to see you.
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Speaker 1: They'd really love to see your pet. All you got
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Speaker 1: to do is give them a call. Six eight three
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Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. That's six eight three one eight sixty
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Speaker 1: seven hundred. Learn more online check out vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's check out vet dot com. You know, earlier this week, doctor,
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Speaker 1: we were talking about about getting our our pets outside,
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Speaker 1: and of course we get warmer weather start talking about panting,
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Speaker 1: and it kind of brought we were kind of wondering
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Speaker 1: about I think all of us are familiar you take
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Speaker 1: your dog, especially on a warmer day, for a walk,
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Speaker 1: or they're out in the out in the warmer temperatures,
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Speaker 1: you'll start to see him pant. And I said, I
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Speaker 1: don't know that. And I've had cats pretty much my
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Speaker 1: whole life. I can only remember one time where I've
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Speaker 1: ever remembered any of my cats panting, and it wasn't
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Speaker 1: heat related. It was my cat, Bailey, one of the
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Speaker 1: best pets I ever had, was staring out the window,
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Speaker 1: had his head, his mouth open and is kind of
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Speaker 1: doing a little panting. And I look him like, what
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Speaker 1: is because I'm all automatically concerned that there's something going
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Speaker 1: on with them, And I look and there's a darn
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Speaker 1: chipmunk outside the window, and Bailey just wanted to find
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Speaker 1: a way to get out there. Do cats pant, doctor,
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Speaker 1: They almost never pant.
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Speaker 2: What you said is probably not quite panting, but more
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Speaker 2: just a throwing a rousal, because they'll open their mouth
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Speaker 2: and they'll chatter and they just some kind of funny
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Speaker 2: things and they're on that prey drive kind of thing.
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Speaker 2: But if a cat is panting, if a cat is
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Speaker 2: open mouth breathing, you're in trouble. A dog would if
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Speaker 2: a dog with respiratory problems would tell you like, I
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Speaker 2: can't breathe. I need to open I open my mouth
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Speaker 2: to breathe on a little show of breath. A dog
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Speaker 2: would tell you that A cat will not. A cat
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Speaker 2: will wait until the last possible second till every ALVEO listen,
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Speaker 2: their lung is squished, and then they're going to tell
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Speaker 2: you they're in trouble. So we can rarely see asthma
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Speaker 2: in cats. It's pretty rare. We almost never see it
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Speaker 2: in dogs, and we rarely see it in cats. So
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Speaker 2: more common in cats than dogs, but not at all common.
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Speaker 2: If it happens, it's really serious. And the other thing
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Speaker 2: that we can see with cats that can cause them
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Speaker 2: to open mouth breathe is fluid in the chest around
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Speaker 2: the lungs. So those are the two most common. My
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Speaker 2: first year out of that school, I worked at an
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Speaker 2: emergency clinic in Milwaukee, and that's when it was one
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Speaker 2: little emergency clinic and it wasn't very well developed as
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Speaker 2: a field yet, and I would expect that every Saturday night,
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Speaker 2: by ten o'clock, I would have a cat that would
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Speaker 2: come through the door sometime on Saturday with a chest
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Speaker 2: full of fluid, and if that happens, there's no good
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Speaker 2: cargnosis for any of those things. So please, if you're
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Speaker 2: worried that your cat isn't breathing, well get them in
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Speaker 2: sooner rather than later. Do not wait because cats will
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Speaker 2: lie to you. They will. They're prey, so they're at
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Speaker 2: the bottom of the food chain, so they're going to
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Speaker 2: pretend that they're fine until they can't pretend anymore. So
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Speaker 2: if your cat is having any difficulty with breathing, get
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Speaker 2: them in and have X rays taken out of your
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Speaker 2: cat immediately. Do not wait until you're in bigger trouble.
