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Pets, Wildlife, and How They Interact with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Vet · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: the air with doctor Marty Greer, who is recognized as
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  Speaker 1: Veterinarian of the Air from Westminster Kennel Club. Doctor, how
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  Speaker 1: you doing this week?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thank you, It's great to.
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  Speaker 1: Talk to you and uh, and we've got a conversation
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  Speaker 1: this week about pets and wildlife, and just kind of
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  Speaker 1: happened that this week's been just in my neighborhood, a
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  Speaker 1: busy week for a different wildlife kind of passing through,
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, you know, what might be might be
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  Speaker 1: an interesting conversation, and there can be harm done both ways,
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  Speaker 1: both to your pet and the wildlife as well. Buy
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  Speaker 1: your pet just in a nutshell, real quick. Doctor. When
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  Speaker 1: we talk about keeping your pets safe and other things,
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  Speaker 1: a lot of the a lot of things like like
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  Speaker 1: routine vaccinations, other things. These type of things can really
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  Speaker 1: can really help keep your your pet protective, protected, whether
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  Speaker 1: it's direct or indirect contact with was certain forms of wildlife,
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  Speaker 1: can't they indeed?
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  Speaker 2: And interestingly, I was looking up before you called, some
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  Speaker 2: information about using a drug on a dog. So I
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  Speaker 2: was looking through the protocols for it and popped up
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  Speaker 2: rabies because one of the rabies initiatives is being funded
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  Speaker 2: in part by one of these companies. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it's important that we have that conversation about all vaccines,
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  Speaker 2: including rabies.
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  Speaker 1: So with that and what's the there's one that starts
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  Speaker 1: with an L liptolepto.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, leptoleptosprosis is that, and that those are the type
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  Speaker 3: of diseases that that can go from go from wildlife
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  Speaker 3: to your pets, can't.
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  Speaker 2: They It can, and it can actually affect people as well.
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  Speaker 2: It's not common to see leptosporosis in people. Leptosporosis is
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  Speaker 2: most common in dogs. It is rarely reported in cats.
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  Speaker 2: But it's probably under reported in cats because we typically
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  Speaker 2: don't think of it that way and we don't check
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  Speaker 2: for it. But it spread through the urine of little
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  Speaker 2: creatures that come up into your yard. And I have
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  Speaker 2: lots of people that say, oh, well, my dog doesn't
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  Speaker 2: need to be vaccinated for lepto. I'm like, well, does
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  Speaker 2: your dog touch the grass? Well, yeah, but you know
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  Speaker 2: it's only in my yard. Well, in New Flash, folks,
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the night there are are deer
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  Speaker 2: and bowl and mice and chippy's and raccoons and dungs
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  Speaker 2: and all kinds of things that come up into your yard.
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  Speaker 2: So if your dog touches the grass, they're at risk.
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  Speaker 2: And unfortunately, we see at least one case of fatal
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  Speaker 2: lepto a year in our practice, so it's not unheard of,
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  Speaker 2: it's not rare, and it is something that we should
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  Speaker 2: be vaccinating for. And now lepto vaccine, for a while
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  Speaker 2: it's only given to dogs, was kind of getting a
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  Speaker 2: bad rap because if we were going to see a
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  Speaker 2: vaccine reaction, it was to lepto. But about ten years
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  Speaker 2: ago the vaccine companies were sold and merged in all
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  Speaker 2: the stuff that happens with mergers and acquisitions, and one
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  Speaker 2: of the things that they said to the vaccine manufacturers was, okay,
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  Speaker 2: if you could do anything like the scientists of the company,
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  Speaker 2: you could do anything with any vaccine, what would it be?
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  Speaker 2: And that would be clean up lefto. So they have
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  Speaker 2: and we see a far smaller percentage of pations that
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  Speaker 2: respond badly to a lepto vaccine. So we encourage everyone
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  Speaker 2: with a dog to vaccinate for lockdown. In fact, when
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  Speaker 2: the weather is really wet, some years are really wet
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  Speaker 2: I'll vaccinate my dogs an extra time, so twice a
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  Speaker 2: year during the season, simply because I see enough lepto. Oh,
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  Speaker 2: I wanted to happen to my dogs.
