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Frenchies and Other Brachycephalic Dogs with the Checkout Vet · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight for thirteen ten WIBA and Ask the Experts, joined
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  Speaker 1: in studio this morning by doctor Marty Greer, Veterinarian of
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  Speaker 1: the Year with the Westminster Kennel Club. Also, of course,
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  Speaker 1: the doctor comes to us from Checkout Veterinary the website
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com Area
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  Speaker 1: clinic right at twenty seven to ten Prairie Lakes Drive
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  Speaker 1: in sun Prairie at twelve one number six oh 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, open nine am until five pm every
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  Speaker 1: day of the week except for Thursdays. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: that includes weekends, which is which is huge. Doctor. How
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  Speaker 1: you doing this morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, It's so good to see you. And I mentioned,
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  Speaker 1: of course, uh checkout vet and the hours and cool
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  Speaker 1: thing first visit is free for that office visit. Obviously
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  Speaker 1: testing other things there is, there are prices to that
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  Speaker 1: and you can of course you can learn more all
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  Speaker 1: the transparent pricing right available to you at checkout vet
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Before we get get talking this week about
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  Speaker 1: some some really kind of sad things and things that
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  Speaker 1: are avoidable, and of course sharing some really important information
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  Speaker 1: with pet owners. Let's really quick talk about Checkout Veterinary
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  Speaker 1: and just what a unique design this is and a
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  Speaker 1: great concept it is. It's not only really good for
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  Speaker 1: pet owners, but pets just love what you guys do
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  Speaker 1: at checkout fat, don't they they do.
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  Speaker 2: It's the ultimate in low stress, easy pet care. The
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  Speaker 2: cats never have to see a dog, smell a dog,
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  Speaker 2: be around a dog, be glared at through the carrier,
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  Speaker 2: buy a dog. The dogs can just come in and
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  Speaker 2: we've got a great big garage bay for each client
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  Speaker 2: to pull into. So you literally pull into a garage
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  Speaker 2: bay that becomes your exam room, so your dog can
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  Speaker 2: wander around, be really comfortable. If you have puppies, you know,
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  Speaker 2: more than one dog. Gosh, we see a lot of
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  Speaker 2: multiple dog families, so they can bring everybody at the
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  Speaker 2: same time. Just pile them all in the car, pile
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  Speaker 2: in the kids. It's fine, come on in and we're
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  Speaker 2: going to take care of well, we'll take care of
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  Speaker 2: the dogs vaccinations. We're not going to excitate the kids.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, no, it's such a great concept I think of obviously. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: with with dogs, get older dogs too that may not
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  Speaker 1: you know, and get anxiety, and cats Oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: cats get and cats get very anxious, and having the
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  Speaker 1: opportunity of just removing that. What a great what a
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  Speaker 1: great benefit it is, and what a convenient are we
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  Speaker 1: seeing others around the country taking notice saying, you know
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  Speaker 1: what we're gonna We're going to move in on the
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  Speaker 1: doctor's ideas.
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  Speaker 2: Lots of them have talked to me about it. It
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  Speaker 2: is patented, so I'm more than happy to work with
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  Speaker 2: other veterinarians to do something with that. But if you
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  Speaker 2: have mobility issues, your pet has mobility issues, man, it's perfect.
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  Speaker 2: You just pull in and you don't have to try
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  Speaker 2: and struggle with getting out of the vehicle, you know,
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  Speaker 2: especially when the weather is icy and cold and nasty.
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  Speaker 2: But if it's raining, it doesn't matter. You don't have
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  Speaker 2: to get out of the vehicle. Your pet just can
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  Speaker 2: stay in the minivan, in the back of your car
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  Speaker 2: wherever they're comfortable, your pickup truck, whatever you drive in.
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  Speaker 2: We're happy to accommodate you. So we'll fit sprinters, will
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  Speaker 2: fit pretty much everything. So if you want to bring
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  Speaker 2: the whole pile of dogs one visitor, the dogs in
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  Speaker 2: the cats, feel free to make an appointment and bring
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  Speaker 2: them all at once.
