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Vet Josh Davis Q&A For March 26th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Doctor Josh Davis is here, veterinarian extraordinaire. It's a surgery day,
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  Speaker 1: definitely is today. I can see what you're wearing, your scrubs,
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  Speaker 1: ready to go, Ready to go, save.
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  Speaker 2: Some lives, that's the goal.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, doctor Josh Davis, he can answer your questions about
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  Speaker 1: your puppies or your kiddies. Call us. Is your animal
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  Speaker 1: exhibiting odd behavior? Please call us and we'd like to
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  Speaker 1: know the name of your pet and with what's going
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  Speaker 1: on with it. Josh Davis graciously taking some of his
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  Speaker 1: time to do this before going and saving lives at
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  Speaker 1: the clinic down in Utah County.
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  Speaker 2: I think we.
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  Speaker 3: Should start wearing scrubs, radio scrubs.
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  Speaker 2: But we don't hear comfy, They're definitely comfy.
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  Speaker 4: Then we'd be doctor Doug pumping wattage into your cottage.
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  Speaker 1: He's not a large animal. Veterinarian horses.
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  Speaker 5: You have to learn a little bit about that, but
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  Speaker 5: if it's not your main interest, Yeah, you do.
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  Speaker 1: Actually have to study some some small portion of that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yep, definitely, and the tests you have to pass
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  Speaker 5: you have to kind of know a lot about everything.
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  Speaker 2: So that's what makes it interesting.
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  Speaker 4: But so would be feasible for me to get a
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  Speaker 4: red panda as a pet.
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  Speaker 5: You know, I don't know the laws here, but I'm
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  Speaker 5: highly skeptical about that.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, because that's the only thing that's saving my life
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  Speaker 4: these days is maybe animal videos and red pandas are
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  Speaker 4: really being pushed into my algorithm.
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  Speaker 1: Right, yeah, nice.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they are very cute, They're adorable, cute.
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  Speaker 3: They're lazy though, Yeah, that's fine with me. Lazy pets
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  Speaker 3: are great pets, exactly. Well, the more the more the better.
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  Speaker 1: Right, My cat sleeps or wanders around the house yowling,
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  Speaker 1: it's two modes. That's it a cat, or it's not
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  Speaker 1: my red panda. All right, Some calls are coming in.
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  Speaker 1: Get on the stick, folks.
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  Speaker 3: I know we've talked about it before, but I'd like
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  Speaker 3: you to address raw food for dogs versus kibble, telling
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  Speaker 3: your thoughts on that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's always a lot of debate about that,
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  Speaker 5: and often a lot of advertising around that.
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  Speaker 2: Too, seeing a lot. It's a big thing.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of companies offering the fresh foods or
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  Speaker 5: the refrigerated foods, things like that, and in general, the
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  Speaker 5: raw diets are they do come with inherent risks, you know,
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  Speaker 5: just the same reasons we don't eat raw food most
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  Speaker 5: of the time is because of the risks of contamination
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  Speaker 5: and bacterial infections and things like that. So I there's
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  Speaker 5: no specific reason most of the time that's necessary. And
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  Speaker 5: good quality commercial foods, you know, by law, they have
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  Speaker 5: to have everything in them that they that a dog needs.
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  Speaker 1: About wet food, I mean, you know, just like canned
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  Speaker 1: dog food.
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  Speaker 5: Food, yeah, totally fine. Yeah, and there's definitely medical reasons
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  Speaker 5: why that's a good thing. And you know, there's there's
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  Speaker 5: pros and const to everything, but the raw diets, they
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  Speaker 5: there's not necessarily an advantage to that, and and the
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  Speaker 5: health risks come with it.
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  Speaker 3: Because yeah, I've been having a pet owner guilt like that.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not roth.
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  Speaker 1: All I know is doctor Ros's dog budd is dog gone.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: There's a lot of a lot of things about nutrition
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  Speaker 5: out there, and you know, green freeze another big one,
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  Speaker 5: which is linked to heart disease and dogs.
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  Speaker 2: So not not an ideal type of food.
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  Speaker 4: So don't get your information on Facebook.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, there's there's a lot of advertising it. It'll really
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  Speaker 5: end for sure, looks really good. Often celebrities are recommending it,
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  Speaker 5: but you do have to be careful.