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  Speaker 1: With that too. When you mentioned, you know, vaccines and
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  Speaker 1: lepto and that they're they're obviously a very safe, very
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  Speaker 1: effective vaccine there. Rabies is one that I know most communities,
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  Speaker 1: I think you have the I know you've in the
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  Speaker 1: past mentioned. I think just about every community does require
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  Speaker 1: for registrations and other things a rabies vaccine. Most people
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  Speaker 1: are familiar with that. That is a very very important
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  Speaker 1: vaccine to keep up on, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It is. It's required for dogs in every municipality, every state,
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  Speaker 2: every place, and in depending on the municipality, it may
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  Speaker 2: or may not be required for caps, but that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: mean that they shouldn't get it. So I think again
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  Speaker 2: it's really important that we do that, and a lot
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  Speaker 2: of people try to skate by and say, oh, well,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I don't want to vaccinate for rabies, and
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  Speaker 2: it's really essential that we do this. I was just
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  Speaker 2: reading through some of this material, and according to the literature,
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  Speaker 2: most rabies that happens in people happens from a dog bite,
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  Speaker 2: not from wildlife. So protecting our pets is is the
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  Speaker 2: barrier between myld life and us being exposed to rabies.
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  Speaker 2: So we need to be vaccinated so that if our
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  Speaker 2: pets goes out, And as you were talking about earlier,
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  Speaker 2: you know woodchucks or you know other creatures that come
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  Speaker 2: up into your yard, if your dog is exposed, they're
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  Speaker 2: protected because they've been vaccinated. And you know, we have
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  Speaker 2: people that push back all the time about rabies. It's
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  Speaker 2: a killed vaccine. It's very safe, and we take it
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  Speaker 2: very seriously. When we were in bed school, we were
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  Speaker 2: vaccinated for rabies so that we were all protected. When
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  Speaker 2: my kids were two and four years old, my kids
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  Speaker 2: came to work with me every day, so they were
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  Speaker 2: sticking their fingers into cages all day long. And when
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  Speaker 2: my kids were babies two and four, I had them
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  Speaker 2: vaccinated for rabies. And I thought my mother was going
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  Speaker 2: to have a heart attack. She's like, you're doing what
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  Speaker 2: to my grand babies. I said, Mom, it's safe. It's
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  Speaker 2: really safe. So you can prophylactically vaccinate for rabies. You
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  Speaker 2: don't have to wait till there's exposure. So people that
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  Speaker 2: are in really high risk categories people that work for
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  Speaker 2: the DNR and people that work in certain labs, and
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  Speaker 2: veterinarians and veterinary staff. We take it seriously enough that
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  Speaker 2: we offer rabies vaccinations for every person on the staff,
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  Speaker 2: from the reception team to the doctors and everybody in between.
