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The Importance of Your Pet's Diet with CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: and send an email through the website. And one came
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  Speaker 1: in through that very way from Roger. Roger writes in
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  Speaker 1: he says, I'm a longtime listener, a first time email
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  Speaker 1: or I recently saw something on social media that brought
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  Speaker 1: up a question I've always had and I was hoping
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  Speaker 1: you could shed some light on it. The post claimed
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  Speaker 1: that old dog poo used to turn white, but doesn't
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  Speaker 1: seem to anymore. This got me wondering is this story accurate?
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  Speaker 1: If so, why did that happen? And has there been
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  Speaker 1: a change in the dog food to explain this. If so,
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  Speaker 1: these changes, are they for the better? I appreciate it
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  Speaker 1: for any information you can provide. Thanks for all you do,
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  Speaker 1: and that comes from Roger and doctor what is the is?
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  Speaker 1: He mentioned he sensed this, and I thought, he's right.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't. I haven't noticed the white stuff anymore. Something's changed,
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  Speaker 1: hasn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It's you know, I think that's accurate, because you're right,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't seem to have that shocky look to it
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  Speaker 2: anymore that it did used to. When it would lay
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  Speaker 2: out in the sun for a while, it would kind
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  Speaker 2: of get shocky and white looking. And I don't really
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  Speaker 2: know what the answer to that is. I think it's
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  Speaker 2: a really interesting observation. But yes, there have definitely been
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  Speaker 2: changes in dog food, and presumably for the better. Most
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  Speaker 2: of our companies now are doing a better job every
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  Speaker 2: year of researching and improving the quality of dog food
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  Speaker 2: so that what we have today isn't what we had
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  Speaker 2: twenty years ago. Now there's some question that maybe there's
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  Speaker 2: some changes that aren't as good, but you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: definitely changes that have happened. And there's three major companies, Hills,
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  Speaker 2: which makes science diet and prescription diet, Royal Canaan which
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  Speaker 2: makes Wealtham and the Royal Canaan prescription line of foods,
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  Speaker 2: and Yukanuba and Pedigree in that whole line of foods.
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  Speaker 2: That's actually the largest pet food company in the world.
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  Speaker 2: It's not Purina, and third is Purina and they have
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  Speaker 2: again a veterinary line and then over the counterline. Those
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  Speaker 2: companies all do research on diseases in dogs and cats,
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  Speaker 2: and then they have provided us with therapeutic diets which
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  Speaker 2: don't have any drugs in them. So I don't want
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  Speaker 2: anybody to misunderstand that there's no drug in any of
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  Speaker 2: the therapeutic diets. But they are prescription because they are
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  Speaker 2: prescribed specifically for certain conditions that dogs and cats can have,
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  Speaker 2: so heart disease, intestinal disease, kidney disease, liver disease, bladderstones,
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  Speaker 2: kidney stones, allergies. There's a huge array of therapeutic diets.
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  Speaker 2: There's hypoallergenic diets, and there's hydrolyzed protein diets, and so
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  Speaker 2: there's all these things now that we can do for
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  Speaker 2: our pets with diet, and by doing so, there's arthritis,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's things that we can do without having
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  Speaker 2: to put our dogs on or cats on drugs, on
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  Speaker 2: true therapy by using a therapeutic diet. And so we
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  Speaker 2: do get pushback from clients that say, well, why do
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  Speaker 2: I have to have a prescription from a veterinarian and
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  Speaker 2: it costs more, Well, it's maybe ten percent more to
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  Speaker 2: buy that food than it would be to buy regular food,
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  Speaker 2: but sometimes it's even less expensive than what you're buying now,
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  Speaker 2: So I think it's important that we talk about that.
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  Speaker 2: The other thing that I am going to mention here,
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  Speaker 2: which is sort of off topic but not completely, is
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  Speaker 2: that there's a new kind of bladderstone that's been found
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  Speaker 2: in dogs and cats. It's called CTT. It's a tartrate
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  Speaker 2: stone that seems to have originated from some of these
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  Speaker 2: fresh based diets, so the ones that you buy them
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  Speaker 2: aren't kibble. So I want people to know about it.
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  Speaker 2: Nobody used to see these stones at all. In the
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  Speaker 2: University of Minnesota at the Vet School in Saint Paul.
