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Josh Davis Vet Q&A From August 27th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, this is a chance for you to get
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  Speaker 1: some free medical advice for your puppies and your giddies.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Josh Davis is here.
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  Speaker 1: He is a veterinarian, uh and mainly specializing in dogs
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  Speaker 1: and cats.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, that's right.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. I mean you could ask the occasional hamster question
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  Speaker 1: and I don't know, you might get some speculation. What
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  Speaker 1: what do you need to know about your dog or
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  Speaker 1: your cat?
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  Speaker 3: I have a question, call and ask us.
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  Speaker 1: Gina always has a question, which is the main reason
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  Speaker 1: we have doctor Davis here, so Gina can ask.
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  Speaker 2: So Oakley, You've got a call Gina Oakley.
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  Speaker 5: My puppy, she's become a woman.
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  Speaker 3: We're we're in.
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  Speaker 5: Our first heat. And so I was reading about it
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  Speaker 5: because you have to keep them away from the other
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  Speaker 5: dogs and stuff during this time.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm confused. Okay, what's your question? So what I.
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  Speaker 5: Read was they the bleeding part of it is like
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  Speaker 5: ten days ish, Okay, but then they are still like fertile,
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  Speaker 5: like they could get pregnant after that.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, in some ways the cycle is it's got similarities
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  Speaker 6: to people in some ways, not all entirely.
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  Speaker 4: This is why I'm confused.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, but they're they're generally roughly about twenty one day cycle.
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  Speaker 4: They'll usually have bleeding in the middle week of.
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  Speaker 6: That cycle, but then after that is when they can
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  Speaker 6: become pregnant. So not allowing access to an unneutered male
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  Speaker 6: because nature always finds a way if you let it right,
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  Speaker 6: and then you'll end up with a you know, an
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  Speaker 6: eight month old dog that's pregnant.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think this is this should have been
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  Speaker 1: a this should have been a question for your local priest,
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  Speaker 1: you know, the rhythm method.
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  Speaker 2: No, it's just confusing because in people, yeah, woman releases egg,
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  Speaker 2: builds up lining, and then if you don't fertilize it,
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  Speaker 2: the lining sheds and then you were not fertile for
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  Speaker 2: a while.
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  Speaker 6: After that and after the bleeding, that's kind of clearing
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  Speaker 6: out the space and then they they're fertile after that.
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  Speaker 6: And the different thing with dogs is if they don't
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  Speaker 6: get pregnant and they go through a heat cycle, then
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  Speaker 6: over time they become at risk for what's called a piometra,
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  Speaker 6: which is an infection in the uterus, and that always
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  Speaker 6: happens after heat cycle. So that's one of the reasons
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  Speaker 6: why spaying is of benefit because you know, you can't
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  Speaker 6: get pregnant.
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  Speaker 4: You can't have a piometra.
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  Speaker 6: There's still some controversy about some other things with spain
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  Speaker 6: and utering, but you know, piometra is often a life
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  Speaker 6: threatening disease and if not treated, and often with surgery,
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  Speaker 6: then it can be deadly for them.
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  Speaker 1: Your confusion, though, is the same confusion that has led
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  Speaker 1: many young women to get pregnant with, you know, thinking
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  Speaker 1: that they couldn't get pregnant.
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  Speaker 3: And we do have somebody online one right, let's go
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  Speaker 3: to Lex. Hello, Lex, Lex, what's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 7: Five?
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  Speaker 3: Five? Okay? Okay?
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  Speaker 8: And the number five?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what's the what's the question?
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  Speaker 9: So apparently he he has a bungle skin infection. He's
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  Speaker 9: been dealing with it now for like about a year,
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  Speaker 9: and it just feels like they keep giving putting band
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  Speaker 9: aids on the situation instead of fixing it. And I'm
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  Speaker 9: wondering if there's something more.
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  Speaker 8: I can do.