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  Speaker 4: Contact your vet like Jill is doing right now.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Hi Jill. What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 5: His name's Chico.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, what's your question? So Chico got an allergy shot,
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  Speaker 1: Like they said that it lasts like a month. He
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  Speaker 1: got an allergy shot yesterday. I'm just wondering how long
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  Speaker 1: until it starts to kick in.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, you're probably talking about the shot called side a
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  Speaker 5: point and it's actually really fantastic for dogs with allergies
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  Speaker 5: and it she skin and it will usually kick in
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  Speaker 5: like twenty four to forty eight hours.
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  Speaker 2: But also you have to.
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  Speaker 5: Remember that a shot alone isn't going to fix every
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  Speaker 5: dog out there, So if they do have other issues
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  Speaker 5: externally bathing with medicated shampoos and good conditioners, food supplements
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  Speaker 5: like fish oil or fatty acid supplements are often helpful too.
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  Speaker 2: So when it comes.
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  Speaker 5: To skin, you're never going to have one thing that
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  Speaker 5: fixes all your problems or that's very rare that that happens,
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  Speaker 5: So you often have to do other things too.
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  Speaker 1: All right, okay, perfect, and then can I ask you
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  Speaker 1: one more thing?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 6: Sure, So I have got a fat boy kittie who
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  Speaker 6: keeps eating my dog food. Is there any harm in
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  Speaker 6: him eating dog food.
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  Speaker 2: Not harm.
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  Speaker 5: But if he is, you know, a fat boy kitty,
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  Speaker 5: like you're saying obesity and cats is actually I mean
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  Speaker 5: it's Obesity is always a problem no matter what your
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  Speaker 5: species is. But cats are high risk for diabetes and
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  Speaker 5: they're high risk for arthritis wint disease. So probably the
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  Speaker 5: obesity is your biggest problem. But also cat food is
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  Speaker 5: formulated different than dog food, so it's preferable to stick
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  Speaker 5: with cat food.
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  Speaker 1: My cat claims he's not fat, he's fluffy.
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  Speaker 4: There you go, thanks, Jill, Joe, Oh, this boy's fat. Yeah,
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  Speaker 4: have a good one. All right, let's begin with it
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  Speaker 4: looks like anime here.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Anna, what's your old dog's name?
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  Speaker 3: Hi?
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  Speaker 6: My old dog's name is Dukey.
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  Speaker 7: Question, and my question for you guys is he has
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  Speaker 7: been having some problems with his hips. He's thirteen. He's
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  Speaker 7: a great name, pitbull lab mit and I just yeah,
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  Speaker 7: he's a big idiot. But you don't want to know
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  Speaker 7: what we can do to help him other than have
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  Speaker 7: like a surgery or something because he's getting old.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's and that sounds pretty pretty common for that agent.
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  Speaker 5: That's quite a mix of breeds you got going on
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  Speaker 5: in there too, so you know, probably a big dog
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  Speaker 5: at that point. So at that age, join joint issues
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  Speaker 5: are pretty common and arthritis is pretty common, so there's
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  Speaker 5: kind of a handful of things you want to make
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  Speaker 5: sure of. So most important is that they are a
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  Speaker 5: healthy or even a lean weight. If they're overweight or obese,
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  Speaker 5: you're going to have a really hard time just helping
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  Speaker 5: in general. So weight management is really important. And then
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  Speaker 5: anti inflammatories are also really important, so there are oral
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  Speaker 5: medications for that, there's injectable medications for that to try
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  Speaker 5: and help that, and then joint support, so daily joint
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  Speaker 5: supplements can be really beneficial. There are also injections that
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  Speaker 5: your veterinarian can do to help with joint support. So
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  Speaker 5: often it takes all of those things together to keep
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  Speaker 5: your pet as pain free and mobile as possible. And
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  Speaker 5: that's really important because pain and chronic pain cause a
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  Speaker 5: lot of changes to their behavior and to their energy.
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  Speaker 5: And that's often why we say pets, you know they're
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  Speaker 5: slowing down or getting old, it's it's often that they're
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  Speaker 5: in pain that we're not dealing with.
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  Speaker 6: So right, okay, thank you guys, Thanks By.
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  Speaker 4: And Lindsey is here. Eye Lindsey, Hello, what your dogs?
