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Getting to Know Your Vet with Dr. Greer from Checkout Vet · 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. Brought twenty us this morning
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  Speaker 1: from Checkout Veterinary is doctor Marty Greer, of course, recognized
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  Speaker 1: as Veterinarian of the Year by Westminster Kennel Club. You
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  Speaker 1: can learn more about doctor Greer and everyone at Checkout
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary on their website checkout vet dot com. That's check
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  Speaker 1: out vet dot com. Great data to start a new
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  Speaker 1: relationship and get your pet on into checkout Vet. Don't
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  Speaker 1: forget that first visit. It's free, that exam is free,
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  Speaker 1: and give them a call. Six so eight three one
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  Speaker 1: eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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  Speaker 1: Convenient location for Checkout Veterinary right at twenty seven to
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  Speaker 1: ten Prairie Lakes Drive in sun Prairie, right near the interstate,
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  Speaker 1: just off the highway, right in sun Pray. Again, very
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  Speaker 1: convenient for you and your pet, and it's right for
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  Speaker 1: doctor Greer and the other doctors. A big part of
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  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary is making it convenient because doctor, I'm guessing,
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  Speaker 1: the more convenient and the more information pet owners have,
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  Speaker 1: the more frequently they get their pet in to see you,
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  Speaker 1: and good morning by the way as.
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  Speaker 2: Well, good thanks for having me on. So yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: think that it's pretty important that people understand that, and
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  Speaker 2: we're pretty transparent about our pricing. I was just in
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  Speaker 2: the exam room two seconds ago talking to a client
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  Speaker 2: about how to get the most bang for her buck
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  Speaker 2: out of the lab work and the vaccines and the offices.
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  Speaker 2: It's in the surgery and all those things, because we
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  Speaker 2: can help structure those things to make it as cost
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  Speaker 2: effective as possible. And the other thing I want to
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  Speaker 2: say is on the first Sunday of May, which should
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  Speaker 2: be May fourth, May the fourth be with you, we're
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  Speaker 2: having our first from three to five in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: our first meet the vet, so MTV meet the mat
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  Speaker 2: at check out that so you can come in. We're
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  Speaker 2: going to have wine and cheese and a beer and
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  Speaker 2: so come in, get to see the place, get to
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  Speaker 2: meet the doctors. I'll be there, one of the other
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  Speaker 2: doctors will be there. And we want people to feel
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  Speaker 2: really comfortable with coming in, understanding the business model, understanding
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  Speaker 2: how the pet care looks to you and your pets,
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  Speaker 2: so that you really feel like we are doing what
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  Speaker 2: we are attempting to do, and I hope it comes through.
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  Speaker 2: I hope it translates in what we're trying to do
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  Speaker 2: is that we're trying to make this comfortable, affordable, accessible,
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  Speaker 2: and you know, really convenient and really low stress for everybody.
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  Speaker 2: So we're trying to hit all those marks. And we're
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  Speaker 2: really pretty client and pet centric. A lot of that
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  Speaker 2: clinics are kind of themselves centric, and we try really
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  Speaker 2: hard to be the quintessential convenient and comfortable and fear
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  Speaker 2: free and really you know, a fun, easy place for
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  Speaker 2: you to be. And we're there seven days a week,
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  Speaker 2: so we're well, we soon will be there seven days
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  Speaker 2: a week. We'll be opening on Thursdays again, as soon
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  Speaker 2: as we get our doctors all up to speed, because
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  Speaker 2: we hired some that started three weeks ago, so they're
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  Speaker 2: not quite there yet, but we're very close to being
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  Speaker 2: there on Thursdays as well. So we're there all the
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  Speaker 2: weekends and so Sunday afternoon, May fourth, from three to five,
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  Speaker 2: you can bring your pet. You cannot bring your pet.
