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Do You Want Your Pet Around for a Long Time? Watch Their Weight. Dr. Greer with CheckOut Veterinary has the details · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: joining us this morning from Checkout Veterinary is doctor Marty Greer,
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Speaker 2: So we want to make this as easy as we
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Speaker 1: And that's what we talk about. That overall kind of
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Speaker 1: of the things, and one of the reasons why it's
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Speaker 1: so important, is if you make it easy for folks
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Speaker 1: to get their pets in, they get their pets in
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Speaker 1: more regularly, the pets are healthier, everybody's happier. And I
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Speaker 1: know one of the big conversation conversation that always happens
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Speaker 1: is whether they're little puppy dogs or they're older, older dogs,
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Speaker 1: older cats, or little kittens. Is weight and weight management
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Speaker 1: for just like for a human, weight management is a
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Speaker 1: very important aspect of a pet's life, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, And I think it's significantly overlooked. I think
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Speaker 2: we just think there they look normal, or they're cute,
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Speaker 2: or we kind of like them fluffy, and you know,
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Speaker 2: suddenly we realize that they've put on a pound or
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Speaker 2: two a year, and pretty fast that adds up, especially
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Speaker 2: on a really small dog, So really important we are
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Speaker 2: keeping an eye on their weight. And one of the
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Speaker 2: best tools to use is your veterinary professionals and their
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Speaker 2: medical records, so you can go back and see how
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Speaker 2: old were they when you did their spay or neuter.
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Speaker 2: And two things with that. One is that gives you
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Speaker 2: a really good idea of what their adult weight should be.
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Speaker 2: It should be pretty close to that because they are
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Speaker 2: going to be close to adults when you do that,
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Speaker 2: so we don't want them to get too heavy too
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Speaker 2: much over that. The other is to realize that at
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Speaker 2: that spay and neuter, as soon as you remove their hormones,
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Speaker 2: if you decide to do that, you don't have to.
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Speaker 2: There are people who leave their dogs intact, or leave
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Speaker 2: the ovaries and do an over extrengthday, or leave the
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Speaker 2: testicles and do a vadectomy. You can do those things,
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Speaker 2: and those are procedures that we offer. But as soon
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Speaker 2: as you remove the ovaries in the testicles or you
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Speaker 2: don't have both either the overaries of the testicles, then
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Speaker 2: you instantly change their metabolic rate by twenty five percent.
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Speaker 2: So that means the day you go home from that
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Speaker 2: spay or neuter, you need to cut their colork and
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Speaker 2: take by twenty five percent. So if they're eating two
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Speaker 2: cups a day, that's a cup and a half instead
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Speaker 2: of two and very fast, your dog is going to
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Speaker 2: look at you like, maybe you forgot to put all
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Speaker 2: the food in my bowl, and they start begging at
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Speaker 2: the table, or they start knocking over the garbage can
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Speaker 2: and getting into that, or you know, doing things outside
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Speaker 2: that they wouldn't do, you know, stealing pizza from the kids.
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Speaker 2: My son used to be afraid to leave the dinner
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Speaker 2: table during a meal. He was afraid of the dog
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Speaker 2: his food during the middle of his meal. So those
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Speaker 2: are really important things to be aware of. So the
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Speaker 2: day you go home from that, say and now you
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Speaker 2: have to be measuring what they were taking in before
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Speaker 2: and immediately cut it by twenty five percent if you
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Speaker 2: don't want to end up with the dog that's overweight.
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Speaker 2: The problem with weight is it happens gradually. You don't
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Speaker 2: really notice until your friend or your neighbor or your
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Speaker 2: family comes over and says, what happened to your dog,
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Speaker 2: Because if you see him every day, you don't notice
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Speaker 2: that gradual change. It's sort of like you you don't
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Speaker 2: notice that your pants aren't fitting quite right. And so
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Speaker 2: sometimes it's that wake up call or when you go
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Speaker 2: to the vat a year later and say he gained
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Speaker 2: how much or what. So you know, these are really
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Speaker 2: important things, and your veterinary professional is very willing and
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Speaker 2: able to tell you this, but they may not want
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Speaker 2: to bring up the message of your dog is overweight
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Speaker 2: or your cat is overweight. So a lot of people
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Speaker 2: are really sensitive about that, and so veterinaries tend to
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Speaker 2: be maybe a little reluctant to bring it up. So
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Speaker 2: that's for you to say, is how is my pet's weight?
