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The Checkout Vet Answers the Most Googled Questions · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Hey thirty eight thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts
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Speaker 1: with check Out Veterinary and doctor Marty Greer. Doctor Greer
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Speaker 1: is recognized by the Westminster Kennel Club as the Veterinarian
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Speaker 1: and start that conversation. Doctor Greer, how are you doing
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Speaker 1: this morning.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: It's so important and a great important time of year
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Speaker 1: and a great day to talk with you. And this
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Speaker 1: week we're going to be talking about the most commonly
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Speaker 1: google pet questions and a lot of these we've discussed
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Speaker 1: on this show, and I feel like not I call
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Speaker 1: it a disclaimer or whatever. Google's a great resource, but
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Speaker 1: it shouldn't be the resource for your health or your
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Speaker 1: pets health either either.
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Speaker 2: Correct right, No, doctor Google. It's okay to do some reading,
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Speaker 2: but choose your sources wisely. Choose veterinary clinics, veterinary hospitals
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Speaker 2: and that schools. You know, good places to research because
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Speaker 2: not every thing is created equal on Google, as you
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Speaker 2: probably know, but medicine is the most important. You know,
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Speaker 2: if your mistake, make a mistake with your car, it's bad.
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Speaker 2: If you make a mistake with your pet, oh it's tragic.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that is important to know. And again, it's a
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Speaker 1: great day to start that relationship with your vet. And
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Speaker 1: of course check out Vett would love to talk with you.
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Speaker 1: Telphe number six. Soaight, three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's three one eight sixty seven hundred and doctor. So,
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Speaker 1: as I kind of go through some of these questions,
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Speaker 1: like I said, we've we've mentioned a few of them,
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Speaker 1: and we've kind of got got pretty pretty deep into
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Speaker 1: the importance of some of these, and of course folks
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Speaker 1: can listen back from the website WIBA dot com. One
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Speaker 1: that I don't know that we've talked about, but it's
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Speaker 1: the number one most googled question, which is is my
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Speaker 1: pet too fat? Oh yeah, I thought it's.
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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, yeah, how.
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Speaker 1: Do we how does how? Is there a way for
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Speaker 1: folks to determine that and get an answer to that question.
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Speaker 2: There's a couple of ways. I wouldn't have thought of
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Speaker 2: that being the first one, but I believe you. So
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Speaker 2: there's a couple of things you can do. One is
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Speaker 2: you can look back at their weight when they were
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Speaker 2: about eight to ten months old. So if you have
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Speaker 2: a veterinary visit around the time they were stayed or
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Speaker 2: need if they were done at that age at other
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Speaker 2: veterinary visits, that should be their typical close to their
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Speaker 2: adult weight. So if they were forty two pounds then
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Speaker 2: and now they're seventy two. Yeah, you're you're in trouble now.
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Speaker 2: Some of these space and neuters are done when they're
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Speaker 2: really young, so we can't do you know, eight weeks
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Speaker 2: or twelve weeks. Of course that's much too young. But
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Speaker 2: around eight to ten month is when most dogs are
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Speaker 2: achieving their full adult heights, and from then on the
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Speaker 2: additional weight tends to be around, not up and down.
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Speaker 2: So that's one way. A second way, of course, is
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Speaker 2: ask your veterinary professional and hopefully they'll be honest with you.
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Speaker 2: It's a hard question to answer in the examiner, and
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Speaker 2: it's a hard topic. It's even harder to bring up
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Speaker 2: as the client happens. If you've brought it up, you know,
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Speaker 2: it's a lot easier for us to approach it. But
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Speaker 2: if it's something that we have to address just out
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Speaker 2: of the box and say, uh, you know, in the
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Speaker 2: last year she's gained you know, this many pounds, that's
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Speaker 2: a more difficult conversation. Because people tend to be pretty
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Speaker 2: sensitive about their weight and their pets weight. And I
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Speaker 2: understand that, and it's not that veterinarians are onsympathetic. The
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Speaker 2: whole point is we care so much that we want
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Speaker 2: to make sure your pet has their best life expectancy,
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Speaker 2: and it's going to be shortened like ours if we
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Speaker 2: carry too much weight. The third is to feel them,
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Speaker 2: and when you put your hands on your pets, you
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Speaker 2: should be able to feel their ribs dog or cat,
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Speaker 2: feel their ribs without too much pressure, but not be
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Speaker 2: able to see them if it's a shortcut of dog.