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  Speaker 2: We're not going to schedule any appointment during that time period,
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  Speaker 2: so you wouldn't come in for a visit, but you
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  Speaker 2: would come in just to say Hi, look around, see
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  Speaker 2: the place, Meet the staff and my staff. They're amazing
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  Speaker 2: people that are really committed to the kind of care
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  Speaker 2: that we expect to be the highest level of care
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  Speaker 2: that we can provide you.
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  Speaker 1: It's a great opportunity. Again, mark that on your calendars
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  Speaker 1: and we'll be reminding you as well. That's Monday. Excuse me,
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  Speaker 1: not Monday, it's May the first. Meet the Vet from
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  Speaker 1: three until five at Checkout Veterinarian Doctor. When you talk
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  Speaker 1: about Checkout VET and the clinic literally designed from the
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  Speaker 1: ground up, I know a lot of work went into
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  Speaker 1: how exactly Checkout Veterinary and the clinic in Sun Prairie
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  Speaker 1: was going to not only operate, but how it was
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  Speaker 1: going to be conducive to low stress, less stress for
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  Speaker 1: not only the pet but for pet parents as well.
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  Speaker 1: And you guys really put a lot of work into
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  Speaker 1: the end of the design of this. Let's talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about the background of Checkout Veterinary and what
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  Speaker 1: made you decide this is the way to go. And
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  Speaker 1: I also feel like once people experience Checkout VET, they go,
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  Speaker 1: why haven't we been doing this since the dawn of time?
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  Speaker 1: Why then it always worked this way? It's a great
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  Speaker 1: model and a great design, right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, So James Harriet used to have you bring your
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  Speaker 2: dogs into the practice, or if you had a cow,
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  Speaker 2: he would drive your farm. Well, you know, that's still
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  Speaker 2: the model a lot of people are using in veterinary medicine,
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  Speaker 2: almost everybody is. But this is a completely different way
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  Speaker 2: to look at it. And I was sitting in a
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  Speaker 2: meeting one day. We'd already built the clinic in the
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  Speaker 2: Myra with three garages, but we don't use them quite
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  Speaker 2: the same way. We're not to drive in veterinary clinic
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  Speaker 2: in the Myra. But it seems so obvious to me
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  Speaker 2: sitting there that we're overbuilding veterinary clinics. We're building all
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  Speaker 2: these big buildings that are duplicating all this stuff like
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  Speaker 2: every it Like there's four clinics in Cembraaririe with X
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  Speaker 2: ray machines. We don't need four clinics with X ray machines.
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  Speaker 2: Don't you know there's several CT scanners in the city.
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  Speaker 2: We don't need that many. What we need is access
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  Speaker 2: to the care that you need for the eighty or
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  Speaker 2: ninety percent of the care that your pet needs, which
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  Speaker 2: is just going to be routine vaccinations, blood work exams
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  Speaker 2: and the basic stuff the ear infection, the diarrhea of
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  Speaker 2: the limping, the you know, the very basic stuff that
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  Speaker 2: dogs and cats experience, the urinary truct infections, and we
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  Speaker 2: can manage those very comfortably in a smaller setting with
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  Speaker 2: less financial outlay. We can make it a little more
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  Speaker 2: affordable and just make it a lot more convenient for people.
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  Speaker 2: So it just seems to me that that made sense.
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  Speaker 2: You know, every hospital doesn't need to have the ultimate
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  Speaker 2: scanning equipment because you're using it so rarely. So let's
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  Speaker 2: use our resources on the stuff that our pets need
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  Speaker 2: most frequently and give you access on the weekend. Because
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  Speaker 2: when do things go wrong, When does your dog, you know,
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  Speaker 2: go out in the park and hurt their leg, or
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  Speaker 2: when does your dog eat something that they're not supposed
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  Speaker 2: to and come in with, you know, with something going on,
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  Speaker 2: Those are the things that we need to give client
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  Speaker 2: access to, not the high level which every now and
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  Speaker 2: then in the lifetime pets need it. And no way
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  Speaker 2: am I saying we don't need those. I'm saying we
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  Speaker 2: don't need them duplicated as much.
