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Speaker 2: Earlier this morning.
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Speaker 1: Doctor, So sorry you're out, And folks, I don't know
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Speaker 2: You're out of the West coast today, aren't you.
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Speaker 1: It's great to have you along with us, and we're
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Speaker 1: going to talk about got some got an email. I
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Speaker 1: think it's probably gonna spark a conversation about about both
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Speaker 1: cats and dogs and uh and number ones and number twos,
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Speaker 1: All I gotta do is dial in six oh eight
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Speaker 1: three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
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Speaker 1: two one thirteen ten. And speaking of the emails, Phil
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Speaker 1: wrote in he this is an interesting question because I'd
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Speaker 1: never heard of this, but he said, uh a preble
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Speaker 1: and doctor doctor Greer, somebody's clear been listening to the
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Speaker 1: show for a while.
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Speaker 2: Very casual.
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Speaker 1: I wanted to ask you your opinion on calming cat
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Speaker 1: litters that claim to reduce feline stress and anxiety. Have
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Speaker 1: you found these products to be effective in your experience?
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Speaker 1: He says, I've seen a few brands that incorporated these
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Speaker 1: incorporate these agents and or pheromones into the litter, but
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Speaker 1: I'm curious whether they truly make a difference, or are
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Speaker 1: there better alternatives you'd recommend for helping cats manage stress.
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Speaker 1: Thanks and advance for your insight. And that email comes
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Speaker 1: from Phil and obviously a serious concern here for sure.
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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, and cat litter and cat litter and ones
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Speaker 3: and twos are very important. We see in veterinary medicine
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Speaker 3: a huge number of urinary issues and cats, not too
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Speaker 3: many with tools, but a lot of urinary issues. That
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Speaker 3: accounts for about three percent of all hospital admissions at
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Speaker 3: veterinary clinics, So it's a big deal.
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Speaker 1: Three percent a lot.
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Speaker 3: So anything we can do to reduce the stress level
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Speaker 3: of our cats and get them to use their litter
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Speaker 3: box more effectively is going to be important. The number
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Speaker 3: one reason people relinquish their cats is because of urinary issues.
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Speaker 3: So if you're going to, you know, see a problem
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Speaker 3: with a shelter and you go in and there's an
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Speaker 3: adult cat there, behaviorally it's mostly you're litter about to use.
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Speaker 3: Second most common is biting, and then of course the
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Speaker 3: other reasons people that relinquish their cats will be things
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Speaker 3: like they got elderly and had moved their nursing home,
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Speaker 3: and you know, there's a variety of other things. So
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Speaker 3: I don't want to sound like that's the only thing
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Speaker 3: that causes cats that are adults to go to a shelter,
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Speaker 3: but it is certainly a big concern. So anything we
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Speaker 3: can do to improve their little box us is important.
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Speaker 3: And so if cat litter Calmbing cut Litter's helped. That's great.
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Speaker 3: There's Calmbing cat food that's made by both Hills. That's
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Speaker 3: called the CD Stress. It's a prescription diet, and Royal
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Speaker 3: Canaan makes one called Calm Cleverly Clomb. So it has
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Speaker 3: trip to fan and some other ingredient incident like trip
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Speaker 3: to fan is the thing that after Thanksgiving dinner makes
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Speaker 3: you sleepy, that warm belly full of turkey, So trip
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Speaker 3: to fan helps of that. So those are the things
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Speaker 3: that we can do that are non pharmaceutical agents. Now
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Speaker 3: there are pharmaceuticals as well, and we can talk about those.
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Speaker 3: There's a feel away spray, a feel away room diffuser,
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Speaker 3: and those are again the pheromone feel Away and it
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Speaker 3: was developed by Siva Gosh twenty twenty five years ago.
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Speaker 3: We received some of the first samples as trials at
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Speaker 3: our practice. They were shipped from France in a paint
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Speaker 3: can with a lid on it. There were three containers
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Speaker 3: of it in a paint can. Because they didn't know
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Speaker 3: how it was going to handle international travel. They didn't
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Speaker 3: want the atomizers to explode while they were shipping them,
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Speaker 3: so they put them in a paint can. Now of
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Speaker 3: course they don't come that way anymore. You can buy
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Speaker 3: them on Amazon and you just plug them into your room,
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Speaker 3: or you can use it as a spray, and that
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Speaker 3: again is a pheromone. A pheromone is basically a hormone
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Speaker 3: that you don't give orally, but it's one that they
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Speaker 3: smell in the air, and it's derived from cat from
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Speaker 3: when they rub their little lips on the edges of
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Speaker 3: corners or your fingers or whatever, you know, how they
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Speaker 3: go over and they mark corners. That's a pheromone that
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Speaker 3: they're releasing from those little glands and their lips and
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Speaker 3: their chin. So that's meant to calm cats as a spray,
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Speaker 3: as an atomizer, and as this I'm assuming that that's
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Speaker 3: in these cat litters because I'm not privy to the formula,
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Speaker 3: but that's what they indicate. So yes, anything we can
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Speaker 3: do to reduce the stress of a cat to get
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Speaker 3: them to use the liuver box is an important thing.