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  Speaker 2: They are really truly the epicenter for all things bladder
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  Speaker 2: and kidney, and dogs and cats have started to see
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  Speaker 2: this kind of an orangish yellow, multilobulated stone in the
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  Speaker 2: bladder and the only thing that they could trace it
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  Speaker 2: back to when they did a chemical analysis was the
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  Speaker 2: preservatives and some of the pet foods that are fresh,
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  Speaker 2: so then not the kibble, not the canned, but the
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  Speaker 2: stuff that comes in the role in the refrigerator. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's important that people are aware of that
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  Speaker 2: so that if they do have a problem with a bladderstone,
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  Speaker 2: that they know and their veterinary knows that should be addressed.
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  Speaker 2: So I know that's not exactly the question that you asked,
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  Speaker 2: but it kind of led to why do we have
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  Speaker 2: differences in our food? And you know, people feel like
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  Speaker 2: the fresh diets are better for their pets. They may
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  Speaker 2: or may not be, but they're certainly more expensive. And
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  Speaker 2: it's mostly the small breed male dogs that we've seen
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  Speaker 2: this bladderstone in and I think it's partly because large
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  Speaker 2: breed dogs they're so expensive to feed the fresh food
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  Speaker 2: that most people are feeding kibbled for the larger breed
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  Speaker 2: of dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Really interesting. As we talked this morning with doctor Marty
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  Speaker 1: new patients right now. And doctors. We talked about nutrition
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  Speaker 1: and u and animal health. When it comes to food,
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  Speaker 1: we talk about some of those some of those prescription
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  Speaker 1: diets and those you know, and I know that there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of when it comes to quality food, there's
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  Speaker 1: a lot of options out there. A lot of this
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  Speaker 1: stuff is far cheaper than than dealing you know. I
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  Speaker 1: know when I talk with UH, with the mds out there,
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  Speaker 1: the people docs, they often they often talk about you know,
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  Speaker 1: food as medicine and talk about lifestyle medicine and diet
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  Speaker 1: and those type of things. I'm guessing the same stuff
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  Speaker 1: for humans holds true in pets that you know, making
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  Speaker 1: these modifications are eating a proper diet can really not
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  Speaker 1: only improve quality life, but reduce issues as far as
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  Speaker 1: overall health issues as they age.
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  Speaker 2: Oh for sure. And you know, I think as humans
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  Speaker 2: we're a lot better at managing our dogs and cat's
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  Speaker 2: diets than we are our own, because it's really easy
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  Speaker 2: to you know, to say, this is how much you're
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  Speaker 2: getting for how often I'm fitting you, this is how
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  Speaker 2: it goes. But then you know yourself, You're like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: well I had dinner and I'm getting a little hungry.
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  Speaker 2: I'm just going to have a bull of ice cream,
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  Speaker 2: or you know, the little things that we do. We
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  Speaker 2: just pull into the drive through and quit grab a
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  Speaker 2: meal because we didn't have time to really prepare for
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  Speaker 2: something that was a better decision for what we should
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  Speaker 2: be eating. So absolutely, we can control many, many things
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  Speaker 2: with diet. And you know they say in the emergency
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  Speaker 2: rooms on the human side that up to thirty percent
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  Speaker 2: of the people in the er are there for a
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  Speaker 2: problem that they could have prevented, and that may be
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  Speaker 2: drunk driving, but that maybe you ate something that you
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  Speaker 2: knew you were allergic to, and regardless, you ate it,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes knowingly sometimes not knowingly. So I think it's really
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  Speaker 2: important that we think about nutrition as a tool that
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  Speaker 2: we can use to improve our pet self. It's not
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  Speaker 2: only weight control, but it's the components of the diet.
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  Speaker 2: And a lot of people get really hung up looking
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  Speaker 2: at PEP food labels because they look at the ingredient list,
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  Speaker 2: They look at the things that are listed on the
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  Speaker 2: back of the bag, and what they really should be
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  Speaker 2: looking at is the nutrient profile. So what is the protein,
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  Speaker 2: what is the carbohydrate? Is this dog's allergic to something?
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  Speaker 2: Is that component either not present or they've hydrolyzed the
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  Speaker 2: protein level in it, so that tiny molecule less than
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  Speaker 2: ten thousand daltons that it flips past the dog's immune system.
