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Making Sure Your Critter Eats Properly with CheckOut Vet · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: how you doing this morning.
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. Speaking of emails, we got an
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  Speaker 1: email from a listener. She says, Oh, Julie. Julie says,
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  Speaker 1: a question for doctor Greer at checkout fat. I've got
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  Speaker 1: a ten month old cavey Pooh fifty to fifty struggling
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  Speaker 1: to get her to eat no interest in dog foods.
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  Speaker 1: I've tried several brands and options. Any suggestions to get
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  Speaker 1: her to start eating. Thank you for asking on the show.
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  Speaker 1: And I guess I this is my naivete when I
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  Speaker 1: think of dogs, I think they love the pig out.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently not all of them, not all of them.
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  Speaker 2: No, And she's actually at an interesting age, so I
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  Speaker 2: don't want to get off topic as far as what
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  Speaker 2: together to eat, but she's at an age that puppies
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  Speaker 2: tend to slow down their growth pretty considerably. They grow
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  Speaker 2: really fast in the first six to eight months, and
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  Speaker 2: by ten months they're starting to slow down, especially the
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  Speaker 2: small breeds. The giant breeds are going to grow longer
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  Speaker 2: and bigger, so they're going to grow maybe each other
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  Speaker 2: fifteen to eighteen months old. But a little breed like
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  Speaker 2: a kabapoo, which is a cavalier King Charles spaniel bread
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  Speaker 2: to a poodle is going to be a smaller breed,
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  Speaker 2: so they tend to not eat as well. They tend
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  Speaker 2: not to have the ravenous appetite because that growth hurt
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  Speaker 2: that they've been going through for most of their life
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  Speaker 2: has now slowed. So that can be a little tricky.
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  Speaker 2: There are some tricks, There are some ideas. There's a
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  Speaker 2: couple of companies now that are making food toppers, so
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  Speaker 2: they're you know, sort of like in a ketchup bottle.
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  Speaker 2: You can put it on top of their food to
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  Speaker 2: enhance the flavor. Some people will mix things like yogurt
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  Speaker 2: with the food, or chicken broth, beef broth, some of
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  Speaker 2: them that are you know, boxed or bone broth, those
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  Speaker 2: kinds of things in jars. You can do that. There's
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  Speaker 2: a company now. I love Royal Canon, I love Cheerina,
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  Speaker 2: I love Hills. They all make great foods. Hills makes
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  Speaker 2: the food called ad which is to improve appetite, so
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  Speaker 2: it can be used as a food topper. Royal Canaan
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  Speaker 2: makes a food called Recovery and that one can be
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  Speaker 2: used as a food topper. And then we also have
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  Speaker 2: other choices. We can use something just a second. We
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  Speaker 2: can use something like like Royal Canan makes a puppy
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  Speaker 2: diet called Starter Moose that can be used as a
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  Speaker 2: food topper. And then there's a company that called bill
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  Speaker 2: Jack that makes a food called Picky No More. So
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  Speaker 2: we have a few choices for what we can see interesting.
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  Speaker 1: As we talked this morning with doctor Marty Grea of
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  Speaker 1: check Out Veterinary, great question from Julie. You two can
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  Speaker 1: be like Julie. You can always email or if you've
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  Speaker 1: got a question, love to have you join us. We're
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  Speaker 1: going to talk a little bit more about pet diet.
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  Speaker 1: Phone lines are open. If you've got a question for
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  Speaker 1: about doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary, tell for number
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  Speaker 1: six eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh
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  Speaker 1: eight three two one thirteen ten and share or joins us. Sherry,
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  Speaker 1: welcome to the program. You're on the air with doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marty Greer of check Out Veterinary.