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  Speaker 2: And once you're vaccinated for rabies, then you can do
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  Speaker 2: on a human. You can do a tighter and see
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  Speaker 2: if you still have protection. My last raby's vaccination was
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty and when I was tired last year,
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  Speaker 2: I still have protective levels, so I don't need a
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  Speaker 2: booster unless I have an exposure, so I've been merely
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  Speaker 2: going along without any concern. My husband and my son
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  Speaker 2: did not have immunity that lasted that long, proving once
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  Speaker 2: again that women are superior to men. My daughter and I,
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  Speaker 2: my daughter and I both have fighters, and my son
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  Speaker 2: and my husband do not. But again, all it takes
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  Speaker 2: is one vaccination to booster it if we need to
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  Speaker 2: do that, if it's necessary because of an exposure. Now,
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  Speaker 2: if a human is exposed to an animal that might
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  Speaker 2: be rabbit or is rabid, or we don't know the
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  Speaker 2: status of the animal because it took off and we
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  Speaker 2: couldn't test it. Then we do vaccinate, and that is
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  Speaker 2: also usually paired with a globulin that's given at the
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  Speaker 2: injection site or the bite site, and then another so
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  Speaker 2: half of it's given that the injection site. So if
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  Speaker 2: you're bitten on the hand, some of the globulin's given
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  Speaker 2: into your hand, the other half of it's given into
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  Speaker 2: your muscle. The globulin injections are a little painful because
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  Speaker 2: that's a pretty large volume to put into an area
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  Speaker 2: like your hand that may not have a lot of
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  Speaker 2: tissue to stretch into. But the rabies vaccine themselves. You
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  Speaker 2: know the story of oh, you have to get vaccinated
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  Speaker 2: in the stomach and it's terrible. It's not. You get
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  Speaker 2: three vaccinations, they go in your arm. It's not that
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  Speaker 2: big a deal. So people need to not be so
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  Speaker 2: afraid of the rabi's vaccine. If they're exposed, and if
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  Speaker 2: there is the possibility of capturing the little creature, whether
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  Speaker 2: it's a bat or a skunk or whatever, if you
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  Speaker 2: can capture it safely and have it tested, that's always
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  Speaker 2: your best thing to do. The testing lab is in Madison,
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  Speaker 2: only one lab in the state that does it, And
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  Speaker 2: if someone has an exposure. You want to keep that
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  Speaker 2: pet or that animal, whatever it is that that bits you,
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  Speaker 2: if it's deceased, keep it cool, don't freeze it, don't
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  Speaker 2: shoot it in the head, because that's where we test
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  Speaker 2: the tissue is it's the brain, and so if you
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  Speaker 2: do something to damage the brain, then we don't have
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  Speaker 2: any way to test it, and then you may end
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  Speaker 2: up having to be vaccinated anyway. And typically rodents don't
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  Speaker 2: carry rabies, so mice and rats and little creatures like
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  Speaker 2: that don't typically carry it, but gunks, raccoons, bats very
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  Speaker 2: commonly carry it. Pasts can carry it, dogs can carry it.
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  Speaker 2: So any exposure to a bite is a risk, and
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  Speaker 2: it is a potential risk. So we're going to want
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  Speaker 2: to test the animal if it's deceased, if it's a pet,
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  Speaker 2: then we're going to quarantine it and not euthanize it
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  Speaker 2: unless that's some of the reason to be using it,
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  Speaker 2: like it gets sick. So it's important that you know
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  Speaker 2: those things. It's important that you refrigerate that animal if
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  Speaker 2: you can, or put ice packs with it, don't freeze it,
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  Speaker 2: and then I tell people just to drive that animal
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  Speaker 2: to the diagnostic lab in Madison. We have people the
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  Speaker 2: distance away and they're like, oh, can I just ship it? Okay?
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  Speaker 2: If you ship it and it gets lost or it
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  Speaker 2: gets damaged in shipment, then you're going to have to
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  Speaker 2: go through the raby sactines. This is your kid, Like,
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  Speaker 2: is your kid not worth a drive to Madison just
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  Speaker 2: to have the test? Oh? I guess it is, so yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, I just tell people don't take a chance.
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  Speaker 2: Like UPS and postal Service, they don't mean to lay
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  Speaker 2: your package, but if it gets lost and delayed for
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  Speaker 2: five days, your doctor is going to tell you that
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  Speaker 2: you have to go through the series. So those are
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  Speaker 2: the things to know about. And we received seventeen hours
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  Speaker 2: of lecture on rabies when we were in that school.
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  Speaker 2: Doctors typically get one hour, so they oftentimes don't understand
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  Speaker 2: rabies as well as the veterinarians do. But we are
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  Speaker 2: not allowed to make those medical decisions about our patients
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  Speaker 2: that are human. We're only allowed to make veterinary decisions.
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  Speaker 2: So if there is exposure, your doctor, er doctor, your
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  Speaker 2: regular doctor, whoever it is, is going to make those
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  Speaker 2: decisions about whether you get the ana globulin and the
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  Speaker 2: ravy svaccine one or both or neither so it's important.
