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Vet Josh Davis Q&A from June 3rd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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Speaker 1: Our good friend Josh Davis with Trilogy Veterinary Clinic, brought
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Speaker 2: Yes, doctor Josh Davis with the Trilogy Veterinary Clinic not
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Speaker 2: with them, he is them. He's the guiding light of Trilogy.
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Speaker 2: He's here to answer questions about your your puppies and
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Speaker 2: your kiddies, your dogs are your cats. Doctor Davis can help.
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Speaker 1: And you've brought in a couple more doctors, haven't you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, we've got two new doctors that started, one started
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Speaker 3: this week and one two weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: So we're excited and.
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Speaker 3: We're doing an open house to meet them and do
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Speaker 3: some goodies and stuff on Saturday from two to four.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, if you want to come meet them, come
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Speaker 3: say hi.
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Speaker 1: I just told doctor Davis when he walked in, I'm like,
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Speaker 1: you have made me so paranoid about foxtails.
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Speaker 4: Every time I come home from a walk.
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Speaker 1: I'm like making the dog lay on her back and
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Speaker 1: check paws.
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Speaker 2: And It's made me paranoid too. Every time I go home,
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Speaker 2: I have my wife check me for foxtails.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, you should, for sure.
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Speaker 3: I think being paranoid about them is definitely a good
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Speaker 3: thing because we're every day having a Sedana dog to
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Speaker 3: pull them out of its feet, pull them out of
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Speaker 3: its ears and eyes and things like that.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, just do your best to avoid them. They're terrible.
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Speaker 5: Let's see, I have a black lab named Vanilope.
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Speaker 4: Okay, okay.
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Speaker 5: I also have two Chihuahua mixes. The black lab thinks
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Speaker 5: that she's their size. Why is that?
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Speaker 3: That's kind of funny. I mean, dogs are dogs, you know,
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Speaker 3: the size of them. They've got their quirks based on size,
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Speaker 3: but they are dogs at the end of the day,
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Speaker 3: and labs they just love to play, you know, that's
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Speaker 3: I believe it.
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Speaker 5: My Chihuahua mix goes to a groomer that specializes in
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Speaker 5: giant Schnauzers, and so she used to think that she
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Speaker 5: was that big.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you'll see great danes sitting in people's laps
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Speaker 3: and it's just hilarious sometimes.
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Speaker 6: Ye.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Joel.
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Speaker 2: Hey, Joel, where are you calling from?
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Speaker 3: My car?
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Speaker 2: My car. Okay, what's your uh, what's your question? You
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Speaker 2: got a dog or a cat?
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Speaker 4: What is it?
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Speaker 7: It's a cat, roommate's cat.
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Speaker 2: What's the cat's moving?
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Speaker 6: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Pikachu, Okay, all right, what's the what's the question? Yeah?
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Speaker 3: The cat is skin and bones, just like feel the backbone,
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Speaker 3: feel the bieh bones.
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Speaker 7: There's no meat on the cat.
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Speaker 2: And now he's got access to food. Do you see
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Speaker 2: him eat the food? Do you see him eat the food?
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Speaker 3: You know?
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Speaker 2: I am not He's downstairs with the roommates, so I'm
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Speaker 2: not sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for cats like that, anytime cat's losing weight or
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Speaker 3: looking thin like that. Uh, there's a couple of things
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Speaker 3: we always want to make sure to check on. And
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Speaker 3: blood work is where we would start because that can
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Speaker 3: tell us a lot about Kidney disease is very common
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Speaker 3: in cats and can cause that hyper thyroid disease so
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Speaker 3: high thyroid hormone. Sometimes diabetes can be a factor there too.
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Speaker 3: So if you can get the roommate to get that
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Speaker 3: cat in and get it checked out, I think you know,
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Speaker 3: we can figure it out most likely.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 8: Okay, all right, thank you?
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Speaker 6: Cool?
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Speaker 5: Yeahay? Eight seven seven six oh two nine six six?
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Speaker 5: Is that number to call.
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Speaker 2: Carolyn is here. Hi, Carolyn, Hello, where are you calling us?