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  Speaker 3: Good morning to both of you. I do have a
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  Speaker 3: question for you, doctor Grew. Do you run a full
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  Speaker 3: scale hospital where if your dog or your cat or
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  Speaker 3: whatever becomes ill, you bring them in to be checked
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  Speaker 3: out at your clinic and they need to be an
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  Speaker 3: overnight stay? Is there? Do you run a practice like
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  Speaker 3: that or do you just.
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  Speaker 2: Know we Yeah, we don't have a twenty four hour hospital.
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  Speaker 2: The facility that we're in doesn't allow us to keep
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  Speaker 2: them overnight, so we are limited on what we can
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  Speaker 2: do with that. But there are certainly some really good
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  Speaker 2: ones around Madison. So we have the University, we have
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  Speaker 2: MBS Madison Veterinary Specialists, we have MVA, there's dCas, there's
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  Speaker 2: several good veterinary overnight hospitals. I believe there's a VEG
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  Speaker 2: there now too. Veterinary Group Hospital. So I believe you
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  Speaker 2: have several other good choices, which means that if you
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  Speaker 2: needed a night care, that either the pet would be
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  Speaker 2: admitted to that hospital to begin with or transferred to
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  Speaker 2: that hospital for overnight care.
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  Speaker 1: Really good question, Sherry, And that's that is an interesting
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  Speaker 1: for folks that oftentimes wonder about different types of services.
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  Speaker 1: I know, with checkout VET and check in VET, a
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  Speaker 1: lot of different services are covered right in the clinic.
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  Speaker 1: I know, when you design checkout VET, it's really designed
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  Speaker 1: for those for those you know, those exams and kind
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  Speaker 1: of those routine checkups. Check in VET the sister clinic,
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  Speaker 1: you do a little bit more intensive stuff over there,
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  Speaker 1: don't you correct?
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  Speaker 2: Correct? We do surgeries there. We do anesthesia, dentals, X ray, ultrasound,
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  Speaker 2: lump removals, space neuters, all that kind of work. But
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  Speaker 2: those are generally not overnight stays. We almost always, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: we just don't keep our space overnight. Back in the
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  Speaker 2: old days, we used to do that. We used to
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  Speaker 2: keep patients overnight in the hospital, and that changed many
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  Speaker 2: years ago when anesthetic agents became more short acting and
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  Speaker 2: more effective in the ability of us to get dog
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  Speaker 2: and cats in and out of surgery and really recovered
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  Speaker 2: well enough to go home that night.
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  Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing too. And I know we've done previous
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  Speaker 1: programs about all of the great advances and UH and
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  Speaker 1: veterinary care, and you know, as we talk with doctor
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  Speaker 1: Greer each and every week and learn new things about
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  Speaker 1: about what vets are able to do for your pet,
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  Speaker 1: it's a great day, by the way, as we talk
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  Speaker 1: about starting that relationship, starting that conversation, getting to know
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  Speaker 1: a vet, they are accepting vets patients at Checkout Veterinary
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  Speaker 1: also accepting good vets as well. I know anytime, anytime
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  Speaker 1: you can find a really good VET, you're definitely interested
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  Speaker 1: in talking at Checkout Vet, as we talked this morning
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  Speaker 1: with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. If you've
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  Speaker 1: Six eight three two one thirteen ten. That's sixh eight
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  Speaker 1: three two one thirteen ten. Let's talk doctor a little
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  Speaker 1: bit about general diet and nutrition with Julie's email from
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  Speaker 1: earlier kind of had me thinking about that, is like
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  Speaker 1: what you know, you come to your vet, you ask.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I think a lot of us think about
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  Speaker 1: getting that exam. But talking about diet and nutrition is
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  Speaker 1: an important part of that conversation, isn't it.
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  Speaker 2: It really is. And unfortunately, most of the conversations that
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  Speaker 2: veterinarians and veterinary staff have with their clients is that
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  Speaker 2: your pet is eating too much of a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: So we do often have to have the conversation about
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  Speaker 2: reducing the caloric intake. And it may mean a diet change,
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  Speaker 2: that may mean a volume change. So yes, there's definitely
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  Speaker 2: a lot of things to talk about, and there's some
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  Speaker 2: really great foods on the market, so I think it's
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  Speaker 2: important that people are aware of what their choices are.
