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Vet Q&A from July 15th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Oh, look who's here in the studio with us. It's
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  Speaker 1: a non surgery day for doctor Josh Davis. He's not
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  Speaker 1: wearing his scrubs. He's here. He's a veterinarian, Extraordinary trilogy
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  Speaker 1: veterinary clinic and Sandy. And how many vets you've got
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  Speaker 1: working there now?
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  Speaker 2: Two more just started us. Total of three rate.
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  Speaker 1: Three of you. So there's plenty, plenty, plenty you can
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  Speaker 1: get get your dogs and your cats in there, but
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  Speaker 1: you can also just ask questions on the phone. Here.
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  Speaker 1: Something bugging your your animals, something bugging you about your
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  Speaker 1: animal behavioral problems, skin problem, you know, just all of
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  Speaker 1: that stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Davis walks in the room and we're all like
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  Speaker 2: with our pets. Here's what's going on with mine, Here's
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  Speaker 2: what's going on. I love the updates. That's fun.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, it's a genus dog just doesn't like the taste
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  Speaker 1: of the vet or the tick medica.
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  Speaker 2: And ticks are bad this year, is it?
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  Speaker 1: Ticks are never good, Gina.
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  Speaker 2: We've had a cat come in with one on its
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  Speaker 2: head the other day.
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  Speaker 3: Wow.
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  Speaker 4: So we're moving out of probably foxtail season.
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  Speaker 2: It's getting better, at least for me.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we're not doing them multiple every day now it's
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  Speaker 5: just every couple of week now.
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  Speaker 3: And now that we're heading into the barbecue season, you
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  Speaker 3: said you're seeing a lot of vomiting.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, a lot of vomiting, diarrhea, and a few pincreatitis
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  Speaker 5: cases because dogs don't always tolerate hot dogs and fatty
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  Speaker 5: foods like that.
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  Speaker 2: So should you not be feeding from the picnic table?
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  Speaker 2: Is that not recommended that I would be very careful
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  Speaker 2: about it.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure. Yeah. Pincreatitis is it's it's a big
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  Speaker 5: one and it can be really, really painful and really
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  Speaker 5: life threatening in some cases.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, be careful out.
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  Speaker 3: There, all right, Max Power Here, I have two labs,
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  Speaker 3: Gin and Tonic. My girl Gin amazingly caught and killed
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  Speaker 3: a rat and brought it in the house for you.
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  Speaker 3: Do I need to worry about raby shots for her
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  Speaker 3: for rabies?
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  Speaker 5: No, Luckily, Utah. Our rabi's usually comes from bats here
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  Speaker 5: in Utah. So but there are other parasites of course,
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  Speaker 5: that can be possible. So as long as you have
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  Speaker 5: your dog on a good monthly parasite control, you should
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  Speaker 5: be okay.
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  Speaker 2: But it is gross. Yes, nothing in particular should be
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  Speaker 2: worried it shouldn't be. Yeah, Rabi's definitely not. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: other parasites, Yeah it's possible.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's funny.
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  Speaker 1: I haven't seen.
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  Speaker 3: Any critters in my neighborhood this year, because Steph was
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  Speaker 3: talking about raccoons, and I haven't seen any critters in
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  Speaker 3: my neighborhood this year, right down to you know cats well.
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  Speaker 4: And you usually have deer. We were talking about you
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  Speaker 4: have deer.
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  Speaker 2: I had deer in my neighborhood yesterday, like middle of
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  Speaker 2: the afternoon, walking down the street.
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  Speaker 1: Last weekend, I had deer and wild turkey. They must
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  Speaker 1: have They must have moved out of my neighborhood. All right,
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  Speaker 1: let's go to Stacey. Hello, Stacey, Hi, Hi Stacy. What's
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  Speaker 1: your question.
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  Speaker 6: I have a thirteen year old German shepherd husky and
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  Speaker 6: he just started eating paper.
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  Speaker 1: What's his name? Iroll, irow.
