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Checkout Vet with Dr. Greer · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Thirteen ten Wiba and ask the experts. Brought to you
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  Speaker 1: So if you can hear my voice this morning, you
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  Speaker 1: morning is doctor Mary Greer. Doctor Greer recognized by Westminster
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  Speaker 1: count Club as Veterinarian of the Year. Doctor. How you
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  Speaker 1: doing this morning?
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thank you.
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  Speaker 1: It's really good to talk to you. And and there
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  Speaker 1: is always so much stuff going on at the clinic.
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  Speaker 1: And this week we're going to talk about an incident
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  Speaker 1: that happened south of here involving a pet that consumed
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  Speaker 1: actually across the pond, as a matter of fact, over
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  Speaker 1: in England, consumed cannabis. And and we're going to talk
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  Speaker 1: a little bit about that, some of the some of
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  Speaker 1: the dangers and cautions and some lot of things there.
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  Speaker 1: But real quick, as I as I'm getting ready to
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  Speaker 1: introduce you and bring you on the show, there is
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  Speaker 1: so much stuff going on at the clinic. It is
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  Speaker 1: an exciting place as we talk about Checkout Veterinary and
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  Speaker 1: it's and it's also an amazing design. Real quick, before
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  Speaker 1: we get talking about this week's topic, let's talk a
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  Speaker 1: little bit about Checkout Veterinary and also we'll touch on
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  Speaker 1: check in and the Marshall Clinic as well. But check
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  Speaker 1: Out Vet it is a real revolutionary design and everything
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  Speaker 1: seems to be very intention what the clinic, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Well, we've tried. I hope it turns out that way
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  Speaker 2: that people see it the way that we have when
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  Speaker 2: we conceived of it, so I hope.
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  Speaker 1: So with that, let's talk a little bit about what
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  Speaker 1: kind of went into that design and planning is you
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  Speaker 1: know there I think obviously day in and day out
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  Speaker 1: at the clinics and kind of that traditional I think
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  Speaker 1: a lot of us think of like those, you know,
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  Speaker 1: maybe like a strip mall or something. Those are more
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  Speaker 1: designed one out of just the buildings are there and
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  Speaker 1: it's just kind of easy to convert over to a clinic,
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  Speaker 1: But those aren't really designed with pet care and pet
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  Speaker 1: needs in mind. This is really designed check Out Veterinary,
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  Speaker 1: really designed with making it conducive to getting pets in
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  Speaker 1: and out and really making it a comfortable place for everybody,
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  Speaker 1: isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Yes? And it really is pet centric. So we've worked
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  Speaker 2: very hard to make it feel that way to the
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  Speaker 2: pets and to the owners. We you know, we can
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  Speaker 2: pretty much work around anything. We're pretty flexible as the
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  Speaker 2: human can understand a lot of things, but it's really
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  Speaker 2: hard for the dogs and cats to understand where they are,
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  Speaker 2: what they're doing. They smell something, there's someplace that they
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  Speaker 2: know they've been before, or something similar to it before,
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  Speaker 2: and they're always a little bit worried if it's something,
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  Speaker 2: you know, if they're a Golden retriever or a lab
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  Speaker 2: they're like, oh yeah, oh good. But a lot of
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  Speaker 2: our brains are pretty sensitive, and so we've tried to
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  Speaker 2: address those sensitivities based on what's going to make them
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  Speaker 2: most comfortable, and especially the cats, because cats are a
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  Speaker 2: beastun to themselves, and we say this every time we
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  Speaker 2: talk about cats. Cats are not small dogs, so they're
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  Speaker 2: an entirely different species. They have an entirely different social structure,
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  Speaker 2: and if we don't address how they need to be handled,
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  Speaker 2: it doesn't turn out well. You know, it starts with
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  Speaker 2: having to put the cat in the carrier and putting
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  Speaker 2: the cat in the car and there's actually some websites
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  Speaker 2: that have some really great information about getting your cat
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  Speaker 2: acclimated to the carrier, how to get them into the carrier,
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  Speaker 2: how to get them used to being in the car.
