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Pet-Kiddo Bonding with CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Club is doctor Marty Greer.
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Speaker 2: Doctor. How you doing this week?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great? Thank you. It was a beautiful day.
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Speaker 2: Huh, it's a great day.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. I kind of kind of just decided that once
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Speaker 3: my kids got out of high school that I needed
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Speaker 2: Why not? That is amazing, that's funny.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, in twenty ten I graduated from Marquette and
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Speaker 1: So yes, that is.
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Speaker 2: So cool to hear. Again.
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Speaker 1: I get amazed every time I and one of the
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Speaker 1: things I love about talking with you is the opportunity
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Speaker 1: to ask questions. I know you love getting calls and
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Speaker 1: getting folks questions. If you've got a question for doctor Greer,
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Speaker 1: there with Doctor Greer. You can also email if you
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Speaker 1: head on over to check out vet you've got a
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Speaker 1: question for the show, you can email email from there
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Speaker 1: or send me email Sean at WIBA dot com. And
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Speaker 1: doctor you mentioned your kid, ohs and I it seems
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Speaker 1: weird there are families and households that have kids but
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Speaker 1: no pet.
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Speaker 2: And I always thought.
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Speaker 1: That just seems like a like a missed opportunity. And
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Speaker 1: we're going to talk this week about about that relationship.
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Speaker 1: Pets are Pets are are obviously great for everyone, but
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Speaker 1: they are they're a really great tool as well for
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Speaker 1: raising well rounded children, aren't they.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely? I cannot imagine raising kids without a dog, and
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Speaker 3: dogs without a kid. We recently stole the puppy we're
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Speaker 3: breeders as well, and wet the puppy to a family,
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Speaker 3: well two families one in Colorado. I'm one in Illinois
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Speaker 3: that have young daughters when is eight years old, and honestly,
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Speaker 3: I look at the pictures that they send me, and
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Speaker 3: these two little girls are just head over heels with
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Speaker 3: these dogs, and the dogs go everywhere. They're voting, they're
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Speaker 3: they're doing agility, they're doing hurting, they're out in the
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Speaker 3: field with them, they're they're sleeping under the blankets with them.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's just so rewarding to see these relationships.
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Speaker 3: I think every puppy deserves a little girl or a
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Speaker 3: little boy, because man, it's such a great life. Now
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Speaker 3: that doesn't mean as you're older that you shouldn't get
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Speaker 3: a pet. I'm certainly not suggesting that that's the case.
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Speaker 3: But if you have an opportunity to put a child,
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Speaker 3: a responsible child of a good age, with a young dog,
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Speaker 3: oh my gosh, it just doesn't get any better than that.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: It's such a great relationship that for everybody you think about,
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Speaker 1: not just the kidd but the pet as well. What
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Speaker 1: a what an immersive And you know kids have boundless
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Speaker 1: energy and so do puppies, so.
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Speaker 2: What a what a great pairing.
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Speaker 1: Right, let's let's talk about looking at and I know
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Speaker 1: one of the things that that's important as we as
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Speaker 1: we talk with any with anybody bringing a new pet,
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Speaker 1: a new family member into their house, a little bit
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Speaker 1: of research goes a long way. Having a conversation with
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Speaker 1: your vet goes a long way. Some specifically dogs, for example,
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Speaker 1: certain breeds are are are really really like I think
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Speaker 1: of like you know, like a Golden Retriever and labradors.
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Speaker 1: I'm pretty sure that that they're here for no other
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Speaker 1: reason than to keep kids entertained and excited. But there
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Speaker 1: are there, there are there are animal, certain breeds of
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Speaker 1: dogs that are just perfect for depending on the age
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Speaker 1: of the kiddo, aren't there right.
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Speaker 3: And the lifestyle of the family. There are some families
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Speaker 3: that are sedentary and so maybe a French bulldog would
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Speaker 3: be a good choice. We have other families that are
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Speaker 3: really active, so maybe a hunting dog or a dog
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Speaker 3: that can do sports with them, doc diving or agility
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Speaker 3: or some of those things can be really a good choice. So, oh, yes,
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Speaker 3: I totally agree that you need to have some conversation.
