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Josh Dave Vet Q&A for January 29th 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well here he is doctor Josh Davis, veterinarian extraordinaire.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: He is a veterinarian also the father to several cats
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  Speaker 1: he has fathered. You've got a couple of sphinx cats, right,
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  Speaker 1: and then a couple of.
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  Speaker 3: Other a couple of just normal cats, regular cat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: that's exciting, you know, but they're good.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Davis is here to answer questions about your puppies
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  Speaker 1: and kiddies. It works better to call us than to
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  Speaker 1: text us. But calling, you know, we have follow up questions.
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  Speaker 1: Sometimes we don't understand quite what you're asking. Now, I've
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  Speaker 1: I think this first call here it's pretty interesting because
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  Speaker 1: it's apparently it's about uh, somebody who's been licking their puppy,
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  Speaker 1: their doodle puppy, somebody who's as well, It says, doodle
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  Speaker 1: puppy licking? Who is this? By the way, Hello, So
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  Speaker 1: have you been licking your doodle puppy?
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  Speaker 4: No?
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  Speaker 1: That Oh he is.
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  Speaker 5: A liquor and I've puppies before. She will stop licking
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  Speaker 5: lilick li because I don't. Her name is Penenelope, but
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  Speaker 5: we call her Penny.
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  Speaker 1: And it's gross because of the areas that she's continually licking.
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  Speaker 5: Well, so lick her bottom and then some and try
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  Speaker 5: to lick my faces and like and licks and I
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  Speaker 5: just my other dogs, I've been able to stop them,
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  Speaker 5: but I've never I haven' you know, She's been with
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  Speaker 5: us for a week, but I have not been able
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  Speaker 5: to get her to stop.
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  Speaker 3: What do you say, doctor Davis, Well, some dogs will,
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  Speaker 3: you know, a little bit of licking here and there
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  Speaker 3: can be normal behavior, but if they're really intensely focusing
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  Speaker 3: on an area, I would definitely be concerned about a
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  Speaker 3: problem going on there. So because when a lot of
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  Speaker 3: people say licking the bottom, that can be the bum
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  Speaker 3: or the vagina if it's a girl dog and yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and that can be signs of yeah, they could have utes,
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  Speaker 3: they can have uts or all that licking can cause
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  Speaker 3: a youth and then they lick you and they give
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  Speaker 3: you a ut there And I don't.
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  Speaker 5: Think it's besa there. I just think we are. She's
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  Speaker 5: going to get groomed this next week. She's a little
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  Speaker 5: shaggy and so that will helpefully clear that up. But no,
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  Speaker 5: she licks everything though, she everything, and there.
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  Speaker 3: Can be even young dogs can get skin allergies and
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  Speaker 3: have itchy skin too, so diet's really important, and then
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  Speaker 3: grooming is really important, especially for the doodle dogs, because
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  Speaker 3: all that hair can be really irritating if it gets inflammation.
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  Speaker 6: Around this scatter.
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  Speaker 3: Once she's good grooming, maybe yeah, maybe let the.
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  Speaker 5: Groom or know what about the looking of like people
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  Speaker 5: like she licks everything she looks the furniture.
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  Speaker 1: You could cut off her tongue.
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  Speaker 3: Some of that is also That kind of stuff can
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  Speaker 3: be normal puppy behavior too, and they'll come in the training.
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  Speaker 5: To help anxiety. Anxiety.
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  Speaker 3: It could be, but I doubt. I mean, you're only
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  Speaker 3: a week into it. Yeah, you're only a week into it.
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  Speaker 3: So I wouldn't go down that road yet.
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  Speaker 1: Grandmother used to put Tabasco sauce on my tongue, not
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  Speaker 1: because I was licking. It's because I because I swear
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  Speaker 1: I swore too much.
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  Speaker 5: Did that work?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? While my grandmother was alive. Left Hey, thanks, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you. I love you guys.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go to Reese.
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  Speaker 1: Hello Reese, Hi Reese. Where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 5: Just West Vallet City.
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  Speaker 1: Here's here's another exciting question. It's about Great Dame Poop.
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  Speaker 1: What's your dogs? What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 7: Cradles?
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, and he's.