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  Speaker 2: And sometimes we rely on either pheromones, which are a
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  Speaker 2: hormone that makes them feel better which is inhaled, or
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  Speaker 2: we try to use something like a drug Gaba Pitton
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  Speaker 2: for instance, to make them more at ease, more comfortable,
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  Speaker 2: because it's never good for anybody. If the cat is stressed,
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  Speaker 2: the cat is likely to be upset, they're more likely
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  Speaker 2: to try and scratch or bite somebody, they're less likely
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  Speaker 2: to be cooperative, and their blood values change. We can
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  Speaker 2: see the white liost cell count change, we can see
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  Speaker 2: the glucose levels change just based on stress. Dogs won't
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  Speaker 2: have a stress response to that degree, but cats, my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: their glucose can be two or three hundred if they're
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  Speaker 2: stressed in us, so it really alters our ability to
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  Speaker 2: get a good feeling of it. And then if we
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  Speaker 2: want to do a blood pressure check, oh yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All that's off.
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  Speaker 2: You know, it's not easy to get a blood pressure
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  Speaker 2: check in a cat or a dog in the first place.
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  Speaker 2: It's not just stick out your arm and put the
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  Speaker 2: cuff on. It's a whole different kind of process. But obviously,
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  Speaker 2: when you go in and your blood pressure is high
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  Speaker 2: just because of white coat syndrome, you can only imagine
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  Speaker 2: what that does to your.
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  Speaker 1: Cat with that too. As we talk with murder Greer,
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  Speaker 1: of checkout Veterinary online, checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com, something you would mentioned on a previous
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  Speaker 1: show as we were kind of kind of trying to
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  Speaker 1: conceptualize how to view check out Veterinary. I think you
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  Speaker 1: described as kind of think of almost like a primary
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  Speaker 1: care doctor as we think about different services, and we'll
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  Speaker 1: get it to check in vet in just a moment.
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  Speaker 1: But with checkout vet, it's really about you know, those
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  Speaker 1: those kind of those primary care services, isn't it exactly?
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  Speaker 2: So it's vaccines, wellness visits, the exam that your cat
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  Speaker 2: should have every year, even if the cat doesn't need vaccines,
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  Speaker 2: the exam the dogs and every year along with bloodwork
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  Speaker 2: including heart room testing and tickboar and disease testing. So
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  Speaker 2: we can do those. We can do a senior blood panel,
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  Speaker 2: We can do a summer wellness panel which includes a
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  Speaker 2: stool sampled check for intestinal parasites, a heart room test,
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  Speaker 2: checking for tickboor and diseases, checking their organ function like
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  Speaker 2: is a glucose high, what's their liver function doing, what's
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  Speaker 2: their kidney function doing? Do they have any signs of
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  Speaker 2: an infection or anemia? So we can do the whole
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  Speaker 2: that whole thing. We could collect urine with a cystosentisis
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  Speaker 2: at the clinics, so it's a pretty comprehensive way to
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  Speaker 2: get that outpatient wellness visit done, the kind of stuff
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  Speaker 2: that you go to your primary care physician for, and
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  Speaker 2: then we can go a little bit beyond that. We
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  Speaker 2: do have Saturday hours now at check in, so if
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  Speaker 2: we need X rays, we can do that, but we
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  Speaker 2: can do laceration repairs, we can do limping dogs, vomiting dogs, diarrhea,
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  Speaker 2: ear infections, skin problems, and gosh, this time of year
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  Speaker 2: we see so much allergies and skin problems and ear
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  Speaker 2: infections that we can pretty effectively address most of that
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  Speaker 2: at the checkout veterinary clinic, and if it's something beyond that,
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  Speaker 2: then we can send over to check in on Saturday
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  Speaker 2: or Monday through Friday for that matter. Sundays we're not
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  Speaker 2: open at check in, but if you need something, we
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  Speaker 2: can certainly get you started on medication. If your dog
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  Speaker 2: is limping, we can part them on pain meds. If
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  Speaker 2: your dog is diarrhea, we can start medication out of
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  Speaker 2: diet change. If they need any of those basic services
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  Speaker 2: instead of having to wait until month or maybe longer,
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  Speaker 2: because you can't you have to go to work on
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  Speaker 2: money and you can't get off in here. You know,
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  Speaker 2: you can't let your boss know ahead of time that
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  Speaker 2: you're going to need some time to go to the vet.