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Speaker 3: So if that's what it takes, is buying a different
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Speaker 3: kind of cat litter, and it may be additive. It
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Speaker 3: may be that you need the room atomizer, maybe you
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Speaker 3: need the diet, maybe all those things, but any of
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Speaker 3: those things can be helpful, so collectively they're probably going
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Speaker 3: to add up to something better than anything alone.
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Murder Greer of Checkout Veterinary,
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Speaker 1: a great question this morning from Phil Filter the time
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Speaker 1: us phone number six oh eight three two one thirteen ten.
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Speaker 1: about your pets, healthcare and your pets care, Doctor Greer
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Speaker 1: at hand. You can call in on anything. We'd love
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Speaker 1: to hear from you. Again the number six oh eight
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Speaker 1: three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
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Speaker 1: two one thirteen ten. By the way, when we were
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Speaker 1: talking to about about stress and anxiety for cats, what
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Speaker 1: are some of the signs for a for a cat
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Speaker 1: that's that's stressed out or a cat that's feeling anxious?
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Speaker 2: Are there things we should be looking for?
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Speaker 1: I got to be honest, doctor, I've never and maybe
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Speaker 1: that's probably a sign that maybe they're not, But I've
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Speaker 1: never thought about are my cats? Do the cats have anxiety?
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Speaker 1: What are some of those signs that they may have
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Speaker 1: some issues?
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Speaker 3: Sure, and that is a really good question. I've done
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Speaker 3: three immersion courses and behavior over the last seven years,
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Speaker 3: before and after COVID. Just got back from one in Canada,
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Speaker 3: and it's really interesting because a lot of owners don't
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Speaker 3: pick up on the trussed cats are showing. So they've
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Speaker 3: sent in videos and they've presented them at our courses
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Speaker 3: and we'll be sitting in the room with thirty veterinarians
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Speaker 3: and these cats will come out and they'll walk around
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Speaker 3: in the house and you can see that the one
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Speaker 3: cat doesn't want to approach the other one because it's
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Speaker 3: laying in the hall and preventing their access to the
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Speaker 3: litter box or preventing their access to food and water.
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Speaker 3: There's this control thing going on and the owners don't
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Speaker 3: understand what they're seeing. The veterinarians are all like, oh no,
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Speaker 3: did you see that? And the owners are like yeah,
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Speaker 3: is that cute? And you're like, no, that's not cute.
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Speaker 3: So it can be really difficult for owners to pick
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Speaker 3: up on those things. So I would encourage people if
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Speaker 3: they're seeing something that they're not sure how to interpret
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Speaker 3: it that number one, they videotape it so that they
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Speaker 3: can take it. Everybody's got a phone, everybody's got a
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Speaker 3: camera on their phone, so grab your phone, take some video,
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Speaker 3: and then work with a veterinarian that does behavior. We
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Speaker 3: do behavior in our practice. Brooke Lewis in Madison does behavior.
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Speaker 3: So there's a couple of people around that do it
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Speaker 3: and they can help you number one, interpret what you're seeing.
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Speaker 3: In number two, help your cats with some medications, and
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Speaker 3: oftentimes it does take medication. If the pheromone's not enough,
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Speaker 3: that feel away the cat litter, the cat foods, those
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Speaker 3: kinds of things. If that's not enough to manage the
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Speaker 3: cat stress, then there are pharmaceutical agents. We use a
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Speaker 3: lot of GABA patents. We'll use bus parone, we'll use floxetine.