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  Speaker 6: Hmmm that can you tell me where the infection seems
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  Speaker 6: the worst? You know, specific places are full body, so
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  Speaker 6: the worst.
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  Speaker 9: Places are underneath his arm hits and like on the
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  Speaker 9: top of his chest.
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  Speaker 8: Okay uh.
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  Speaker 9: And they prescribe duoso okay, and they give him a
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  Speaker 9: shot when every so often, but when his skin gets
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  Speaker 9: scaly enough okay to irritate someone.
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  Speaker 6: Else, right, Yeah, And if you're on that kind of
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  Speaker 6: therapy path, the suspicion is that you're probably dealing with
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  Speaker 6: skin allergies which can manifest in different ways and can
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  Speaker 6: be different severities for dogs, and so they can get
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  Speaker 6: Yeast infections are more common. We don't see fungal infections
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  Speaker 6: as much here in Utah. It can happen, but it's
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  Speaker 6: less common. But yeast infections bacterial infections, and they can
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  Speaker 6: look similar, you know, the red raw skin. It can
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  Speaker 6: be thickened and oily and scaly and things like that.
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  Speaker 6: So the shampoos, the medicated shampoos are often very beneficial.
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  Speaker 6: That injection is probably sido point, which helps with allergies
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  Speaker 6: and itchiness and things like that. But so it's not
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  Speaker 6: that you're putting band aids. It's just that you may
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  Speaker 6: not be doing everything to get it all the way
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  Speaker 6: under control, because some dogs can be very difficult to control.
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  Speaker 6: You know, you have to be on food and shampoos
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  Speaker 6: and medications and different regimens to do that.
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  Speaker 4: So I think you maybe just aren't there yet.
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  Speaker 9: What else can I do? Just try and make it
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  Speaker 9: better for him.
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  Speaker 4: So what you're doing, I think is a good place
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  Speaker 4: to be.
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  Speaker 6: Fatty acid supplements like the fish oil types of supplements
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  Speaker 6: can be beneficial for some dogs, keeping the hair coat
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  Speaker 6: short and brushed out, often regular bathing on top of that.
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  Speaker 6: They I mean, there's so many things that it's hard
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  Speaker 6: to talk to you in a short segment about skin,
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  Speaker 6: but those are some basics you could do.
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  Speaker 9: Give me a brand of the fatty acid supplements that
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  Speaker 9: would be good for me to purchase.
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  Speaker 6: There there's a bajillion out there, so I don't know
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  Speaker 6: that there's like a best brand for it, but make
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  Speaker 6: sure it's veterinary labeled and then there are different ratios
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  Speaker 6: of the fatty acids in there. So but just even
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  Speaker 6: the vet that you visit get their recommendations too. There's
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  Speaker 6: some good ones out there, but I would just be
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  Speaker 6: careful you get too.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Thanks you very much, Coal, Hi, Coal. What's
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  Speaker 3: your kitty's name?
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  Speaker 8: It's a Luna.
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  Speaker 3: Luna, Okay, what's up with Lena?
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  Speaker 8: Well, we have we have five cats. Two of them
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  Speaker 8: are big old Highlanders Highland Lynxes, and then Luna is
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  Speaker 8: thirteen years old. She's a little black kitty and she's
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  Speaker 8: just you know, she she's tiny, and she's we're trying
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  Speaker 8: to figure they're all on you know, different foods. We're
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  Speaker 8: trying to figure out if there's something that will be
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  Speaker 8: good to give her, like like some of these raw
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  Speaker 8: foods you can get or something like that, just to
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  Speaker 8: kind of maybe, you know, just to just to help
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  Speaker 8: her keep on going. You know, she's doing she's doing well,
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  Speaker 8: but she's just tiny.