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  Speaker 2: I'm a big fan of the commercially available diets from
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  Speaker 2: the big three companies, which are going to be Royal, Canaan, Purina,
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  Speaker 2: and Hills, primarily because they're the companies that don't just
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  Speaker 2: test their food based on a chemical analysis. That's an
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  Speaker 2: aft coanalysis. Does it meet the a F cost standards.
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  Speaker 2: AFCOT doesn't actually test food, but does it meet the
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  Speaker 2: af coast standards or you know, so they look at
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  Speaker 2: that from a chemical basis, how much protein, how much fat,
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  Speaker 2: how much carbohydrate, how much fiber in the diet versus
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  Speaker 2: the other companies. The three companies that I mentioned, Hills, Purina,
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  Speaker 2: and Royal Canaan. They do feeding trials for their food,
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  Speaker 2: so they have a whole colony of dogs and cats
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  Speaker 2: at Their full time job for their life is to
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  Speaker 2: stand around and eat dog food or cat food as
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  Speaker 2: the case may be. And I've been to all of
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  Speaker 2: their facilities. I've been to Waltham in England. I've been
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  Speaker 2: to Royal Canaan in France. I've been to Peka, Kansas
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  Speaker 2: for Hills. I've been to Dayton, Ohio for the Yukanuba Diet.
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  Speaker 2: So I've been to all their facilities. I've been to
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  Speaker 2: Purina and Saint Louis and they have some pretty fabulous
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  Speaker 2: feeding colonies. And I'll tell you, these dogs and cats
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  Speaker 2: have an amazing life. They go out at lunch, you know,
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  Speaker 2: sit in the in the picnic area with the staff
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  Speaker 2: for lunch. They often go home at night with people.
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  Speaker 2: They will after they're done. They're adopted out, So it's
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  Speaker 2: really a great life for them. So I don't want
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  Speaker 2: anybody to say, oh, that poor dog. Their whole job
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  Speaker 2: is to eat I mean dogs like you said at
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  Speaker 2: the beginning, that's what they love best. So it's not
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  Speaker 2: a bad job description. You have to eat food your
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  Speaker 2: whole life and we're going to see how much you like.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't sound like a bad job, No, not at
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  Speaker 2: So they do these feeding trials. And then the other
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  Speaker 2: things that these companies do is they're the ones that
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  Speaker 2: are on the forefront of developing new diets that are therapeutic.
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  Speaker 2: So that means that these foods are meant to treat
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  Speaker 2: certain medical conditions. It doesn't mean that there's a drug
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  Speaker 2: in it, because there is no medication in it. What
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  Speaker 2: it does mean is that they manipulate the diets to
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  Speaker 2: have a pH to have a protein, to have a fiber,
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  Speaker 2: to have whatever person you know, whiching for ingredients they're
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  Speaker 2: looking at manipulating so that it meets the nutritional needs
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  Speaker 2: of a patient with a certain medical condition. And I'll
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  Speaker 2: tell you if people could have their diets, or if
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  Speaker 2: people would allow their diets to be manipulated in that way,
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  Speaker 2: we'd probably live longer, healthier lives too, because you know,
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  Speaker 2: you think about what you should eat and then you
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  Speaker 2: pull in the drive through and suddenly all that idea
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  Speaker 2: of having a salad goes out the window and you
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  Speaker 2: try something off the stet. So I think it's really
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  Speaker 2: important that people understand the science behind those foods and
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  Speaker 2: that they don't just believe that they're feeding an ingredient list.