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  Speaker 2: It's just a really handy way for people to get
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  Speaker 2: those kind of emergency services handled, you know.
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  Speaker 1: I think anybody that's that's had a pet in their
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  Speaker 1: life or has a pet in their life knows. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know how this works, but something always happens
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  Speaker 1: on a Friday or a Saturday. It's it's it's never
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  Speaker 1: like you know, Fridays. I'm thinking that's one of the
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  Speaker 1: great things about checkout Vet and check invt. We talk
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  Speaker 1: about the location, how convenient it is, the design, how
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  Speaker 1: convenient it is, the hours, days of the week. It
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely amazing, a great, great model. Again, you can
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  Speaker 1: learn more online. Also book that appointment right at checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com and doctor.
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  Speaker 1: We're about a month away from from the fourth of July,
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  Speaker 1: and I know a lot of pets deal with anxiety,
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  Speaker 1: and one of the things as pet parents we like
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  Speaker 1: to do is really make our pets comfortable and obviously
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  Speaker 1: in the news, and I know there's just different things
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  Speaker 1: about about cannabis and THHC and all those other things
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  Speaker 1: out there about you know, helping pets, and a story
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  Speaker 1: about a woman had taken her her dog on a
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  Speaker 1: walk and her dog did what a lot of dogs do,
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  Speaker 1: which is saw something on the ground, picked it up
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  Speaker 1: and ate it and turned out to be cannabis. And
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  Speaker 1: the dog, she said, I think, described it as is
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  Speaker 1: swaying like it was drunk and then at one point
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  Speaker 1: couldn't walk it all, absolutely terrifying. One of the mistakes
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  Speaker 1: I think, I think one of the you know you
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  Speaker 1: mentioned earlier about about cats are not little dogs. The
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  Speaker 1: other thing I think we often mistake is dogs and
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  Speaker 1: people and cats and people very biologically different, and these
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  Speaker 1: type of things have very different reactions depending on the species.
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  Speaker 1: Canines in particular, Things like THHC cannabis not well studied,
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  Speaker 1: not particularly great for them either, is it, No, not.
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  Speaker 2: Even a little bit. And most of the products that
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  Speaker 2: are on the market that are labeled as CBD or PhD,
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  Speaker 2: we don't really know what the effect is. We don't
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  Speaker 2: really have a way to quantify the dose. So the
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  Speaker 2: recommendation because we don't have any FDA approved products yet
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  Speaker 2: is to simply avoid them because they have unpredictable outcomes.