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  Speaker 3: Okay.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, and the tiny cats is there is if there's
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  Speaker 6: no change to their other health status. Then the raw
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  Speaker 6: diets there's always a lot of controversy about that because
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  Speaker 6: if they're done wrong or they're not stored wrong or
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  Speaker 6: used right, they can cause illness for pets two and
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  Speaker 6: that can that can be an issue. And then an
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  Speaker 6: older cat if you get an illness, that could really
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  Speaker 6: spiral them.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes to having problems.
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  Speaker 3: Do you feed her food that she likes? Now?
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, she she she also is she's the main one
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  Speaker 8: that has hair balls all the time. So you sometimes
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  Speaker 8: she eat a bunch and then she throws it up.
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  Speaker 8: But she sheats some you know her older you know
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  Speaker 8: crunchies for older cats. And then like uh, like a
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  Speaker 8: new low wet food every day.
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  Speaker 3: It's probably okay try jerichole at this age.
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  Speaker 6: If she's a small cat, she is, but if she's
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  Speaker 6: losing weight, definitely get that checked out because that's the
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  Speaker 6: age where we start to see kidney disease and things
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  Speaker 6: like that.
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  Speaker 4: So so definitely get checked out.
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  Speaker 8: And we haven't given them all distilled water because we
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  Speaker 8: had one issue with one cat. You know what a
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  Speaker 8: kidney thing is that?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's totally fine that crystals and stones and things
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  Speaker 6: like that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, still say private Jericho, All right, start with Ashley.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Ashley, Hi, where are you.
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  Speaker 7: Calling from West Jordan?
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  Speaker 3: And what's your kiddy's name?
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  Speaker 8: Sushi?
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  Speaker 3: Sushi? Leaky eye sushi?
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  Speaker 7: So yes, yeah, left eye. Yeah, her left eye is
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  Speaker 7: always like it's not always necessarily goofy, but it's always
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  Speaker 7: teary and it's just her left eye.
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  Speaker 4: What kind of cat is sushi?
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  Speaker 7: She is a tortoise shell calico. Uh, just American house cat.
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  Speaker 6: Normal cat, not a not a squishy faced cat or
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  Speaker 6: anything like that.
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  Speaker 9: No.
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  Speaker 6: There there can be various reasons for especially if just
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  Speaker 6: one eye is a problem. So some pets and cats
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  Speaker 6: especially can develop if they have progressed dental disease. Sometimes
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  Speaker 6: that can cause the shoes with their eyes and sinuses
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  Speaker 6: and things like that. So depending on their age and
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  Speaker 6: their their dental status, that's a factor. Sometimes cats also
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  Speaker 6: have just like us, they have tear ducts that drain
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  Speaker 6: the tears out of their eyes, and sometimes those can
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  Speaker 6: become obstructed or inflamed, and then the tears will leak
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  Speaker 6: out onto their face instead of going into their nose
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  Speaker 6: and draining like they're supposed to. And often the only
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  Speaker 6: way to tell that is to have them under anesthesia
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  Speaker 6: and get a magnification and really.
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  Speaker 4: Look closely at that.
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  Speaker 6: And then there are other things that they get, little
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  Speaker 6: eyelid tumors or their third eyelids sometimes can have problems.
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  Speaker 6: But you know, you kind of just got to do
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  Speaker 6: a good throw exam and then make a plan from there.
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  Speaker 4: I can hear her, I heard.
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  Speaker 1: So, yeah, you know, you know, my my cat Klaus
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  Speaker 1: used to have a gloopy, glospy eye, and uh, we
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  Speaker 1: had another cat at the time who was soon passed,
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  Speaker 1: but that was mister fluffy pants, and.
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  Speaker 3: He would lick that goopy eye gloomy.
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  Speaker 1: I thought a lot kind of gross, But you know
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  Speaker 1: what I'll be damned if it didn't clear it up.
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  Speaker 1: You've never had a goofy eye again after a few
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  Speaker 1: times of Yeah, there's just fluffy pants.