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Speaker 2: But anyway, by ten o'clock on Saturday night, I would
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Speaker 2: expect to see a cat come through the door, if
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Speaker 2: not more than one with a chest full of fluid,
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Speaker 2: because that's how common that it is, and when it
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Speaker 2: does happen, it is serious. So pay close attention to
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Speaker 2: your cat, listen to what they're telling you. Hairballs are
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Speaker 2: a different thing, and that can be a little bit
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Speaker 2: confusing because when a cat is a hairball, it sounds
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Speaker 2: like it's dying. It puts its neck out, it looks
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Speaker 2: like a turtle, It sticks its tongue up, and it
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Speaker 2: does this weird, wheezy noise, and honestly, the first time
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Speaker 2: you see it, you're pretty sure your cat's going to
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Speaker 2: keel or whatever. Unfortunately, that's usually a hairball, and if
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Speaker 2: you can give them some hairball medication like a lacks
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Speaker 2: that are in a tube, that usually resolved it. Even
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Speaker 2: if they're not vomiting a pair balls. That is a
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Speaker 2: very common cause of what we see that looks like
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Speaker 2: respiratory distress in the cat. But it's a whole different thing.
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Speaker 2: So I'm going to just tell you put this in
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Speaker 2: your DNA. It doesn't matter if it's a dog or
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Speaker 2: a cat or whatever it is. If you see your
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Speaker 2: pet doing something that you're concerned about that doesn't seem normal,
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Speaker 2: pull your phone out of your pocket and get some video.
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Speaker 2: Capture that video, and then you can email it, send
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Speaker 2: it to the clinic, take it in when you go
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Speaker 2: for your appointment, and have your veterinarian see it. Because
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Speaker 2: a lot of these episodes of things don't happen repeatedly,
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Speaker 2: and they certainly don't happen on command. So when you
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Speaker 2: get to the vat they're not doing what they were
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Speaker 2: doing at home, and you kind of feel like, how
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Speaker 2: do I describe this, and do they really think that
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Speaker 2: I saw this or am I crazy? So just grab
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Speaker 2: your phone, like I said, put it in your d
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Speaker 2: and I do not miss the opportunity to grab the phone.
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Speaker 2: Get some video. If your pet is limping, slow motion
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Speaker 2: video is even better. You know, we have those settings
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Speaker 2: on our phone so you can pull up some video
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Speaker 2: and know what's your veterinarians, if it's a lameness, if
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Speaker 2: it's a seizure, if it's if it's breathing weird, if
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Speaker 2: it's coughing funny, any of those things. Take take video
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Speaker 2: because it's really helpful to your vet and your vet
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Speaker 2: pack to see what you saw because you can't recreate it.
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Speaker 1: It that that's it, and that's that's great advice and
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Speaker 1: great guidance as always, and and we forget, you know
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Speaker 1: what an amazing tool we have with our smartphones and
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Speaker 1: having that that camera on hand at all times. And
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Speaker 1: I also know, you know, as somebody, I think we've
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Speaker 1: all experienced this with you know, something happens with our
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Speaker 1: pat and we kind of go in that pan and
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Speaker 1: for good reason, we go, as as as their guardians,
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Speaker 1: into that panic mode. And our brains aren't always you know,
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Speaker 1: taking those necessary you know, those those observations that may
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Speaker 1: normally be there or like like we obviously we'd also
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Speaker 1: don't know exactly what we're watching for as we're more
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Speaker 1: concerned with is my pet all right? Less about like
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Speaker 1: well was it was? Did it appear to be like
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Speaker 1: a lean or what those tides? So, yeah, the phone
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Speaker 1: is is that's a that's a really good advice. And
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Speaker 1: doctor two, when you mentioned kats and hairballs, are occasional
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Speaker 1: hairballs with cats normal like like if they get like
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Speaker 1: you know, one once a month or so.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's pretty common, especially as a long haired cats.