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  Speaker 6: Her name's violed it mm hmmm.
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  Speaker 1: And what's the problem.
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  Speaker 6: Well, sometimes I wake up the middle of the night
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  Speaker 6: and she's like breathing really fast and hard and she's sleeping.
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  Speaker 6: But it kind of worries me, like is that normal
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  Speaker 6: for a dog because we have another cotton and she
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  Speaker 6: doesn't do that.
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  Speaker 1: What's a cotton dog?
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  Speaker 6: A Caton day two? Lee, Are they're white? Little white dogs?
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  Speaker 2: Yep, little white dogs. Yeah. Yeah, very cute, very fun
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  Speaker 2: little dogs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Sounds like a nightmare to me. Yeah. No.
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  Speaker 5: If there aren't associated health issues, you know, like heart
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  Speaker 5: disease or other things, then when dogs are sleeping, and
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  Speaker 5: you know, we assume on some level they're probably having
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  Speaker 5: dreaming or just some sort of deep sleep. That way,
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  Speaker 5: they can twitch, they can vocalize, their breathing patterns can change.
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  Speaker 5: So if there's not an underlying health issue, it's probably
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  Speaker 5: not a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: So probably go get him checked out.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, make sure there's no other health issues. But dogs
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  Speaker 5: and cats do that. People do that.
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  Speaker 2: You know, when you're sleeping, a lot of things can
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  Speaker 2: change like that.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, and then do you have any suggestions on how
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  Speaker 6: to stop them? From barking. I don't have shop callars,
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  Speaker 6: but I have a buzzing collar, and she just seems
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  Speaker 6: to think it's like a massage and she just keeps
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  Speaker 6: making anyway.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the barking thing is how there's probably there's never
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  Speaker 5: like one thing that can help with that. Often behavior
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  Speaker 5: training over time to try to get them so whatever
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  Speaker 5: their triggers are for barking, is trying to get that
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  Speaker 5: to not be something that affects them or that they
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  Speaker 5: have the urge to bark. So definitely urge you to
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  Speaker 5: look into either in home, you know, training consultations. The
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  Speaker 5: callers can work for some dogs, but it's kind of
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  Speaker 5: a band aid because you're not addressing the actual cause
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  Speaker 5: or the behavior.
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes Ripley learned to Ripley learn to bark through it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, it's like she enjoys it or something I don't.
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  Speaker 2: So sometimes it seems like that.
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  Speaker 1: Well I just look up Hotten dogs. They are you.
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  Speaker 4: See one. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 1: Bye sorry age seven seven six zero two ninety six
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  Speaker 1: ninety six. The phones are completely open.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, here's some text questions. Can the average vet test
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  Speaker 4: cats for bird flu? Or do you need to go
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  Speaker 4: to a specialist.
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  Speaker 5: It depends who you work for as your labs right now,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, it's not a complicated process. It just matters
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  Speaker 5: if your lab that you use would test for that.
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  Speaker 5: And there's not a lot out right now at least,
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  Speaker 5: we haven't had a lot of warnings or concerns to
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  Speaker 5: watch out as vets for that yet, you know, it's
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  Speaker 5: it's something we do have to monitor. And the state
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  Speaker 5: has the state veterinarians. They monitor things like that too,
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  Speaker 5: so they'll usually notify as if there's a big issue
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  Speaker 5: or big problem we need to be watching out for.
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  Speaker 4: All right, My American bully Hambone Spade female eleven years
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  Speaker 4: old has Cushing's disease from law long term prednozone use.
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  Speaker 4: Her skin is in tough shape. How often can I
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  Speaker 4: bathe her? And with what to help soothe the scabs
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  Speaker 4: and such?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a tough one because over doing steroids long
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  Speaker 5: term will cause cushions disease. Like science, cushions disease is
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  Speaker 5: an actual medical condition that the body makes too much
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  Speaker 5: steroid on its own, but giving steroids can cause that.
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  Speaker 5: So depending on how bad the skin is. Bathing though,
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  Speaker 5: I mean, you could bathe every couple of days if
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  Speaker 5: you need to, as long as you're using the right
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  Speaker 5: shampoo and the right conditioners. And then I would also
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  Speaker 5: be on skin supplements and skin support and maybe even
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  Speaker 5: special diets to help with that. But the cushings, getting
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  Speaker 5: that under control would be obviously your best option too,
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  Speaker 5: to help with that.