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Speaker 3: AKC has a great website that helps you find the
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Speaker 3: right breed, so you could go in and say I'm
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Speaker 3: looking for this list in this and people have found
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Speaker 3: us that way is they know what size they want
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Speaker 3: to say they're an older family and this is going
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Speaker 3: to be their last dog, or they have young kids,
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Speaker 3: or you know, whatever your life style happens to be
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Speaker 3: lived by yourself. You're in an apartment, but some day
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Speaker 3: you'd like to perhaps have a family and move into
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Speaker 3: a house. You know, all those things need to be
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Speaker 3: factored in to your decision. If you're seventy five, what
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Speaker 3: sized dogs should you get? Should you get a Saint
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Speaker 3: Bernard when you're seventy five years old? And the answer
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Speaker 3: is probably not, because if something happens, you can't pick
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Speaker 3: that dog up and get it into the car. So
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Speaker 3: I think talking to your veterinarian is a great idea.
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Speaker 3: I think AKC's website is wonderful. There's an older book
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Speaker 3: written by Daniel Tortore called The Right Dog for You
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Speaker 3: that goes through a lot of characteristics of the dogs.
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Speaker 3: But the websites now are very helpful. So you pick
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Speaker 3: two or three breeds, you know, kind of look at
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Speaker 3: those and see if that's something that looks interesting. Watch
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Speaker 3: the Philadelphia Dog Show in November at Thanksgiving, or watch
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Speaker 3: the Westminster kennel Club and see what the dogs look
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Speaker 3: like on TV, so kind of get an idea from that,
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Speaker 3: and then you can start narrowing it down. And then
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Speaker 3: you go to a dog show. And there are dog
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Speaker 3: shows all over Wisconsin, all over Illinois, so there's no
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Speaker 3: reason that you can't go to a dog show at
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Speaker 3: some point and see those dogs in person, talk to
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Speaker 3: the breeders. Don't commit to a breed until you've met
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Speaker 3: the two or three that you're interested in. And you
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Speaker 3: might go to the show and see this dogs in
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Speaker 3: person where you can see six or eight or ten
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Speaker 3: of them and say, oh, my gosh, I had no idea.
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Speaker 3: Or you may turn your shoulder and see a dog
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Speaker 3: that you've never even thought of and go, oh, yeah,
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Speaker 3: that when we have to go talk to and the breeders,
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Speaker 3: as long as they're not all foofed up and ready
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Speaker 3: to walk into the ring, are more than happy to
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Speaker 3: let you interact with the dogs. Interact with them, but
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Speaker 3: don't do it when they're just ready to walk in
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Speaker 3: the ring, like the poodles when they have them all
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Speaker 3: fixed up to go in the ring. My daughter used
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Speaker 3: to show poodles with a handler and she would say
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Speaker 3: to me, mom, don't crush the poodle. So you don't
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Speaker 3: want to do anything to their coat when they're prepped
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Speaker 3: for the ring. But breeders are very happy to have
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Speaker 3: you come visit them, have an opportunity to see their
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Speaker 3: dogs and make sure because the breeder that's going to
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Speaker 3: sell you this dog is everybody is interested in making
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Speaker 3: sure the dog is right for you as you are
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Speaker 3: that the dog is right for your family. They don't
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Speaker 3: want this dog to come back to them in a
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Speaker 3: week or in a year and have you say this
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Speaker 3: didn't work out well for us. So it's a mutual
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Speaker 3: opportunity to make sure that the dog suits your lifestyle.
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Speaker 3: And so we look at activity level, indoor activity level,
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Speaker 3: outdoor activity level, and those can be very different. A
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Speaker 3: greyhound in the house blade on the couch. A greyhound
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Speaker 3: outside is like a dot on the horizon. How much
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Speaker 3: coke care do they need? Do you need to go
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Speaker 3: to the grimmer every six to eight weeks which means
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Speaker 3: they won't shed, but that means you go to the
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Speaker 3: grimmer every six da eight weeks and there's an ongoing expense.
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Speaker 3: How big are they going to be? Are they going
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Speaker 3: to have a long coat or a shortcoat. You know,
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Speaker 3: how how are they going to behave around strangers? How
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Speaker 3: are they going to behave around children? Loads are all
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Speaker 3: really important. And in spite of what you think sean
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Speaker 3: Golden Retrievers, we're really bred to be a hunting dog, now,
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Speaker 3: real dog. But I agree with you, Yeah, they were developed.