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  Speaker 2: My years ago, my nephew got bitten by a dog
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  Speaker 2: at a park in Colorado and dog disappeared, never to
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  Speaker 2: be seen again. Well guess what, Yeah, you know you
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  Speaker 2: better get the series because it's way safer than taking
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  Speaker 2: a chance.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I was gonna ask you two deest tok this
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  Speaker 1: morning with doctor Marty Greer. A lot of times people
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  Speaker 1: assume like, oh, if I'll know my exposure, I'll know
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  Speaker 1: if I And generally that is that is true. Obviously,
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  Speaker 1: if you get bit by an animal, you'll know you
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  Speaker 1: could have potentially been exposed, but not universally. And I
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  Speaker 1: know you and I have talked in the past about
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  Speaker 1: a case here in Wisconsin with a young gal that
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  Speaker 1: that did not realize she and think, thank goodness she survived,
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  Speaker 1: did not realize that she had she had been exposed
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  Speaker 1: to rabies.
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  Speaker 2: Right, That was the little girl in fond Lac and
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  Speaker 2: which to high school with my kids. So I know
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  Speaker 2: her personally, and yes, that did happen. And in the
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  Speaker 2: US there's typically one person of the year that dies
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  Speaker 2: of rabies, believe it or not, even in the United States. Now,
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  Speaker 2: most rabies cases are in third world countries, India, Philippines, Africa,
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  Speaker 2: those kinds of places, so there's big campaigns to vacinate
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  Speaker 2: those dogs. But here in the US, one person in
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  Speaker 2: your guy of rabies, and ten percent of the people
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  Speaker 2: with rabies that are diagnosed and positive for rabies do
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  Speaker 2: not have any history of exposure. So that's the question
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  Speaker 2: is how did that happen? You know, you can end
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  Speaker 2: up with a bat in your apartment. You can end
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  Speaker 2: up with We had a bat that came in to
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  Speaker 2: our practice a few years ago that was in the
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  Speaker 2: garbage bin at a school and the kid reached into
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  Speaker 2: the recycling bin and got bitting on the hand. Unfortunately
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  Speaker 2: they realized it had the bat brought in to us.
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  Speaker 2: We uthanized it and tested it and that child was safe.
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  Speaker 2: But it happened, so and it happens in a minute.
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  Speaker 2: You know, I've been at a barn for a wedding
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  Speaker 2: reception and there was a bat in the barn. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, anytime these things happen, you just have to
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  Speaker 2: be really cautious and always there on the state of caution.
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  Speaker 2: You never want to be the person who's taking a
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  Speaker 2: risk on it. So if there's an exposure, I'm looking
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  Speaker 2: at a commercial right now, there's a raccoon on it.
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  Speaker 2: You know, these things are around if people are taking
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  Speaker 2: their trash out and there's a raccoon on the commercial
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  Speaker 2: on TV. So this stuff happens. Raccoons are up in
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  Speaker 2: our yards and skunks and all the things. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you you just gave me the example of the fox
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  Speaker 2: in your neighborhoods. So those are all possibilities of exposure.
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  Speaker 1: We talks talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of
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  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinario, talking this week about about wildlife and the
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  Speaker 1: interactions you and your pet are going to have with wildlife,
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  Speaker 1: whether it's directly or indirectly, and the importance of protecting
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  Speaker 1: yourself and of course protecting your pets as well. And doctor,
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  Speaker 1: I know we get reports from time to time. Actually, Katie,
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  Speaker 1: our producer here, I had a photo she took of
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  Speaker 1: a coyote walking right through town here. There are also
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  Speaker 1: predators out there that can do as somebody with the chihuahua,
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  Speaker 1: always very aware of this. There are there are predators
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  Speaker 1: out there. It's a dangerous world for your pet, isn't.