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Speaker 2: Am I feeding the right food? Am I feeding the
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Speaker 2: right amount of food? What can I do that can
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Speaker 2: improve this so that we have a good.
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Speaker 1: Handle on that, you know, doctor, it's interesting. Years ago
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Speaker 1: PBS there was I don't remember the exact title of
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Speaker 1: the program, but it was basically about the evolution of
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Speaker 1: domestic dogs and one of the things that they had
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Speaker 1: pointed out is dogs that kind of have that muscle
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Speaker 1: that can make their eyes look very sad and can
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Speaker 1: actually they're manipulating, like they were the ones that were
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Speaker 1: most successful. And I think for pet owners that could
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Speaker 1: be the hardest part. Is you mentioned, you know, adjusting
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Speaker 1: the diet dogs do and cats as well, And I
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Speaker 1: don't want to just say that cats don't have their
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Speaker 1: own little tricks. They can. They really know how to
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Speaker 1: play on your emotions and really really can make it
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Speaker 1: difficult as a pet owner to feed them properly.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and they do. They come over to the
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Speaker 2: table with those big brown eyes and they look very sad,
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Speaker 2: and you're like, oh, well, I'm just going to give
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Speaker 2: you a little snipple off my plate, and pretty quickly
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Speaker 2: it adds up into a lot of calories. So fruits
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Speaker 2: and vegetables are great treats for the dogs. If you
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Speaker 2: must feed off the table, feed fruits and vegetables other
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Speaker 2: than grapes and raisins, almost any other fruit and vegetable
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Speaker 2: that you're eating a spine. Of course, you know, no
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Speaker 2: sour cream on the potatoes, no cheese sauce on the broccoli,
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Speaker 2: but just straight up fruits and vegetables are great snacks
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Speaker 2: for the dogs, and of course they're great for us too.
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Speaker 2: They're high in fiber, they're high in an oxidants, they're
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Speaker 2: lowering calories. So all those things that you and I
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Speaker 2: know we should be eating because our mother tried to
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Speaker 2: tell us that, or we try to tell our kids
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Speaker 2: that and they're like, oh, but I want a cookie now,
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Speaker 2: you don't need a cookie and a dog treat can
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Speaker 2: have one hundred calories and up in a little treat.
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Speaker 2: And if your dog's chloric intake is only supposed to
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Speaker 2: be three hundred calories a day, and now you bump
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Speaker 2: to four hundred with one tree, that very quickly is
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Speaker 2: going to pack the weight on. So those are important
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Speaker 2: things now there is there are some charts online like
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Speaker 2: Purina has a metabolic calculator chart. You can put in
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Speaker 2: your pet breed and their weight and it will help
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Speaker 2: you to calculate how many calories they should take in.
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Speaker 2: And the average dog food is going to have about
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Speaker 2: three hundred killo calories and a cup of food, so
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Speaker 2: you can read the label on the bag. You just
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Speaker 2: have to turn it over and look at the fine prints.
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Speaker 2: You might put on your readers, or you know, get
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Speaker 2: the magnifying glass out because it's really small, or you
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Speaker 2: can look online before you go to the pet store.
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Speaker 2: You can sit down at the computer and say, well,
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Speaker 2: how many calories are in a cup of food and
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Speaker 2: you can find some that are low calorie that maybe
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Speaker 2: two hundred and twenty two hundred and fifty calories. If
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Speaker 2: you have a dog that's overweight, you want to switch
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Speaker 2: them to one of those foods so that they're still
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Speaker 2: getting the amount of volume and they're still getting the nutrition,
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Speaker 2: the minerals of vitamins, the protein, all the things that
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Speaker 2: they need, but not getting the calories. So do some
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Speaker 2: pre planning before you go pet food shopping, if you
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Speaker 2: go to the store, if you go online, look at
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Speaker 2: those killo calories per cup. It's really easy to find.