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Speaker 3: There's definitely some really good pharmaceutical agents on the market,
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Speaker 3: and the over the counter stress relievers that are supplements,
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Speaker 3: Oftentimes they are not sufficient to get you the level
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Speaker 3: of calmbing that you need for those cats. And these
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Speaker 3: may be lifetime medications, they may be short term medications,
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Speaker 3: depending on the severity. Sometimes it's eliminating a cat from
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Speaker 3: the household. Sometimes it's just not possible to integrate all
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Speaker 3: the cats together. And oftentimes the one outcome that happens
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Speaker 3: is failure to use the litter box. And it may
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Speaker 3: be urinary issues, may be medical, so they may have
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Speaker 3: a urinary tect infection. Like I said, that's three percent
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Speaker 3: of all the cats that we see in veterinary admissions
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Speaker 3: are urinary issues. So it may be medical, it may
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Speaker 3: be behavioral. So sometimes you can't get this under control
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Speaker 3: because the cat's not using the liter box. They can't
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Speaker 3: get to it. You don't have enough boxes, they don't
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Speaker 3: like the kind of litter you're using. They the rule
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Speaker 3: of some is more litter box per cat plus a spare,
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Speaker 3: but try different kinds of litter because you don't want
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Speaker 3: to come in with this calming litter or any other
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Speaker 3: kind of litter and put it in all the litter
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Speaker 3: boxes and have all the cats go nope, not in
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Speaker 3: and then stop using the box. So make sure if
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Speaker 3: you're introducing a new kind of cat litter, regardless if
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Speaker 3: it's the new scupable thing on the market, or if
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Speaker 3: it's this ca or just regular clay litter or corn
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Speaker 3: cob or soy or whatever you're using. Put it in
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Speaker 3: one box and let the cats vote with their feet
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Speaker 3: and tell you which litter they like, because that's the
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Speaker 3: one they're going to use the most. A number of
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Speaker 3: years ago, probably thirty years ago, there was a litter
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Speaker 3: that came to market that was a plastic pellet and
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Speaker 3: it didn't absorb the urine. It just ran through a
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Speaker 3: tray in the bottom, and it was meant to be
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Speaker 3: a perpetual litter that you didn't throw out that you
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Speaker 3: just rinsed thing out the stool, rinse the urine off,
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Speaker 3: and left the box. My cat's never used it once
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Speaker 3: in two years, so pretty clearly that if I had
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Speaker 3: only given them that one litter, I would have had
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Speaker 3: a mess on my hands. And once cats stop using
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Speaker 3: the box, it's a lot harder to get them back
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Speaker 3: to it than it is if you keep them in
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Speaker 3: it in the first place.
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer, of course, Doctor
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Speaker 1: eight sixty seven hundred. It's funny Tuesday because trash Day
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Speaker 1: is on Wednesday, so Tuesday is generally my complete reset,
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Speaker 1: dump all the scoopable stuff and get fresh stuff. And
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Speaker 1: I'm at the downstairs, at the downstairs, at the litter box,
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Speaker 1: and one cat Mini is looking at me, minmn and
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Speaker 1: I said, as I'm pouring new stuff in, I said,
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Speaker 1: doctor Greer says, keep it shallow, and said to her,
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Speaker 1: So that is important too as well. And I know,
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Speaker 1: as as pet owners like, if we can kind of
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Speaker 1: make a process easier on ourselves, we're gonna do it.
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Speaker 1: And I think sometimes we'll be like, oh, put a
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Speaker 1: bunch more in here, it'll make it easier for me.
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Speaker 1: But that's not always the best thing for your kitty,
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Speaker 1: is it?
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Speaker 3: No, not anything much stuper than about two inches. Cats
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Speaker 3: don't want to sink into their litter. They like the
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Speaker 3: way the litter feels, but they don't want to sink
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Speaker 3: down into it. And cats are very, very particular. If
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Speaker 3: you see a cat that doesn't use the litter box,
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Speaker 3: doesn't hit the litter box, people are like, oh you miss.
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Speaker 3: No cats don't miss Cats go in the litter box,
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Speaker 3: dig a hole, look around, turn around, take a look
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Speaker 3: at where the hole is. Dig it a little bit more,
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Speaker 3: look again, make two or three attemps, and they're like, Okay,
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Speaker 3: finally that looks good. So cats are really fastidious and
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Speaker 3: really particular. So if your litter isn't clean, if your
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Speaker 3: litter is too deep, if they don't like the way
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Speaker 3: the litter smells, if they don't like the kind of
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Speaker 3: litter they like that. Don't like that another cat use it?