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  Speaker 1: As we have, And that's what I mentioned. One of
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  Speaker 1: the it's always Saturday and Sunday.
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  Speaker 2: It starts a weekend. It's always a holiday, like what
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  Speaker 2: And that's the way kids are too, Like you know
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  Speaker 2: your kids are always going to do something crazy on
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  Speaker 2: a weekend. Yep.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, And that's and I know, obviously access and being there,
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  Speaker 1: that's one of the great things about Checkout Veterinarian checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet as well as the sister clinic check in Vet.
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  Speaker 1: You can learn more online the website checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Great day to start that
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  Speaker 1: relationship at checkout vetters give them a call six so
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  Speaker 1: eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one
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  Speaker 1: eight sixty seven hundred. Don't forget that first visit, that
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  Speaker 1: exam that is going to be free to you and doctor.
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  Speaker 1: I think sometimes I was, I was, you know, texting
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  Speaker 1: you before the show this morning, and I kind of
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  Speaker 1: look around for thoughts and some of the ideas for
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  Speaker 1: what we should talk about and what's kind of on
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  Speaker 1: my mind as well. And I kept seeing people asking
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  Speaker 1: about costs for pet ownership and what does it cost
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  Speaker 1: for cat or a dog on average annually? And I
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  Speaker 1: know one of the things that's really important at checkout
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  Speaker 1: veterinary is transparency is really letting, as you were talking
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  Speaker 1: about your experience with a patient just before the show
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  Speaker 1: this morning, being very open about what things cost, and
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  Speaker 1: of course also working hard to keep those costs down.
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  Speaker 1: But I think pet owners and you know, talk about
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  Speaker 1: really appreciating things. The design of checkout vet itself is great.
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  Speaker 1: The website checkout vet dot com is also fantastic because
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  Speaker 1: people can actually look and see what are the average
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  Speaker 1: costs for procedures and typical treatments at checkout Veterinary, right, And.
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  Speaker 2: I think that's really important. One of the things that
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  Speaker 2: we've really worked hard to do is negotiate good pricing
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  Speaker 2: on lab work. So in the spring and summer, when
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  Speaker 2: many people are doing their heart room tests, if you
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  Speaker 2: can combine the heart room tests with a stool sample,
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  Speaker 2: so checking for a chestno parasie, which we see a
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  Speaker 2: pretty high percentage of pets coming in with, if you
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  Speaker 2: combine the heartworm tests and the fecal sample, so you
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  Speaker 2: need to bring that along with you, then we can
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  Speaker 2: then negotiate. We have negotiated a good price for a
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  Speaker 2: CBC and a chemistry panel for the pet's lab work.
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  Speaker 2: We're drawing blood works anyway for the heartworm test, so
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  Speaker 2: we just draw a couple extra drops of blood. We've
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  Speaker 2: put it in a tube. We send it to the
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  Speaker 2: lab and we can get a CBC, which is a
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  Speaker 2: blood count that's going to tell you red blood cell count,
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  Speaker 2: white blood cell count, and platelet count. Those are the
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  Speaker 2: cells you need. And then it runs a complete chemistry panel,
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  Speaker 2: so as your pet showing signs of diabetes or kidney
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  Speaker 2: problems or liver problems or electrolyte issues or anything that's
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  Speaker 2: abnormal in there. And so for just a little over
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  Speaker 2: one hundred dollars you can get not just the heartwroom
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  Speaker 2: tests and the FeCO which normally run over one hundred each,
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  Speaker 2: but you can also get the CBC in the chemistry.
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  Speaker 2: But you have to bring this stool sample with you.
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  Speaker 2: We can't have it. It has to be submitted to
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  Speaker 2: the lab all in one package to get that pricing.
