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Vet Q&A from April 8th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's probably sponsored by the business that doctor Davis represents.
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  Speaker 2: We could sponsor that, hey, yeah, go.
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  Speaker 3: Ahead and sponsor it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah yeah, Trilogy Veterinary Medical Center and Sandy.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we're here to answer questions and we're there to
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  Speaker 4: answer questions too, and I've definitely had a lot of
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  Speaker 4: great listeners coming in, so it's awesome to see that.
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  Speaker 5: I got a text from a woman who said they're
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  Speaker 5: bringing their dog in to you tomorrow.
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  Speaker 2: Oh sweet, nice.
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  Speaker 1: But now you can get a little free veterinary advice
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  Speaker 1: on the phone here.
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  Speaker 2: That's right.
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  Speaker 6: I do have a question while we wait for the
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  Speaker 6: phone lines the kickoff. I got a basset hound and well,
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  Speaker 6: before I get into the question, I know what it is,
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  Speaker 6: but you'll explain it much more eloquently. Can you explain
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  Speaker 6: what hotspot is on a dog?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, for sure.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, we definitely this time of year, when it warms
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  Speaker 4: up and we start getting out, sometimes allergies kick in
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  Speaker 4: and other things can happen. But hotspots are what we
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  Speaker 4: call moist dermatitis, and they usually happen. We see it
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  Speaker 4: a lot in thick furred dogs like German shepherds and labs,
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  Speaker 4: dogs that like the water.
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  Speaker 2: Sometimes too, but it's.
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  Speaker 4: Just an area that gets usually moist for some reason,
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  Speaker 4: and the dogs start licking it and they'll start to
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  Speaker 4: lose their hair and the skin will get really red
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  Speaker 4: and inflamed and sometimes kind of puss or just kind
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  Speaker 4: of debris going on there, and they're very irritating, very itchy.
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  Speaker 4: So yeah, they're not fun, but they're generally relatively easy
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  Speaker 4: to deal with too.
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  Speaker 2: Normally they are. But my dog, she's very oily.
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  Speaker 6: She's gotten it like on her chest before, and we've
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  Speaker 6: taken care of that by you know, treating it and
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  Speaker 6: shaving it. But she has developed hot spots on either
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  Speaker 6: side of her mouth where the mouthline folds. She's a
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  Speaker 6: bass hound and it's on the same lines that like
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  Speaker 6: she drools from whenever we eat, so it's impossible to
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  Speaker 6: keep it dry. So would you have any recommendation of
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  Speaker 6: how to approach that specific problem with hotspots or.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, those are more challenging.
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  Speaker 4: The dogs with the big lip folds and bassets are
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  Speaker 4: classic example of that, and your mastiffs, even labs sometimes
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  Speaker 4: can have a lot of drool and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: So, like you're saying, the name of the game.
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  Speaker 4: Is the best of your ability as clean and dry
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  Speaker 4: as possible on the lower lips. You can sparingly use
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  Speaker 4: topical ointments too, because they can't lick them off.
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  Speaker 2: Usually if you get far enough back.
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  Speaker 4: And downwards, it's harder to lick that off because sometimes
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  Speaker 4: we do have to get to ointments with steroids or
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  Speaker 4: antibiotics sometimes and if they get really inflamed, a course
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  Speaker 4: of oral antibiotics can be helpful to get it calmed down.
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  Speaker 4: But that upkeep and maintenance the best of your ability,
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  Speaker 4: is really helpful, and then topicals when needed for that
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  Speaker 4: for the really bad flare up situation.
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  Speaker 3: I have a question for you, Nick, why would you
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  Speaker 3: want a basket down? Well, she's cute as hell talking
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  Speaker 3: about why wouldn't they?
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  Speaker 2: They are good dogs, They are really good dogs.
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  Speaker 7: They're diggers though.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's go to Brandy.
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  Speaker 8: Hi, Brandy, Hi, good morning, Thanks for letting me listen.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, Brandy, what's out your dog's name?