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  Speaker 6: He's a fire dragon.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, so he's just any kind of paper, just to
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  Speaker 1: just scarf it up.
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  Speaker 6: He will dig through a door, through a drawer even
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  Speaker 6: and pull out like a pamphlet or something and just
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  Speaker 6: start eating it.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that is interesting.
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  Speaker 5: And I'm trying to think of a good I don't
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  Speaker 5: know there's a good medical reason. I mean, sometimes they
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  Speaker 5: do quirky things for different reasons.
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  Speaker 3: I know he already went through that face for about
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  Speaker 3: a month the paper.
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  Speaker 5: Whether that's something has changed mentally. You know, dogs, as
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  Speaker 5: they get older, they can have those cognitive changes, so
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  Speaker 5: sometimes that happens. And then I have seen pets with
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  Speaker 5: either like dental disease or oral tumors do weird things
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  Speaker 5: too with their mouth, so it may be worth just
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  Speaker 5: ruling out medical issues. But otherwise, unless you can think
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  Speaker 5: of anything that's changed for the dog or the environment
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  Speaker 5: or anything, is it stopping him up.
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  Speaker 6: No, we've been catching it pretty quickly, so yeah, he's
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  Speaker 6: not alone very much. So okay, they just have vestibular something.
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  Speaker 6: So he's on drama mean and stuff.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, isn't homework.
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  Speaker 4: I know dogs like to.
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  Speaker 2: Eat homework always the home homework.
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  Speaker 1: Thank god you don't subscribe to a daily paper newspaper. Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: I just try to avoid it actually ingesting, as you know,
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  Speaker 5: as much as you can help avoid that, because that
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  Speaker 5: can kind of stop them up. But and maybe maybe
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  Speaker 5: something weird with the vestibular I mean, most dogs do
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  Speaker 5: well as long as they get time, So vestibular old.
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  Speaker 2: It's called old dog.
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  Speaker 5: Vestibular in these cases where we don't always know the reason,
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  Speaker 5: but they'll just have a problem with.
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  Speaker 2: Their their middle ear and inner ear, and.
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  Speaker 5: So they can start to develop a head tilt and
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  Speaker 5: sometimes they have a hard time walking and balance and
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  Speaker 5: things like that. So the drama meane is used to
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  Speaker 5: help offset like the motion sickness feel of that. Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 5: that would make sense for sure, So maybe something to
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  Speaker 5: do with that. But yeah, it is, it is odd
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  Speaker 5: for sure.
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  Speaker 1: It is all right, Well, I hope that was helpful.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Let's go to Lisa really quick.
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  Speaker 1: Lisa, Hi, Hi, what's your cat's name?
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  Speaker 6: Star?
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  Speaker 1: And what's the problem?
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  Speaker 7: Starts been sneezing repeatedly for about four days.
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  Speaker 8: I'm wondering how like, what's too long?
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  Speaker 1: How soon is it snotty?
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  Speaker 4: Is it not snotty sneezing?
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  Speaker 2: And how how old are we six? Okay?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Things I would want to kind of look into is one,
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  Speaker 5: is this this time of year. There can be a
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  Speaker 5: seasonal component to that for some cats, so that's possible
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  Speaker 5: an allergy. Allergies can be part of it. And then
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  Speaker 5: the other thing to watch out for is dental disease
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  Speaker 5: if they have dental disease that can also cause issues
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  Speaker 5: with the nasal sinuses because the roots of those upper
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  Speaker 5: teeth sit right there. So it's probably worth getting a
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  Speaker 5: good oral exam. And if you've never had a dental cleaning,
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  Speaker 5: it's probably worth looking at that because then we can
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  Speaker 5: at least rule out that stuff. And while they're under
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  Speaker 5: for dental's we're also able to take we can take
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  Speaker 5: X rays of that nasal sinus to look for any
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  Speaker 5: signs of abnormalities there too. So maybe nothing, but it
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  Speaker 5: might be something, so it's worth getting checked out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, okay, all right, all right, Lisa, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: We're back now with doctor Josh Davis Trilogy Veterinary Clinic
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  Speaker 1: and Sandy answering questions about your dogs and your cat.