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  Speaker 2: But gosh, probably about a year ago, I was at
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  Speaker 2: the clinic in Lamirett Vennary Village and I was just
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  Speaker 2: about ready to leave for the evening. All the staff
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  Speaker 2: had gone except for one person. We were kind of
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  Speaker 2: getting ready to head out the door, and there was
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  Speaker 2: this woman that was pounding on my back door frantically
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  Speaker 2: and I opened the door and she has her puppy
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  Speaker 2: in her arms and she is limp like a dishwag,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, I don't know what happened. She just
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  Speaker 2: collapsed on me. And I threw her in the car
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  Speaker 2: and I came here and I'm like, oh my gosh,
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  Speaker 2: and she looks at me and she says, you don't
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  Speaker 2: remember me, do you? And I said no. And she said,
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  Speaker 2: when I was a little kid, I used to come
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  Speaker 2: here with my parents. Okay, so twenty years ago when
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  Speaker 2: you were little, you don't look the same as you
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  Speaker 2: did that. So she starts to tell me who she is,
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  Speaker 2: and she explains the whole thing, and she said, I
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  Speaker 2: work in town and I took the puppy out on
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  Speaker 2: a walk in the alley and the puppy picked something up,
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  Speaker 2: and so we checked a blood glucose level to make
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  Speaker 2: sure it wasn't Violet's hall making the glucose crash, which
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  Speaker 2: would also make the puppy week and collapse. And the
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  Speaker 2: conclusion was it probably was CBD marijuana teach thee something
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  Speaker 2: that the dog picked up in the alley. Somebody probably
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  Speaker 2: threw out the butt of their joint and just tossed
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  Speaker 2: it under the ground and didn't think anything of it
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  Speaker 2: until the puppy came along and ate it. And there's
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  Speaker 2: some symptoms that go with it. Typically they put out
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  Speaker 2: huge amounts of urine, like excessive amounts of urine, and
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  Speaker 2: they'll have dilated pupils and they'll look really weird. And
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  Speaker 2: I'm actually sitting here in the office right now looking
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  Speaker 2: at the home kit for marijuana drug testing for urine
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  Speaker 2: test for people, and they're variable in how accurate they
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  Speaker 2: are for dogs. So we do, you know, sometimes test
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  Speaker 2: for it, but it's pretty variable and it's pretty startling
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  Speaker 2: when it happens. I've had it happen on a number
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  Speaker 2: of occasions where dogs have gotten into something like that.
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  Speaker 2: One I walked into the exam room. This is a
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  Speaker 2: really long time ago, and there was a dog in
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  Speaker 2: the room with two young ladies and I said to them, Okay,
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  Speaker 2: is there any possibility that this dog got into marijuana
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  Speaker 2: or any other illicit drugs? And they said, oh no.
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  Speaker 2: And as soon as I stepped out of the room,
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  Speaker 2: they grabbed my technician and said, don't tell doctor Career
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  Speaker 2: and she said, newsflash, you already knows, so you know,
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  Speaker 2: be honest about it if you don't know if the
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  Speaker 2: dog eats something, but it's possible. We've had a you know,
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  Speaker 2: people that have traumatic green injuries, they have a family
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  Speaker 2: member that uses products like that, and it's understandable that
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  Speaker 2: it happens. But just be honest if you think it's
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  Speaker 2: a possibility, help us understand that because it's going to
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  Speaker 2: be a lot easier for us to make a diagnosis
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  Speaker 2: and a treatment plan if you know it was alcohol,
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  Speaker 2: it was an illicit drug, it was marijuana. And then
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  Speaker 2: there's this thing that people like to do. It's called
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  Speaker 2: hot boxing, where they'll take their inhale their marijuana and
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  Speaker 2: then hold their put their hands around the dog's muzzle
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  Speaker 2: and then blow the marijuana smoke into the dog's face,
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  Speaker 2: and that's really not funny. It's not nice to the dog.
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  Speaker 2: It may seem funny if you're affected, but it's not
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  Speaker 2: funny to the dog, and it's not funny to your veterinarians.
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  Speaker 2: So just avoid it any of those things. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: really truly be honest with us if you think there's
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  Speaker 2: a possibility. That's much easier for us to make a
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  Speaker 2: diagnosis if we get a good history, because the dogs
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  Speaker 2: can't tell us.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Mardy Greer of check Out
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary online checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Great day. We talk about great opportunities to start a
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  Speaker 1: new relationship and that first visit and exam being free
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  Speaker 1: at checkout vet. Good news they are accepting new patients
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  Speaker 1: right now at checkout Veterinary. You make that appointment right
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  Speaker 1: online checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Telephon Nuber six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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  Speaker 1: That's six soh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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  Speaker 1: And doctor, you mentioned to alcohol there, which I guess
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  Speaker 1: I hadn't really dawned on me. But you know you'll
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  Speaker 1: leave a you leave a you know, your solo cup
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  Speaker 1: sit next on the next to yourself in the lawn chair.
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  Speaker 1: Dog comes by, can have a sip of that, just
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  Speaker 1: just completely maybe even completely missed by the by the
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  Speaker 1: the folks there. Alcohol is is pretty can be pretty
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  Speaker 1: dangerous as well, not just for people but also for pets.