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  Speaker 2: They're feeding a nutrient profile or a nutritional profile, and
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  Speaker 2: they look at the ingredient lists and say, oh, corn
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  Speaker 2: meal or chicken meal, that's not a bad thing. That's
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  Speaker 2: what the pet food industry is required to put on
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  Speaker 2: the label. It doesn't mean that they took beeks and feathers,
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  Speaker 2: because I'll tell you what, some of those byproducts like
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  Speaker 2: chicken feet sell for a lot of money in the markets.
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  Speaker 2: So we're not getting cheap ingredients into our diet. We're
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  Speaker 2: getting human quality ingredients that are really good. Hills rejects
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  Speaker 2: more eggs grade A human grade eggs. They reject more
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  Speaker 2: eggs than any other company in the country because they'll
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  Speaker 2: pull in with a trunk and they'll check the egg
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  Speaker 2: and they'll be like, nope, you're out. So they have
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  Speaker 2: to go to another place, and so they'll sell it
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  Speaker 2: to like human consumption. It might go into one of
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  Speaker 2: the egg products that you're eating at the store, or
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  Speaker 2: into baked cookies or something else. So we know that
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  Speaker 2: the products are really quite good, and we know we
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  Speaker 2: can treat therapeutics diets. We have intesnel diets and heart diets,
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  Speaker 2: and kiddy diets, and pregnancy diets and baby diets. We
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  Speaker 2: have dogs, you know, little dog diets and big dog diets,
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  Speaker 2: and we have diets for certain breeds of dogs. So
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  Speaker 2: there's so many things that we have seen manipulated and
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  Speaker 2: really improved. I remember the first time we went to
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  Speaker 2: a meeting that they told us we could dissolve bladderstones
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  Speaker 2: in dogs, and I thought, yeah, okay, sure, I'm going
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  Speaker 2: to feed a dog food that's going to make a
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  Speaker 2: bladderstone go away, and guess what it does. We've been
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  Speaker 2: doing that for thirty some years. Yeah. I've got a
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  Speaker 2: dog right now that has a you know, bladder full
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  Speaker 2: of little boulders, and we're, you know, very diligently feeding
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  Speaker 2: her the food and we're watching her bladderstones disappear based
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  Speaker 2: on how we see them.
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  Speaker 3: On the X ray.
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  Speaker 2: So those incredible things we can do with the right
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  Speaker 2: diet if we have the right direction. So I think
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  Speaker 2: it's a really good idea that when you go to
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  Speaker 2: the vat clinic that you bring up diet because sometimes
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  Speaker 2: the veterinary clinic is sensitive to your dog's weight or
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  Speaker 2: they may not want to talk about food. But if
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  Speaker 2: you bring it up and say this is what I'm feeding,
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  Speaker 2: do you have a recommendation? Is this okay? Should I
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  Speaker 2: change to a different diet? Because when you go to
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  Speaker 2: the pet store, the kid that's selling you the food
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  Speaker 2: is the one that's been told. You know, the sixteen
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  Speaker 2: year old is telling you what they're supposed to sell
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  Speaker 2: that week or that month. It may have nothing to
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  Speaker 2: do with your dogs nutritional needs.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary
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  Speaker 1: the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot
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  Speaker 1: com talking specifically this week about eating issues. But if
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  Speaker 1: you've got any question related to your pet, love to
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  Speaker 1: Great data. Start a relationship at checkout vet. Yes, they
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  Speaker 1: That's six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred again.
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  Speaker 1: The website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: We'll continue our conversation with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
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  Speaker 1: We'll do that next as Ask the Experts continues right here.
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  Speaker 1: Thirteen ten wib A thirteen ten WIBA talking with doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Talking this week about eating
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  Speaker 1: issues for our pets and things like habits and behavior
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  Speaker 1: for our pets. I think two doctor, Things that can
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  Speaker 1: affect humans also obviously can affect pets. Things like food
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  Speaker 1: allergies are definitely a real thing for pets, aren't there
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  Speaker 1: They are.