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Speaker 2: You just click on the pet food, click on it
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Speaker 2: and say you know ingredients and it'll tell you that
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Speaker 2: killer calories per cup. And so those are important tools
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Speaker 2: for you to have.
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Speaker 1: Well, doctor, what is the heart? I feel like a
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Speaker 1: lot there's like cat people that have this that are
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Speaker 1: the kind of the attitude of what's the you know,
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Speaker 1: what's the harm in having of a big you know,
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Speaker 1: the fat cat or you know. I think for dogs,
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Speaker 1: I think most people are are generally like I want
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Speaker 1: to keep them fit. But what about that? What are
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Speaker 1: some of the health health concerns and health problems that
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Speaker 1: arise from from obesity and pets.
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Speaker 2: They're all the same things we have. They have an
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Speaker 2: increased risk of cancer, increased risk of joint disease, so
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Speaker 2: knee problems, dog chair cruciates. Dogs have hyptysplasia, cats can
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Speaker 2: tear their cruci It's all the things. Arthritis, diabetes, big problem,
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Speaker 2: heart disease, big problem. I had a client that came
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Speaker 2: in years ago and he had two overweight cats, and
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Speaker 2: I said, you really have to get some weight off
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Speaker 2: of these two guys. They're going to end up with diabetes.
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Speaker 2: And he goes, well, my mom, my, dad, and I'm
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Speaker 2: all diabetics. Oh you know, well, I'm oh no, you're
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Speaker 2: not just going to say, oh well, I'm just going
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Speaker 2: to give another injection of inflin. It's just not that
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Speaker 2: good for you to be diabetic. So all those things
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Speaker 2: are really important that you do good weight management so
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Speaker 2: that you don't end up with those issues. And I
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Speaker 2: don't know anybody at the end of their pet's life
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Speaker 2: that said, yeah, you know, two years of God's good
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Speaker 2: I didn't you know, I didn't care if you live
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Speaker 2: to be fourteen. No, everybody wants them to live a
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Speaker 2: little bit longer. They just want a little bit more
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Speaker 2: time with their pets. So this is the gift that
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Speaker 2: your veterinarian can give you. I can give you is
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Speaker 2: to say, we know pets that are not overweight live
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Speaker 2: two years longer. Dogs live two years longer. There was
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Speaker 2: a study done by Purina a number of years ago
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Speaker 2: by Dennis Lawler that shows that if the dogs are
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Speaker 2: in an ideal body condition, they have two more years
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Speaker 2: of life. And so this is a gift you can
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Speaker 2: give to your pet. Your vet can give to you
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Speaker 2: by looking at the record saying this is what your
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Speaker 2: pet's goal weight should be. Let's have you come in
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Speaker 2: once a month, put you on the scale, see how
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Speaker 2: you're doing on weight, because it can be hard to
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Speaker 2: waig I'm at home. If you can stand on the
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Speaker 2: scale and hold the dog, and then you stand on
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Speaker 2: the scale without the dog, weag you know, compare the difference.
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Speaker 2: That's great. But if you weigh two hundred pounds and
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Speaker 2: the dog weighs eighty pounds, you're going to top out
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Speaker 2: the scale, Your scale and your bathroom isn't going to
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Speaker 2: go that high. So you know, go to the vet,
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Speaker 2: get them on the scale, get an idea, record it,
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Speaker 2: and then you can very carefully get some weight off.