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  Speaker 2: Can at it exactly. And my first year of school,
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  Speaker 2: I worked at the emergency fun of can Milwaukee, WA.
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  Speaker 2: Had a dog that came in that was acutely collapsing.
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  Speaker 2: And again it was a situation where they'd had a
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  Speaker 2: party at their home. They brought the dog in. They
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  Speaker 2: left their own party because the dog was in big trouble.
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  Speaker 2: We looked at the dog and I'm like, are you
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  Speaker 2: sure there wasn't anything the dog got into. No, absolutely not.
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  Speaker 2: As soon as they left, the dog vomited. The technician
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  Speaker 2: looked at me and she said, there's white wine in
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  Speaker 2: this vomit. I'm like, okay, you can smell it. She said, yep,
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  Speaker 2: it's here. So we ran a blood alcohol level. I
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  Speaker 2: called the hospital down the street from us and said,
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  Speaker 2: would you run a blood alcohol level on this dog
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  Speaker 2: for me? And they I think they split a gut
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  Speaker 2: laughing because they thought it was so funny, but indeed
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  Speaker 2: that's what it was. As this dog was almost dead drunk.
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  Speaker 2: It was pretty serious. So again, you know, we want
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  Speaker 2: to avoid those things. And you know, dogs like beer
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  Speaker 2: if it's sitting there a dogs like some of these things,
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  Speaker 2: especially if they're mixers or Seltzer's, so they can be
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  Speaker 2: pretty tasty to the dog. So just be careful with
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  Speaker 2: those things. Put the cup, put a cover on the
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  Speaker 2: cup so the bees the dog stay out. Put the
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  Speaker 2: cup where the dog can't get it. Nobody means to
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  Speaker 2: do it most of the time, but if you do
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  Speaker 2: mean to do it, it's not it's not funny. So
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  Speaker 2: just simply avoid those kind of situations. You should have fun,
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  Speaker 2: you should have parties at your home, you should have
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  Speaker 2: people over, but just make sure that they're aware that
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  Speaker 2: the dog needs to be protected. Because they have no judgment,
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  Speaker 2: they will do anything they want and they don't really
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  Speaker 2: understand what alcohol is. So just like you know people,
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  Speaker 2: sometimes they'll overindulge and they don't have any idea. They'll
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  Speaker 2: be careful with those things. It's just it's it's must safer.
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  Speaker 2: If you drop a pill on the floor, if you
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  Speaker 2: have a prescription medication and you drop a pill or
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  Speaker 2: more than one pill on the floor, again, grab the bottle.
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  Speaker 2: Make sure that you let the veterinary know if the
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  Speaker 2: dog got into xylotol in gum or candy, you know,
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  Speaker 2: keep the package, take it with you to the vet.
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  Speaker 2: Any of those things that happen, rat poison whatever. The
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  Speaker 2: more information we have about the size of the dog
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  Speaker 2: and the amount that the product would have been ingested
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  Speaker 2: and the product that it was, the better able we
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  Speaker 2: are to call National Animal Poison Control or Pet Poison Helpline,
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  Speaker 2: get the help we need, get you a case number,
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  Speaker 2: and get the interventions if it's necessary. So, not everything
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  Speaker 2: needs tom may be made to vomit. Not everything needs
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  Speaker 2: an antidote. If the dog eats a piece of chocolate cake,
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to be toxic. It's a dog eats
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  Speaker 2: a bag of chocolate chips, it could be. So again,
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  Speaker 2: you know, there's a whole bunch of nuances to this.