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  Speaker 2: So it's really pretty simple. You know that morning of
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  Speaker 2: your appointment, you just go out in the yard pick
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  Speaker 2: up what you need to pick up bringing along. We
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  Speaker 2: don't need like a ziplog gallon bagfull. We just need
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  Speaker 2: a teaspoonful and if you bring that along, then we
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  Speaker 2: can do the whole thing, and we can do it
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  Speaker 2: for your dogs, for your cats, we can do it
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  Speaker 2: for everybody that you want to test. And then you
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  Speaker 2: don't have to run back and forth, and you don't
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  Speaker 2: have to worry about these things. You're going to know
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  Speaker 2: that your pet has normal lab work. It's also nice
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  Speaker 2: even if you have a young pet, to know what
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  Speaker 2: their baseline is, so six years from now you can
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  Speaker 2: look back and say, well, over the last six years
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  Speaker 2: we've seen the liver enzymes, they were normal, normal, normal,
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  Speaker 2: and today they're high. We need to be checking into
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  Speaker 2: this or something else that has changed, and then we
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  Speaker 2: don't have to wonder what's normal for that pet, because
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  Speaker 2: not every dog has exactly the same lab work. And
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  Speaker 2: if we see trends or if we see changes, that
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  Speaker 2: allows us the chance to do some early intervention. And
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  Speaker 2: as we've talked about on previous shows, early intervention is
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  Speaker 2: just the same for us as for a pet, is
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  Speaker 2: that the earlier you make a diagnosis and good treatment
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  Speaker 2: set up, the better the chances are of long term
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  Speaker 2: good outcomes. So I think it's really important that people
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  Speaker 2: know that it's not that expense to do that entire package.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a little over one hundred dollars, which is
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  Speaker 2: a really good deal because normally the heartwin test by
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  Speaker 2: itself can be close to half or two thirds of that,
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  Speaker 2: depending on you know, what the pricing is as the
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  Speaker 2: vet clinic where you go, and if you end up
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  Speaker 2: with an emergency situation, if you end up at an
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  Speaker 2: emergency clinic over a weekend, or you know, something happens,
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  Speaker 2: or you end up with the vet school or whatever happens,
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  Speaker 2: You've got that lab work to fall back on and say, well,
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  Speaker 2: this is what it looked like three months ago, what's
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  Speaker 2: going on today. So it's really good information to.
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  Speaker 1: Have and it's great to hear. And for folks that
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  Speaker 1: that maybe are checking out the show for the first time,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the program. It's great to great to have you,
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  Speaker 1: of course talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of
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  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary, the website checkout vet dot com that checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com and doctor it's great to hear as
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  Speaker 1: mentioning what what I love hearing is, you know there
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  Speaker 1: there is a lot of work that goes on behind
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  Speaker 1: the scenes at Checkout Veterinary to to really make things
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  Speaker 1: conducive for good pet care. And obviously, I think everybody
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  Speaker 1: that shared interest is happy healthy, long living pets and
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  Speaker 1: really finding ways to accomplish that some of this stuff
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  Speaker 1: and we talk about, you know, you talk about different panels,
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  Speaker 1: different testing, getting baselines and looking for other indicators that
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  Speaker 1: may show illness. These type of these type of things,
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  Speaker 1: if caught early most of the time, are very treatable
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  Speaker 1: and far far less expensive to treat early on and
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  Speaker 1: manage early on than if, gosh forbid, they become something
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  Speaker 1: more serious that requires more significant intervention. Knowing the stuff
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  Speaker 1: early and having a low hurdle to clear when it
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  Speaker 1: comes to cost is really a huge benefit for pets
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  Speaker 1: and their overall health, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, oh yeah for sure. And the other thing
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  Speaker 2: we try to work really hard with with clients when
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  Speaker 2: we're in the practice is the rebates that we see
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  Speaker 2: on the heartworm and flee and tech medications, and you
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  Speaker 2: oftentimes can't get those if you purchase your medications online
