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Vet Josh Davis Pet Q&A From November 5th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: It's time to ask questions of our veterinarian friend, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Josh Davis, who was the veterinarian, the proprietor of what
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  Speaker 1: your new veterinarian clinic called.
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  Speaker 2: It's called Trilogy Veterinary Medical Center. I just drove by
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  Speaker 2: it the other day.
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  Speaker 1: It's beautiful building. Yeah, and doctor Davis is here to
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  Speaker 1: answer questions about your puppies and your kiddies, anything you
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  Speaker 1: want to know. He can answer questions about the state,
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  Speaker 1: the health, behavioral questions as well about your your dogs
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  Speaker 1: and your cats.
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  Speaker 3: I have a quick question while we're getting some calls
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  Speaker 3: lined up. So today's the fifth of November. So Oakley
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  Speaker 3: is ten months old today December fifth.
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  Speaker 2: Is her goes fast, doesn't it.
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  Speaker 3: So I'm just wondering what when will I need to
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  Speaker 3: worry about doing something with her next?
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  Speaker 1: With the shots or.
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  Speaker 4: What's Yeah, at that age, you're probably still okay. Most
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  Speaker 4: dogs will finish their puppy series of shots around sixteen weeks,
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  Speaker 4: so around four months, and then it's usually about a
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  Speaker 4: year after that you'll come up due for everything again,
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  Speaker 4: so you get the musles, back mules and all that,
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  Speaker 4: and then making sure right now, it's always critical and
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  Speaker 4: for their life to be on parasite controls our heartworm prevention, dewarming,
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  Speaker 4: that kind of stuff too, and that you'll just do forever.
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  Speaker 2: But other than that.
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  Speaker 4: Probably around a year of age, give or take, it's
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  Speaker 4: good to get a check up weight.
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  Speaker 2: We always want to check it on.
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  Speaker 4: Their weight because they're probably getting mostly done with their
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  Speaker 4: growing at that point. So we want to make sure
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  Speaker 4: we're staying in a good spot because it's easy to
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  Speaker 4: go too far.
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  Speaker 3: And it is hard to turn around.
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  Speaker 2: It is hard to turn around.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, but other than that, they should be doing good.
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  Speaker 4: They should be doing good.
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  Speaker 5: All right, we got let's see line one now if
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  Speaker 5: if you get hung up on call back, we're still
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  Speaker 5: having some phone issues.
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  Speaker 1: But for some reason our phone is dropping people. And yeah,
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  Speaker 1: so just call back with a call right back. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Shelley. Hi, Shelley, Hi, Shelley, where are you
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  Speaker 1: calling from?
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  Speaker 6: By good morning, I'm calling for Roy And you have
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  Speaker 6: a dog named what.
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  Speaker 7: Her name is Annie?
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  Speaker 1: Annie? And what's the problem here?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So Annie is a Wye Mariner. She's twelve and
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  Speaker 6: a half years old, and it's only happened a couple
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  Speaker 6: of times in the past couple of weeks where she
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  Speaker 6: just can't seem to get her hind legs under her,
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  Speaker 6: like she can't seem to gain purchase and stand up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I've seen that.
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  Speaker 6: Usually she's jumping.
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  Speaker 7: Off the couch.
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  Speaker 6: And I got her an appointment with her vet, know,
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  Speaker 6: a week from today. I'm just wondering.
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  Speaker 7: I don't know what it is.
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  Speaker 1: What's up? Yeah, you just want to know what's up.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think, doctor Davis?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's h So for that age of dog and
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  Speaker 4: that breed, the wine Mariners do tend to be pretty athletic,
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  Speaker 4: pretty you know, pretty energetic breed for sure. And mostly
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  Speaker 4: what you're dealing with is that we've reached an age
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  Speaker 4: where there's probably some joint arthritis going on. So whether
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  Speaker 4: that's hips or knees, both are possible. And so when
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  Speaker 4: they get older and get the arthritic pain, it is,
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  Speaker 4: especially when it's colder.