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  Speaker 2: We typically don't see those acute anaphylactic reactions to things
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  Speaker 2: like peanuts and shellfish in our dogs that we see
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  Speaker 2: in people. But we definitely see food allergies, and we
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  Speaker 2: can see a lot of components so that we can
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  Speaker 2: see them. With ear infections itchy ears, ear infections, they
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  Speaker 2: can have skin problems associated with it. Of course, they
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  Speaker 2: can have vomiting and diarrhea, and every single thing on
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  Speaker 2: the market that's related to dogs and cats. As as
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  Speaker 2: a side effect, vomiting and diarrhea. Every drug, including the injectables,
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  Speaker 2: everything we give them because dogs just vomit pretty frequently,
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  Speaker 2: so it's you know, it's a little hard to measure that,
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  Speaker 2: but if you notice that there's a relationship between your
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  Speaker 2: dog eating a certain kind of dog food or a
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  Speaker 2: certain kind of snack or treat or table food, make
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  Speaker 2: note of that and then reintroduce it at another time
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  Speaker 2: that it seems like a safe time to do it
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  Speaker 2: and see what the react question is. And you may
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  Speaker 2: very quickly figure out that your dog is sensitive to
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  Speaker 2: certain things. And there's really not a category that we
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  Speaker 2: can say is all the time a problem, But any
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  Speaker 2: protein source, any carbohydrate source, we can see an allergic
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  Speaker 2: response to. So just be really thoughtful about what you're
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  Speaker 2: feeding and watchful and keep a calendar if you have
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  Speaker 2: a dog that you suspect has a food allergy. And
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  Speaker 2: it's pretty interesting how many dogs we can improve their
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  Speaker 2: quality of their skin and ears by doing a diet change.
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  Speaker 2: It doesn't fix everything, but it fixes enough. And the
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  Speaker 2: other thing to know is that a lot of dogs
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  Speaker 2: that are allergic to food are also allergic to pollens
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  Speaker 2: and molds, and so allergies are additive. So if they're
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  Speaker 2: allergic to a food and then it becomes spring in
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  Speaker 2: summer and there's pollens out that they're also allergic to,
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  Speaker 2: you can have a dog going from being comfortable to
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  Speaker 2: not being comfortable. So eliminating the food from their diet
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  Speaker 2: that they might be allergic to can lower their threshold
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  Speaker 2: and they can go back to being comfortable even in
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  Speaker 2: the summer without a lot of medications. Now we have
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  Speaker 2: really good meds for dogs with allergies, but they don't
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  Speaker 2: work well for dogs with food allergies. In those cases,
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  Speaker 2: we really do our best to try and eliminate the
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  Speaker 2: source of the food that is causing the issues. So
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  Speaker 2: that means flipping the bag around and not just reading
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  Speaker 2: the big print on the front, but reading that little,
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  Speaker 2: tiny ingredient list on the back. And you might need
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  Speaker 2: your glasses to put and take a look at that
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  Speaker 2: label because they make them really little, or you can
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  Speaker 2: go home and look at it on your computer and
• 15:18
  Speaker 2: make the spring big enough that you can read the
• 15:20
  Speaker 2: ingredient list. So it's important that people know that they
• 15:23
  Speaker 2: have that option, and they should talk to their veterinary professional.
• 15:26
  Speaker 2: Many veterinary technicians are trained in nutrition, and many veterinarians are.
• 15:30
  Speaker 2: And a lot of people think veterinarians don't get nutritional training,
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: and actually we do.
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  Speaker 1: You know. One of the things, by the way, I'm
• 15:37
  Speaker 1: probably in denial. I probably need readers. A little thing
• 15:39
  Speaker 1: you can do too, is if you have a phone,
• 15:41
  Speaker 1: take a picture and then zoom in.
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  Speaker 3: I find myself doing.
• 15:44
  Speaker 1: I don't need glasses.
• 15:45
  Speaker 2: I'm just yeah, you're in denial.