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Speaker 3: Already there's one hundred and fifty regions that cats go nope,
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Speaker 3: I'm out. So really important that we give cats all
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Speaker 3: the good options so that we keep them in the
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Speaker 3: litter box. And like I said at the beginning, this
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Speaker 3: accounts for the number one behavior issue that we see
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Speaker 3: in cats, and a three percent of those are medical.
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Speaker 3: So not all of the things that we see in
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Speaker 3: cat litter issues our behavioral We always give the cats
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Speaker 3: the benefit of the doubt first, or at least we
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Speaker 3: should and do a ur analysis and an ultra sounda sea.
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Speaker 3: Do they have stones, do they have crystals? Do they
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Speaker 3: have a urinary attraction infection? And most urinary attraction infections
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Speaker 3: and cats the first time they have one, maybe even
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Speaker 3: the second or third are not bacterial, So your veterinarian
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Speaker 3: may not prescribe an antibiotic. We see beletter infections and
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Speaker 3: dogs and horses and cows and humans, but in cats
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Speaker 3: they're almost never bacterial to start with. So it's almost
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Speaker 3: always something related to a dietary thing that we can
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Speaker 3: adjust with the prescription diets that we have on the market.
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Speaker 3: So important that you follow your veterinarian's recommendations. If they
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Speaker 3: do prescribe a food it's low and magnesium and phosphorus.
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Speaker 3: It adjusts the pH it helps to reduce the urinary
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Speaker 3: tract infections that we see in cats. Well, I hate
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Speaker 3: to see the word infection because it's actually a urinary
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Speaker 3: tract issue. We now call it low feline lower urinary
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Speaker 3: tract disease FLUTD, and there's other names for it as well.
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Speaker 3: So it is not really a bacterial infection to start with,
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Speaker 3: and we can manage it many times of diet because
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Speaker 3: of the adjustment of the pH and the mineral content
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Speaker 3: of the food. But those foods are prescription and they
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Speaker 3: do cost a little bit more. They cost a lot
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Speaker 3: less than ending up with your cat with a urinary blockage,
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Speaker 3: which we do see in male we almost ever seen
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Speaker 3: in female cats that we can see in mail cats
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Speaker 3: pretty commonly, and those get into the thousands of dollars
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Speaker 3: with every episode. So really important that you follow your
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Speaker 3: VETS instructions because spending an extra few bucks on a
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Speaker 3: bag of food and keeping you out of a hospital
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Speaker 3: situation which is thousands of dollars is a real good
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Speaker 3: exchange for a payoff.
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Speaker 1: this morning with doctor Marty Greer. Of course, doctor Greer
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Speaker 2: That's checkout vet.
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Speaker 1: Dot com talking kitty litter this morning, and you think, boy,
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Speaker 1: that's got to be an easy one.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot to this is for sure.
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Speaker 1: And doctors started off with an email about a product
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Speaker 1: and I hadn't heard of it before. One of the
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Speaker 1: things I do hear about. And we're talking about some
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Speaker 1: medical conditions and other things with your cats. I have
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Speaker 1: seen these cat litter and I think a bunch of
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Speaker 1: different brands offered have like health monitoring kitty litter.
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Speaker 2: Is there any benefit to that?
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Speaker 1: Is that is that a gimmick or is that something
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Speaker 1: that legitimately could be useful in certain situations.
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Speaker 3: No, it's legitimately useful. So if it picks up things
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Speaker 3: like glucose in the urine or blood in the urine,
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Speaker 3: it's pretty useful. And it's definitely a thing. So if
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Speaker 3: you have a cat that you're concerned about that's had
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Speaker 3: a history of UTIs, it would be a really useful
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Speaker 3: product to be having in your litter box so that
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Speaker 3: if the cat does develop blood in the air and
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Speaker 3: that's your first indicator of a problem, it'll There's also
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Speaker 3: pH changes that will happen with litter, but generally it's
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Speaker 3: blood that it picks up on those tests on the
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Speaker 3: litter change color change thing. So I would definitely use
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Speaker 3: it in a household where you had an issue. The
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Speaker 3: biggest trouble with multiple cat households, and many people that
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Speaker 3: have cats have multiple cats because they're like potato chips.