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Speaker 2: So using a metal tiss comb can really be helpful
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Speaker 2: in getting rid of the loose hair and you know,
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Speaker 2: just putting them on a maintenance of a laxative type
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Speaker 2: of medication or hairball diet. They make hairball diets which
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Speaker 2: are high in fiber that can be very helpful in
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Speaker 2: getting the hairballs to pass through the GI tracks, So
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Speaker 2: that's really useful. And then the tube lacks that is
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Speaker 2: they're basically petroleum jelly, which is vacline that's flavored with malt,
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Speaker 2: so the cats will eat them and you can take
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Speaker 2: it and just let them squirt right out of the
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Speaker 2: tube and into their mouth, or you can put it
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Speaker 2: down in the front of their legs and they can
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Speaker 2: groom it off. And that's a really good way to
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Speaker 2: control hairballs. So our treatment if you have a hairball,
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Speaker 2: or you think you have a hairball and it's not
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Speaker 2: going to hurt if you're not sure, is to give
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Speaker 2: a quarter of a tube of the cat laxative and
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Speaker 2: you can give the pet, Story Amazon whatever quarter of
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Speaker 2: a tube once a day for four days, and that
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Speaker 2: you usually we'll get the hairball problem under control. And
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Speaker 2: then you go to a maintenance of so like once
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Speaker 2: a week and you know, a couple of sports of it,
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Speaker 2: and that will help the hairball. Diet's help a lot.
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Speaker 2: So there's a lot of things that you can do.
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Speaker 2: And if you've done those things that are already and
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Speaker 2: ruled out that it's not a hairball. And just you know,
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Speaker 2: cats can vomit, and they can vomit from a hairball,
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Speaker 2: but not vomit the hair off. And so that's where
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Speaker 2: it gets to be confusing again, is that it may
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Speaker 2: obstruct their ability to have the food move out of
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Speaker 2: their stomach, so they vomit it. But the hair doesn't
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Speaker 2: come with it, so it's sometimes a little hard to
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Speaker 2: make these diagnoses. And that's the tricky thing about pass
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Speaker 2: especially because like I said, they're really good at faking it.
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Speaker 2: So you know, just make all the observations, you can
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Speaker 2: take notes, do those things. Video is also really helpful
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Speaker 2: if you're trying to time the length of something that happened, because,
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Speaker 2: for instance, if your pet has a seizure, it seems
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Speaker 2: like it takes it ten minutes to recover, and it's
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Speaker 2: really like a minute and a half, but it seems
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Speaker 2: like a lot longer when it's your pet and it's
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Speaker 2: happening in front of you. So the video helps the
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Speaker 2: time stamp, the date, the time stamp, the length of time,
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Speaker 2: the documentation, all those things. And I have to tell
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Speaker 2: you a really funny story. I had a client that
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Speaker 2: came in one day with his dog, and his dog
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Speaker 2: it had some loose stool and he had taken a
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Speaker 2: photograph of it, which I get a lot of. I
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Speaker 2: get a lot of people that take pictures of the
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Speaker 2: vomit or the the diarrhea or whatever they're seeing. They
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Speaker 2: take pictures of it, which is great because then I've
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Speaker 2: got documentation. But I looked at the photographs and on
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Speaker 2: the graph next to where the stool was, there was
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Speaker 2: a ruler. And I looked at it and I said,
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Speaker 2: I looked at it again, and I looked at him
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Speaker 2: and I said, and this is And he said, oh,
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry, I'm a retired cop. And I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 2: I got them, like he was documenting evidence. So I
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Speaker 2: have now raised the bar from my other clients, like,
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Speaker 2: if you're going to take a photograph, I don't want
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Speaker 2: a ruler and the picture with it, or put a
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Speaker 2: nickel in there, or put something in that can help
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Speaker 2: me quantify the size of it. I just cracked up.
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Speaker 2: That was the funniest picture that I think I've ever
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Speaker 2: had a client share with me. Now I see some
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Speaker 2: really cute pictures, don't get me wrong, Yes, but it
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Speaker 2: was pretty hystorical.
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Speaker 1: That is very funny. I'm talking this morning with doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Grew. I almost want to frame that one and
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Speaker 1: hang it in the A nice little conversation.
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Speaker 2: Start, for sure, Yes, photo, I need to keep it. Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it's very funny.