• 15:49
  Speaker 3: Yeah.
• 15:49
  Speaker 2: There's also an app you can put on your phone.
• 15:51
  Speaker 2: It's a magnifier that has a light. So if you're
• 15:53
  Speaker 2: sitting in a restaurant and it's too dark and the
• 15:55
  Speaker 2: print is too small, you just push the little app
• 15:57
  Speaker 2: on your phone and you can make it big and
• 15:58
  Speaker 2: you can have the light and so you don't looked
• 16:00
  Speaker 2: like such a you know, puts in the restaurant. You
• 16:02
  Speaker 2: can actually look like you can order your food instead
• 16:04
  Speaker 2: of ordering something you didn't know you were getting.
• 16:08
  Speaker 1: Who knew that that was? That's very cool. Talking this
• 16:10
  Speaker 1: morning with doctor Marty Greer of check Out Veterinarian, the
• 16:13
  Speaker 1: website check out vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: I think something that It's something that surprised me the
• 16:21
  Speaker 1: first time you and I had talked about food was
• 16:24
  Speaker 1: your recommendation for kibble. And I think for a lot
• 16:27
  Speaker 1: of pet owners, they think that that kibble is great
• 16:30
  Speaker 1: because it's it's storable, it's economical, it's all these things,
• 16:34
  Speaker 1: and we assume that we're making a sacrifice and think that, well,
• 16:36
  Speaker 1: if in a dream world, I'd be feeding wet food
• 16:39
  Speaker 1: or raw or even even like a home cooked meal
• 16:42
  Speaker 1: for my pet each night. But but you strongly recommend kibble,
• 16:46
  Speaker 1: don't you.
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  Speaker 2: I do, And for a lot of reasons. We've seen
• 16:50
  Speaker 2: outbreaks of disease from raw meat diets. There was an
• 16:54
  Speaker 2: outbreak in California a couple of months ago with bird
• 16:57
  Speaker 2: flu and cats. So we can see parasites, we can
• 16:59
  Speaker 2: see the bacteria. Those things are all brought into your
• 17:01
  Speaker 2: home with the raw meat diets if you're not processing
• 17:03
  Speaker 2: and handling them correctly. And there are people who can
• 17:06
  Speaker 2: very successfully feed raw but many people are unsuccessful with
• 17:10
  Speaker 2: if they don't handle it correctly. They may start off
• 17:13
  Speaker 2: with a recipe that's really well balanced and it looks
• 17:15
  Speaker 2: great on paper, and then as time goes on, they
• 17:19
  Speaker 2: can't find one of the ingredients at the store, so
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: they substitute another, and then the next time they can't
• 17:23
  Speaker 2: find another, and so pretty soon we have what's called
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: recipe drift. So they're not really feeding the diet that
• 17:27
  Speaker 2: they thought they were feeding in the first place. So,
• 17:29
  Speaker 2: unless you're under the guidance of a veterinarian or a
• 17:32
  Speaker 2: veterinary nutritionist, I really recommend that people feed a kibble
• 17:35
  Speaker 2: based diet. And you're right, they shouldn't feel guilty. It's portable,
• 17:38
  Speaker 2: it's affordable, they can take it with you when you
• 17:41
  Speaker 2: go on vacation. It's easy to store, and that's well,
• 17:44
  Speaker 2: that's one thing I should say when you store your
• 17:46
  Speaker 2: pet food. You should not take your bag home, take
• 17:48
  Speaker 2: the top off of it, and pour it into a
• 17:50
  Speaker 2: plastic container. That is a big no no. The pet
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: food industry will tell you that universally that the bag
• 17:55
  Speaker 2: that the food is chipped in is the bag it
• 17:58
  Speaker 2: should be stored in. So you can take that bag
• 18:01
  Speaker 2: and lower it into a trash bin or a bigger
• 18:03
  Speaker 2: plastic container, but you shouldn't dump it out. One reason
• 18:06
  Speaker 2: is because the oils and the plastic react to each
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: other and the plastic starts to absorb the oil and
• 18:11
  Speaker 2: it changes the chemical and the plastic and it starts
• 18:14
  Speaker 2: to become concerning, so it should stay in the bag.