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  Speaker 7: A he's a great he's a great day massive mix
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  Speaker 7: and he sometimes he'll come along, you know, and he'll
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  Speaker 7: have hardened stools, you know, in normal consistency, and then
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  Speaker 7: every once in a while it will just be loose
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  Speaker 7: and runny. We give him probiotics, We give him large
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  Speaker 7: freek dog food that you know, it suggested it for
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  Speaker 7: his breed. But I'm just we started just yesterday giving
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  Speaker 7: him pumpkin. Is there anything else I should do or
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  Speaker 7: should I cut back on giving him all of that stuff?
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  Speaker 1: Why pumpkin?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I read it on a you know, my husband
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  Speaker 7: does a lot of researching what have you, And from
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  Speaker 7: what I understand, it can help with constipation and or diarrhea.
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  Speaker 7: Is that incorrect?
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  Speaker 6: It can help. It's a good fiber source for them.
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  Speaker 3: But if you're having those, you know, good stool days
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  Speaker 3: bad stool days often, like yeah, often that's related to
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  Speaker 3: diet in some way or things they're getting. So if
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  Speaker 3: you're doing you know, other treats or things like that, that
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  Speaker 3: can be a factor.
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  Speaker 6: But also food intolerance can be an issue.
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  Speaker 3: Because probiotics are fine, pumpkin is fine in small amounts,
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  Speaker 3: but the food and then also make sure that we're
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  Speaker 3: on a good parasite control deworming, because parasites can also
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  Speaker 3: cause issues like that. So if you're not doing that,
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  Speaker 3: you probably want to consider that too. Finding a food
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  Speaker 3: that works and being consistent and sticking with it, that's
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  Speaker 3: really important, Zach did Reeves, you know that's that's that's great.
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  Speaker 7: We've changed his food probably four different times, and I
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  Speaker 7: just can't find one.
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  Speaker 8: I guess you have.
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  Speaker 6: To stick with it.
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  Speaker 3: If you change too often, you don't ever really get
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  Speaker 3: a chance to see if it works. And it can
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  Speaker 3: take weeks and weeks to see a difference when you
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  Speaker 3: make food changes.
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  Speaker 7: All right, there you go, yeah, okay, we've done that.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, we need to move move on, Reeves.
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  Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you, Bye bye.
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  Speaker 3: This isn't our regularly scheduled poop chests schedus a little appointment.
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  Speaker 6: Come see me. We'll talk about it.
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  Speaker 9: But that's not funny, little funny, all right, Roy, Roy
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  Speaker 9: being not funny.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to phone calls for our veterinarian friend, doctor
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  Speaker 1: Josh Davis. Jessica is here, Jessica, thanks for hanging on
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  Speaker 1: for along. What's your question?
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  Speaker 2: Thank you?
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  Speaker 7: Good morning everyone, Thanks for letting me listen.
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  Speaker 5: So I have a four year old bearded.
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  Speaker 7: Dragon and he will not eat greens or vegetables or fruit.
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  Speaker 6: The hell what does he eat?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 7: I know he eats cockroaches and mealworms, but mostly cockroaches.
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  Speaker 1: So he's more carnivore than a lot of vegetarian.
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  Speaker 3: Well, I won't I won't claim to be a bearded
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  Speaker 3: dragon expert, but definitely I know they do need a
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  Speaker 3: mix of things, so getting greens in there would be
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  Speaker 3: definitely ideal just for nutrition's sake and completing his sake.
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  Speaker 3: But also I do know like environment, a lot of
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  Speaker 3: things can play a factor in their appetites and how
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  Speaker 3: they how they do their things.
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  Speaker 6: Being more in that.
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  Speaker 3: That lizard category, they need different requirements that way. But
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  Speaker 3: I would urge you know, if if anything seems off,
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  Speaker 3: it's definitely worth getting seen for sure.
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  Speaker 1: Now who looks at you don't handle animals like that,
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  Speaker 1: but not.
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  Speaker 3: Often, no one We refer to often as watch exotics.
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  Speaker 3: They they do a lot of work around that, so
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  Speaker 3: that that might be a good option to consider.
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  Speaker 6: If you're worried about it.
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  Speaker 3: You know, sometimes they just have preferences sometimes too, just
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  Speaker 3: like we do.
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  Speaker 6: But we want to be nutritionally whole and complete.
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  Speaker 1: All right, right, okay, thank you guys. Hey, what's your
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  Speaker 1: what's your lizard's name? His name is Rocky Rocky. Okay, thanks,
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  Speaker 1: thanks Jessica. Yeah, all right, Hector is here. Hello Hector.