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Speaker 2: From West Jordan's? All right, what have you? What kind
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Speaker 2: of animal have you?
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Speaker 7: I have a dog named Tiki.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what's the question?
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Speaker 7: And she's horribly anxious. She's afraid of every little sound
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Speaker 7: that happens in the house. We've had her for six months,
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Speaker 7: and I'm going to resort to drugs, which I hate
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Speaker 7: to do. And I've been told, well, I had another
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Speaker 7: dog on trazodone for that visit, but I need to
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Speaker 7: know the dosage now, mind you. I cannot touch her
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Speaker 7: and I can't so I can't weigh her. I'm going
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Speaker 7: by what she came with on the weight and how
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Speaker 7: much you know, she's gained a little bit. So I
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Speaker 7: have a vag idea.
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Speaker 2: She's late.
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Speaker 4: She's so anxious. She won't let you touch her.
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Speaker 7: Oh yeah, we've had her since January first. I finally
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Speaker 7: have started touching her about three weeks ago, my husband.
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Speaker 1: She still won't let touch Just makes you wonder what
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Speaker 1: she experienced before she got out.
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Speaker 7: I kind of know, I kind of know. It's a
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Speaker 7: long story.
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Speaker 2: It's so difficult, so trasdonell that I think that's what
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Speaker 2: I took the other night to go to sleep.
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Speaker 7: That's what I say, to go to sleep.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, drugs like trazodone and the other one we used
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Speaker 3: commonly is gabapentin, and they're both very good for hospital
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Speaker 3: visits or very good for fireworks times of year, other anxieties,
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Speaker 3: things like that. And the nice thing is you can
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Speaker 3: kind of use them as needed for a dog in
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Speaker 3: your situation. You may even want to consider, you know,
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Speaker 3: with you know, consulting about it. But sometimes we even
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Speaker 3: have to go to medications like in the prozac category,
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Speaker 3: things like that.
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Speaker 4: And also any of these drugs.
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Speaker 3: Though, you always want to try and work on training
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Speaker 3: and behavior training at the same time.
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Speaker 7: Because we're working on right now, good good?
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 2: Now did I hear understand you to say you have
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Speaker 2: some trasdone in your house, right, and you're wondering how
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Speaker 2: much to give the dog? Is that right? Correct?
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Speaker 7: Correct?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: And so I mean I can give you ranges of
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Speaker 3: what is considered acceptable, but you know, again without seeing
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Speaker 3: your dog and knowing the exact way, we have to
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Speaker 3: be careful with that.
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Speaker 4: But generally, most of.
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Speaker 3: The time will start around five to ten milligrams per
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Speaker 3: kilogram for the dog.
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Speaker 4: So it depends on the size of the dog. But fifty.
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Speaker 3: Pounds okay, yeah, yeah, so you you'd probably fall into
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Speaker 3: that one hundred dish milligram category.
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Speaker 4: But again, that's a lot without seeing your dog. You know.
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Speaker 4: I can't say much more than that, but that's why
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Speaker 4: you should. Those are the published doses though.
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Speaker 2: All right, all right, maybe start with a little less
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Speaker 2: and see if it works.
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Speaker 5: Ye, okay, all right, thanks, all right, let's go one
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Speaker 5: more question.
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Speaker 2: Dustin Hi, Dustin Hi, where are you calling us from? Dustin?
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Speaker 5: Wait?
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Speaker 2: Okay, what's what's your animal? When the name and the problem?
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Speaker 4: I have a the senji.
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Speaker 9: His name is Coda okay, and and and he has
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Speaker 9: severely itchy skimmed taking him to the tak him to
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Speaker 9: the ved a couple of times they prescribed in really,
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Speaker 9: and I guess my question is is we just recently
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Speaker 9: took him off of that just to see if maybe
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Speaker 9: it was just a seasonal allergy, and his skin has
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Speaker 9: flirted up again. Is it okay to keep him on
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Speaker 9: that forever?
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Speaker 2: Yeah?
