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Vet Josh Davis Q&A For February 26th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Uh, we have our veterinarian friend here, doctor Josh Davis.
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  Speaker 1: He's a veterinarian extraordinaire and he can answer questions about
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  Speaker 1: your puppies and your kiddies.
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  Speaker 2: Gina, you had a question though, Oh weld.
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  Speaker 3: My go ahead, my my pup will I'll take her
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  Speaker 3: out and sugar potty and we'll say great, yeah you
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  Speaker 3: want potty, and she'll come right inside and potty again.
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  Speaker 1: Is this just my theory is that she's you praise
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  Speaker 1: her for potting outside and she goes inside and.
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  Speaker 2: Says, I'd like to get praised again.
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  Speaker 4: It is.
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  Speaker 5: It's definitely a game about that, and and positive reinforcement
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  Speaker 5: is definitely what you want to do, for sure. So
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  Speaker 5: a little treat goes a long way, and and that
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  Speaker 5: should get better.
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  Speaker 4: Definitely should get better.
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  Speaker 5: Puppies and kittens there, their kidneys take while to develop
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  Speaker 5: and hold that pee and get better at that in
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  Speaker 5: the training.
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  Speaker 4: So you're you're on the right track.
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  Speaker 3: But the other problem is, so I'm giving a treat
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  Speaker 3: to Oakley with the puppy when she peas, and now
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  Speaker 3: Riley's like, oh, we get treats.
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  Speaker 6: For peeing around here? That could be a problem. Yeah, listen.
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  Speaker 6: You got her decide you want a messy carpet.
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  Speaker 7: You want to you want to go through some treats
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  Speaker 7: and get your pups all chunky.
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  Speaker 2: My mother gave me little pieces of candy every time.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go to Jenny. Now, Jenny is here.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Jenny, what's uh? What's your cat or dog's name?
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  Speaker 8: Good morning?
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  Speaker 9: Thanks for letting me listen. It is Linus van.
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  Speaker 2: Pelt van Pelt and it's a puppy.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, my little bubboo and I'm his I'm his little
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  Speaker 9: security blanket.
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  Speaker 2: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: He's a miniature. He's a miniature Australian Shepherd. He's twelve
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  Speaker 9: weeks old and I'm trying to figure out the best
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  Speaker 9: feeding schedule for him. I've got him on a food
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  Speaker 9: program through Allie, but he is cleaning it up. It's
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  Speaker 9: gone faster than I can keep it out. And I
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  Speaker 9: was told to kind of keep in front of him
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  Speaker 9: since he's growing. But I don't want to make him fat,
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  Speaker 9: first of all.
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  Speaker 2: What's all What's allielli.
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  Speaker 9: Alie is an online feeding program where they it's kind
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  Speaker 9: of like they make good.
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  Speaker 6: Food for dogs essentially.
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  Speaker 9: I live in a rural area, don't I didn't want
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  Speaker 9: to buy grocery store food.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, okay, yeah, no for for the young dogs like that,
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  Speaker 5: or you're getting past, you know, the really early stages
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  Speaker 5: where they have to be eating constantly. But usually for
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  Speaker 5: dogs at age two to three, feeding times a day
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  Speaker 5: is good, and we just want to make sure we're
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  Speaker 5: feeding them enough for growth, because you can definitely go
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  Speaker 5: too much or too little, so we just want to
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  Speaker 5: maintain that good growth that way. So and establishing a
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  Speaker 5: schedule when they're young is really important because as they
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  Speaker 5: get older, you have you know, you can fight against
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  Speaker 5: overweight and obesity, and having a schedule helps you avoid that.
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  Speaker 5: And also if pets get ill, often the first thing
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  Speaker 5: they'll start to do is eating less, and so if
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  Speaker 5: you're on a schedule, you can start to monitor that
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  Speaker 5: and if they don't eat as much as normal over time,
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  Speaker 5: that could be a sign of a problem.