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  Speaker 2: Not all chocolate is created equal, and not all CBD
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  Speaker 2: and PhD has created equal, So just be aware. And
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  Speaker 2: there's some medications that if a dog eats one or
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  Speaker 2: two it's not going to really hurt them. And there's
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  Speaker 2: others that can be very toxic. So be sure that
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  Speaker 2: you're watchful and that you're getting the best history for
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  Speaker 2: your veterinary that you can because it's going to save
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  Speaker 1: Started this week talking about a story about a dog
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  Speaker 1: that ingests some cannabis on a hike and some of
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  Speaker 1: the dangers out there, some some are are maybe more
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  Speaker 1: obvious than others, and two others, there are some things
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  Speaker 1: out there you just want to be really really uh
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  Speaker 1: cautious of and doctor. One of those other areas I
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  Speaker 1: hear people often talking about is and again it's I
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  Speaker 1: think it's one of these things of best intentions is
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  Speaker 1: going to the over the counter medication that they have
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  Speaker 1: in their covered and maybe trying to give that to
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  Speaker 1: their pet. Again, then along the same lines, is your
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  Speaker 1: pets body is going to handle it much much different
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  Speaker 1: than yours, isn't it?
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  Speaker 2: Especially cats? So there are some over the counter meds
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  Speaker 2: we can give to our dogs. It's always recommended that
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  Speaker 2: you speak to your veterinarian because we can't make those
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  Speaker 2: blanket recommendations. But there are definitely over the countermeds that
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  Speaker 2: can be useful. It can be helpful, but cats in
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  Speaker 2: particular don't tolerate thailanol at all. One dose a tilinol
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  Speaker 2: is enough to be toxic to a cat. It causes
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  Speaker 2: something called hinz body anemia, So you want to be
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  Speaker 2: careful with that xylotol. You know, we all are aware
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  Speaker 2: that xylotol is a concern for dogs, not as much cats,
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  Speaker 2: but it's a xylotol containing gum or candy, then it
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  Speaker 2: drops their blood sugar to the point that they can
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  Speaker 2: have a seizure, be uncoordinated and potentially seized, and if
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  Speaker 2: it's a hind of those that can also be toxic
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  Speaker 2: to the liver. So those are things you need to
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  Speaker 2: be aware of. Tailana we generally avoid in dogs as well,
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  Speaker 2: but there are certainly exceptions to that. So you want
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  Speaker 2: to make sure that you've spoken to your veterinarian that
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  Speaker 2: it's not going to be a problem with other medication
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  Speaker 2: your peticon or with that particular species. So things like
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  Speaker 2: aspirin can't be given along with some of the non
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  Speaker 2: steroidal anti inflammatories that we use meloccicam, medicam, carprofen remadil.
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  Speaker 2: A lot of the real common pain medications that we
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  Speaker 2: give to our dogs we can't give in combination with aspirin.
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  Speaker 2: So yes, there are over the counter aspirin products that
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  Speaker 2: you can buy for your dog, but you want to
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  Speaker 2: be careful. Benadru A lot of people give benadryl. It's
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  Speaker 2: fine for certain reactions, but it's not meant to be
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  Speaker 2: a sedative or an anti anxiety drug. So just be
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  Speaker 2: thinking about these things and have a good relationship with
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  Speaker 2: your veterinarian. When you can call them up and talk
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  Speaker 2: to them, make an appointment, go in. We are still
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  Speaker 2: doing the first appointment free, but only for wellness visits.
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  Speaker 2: We're not doing it any longer for the sick pet visits,
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  Speaker 2: so we've started to restrict that because we've gotten a
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  Speaker 2: little busier than we were when we started. But we
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  Speaker 2: still want to offer that introductory opportunity for people. So
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  Speaker 2: you know, have a good relationship with us, give us
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  Speaker 2: a call, ask us what you can use. If we've
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  Speaker 2: seen your pet and we understand their medical conditions, we
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  Speaker 2: can make recommendations. If we haven't seen your pet, then
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  Speaker 2: that makes it much more difficult because we don't have
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  Speaker 2: that veterinary client patient relationship that the State of Wisconsin
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  Speaker 2: requires for us to make medical recommendations. So don't be
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  Speaker 2: angry if you call somebody that doesn't know you and
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  Speaker 2: ask for medical advice. It's not allowed by the State
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  Speaker 2: of Wisconsin.
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  Speaker 1: We have to see you really important stuff there and
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  Speaker 1: really really talk about the importance of that relationship. And
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