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Speaker 3: There are a lot of dogs out there in your situation,
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Speaker 3: for sure, And I think doing a trial run like
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Speaker 3: you did to see seasonality, I think that's totally fine
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Speaker 3: to do. But we definitely have a lot of dogs
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Speaker 3: that just have to be on something all the time
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Speaker 3: and it's okay to do that. Side effects tend to
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Speaker 3: be pretty minimal for most of the drugs in those classes,
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Speaker 3: these epic wells ands and rallies and things like that.
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Speaker 3: So and some dogs, over time, we can even get
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Speaker 3: them to every other day dosing in some cases, so
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Speaker 3: you can kind of minimize that while still controlling them.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, it's if you need to do it, you
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Speaker 4: need to do it.
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Speaker 3: And also never hurts to do good like medicated bathing
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Speaker 3: periodically to keep stuff down on their skin. Fish oil
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Speaker 3: supplements daily can be helpful for some dogs too.
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Speaker 2: So all right, dustin there you go. Thanks, Thank you
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Speaker 2: very much. Doctor Josh Davis a trilogy veterinarian clinic. He's
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Speaker 2: here in the studio to answer questions about your puppies
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Speaker 2: and kiddies, mainly dogs and cats. What you got a problem?
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Speaker 2: All right? This is Lana, Hi, Lana.
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Speaker 4: Hi, how are you great? You?
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Speaker 2: Where you going good? Where are you calling from?
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Speaker 6: I'm calling from Ogden and I have a pound dog
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Speaker 6: named body Body who is Yes, he is a senior dog.
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Speaker 6: And he has recently, probably in the last six months,
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Speaker 6: started losing a significant amount of weight to the bone
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Speaker 6: point where I can see his bones even in his head.
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Speaker 6: So I'm wondering, you know, I kind of looked into
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Speaker 6: it of something maybe called wasting syndrome. Is this something
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Speaker 6: that I can help him with. I've started literally feeding
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Speaker 6: him anything and everything he wants. He gets every table scrap,
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Speaker 6: and that has helped. Is there something for him that
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Speaker 6: we can do?
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Speaker 4: Well?
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Speaker 3: The hard part for you is we have to figure
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Speaker 3: out what the actual problem is, because they dogs can
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Speaker 3: have kind of that wasting syndrome for many, many different reasons,
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Speaker 3: and that's where doing some diagnostic work that's the best
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Speaker 3: way to know which direction to go, because could he
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Speaker 3: have kidney disease?
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Speaker 4: Could he have diabetes? Could he have other problems?
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Speaker 3: Even older dogs, we always have to have cancer on
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Speaker 3: the list as possible things too, And until we know
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Speaker 3: what we're dealing with, it's hard to say, oh, this
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Speaker 3: will be the best way to go, because everything requires
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Speaker 3: a different path as far as how to treat and
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Speaker 3: how to manage, and some things are treatable, some things
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Speaker 3: are more manageable, and some things it's kind of like,
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Speaker 3: we don't know that we have much we can do
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Speaker 3: in some cases, but without working it up, you're just
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Speaker 3: kind of at everything.
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Speaker 6: Yes, and I have been. I do have one more
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Speaker 6: question regarding him, excuse me, is he has a very
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Speaker 6: difficult time getting up now with his back and hind legs.
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Speaker 6: And I see, I see you know these waffle ads
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Speaker 6: and for this and that supplements, which I do give
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Speaker 6: him some glucose imine supplements. But is there something that
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Speaker 6: can be prescribed that will help him for that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you're most likely dealing with osteoarthritis, and there are
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Speaker 3: great tools that we have to use for that. But again,
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Speaker 3: those things we have to give in light of what
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Speaker 3: their other problems are to pick the right thing so
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Speaker 3: we don't make make issues worse. So yes, very likely
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Speaker 3: we could find something, but we need to know what's
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Speaker 3: going on first.
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Speaker 6: Okay, okay, I will plan on that. I appreciate your help.
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Speaker 2: Thank you, Laana, Thank you Lana.
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Speaker 5: By here's a text. I have a twelve year old
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Speaker 5: Maine coon cat with matted fur. It's the best way
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Speaker 5: to take care of his fur clumps, even if he
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Speaker 5: keeps rolling in the dirt. Is it going to traumatize
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Speaker 5: him to take him to a vet.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I think all cats on some level will
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Speaker 3: get traumatized to go to the vet. But it's not
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Speaker 3: a bad thing and not a reason not to do it.