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  Speaker 6: Going to work on the pros and cons of that,
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  Speaker 6: because they can also cause infections, and dogs will do
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  Speaker 6: that with their ears. They'll lick their friend's ear and
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  Speaker 6: cause an ear infection. So but yeah, I think it's probably,
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  Speaker 6: you know, hopefully nothing major. But there are ways to
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  Speaker 6: get to the bottom of it and or at least
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  Speaker 6: rule out everything that you can.
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  Speaker 3: All right, So all.
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  Speaker 7: Right, So that's something I should just take her in for.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's worth getting looked at. Yeah, especially if you
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  Speaker 6: need a teeth cleaning or anything else. You know, a
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  Speaker 6: lot of things can be done during that anesthetic procedure.
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  Speaker 3: So okay, you go, ok, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to Christy.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Christy, where are you calling from? Maybe Christy? Maybe
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  Speaker 1: not Christy? All right, Chris, what's your dog's name? It's Bailey, Bailey,
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  Speaker 1: And what's up with Bailey.
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  Speaker 10: He's a fifteen year old car and terrier and he's
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  Speaker 10: you know, sling known quite a bit. He's on seven
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  Speaker 10: medications right for his heart and his liver, and it's
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  Speaker 10: as rightist, and I'm just for he doesn't act sick.
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  Speaker 10: He's very happy when he's awake, but he just sleeps
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  Speaker 10: all the time. And I'm worried he's just like he
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  Speaker 10: didn't go to sleep and like apple. But I don't
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  Speaker 10: want him to go and die because he's bored.
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  Speaker 3: And I left because I was bored. No, I I'm
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  Speaker 3: with you.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, I wouldn't want.
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  Speaker 4: That to happen either.
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  Speaker 6: And older pets, especially if they have a lot of
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  Speaker 6: medical conditions and on a lot of medications, they do
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  Speaker 6: tend to sleep more. The big thing you want to
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  Speaker 6: make sure is that all their diseases are managed, because
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  Speaker 6: heart disease can you know, that's a big factor if
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  Speaker 6: they're if they're especially if they're.
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  Speaker 4: Showing signs of that.
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  Speaker 6: But also making sure there if there is pain, that
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  Speaker 6: that's managed because a lot of pets, if they're painful,
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  Speaker 6: they will they'll sleep just more because that's like the
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  Speaker 6: time they're not in pain. So making sure that all
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  Speaker 6: those things are managed. But at that age, if you
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  Speaker 6: have several things going on, that's not uncommon, but you
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  Speaker 6: just want to treat and control everything you can so
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  Speaker 6: you give them the best opportunity and the best quality
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  Speaker 6: of life possible.
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  Speaker 10: All right, Okay, there's contimulating with that, like we can
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  Speaker 10: want to be away more.
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  Speaker 6: Well, I would be careful with that, you know, because
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  Speaker 6: you don't want them getting not enough sleep either, But
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  Speaker 6: rich as much as you can, and keep busy as
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  Speaker 6: much as you can within within you and.
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  Speaker 3: Everyone over do it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's like grandma and grandpa.
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  Speaker 6: You know, they they might get out and do something
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  Speaker 6: and then you know, they got to take their names.
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  Speaker 3: He might, he might, he might, he might call him
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  Speaker 3: to pickle pickleball? You want to try pickleball?
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  Speaker 1: Like their naps, You've got to go by.
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  Speaker 3: Let's go to Kristin. Hi, Kristin, Hello, what's your huskies name?
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  Speaker 8: Her name is you?
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  Speaker 3: Okay if you say so?
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  Speaker 5: Yes.
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  Speaker 11: So she's seven years old and we can't get her
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  Speaker 11: to eat anything but cat food. We have tried all
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  Speaker 11: different brands of dog food, We've tried wet food, we've
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  Speaker 11: tried everything, and she will only eat cat food.
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  Speaker 3: I'm a cat in a husky body.