• 18:17
  Speaker 2: The other is if your dog has any kind of
• 18:19
  Speaker 2: an adverse event with the food, or if there's a
• 18:21
  Speaker 2: report of a problem with the pet food, if they
• 18:23
  Speaker 2: report samonilla or anything that happens in the pet food.
• 18:27
  Speaker 2: You don't have the lot number of the product. If
• 18:30
  Speaker 2: you don't have the bag of food and it's always
• 18:32
  Speaker 2: printed on the bag, it may be hard to find.
• 18:34
  Speaker 2: And there's a code that the companies use that show
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: the date it was made and packaged, the line it
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: came off of what Titi was packaged in. It's really
• 18:42
  Speaker 2: detailed information, but there's this little tiny code that's printed
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: in little tiny letters that is hard to find. But
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: if you take your bag to your veninary clinic, they
• 18:50
  Speaker 2: can help you find it. Call the company and of
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: course you can call their eight hundred number two and
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: have them help you figure out what the code is
• 18:56
  Speaker 2: if you have any concern. And this time of year,
• 18:59
  Speaker 2: we have to be really careful with our pet food storage.
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: It's humid. Sometimes we'll have bugs or moisture that gets
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: into the food. So if your pet was eating a
• 19:06
  Speaker 2: bag of food and you get to the bottom of
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: it and suddenly they stop eating. You should take a
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: really good look at the food, pour it out in
• 19:12
  Speaker 2: the daylight where you can actually see it, and you
• 19:14
  Speaker 2: might find that there's mold or mealworms or something in
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: that that you weren't aware was there. So it's kind
• 19:19
  Speaker 2: of gross the things that you were putting that in
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: your dog's bowl and then they're rejecting it, and they're
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: looking at you like, what are you trying to do
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: to me? But if you don't think about it, if
• 19:27
  Speaker 2: you don't realize that this is the time of year
• 19:29
  Speaker 2: we see it, you may not be aware and you
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: may make the mistake of assuming that there's something wrong
• 19:33
  Speaker 2: with your dog and it's actually something wrong with the food.
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: That is fascinating. And I want to ask you too,
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: real quick about changes in eating habits. And just a
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: moment I asked doctor Greer about that, because as we
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: get a chance to talk with doctor Marti Greer each
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: and every week, don't forget it's a great day to
• 19:46
  Speaker 1: start that relationship. At Checkout Veterinary, they are accepting right
• 19:49
  Speaker 1: now new patients that first visit that exam. It is free.
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: You can learn more online at checkout vet dot com.
• 19:55
  Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Let's talk real quick about
• 19:58
  Speaker 1: those changes in eating habits. You mentioned something could have
• 20:01
  Speaker 1: happened with their food and the humidity and you know
• 20:04
  Speaker 1: things living in there. Are there other kind of things
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: that you should be paying attention to when it comes
• 20:09
  Speaker 1: to any type of change and eating habit. Are there
• 20:11
  Speaker 1: certain things that may be more concerning and some things
• 20:14
  Speaker 1: that are just kind of natural and normal for your pet.
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, And a lot of pets, as they get older,
• 20:19
  Speaker 2: they're appetite changes, they might start to run into problems
• 20:22
  Speaker 2: with diabetes or kidney disease or liver disease. A lot
• 20:25
  Speaker 2: of things can happen. They may be stick for some
• 20:27
  Speaker 2: other reason. We see every single day in our practice.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: I see at least one case of lime disease, anaplasmosis
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: or air lichia, which are the tick boorn diseases, every
• 20:35
  Speaker 2: single day. So this is not a disease that's uncommon.