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  Speaker 2: All right, does that answer your question?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that was my biggest concern was I'm just trying
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  Speaker 9: to make sure I don't overfeed him. He's on a schedule,
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  Speaker 9: he just is. He's cleaning the bowl well, so I
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  Speaker 9: do sometimes give him some little extra.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he is growing, but.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, appy, yeah, you'll get away with little things. But
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  Speaker 4: you know, as they get older, you can get.
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  Speaker 5: On a much better schedule too, because they're not growing anymore.
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  Speaker 5: So you should be okay for now, but you just
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  Speaker 5: want to watch that weight over time.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yes, thank you.
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  Speaker 6: We got a text boat now from our attorney, Ed Brass.
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  Speaker 7: Let's see two of our fosters, go Jura and Mathra
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  Speaker 7: have weepy eyes.
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  Speaker 6: Is this something that we should take them to.
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  Speaker 4: The vet for or the cats dogs?
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  Speaker 2: Dogs?
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  Speaker 4: Dogs? Okay, the weepy eyes.
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  Speaker 5: If it's clear discharge and they're not squinting or rubbing
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  Speaker 5: at their face, then it's not definitely not in the
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  Speaker 5: urgency type of thing. But if the gunk starts to
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  Speaker 5: get like goopy and sticky and yellow or green, or
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  Speaker 5: if they're rubbing or pawing it their eyes or they're squinting,
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  Speaker 5: then I would be more concerned about that.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, Let's see my sixteen year old shesu named Jasper
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  Speaker 7: has what his vet believes is a skin allergy located
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  Speaker 7: in his armpits. He's on a daily dose of apoquill.
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  Speaker 7: Sometimes it clears up, but then it comes back. Is
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  Speaker 7: there anything else I can do to completely eliminate this,
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  Speaker 7: or is it an ongoing issue that we're gonna have
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  Speaker 7: to deal with for the rest of his life.
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  Speaker 1: Might want to change the deodorant, see if you could
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  Speaker 1: find a different deodorant. Might be irritating.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's that's very common.
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  Speaker 5: Armpits growing around the eyes, the feet are commonplaces for that.
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  Speaker 5: So if it is an allergy, it's never going away,
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  Speaker 5: but you're you're managing it. So apiquil alone is a
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  Speaker 5: very good medication. But if you're not doing external treatment,
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  Speaker 5: so shampooing with special shampoos to help keep yeast bacteria
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  Speaker 5: down and condition the skin.
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  Speaker 4: Skin supplements can be helpful.
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  Speaker 5: So yeah, you'll always be fighting it, but control and
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  Speaker 5: once you get it, don't change anything.
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  Speaker 2: All Right.
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  Speaker 6: There you go, best.
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  Speaker 1: To call, Yes, please call and ask your questions of
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  Speaker 1: doctor josh or Davis.
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  Speaker 2: He's a veterinarian.
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  Speaker 1: You know he can answer the questions that you have
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  Speaker 1: about your puppies and kiddies.
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  Speaker 6: We've got a mystery for you.
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  Speaker 2: Here we go.
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  Speaker 7: My dog is a two year old Lab pitbull mix
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  Speaker 7: named Rio. Every morning, around two or three am, he
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  Speaker 7: wakes up and shakes like he does after a bath.
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  Speaker 6: Sometimes he does it over and over.
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  Speaker 7: Last night it was for ten straight minutes, but almost
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  Speaker 7: every morning at the same time.
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  Speaker 6: What would make him do this?
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  Speaker 5: I don't think I've ever answer that question for sure too.
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  Speaker 5: I mean from a medical standpoint, I would just want
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  Speaker 5: to make sure, you know, mentally, how's the dog doing,
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  Speaker 5: any other medical things going on, any skin issues, anything
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  Speaker 5: like that, because.
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  Speaker 6: It's a lot of normal.
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  Speaker 5: I mean, dogs will normally do that, getting up and
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  Speaker 5: after bathing.
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  Speaker 4: That kind of stuff. Yeah, I would only be.
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  Speaker 5: Guessing, you know, without seeing the dog or hearing more
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  Speaker 5: of its history.