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Speaker 2: Now we don't want them to lose weight too quickly,
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Speaker 2: just like for us, but it's really important that we
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Speaker 2: do this cats, especially if you try to get weight
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Speaker 2: off of them too fast, they can end up with
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Speaker 2: a liver problem called typadic lipidosis, so it's not safe
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Speaker 2: for them to lose more than about a pound a
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Speaker 2: month for a cat. But there's lots of pet food
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Speaker 2: management diets on the market. Hills makes the wonderful line
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Speaker 2: of diets, rail Cana does, Purina does, so you can
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Speaker 2: go to their website take a look. Some are prescription,
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Speaker 2: some are non prescription, Some are higher in fiber. Some
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Speaker 2: put all carnetene into the food to help improve metabolism.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of tools.
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Speaker 1: That we can use.
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Speaker 2: You can give the fruits and vegetables, so if you
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Speaker 2: cut back the amount of food, you can throw half
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Speaker 2: a cup of green beans or a cup of green
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Speaker 2: beans into their bowl because there's thirty calories and a
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Speaker 2: cup of green beans and three hundred and a cup
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Speaker 2: of dog foods, so you can fill up your pet.
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Speaker 2: Because we don't want them reading the garbage and rummaging
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Speaker 2: around outside to try and find food. If they're hungry,
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Speaker 2: they're going to feel like cobwebs are growing in their stomach,
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Speaker 2: like you forgot to feed them. So we don't want
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Speaker 2: them hungry. We want them at an ideal body weight
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Speaker 2: with the amount of nutrition that they need. So those
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Speaker 2: are some tools that you have at your disposal. They're
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Speaker 2: pretty easy to get your hands done, and your vet
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Speaker 2: is going to be more than happy to help you.
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Speaker 2: If you express to them a concern, they may not
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Speaker 2: bring it up, but you should bring it up at
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Speaker 2: the visit and say, how is my diet, how is
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Speaker 2: my pets diet? What can I do? What is their
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Speaker 2: weight supposed to be? Can you help me with this?
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Speaker 2: And many times they'll have a technician or an assistant
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Speaker 2: that was willing to work with you on a weight
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Speaker 2: management diets. Very cool.
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Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer. We'll talk a little bit about some
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Speaker 1: waste and techniques to help control your pet's diet. Also
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Speaker 1: also the importance of getting some exercise as well. Not
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Speaker 1: only keep the weight down, we keep them nice and lean.
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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred talking about the importance of
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Speaker 1: keeping your pet at a healthy weight In Doctor. We
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Speaker 1: touched on a little bit in that earlier segment about
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Speaker 1: you know, dogs and cats find ways to you know,
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Speaker 1: they toy with you. They know they know they've got you.
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Speaker 1: There are things that you can do, though you mentioned
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Speaker 1: giving them healthy snacks and some alternatives. Are there other
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Speaker 1: things out there? I know I've seen like certain bowls
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Speaker 1: for dogs that kind of make it a little more
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Speaker 1: difficult for them to I think some of those, like labs,
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Speaker 1: are things tend to kind of gorge themselves. Do that
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Speaker 1: stuff work work? Well? Do those tools work?
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Speaker 2: They do? Yeah, they do. There's a low feeders for dogs,
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Speaker 2: flow feeders for cats. My favorite one for cats is
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Speaker 2: made by Doc and Phoebees, and it's basically a little
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Speaker 2: mouse shaped feeding device that you measure these food. It's
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Speaker 2: goggle measuring cup that comes in it. They're shaped like
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Speaker 2: a little mouse. And then you put those around the
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Speaker 2: house in different places every day. So one day you
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Speaker 2: feed in the kitchen, then one day's feed in the bathroom,
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Speaker 2: one day you feat in the launder room, and one
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Speaker 2: day you's feeding the shoe in your closet and so
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Speaker 2: the cat, instead of just getting up and waddling across
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Speaker 2: the floor and going over their food dish and then
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Speaker 2: waddling back to the couch, has to go looking for
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Speaker 2: their food. Now, you don't feed them in six places
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Speaker 2: all the same day. You move it around so that
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Speaker 2: on Monday it's in the kitchen and on Tuesday it's
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Speaker 2: in the laundering room, and so they have to go
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Speaker 2: searching and they don't know it's Tuesday, so they don't
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Speaker 2: know Tuesday is laundry room day. They go wandering through
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Speaker 2: the hall house multiple times a day looking for their food.