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  Speaker 2: from the on my pharmacies, but they allow the companies
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  Speaker 2: to allow veterinarians to have access to better rebase. Then
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  Speaker 2: you can get a few order from pet met or
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  Speaker 2: Chewi or whoever, so we can provide those and if
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  Speaker 2: you buy a year's worth of supplies, sometimes we get
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  Speaker 2: rebas as high as seventy five dollars for those pet owners,
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  Speaker 2: and they typically run those only in early spring, April,
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  Speaker 2: May and June. So it's important again that you look
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  Speaker 2: at your open your cabinet, check how many heartworm pills
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  Speaker 2: or flee in tick medications you have left from last year,
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  Speaker 2: whether it's a pill or an applicator. Figure out what
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  Speaker 2: you should use in a year, because we do recommend
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  Speaker 2: year round preventions for both the heartworm and the incestual
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  Speaker 2: parasites and the flea and tick product. And that way
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  Speaker 2: you can take a look see what you've got come in,
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  Speaker 2: be equipped to know that and say, okay, well, if
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  Speaker 2: I buy a year's worth, what is it going to
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  Speaker 2: cost me a month? And you can very quickly figure
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  Speaker 2: out that your monthly cost on those products will be
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  Speaker 2: considerably less. So again we work pretty hard to try
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  Speaker 2: and maximize your savings because we want you to be
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  Speaker 2: able to provide all those things. We want you to
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  Speaker 2: have annual blood works, we want you to have a
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  Speaker 2: full year's worth of heartwormtuy and tick preventives. I had
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  Speaker 2: somebody that asked me earlier this week about heartworm disease.
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  Speaker 2: She has absolutely no idea how bad heartworm disease really was,
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  Speaker 2: and that if you end up with it in your pad,
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  Speaker 2: it can be a very significant life threatening disease. But
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  Speaker 2: if it caught early again, we can treat it effectively
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  Speaker 2: and have better outcomes. The same with inteslino parasites, the
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  Speaker 2: same with lime disease. We see some dogs that go
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  Speaker 2: from having a lime disease positive test to going into
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  Speaker 2: kidney failures. Especially labradors and Golden Retrievers are at increased
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  Speaker 2: risk that they developed these disorders that cause their kidneys
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  Speaker 2: to fail, and that happens fast, like really fast. So
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  Speaker 2: we're trying, you know, we're not trying to just line
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  Speaker 2: our pockets for veterinarians to have fancy cars. That's not
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  Speaker 2: my goal. My Google, I don't drive anything fancy. I
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  Speaker 2: put logos on it, and so I have to drive
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  Speaker 2: it forever now because it doesn't looked at good. Well,
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  Speaker 2: you gotta wrap on your car. You better be driving.
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  Speaker 2: That's a little wheels fall off. I'm like, guess, sir,
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  Speaker 2: I sure will. So we want to make sure that
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  Speaker 2: we're giving your pet the best care that we can,
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  Speaker 2: and that means consistent care, long time medications that will
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  Speaker 2: preventivelely in, chick in, the heartworm diseases, and all the
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  Speaker 2: other stuff, so that you really have the best possible
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  Speaker 2: outcome you can. Nobody comes to our practice with an
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  Speaker 2: elderly dog or cat and says, yeah, I was ready
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  Speaker 2: two years ago. Everybody wants more time, and that's what
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to provide you is we're talking about their weight,
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  Speaker 2: we're talking about their heat, We're talking about all the
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  Speaker 2: things that you need to do so that we can
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  Speaker 2: maximize the length of time that your pet can be
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  Speaker 2: with you. And that's really important to us because we
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  Speaker 2: know that's really important to you.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary,
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  Speaker 1: you can learn more online. I mentioned the website. I
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  Speaker 1: really hope you get a chance to stop on over there,
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. It's a great unders give good
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  Speaker 1: understanding of they got a fantastically redesigned website, gives a
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  Speaker 1: really good understanding of what makes Checkout Veterinary so unique
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  Speaker 1: and understanding how it works. I got transparency is very important.
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  Speaker 1: Pricing all that information available to you up at checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com. Of course that first visit that exam.