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Speaker 3: You can't. I think when you buy a cat or
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Speaker 3: adopt a cat, it's a good idea to have more
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Speaker 3: than one at a time. We talked about this on
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Speaker 3: a previous show, having two kittens adopted simultaneously, even if
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Speaker 3: they're not littermates do really well together. So the tricky
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Speaker 3: part if you have a cat that's not using the
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Speaker 3: litter box or a cat that's having urinary issues and
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Speaker 3: there's blood in the urine, is figure out which cat
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Speaker 3: it is. So that's the challenge because you you know
16:44
Speaker 3: how many cats do you have. If you have six cats,
16:45
Speaker 3: you need to take them off to the vet and
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Speaker 3: have them do urinis. That it's a little pricey, So
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Speaker 3: it can be a good idea to separate the cats
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Speaker 3: temporarily so that you can have each one using their
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Speaker 3: own box and figure out who's got what going on.
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Speaker 3: And if people don't understand this, and I think it's
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Speaker 3: really important that they know this, cats don't urinate in
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Speaker 3: a little coup. For us when we do a year analysis,
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Speaker 3: they don't wipe back and they don't urinate in a
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Speaker 3: little cup. So if we do see them, we'll typically
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Speaker 3: ultra sell them, take a look at the bladder, see
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Speaker 3: if there's any crystals or stones in it that we
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Speaker 3: can see on ultrasound, and then with a needle introduced
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Speaker 3: into the bladder through the abdominal wall, we'll collect the sterile.
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Speaker 3: You're on sample. Now, it sounds icky and it sounds
17:27
Speaker 3: like something if they told you that's how they were
17:29
Speaker 3: in to collect, you're and you can't flip out. But
17:31
Speaker 3: the cats see well the cats, they don't really care.
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Speaker 3: They're back and for a little alcohol them and be
17:36
Speaker 3: boomed by the bay. And we've got a sample. So
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Speaker 3: it works really well. You don't have to chase your
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Speaker 3: cat around and try and figure out what sample to
17:43
Speaker 3: take in. Just take your cap to the vet with
17:45
Speaker 3: a full enough bladder. If you put them in the
17:47
Speaker 3: carrier a few hours before the appointment, that can help.
17:49
Speaker 3: And please, please please, if you have a cat that
17:51
Speaker 3: has dress and anxiety going to the vat or traveling
17:53
Speaker 3: in the car, talk to your vet about getting gap
17:56
Speaker 3: a patent for them in advance of the appointment so
17:58
Speaker 3: that you can give a dose the night before, want
18:00
Speaker 3: to do just the morning of, and your cat will
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Speaker 3: be much more compliant and much more comfortable. Therefore, you
18:05
Speaker 3: will be a lot more compliant and comfortable in making
18:08
Speaker 3: that trip into the vet clinic because we shouldn't stress
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Speaker 3: them out.
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Speaker 1: is I know, like with our dog Homer, it seems weird,
18:24
Speaker 1: but like anytime you know, any of us take the
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Speaker 1: dog out, when we come back in, we almost do
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Speaker 1: like a report, like I'll tell my wife, oh, I
18:31
Speaker 1: you know, tinkle twice and did a number two? Like
18:33
Speaker 1: we do that just just I think it's probably just
18:36
Speaker 1: to kind of make sure that you know, he's getting older,
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Speaker 1: to make sure that he's doing what he needs to do.
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Speaker 1: And we're all kind of on the same page. Same
18:41
Speaker 1: as important for casts to kind of keep track of
18:44
Speaker 1: their their litter box usage. And it sounds gross, but
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Speaker 1: be a little observant, right absolutely.
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Speaker 3: Because those changes can be really important to know are
18:53
Speaker 3: the tools normal, are they lose? Are they too hard?
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Speaker 3: Is their blood in it because they've had too heart
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Speaker 3: of a stool? You know what? What's the status of that?
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Speaker 3: Cats usually urinate only once or twice a day, and
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Speaker 3: the same with their stools, so they don't have the
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Speaker 3: frequencies that dogs do. And it is a little easier
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Speaker 3: to keep up with on the reports, but if you
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Speaker 3: have a problem, then start recording it so that your
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Speaker 3: veterinary clinic can have that information when you go in,
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Speaker 3: take in your calendar and say so, we've seen blood
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Speaker 3: miss stools three times, and it was associated with this
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Speaker 3: and this, and did it have any association with the
19:24
Speaker 3: diet change or household changes. Putting up the Christmas tree,
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Speaker 3: Oh my god, that can totally stretch out the cat
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Speaker 3: because now you put it in the window where they
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Speaker 3: usually sit, and now I can't use my litter box.
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Speaker 3: So there's all kinds of things that happen in your life.
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Speaker 3: So be really observant because those keys are important and
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Speaker 3: it will save you money and time in diagnosing what's
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