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: And a lot of pets don't feel very well. Doggs
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: in particular, cats typically don't get lime disease, but if
• 20:44
  Speaker 2: they aren't feeling well, they're running a low great fever
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: they're not feeling good. They've got something going on. You
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: really need to get into the veterinary clinic and see
• 20:50
  Speaker 2: what's going on. So if they miss one meal, you know,
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: and that's what I hear from a lot of people
• 20:55
  Speaker 2: is well, my dog lives to eat, so I'm pretty
• 20:57
  Speaker 2: sure if he misses a meal that there's something seriously wrong.
• 20:59
  Speaker 2: They missed more than one meal, you really should be
• 21:02
  Speaker 2: paying attention to what's going on. You can take their
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: temperature at home. Please use a dog thermometer. I mean
• 21:07
  Speaker 2: the human thermometers are the same, but once you've used
• 21:09
  Speaker 2: it on the dog, dog give it back the kid.
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: Just say label it is the dog thermometer. But you
• 21:15
  Speaker 2: can take their temperature. A normal temp for a dog
• 21:17
  Speaker 2: and a cat is one hundred and one two one
• 21:18
  Speaker 2: hundred and two and a half. And back when I
• 21:20
  Speaker 2: started practice, I had two clients that lost thermometers, back
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: when you used to have the glass ones that you
• 21:24
  Speaker 2: had to shake down and then put in the gog
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: or cats. Two of them that would lose the thermometer
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: up inside the dog and like, okay, well, first of all,
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: that's going to come out, but secondly, why were you
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: taking their temperature in the first place. So if your
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: pet isn't feeling well and you feel like you need
• 21:37
  Speaker 2: to take their temperature, one hundred and one to one
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: hundred and two and a half is a normal temperature.
• 21:41
  Speaker 2: Anything over one hundred and three is reason for concern.
• 21:44
  Speaker 2: But there's a lot of diseases that dogs have that
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: they don't run a fever with. So just because they
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: don't have a fever doesn't mean they're healthy. It's just
• 21:50
  Speaker 2: one clue that we have. So if you call it
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: that clinic and they say, well, is the eating, is
• 21:54
  Speaker 2: vomiting a is the having diarrhea? Is the eating? Eating?
• 21:57
  Speaker 2: Is a really important question that we asked because that's
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: such an important key to saying is your pet sick
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: enough that we really need to get you in today
• 22:05
  Speaker 2: and get this figured out. And we do have same
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: day appointments at both clinics, or all three clinics, Marshall,
• 22:11
  Speaker 2: check In and check Out all have same day appointments,
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: So if you call and you feel like your pet
• 22:16
  Speaker 2: needs to be seen today, we're going to make We're
• 22:18
  Speaker 2: going to walk through fire to get you in because
• 22:20
  Speaker 2: there's almost never a day that we can't get you
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: in and we're there seven days a week at checkout.
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: We're Mondays, you're Friday at Marshall and check in, but
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: check out seven days a week. So if you feel
• 22:29
  Speaker 2: like you're pets stick on Saturday afternoon or Sunday afternoon,
• 22:32
  Speaker 2: you just call and come in and we'll take a
• 22:34
  Speaker 2: look and we may start a workup. We may just
• 22:36
  Speaker 2: give you some meds and help you to get through
• 22:38
  Speaker 2: the weekend and see how they're feeling on Monday. If
• 22:40
  Speaker 2: they need more diagnostics, we can always do blood work,
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: we can do X rays, and all those things can
• 22:45
  Speaker 2: happen so that we can figure out what's going on
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: with your pet, because we don't want to leave you
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: with a pets that stick over a weekend and then
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: you have to go to work Monday morning first thing,
• 22:52
  Speaker 2: and you really don't know how to manage all this,
• 22:54
  Speaker 2: So we want to make sure that you're not in
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: that situation.
• 22:57
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• 23:01
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• 23:09
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• 23:11
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