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Speaker 3: And because clumps can be for a lot of different reasons,
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Speaker 3: So obesity can be a problem. They just physically can't
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Speaker 3: reach the clumps to clean them up. Some cats can
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Speaker 3: have oral disease and so it's hard for them to
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Speaker 3: groom because their mouth hurts them. And then some cats,
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Speaker 3: depending on their lifestyle, you know, me and coons, have
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Speaker 3: super long, flowy hair and so it is easier to
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Speaker 3: matt if you're not regularly brushing them out and keeping
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Speaker 3: things cleaned up that way, sometimes they just need a
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Speaker 3: little bit of help to And even old cats with
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Speaker 3: arthritis they have a hard time grooming sometimes because it's
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Speaker 3: just hard to get there. So, yeah, a lot of
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Speaker 3: factors and it's worth getting checked out.
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Speaker 2: So take them in a right Lisa is Lisa, Lisa,
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Speaker 2: where are you calling from?
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Speaker 8: Bountiful?
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Speaker 2: You're sure Bountiful? Yeah, what sort of animal do you
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Speaker 2: have and what's the problem.
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Speaker 8: I have a torty cat. She's young, about sick two,
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Speaker 8: about two months ago, she started licking things that are
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Speaker 8: not food, like carpet, couch cushions, blankets. I'm wondering if
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Speaker 8: it's a vitamin deficiency.
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Speaker 3: If you're on a good, just regular commercial cat food diet,
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Speaker 3: probably not the deficiency. But some cats can do that
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Speaker 3: for other reasons, So if they have some cats with
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Speaker 3: itchy skin will do that. Some cats with oral disease
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Speaker 3: or oral sometimes even oral tumors can start licking things
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Speaker 3: they're not supposed to because it's a way to try
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Speaker 3: to relieve their pain or discomfort. And then some cats,
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Speaker 3: I mean, there's always that subcategory of behavior or stress,
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Speaker 3: you know, if things have changed her their stress. But
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Speaker 3: I think it's where getting checked out to rule out
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Speaker 3: medical problems, and then we kind of chase down what
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Speaker 3: we can from there.
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Speaker 2: If it's a behavior thing and you ask the cat,
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Speaker 2: the cat would just say, I do it because I want.
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Speaker 3: To, because I'm a cat and I do what I want.
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Speaker 2: What's her name?
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Speaker 8: Shatter, teeth clean, what's name?
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Speaker 2: Isla had her teeth cleaned, and that before she started with.
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Speaker 8: No that she started looking after.
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Speaker 3: After Okay, yeah, I mean, so there's still a list
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Speaker 3: of things that are possible to and and dental cleanings.
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Speaker 4: It depends.
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Speaker 3: Sometimes some places do X rays and some places don't,
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Speaker 3: and they can have other disease. And if there's not
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Speaker 3: X rays, it's hard to know if there's more disease
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Speaker 3: under the gum line, so that can be a factor.
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Speaker 3: But you know, just got to rule things out as
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Speaker 3: we go. And then as long as they're not hurting themselves.
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Speaker 3: But they can ingest you know, carpet if they lick
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Speaker 3: it long enough, and that can be a health hazard
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Speaker 3: for them too.
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Speaker 2: You could try changing her name see if that helps out.
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Speaker 4: Her name is fine, well, sure.
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Speaker 2: It's okay, but maybe that's what's causing her to wick.
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Speaker 2: Thanks for calling. Thanks Lisa.
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Speaker 5: So I have put up a balcony garden and my cats,
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Speaker 5: two cats, really love being out there. Do I need
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Speaker 5: to get them a flea medication to be on the
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Speaker 5: balcony garden or anything like that. It's on the third floor.
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Speaker 4: On the third floor, I mean, you're probably lower risk.