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinarian,
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Speaker 1: the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: Doctor does seem like with cats. As we're kind of
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Speaker 1: talking a little bit about cat health is a lot
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Speaker 1: of times people view them as small dogs, and obviously
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Speaker 1: they are. They have very very different needs and as
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Speaker 1: somebody who has both both cats and a dog. One
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Speaker 1: of the things, and I think you may have mentioned
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Speaker 1: this also, I love watching like nature and I'll watch
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Speaker 1: like the cats in this era and those type of
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Speaker 1: things that the big cats and you notice that there's
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Speaker 1: dry months. And the thing that I have always noticed
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Speaker 1: is cats don't always and I think you have mentioned
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Speaker 1: this as well in preview shows, don't always drink as
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Speaker 1: much uh just liquid water. Of course, they typically in
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Speaker 1: the wild would be getting a lot of their their
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Speaker 1: moisture hydration from pray. Do things like wet foods and
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Speaker 1: other things really help keep the cats hydrated, especially this
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Speaker 1: time of year, it does.
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Speaker 2: And so you can add some water to the can
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Speaker 2: cat food, but don't put water in the dry food.
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Speaker 2: Cats do not like their dry food hydrated with water.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people with their dogs, they float their food.
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Speaker 2: They put food in the bowl and then they float
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Speaker 2: it with water because they want the dog to slow down.
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Speaker 2: And it's eating, they want it to take in more water.
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Speaker 2: They want the food to swell up in the bowl
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Speaker 2: instead of in their stomach. So there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: reasons that people do that, but cats don't tolerate that. Well. Yes,
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Speaker 2: you can certainly add it to the canned food the
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Speaker 2: other things that you can do for cats, Or you
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Speaker 2: can get one of those drinking fountains for the cats
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Speaker 2: because they like running water. If you have a cat
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Speaker 2: that likes to drink out of the sink or the bathtub,
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Speaker 2: just leave that water dripping so that they have access
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Speaker 2: to it. And that a lot of cats really like
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Speaker 2: sitting on the bathroom counter and you know, playing in
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Speaker 2: the water stream and drinking it. And then you can
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Speaker 2: do things like take chicken broth look sodium chicken broth
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Speaker 2: and freeze it into ice cubes and then float that
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Speaker 2: in your cat's water bowl, because then you've got flavored water.
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Speaker 2: So if you're used to cat like chicken, you can
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Speaker 2: do most of them chicken broth. As your catles fish,
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Speaker 2: you can take the water pactoona, not that oil pactoona,
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Speaker 2: and save the water off of it and again, you know,
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Speaker 2: dilute that down and freeze it into ice cubes. So
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of really fun things that you can
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Speaker 2: do for your pets. The dogs like ice cubes too.
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Speaker 2: We call those water bones, so you can have lots
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Speaker 2: of fun. I actually have one client that had great games,
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Speaker 2: and one of her great games knew how to use
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Speaker 2: the ice cube dispenser on the freeze fridge in her kitchen.
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Speaker 2: She had three great games and she came home one
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Speaker 2: day in the kitchen floor was just covered with ice cubes.
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Speaker 2: So they had clearly had a little bit of a party.
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Speaker 2: But dogs do love the ice cubes. Cats love them.
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Speaker 2: So there's some really fun things that you can do
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Speaker 2: to just make it, you know, a little bit more
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Speaker 2: of as an enjoyment kind of thing for pets to drink,
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Speaker 2: because the more they drink, the better health their kidneys have.
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Speaker 1: Fanta that's a great great tips and that's good to
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Speaker 1: hear as well as we talk about staying hydrated of course,
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Speaker 1: and your pets hydrated during these warm days, and of
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Speaker 1: course talking this morning when doctor Martin Greer, doctor Reer
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Speaker 1: that relationship and start that conversation at checkout veterinary er
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Speaker 1: telphone number six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's six eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. And
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Speaker 1: of course the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. I was gonna go to a break,
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Speaker 1: but Katie briefly stepped away, and I will ask you
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Speaker 1: this then as we're talking doctor about a little bit
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Speaker 1: about about cats and and and staying hydrit other things
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Speaker 1: with cat. Things you had mentioned the other week, I
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Speaker 1: think was last week on the show, when somebody had
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Speaker 1: commented to me they said, do they make there are
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Speaker 1: for diabetic cats? There are treatments that don't involve injections.