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  Speaker 2: About them really noticing that they're allergic to it. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: there's so many things that we can do to manage
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  Speaker 2: their health. It's not just weight. It's dental care, you know,
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  Speaker 2: there's those dental diets and a lot of the foods
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  Speaker 2: have either diets that are meant to have a kibble
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  Speaker 2: that helps to clean the chart off of the teeth,
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  Speaker 2: or they have sodium methyl hexyl foxtate in the food,
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  Speaker 2: which sounds oh like, oh my god, that sounds terrible,
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  Speaker 2: But that's the same crystal that they put in your
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  Speaker 2: toothpaste that help cut down in the tartar and your teeth.
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  Speaker 2: They can put it in dog food. Doesn't hurt them
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  Speaker 2: to eat it, but it helps to clean their teeth
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  Speaker 2: that they chew their kibble. So dental care. Kidney disease,
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  Speaker 2: you know, kidney disease, it's huge in dogs and cats,
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  Speaker 2: and we can see cats that can live two to
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  Speaker 2: four years on a prescription diet for kidney problems. If
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  Speaker 2: we catch it early and get them onto a therapeutic diet.
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  Speaker 2: These cats are living so much longer than they would
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  Speaker 2: on regular cat food that it's truly a breakthrough to
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  Speaker 2: have those kinds of improvements. Bladderstones, we don't have to
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  Speaker 2: take all dogs the surgery to take out bladderstone. Some
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  Speaker 2: of them dissolve with the right diet, or we can
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  Speaker 2: prevent them coming back with the right diet and prevent
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  Speaker 2: that annual surgery to go in and take out another
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  Speaker 2: bladderstone and another bladderstone. Intestinal disease really important that we
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  Speaker 2: can manage a lot of dogs with vomiting, diarrhea, health
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  Speaker 2: issues like that that we can manage with food. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's so many things that we can do.
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  Speaker 2: And if people would just beat compliant with their food
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  Speaker 2: and not you know, sneak the little trees and not
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  Speaker 2: undermine what we're able to do with diet, we can
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  Speaker 2: really make their pets a lot healthier. And the less
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  Speaker 2: money you spend with me to keep your pet out
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  Speaker 2: of the hospital. Hey, you know, I'm in man. I'm
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  Speaker 2: all about the sup preventive care and management.
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  Speaker 1: They give you those looks, though, doctor, they make it
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  Speaker 1: so hard. I'm talking this morning with doctor Mardy Greer
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  Speaker 1: of check Out Veterinarian doctor. When you were talking to
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  Speaker 1: about you know about looking at the at the label
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  Speaker 1: and looking at the at the nutrients.
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  Speaker 2: Do they do?
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  Speaker 1: I know obviously with people food there's those nutrition facts
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  Speaker 1: boxes that I think are required by law. Is there
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  Speaker 1: anything like that for in the pet food world? Or
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  Speaker 1: how do we get like I'm assuming obviously it's truthful.
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  Speaker 1: What you would it be then looking for and do
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  Speaker 1: they Is there like an easy way to compare those
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  Speaker 1: things or just something to talk to the vet about.
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  Speaker 2: It's not as easy as it would that I would
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  Speaker 2: like it to be. You can see on the label
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  Speaker 2: pretty easily the fat, carbohydrate, protein, and fiber in the diet.
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  Speaker 2: But once you get below the ingredient called salt, anything
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  Speaker 2: below that is a micronutrient, and that's typically a mineral
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  Speaker 2: or a vitamin or maybe a preservative that they put
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  Speaker 2: in the food, and vitamin E is actually a preservative
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  Speaker 2: for pet food. That once you get past salt, then
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  Speaker 2: those micronutrients are really hard to assess the levels of
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  Speaker 2: in one diet compared to another. So that's when you
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  Speaker 2: have to start either picking up the phone and calling
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  Speaker 2: the eight hundred number on the package of the food
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  Speaker 2: and ask their nutrition experts specific questions. And most of
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  Speaker 2: the pet food companies do have somebody, and you can ask,
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  Speaker 2: do you have a veterinary nutritionist on your staff? How
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  Speaker 2: do you formulate your diet? How do you make decisions
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  Speaker 2: about changes in the diet, Because if the commodity market
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  Speaker 2: causes of change in one ingredient, then are they going
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  Speaker 2: to have to substitute another one? And how does that
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  Speaker 2: affect what's in your food and the nutrient profile of that.