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  Speaker 8: Her name is as A Bell and she's a fifteen
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  Speaker 8: year old Border Collie Blue Healer mix. You've got arthritis.
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  Speaker 8: She's taking gabapentin. But I was wondering what the doctor's
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  Speaker 8: thoughts on CBD are.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a good question. So gabapentin.
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  Speaker 4: I'll start there just because we do have a lot
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  Speaker 4: of dogs that end upon that, and for what it's worth,
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  Speaker 4: gabapentin can kind of help with pain, but it's not
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  Speaker 4: an anti inflammatory and arthritis you should be on an
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  Speaker 4: anti inflammatory older dogs. There's there's different options out there
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  Speaker 4: for sure, but I would definitely be on something like that.
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  Speaker 4: And then CBD is becoming more popular and it is
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  Speaker 4: becoming more I guess quality behind it because there are
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  Speaker 4: a lot of just folks out there that just whip
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  Speaker 4: it together and I don't know that there's no definitely
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  Speaker 4: not tested amounts, but also just the right amounts of
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  Speaker 4: everything in there. But I have had many clients say, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: I did try this out. I do feel like it
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  Speaker 4: made a difference, and I think it doesn't hurt to
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  Speaker 4: do that if you just try to pick something with quality,
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  Speaker 4: but also you need an anti inflammatory in there.
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  Speaker 2: It's just not going to do it without that.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, Brandy, All right, thank you. Let's
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  Speaker 3: go to Lauren. Hi, Lauren, Lauren, what's your cat?
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  Speaker 9: Hi?
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  Speaker 3: What's your cat's name?
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  Speaker 9: Her name is Mischief and she is eleven and I'm
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  Speaker 9: calling because over the last kind of week and a half,
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  Speaker 9: she has been extremely sneezy, which is very unlike her.
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  Speaker 9: She sounds a little congested, but I haven't noticed like
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  Speaker 9: any like drainage or like her eyes aren't more like
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  Speaker 9: goopy than usual. And so I'm just wondering if it's
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  Speaker 9: just kind of maybe like she'll get over it, or
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  Speaker 9: if I need to take her to the vet.
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  Speaker 1: Your dogs get allergies, have allergies, Yeah, dogs and cats
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  Speaker 1: you can both do that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, And we are seeing a little bit of that.
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  Speaker 4: I've had a couple patients the last couple weeks that
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  Speaker 4: are cats that have come in for just sneezing, and
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  Speaker 4: like you're saying, if there's no gunky as, no snotty
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  Speaker 4: nose and they're still eating, drinking, doing their thing.
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  Speaker 2: I worry less about those because.
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  Speaker 4: It may just be that seasonal change. But also older
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  Speaker 4: cats do keep in mind that dental disease can sometimes
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  Speaker 4: cause issues for them, so it's always worth getting that
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  Speaker 4: checked out if they've got bad breath or red gums,
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  Speaker 4: you know, or a lot of gunk build up on
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  Speaker 4: their teeth. But if they're doing okay, I think you're
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  Speaker 4: okay to give it some time. But you know, it
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  Speaker 4: never hurts to get looked at too, if you just
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  Speaker 4: make the time for that as well.
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  Speaker 9: M all right, awesome, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: Go So, doctor Davis is here to answer questions about
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  Speaker 1: your dogs and your cats.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, we'll take Randy real quick here, Hi, Randy.
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  Speaker 10: Hello, how's everybody this morning?
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  Speaker 3: Fine? Randy? You have a dog? Is that right?
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  Speaker 10: I do I have. I'm told that she's about three
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  Speaker 10: years old.
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  Speaker 11: She's a French bulldog, okay, and I just got her.
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  Speaker 12: From a sad situation.
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  Speaker 10: So we're making some progress. But this last week she
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  Speaker 10: seems to have picked up what I would describe as
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  Speaker 10: a cough and it makes me feel bad.