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  Speaker 2: Time of year, it's just like us.
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  Speaker 4: It's it's it's a little more creaky on your joint.
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  Speaker 4: It's a little more pain they're experiencing. So that's that's
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  Speaker 4: probably the most likely thing. So I think it's important
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  Speaker 4: get into your vet talk about options for anti inflammatories
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  Speaker 4: and ways to minimize pain, keep them a good healthy weight.
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  Speaker 4: If they're overweight, it will make arthritis worse. And then
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  Speaker 4: your vet should also rule out is there some other
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  Speaker 4: sort of joint injury. You know, dogs can blow out
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  Speaker 4: their acls, they can have other injuries, but at that age,
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  Speaker 4: I would want to rule out arthritis and make a
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  Speaker 4: good plan for you to treat that.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go, Okay, bye, go to Heather, Hi, Heather,
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  Speaker 1: where are you calling us? Where are you calling us? From? Mailer? Tuila, tuilla?
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  Speaker 1: And you have what is it?
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  Speaker 2: A dog?
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  Speaker 7: I have a dog. Her name is Izzy. She's a
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  Speaker 7: little dash hound.
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  Speaker 1: She's one years old, okay.
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  Speaker 7: And ninety three year old. Grandma locked her out of
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  Speaker 7: the house yesterday, so she went on a journey on herself.
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  Speaker 1: By her No.
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  Speaker 7: She has some scuffs on one of the couple of
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  Speaker 7: the pads on her paw. I'm just trying to figure
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  Speaker 7: out what's the best thing to treat.
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  Speaker 1: It with some scuffs on it and make and just
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  Speaker 1: you know, just tell Grandma next time this happens, you're
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  Speaker 1: gonna lock grandma out.
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  Speaker 7: Of the house exactly.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, when they do dogs, we see this a lot
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  Speaker 4: more in the summertime too, when when spring and summer
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  Speaker 4: comes around. But if they're not used to getting out
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  Speaker 4: and getting that kind of mileage, they their pappads may
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  Speaker 4: not be conditioned for you know, that much running around
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  Speaker 4: and that much walking her activity, and you never know
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  Speaker 4: when they get out how I mean, dogs will travel
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  Speaker 4: miles sometimes.
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  Speaker 2: The same thing with by the way, So.
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  Speaker 4: If you're if the pads are a little scuffed or
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  Speaker 4: they wore them down really thin, the best thing to
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  Speaker 4: do is just give them a little bit of time
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  Speaker 4: and keep them off of like wet, you know, don't
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  Speaker 4: let their feet be wet all the time or dirty,
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  Speaker 4: and don't let them lick at them. If they're licking
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  Speaker 4: at the pause, then I'd recommend the old lamp shade.
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  Speaker 2: But most of the time, just give them time and protection.
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  Speaker 1: Some booties.
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  Speaker 4: The booties can be helpful, especially when they go outside.
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  Speaker 4: Don't leave them on all the time because that'll keep
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  Speaker 4: the feet kind of moist and then they can get
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  Speaker 4: gross and infected. So but if you need protection, that
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  Speaker 4: can be beneficial. But yeah, just time mostly, thanks, all right, okay.
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  Speaker 7: Because there's one that's a little that's got a little
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  Speaker 7: bit of blood on it, that's why I wasn't sure
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  Speaker 7: I needed to put something on.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the booty might help that foot for outside activity.
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  Speaker 4: And if you're worried though, it's worth checking because sometimes
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  Speaker 4: they will actually peel part of the pad off and
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  Speaker 4: sometimes we need to trim that that dead part of
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  Speaker 4: the pad back so it's not catching on things and
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  Speaker 4: being a problem. An eye on it, so keep an
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  Speaker 4: eye on it. But if you're worried, just come in. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: come in and get it looked up.