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  Speaker 1: You guys would love it that. I love that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: It's one of those concepts too where when you hear
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  Speaker 1: about it, you go, why hasn't this like, why isn't
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  Speaker 1: this just the standard way things are done? But it's
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  Speaker 1: it's a great option, great opportunity to get. You can
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  Speaker 1: learn more. Check out vet dot com. That's check out
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com. Doctor. This time of year, of course,
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  Speaker 1: with the temperatures, heat, humidity we get late into the summer,
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  Speaker 1: we start to get warnings. I know the city of
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  Speaker 1: Madison will put out warnings about beach closures and other things.
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  Speaker 1: Blue green algae dangerous for people, dangerous for pets as well,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: It sure is, And it's probably even more dangerous for
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  Speaker 2: our dogs because we get in the water. We try
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  Speaker 2: not to drink the water, yes, but our dogs they
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  Speaker 2: plunge their way in, they go swimming merrily along. They
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  Speaker 2: can really get some pretty heavy exposures. So it's very
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  Speaker 2: important that if you see blue green algae warnings on
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  Speaker 2: the internet or at the place that you want to
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  Speaker 2: go to, that you avoid that or if you for
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  Speaker 2: some reason end up with that exposure, get home, get
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  Speaker 2: your dog a bit ath take maybe even take some
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  Speaker 2: you know, soaper shampoo or something with you to where
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  Speaker 2: you're going to go so that you could immediately clean
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  Speaker 2: them up. But if you can't get them to the
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  Speaker 2: dog wash or you get some way to get them
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  Speaker 2: cleaned up, because it can be toxic. So it's very
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  Speaker 2: important that we take good care of our dogs. They
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  Speaker 2: don't understand blue green algae. In fact, I'm not sure
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  Speaker 2: I really understand it either, but just avoid it.
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  Speaker 1: Is with that too, is we talk about, you know,
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  Speaker 1: blue green algae, if there's ever a question you want
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  Speaker 1: to avoid it because it is. Are there treatments for
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  Speaker 1: dogs because we obviously what makes the news are the tragedies.
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  Speaker 1: Are there treatments or things? I mean, do dogs that
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  Speaker 1: are exposed that drink that water or anything like that,
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  Speaker 1: do they often recover or is it typically fatal or
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  Speaker 1: do we have statistics on that.
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  Speaker 2: I don't have statistics. They can usually recover, but it's
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  Speaker 2: basically supportive care. We don't have the blue green algae
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  Speaker 2: anti toxin, so we're basically stuck with just the supportive
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  Speaker 2: care of what their symptoms may develop. So it's essentially
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  Speaker 2: better avoided than anything else.
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  Speaker 1: Really important to guidance and information this time time a year,
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  Speaker 1: and of course any waterway can can develop it, but
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  Speaker 1: especially lakes and other things are especially susceptible. Speak of things,
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  Speaker 1: especially susceptible. French bulldogs beautiful dogs. I know some folks
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  Speaker 1: with them. They've got a ton of personality. I'm probably
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  Speaker 1: biased because I'm a HuaHua guy and I love dogs
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  Speaker 1: with a lot of personality. French bulldogs beautiful creatures, but
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  Speaker 1: they have an inherent issue to the breed and a
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  Speaker 1: tragedy a flight from Hawaii to the mainland, a dog
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  Speaker 1: was lost. Let's talk about a little bit about the
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  Speaker 1: biology of French bulldogs and what goes on with them,
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  Speaker 1: and for folks that are thinking of buying one or
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  Speaker 1: folks that have one, some of the unique concerns with
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  Speaker 1: that breed a dog.