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Speaker 3: The bigger concerns we have is things like mosquitoes and
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Speaker 3: then other parasites. So I think if they're spending time outside,
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Speaker 3: it's it's at least worth considering. On the third floor
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Speaker 3: you're probably lower risk, but mosquitoes can carry things like
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Speaker 3: carbon disease, which in cats is very hard to diagnose,
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Speaker 3: and and a lot of times they can have it
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Speaker 3: and we don't even know they have it till there's
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Speaker 3: a problem too.
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Speaker 2: So, and those those flesh eating screw worms are getting
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Speaker 2: closer to the border.
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Speaker 3: And even rodents, you know, sometimes they'll find their ways
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Speaker 3: up there, and rodents carry things too. Your cat happens
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Speaker 3: to get them. So you're probably low risk, but not
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Speaker 3: no risk at that point.
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Speaker 5: I have a Pyrenees Poodle Retriever Bardy Border Cullie mix.
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Speaker 4: Wow, that's a mouthful.
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Speaker 5: That's a combo named Peter Barker. When grooming, does cutting
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Speaker 5: whiskers hurt?
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Speaker 2: I don't think they're supposed to cut the whiskers, are you.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, ideally we want to leave those alone.
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Speaker 3: Cutting them doesn't necessarily hurt unless they're being pulled on.
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Speaker 3: But the where the whiskers grow from, the little buds
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Speaker 3: under the skin, those are very sensitive because whiskers, you know,
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Speaker 3: therefore kind of that tactile type of thing. So for
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Speaker 3: dogs and cats, I would try to leave them alone
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Speaker 3: as much as possible.
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Speaker 2: Cat whiskers are kind of. I mean, they're really sensitive,
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Speaker 2: aren't they. They're like feelers or something. Yeah, and they
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Speaker 2: can move them around. Cats especially can move them around.
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Speaker 2: That's kind of how they feel around. But dogs, I
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Speaker 2: think use them less than cats do, but they still
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Speaker 2: use them.
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Speaker 4: So.
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Speaker 5: My dog's name is Shasta. She caught her rat the
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Speaker 5: other day and killed it. Was there anything I should
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Speaker 5: be concerned with getting a rat and watch for? I
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Speaker 5: am a I am making an appointment to come to
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Speaker 5: see you to get her updated with her rabies and vaccines.
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Speaker 2: Good.
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Speaker 4: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The only other thing we'd probably want to do is
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Speaker 3: just get on parasite control if we're not on that yet,
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Speaker 3: because rats can carry certain things and so dogs I
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Speaker 3: think should always be on regular dewarming anyway, and parasite control.
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Speaker 2: All right, let's see, I wish I could use my
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Speaker 2: whiskers like a cat.
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Speaker 4: Wouldn't that be convenient?
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Speaker 1: Are your sensitive, Billee?
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Speaker 2: I know no, My whiskers are dead as a doorname.
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Speaker 5: My little Sheetsu Dashiki, is older. She has cushings slash
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Speaker 5: swollen liver disease. She's being treated with trilo stain. I've
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Speaker 5: tried numerous meds, best of food force suggestion. Okay, best
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Speaker 5: food for digestion, any additional meds that may help, So
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Speaker 5: asking about food and meds that could help with this situation.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, for cushions especially, So we're all it sounds like
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Speaker 3: we're on the right medication. That's the usually the drug
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Speaker 3: of choice for that. And those kind of dogs, when
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Speaker 3: they're not well managed, or even if they are, they
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Speaker 3: have an easier time gaining weight. That's one of the
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Speaker 3: big things. So I think being on a good quality,
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Speaker 3: you know, kind of a low fat diet isn't a
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Speaker 3: bad thing, and that'll help with deliver a little bit too,
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Speaker 3: and then just doing your best to control weight, getting
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Speaker 3: regular exercise and just stick the course.
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Speaker 4: With the meds. They do work, They do their.
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Speaker 2: Job, all right. All right, it's doctor Josh Davis. If
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Speaker 2: you have any questions further, you can contact him at
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Speaker 2: Trilogy Veterinary Clinic and that's in Sandy, Right, we're.
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Speaker 1: In Sandy here, so we'll get up go to their
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Speaker 1: open house on Saturday.
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Speaker 4: Open house on Saturday two to four. Okay, bye, guys,