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  Speaker 5: All right, Thanks Heather, Bye, all right, thank you very much.
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  Speaker 5: Let's continue talking with doctor Josh Dad.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, he is our veterinarian and he can tell you
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  Speaker 1: lots of things about your puppies and your kidies and
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  Speaker 1: get your questions answered. All right, Let's go to Jennifer.
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  Speaker 7: Hello, Jennifer, Hello, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: Question where are you, Jennifer?
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  Speaker 7: I'm calling from.
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  Speaker 1: Harriman, Okay, And tell us what your dog or cat's
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  Speaker 1: name is.
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  Speaker 7: The cat's name is Stella.
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  Speaker 6: I have.
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  Speaker 7: I have two sinks already, and I just recently took
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  Speaker 7: in somebody's little female spinks that they just didn't have
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  Speaker 7: the time or energy to give to a sphinx cat.
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  Speaker 7: They love the attention right, and so I brought her
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  Speaker 7: home and they had her declaude. I have never owned
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  Speaker 7: a cat that's been de claude, and I she's really
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  Speaker 7: really sensitive when I touch her on her back and
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  Speaker 7: her tail. And I'm just wondering if they're one, what
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  Speaker 7: is your take on declining? And then two what what
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  Speaker 7: should I watch for? Are there any long term effects
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  Speaker 7: that can come from having a cat de cloud?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a great, great question for sure. And fellow
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  Speaker 4: sphinx lover myself, you know, I think they're such great cats,
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  Speaker 4: So good for you for taking on, you know, one
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  Speaker 4: that needed some help declining. Generally, the consensus is I
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  Speaker 4: won't do it, and kind of the consensus is not
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  Speaker 4: to do it unless there's a medical reason. So just
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  Speaker 4: kind of declining for convenience. I mean, I haven't done
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  Speaker 4: that for probably fifteen years. It's been a long time
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  Speaker 4: since I've declaued for just you know, for that. But
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  Speaker 4: the biggest factors that I've run into over the years
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  Speaker 4: is when if the dclaw surgery isn't done right or
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  Speaker 4: done completely, sometimes it'll leave some of that that that
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  Speaker 4: fingertip bone behind, and so over time that can either
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  Speaker 4: regrow a nail if they didn't get all the nail
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  Speaker 4: bad off, or their tendons and kind of scar and
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  Speaker 4: contract over time, and I've seen them actually pull the
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  Speaker 4: bone like through the bottom of their pad, which becomes
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  Speaker 4: really painful over time.
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  Speaker 2: So sometimes you have to correct those surgically for that.
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  Speaker 4: But if it's done well and they healed well, they'll
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  Speaker 4: probably be okay for the most part.
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  Speaker 2: But those are things I would watch out for.
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  Speaker 3: It.
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  Speaker 1: What about the sensitivity touturing their back and tail, That
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  Speaker 1: wouldn't have anything to do with declawing.
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  Speaker 4: I wouldn't expect that unless like all four feet were
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  Speaker 4: decloud which usually they don't do the.
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  Speaker 2: Back feet regardless of that.
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  Speaker 4: So but sphinks are I mean, they don't have any hair,
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  Speaker 4: so they can be a little more touchy and a
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  Speaker 4: little more sensitive to certain areas. But I would just
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  Speaker 4: kind of see how it goes over time. I don't
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  Speaker 4: think it'd be super worried because there's all sorts of
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  Speaker 4: stresses going on when you get a new cat, and
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  Speaker 4: there's already existing cats too, right.
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  Speaker 1: So okay, okay, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 7: I appreciate you.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, thank you. Go to Lacey. Hello Lacey, Lacy, where
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  Speaker 1: are you calling.
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  Speaker 7: From Park City super Valley?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, and you have a what a cat? What's the
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  Speaker 1: cat's name?
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  Speaker 8: I have a Lord Twinkie.