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Speaker 3: You know that the Golden Retriever was only developed in
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Speaker 3: the eighteen hundreds, so lady teen hundreds like eighteen eighty
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Speaker 3: by Lord tweets. Yeah, it's not a breed that's been
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Speaker 3: around for a million years.
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Speaker 2: That is amazing.
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Speaker 1: I would have assumed that it's one of the one
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Speaker 1: of the oldest breeds. Little did I know, And I
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Speaker 1: had no idea that they were hunting dogs either. As
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Speaker 1: we talked this morning to doctor Greer, you were you know,
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Speaker 1: we think about talking with breeders and reading and talking
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Speaker 1: with our vet as well about this and and dogs.
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Speaker 1: There's obviously a lot of different variety out there with dogs,
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Speaker 1: and they can be you know, different lifestyles and really
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Speaker 1: absolutely find that Pat, that's a perfect fit for you
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Speaker 1: and your family. What about cats too, Cats and kids?
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Speaker 1: I know, when when our son was little, we got
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Speaker 1: our two kittens and and what a relationship that's becoming.
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Speaker 1: I always thought when he was little, cats were perfect too,
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Speaker 1: because the reality is cat ain't cool with something. Cat's
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Speaker 1: gone Unlike a dog, Cat's not going to stick around.
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Speaker 3: You know. Yeah, No, the cats is going to get
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Speaker 3: up and walk away and just be like done with
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Speaker 3: a kid. So that makes it pretty nice. And there
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Speaker 3: are of course cat breeds and cat breeders. Most people
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Speaker 3: don't have a purebred cat, but there are some out there.
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Speaker 3: And again it gets back to traits. If you get
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Speaker 3: something like a rag doll, they're floppy and easy and
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Speaker 3: loving and really easy cats to live it. Then you
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Speaker 3: get something and we have bengals, so I'm not negatively
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Speaker 3: commenting about them, but they the bengals are a little
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Speaker 3: bit more wild, a little bit more difficult to restrain,
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Speaker 3: a little bit less likely to be that floppy lap
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Speaker 3: cat that a rag doll is. So again, you can
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Speaker 3: look at different breeds, look different breeders and figure out
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Speaker 3: if you don't want just whatever cat shows up at
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Speaker 3: the shelter or whatever cat shows up at your door
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Speaker 3: because you were feeding the mother cat and then you realize, whoops,
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Speaker 3: she was out, you know, busy as she came home
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Speaker 3: with kittens, you know, So those are really important things
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Speaker 3: as well. And there's some lovely breeders, but there's some
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Speaker 3: really great cats out there too, So there's always a
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Speaker 3: discussion of should I go to a breeder or should
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Speaker 3: I go to a shelter or a rescue, And those
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Speaker 3: are really personal decisions that people need to make based
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Speaker 3: on what they're looking for. If you're looking for predictability
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Speaker 3: of traits, especially in dogs, then you want to do
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Speaker 3: a breeder. If you're looking for I can pretty much
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Speaker 3: handle anything I'm good with. You know, it doesn't matter
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Speaker 3: what size the dog is, it doesn't matter how active
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Speaker 3: there is. They'll fit into my lifestyle great, you know,
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Speaker 3: go for it, Go to a rescue, go to one
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Speaker 3: of the shelters, because those dogs definitely need homes. But
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Speaker 3: be aware that we're getting dogs in Wisconsin that are
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Speaker 3: sent up from other states where they have an overpopulation
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Speaker 3: problem and Wisconsin does not. Wisconsin residents are very responsible.