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  Speaker 2: And I will tell you that the world small animal
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  Speaker 2: Veterinary Association. So it's WSAB a World Small Animal Veterinary
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  Speaker 2: Association has a really really good web page on it
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  Speaker 2: for how to select a pet food and manufacture do.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to that. You don't have to be
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  Speaker 2: a veterinary and you can just google that and you
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  Speaker 2: can find it and it has a whole list of
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  Speaker 2: questions that you can call the pet food company and
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  Speaker 2: ask them about. Some people like to have their own
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  Speaker 2: homemade diets, and in some cases that's appropriate. In other
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  Speaker 2: cases it doesn't turn out very well. Sometimes people will
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  Speaker 2: start off with a recipe and then we have what's
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  Speaker 2: called recipe drift because one day you can't get turkey,
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  Speaker 2: next and the next time you can't get you know,
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  Speaker 2: the kind of beans that you were buying, and so
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  Speaker 2: you change and pretty soon the original recipe that you
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  Speaker 2: were feeding wasn't really what it changed, you know, drifted
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  Speaker 2: and it's changed into something else. So there's a website
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  Speaker 2: called balance It via l A n CE Balance It,
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  Speaker 2: and you can go to that and there's a free
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  Speaker 2: service and a paid service if you choose. Or you
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  Speaker 2: need to formulate your own dogs or cat's diet because
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  Speaker 2: of some nutritional need that isn't met by a therapeutic diet.
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  Speaker 2: You can go to that and get some help in
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  Speaker 2: formulating a diet, and of course, you know then you
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  Speaker 2: have to stick pretty tightly to that recipe. It's not
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  Speaker 2: like when you're making lasagna, and if you want to
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  Speaker 2: substitute one thing for another, it's not going to change
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  Speaker 2: the nutrient profile. But it's really important that we're doing
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  Speaker 2: appropriate nutrition for our pet So just seeing your dogs
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  Speaker 2: skinless boneles chicken breast off the table as one hundred
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  Speaker 2: percent of their diet is not a balanced diet. Dogs
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  Speaker 2: need a lot more than that. And frankly, you know,
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  Speaker 2: things like dark meat chicken is a higher higher in
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  Speaker 2: nutrients like touring than white meat chicken. So I'm not
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  Speaker 2: really sure why people drift toward buying the expensive skinless,
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  Speaker 2: boneless chicken breast when they could buy chicken thives and
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  Speaker 2: legs through them in their instant pot and get really
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  Speaker 2: nice chicken in a much higher quality for the touring
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  Speaker 2: amount in the food, and then have a better product
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  Speaker 2: to put into their pet food. So most of us,
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  Speaker 2: of course, most of us do exactly what you just said,
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  Speaker 2: and that's that we're pretty good at feeding mostly the kibble,
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  Speaker 2: and then yeah, they look at you with big brown eyes,
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  Speaker 2: and then there's something else that goes into the food.
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  Speaker 2: So if you have a dog that's not a prescription
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  Speaker 2: diet or a cat, you can either use the kibble
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  Speaker 2: or the cans version of that to make little baked
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  Speaker 2: treats so that you can stay on the therapeutic diet.
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  Speaker 2: But if you don't have a specific therapeutic need, as
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  Speaker 2: long as you're feeding ninety percent of the kibble, center
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  Speaker 2: more of the kibble, and less than ten percent is
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  Speaker 2: over the counter snacks treats, those kinds of things are
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  Speaker 2: probably okay with not upsetting the nutrition of the food,
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  Speaker 2: but avoid the high fat, avoid the bones, avoid the
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  Speaker 2: spicy foods, and then of course grapes and raisins we
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  Speaker 2: know are toxic to dogs, so there's certain things that
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  Speaker 2: we have to keep out of their diets. And then
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  Speaker 2: there's also like Royal Canaan makes some very specific breed
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  Speaker 2: specific foods for dogs and cats, and it's not a gimmick.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just something that they've made up so that
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  Speaker 2: you'll go to the store and buy something that's kind
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  Speaker 2: of cool. But the bulldog food is made so that
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  Speaker 2: they can pick it up more easily and they get
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  Speaker 2: less gas in their GI track because bulldogs are gassy,
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  Speaker 2: and that includes French bulldogs. We can see labrador food
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  Speaker 2: that has a hole through the middle of it so
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  Speaker 2: they swallow less air when they gobble their food. We
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  Speaker 2: see German shepherd food that's more digestible, and German shepherds
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  Speaker 2: are the breed that stresses through their gut. But there's
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  Speaker 2: a lot of other dogs that have problems that they're
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  Speaker 2: GI tracked, So we feed the German shepherd food to
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  Speaker 2: a lot of other dogs that aren't German shepherds because
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  Speaker 2: they do really well on it. So there's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of stuff out there. There's a lot of nuances to
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  Speaker 2: this that you should be talking to your veterinarian or
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  Speaker 2: your veterinary technician that has training and nutrition about.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to continue our conversation with doctor Marty Grear.