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  Speaker 4: But I could be completely normal too.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think Rio is possessed by a demon.
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  Speaker 1: That's what I needs.
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  Speaker 6: Diagnosis is demon.
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  Speaker 2: You need an exorcism. That's what you need for Rio.
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  Speaker 7: Well, it's it's like Hudson will occasionally just throw his
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  Speaker 7: head down onto the bed or the floor or wherever,
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  Speaker 7: the top of his head and rub it in a
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  Speaker 7: circle like it's itchy, Like it's itchy right there.
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  Speaker 6: It's weird, and that one I can't figure out.
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  Speaker 7: Uh, hello Ethan here, I have a long haired black cat, Cubo.
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  Speaker 7: She's always vibrating her tail when she walks up to me.
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  Speaker 7: The Internet isn't helping.
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  Speaker 2: Well, turn the internet?
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  Speaker 6: Is that imagine on the internet?
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  Speaker 7: Is that a sign of concern or excitement? The vibrating tale.
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  Speaker 4: It's often excitement most of the time.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, that's not uncommon at all, especially when they
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  Speaker 5: get really excited that Taale.
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  Speaker 2: Will just be happy to see you.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 6: I don't mistake it anything else.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Roger is here, Hello, Roger, Hi, Roger, what's
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  Speaker 1: your what's your puppy's name?
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  Speaker 8: Well, one is violent and one is Gemma.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's your question?
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  Speaker 8: Should have been violent? And what they're eleven months old puppies.
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  Speaker 8: They're siblings. Nobody told us about a sibling syndrome thing
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  Speaker 8: they go crazy. But the thing is, how do you
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  Speaker 8: stop them from barking. We're going to have our house
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  Speaker 8: sided probably next month, and if they start hammering, it's
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  Speaker 8: gonna be drive him crazy.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Yeah, that's the The barking is always a
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  Speaker 5: tough situation, and and it really comes down to behavior
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  Speaker 5: training really at the end of the day. And that
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  Speaker 5: may be multifactorial, but obedience training. Behavior training is going
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  Speaker 5: to be a great place to start, and there are
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  Speaker 5: many places you can go to. They have camp types
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  Speaker 5: of options, or there are trainers that will come to
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  Speaker 5: your house because there's usually situations that will get them
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  Speaker 5: started on that, and then they'll often feed off of
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  Speaker 5: each other for that too. So I don't think there's
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  Speaker 5: gonna be one easy answer for you, but behavior training
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  Speaker 5: for sure needs to be in the mix.
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  Speaker 8: My daughter ordered some collars to put out of them
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  Speaker 8: bar collars. These don't These don't shock them.
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  Speaker 6: They they vibrate.
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  Speaker 8: Ones that she bought they just vibrate. And I don't
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  Speaker 8: know if that will help, because my wife watched some
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  Speaker 8: things and point out them that make a noise and.
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  Speaker 2: And hey, Roger, try yelling put a sock in it.
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  Speaker 2: Try yelling that.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, Roger, I think I think I'll do that.
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  Speaker 6: All right, Let's go to Jody.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Jody, Jody, what's your dogs? What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 2: Jodymy? Okay, what's the problem.
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  Speaker 9: He is a little Habanese dog and he peas on
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  Speaker 9: his front legs.
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  Speaker 6: On his front legs.
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  Speaker 2: How does he even do that? What he pees on
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  Speaker 2: his front legs?
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  Speaker 3: Yes, he did, Like he doesn't lift his back leg
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  Speaker 3: up and then all.
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  Speaker 9: Of a sudden the back legs come up.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, some some dogs have quirky kind of postures when
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  Speaker 5: they when they are peeing, because not all you know,
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  Speaker 5: traditionally the boy dogs, you know, we think they lift
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  Speaker 5: their leg up and do their thing, but that's not
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  Speaker 5: always the case. Some will just squat like the female
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  Speaker 5: dogs do. And then sometimes they'll do handstands. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: they'll do all sorts of quirky things with that. There's
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  Speaker 5: nothing wrong, it's not wrong, but it is.