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  Speaker 2: Sure, so French bulldogs, Pugs and some of the other
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  Speaker 2: short faced breed Sheetsoo's cavaliers. There's a number of them
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  Speaker 2: that are considered breakycephalic. So those are the dogs with
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  Speaker 2: a short nose. The opposite is the collie with the
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  Speaker 2: extremely long nose and the bor zoe and some of
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  Speaker 2: those this is the very shortened nose and along with
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  Speaker 2: that short nose, there's a lot of other things that
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  Speaker 2: happen in that airway, so there's oftentimes a narrow trichea,
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  Speaker 2: narrow nostrils called stenatic nares, averted sacules, and then an
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  Speaker 2: elongated soft palate. So those four things tend to travel together.
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  Speaker 2: And what happened when we bred dogs to have shorter
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  Speaker 2: and shorter faces is they didn't get shorter on the inside,
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  Speaker 2: but they got shorter on the outside. So that meant
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  Speaker 2: the tissues started to collapse on each other and create
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  Speaker 2: some problems. It's collectively called BOAS or breachicephalic obstructive airway
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  Speaker 2: syndrome BOAS. So it's important if you are purchasing one
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  Speaker 2: of the brickycephalic dogs, especially as a puppy, that you
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  Speaker 2: get a chance to see what the parents look like,
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  Speaker 2: how they sound when they breathe. There's actually now a
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  Speaker 2: test that we can provide for clients. It's BOAS testing.
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  Speaker 2: Some veterinarians. There aren't very many of us yet in
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  Speaker 2: the country that are certified, but there are some veterinaries
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  Speaker 2: that are certified to classify what scale they are in
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  Speaker 2: a zero one twoth three scale, and veterinarians that can
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  Speaker 2: do that then can screen the parents, and if you
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  Speaker 2: are breeding parents that have better airways, then you're likely
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  Speaker 2: to produce puppies with better airways. Now that means that
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  Speaker 2: when you go to pick out your puppy, that you
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  Speaker 2: listen to the parents when they're resting, listen to the
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  Speaker 2: parents when they're moving around, and that you listen to
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  Speaker 2: your puppy. If it's already noisy when it's a little puppy,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to get better as it gets bigger.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably going to get worse. So be very very
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  Speaker 2: careful with that, and be aware that you are your
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  Speaker 2: pet's best advocate. If you're in a situation that the
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  Speaker 2: dog is overheating, having difficulty breathing, any of those things,
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  Speaker 2: you need to advocate for that. Unfortunately, this puppy or
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  Speaker 2: this adult dog, was a five year old dog that
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  Speaker 2: was lost on this travel from Honolulu to the mainland.
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  Speaker 2: Like you said, they had three dogs with them, and
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  Speaker 2: this one particular dog got overheated and was required to
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  Speaker 2: stay in the carrier. It's unclear who required that, but
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  Speaker 2: it was required to stay in the carrier. And for instance,
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  Speaker 2: it's Milwaukee Airport and I don't know a lot about
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  Speaker 2: the Madison Airport because I don't typically fly out of there.
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  Speaker 2: But in the Milwaukee Airport, you are required to keep
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  Speaker 2: your dog in the carrier the entire time you're in
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  Speaker 2: the airport, according to Milwaukee County rules. So if you
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  Speaker 2: take your dog out of the carrier while you're waiting
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  Speaker 2: at the gate or walking to the gate, the Sheriff's
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  Speaker 2: department will approach you and tell you that you need
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  Speaker 2: to keep your dog back in the carrier. And that's
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  Speaker 2: I think what happened with this dog from what I understand.
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  Speaker 2: Of course, there's going to be more information later, but
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  Speaker 2: from what I understand, he was kept in the carrier,
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  Speaker 2: got too warm in the airport and in the plane,
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  Speaker 2: and they tried to cool the dog, but it was
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  Speaker 2: too little, too late, and the dog was lost. So
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  Speaker 2: it's very tragic. So please, please please advocate for your
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  Speaker 2: dog if you need to. Maybe you just leave the airport. Sure,
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  Speaker 2: maybe you just go and skip your flight.