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Speaker 2: The easiest thing to do is to take your hand
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Speaker 2: and turn it into a fist. If you feel the
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Speaker 2: back of your hand between your wrist and your knuckles,
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Speaker 2: that's what your pet's ribs should feel like. If they
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Speaker 2: feel like your knuckles like you turn your hand upright
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Speaker 2: and the knuckles are If you feel those, that's too thin,
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Speaker 2: unless you have a greyhound or a sidehound. And if
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Speaker 2: you turn your hand over and feel right above your
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Speaker 2: wrist that soft spot next to your pinky when you
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Speaker 2: make a fist on the underside of your hand, that's
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Speaker 2: too fat. The fourth thing is to put them on
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Speaker 2: the scale, and those numbers can be really helpful, except
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Speaker 2: that if you say I have a golden retriever and
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Speaker 2: we see golden retrievers that way between forty and seven pounds.
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Speaker 2: That doesn't help you a lot. You need to have
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Speaker 2: something a little bit more specific to that pet because
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Speaker 2: females are going to be typically a little smaller than males.
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Speaker 2: Once they're spaded and neutered, they tend to need a
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Speaker 2: twenty five percent reduction in their calorie and take every
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Speaker 2: single day. So that's if you were feeding four cups
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Speaker 2: to day, that's now down to three. So those are
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Speaker 2: some pretty drastic changes that you may have to make
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Speaker 2: if you're feeding at the same rate you did when
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Speaker 2: they were in a growth phase when they were six
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Speaker 2: eight months old, you know, somewhere in that range. So
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Speaker 2: those are four different ways you can do it. So
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Speaker 2: what they were weighing when they were eight to ten
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Speaker 2: months old, what your veterinary professional says, what your hand
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Speaker 2: feels like, and what the scale number is. And weighing
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Speaker 2: on the scale at home is great if you have
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Speaker 2: either a pet that's small enough to stand on the scale,
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Speaker 2: or if you can hold the pet on the scale
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Speaker 2: with and without the pet. But sometimes we exceed the
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Speaker 2: weight of the scale's capacity based on you know, if
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Speaker 2: you have a ninety pound dog, it may be either
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Speaker 2: hard to pick them up or by the time you
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Speaker 2: add your weight to it, you may go over the
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Speaker 2: scale's capacity.
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Speaker 1: Fascinating stuff this morning at doctor I've got to ask you,
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Speaker 1: and I know depending on how you ask Google, you
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Speaker 1: get a variety of different answers as far as what
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Speaker 1: are those questions? What would if you have guessed the
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Speaker 1: number one most common pet question would have been asked
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Speaker 1: to Google.
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Speaker 2: Well, this time of year, I would guess it to
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Speaker 2: be scratching, king, writing, chewing, some kind of allergy thing,
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Speaker 2: maybe splain tick questions, maybe diarrhea questions. Those are the
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Speaker 2: most common things we see at the practice, so I
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Speaker 2: would have assumed if that's what we would be on Google.
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Speaker 1: That's fascinating, and you mentioned those things. I know we've
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Speaker 1: recently done programs on a lot of those issues. So
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Speaker 1: for folks that want to give it a listen Wiva
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Speaker 1: dot com. Speaking of the website, checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: Great website and resource to learn about the doctors. Learn
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Speaker 1: more about checkout veterinary service and of course their drive
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Speaker 1: through service and those garage based I bring it low
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Speaker 1: you to bring your pet right on in. How safe
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Speaker 1: and convenient that setup is. It's a great, great model.
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Speaker 1: You can learn more online at checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's check out vet dot com. The second one. I
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Speaker 1: think we're getting light in the season for this one.
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Speaker 1: But I know a lot of dog owners ask this question,
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Speaker 1: which is why does my dog eat grass?
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Speaker 2: Dogs because it tastes good. I don't know the next question,
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Speaker 2: because some dogs and cats do too. If you give them,
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Speaker 2: like there's little pots of indoor grass you can grow
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Speaker 2: for your cat. If you have a pet that needs
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Speaker 2: some kind of ruffige or greens in their diet, they
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Speaker 2: may go out and eat grass. Sometimes it is to
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Speaker 2: make themselves vomit, but sometimes it's just because my dogs
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Speaker 2: like the grass that's not trimmed around the trees and
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Speaker 2: the bushes, the longer, more tender stuff than little stubby stuff.