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  Speaker 3: Can you imitate it?
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  Speaker 10: I mean, she's doing it right now.
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  Speaker 11: Maybe I can try and put her on the phone.
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  Speaker 10: Maybe, Girl.
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  Speaker 12: It's kind of like.
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  Speaker 7: A do you take her to? Do you take her
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  Speaker 7: to daycare or a groomer?
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  Speaker 11: Or she actually goes to work with me every day?
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  Speaker 2: Okay?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: The costs can be a variety of different reasons, for sure,
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  Speaker 4: and especially having a new dog, anytime you introduce them,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of stress that comes with that too.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I can hear that little back in the background, and
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  Speaker 4: so any amount of stress also will decrease their immune system.
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  Speaker 4: And then if they are around where there's any their dogs,
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  Speaker 4: and because not always sick, dogs aren't always symptomatic, so
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  Speaker 4: it is easy to pick stuff up like that too.
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  Speaker 4: But also being a frenchie, they are, you know, notorious
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  Speaker 4: with those squished faces that there can be other things
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  Speaker 4: going on. So I would definitely say, if there's any
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  Speaker 4: decrease in appetite or low energy, or if you see
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  Speaker 4: any snotty nose or gunky eye, is that that's worth
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  Speaker 4: getting looked at, especially with a frenchie.
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  Speaker 10: She seems to be eating just fine, she's drinking just fine.
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  Speaker 10: The only other thing that I would say is she's
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  Speaker 10: taken to pooping in my shower at nighttime.
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  Speaker 3: Oh is that new?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah that's interesting.
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  Speaker 10: She didn't used to do that either.
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  Speaker 4: Its worth checked out, Yeah, at least the tub, but
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  Speaker 4: in the shower, but yeah, it.
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  Speaker 2: May be worth getting checked out.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah maybe, Yeah, go take your take your dog to
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  Speaker 3: the doctor.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, sounds like a plan.
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  Speaker 3: All right, thank you, I.
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  Speaker 1: Appreciate it, Thank you, have a great day.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you.
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  Speaker 7: I guess you could litter train a dog, right, you can.
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  Speaker 2: I've knowne people that have done that.
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  Speaker 5: We got more phone calls. But our intern Hudson has
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  Speaker 5: a question. Eight to nine year old dog recently been
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  Speaker 5: unable to lift her head and if you pick her
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  Speaker 5: up by her hips, she yelps. Let's say it could
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  Speaker 5: be a disc or a pulled muscle. Meds are working,
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  Speaker 5: but lots of them. What is your opinion?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean it sounds like a disc problem to me,
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  Speaker 4: probably in the next somewhere, and those are very, very painful,
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  Speaker 4: and that's why typically most dogs I have in that situation,
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  Speaker 4: I have them on at least three different meds most
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  Speaker 4: of the time to try and help with that.
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  Speaker 2: So jumping down, especially is really hard on the neck
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  Speaker 2: and shoulders.
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  Speaker 4: So I would limit all that, get them trained to
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  Speaker 4: use ramps or stairs for things, and just take it
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  Speaker 4: super easy because neck pain can turn into paralysis pretty
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  Speaker 4: easily if you're not careful.
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  Speaker 5: There you go, all right, We'll go see trilogy. Veterinary
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  Speaker 5: Taken care of Laney is here. Hello, Laney, I I you.
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  Speaker 3: Have a question about your aunt. What kind of animal
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  Speaker 3: do you have? Leanie?
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  Speaker 8: He's a dog. His name is Leopolds.
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  Speaker 11: He's about five years old, and he has always had
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  Speaker 11: anxiety He's always been kind of a high stress dog,
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  Speaker 11: but more recently he is terrified of everything remote control,
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  Speaker 11: car nerf gun, clap.
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  Speaker 3: I'm scared. I'm afraid of all of those things. My sight,
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  Speaker 3: I'm terrified of those things.