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  Speaker 1: We got a full bank of phones, so let's do it,
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  Speaker 1: all right, Let's go to Carly.
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  Speaker 6: Hi.
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  Speaker 7: Carly, Hi, guys, thanks for taking my call. Yes for Davis.
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  Speaker 7: I have two little dogs, Harriet and Fiona. And I
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  Speaker 7: heard you mentioned something earlier about parasite profyl axis. Currently
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  Speaker 7: I only do an annual heartworm vaccine, but I wasn't sure,
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  Speaker 7: you know, I had never been given more general recommendation
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  Speaker 7: on more routine parasite prophylaxis.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a good question. So it sounds like the
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  Speaker 5: one you're on. It's it's not a vaccine. It's an
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  Speaker 5: injectable kind of a long lasting medication. It's called pro
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  Speaker 5: Hard and that's really good for heartworm prevention because then
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  Speaker 5: you can't really miss doses and it just keeps them
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  Speaker 5: protected year around. But if you especially are doing activities
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  Speaker 5: where you might be exposed to external parasites, so fleas, ticks, mosquitos,
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  Speaker 5: things like that, the parasceiticides are different for those kind
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  Speaker 5: of bugs, and so having them on a monthly for
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  Speaker 5: that can be beneficial. And then they also do make
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  Speaker 5: an annual injection for that kind of parasite control. It's
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  Speaker 5: it's much newer, so there are options for that, especially
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  Speaker 5: if your lifestyle puts them at increased risk. And I
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  Speaker 5: mean even going down your backyard you could get a tick,
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  Speaker 5: you could get a mosquito. But you know there's risk
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  Speaker 5: factors with that, so it's worth considering.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Okay, thank you so much, see you later.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Jackson.
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  Speaker 9: Hello Jackson, good morning.
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  Speaker 1: What's your question, Jackson? And what's your animal? What kind
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  Speaker 1: of animal do you have.
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  Speaker 9: I have a cat that I'm having some concerns fork
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  Speaker 9: at same as Easter and for doctor, I have two cats,
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  Speaker 9: the only one or I only have concerns about one
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  Speaker 9: of them. He's been scratching himself. It's been a continuous
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  Speaker 9: thing for a while now, and we used to do
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  Speaker 9: steroid shots, which would kind of help, but then our
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  Speaker 9: vet had concerns about doing too frequently. Still help for
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  Speaker 9: a couple of weeks to few months, and since then
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  Speaker 9: we are trying to rule out allergy concerns. So we
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  Speaker 9: have him on like the hell FI and CD diet,
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  Speaker 9: but he's still just continuing to scratch himself. He's limited
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  Speaker 9: access to like treats, trying to figure rule out all
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  Speaker 9: these other small things. I'm wondering if there's anything else
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  Speaker 9: that you could recommend that we do at this point.
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  Speaker 9: He's also on a flee and take prevention, right, Okay,
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  Speaker 9: I think you're so far.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like you're being pretty thorough with everything. Food
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  Speaker 5: can be a factor. It's a lower percentage of the
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  Speaker 5: time that food's a factor, but it's always good to
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  Speaker 5: rule out food allergy and related things.
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  Speaker 2: You may be and probably are dealing.