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Speaker 3: They span neuter, they don't have accidental litters. So we
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Speaker 3: are taking in dogs from outside the US and inside
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Speaker 3: the US where those things weren't happening. And there's some
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Speaker 3: suspicion that some of these organizations may be producing puppies
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Speaker 3: because it's a revenue stream for them. So again I'm
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Speaker 3: a little skeptical when people just say, oh, you know,
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Speaker 3: I rescue a dog. I'm always a little skeptical of
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Speaker 3: what that really meant. Then there are breeds specific rescues,
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Speaker 3: which are kind of cool, and there's also breeders that
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Speaker 3: are so breed specific rescue means that this is a
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Speaker 3: Golden Retriever that had a litter of puppies and for
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Speaker 3: whatever reason ended up in rescue. But there's also a
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Speaker 3: lot of breeders who, when they're done showing their dog
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Speaker 3: and breeding their dogs, that they placed those retired dogs
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Speaker 3: in people's homes. And those aren't rescues, but those are
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Speaker 3: re homing from breeders that have groomed the dog, kept
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Speaker 3: the dog healthy, have health clearances, have housebroken the dog,
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Speaker 3: of trained the dog, and you can get sometimes, you know,
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Speaker 3: like a five year old retired Golden retriever show dogs
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Speaker 3: that makes a fabulous pet, And it's just that the
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Speaker 3: breeder can only have a certain number of dogs in
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Speaker 3: their home or in their kennel, and so at the
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Speaker 3: time that they're done with their breeding career, and show career.
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Speaker 3: They'll place them into homes for people to enjoy the
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Speaker 3: rest of their life, so they can be the only
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Speaker 3: dog on your couch instead of a dog in a
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Speaker 3: kennel of other dogs. So it's a pretty great opportunity
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Speaker 3: to get a dog of a specific breed without feeling
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Speaker 3: like you went out and did it rescue a dog.
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Speaker 3: That it's a different kind of relead homing.
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Speaker 1: And it's asy you talk about, you know, bringing the
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Speaker 1: pet in and and giving them that that life and
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Speaker 1: you know, a part of a family and part of
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Speaker 1: you know. It's it's such a such a great gift
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Speaker 1: for everybody. As we talked this morning with doctor Marty Greer,
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Speaker 1: obviously a lot of different channels, a lot of different
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Speaker 1: avenues to explore and understand when it comes to welcoming
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Speaker 1: a pet into your home. It's also a big a
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Speaker 2: Doctor.
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Speaker 1: When it comes to selecting, I know, things like with
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Speaker 1: little kiddos sometimes allergies and other things. We were talking
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Speaker 1: earlier about about, you know, talking and getting to know
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Speaker 1: different whether it's folks showing their dogs or or talking
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Speaker 1: with your vet to understand different breeds, or there's this
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Speaker 1: great tool called the internet. I know, there's some great
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Speaker 1: books out there as well. Yeah, it seems to be
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Speaker 1: taken off. It seems like like you know, finding the
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Speaker 1: right pat regardless of you know, if maybe the kid
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Speaker 1: does have allergy, these and other things there are through
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Speaker 1: some research you can find things that, you know, dogs
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Speaker 1: that are a little less reactive to allergies and other things.
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Speaker 1: I mean there's really and cats as well. There's really
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Speaker 1: for folks that are looking for that perfect pets, there
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Speaker 1: are a lot of options out there, aren't there.
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Speaker 3: There are, and that makes it really useful. So definitely
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Speaker 3: rely on those things. Some of the breeders, the doodle
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Speaker 3: breeders and the other breeders will do DNA testing and
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Speaker 3: some of them will tell us things like how much
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Speaker 3: shedding will they do? Do they have a wavy coat
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Speaker 3: or a curly coat, and the curly coats tend to
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Speaker 3: shed left tend to be less allergenic, but certainly not
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Speaker 3: exclusively that. So you have to be a little bit careful,
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Speaker 3: a little bit wise to the fact that there is
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Speaker 3: no dog that doesn't have some allergic components. The other
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Speaker 3: thing that's kind of interesting is we're talking about cats,
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Speaker 3: is there's a lifestyle food now for that Purina makes.
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Speaker 3: Let me get through this stence that Purina makes that
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Speaker 3: reduces the allergens of the cat to the people. So
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Speaker 3: if you have a cat and you have cat allergies
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Speaker 3: in your household, take a look for that cat food.
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Speaker 3: I think it's called live Well, So take a look
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Speaker 3: at that as a food that you can see. We
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Speaker 3: don't see a comparable food at this point for dogs,
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Speaker 3: but it might be interesting to see if they're working
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Speaker 3: on it, it might be happening, who knows for sure.