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  Speaker 1: Where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 3: Hey?
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  Speaker 4: Hey, I'm calling from Roast Park.
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  Speaker 1: Guys. Okay, good morning. What's your question?
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  Speaker 3: Oh?
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  Speaker 4: Yes, I have a question. I have two cats, Gandolf
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  Speaker 4: and Medusa.
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  Speaker 8: I just have a quick question. I feel that a.
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  Speaker 4: Gandalf has definitely bonded with me, and that's the reason
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  Speaker 4: why we got two cats, so my wife could have
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  Speaker 4: one bond with her and I'm totally cool with that.
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  Speaker 4: But so but Medusa is like totally cool with like
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  Speaker 4: me petting her.
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  Speaker 8: But then when Gandalf walks in, we both have this
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  Speaker 8: feeling like, oh.
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  Speaker 10: Crap, we just got caught.
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  Speaker 4: They're cheating and off.
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  Speaker 8: Like literally look us up and down and then just
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  Speaker 8: turn around and then loaf himself like you're just sitting
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  Speaker 8: there but not facing us. And then really I just
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  Speaker 8: feel like I'm in a in an abusive relation any
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  Speaker 8: other cat, you know, I mean, like, am I stuck?
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  Speaker 5: You know what I mean?
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  Speaker 4: Am I you know what?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, so I was just kind of just curious
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  Speaker 8: if if that's normal, like I mean, since.
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  Speaker 3: I would consider that probably pretty normal cat behavior. The
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  Speaker 3: nice thing is they're not fighting with each other and
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  Speaker 3: causing wounds or other problems and extra stress that way, And.
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  Speaker 6: That's your story is pretty common.
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  Speaker 3: It's you know, you get two pets and you hope
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  Speaker 3: one bonds to each person, but that's definitely not always
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  Speaker 3: the case. Pets have preferences, like we're saying, just like
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  Speaker 3: we do so but as long as everyone's happy, I
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  Speaker 3: wouldn't be too concerned about it, and it may get
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  Speaker 3: better over it.
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  Speaker 1: And it's fun to.
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  Speaker 4: Watch, Yeah, it's fun it wise, but it's really hard
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  Speaker 4: to be a part of because he does feel like,
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  Speaker 4: oh my gosh, I just got I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 8: I'm sorry.
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  Speaker 4: I'll just put.
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  Speaker 1: Her for as well. Just try to be extra nice
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  Speaker 1: to the other case you and Medusa.
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  Speaker 4: To have special guys.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you so much, special daddy daughter day bomb. Let's
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  Speaker 1: go to Teresa. Hi, Teresa, where are you him?
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  Speaker 2: I am up in lighton thanks letting me listen.
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  Speaker 1: Guys, You're welcome. You have a dog named what.
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  Speaker 4: Rosa?
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  Speaker 1: And what's the problem.
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  Speaker 2: So she's almost a year old. Couple of weeks. She's
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  Speaker 2: an ausy doodle mix, about twenty five pounds, I guess.
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  Speaker 2: So she just went through her first heat and it's
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  Speaker 2: almost it's about done, and her appetite has gone from great,
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  Speaker 2: perfect schedule to zero nothing, almost starving yourself. Doesn't want
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  Speaker 2: to eat breakfast anymore on schedule, I don't know whether
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  Speaker 2: or not. And then and then she'll get she'll be
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  Speaker 2: starving by the time we all get home home work
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  Speaker 2: in school, which is just about too and she's not
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  Speaker 2: having acts, she's not any everything else is great. She
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  Speaker 2: just is starving herself in the morning. And then she's
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  Speaker 2: starving at lunch, so my boys beat her, and then
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  Speaker 2: she won't eat her dinner. And then she's starving at
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  Speaker 2: like three in the morning.
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  Speaker 1: Pawing it or off wanting to eat.
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  Speaker 2: So is this just from the heat or do we
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  Speaker 2: do we start over again, like put her on a
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  Speaker 2: puppy schedule again, or do we let her starve.
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  Speaker 8: Her food back in the morning.
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  Speaker 6: No, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 3: And when dogs go through heat cycles one, they can
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  Speaker 3: have changes to their appetite and their behavior for sure,
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  Speaker 3: because it's a it's a huge hormone driven thing, getting
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  Speaker 3: prepared to you know, get ready to try and have puppies.