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Speaker 1: Did I hear that right? And did they hear that right?
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Speaker 1: I thought you said there were, yes, Yes, there is.
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Speaker 2: There are two new oral medications that are on the market.
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Speaker 2: The one we've got our patients on it is called
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Speaker 2: Be's the Cat. It's a tablet. It's a small tablet
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Speaker 2: that's meant to be just taken by the cat willingly,
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Speaker 2: but it typically is just take it right out of
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Speaker 2: your hand. It's given once every twenty four hours. Now,
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Speaker 2: there are some pretty restrictions on which cats qualify for
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Speaker 2: that treatment. They're supposed to be under thirteen years of age,
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Speaker 2: they should not have keytones in their urine, and they
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Speaker 2: should have not previously been on influence. So you can't
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Speaker 2: take a cat it was on influent and switch them
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Speaker 2: to this. But a newly diagnosed diabetic cat can do
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Speaker 2: very very well on this product, Doctor Amen and I
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Speaker 2: have a couple of cats on it, and cats are
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Speaker 2: kind of interesting with their diabetes. When a job becomes diabetic,
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Speaker 2: it's forever. When a cat becomes diabetic, it can be transient.
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Speaker 2: It can resolve on its own. In some cases, maybe
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Speaker 2: ten percent of the cases get better and not need
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Speaker 2: long term insulin or long term bex the cat. So
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Speaker 2: it's actually pretty cool that we have this option. A
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Speaker 2: lot of people are very needlephobic and they find that
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Speaker 2: their pet is diabetic and it just sort of puts
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Speaker 2: them over the edge. And it's a shame to me
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Speaker 2: to see somebody that doesn't feel like they can manage
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Speaker 2: insulin injections. So this is a nice alternative. We don't
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Speaker 2: have that for dogs, but we do for cats. But
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Speaker 2: if your pet is diagnosed as diabetic, we're going to
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Speaker 2: work really hard to teach you to give the injections,
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Speaker 2: how to manage them. And those little libra and meters,
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Speaker 2: those little in things that you see people on the
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Speaker 2: back of their arms that help them to see what
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Speaker 2: their blood sugar is so they can see it on
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Speaker 2: their phone. We can put those on cats and dogs also,
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Speaker 2: so they they'll last two weeks. That way, you can
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Speaker 2: be in bed, or you can be at work or whatever,
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Speaker 2: and you can check your pets insulin or glucose level
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Speaker 2: from your phone distantly. So there's some really interesting technologies
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Speaker 2: that we have now that we haven't had in the past.
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Speaker 2: But if you have a newly diagnosed diabetic cat and
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Speaker 2: it's a thirteen and it's not ketotic, that can be
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Speaker 2: a really good treatment option for people that are afraid
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Speaker 2: of using needles. Now, the needles we use when we
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Speaker 2: do influence are any bitty teeny. We need little needles,
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Speaker 2: and that usually we end up having the pet we
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Speaker 2: put a bullet food down in front of them and
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Speaker 2: while they're eating, we give the injection, whether it's aodag
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Speaker 2: or a cat. And the advantages for that is twofold.
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Speaker 2: One is you don't want to give the insulin if
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Speaker 2: your pet isn't feeling good enough to eat that day,
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Speaker 2: because you could drop their footboms too low. So number one,
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Speaker 2: you want to make sure that they're eating. Number two,
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Speaker 2: they're pretty distracted by their food. Most diabetic patients are
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Speaker 2: pretty hungry, so they'll typically dive into foods fairly quickly,
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Speaker 2: and while they're eating the food, you can give the injection.
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Speaker 2: It's like I said, a tiny needle. You give it
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Speaker 2: over the shoulder. It's behind their ears where they can't
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Speaker 2: see what they're doing. And if they're adequately distracted, most
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Speaker 2: of them don't even react. So the first two or
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Speaker 2: two day it might be a little nerve wracking to
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Speaker 2: give the injections, and after that people become accustomed to it.
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Speaker 2: Very quickly and they do a great job.
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Speaker 1: Oh that's great. It's great to hear that as well
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