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Speaker 2: Don't let them eat big clumps of grass from underneath
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Speaker 2: the lawnmower, because that's just too much grass and they're
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Speaker 2: definitely going to vomit if they do that. But if
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Speaker 2: your pet looks like the kind of pet that wants
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Speaker 2: to eat greens, feed them greens. You can feed them.
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Speaker 2: Let us celery, broccoli, green beans, any of those are fine.
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Speaker 2: No grapes and raisins, but otherwise most fruits and vegetables
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Speaker 2: are fine, and it's a great way for them to
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Speaker 2: have low calorie snacks and to get some ruffage into
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Speaker 2: their diet because they may be looking for something like that,
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Speaker 2: that's brush, that's a little bit different than what you
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Speaker 2: put in the bowl.
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Speaker 1: Homer likes carrots. Yeah, I think it's it. Is it?
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Speaker 1: I think some of it's like that. I don't know,
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Speaker 1: just to me when I watch him eating, she went
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Speaker 1: on his little carrot. There is is it's like it's
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Speaker 1: got to be like a very almost like a primal
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Speaker 1: kind of thing where it's like that kind of that crunch,
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Speaker 1: and he just craves that stuff. So, talking this morning
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Speaker 1: with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinarian, I mentioned the
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Speaker 1: website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: The next almost googled question is a little more serious,
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Speaker 1: and I think this could be asked of dogs and
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Speaker 1: cast cats, but it's asked specifically of dogs. They ask,
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Speaker 1: my older dog seems to have dementia? Is this possible?
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Speaker 1: Is that is that something that cats or dogs can experience.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we recognize it better in dogs than cats, simply
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Speaker 2: because of their interactive behaviors with us. It's called canine
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Speaker 2: congress is dysfunction. It's a form of stainility, just like
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Speaker 2: in people. We have more than one form. And we've
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Speaker 2: actually at our practice Lonnie, that works for me. She's
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Speaker 2: been with me thirty five years. We were involved twenty
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Speaker 2: five twenty eight years ago in a drug trial that
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Speaker 2: they were looking at a drug made by Pfizer now
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Speaker 2: as Zoetis to help with senility and dogs. It's the legaline.
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Speaker 2: It's used for people in Parkinson's and it does help
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Speaker 2: slow the progression of sinility. And then two of our
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Speaker 2: pex food companies, Purina and Hills, make diets, and again
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Speaker 2: we were involved in the Hills diet trial for BD.
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Speaker 2: B stands for either brain or behavior. They name all
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Speaker 2: their diets with a letter, so I is intestinal diet,
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Speaker 2: h's heart diet, HE is kidney diet. B is behavioral diet.
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Speaker 2: And so those two diets, both the Purina they make
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Speaker 2: an over the counter called bright Mind and a prescription
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Speaker 2: called Neurocare, and then that plus Hills BD give you
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Speaker 2: some options for diet that you can feed to improve
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Speaker 2: your pets cognitive function. So the symptoms are going to
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Speaker 2: be things like they get lost in the corner behind
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Speaker 2: the door, like they're on the hinge side of the
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Speaker 2: door instead of the opening side of the door. They
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Speaker 2: forget to go potty when they go outside and they
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Speaker 2: come back in and they do it. This is not
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Speaker 2: what puppies do. This is what elderly dogs do. They
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Speaker 2: don't recognize you. They don't hop up when they walk
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Speaker 2: in the door anymore. Maybe that's partly that they don't
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Speaker 2: hear you and see you as well. And hearing and listening,
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Speaker 2: of course, are two different things, as most wives will
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Speaker 2: tell you. You know, husband may hear you but may not
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Speaker 2: listen to you. Those are differences. So the pet may
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Speaker 2: hear you but not process correctly. So there's a lot
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Speaker 2: of senility changes that happen. My son's dog is currently
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Speaker 2: experiencing a lot of this, but he's almost sixteen years old.