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  Speaker 11: So I'm not sure if like there's meds for high
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  Speaker 11: stressed dogs or how to deal with a dog that
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  Speaker 11: literally cowers in the corner from everything.
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  Speaker 3: Do you ever put up put dogs on tranks.
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  Speaker 4: Tranquilizers Sometimes, Yeah, in the situations like this, it's there's
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  Speaker 4: often some sort of trigger or repeated trigger for them
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  Speaker 4: to get that really high anxiety and all of those
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  Speaker 4: things for the wrong dog or very scary things now
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  Speaker 4: because they don't understand anything in those situations. And so
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  Speaker 4: for some dogs, always behavior training and trying to kind
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  Speaker 4: of countercondition them in those situations. There's a lot of
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  Speaker 4: value in that, and even maybe thinking about doing a
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  Speaker 4: trainer that will come.
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  Speaker 2: To you and help with those things.
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  Speaker 4: And some dogs we do need medication to facilitate that
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  Speaker 4: training and make it stick a little bit better. And
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  Speaker 4: then a lot of dogs we can get them off
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  Speaker 4: of that over time, but you know, just just letting
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  Speaker 4: it all happen, or just trying to avoid it. It's
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  Speaker 4: kind of hard to do that in the real world.
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  Speaker 4: So I think that working on some training to kind
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  Speaker 4: of back away from that and if you need meds
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  Speaker 4: to help with that, but rarely do just meds fix
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  Speaker 4: the problem. And that's that's the hard thing with behavior
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  Speaker 4: is meds would be nice, but it's not the whole picture.
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  Speaker 10: All right, Well, let me great, thank you?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean I can't play with my remote controlled
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  Speaker 5: R two D two because Hudson will.
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  Speaker 2: S freak out some freaking out completely.
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  Speaker 7: Cindy, Hi, Cindy.
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  Speaker 3: Cindy's right, thank you for taking my call. What's your uh,
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  Speaker 3: what's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 11: So?
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  Speaker 12: I have a little rescue pop and he has part
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  Speaker 12: lab mostly border Collie, so he's just a little under.
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  Speaker 9: Dog.
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  Speaker 12: So training for my first half marathon and I'd like
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  Speaker 12: to take him with me, and so I'm wondering what
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  Speaker 12: I need to make sure this journey's healthy for him,
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  Speaker 12: what kind of leash he's a bit reactive, So thoughts.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I think that's it's really neat to do do
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  Speaker 4: things like that with dogs and have them have a
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  Speaker 4: job and a purpose like that. So when you're doing that,
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  Speaker 4: you know athletically. You want to make sure you're building
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  Speaker 4: into that. You don't want to just go into the
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  Speaker 4: ten mile run right out of the gates. You want
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  Speaker 4: to work your way into that. Some of the popular
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  Speaker 4: leads for dogs like that, especially if they're a little
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  Speaker 4: reactive or hard to steer around the muzzle type leads.
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  Speaker 4: So the gentle leaders halties things like that are they
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  Speaker 4: are helpful for those situations because it also keeps them
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  Speaker 4: from pulling. I've definitely known pat owners that have been
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  Speaker 4: injured because their dog just takes off without them knowing
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  Speaker 4: and they get pulled over or I've seen dislocated shoulders.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, I've seen all sorts of things happen that way.
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  Speaker 2: So sure, those muzzle.
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  Speaker 4: Leads are really good because they tend to pull less
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  Speaker 4: and also it's easier to keep them kind of going
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  Speaker 4: the direction you want. So I'd say work into it
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  Speaker 4: and maybe try one of those muzzle leaders.
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  Speaker 12: Okay, Okay, someone suggested like a bungee leah, so I
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  Speaker 12: wrap around my waist, but again, sometimes he runs in
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  Speaker 12: front of me, and obviously I don't want an injury.
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  Speaker 12: And so what are your thoughts on the bungeee things?
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  Speaker 4: When you get them trained and they're doing the right things.