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Speaker 2: Because it's really hard to take a cat for a walk.
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Speaker 2: You can't take them out for a jog. So that's
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Speaker 2: a really great trick for cats, is not just the
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Speaker 2: slow feeder, but the hiding devices that you can use
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Speaker 2: around the house. For dogs, slow feeders do help plow
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Speaker 2: them down. And of course dogs can get more exercise,
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Speaker 2: so if they swim, that's great. There's pools you can
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Speaker 2: take your pet too on a weekly basis and get
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Speaker 2: the dog in the pool for a swimming exercise. This
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Speaker 2: time of year is perfect to get out and walk.
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Speaker 2: It's not too hot, it's not too cold, it's not
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Speaker 2: too humid, the bugs aren't bad. So get out there,
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Speaker 2: get up in the morning, take your dog for a walk,
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Speaker 2: after work in the evening, take the dog out for
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Speaker 2: another walk. So get some exercise for yourself and the dog.
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Speaker 2: It's a wonderful combination of ways that you can get
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Speaker 2: things going. And so that combination of increasing their activity
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Speaker 2: level and decreasing their caloric intake is going to be
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Speaker 2: magical in getting some weight off. And you want to
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Speaker 2: know what your goal is for your pet, so that
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Speaker 2: you know how close to being successful are you and
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Speaker 2: how much further do you need to go, and do
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Speaker 2: you need to continue the prescription food or can you
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Speaker 2: go back to a weight maintenance diet instead of a
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Speaker 2: weight loss diet. So there's a lot of different techniques
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Speaker 2: that you can use. And I keep going back to
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Speaker 2: the veterinarian saying that they can help you because this
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Speaker 2: is really a medical thing for your pet to have
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Speaker 2: involvement with is your vet and your vet text need
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Speaker 2: to have some input into this so that we make
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Speaker 2: sure that they're healthy. We don't have any magical drugs
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Speaker 2: for weight loss in dogs, although el carnatine is an
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Speaker 2: amino acid that get that to some of the pet
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Speaker 2: foods as the senior diet have some of these in
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Speaker 2: them to help. And of course if your pets on
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Speaker 2: a prescription diet for another health concern, you don't want
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Speaker 2: to interrupt that for weight loss, but you can talk
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Speaker 2: to your vet because some of these products a combination products.
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Speaker 2: We have products that are low stress and improve bladder
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Speaker 2: health and can still get weight off. So you can
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Speaker 2: find a combination products from Surina, from Hills, from Royal
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Speaker 2: o Canaan that can help you with those. So be
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Speaker 2: sure you're speaking to your veterinary professional about what can
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Speaker 2: you do. Because if we can do this with diet,
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Speaker 2: like manage their bladder or manage their joints or whatever
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Speaker 2: happens to be and not have to use a drugs,
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Speaker 2: I think it's always best to do it with diet
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Speaker 2: and exercise instead of having to do a drug based
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Speaker 2: weight loss program or drug based whatever you know, health problem, joint,
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Speaker 2: bladder's heart, whatever it is. We've got lots of great
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Speaker 2: diets on the market from these three companies that are
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Speaker 2: really the pioneers in developing pet food for specific problems.
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Speaker 2: So there's some really great stuff you can do. I
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Speaker 2: don't buy treats for my dogs. My dogs never see
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Speaker 2: milk bones, They never get any of that stuff. My
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Speaker 2: dogs get fruits and vegetables. The little cheese puffs that
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Speaker 2: they sell at some of the stores, those are low
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Speaker 2: in calories. Cheerios great snacks. There are three cheerios to
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Speaker 2: one calorie. So there's lots of things we can do.
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary,
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Speaker 1: talking this week about your pets weight and of course
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Speaker 1: ways to ways to keep them healthy, maintain that healthy weight.
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Speaker 1: And as we talk with doctor Greer, the importance of
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Speaker 1: the doctor the patient the pet, that relationship and that conversation.