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  Speaker 4: I'm two weeks late on getting my dog shadows rabies vaccine.
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  Speaker 4: I have an appointment next week to do it. But
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  Speaker 4: should I be concerned about being late?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 5: Not necessarily, unless your dog bites someone or you know,
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  Speaker 5: gets into a tussle that way, So, but medically a
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  Speaker 5: couple of weeks shouldn't make a big deal.
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  Speaker 4: All right, let's see what's your opinion about anal gland expression.
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  Speaker 1: I like to get it. I like to get it done.
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  Speaker 5: It's necessary if if your dog, Yeah, if it's necessary
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  Speaker 5: for your dog, it is. It's not necessarily painful, but
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  Speaker 5: it is uncomfortable to have it done. And anal guns
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  Speaker 5: are pretty gross, so if they are having issues, it's
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  Speaker 5: worth getting checked out.
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  Speaker 2: And there actually are.
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  Speaker 5: In some cases, there's a surgery to remove them so
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  Speaker 5: you never have to deal with them again too, and
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  Speaker 5: and so some sometimes we'll opt to do that because
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  Speaker 5: we're literally every week having to get them in and that's.
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  Speaker 1: That's just too much. Now let me guess. Let me guess,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Josh Davis. When when it comes to that, has
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  Speaker 1: a tech do that? I have big fingers.
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  Speaker 4: Nobody wants that exactly.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to the phone.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to Jennifer.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Jennifer, Jennifer High. What's your animal's name?
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  Speaker 7: Well, I don't have an animal currently, but I'm asking
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  Speaker 7: the vet when you go to adopt a dog from
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  Speaker 7: the pound, what sort of behavioral characteristics are you looking
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  Speaker 7: for that would make a good fit other than general intuition.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I mean, lifestyle for yourself is a big part
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  Speaker 5: of that equation. So you know, I've seen in the
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  Speaker 5: past where you know, seventy eighty year old folks get
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  Speaker 5: like a big great day or something. You know, is
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  Speaker 5: that going to fit your lifestyle and be safe for
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  Speaker 5: you and everything? So, you know, it's what's your lifestyle?
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  Speaker 5: I think that's a good place to start. And then
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  Speaker 5: what are you willing to invest in training and all
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  Speaker 5: of that kind of stuff too, because it's easy to
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  Speaker 5: adopt a pet, but it's not always easy to keep
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  Speaker 5: a pet or keep a pet, happy in yourself, happy
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  Speaker 5: at the breeds.
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  Speaker 4: That require more exercise.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so if you you know, if you're not a
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  Speaker 2: busy person.
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  Speaker 7: I've had some black labs and a German shepherd, and
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  Speaker 7: the labs were adopted. But I'm wondering, when you know,
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  Speaker 7: you take the dog out and you walk them around
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  Speaker 7: in the yard, what sort of things are you looking
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  Speaker 7: for in them?
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  Speaker 4: Oh, when you're just meeting the dog. Oh, I see, yeah, sure.
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  Speaker 5: No, I mean for me, And again there's there's preference
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  Speaker 5: on this, but I want a dog that's not going
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  Speaker 5: to be really timid or scared of every little noise
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  Speaker 5: or every little interaction. You know, you want them to
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  Speaker 5: be interactive and open and friendly and and not afraid
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  Speaker 5: to be touched or handled too, you know. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: you can work on those things, but it's nice if
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  Speaker 5: you don't have to overcome something big like that too.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, they're just alert, they're friendly, interactive. I mean,
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  Speaker 5: those are good places to start for sure.
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  Speaker 1: If you raise your hand to comb your hair and
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  Speaker 1: they shy away, there's trouble.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, right.
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  Speaker 4: All right, good luck, thank you, thank you very much. Well,
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  Speaker 4: that's all the time we do. Sorry, oh, Monty, Monty.
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  Speaker 4: I'm sorry, we're out of time.
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  Speaker 1: Dog is throwing up.
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  Speaker 5: If you get it checked out, it's vomiting a lot,
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  Speaker 5: or for many days.
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  Speaker 2: Get it checked out, Get.
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  Speaker 4: It checked out, all right, let's see Thank you docs
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  Speaker 4: in a couple of weeks. Okay, traffic please,