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  Speaker 3: So it doesn't sound like it's too out of the ordinary,
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  Speaker 3: but I think with adult dogs especially, it's really good
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  Speaker 3: to have a routine and try to re establish that
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  Speaker 3: I think would be a good idea. So you offer
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  Speaker 3: food in the morning, and you offer food at night,
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  Speaker 3: and and if they don't eat it, you know, pick
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  Speaker 3: it up, so it's not sitting there all day.
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  Speaker 6: They usually aren't. You know, a healthy dog isn't going
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  Speaker 6: to starve itself.
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  Speaker 3: But there are rare cases where dogs can go through
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  Speaker 3: heats and become sick afterwards too, and that could be
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  Speaker 3: up to like a month, four to six weeks after
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  Speaker 3: having a heat cycle and they can become sick. So
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  Speaker 3: really watch for any changes like lethargy, vomiting or drinking
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  Speaker 3: a lot of water can be a sign of a
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  Speaker 3: problem because that can be what's called a piometra and
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  Speaker 3: that can be a surgical problem.
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  Speaker 1: So all right, Teresa, Oh okay, thanks for calling. Wonderful,
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  Speaker 1: We have time for one more call. Tyler is here. Hello, Tyler,
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  Speaker 1: where are you calling from? And what's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 5: Sawyer?
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  Speaker 10: And you a good boy.
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  Speaker 1: He's listening right now, all right, tell us about Sawyer.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, well he is a superdoodle and he is too much.
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  Speaker 10: But also he's my problem is she hasn't been eating
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  Speaker 10: like regularly, just like because do something. But like my
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  Speaker 10: my my issue is different. Is my my family tends
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  Speaker 10: to want to coax him by putting a lot of
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  Speaker 10: treats in the bowl and poppers and yeah, like that's
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  Speaker 10: the only way. Yeah, and I'm spoiling him in a way.
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  Speaker 10: That is that a thing?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: I mean we we call it spoiling them when they
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  Speaker 3: get into these situations, but really is we're kind of
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  Speaker 3: promoting their behavior or they're hanging at you know, waiting
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  Speaker 3: to get other food, and then we start thinking they
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  Speaker 3: need to be coaxed, and so you start doing the
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  Speaker 3: treats and the toppers and all that stuff, and then
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  Speaker 3: you're reinforcing their behaviors, so now they're really you're just
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  Speaker 3: gonna you kind of perpetuate the problem that way. In general,
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  Speaker 3: no healthy animal will.
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  Speaker 6: Let itself starve.
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  Speaker 3: So if you have good quality food offered on a
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  Speaker 3: good schedule, they will get back to eating it. But
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  Speaker 3: you have to really have everyone on the same page
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  Speaker 3: or you're gonna have a hard time. And then it's
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  Speaker 3: like when you start feeding them table scraps, they just
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  Speaker 3: will refuse to that. It's like candy to them. So
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  Speaker 3: you have to be really careful.
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  Speaker 1: All right, there you go.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, And I had one more question. If that's okay, okay, quick, okay.
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  Speaker 10: So it's his birthday, is it okay to give him
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  Speaker 10: raw meat like lost steak or should I cook it first?
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  Speaker 3: Since you're fighting these other problems. I definitely wouldn't do
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  Speaker 3: raw food. There's a lot of things that can go
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  Speaker 3: wrong with that. But if you are gonna cook it,
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  Speaker 3: you know, again, I don't recommend that, but make sure
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  Speaker 3: it's cooked, make sure you don't have any big chunks
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  Speaker 3: of fat on it.
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  Speaker 6: Small small portion.
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  Speaker 3: It would be all I would do if you do
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  Speaker 3: it at all, but I would be really careful with that.
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  Speaker 1: You waste a good steak on a dog. He's a
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  Speaker 1: good boy. Good boys, a good boy. All right, thank
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  Speaker 1: you see you later. All right, there we go. Well
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  Speaker 1: that seems to be everybody. Thank you. Doctor Josh Davis,
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  Speaker 1: veteran area in Extraordinary. You practice down in Utah County,
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  Speaker 1: right yep, down in American forks. So yeah, thank you,
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  Speaker 1: all right, appreciate it you guys. I enjoy your day off.