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  Speaker 1: It is free to you and your pet. Again, they're
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  Speaker 1: really easy to get you right at twenty seven to
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  Speaker 1: ten Prairie Lakes Drive in Sun Prairie. That's right off
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  Speaker 1: the highway, right near the interstate in some prairie. So
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  Speaker 1: very convenient. If you're listening to the program this morning,
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  Speaker 1: you are close to checkout Vet. We talked about the
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  Speaker 1: design of the building. I'm going to guess the location
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  Speaker 1: was no coincidence either, because no matter where you are,
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  Speaker 1: it's a really convenient to get on in to see
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  Speaker 1: to see the vets at checkout vet again. Learn more
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  Speaker 1: online checkout vet dot com. Delphy number six so eight
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  Speaker 1: three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight
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  Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. Well, consider your conversation with doctor Greer.
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  Speaker 1: We will do that next as ask the experts with
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  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary continues right here on thirteen ten doubuib A
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  Speaker 1: eight fifty five thirteen ten wi b A and ask
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  Speaker 1: the experts talking with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
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  Speaker 1: The website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot
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  Speaker 1: great day to start that relationship out checkout Veterinary. I
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  Speaker 1: can just pick up phone game a call six oh
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  Speaker 1: eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one
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  Speaker 1: eight sixty seven hundred. You can find the telephone number
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  Speaker 1: as well as other information about Checkout Veterinary again, all
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  Speaker 1: online at checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Don't forget that first visit. It is free. That exam
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  Speaker 1: is free at checkout Veterinary, your first one. There. And doctor,
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  Speaker 1: we were talking, Oh, I was mentioned May May first.
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  Speaker 1: Of course May the first. You've got the meet the
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  Speaker 1: Vet event ting place. That's Thursday from three until five.
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  Speaker 1: Of course we were all, well.
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  Speaker 2: Fourth, it's on May fourth. Why did I say May
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  Speaker 2: on Sunday? I am, I don't know it May fourth
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  Speaker 2: be with you, remember that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that's a that's a Sunday. I am. I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: tell you something, doctor, I am. I am excited. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know why I'm getting my days man. I
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  Speaker 1: think it was because it's a shortened week for me.
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  Speaker 1: But you know, we were talking about about the importance
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  Speaker 1: of getting your pennies. You get folks that maybe don't
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  Speaker 1: have a pet yet that are interested in you know
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  Speaker 1: we want to add a dog to the family and
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  Speaker 1: meeting with a vet before they make that purchase, or
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  Speaker 1: working with a vet, maybe somebody that they know to
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  Speaker 1: find that right pet.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my gosh, I'm so glad you asked that. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: we are very engaged in that we work with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of breeders, with a lot of rescues, with a
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  Speaker 2: lot of other organizations shelters, and there's some really great
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  Speaker 2: resources that we have that we can share with you
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  Speaker 2: and we can help you with. I'll have clients call
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  Speaker 2: and say, well, I think I want to get a Lienburger,
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  Speaker 2: and Lienburgers are great dogs. But if you're eighty years old,
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  Speaker 2: Eleienburger is going to be one hundred and twenty pounds
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  Speaker 2: as an adult, that might not be your best choice
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  Speaker 2: for your last dog. If you have children in the household,
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  Speaker 2: or you work a lot of hours, or you've got,
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  Speaker 2: you know, the possibility that you're going to be moving
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  Speaker 2: and you may not own your own home in three years.