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Speaker 1: I know in talking with you, and I know at
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Speaker 1: Checkout Vet, you and all the veterinarians at Checkout Vet.
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Speaker 1: Overall pet health is absolutely vital. Do you guys help
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Speaker 1: people sometimes put together an action plan for pets? They say,
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Speaker 1: you know, pet is overweight? What can we do? Do
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Speaker 1: you guys work with them to kind of put together
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Speaker 1: some steps to to really put into practice.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, we're more than happy to help you select a diet,
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Speaker 2: figure out the number of cat calories per day, the
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Speaker 2: number of cups or tibbles, pieces that you can put
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Speaker 2: into the dish, get them on the scale monthly, get
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Speaker 2: an exercise program set up for you. We're really happy
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Speaker 2: to help you with that because it's our goal to
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Speaker 2: do the same for you. Is that we want this
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Speaker 2: pet to live as long as possible because it's good
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Speaker 2: for you, it's good for our hearts to see how
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Speaker 2: well the pets are doing. So we absolutely want to
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Speaker 2: make sure that we're helping you with those things. So
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Speaker 2: don't hesitate to ask, don't hesitate to question if there's
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Speaker 2: something more that we can do for you, because we
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Speaker 2: definitely want this to be a lifelong good experience for you.
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Speaker 2: And that's what my doctors are there for, is to
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Speaker 2: help you with those kinds of things.
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Speaker 1: And one final thing too, doctor I want to ask
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Speaker 1: you about is when we're talking about some of the
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Speaker 1: physical activity, and I know personally, when I'm more physically engaged,
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Speaker 1: my diet just naturally changes. I don't know, my body
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Speaker 1: craves more salads and things like that and less so
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Speaker 1: that fried stuff. Do we see the same with pets,
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Speaker 1: is like as you get them on maybe a better
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Speaker 1: diet and more of a healthy regimen where they're just
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Speaker 1: kind of some of that early begging and prodding kind
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Speaker 1: of fades back a little bit.
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Speaker 2: I don't know if they really have that kind of control,
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Speaker 2: not sure about that, but it's the only treats they
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Speaker 2: get is a carrot or a banana instead of a milk bone.
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Speaker 2: Pretty quickly they're going to enjoy that. And you're going
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Speaker 2: to figure out fast which vegetables and fruits each of
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Speaker 2: your pets likes, because not all of them are going
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Speaker 2: to like the same thing. Which makes it kind of
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Speaker 2: fun too, is you're going to have somebody celery and
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Speaker 2: somebody broccoli, and some that look at banana and goes, yeah,
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Speaker 2: that's really awesome. Most dogs don't like citrus, but hey,
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Speaker 2: if you have a dog that he's oranges and you
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Speaker 2: like oranges, go for it. You know, grapefruit, So pretty
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Speaker 2: much any of the fruits and vegetables other than grapes
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Speaker 2: and raisins can be something you can share with your pet. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, peel two oranges and have an orange with
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Speaker 2: your dog and the kit It's a great way to
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Speaker 2: get your kids eat vegetables and fruits is to have
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Speaker 2: them share with the dog because then you don't really mind.
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Speaker 2: It's not like they're eating half the kid's pizza. And
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Speaker 2: for the cats, it's really important when you are cleaning
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Speaker 2: up after you have dinner in the kitchen that you
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Speaker 2: put the dishes into the sink with water or to
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Speaker 2: the dishwasher, because those cats are really good at getting
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Speaker 2: on the countertops and helping themselves the elect over milk
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Speaker 2: from the cereal or the ice cream or the soup
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Speaker 2: or whatever it happens to be. So don't let your
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Speaker 2: cat become, you know, a victim of getting into the
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Speaker 2: sink for those dirty dishes. Just clean the kitchen up,
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Speaker 2: pop them in the dishwasher and be done with it
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Speaker 2: so that the cat's not hanging out on the countertop
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Speaker 2: getting extra calories.
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Speaker 1: The cat's just trying to help out. Doctor Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: yeah yeah. Talking this story with doctor Marty Greer of
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