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  Speaker 4: I think those are great, but I would be hesitant
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  Speaker 4: because again, you can get tripped up, you can get inked,
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  Speaker 4: you can hurt your back.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, all sorts of things can happen.
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  Speaker 4: So I wouldn't do that until you're very confident that
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  Speaker 4: they're going to do right what you need him to do.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, you perfect?
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  Speaker 12: And any problems with him going the distance with me?
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  Speaker 12: Like should I not take anything over six miles or
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  Speaker 12: seven miles or anything like that?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would build up to that.
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  Speaker 4: I mean I've known dogs that do twenty miles a day,
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  Speaker 4: but you have to worry about their pop heads.
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  Speaker 2: You have to get them toughened up and thickened up
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  Speaker 2: and so. But that is doable. You just got it,
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  Speaker 2: just like us. You got to work your way into it.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he'd just rather I'm starting scratch.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe maybe he'd just rather maybe he'd just rather stay
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  Speaker 1: home and watch TV.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, then you haven't had a border collie because these
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  Speaker 12: dogs do not stay well.
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  Speaker 3: That's truly, don't a lot of energy. That's true.
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  Speaker 2: He probably needs to run thirty miles a day, all right.
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  Speaker 12: Yeah, he is the love of my life. The best
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  Speaker 12: thing that ever plopped on my porch.
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  Speaker 3: You guys see Cindy pupped on your port plopped.
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  Speaker 7: Oh, plopped.
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  Speaker 3: There we go.
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  Speaker 7: Let's go to Melissa.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Melissa, Lissa. What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 4: Hello?
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  Speaker 10: Hi, it is Lady. She is a chocolate lab and
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  Speaker 10: I'm not sure exactly how old she is. It's my
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  Speaker 10: sister's dog. I've been babysitting, but she has serious eye
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  Speaker 10: buggers for days. There's two different medications that she's taking currently,
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  Speaker 10: but it doesn't seem like they're helping at all, and
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  Speaker 10: they're to the point where her eyes are super super like,
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  Speaker 10: even her skin around her eyelids everything is super super
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  Speaker 10: red and just really thick yellow goobers. Yeah, I mean, yeah,
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  Speaker 10: she's I want to say, she's probably blind, if not
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  Speaker 10: almost there.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, do you know the medications around by chance? I don't, Okay, Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: it sounds like. I mean.
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  Speaker 4: My biggest suspicion would be a condition that's called dry eye,
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  Speaker 4: and dogs with dry eye they're usually on a couple
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  Speaker 4: of different meds to help promote tear production and also
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  Speaker 4: keep the eyes from being all crusty like that, because
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  Speaker 4: over time, if it's untreated, they will develop this really
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  Speaker 4: heavy dark pigment over their cornea and then they will
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  Speaker 4: go blind from that. So I would suspect that's what
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  Speaker 4: you're dealing with. But keep the eyes as cleaned out
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  Speaker 4: as you can, just regular old I saline flush that
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  Speaker 4: you get at any pharmacy you can use to keep
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  Speaker 4: the crust down, and then make sure the meds are
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  Speaker 4: coming on track. But if you know, I know, it's
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  Speaker 4: not your dog, but it's definitely if if things aren't working,
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  Speaker 4: I'd probably get it looked at again, and it may
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  Speaker 4: be even good to get into the actual ophthalmologists to
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  Speaker 4: see what options are there if the regular vet hasn't
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  Speaker 4: been able to solve it.
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  Speaker 1: I think I think Costco has I think they have
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  Speaker 1: their optomology department.
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  Speaker 3: They have glasses for dogs.
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  Speaker 1: I think, yeah, I get some doggles, some doggles.
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  Speaker 12: Thank you, Yeah, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: We are out of time, Joe. I'd just say, have
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  Speaker 7: it looked at?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah easy, yeah, all right, that's doctor Josh Davis, Trilogy
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary Services in Sandy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, thanks guys, thank you.
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  Speaker 7: All right