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  Speaker 1: Lord Twinky.
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  Speaker 2: That awesome.
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  Speaker 1: What's Lord Twinkie's problem?
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  Speaker 3: No, no, there's no problem.
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  Speaker 7: So he for some reason has been pulling out just
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  Speaker 7: in this one spot on his belly, around his nipple.
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  Speaker 7: Think about that.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, cats can do that for a variety of reasons.
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  Speaker 4: I'm actually one of my cats. I'm dealing with the
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  Speaker 4: same thing right now too. But there can be a
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  Speaker 4: variety of reasons. So skin allergies or allergic skin disease
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  Speaker 4: can be part of it. Food allergies can be part
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  Speaker 4: of it. Sometimes even pain can be a contributing factor
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  Speaker 4: to that.
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  Speaker 2: So if cats are experiencing.
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  Speaker 4: Pain in their mouths, sometimes in other places they will
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  Speaker 4: lick or chew excessively for that, and then less commonly,
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  Speaker 4: much less commonly, sometimes they'll do it for behavior reasons,
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  Speaker 4: stress or other reasons.
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  Speaker 2: But it's it's not always just like easy to to
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  Speaker 2: find that.
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  Speaker 4: You sometimes have to really do some observation and rule
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  Speaker 4: out any medical problems for that and and as long
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  Speaker 4: as they're not you know, eating holes in their skin
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  Speaker 4: or licking to where they're raw and bloody. You have
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  Speaker 4: some time to try and figure it out. But but
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  Speaker 4: there could be a lot of factors to it, for sure.
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  Speaker 1: So it's there's nothing definitive there. But if it's apparently,
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  Speaker 1: if it's not hurting the cat.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you've got some time to figure it out.
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  Speaker 4: But but they will, I mean they'll they'll make their
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  Speaker 4: entire chest and belly bear of I mean I've seen
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  Speaker 4: cats literally barber themselves naked on that bottom side.
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  Speaker 2: So it's worth figuring out if you can.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe it's that the public. He thinks the public
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  Speaker 1: deserves to see Lord.
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  Speaker 2: This behold. All right, thanks, lady.
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  Speaker 7: Be old.
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  Speaker 5: Let's go to Jeff.
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  Speaker 1: Jeff, Hi, Jeff, Hello, Hey, Hi, where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 8: Jeff called the West Valley.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and you've got a boxer. What's his name? Her
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  Speaker 1: name's Grace Gracie. Okay, yeah, what's the question.
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  Speaker 8: I'm not quite sure how old she is a little
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  Speaker 8: over a year. I think I think she's finally done growing. Anyway,
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  Speaker 8: she has a terrible dan group. I have a couple
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  Speaker 8: of different shampoos that were recommended medicated, typed up and
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  Speaker 8: an hour after I use him show it's just back, yeah, and.
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  Speaker 2: That for that situation.
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  Speaker 4: So certain types of shampoos can be helpful for keeping
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  Speaker 4: the dead skin off of them, you know, keeping them
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  Speaker 4: clean that way, because dead skin, if there's too much there,
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  Speaker 4: that can cause them to be kind of itchy and irritated.
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  Speaker 4: But dander often comes from some sources, so the their
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  Speaker 4: diet can be a factor for that, So making sure
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  Speaker 4: they're on a good, high quality diet that really matters
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  Speaker 4: for their skin and hair. And then some dogs will
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  Speaker 4: benefit from supplements like fatty acid, kind of fish oil
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  Speaker 4: type of supplements. Some can benefit from from zinc supplements
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  Speaker 4: if if they fall into a specific category, and I
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  Speaker 4: wouldn't do that without checking.
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  Speaker 7: On it, but.
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  Speaker 8: It had something to yeast thing. I don't know if that's.
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  Speaker 2: The yeast can be.