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Speaker 2: He's a little corgy, so we definitely see this kind
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Speaker 2: of condition. So diet and medications can help, but reality
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Speaker 2: is their age and they have changes that happen just
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Speaker 2: like we do. The diets, both the Hills and the
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Speaker 2: Purina diets, actually have a proprietary blend of certain fatty
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Speaker 2: acids and amino acids and some other things. In them
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Speaker 2: that improve cognitive function. And every time I go to
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Speaker 2: a lecture on this, I go up to the speaker
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Speaker 2: towards and say, so, what supplements do you take Because
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Speaker 2: you know that they've learned from the pet experience and
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Speaker 2: what they've put into their formulas. I'm like, oh, so
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Speaker 2: I'm going to take that too to help improve my
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Speaker 2: cognitive function. We know DHA and people floads the progression
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Speaker 2: of stinility, so there's definitely things that we can do
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Speaker 2: for our pets to improve their cognitive function. And then
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Speaker 2: little things if they're starting to age and having trouble
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Speaker 2: with not seeing as well at night, make sure you
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Speaker 2: put lights where they're going down the hall, like motion
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Speaker 2: sensor lights or motion sensor lights up in the yard
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Speaker 2: so that when they're outside it's illuminated for them when
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Speaker 2: they're walking around. Teach them to if they still can't
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Speaker 2: see but they don't hear you very well, teach them
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Speaker 2: to respond to either something like a whistle or the
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Speaker 2: flicking of a light switch or flashlight so that they
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Speaker 2: can identify that you're trying to reach out to them
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Speaker 2: and get them back in the house. And really be
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Speaker 2: careful with them that they don't fall down the steps,
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Speaker 2: that they don't wander out of the yard. If your
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Speaker 2: pet spent fourteen and a half years sticking around the
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Speaker 2: house with no fence, or even with an invisible fence,
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Speaker 2: and now they forgot can wander away and don't let
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Speaker 2: that happen. That's a terrible thing to lose your pet.
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Speaker 1: Two, very scary and that really important stuff to be
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Speaker 1: aware of with your pet. As we talk this morning
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Speaker 1: with doctor Marty Greer, if you've got a new pet,
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Speaker 1: or maybe you've you've got an older pet and you've
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Speaker 1: got questions, it's a fantastic day to start that conversation
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Speaker 1: and start that relationship. At Checkout Veterinary. You can learn
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. We'll talk
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Speaker 1: about a couple more more of the more googled most
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Speaker 1: googled commonly googled pest pet questions. We will do that
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Speaker 1: next we continue our conversation with doctor Marty Greer of
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary here and ask the experts thirteen to ten
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Speaker 1: wiba thirteen ten wiba and ask the experts with Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: Talking with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. You
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Speaker 1: can learn more on that website all about Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: What makes them so unique. The term pet centric comes
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Speaker 1: to mind when you when you start to learn more
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Speaker 1: six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's
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Speaker 1: six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. Before
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Speaker 1: we get to the final two, doctor Greer, I just
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Speaker 1: want to ask you a little bit about We're just
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Speaker 1: just I was just mentioning the drive through service and
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Speaker 1: other things check Out Veterinary. It is. It is an
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about how that and vets
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Speaker 1: Let's talk a little bit about that experience and what
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Speaker 2: Sure, so we really did it because we wanted to
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Speaker 2: make things as as you said, pet centric and as
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Speaker 2: clients centric as we could, and to really upend the
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Speaker 2: veterinary business model of everybody does this this way, you
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Speaker 2: have to call, make an appointment, drive over, take your
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Speaker 2: pet out of the car, go inside in the lobby,
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Speaker 2: go into an exam room. It's just really difficult for
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Speaker 2: the pets to make all those transitions. It's much cleaner
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Speaker 2: if they just hop in the car and then they're
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Speaker 2: the reason we do the first visit free is because
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Speaker 2: the pets see how they like it. See if you
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Speaker 2: like my doctors, our staff, you know, they're amazing people
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Speaker 2: them to think that they're at the veterinary clinic. So
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Speaker 2: we have lots of andreas and very low stressed, easy stuff.
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Speaker 2: There's no waiting room with a you know, big rottweiler
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Speaker 2: stirring into the cat carrier, or you know, the the
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Speaker 2: little dog that's yapping in the corner, or any of
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Speaker 2: and then you're gone and there's no lobby waiting room experience.