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  Speaker 5: Is that bad if she eats cat food?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: So dogs and cats have a little bit different nutrient
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  Speaker 6: profiles and what they need, and cat food does tend
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  Speaker 6: to be a lot more energy dense. So a lot
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  Speaker 6: of dogs, if they're eating too much, will be overweight
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  Speaker 6: or obese. And so that that's its own set of
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  Speaker 6: problems that come with that. But you know, I always
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  Speaker 6: tell people it is hard to make changes. But at
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  Speaker 6: the end of the day, we have control of that,
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  Speaker 6: or we can have control of that, you know, because cats,
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  Speaker 6: cats are small, and so there's lots of different ways
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  Speaker 6: to keep their food unaccessible. And you know, it does
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  Speaker 6: probably taste better than the dog food and a lot
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  Speaker 6: of calories to it, but I think finding ways to
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  Speaker 6: keep the cat food unaccessible and at the end of
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  Speaker 6: the day, no healthy pet is going to starve itself
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  Speaker 6: to death.
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  Speaker 4: You know.
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  Speaker 6: It might take a couple of days of being really
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  Speaker 6: firm about it usually and really trying to pull them
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  Speaker 6: back to the dog food, but if there's no access,
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  Speaker 6: they just can't get it, you know. And so those
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  Speaker 6: are some of the things to think about because you know,
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  Speaker 6: long term cat food, it's it can come with some
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  Speaker 6: health issues that come with them.
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  Speaker 1: All right, have you tried Doctor Ross dog food, because
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  Speaker 1: I understand it's dog.
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  Speaker 3: Gone good we have not.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Thank you guys so much, Thank.
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  Speaker 3: You let's go to Delilah. Okay, here's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: What's your cat? Cat's name?
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, so he is. I don't know if he's part
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  Speaker 12: of main coon or a Norwegian forest cat, but either way,
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  Speaker 12: he's big and he's eleven and when she was a
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  Speaker 12: kid and I tried my best to get him used
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  Speaker 12: to the bath, but it's a fight every single time.
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  Speaker 12: Do you have any tits on how I can like
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  Speaker 12: properly bathe him on my own?
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  Speaker 6: Well too, I mean to be honest, I would say
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  Speaker 6: a majority of cats they don't necessarily need bathing unless
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  Speaker 6: you have specific reasons, but grooming and helping them groom
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  Speaker 6: because those types of cats can have really long hair
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  Speaker 6: that's easy to get madded and things like that. Also,
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  Speaker 6: you know, I don't want to shame cats, but overweight
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  Speaker 6: or obese cats also have a more difficult time grooming
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  Speaker 6: themselves and so they are more likely to get mats
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  Speaker 6: and the problems like that. So you know, if that's
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  Speaker 6: the case for you, I would work on that for
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  Speaker 6: health reasons, but also you helping if there's if there's grooming,
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  Speaker 6: so desdding tools and just being more often doing that
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  Speaker 6: because bathing, you know, I usually try to restrict bathing
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  Speaker 6: cats because almost all of them hate it to reasons
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  Speaker 6: if they're getting soiled, or they're outdoors, or there's problems
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  Speaker 6: that you're trying to solve. But most cats don't have
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  Speaker 6: to get bathed if if they're grooming well and you're
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  Speaker 6: helping them grooming and keeping them healthy otherwise.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, okay, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: All right, not what you wanted to do. I think
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  Speaker 3: she was not satisfied with that. Yeah.
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  Speaker 6: Sorry, No, it's a fight, and they can hurt you.
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  Speaker 6: They can hurt themselves in Hey, Toby, we're sorry.
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  Speaker 3: We're a puppy with a hernia. Oh that's a good one.
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  Speaker 4: You gotta quit lifting heavy thing.
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  Speaker 3: Two weeks.
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  Speaker 4: Call back in two.
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  Speaker 3: Weeks, doctor Josh Davis.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you all right, Thanks guys,