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  Speaker 2: There's all these things that you need to think about
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  Speaker 2: when you're taking the decision to own a pet. What
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  Speaker 2: should you get from read side, What kind of characteristics
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  Speaker 2: and traits do they have. There's some really good resources
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  Speaker 2: out there I can direct people to. I'm happy to
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  Speaker 2: give you the names of several breeders so that you
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  Speaker 2: can go meet their breed of dogs. So if you
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  Speaker 2: say I think I want to finish lap und or
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  Speaker 2: I think I want an Ordainish British harm dog, I'm
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  Speaker 2: going to say to you, well, let's meet one, because
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  Speaker 2: if you've only seen them online, you haven't really been
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  Speaker 2: in the room with one. You might want to meet
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  Speaker 2: one before you make those decisions. And so we have
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  Speaker 2: lots of good connections for people, and I can give
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  Speaker 2: them some pretty good guidance on coke care, activity level,
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  Speaker 2: indoor activity level, outdoors, How are they with kids? How
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  Speaker 2: are they with strangers? Do you need to take them
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  Speaker 2: to a dog class? Are you going to have to
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  Speaker 2: find them a job? A lot of people talk about
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  Speaker 2: a dog meeting a job. So are you going to
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  Speaker 2: have to sign them up for agility classes or hurting
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  Speaker 2: classes or scent work or something. And there's lots of
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  Speaker 2: really fun stuff you can do, but let's make sure
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  Speaker 2: that their lifestyle aligns with your lifestyle so that the
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  Speaker 2: decision you make is a good one. And we don't
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  Speaker 2: want you to end up with the wrong pet, ending
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  Speaker 2: up with them going back to the breeder, going to
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  Speaker 2: a shelter, ending up in places that really weren't what
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  Speaker 2: you intended for Now, Unfortunately, sometimes unexpected things still happen,
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  Speaker 2: but we can do our best to maximize the chance
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  Speaker 2: of having that pet in your life for the next
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  Speaker 2: fifteen or sixteen years. And that's really important again to
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  Speaker 2: us and to the pet owners, is they don't want
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  Speaker 2: to have a pet for a short period of time.
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  Speaker 2: When they commit, they really want to commit that is
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  Speaker 2: their forever home. I was at the airport on Tuesday
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  Speaker 2: morning and there was a gentleman that was flying a
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  Speaker 2: puppy for a buyer. His wife was a breeder and
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  Speaker 2: she was flying the puppies standing in line in front
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  Speaker 2: of me, and he said, yep, she's going to her
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  Speaker 2: forever home. And that's the goal of every breeder, that's
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  Speaker 2: the goal of every shelter and rescue, is to get
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  Speaker 2: those dogs into a forever home, not into something that's temporary.
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  Speaker 2: So make sure that you contact your veterinary clinic and
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  Speaker 2: see if they have resources to help you with and
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  Speaker 2: if they don't, please call us and help. Let us
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  Speaker 2: help you find the right dog or the right cat,
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  Speaker 2: or maybe it's not a dog or cat at all.
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  Speaker 2: Maybe it's a rat, maybe it's a snake, maybe it's
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  Speaker 2: a faret. I don't know because we haven't had the
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  Speaker 2: co conversation yet, But there are lots of things that
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  Speaker 2: you can find for resources that can help you get
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  Speaker 2: the pet that's really going to meet your needs and
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  Speaker 2: your expectations.
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  Speaker 1: Rats are very much underappreciated pets. As somebody who's known
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  Speaker 1: folks with rats over the years, they are. They are
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  Speaker 1: cool little characters, that is for sure. As we talk
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  Speaker 1: with doctor Marty Greer and talking about getting to know
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  Speaker 1: getting to know the different breeds and different pets that
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  Speaker 1: may be right for your lifestyle, what about getting to
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  Speaker 1: know the right doctor, getting to know about Checkout Veterinary.
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  Speaker 1: They've got a great opportunity for you coming up Sunday,
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  Speaker 1: May fourth, Meet the Vet Vet. That event's going to
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  Speaker 1: be taking place from three un till five at Checkout
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary again, that's right at twenty seven to ten Prairie
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  Speaker 1: Lakes Drive in sun Prayrie. You can learn more online
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot Com. Great
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  Speaker 1: day to make that appointment. Start the relationship at checkout.
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  Speaker 1: Veterinari I, who's pick up phone? Gimme a call six
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  Speaker 1: so eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three
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  Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred, Doctor Greer. It's always great
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  Speaker 1: chatting with you. Thank you for taking the time this morning.
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  Speaker 1: You have a fantastic day thanks to news is next
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