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  Speaker 1: It's always fun to take. Road trips are nice to
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  Speaker 1: especially especially with the puppy if you got a dog
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  Speaker 1: that loves drive, and that's a fun experience. By the way,
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  Speaker 1: with those shorter nosed dogs, it sounds like almost like
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  Speaker 1: similar to sleep appa in humans. Are they more susceptible
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  Speaker 1: to temperature issues as well?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, they can't cool the way normal dogs cool,
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  Speaker 2: so they very very easily overheat. And then the more
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  Speaker 2: warm they get, the more they try to breathe, the
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  Speaker 2: harder they breathe, the more they collapse that shortened airway
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  Speaker 2: in on itself. So it just becomes this vicious cycle
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  Speaker 2: and they can get really hot very quickly. So they
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  Speaker 2: tried to cool the dog. They tried to do the
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  Speaker 2: right things, but short of getting out of the plane
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  Speaker 2: and leaving the flight, that was probably their only choice.
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  Speaker 2: And once you're in the air, there's nowhere to go nowhere,
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  Speaker 2: So unfortunately that happened. Fortunately it doesn't seem to happen
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  Speaker 2: very often. But you just have to be very aware
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  Speaker 2: that temperatures that you wouldn't even think would be all
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  Speaker 2: that warm, Like today, I was driving and they were
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  Speaker 2: talking about leaving kids in the car and they said
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  Speaker 2: even sixty degree temperatures can be too warm for kids,
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  Speaker 2: and that applies to your dogs as well, So be
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  Speaker 2: very thoughtful about where you take your dogs, when you
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  Speaker 2: take your dogs, where you park your car, what you do.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, we've talked about this before, but you just
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  Speaker 2: have to be extremely careful, especially with the break thecephalics,
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  Speaker 2: because they are very special dogs. So select your dogs
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  Speaker 2: carefully when you're getting a new pup. I mean, French
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  Speaker 2: ships are the number one breed right now in the country.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, they are the number one breed register
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  Speaker 2: with AKC. So we're seeing lots and lots and lots
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  Speaker 2: of them, and they're adorable, and you're right, they have
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  Speaker 2: great personalities, they're funny, they're great to live with. But
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  Speaker 2: be very selective. Pick good parents of your puppies, not
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  Speaker 2: just airways, but all their health screenings. Don't pick based
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  Speaker 2: on color, pick based on health and what screenings have
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  Speaker 2: been done on those parents, because you want the healthiest
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  Speaker 2: dog that you can get for the longest period of time.
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  Speaker 2: And responsible breeders are doing these things. So, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: there's only a few veterinarians in the country right now
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  Speaker 2: that are BOAS tested and are certified. I'm going to
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  Speaker 2: be doing that training in October, so I'll be trained,
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  Speaker 2: but very few are. But it doesn't require that specific
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  Speaker 2: a test as long as you listen to the parents,
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  Speaker 2: listen to the puppy and get an idea of what
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  Speaker 2: it's supposed to sound like. They should be quiet breathers,
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  Speaker 2: if they're snoring or loud, You're right, it does sort
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  Speaker 2: of sound like sleep apnea, and they do snore a
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  Speaker 2: lot when they've got these break acephelic airway syndromes. So
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  Speaker 2: pick a puppy that's that's healthy and has good breathing.
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  Speaker 1: Docor this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary
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  Speaker 1: the website checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Write in Sun Prairie. They're telephone number six
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  Speaker 1: O eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three
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  Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. We'll talk about pet insurance
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  Speaker 1: with doctor Greer. Well, we will do that next meantime.
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  Speaker 1: Haven't been to the website yet, head on over there
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  Speaker 1: now check out vet dot com. More of asked the
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  Speaker 1: experts with checkout Veterinary. Next here on thirteen ten WU
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  Speaker 1: I B A and ask the experts hanging out with
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  Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer. Of course, doctor Greer comes to us
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  Speaker 1: from Checkout Veterinary, the website check out vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's all one word. Checkout vet dot com. An amazing concept. Again,
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  Speaker 1: it's it's let's the experience and once you see it,
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  Speaker 1: you'd think, why didn't we always done it this way?