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  Speaker 1: I do you want to ask you about you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: We talk about different types of UH. You know, food
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  Speaker 1: and the importance of quality food for your pet. I
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  Speaker 1: know that a lot of the big names that folks know,
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  Speaker 1: they're pretty open about about and they're actually quite proud
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  Speaker 1: of their facilities and how they work. And you, I
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  Speaker 1: know you've had the opportunity on a couple of occasions
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  Speaker 1: to actually go and see and and talk with some
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  Speaker 1: of these producers, haven't you.
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  Speaker 2: Yes, I've been to France twice to Royal came in.
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  Speaker 2: I've been to Waltham in England where do some of
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  Speaker 2: their research. I've been to Purina in Saint Louis. I've
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  Speaker 2: been to Dayton, Ohio for Yukanuba. Yeah. I've been to
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  Speaker 2: many of these and see their colonies where they have
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  Speaker 2: house the pets, the dogs and cats that are fed
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  Speaker 2: these diets, and see how they are taking care of it.
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  Speaker 2: It's absolutely amazing the kind of care that these dogs get.
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  Speaker 2: They go up to picnic tables at lunchtime, and they
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  Speaker 2: go home with people and they get adopted out after
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  Speaker 2: their their job of eating pet food for their whole life,
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  Speaker 2: and they do some really tremendous research. So I think
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  Speaker 2: people need to understand that you can visit Purina. Now.
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  Speaker 2: Their visitor center did have some damage to it with
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  Speaker 2: a storm earlier this spring, but many of these companies
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  Speaker 2: are very welcoming to having you come in see what
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  Speaker 2: they do for their research, how they house their pets,
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  Speaker 2: what kind of things they do. When we went through
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  Speaker 2: the Royal Canan plant, they were changing the dies in
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  Speaker 2: the machine you know that cuts the little pieces of
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  Speaker 2: food into whatever shape that they're supposed to be. My
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  Speaker 2: husband had like drag them away from the window because
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  Speaker 2: he's standing there watching the mechanics work on the machine.
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  Speaker 2: He was just intrigued by this whole thing. So it's
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty amazing what these pet food companies do for us.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, people are like, oh, pet food is
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  Speaker 2: really bad, the dry tible is terrible for my pet
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  Speaker 2: and it's actually not man. You know, our dogs are
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  Speaker 2: living to be older than they've ever lived before, and
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  Speaker 2: we have options for therapeutic diets we've never had now.
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  Speaker 2: Not every pet food company makes every therapeutic diet, so
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  Speaker 2: sometimes we have to rely on one company versus another
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  Speaker 2: based on what the pets needs are. But overall, we
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  Speaker 2: can manage so many better things than we ever could
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  Speaker 2: before with the pet food that we have and the
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  Speaker 2: new medications and you know, the new vaccines and the
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  Speaker 2: new medications, and if you're careful and thoughtful and you
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  Speaker 2: work with your veterinary and your veterinary technician about how
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  Speaker 2: your lifestyle of your pet works, what you need, what
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  Speaker 2: you don't need, because you don't need everything, but you
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  Speaker 2: do need some things. It's really important that we know
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  Speaker 2: we can manage we can prevent free born diseases and
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  Speaker 2: take born diseases, and we can prevent parasites, and we can,
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  Speaker 2: you know, help with their allergies and do all kinds
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  Speaker 2: of really incredible things. With the right therapeutic diets and
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  Speaker 2: the right medications use directly, they can really change lifestyle
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