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Speaker 2: Now your pets exam can be done in their car,
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Speaker 2: in your car if you're comfortable with that. But we
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Speaker 2: also have an exam table in the garage bays, or
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Speaker 2: we have exam rooms adjacent to the car. So when
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Speaker 2: you pull into the garage, the door is literally there,
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Speaker 1: a great place take your pet, but a great place
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Speaker 1: for you as well. A couple of things on this
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Speaker 1: list as well that jumped out. Somebody had asked how
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Speaker 1: often should I give my pet a bath? And I'm
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Speaker 1: guessing it differs between not cats and dogs, And I
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Speaker 1: bet if you ask the cat and dog, they may
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Speaker 1: also have their own opinions on they will.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, there are actually a few dogs that love to
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Speaker 2: be in the shower with people. They are laboratorio retrievers.
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Speaker 2: They like they like the water most of the time.
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Speaker 2: We will say a cat should be bathed about once
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Speaker 2: a year, and many dogs once or twice a year
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Speaker 2: is enough, depending on the kind of coat they have.
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Speaker 2: If they's a type of dog that has a coat
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Speaker 2: that grows continuously and you have to take them to
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Speaker 2: the groomer, they're typically going to be bathed and groomed
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Speaker 2: every six to eight weeks. And we don't like to
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Speaker 2: bathe the pets too often unless the pet has a
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Speaker 2: skin condition. If they already have a skin condition, they
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Speaker 2: have allergies, they have a rash, they've boffed hair, they've
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Speaker 2: got scabs, scales, you know, any kind of skin lesions.
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Speaker 2: Then bathing them more often can actually be beneficial. But
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Speaker 2: you want to make sure that you've met with your
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Speaker 2: veterinarian and selected the appropriate shampoo. We have so pre shampoos,
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Speaker 2: we have conditioning shampoos, we have things of oatmeal and
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Speaker 2: steroids and all kinds of different shampoos that are out there.
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Speaker 2: Denzyl peroxide to help with bacterial infections, called hexidine, things
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Speaker 2: that help with east infections. So all this stuff really
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Speaker 2: depends on what your pet's particular needs are, and if
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Speaker 2: your groomor isn't comfortable in helping you with that, then
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Speaker 2: please reach out to your veterinary professional and get some
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Speaker 2: direct advice from them, because they have entire lines of
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Speaker 2: shampoos that are designed for different skin conditions, and we
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Speaker 2: want to make sure we get the right one, that
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Speaker 2: we're not drying out the coat or moisturizing the coat
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Speaker 2: that we shouldn't be. We really need to know what's
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Speaker 2: going on with the pet before we make those decisions.
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Speaker 1: Really great, really great information there, and then we've got
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Speaker 1: just about one minute left, Doc, we'll leave it on.
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Speaker 1: I know this one that we've dug into a little
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Speaker 1: bit deeper on previous shows. But along those same lines,
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Speaker 1: should I be brushing my pets teeth?
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Speaker 2: Oh gosh, yes, I actually have one client that comes
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Speaker 2: floss our cat's teeth. That's pretty unusual. But brushing is
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Speaker 2: really important, and people are like, well, my groomer brushes
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Speaker 2: my dog's teeth. Well, if you brush your teeth every
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Speaker 2: eight weeks, what kind of oral health do you think
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Speaker 2: that you would have not that good? So really frequent
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Speaker 2: brushing can be helpful. And then if your pet is difficult,
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Speaker 2: you can put a fingertooth brush on. You can use
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Speaker 2: gaws on your finger. You don't have to open their mouth,
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Speaker 2: they don't have flat molars. Just brush along the side
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Speaker 2: where the lips touch. It's pretty easy to do. And
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Speaker 2: then we have lots of great dental treats as well,
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Speaker 2: dental foods and gental treats that can really help in
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Speaker 2: oral health. So please pay attention to their health. It's
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Speaker 2: not just about their breast smelling bad. It's really about
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Speaker 2: their overall health. Kidney's arts, all that.
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Speaker 1: One of the things I've observed observed over the years.
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of pet owners when you have
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Speaker 1: noticed this, when you take your head into the vet,
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Speaker 1: I know one of the things first things you guys
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Speaker 1: are looking at are lifting up those gums and checking
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Speaker 1: on the teeth. In the overall, Doctor Greer, it's always
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Speaker 1: great chatting with you. You have safe travels. We will
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Speaker 1: talk really soon and thanks for joining us this morning.
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