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  Speaker 1: It is a really really cool thing for you and
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  Speaker 1: your pet or pets for that matter. First visit is free,
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  Speaker 1: and of course techting other things. There are fees applied
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  Speaker 1: to those, but again just your office visit not going
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  Speaker 1: to cost you anything. Again, you can learn more online
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  Speaker 1: the website checkout vet dot com and they're telephone number
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  Speaker 1: six so eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's
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  Speaker 1: three one eight sixty seven hundred. I know a lot
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  Speaker 1: of folks with pets listen to the program. It's great
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  Speaker 1: to have you along. If you ever have questions, you
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  Speaker 1: can always email me Sean at wib A dot com
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  Speaker 1: Shawn with a wwi BA dot com. It will get
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  Speaker 1: you the questions to the Doctor'll probably ask answer a
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  Speaker 1: lot of them on air as well. Love to get
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  Speaker 1: your emails and your questions and a big question I
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  Speaker 1: always hear and I don't know if there was last
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  Speaker 1: month or so, there was some type of campaign but
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  Speaker 1: pet insurance. As we were talking in that last segment
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  Speaker 1: about about some issues that that dogs can run into.
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  Speaker 1: Making sure your your pet is healthy, but also making
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  Speaker 1: sure that that when it comes time for for needs
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  Speaker 1: and injuries, and you know, life happens to people, life
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  Speaker 1: happens to pets, that there is some type of coverage.
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  Speaker 1: Do you recommend folks get some type of insurance for
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  Speaker 1: their pet.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely always makes pet care affordable so you don't have
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  Speaker 2: to think about whether you can afford to do something
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  Speaker 2: if something happens. Now, most pet insurance doesn't cover the
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  Speaker 2: routine wellness care, the vaccinations, the heartwroom tests, the flee
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  Speaker 2: and tick meds, the heartworm medication. Those are things that
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  Speaker 2: you know about, you can budget for, and you really
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  Speaker 2: don't need insurance for those because you can figure out
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  Speaker 2: how much that's going to run and you just have
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  Speaker 2: to plan for it. But the catastrophic things are really
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  Speaker 2: what we have to be concerned about. It's the dog
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  Speaker 2: that falls down the stairs, the dog that runs into traffic,
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  Speaker 2: the dog that eats tennis balls on a regular basis.
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  Speaker 2: As they get older, some of these policies carry cancer coverage,
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  Speaker 2: so you want to start looking at those when your
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  Speaker 2: dog is still young. Some of them AKC, for instance,
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  Speaker 2: a couple of them will have the first month free.
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  Speaker 2: I think Trupanion does as well. So when you get
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  Speaker 2: a new puppy, oftentimes you'll get an email. If you
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  Speaker 2: have an AKC registered puppy, you'll get an email from
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  Speaker 2: AKAC that says you have a free month of health insurance.
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  Speaker 2: So that's a chance for you to take it for
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  Speaker 2: a test drive, try out, and if something horrible happens
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  Speaker 2: in the first couple of weeks parvo, like I said,
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  Speaker 2: fall down the stairs, you know, gets beat up by
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  Speaker 2: the other dog, you trip over the puppy, whatever happens.