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  Speaker 2: It It is? It doesn't take much and you know
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  Speaker 2: we see injuries and accidents every year with like you said,
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  Speaker 2: a woodchuck. They'll hang onto a dog's lip or ere
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  Speaker 2: and of course the dogs have a blast doing it,
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  Speaker 2: like the dog's gonna fight it. It was really fun,
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  Speaker 2: but it ends up kind of be a little bit
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  Speaker 2: messy in a Chuawa is not going to farewell with
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  Speaker 2: Gus the woodshock because the witchuck probably outweighs your dog. Yes,
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  Speaker 2: so yeah, you got to be careful. So yes, we
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  Speaker 2: have to be conscious, careful. And even if you think
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  Speaker 2: your yard is sensed and safe and you know you,
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  Speaker 2: oh I live in town, this would never happen. I mean,
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  Speaker 2: deer walk right through town. They walk right through your
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  Speaker 2: front yard, and you know, they come up in your
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  Speaker 2: garden and eat your flowers and your vegetables. And so
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  Speaker 2: they're in our yards whether we know it or not.
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  Speaker 2: We've moved into their territory. We have to really realize
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  Speaker 2: that we kind of invaded their space. So it's not
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  Speaker 2: their fault that they come up into your yard.
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  Speaker 1: We moved in, and speak of moving in, a lot
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  Speaker 1: of us move in and and other things coming into
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  Speaker 1: our yard are coming into our house. I know for us,
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  Speaker 1: one of the we love our cats, but one of
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  Speaker 1: the main reasons why we got cats was they do
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  Speaker 1: a really really good job of taking care of mice.
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  Speaker 1: Is there's just that we haven't seen a mouse since
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  Speaker 1: we've got our kittens. I do know that there are
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  Speaker 1: there are concerns about about that, and also concerns about
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  Speaker 1: and for folks that love songbirds. Are things about folks
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  Speaker 1: that let their cats outdoors. You want to be really
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  Speaker 1: cautious with that stuff too, don't you, doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and there's lots of things you can do
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  Speaker 2: to prevent the songbird till from your cats. People will
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  Speaker 2: put a collar on their cat and then put a
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  Speaker 2: fishing a little glittery fishing who were on the cast's collar,
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  Speaker 2: so it flickers and then the birds will be afraid
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  Speaker 2: of it. You know, sounds don't typically scare the birds,
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  Speaker 2: but that light flashing from the glittery reflective tag can
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  Speaker 2: do that. So yeah, we want to be thoughtful. We
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  Speaker 2: want to be careful. If you're feeding the birds, feed
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  Speaker 2: them where they're high enough and far enough away from
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  Speaker 2: where the cats are going to go to prey on them.
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  Speaker 2: So you know, be thoughtful about how these things happen.
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  Speaker 2: If you're putting bird food out, you're going to have squirrels,
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  Speaker 2: You're going to have stuff coming up in your yard.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, this is just sort of the reality of
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  Speaker 2: what happens. That's life. And it's lovely to feed the birds.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, some people like to see the squirrels,
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  Speaker 2: but many times they don't want the squirrels feeding the
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  Speaker 2: bird food. So yeah, it's a little trippy.
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  Speaker 1: It is a lot of wildlife management, that is for sure.
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  Speaker 1: As we talk this morning with doctor Marty Greer of
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  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary, great data, get on in start that relationship
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  Speaker 1: UH and doctor. We had a neighborhood cath that we
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  Speaker 1: affectionately called STU because none of us knew, like anybody
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  Speaker 1: in the neighborhood, had no idea where it came from
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  Speaker 1: or anything they used toy. I used to hang out
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  Speaker 1: around the around the neighborhood and around the area, and
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  Speaker 1: we learned that Stu was a she not a he,
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  Speaker 1: and I started calling her Stusan because that's a little
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  Speaker 1: more a little more accurate. Yes, exactly. Uh, well, Stusan
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  Speaker 1: has since had kiddies, and I know that this happens
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  Speaker 1: a lot. And then people go like, do you know,
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  Speaker 1: like as far as like who's responsible ultimately for these
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  Speaker 1: Like I don't know if they're technically feral or what's
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  Speaker 1: there's kind of like neighborhood cats, Like do you have
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  Speaker 1: questions about that from folks from time to time? Like
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  Speaker 1: what do you do with these things?