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  Speaker 5: With what's called atopic dermatitis, where they can be allergic
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  Speaker 5: to many things in the environment, and so there's different
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  Speaker 5: ways to treat that. Steroids can be effective, but they
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  Speaker 5: come with a lot of side effects, so I definitely
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  Speaker 5: don't like that long term for dogs or cats unless
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  Speaker 5: you just still have a choice. And then there are
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  Speaker 5: also other immune system diseases too, so sometimes we have
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  Speaker 5: to do skin biopsies to rule those in or out
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  Speaker 5: as well. But there are specific meds that can be
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  Speaker 5: better than steroids or at least less chance of side effects,
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  Speaker 5: So it's probably worth exploring that. Because cats, their claws
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  Speaker 5: are sharp, their tongues are sharp, and they can cause
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  Speaker 5: a really severe harm to themselves whether they're really itchy,
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  Speaker 5: so I think it's worth exploring some of those other options.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Okay, Jackson, Jason is here.
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  Speaker 1: Hi Jason, what's your animal's name? What do you have in?
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  Speaker 10: I have a little golden doodle. His name's Ziggy, and
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  Speaker 10: uh I had I have a question about swimming up
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  Speaker 10: and open the water. We took him to a Mill
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  Speaker 10: Creek dog park cup in Park City about a month ago,
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  Speaker 10: and he went swimming and he was chomping at tennis
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  Speaker 10: balls and I think ingesting a lot of water, and
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  Speaker 10: then after that he uh, he was sneezing quite quite
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  Speaker 10: a lot. After that lasted about a week. But now
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  Speaker 10: I'm kind of hesitant to take him to the water
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  Speaker 10: where he you know, he loves to swim, so I
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  Speaker 10: want to know what to look for. As far as
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  Speaker 10: like alg blooms or or or anything like that, Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: That this time you're the algae blooms, they can happen,
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  Speaker 5: especially in those busy parks like that.
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  Speaker 2: The other big thing to watch out for is when
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  Speaker 2: you get.
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  Speaker 5: A lot of dogs and water involved, intestinal parasites, specifically
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  Speaker 5: giardia can be a big concern, so they can end
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  Speaker 5: up with vomiting and diarrhea sometimes from that. So it's
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  Speaker 5: always kind of you want them to have a good time,
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  Speaker 5: but you have to be careful in those really high
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  Speaker 5: traffic areas like that because there's no like for giardia,
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  Speaker 5: there's no like, there's not really good vaccines or preventives
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  Speaker 5: for that. You just kind of have to deal with
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  Speaker 5: it if you get it. And as far as the sneezing,
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  Speaker 5: that's probably just irritation from being in the water, and
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  Speaker 5: maybe there's some things in the water that way.
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  Speaker 2: And then also dogs like.
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  Speaker 5: To get ear infections and things like that, just as
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  Speaker 5: a side note, because water and ears don't always mix too,
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  Speaker 5: so something to watch out for as well.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, what about foxtails up and those? Is that
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  Speaker 10: is that a possibility through water or something like that?
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  Speaker 1: Worried about?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would say less likely through the water.
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  Speaker 5: More it's when they're they're kind of running through those
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  Speaker 5: tall fields of foxtail weeds, they'll and hail them. So
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  Speaker 5: that's but it's more common to get them in their
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  Speaker 5: ears and their feet and sometimes their eyes too. But
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  Speaker 5: so I wouldn't say impossible, but less likely.
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  Speaker 4: All right, here you go, Jason, thanks for the call.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to Garrett. Hello, Garrett, I.
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  Speaker 1: What's your question?
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  Speaker 6: So?
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  Speaker 3: I was wondering about household limits for animals for pets.
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  Speaker 2: What do you mean how many you can have?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, like legally how many.
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  Speaker 2: You can have?
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  Speaker 1: How many do you have?
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  Speaker 3: Well that depends on the amp if you're asking, I
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  Speaker 3: think too many?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, maybe too many, But I know that different municipalities
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  Speaker 5: have different regulations about that, so I personally I don't
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  Speaker 5: have all that memorized. But when you do get into
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  Speaker 5: we're you're having a lot, lot of pets there there
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  Speaker 5: are risks for of course, disease transmission and sometimes fighting
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  Speaker 5: or competition over resources, and and then just keeping everyone
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  Speaker 5: healthy and happy in those cases. So you'd probably just
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  Speaker 5: have to look specifically, you know what count you're in,
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  Speaker 5: and kind of look at that. But it's there's definitely
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  Speaker 5: too many can can be a problem for sure.