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  Speaker 4: It's a clean up issue for sure. Yeah.
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  Speaker 7: I had a female dog who was taught by a
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  Speaker 7: male dog how to go potty, so she would lift
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  Speaker 7: she would.
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  Speaker 6: Lift her hind leg. Was the funniest thing.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: And as long as the you know, the anatomy of
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  Speaker 5: everything on the back end is normal, there's really you
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  Speaker 5: can't change that if there's no medical issue for it,
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  Speaker 5: you know, so making sure to keep things cleaned up,
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  Speaker 5: and yeah, I don't know how you would.
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  Speaker 4: I don't even know how you.
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  Speaker 5: Begin to train a dog out of like how they
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  Speaker 5: want to posture.
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  Speaker 4: That's just their kind of how they want it.
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  Speaker 2: Is it is it causing a mess problem?
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  Speaker 3: Dog?
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  Speaker 9: Yes, he has every night.
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  Speaker 4: That's hard.
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  Speaker 6: Well, that's a training thing. Yeah, Well that's tough.
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  Speaker 4: That is a tough one.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, because they're They're not big dogs either, so there's
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  Speaker 5: just not a lot of distance between them.
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  Speaker 4: I don't think they wouldn't eat and everything. I think
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  Speaker 4: they wouldn't want to do that.
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  Speaker 2: Well, dogs don't care if they pee on themselves.
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  Speaker 1: Yeaheah, I don't think they really care.
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  Speaker 6: All right, thank you, sorry, Jody, not much help, much help.
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  Speaker 4: That's a tough one.
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  Speaker 6: Kylie is here, Kylie, you have a kiddie.
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  Speaker 2: What's the kiddy's name?
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  Speaker 7: Her name is Sin And.
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  Speaker 4: My family has three cats, and the.
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  Speaker 8: Sand is the only one that will not use.
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  Speaker 2: The litter box, just won't us. She will go So
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  Speaker 2: she goes to the bathroom in the house other places.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, specifically she likes to go on the laundry.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. Now is it all? Are all of cats sharing
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  Speaker 2: the same litter box? Yes, but I have five litter boxes.
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  Speaker 9: Oh, I wouldn't think it's an issue.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's definitely a good thing.
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  Speaker 5: So you always want to have one more litter box
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  Speaker 5: than a number of cats if you can manage to
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  Speaker 5: do that in your household.
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  Speaker 4: So you're doing great there.
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  Speaker 5: I often find uh so stress is often a factor
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  Speaker 5: for a lot of cats, and then that can develop
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  Speaker 5: into an actual medical issue. And whenever they have inflammation
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  Speaker 5: in the bladder or ut i is, they'll often laundry
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  Speaker 5: is very common. They'll find something soft or just something
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  Speaker 5: always inconvenience like for that. So I think if you
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  Speaker 5: haven't ruled out bladder issues or utiz things like that,
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  Speaker 5: you got to do that, and then you've got to
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  Speaker 5: start working on stress. Even though the cats may cooperate
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  Speaker 5: and agree with each other on how they do things,
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  Speaker 5: there's still a lot of stress when you get multiple
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  Speaker 5: cats in the house, and so finding ways to decrease
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  Speaker 5: that is really important.
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  Speaker 6: Maybe maybe his own private litter box.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that definitely do.
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  Speaker 6: And people are making that suggestion.
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  Speaker 5: Rule out a medical issue though, because they can get
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  Speaker 5: what's called cystitis, and they can get UTI's and crystal stones,
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  Speaker 5: all sorts of things. If you don't rule that out,
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  Speaker 5: you'll never you'll never get to the bottom of the problem.
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  Speaker 2: So take it, in other words, to take take the
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  Speaker 2: cat to the vat.
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  Speaker 4: Get all that ruled out for sure.
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, awesome, thank you thank you very much, Kylie,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Josh Davis, thanks for being here.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Thanks you guys.
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  Speaker 2: So you in a couple of weeks, we'll be back.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you very much.