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  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, yeah, And really the responsible thing to do
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  Speaker 2: is to get them spayed or neutered and get them vaccinated.
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  Speaker 2: And you know there's spay neuter clinics to do those things.
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  Speaker 2: We certainly do them. If you bring in a cat,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, and we've never seen the cat before, and
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  Speaker 2: all you want is a raby vaccination and you're at
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  Speaker 2: the checkout or check in clinics, you know, our first
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  Speaker 2: exam is free, so we would charge you for the
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  Speaker 2: vaccine for the rabies and the distemper, but not for
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  Speaker 2: the office es it, so that sort of lessens the
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  Speaker 2: burden on you. But you know, we have people all
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  Speaker 2: the time that tell us, you know, this isn't my cat,
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  Speaker 2: Well have you been feeding it? Oh yeah, I've been
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  Speaker 2: seeing here for three years. Well you new it's your cat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: so you brought it here. You have a check you know,
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  Speaker 2: checking account and a credit card and the cat doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: So sorry, you know, a certain amount of this calls
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  Speaker 2: on you, but it is a responsible thing to do,
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  Speaker 2: and it's not that hard to get a ragis vaccination,
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  Speaker 2: And I don't really understand the pushback people have about
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  Speaker 2: rabies vaccines. Like I said, my kids are vaccinated, my
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  Speaker 2: husband and I are vaccinated, my staff is vaccinated. We
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  Speaker 2: take it seriously. So get your pet in and get
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  Speaker 2: them vaccinated.
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  Speaker 1: Follow the rules.
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  Speaker 2: Typically the first vaccine is good for one year, and
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  Speaker 2: for dogs, after the first vaccination it's good for three
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  Speaker 2: years at a time, so when they're a year and
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  Speaker 2: a half and then when they're four and a half,
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  Speaker 2: when they're seven and a half they get boostered. So
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  Speaker 2: it's not a big burden, it's not that frequently. It's
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  Speaker 2: easy on their system and the vaccine is a killed product,
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  Speaker 2: and we do have one that's called dimerosol free, so
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  Speaker 2: it has less preservative in it. And then there's a
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  Speaker 2: vaccine especially made for cats called pure vax that doesn't
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  Speaker 2: have an adjuvant in it, reducing the risk of aluminum
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  Speaker 2: exposure to the cat and the possibility of a tumor
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  Speaker 2: developing out the injection site, which can happen in cats
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  Speaker 2: but not dogs. And again it's only a one year vaccine,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a really safe product. And for cats to
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  Speaker 2: have a tendency to not tolerate vaccines, well, it's a
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  Speaker 2: very good product. Really not a reason for you not
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  Speaker 2: to vaccinate, even if you're cat's one hundred percent indoors.
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  Speaker 2: We have bats in the house. My sister lived in Minneapolis,
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  Speaker 2: lived in Minneapolis and had two bats in her apartment
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  Speaker 2: building in the time that the short time that she
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  Speaker 2: lived in the apartment. It was an old house done
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  Speaker 2: by Lake of the aisles, and baths would come into
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  Speaker 2: the house. So, you know, don't take a chance on it.
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  Speaker 2: Just go in get a vaccination, you know, buck up
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  Speaker 2: and do it. And it's really not that hard on
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  Speaker 2: the patient. It's not that hard on your checkbook and
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  Speaker 2: it certainly will save you a lot of grief. So
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  Speaker 2: I can't emphasize enough the importance of it. In Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 2: As veterinarians, we're not required to report. Some states are,
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  Speaker 2: so they will be a little bit more likely to
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  Speaker 2: be involved in the enforcement of that veterinarians and not
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  Speaker 2: required to be enforcers in Wisconsin. But that doesn't mean
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  Speaker 2: you shouldn't be the responsible pen owner and do those
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  Speaker 2: things to the safety of your family and the other
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  Speaker 2: people that come into your home.
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  Speaker 1: Really important stuff. This morning, as we talked with doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary again, you can learn more
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