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  Speaker 4: All right, own up?
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  Speaker 1: How many?
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  Speaker 9: Okay, I've got three cats and one dog, so terrible.
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  Speaker 1: You're probably fine, Yeah, you're probably okay.
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  Speaker 4: You can't take care of themselves anyway.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you scared us for a minute.
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  Speaker 1: Eight.
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  Speaker 5: No, I'm not hoarding animals.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, all right, thank you, thanks Garrett. Let's go
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  Speaker 1: to Tory by Tory. What kind of an animal do
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  Speaker 1: you have?
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  Speaker 8: I have a cat?
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  Speaker 1: And what's the cat's name?
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  Speaker 8: His name is Maru.
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  Speaker 1: What's the problem.
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  Speaker 8: So he has a genetic condition causes cysts to grow
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  Speaker 8: up in his ears and block off the ear canal,
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  Speaker 8: which causes infection. And in January he had a video
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  Speaker 8: otoscope where they removed as many of the cysts as
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  Speaker 8: they could. But while they were in there, they found
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  Speaker 8: a tumor in his left ear that made it so
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  Speaker 8: that they couldn't get back down into the ear canal.
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  Speaker 8: They removed as much of it as they could. But
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  Speaker 8: now it's six months later and the tumor has fully
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  Speaker 8: grown back, and so it looks like the best option
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  Speaker 8: now is going to be a teca or ear canal
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  Speaker 8: ablacion surgery, And so I wanted to ask the doctor,
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  Speaker 8: is this surgery really worth it? And where would be
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  Speaker 8: probably the most affordable places to get it done, because
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  Speaker 8: they're wanting like minimum of four to five grand to
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  Speaker 8: get it done.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't sound cheap.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the TIKA procedure is it's complete removal of the
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  Speaker 5: ear canal. And when you have tumors like that or
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  Speaker 5: other chronic conditions, sometimes it is kind of your only
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  Speaker 5: path and it's it's a salvage procedure sometimes because there's
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  Speaker 5: just no other way. If you can't access the tumor,
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  Speaker 5: especially depending on what kind it is, it's just going
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  Speaker 5: to keep causing trouble and tumors in the ears like
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  Speaker 5: that will cause horrific infections that will become resistant and
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  Speaker 5: so it becomes a pain and quality of life issue.
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  Speaker 5: So I think that it sounds like it's probably worth doing.
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  Speaker 5: Antika is a very specialized procedure and there's a lot
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  Speaker 5: of risk if you're inexperienced doing that too, And so
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  Speaker 5: that's why it does cost more, because generally you want
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  Speaker 5: a specialist doing that so you can get the best
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  Speaker 5: outcome with it. So I, as much as I hate
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  Speaker 5: to say, it's it's just not a cheap procedure and
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  Speaker 5: you may be able to find it a little bit
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  Speaker 5: less than that, but usually you're going to a specialist
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  Speaker 5: for that kind of procedure.
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  Speaker 1: But the outcome is good, it should be.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, where would you recommend as far as like where
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  Speaker 8: around the valley?
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  Speaker 1: It's probably not your your purview too.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, we could consult about it. Yeah, I just I
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  Speaker 5: can't specifically say. I mean, there's some places I might
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  Speaker 5: recommend sending to, but usually I would want to establish
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  Speaker 5: care with you and go through that with you.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Next story, in a tough position when there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of a lot of money involved.
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  Speaker 5: And yeah, they don't know, probably is necessary at that
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  Speaker 5: at that point because those earcanal tumors are just nasty
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  Speaker 5: to deal with, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, Doctor Josh Davis will see you in a couple
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  Speaker 1: of weeks. It's a trilogy. Veterinary clinic in Sandy.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep. Well, see you guys.
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  Speaker 4: Thank you, thank you.