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Speaker 3: Once they develop it in cats, then oftentimes it will
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Speaker 3: follow in other species. So yes, you want to make
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Speaker 3: sure that you're picking out the right dog, getting the
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Speaker 3: right information. And the internet is a wonderful tool. Like
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Speaker 3: I said, AKC's website has this finder on it that
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Speaker 3: helps you walk through all the different breeds because there
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Speaker 3: are two hundred and two AKAC breeds so that's a
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Speaker 3: lot to choose from. But there's over six hundred breeds
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Speaker 3: in the world. It's just we don't have all of
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Speaker 3: them in the AKAC somewhere in the US summer not
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Speaker 3: for instance, the dog breed I have, the Dingish Swedish
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Speaker 3: arm dog is breed number two oh two. We're the
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Speaker 3: newest breed in the AKAC. So we're going to be
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Speaker 3: featured at the Pennsylvania the Philadelphia Dog Shows at Thanksgiving.
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Speaker 3: So stay tuned because that's going to be on TV
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Speaker 3: and there will be images of us and our dogs
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Speaker 3: on that publication or that's presentation on Thanksgiving Day. It's
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Speaker 3: always between the parade them that football game.
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Speaker 1: That will definitely mark the calendar for that. We'll remind
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Speaker 1: folks as well how.
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Speaker 2: Cool that is.
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Speaker 1: Awesome, Doctor try I was going to ask you also,
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Speaker 1: and we could probably do a whole other show on
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Speaker 1: this about some of the mistakes people make when it
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Speaker 1: comes to introducing pets to their family, and specifically with
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Speaker 1: little kids. Obviously, there's some great guidelines and there are
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Speaker 1: some things that folks may want to avoid as well.
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Speaker 1: I think sometimes and I see this not just with
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Speaker 1: with new pets and kids, but new pets.
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Speaker 2: And other pets.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes it seems that we're over eager to force interaction
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Speaker 1: and it adds stress to the pet. It can cause
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Speaker 1: damage that relationship. There are things out there mistakes that
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Speaker 1: people do make when when introducing a new pet to
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Speaker 1: the family.
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Speaker 2: Aren't there Oh.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and nobody means to do it, but it does
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Speaker 3: happen pretty easily because everyone's so excited. Don't forget to
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Speaker 3: put your pet in a crate on the way home
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Speaker 3: from the breeder or from the rescue, because we don't
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Speaker 3: want the dog having an opportunity to escape the car.
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Speaker 3: We had one client that had that happen on their
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Speaker 3: way home. They sold a puppy and then on the
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Speaker 3: way home there was a car accident. They'll be really
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Speaker 3: careful about those kinds of things that those are not
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Speaker 3: things that happened to you. Introduce the pets slowly, to
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Speaker 3: the children, to the other pets in the household. I
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Speaker 3: like exercise pens and baby gates a lot because they
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Speaker 3: can see each other through the gate but not have
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Speaker 3: that direct interaction that may be a little too intense.
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Speaker 3: Puppies will get excited, they'll jump on the children, and
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Speaker 3: if the child's first experiences that the puppies jumping on
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Speaker 3: them and scratching them, they're going to be really upset
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Speaker 3: and they're not going to be happy about this new puppy.
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Speaker 3: So I'm very careful with that, through the through the expense,
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Speaker 3: through the gate, through the a leashed puppy, and I
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Speaker 3: never ever ever let anybody walk around holding a puppy.
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Speaker 3: They have to sit on the floor, especially children, So
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Speaker 3: when the puppy is introduced, try and have the puppy
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Speaker 3: a little bit tired and then have the children sitting
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Speaker 3: on the floor. The puppy's not going to jump on
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Speaker 3: them as likely, and they can't fall off the floor.
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Speaker 3: If you're sitting on the floor, you can't fall off
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Speaker 3: the floor. So those are some tips for people to start.
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Speaker 3: If it's another pet in the household, especially a cat,
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Speaker 3: a cat's going to look with this new puppy and
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Speaker 3: go yeah, no, I don't think so. So you don't
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Speaker 3: want the first experience of the puppy with the cat
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Speaker 3: to be a big laceration on their nose either from
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Speaker 3: a cat scratch. So again, be thoughtful about it. Be
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Speaker 3: careful so that you are wise about your introductions and
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Speaker 3: not just randomly starting off with a two bold of
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Speaker 3: an introduction, because that doesn't turn out well.
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Speaker 1: No, no, They've got their entire lives to get to
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Speaker 1: know each other and become best fast friends. Just no
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Speaker 1: rush up front. And that's a great thing too. As
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