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  Speaker 4: They can be kind of secondary to the problem of
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  Speaker 4: the dry flaky skin. Once the skin's unhealthy, it's easier
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  Speaker 4: for them to grow yeast in bacteria because the normal
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  Speaker 4: defenses are are kind of broken down by having the
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  Speaker 4: dry flaky skin. So yeast can be part of it,
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  Speaker 4: but it's probably not causing the problem. It's probably just
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  Speaker 4: kind of opportunistically there there you go.
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  Speaker 5: All right, all right, question from our attorney.
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  Speaker 1: My dog Attila the hun.
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  Speaker 5: Gets bloody diarrhea for a day every three weeks or so,
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  Speaker 5: and then the next day she's fine.
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  Speaker 2: That's so weird.
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  Speaker 7: What is up with that?
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  Speaker 2: That's interesting that it's on a specific schedule like that.
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  Speaker 4: So I mean I would make sure there's not something
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  Speaker 4: in the routine around the house or boarding or grooming,
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  Speaker 4: any routine that might.
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  Speaker 2: Be contributing to that.
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  Speaker 4: Because bloody diarrhea, you know, a single day and it resolves,
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  Speaker 4: I don't get too worried about that, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: I don't want to rule out underlying medical problems.
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  Speaker 2: And then is there something stressful during that period?
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  Speaker 4: Is there something else that changes or is going on,
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  Speaker 4: because even just stress of boarding or grooming, some dogs
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  Speaker 4: will get bloody diarrhea from that.
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  Speaker 2: Then they'll be fine.
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  Speaker 4: So okay, if it resolves, probably not worried, but you know,
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  Speaker 4: rule out parasites, rule out other things.
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  Speaker 2: Then go from there.
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  Speaker 5: Text question. My name is Tiffany. I have a nine
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  Speaker 5: year old Sheba knew Husky mix named Rue. For whatever reason,
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  Speaker 5: he starts eating the soil out of a pot with
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  Speaker 5: a tomato plant in it. As far as I know,
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  Speaker 5: that's the only pot that he's eating. Out of any
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  Speaker 5: idea why and what I can do to stop it.
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  Speaker 5: He had a dirt, he had a physical done by
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  Speaker 5: a vet sense, but they didn't find it, didn't address it.
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  Speaker 4: Interesting things that would come to mind, I mean the
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  Speaker 4: tomato plants themselves. Some dogs like to just there's certain
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  Speaker 4: flavors or certain smells that they like. If the potting
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  Speaker 4: soil in the pot for some reason, they're just drawn
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  Speaker 4: to that. You might try to switch that up or
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  Speaker 4: just you know. My my recommendation is keep it unavailable
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  Speaker 4: because if they do eat enough dirt, they can get obstructions,
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  Speaker 4: and if they eat the plant material, they can get
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  Speaker 4: gi upset and things like that.
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  Speaker 1: I'm here to tell you's weird stops up.
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  Speaker 2: I can tell you that, yeah, yeah, you don't want that.
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  Speaker 2: So there's just something drawing the pet. If that's the
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  Speaker 2: only place that's bothering, something just drawn.
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  Speaker 5: If the final question, is it okay to feed my
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  Speaker 5: dog fruits like grapes and strawberries.
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  Speaker 2: No, No grapes, no raisins.
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  Speaker 4: Those can be toxic to the wrong dog. Some dogs
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  Speaker 4: get away with it, but it's not worth finding out
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  Speaker 4: about that. A strawberry here there, you know, a piece
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  Speaker 4: of apple, baby carrot. That kind of stuff is okay
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  Speaker 4: in moderation. But grapes, raisins, macadamia's, onions, garlic, none of
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  Speaker 4: that stuff is that alliums?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? All right, thank you, doctor Josh Davis. You can
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  Speaker 1: find him at the Trilogy.
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  Speaker 2: Trilogy Veterinary Medical Center. It's in Sandy. All right, there
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  Speaker 2: you go, you guys,