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  Speaker 2: Those kind of things happen. Trauma can happen pretty easily
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  Speaker 2: to these young puppies, So that's a chance to have
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  Speaker 2: that coverage. So you can look at that, and there
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  Speaker 2: is a website that helps you compare pet insurance. Now
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  Speaker 2: there's new pet insurance companies that come to the market
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  Speaker 2: fairly often, and sometimes they don't last. So you want
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  Speaker 2: to be really careful when you're selecting a pet insurance
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  Speaker 2: company that it's going to be somebody that ten years
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  Speaker 2: from now that you're still going to have coverage with,
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  Speaker 2: because that's when you're really going to need it as
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  Speaker 2: the pets start to age and develop some of the
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  Speaker 2: aging changes, kidney disease or diabetes or cancer, or you
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  Speaker 2: know other lumps and bumps, dental disease, all those things
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  Speaker 2: that you want to be able to know that you
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  Speaker 2: have coverage. So there's a few that have been around
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  Speaker 2: for a long time and those are pretty reliable. The
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  Speaker 2: first pet insurance company to market actually was Veterinary Pet
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  Speaker 2: Insurance VPI. It was started by Kent Cruz who was
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  Speaker 2: a veterinarian in Oshkosh, so Wisconsin is the home of
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  Speaker 2: the first pet insurance company. Now that's been taken over.
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  Speaker 2: So we have Nationwide which covers pet care. We have Trupanion,
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  Speaker 2: we have rain Walk, we have AKC, there's lemonade, there's
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  Speaker 2: all kinds of things. I don't even know what some
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  Speaker 2: of these companies are because they come to market pretty quickly.
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  Speaker 2: So you can go to the website that compares pet insurance,
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  Speaker 2: get some idea of what coverage is going to be,
• 15:24
  Speaker 2: and then check prices on different coverage depending on what
• 15:27
  Speaker 2: you want for coverage. You know how high you're deductible,
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  Speaker 2: what breed of dog you have, whether they cover congenital problems,
• 15:34
  Speaker 2: which are things that they're born with, like hypdasplasia. So
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  Speaker 2: you want to make sure that you really understand what
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  Speaker 2: coverage you're going to get before you make a decision
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  Speaker 2: on policy. It shouldn't just be on price alone. Now
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: there are people who say, well, you know, I'm not
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: really going to spend the money on pet insurance. I'm
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: going to self insurance. So every month, I'm going to
• 15:48
  Speaker 2: put away a certain amount of money into a little
• 15:50
  Speaker 2: savings account and that'll be the dog's savings account in
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  Speaker 2: case something happens. Well, that's all will and good, except
• 15:56
  Speaker 2: it usually doesn't work that way, and then you end
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  Speaker 2: up with something, like I said, catastrophic, something terrible happens
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  Speaker 2: and you're facing a bill that maybe thousands and thousands
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  Speaker 2: of dollars it. Pet care has gotten very expensive, so
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  Speaker 2: walking into an emergency clinic referral center, it may be
• 16:13
  Speaker 2: eight to ten thousand dollars for the first day that
• 16:16
  Speaker 2: you're there. So you want to be really aware of
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  Speaker 2: what coverage you want, and you need to think this
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  Speaker 2: through so that you're prepared for those things to happen.
• 16:24
  Speaker 2: So there's really good insurance companies out there. The other
• 16:27
  Speaker 2: problem though, is if you have multiple pets, who do
• 16:29
  Speaker 2: you ensure? And if you ensure young, of course that
• 16:33
  Speaker 2: eliminates the need for worrying about pre existing conditions, just
• 16:36
  Speaker 2: like for people. So you want to ensure them young,
• 16:38
  Speaker 2: but that means a lot more years that you're paying
• 16:40
  Speaker 2: for it. So do you only ensure your pet as
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: they reach middle age and the premiums are hired? Do
• 16:44
  Speaker 2: you want to start when they're young. There's a lot
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: of discussion to have, so looking at these companies, going online,
• 16:49
  Speaker 2: using their calculator or giving them a call in speaking
• 16:51
  Speaker 2: to them about what they cover, what your premiums would be,
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: what that means. Those are all really important things for
• 16:56
  Speaker 2: you to do some research on. And pet insurance is
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: changing so quickly that what I say today may not
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: apply six months from now or a year from now,
• 17:04
  Speaker 2: so really do some research on it.
• 17:05
  Speaker 1: And like a lot of this stuff, it's always best
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  Speaker 1: to talk with your vet as well, and of course
• 17:09
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