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Vet Q&A From January 28th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, here he is the head chief hancho of trilogy.
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  Speaker 1: What is it called trilogy.
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  Speaker 2: It's it's a combination of the client, the patient, and
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  Speaker 2: the medical team side.
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  Speaker 3: That's kind of the three points of that.
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  Speaker 4: Doctor Josh Davis is here.
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  Speaker 1: He is a veterinarian extraordinaire and he is here to
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  Speaker 1: answer questions about your pets, particularly your puppies and your kiddies.
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  Speaker 1: That's what he's most versed in. He's not a large
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  Speaker 1: animal veterinarian.
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  Speaker 3: Nope.
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  Speaker 5: I took I took Oakley to see doctor Davis. She
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  Speaker 5: had this weird little bump on her elbow, and I
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  Speaker 5: was surprised at your diagnosis and your and your treatment.
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  Speaker 3: You want to telluse it simple, tell people what that was. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So what we're thinking for Oakley is that we have
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  Speaker 2: this pretty big, kind of firm bump on the elbow.
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  Speaker 2: And one of the more common things for that and
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  Speaker 2: in the bigger dogs, is we'll call a highgroma. So
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  Speaker 2: it's just often caused by being on firm surfaces over time,
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  Speaker 2: and they just got some inflammation and swelling around the elbow.
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  Speaker 3: And so the solution is simple is.
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  Speaker 2: As we try to take away those hard surfaces, stay
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  Speaker 2: on soft surfaces, and some anti inflammatories to bring that
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  Speaker 2: swelling down.
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  Speaker 3: And so far we're making some progress.
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  Speaker 6: She literally was told to remain seated on a soft bed.
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  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine six
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  Speaker 1: is the number to call for questions for doctor Davis.
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  Speaker 7: Well, no, that sounds like the stay on the tile
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  Speaker 7: rule is not is not the best thing.
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  Speaker 5: She she's she has like a nice temper pedic bed,
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  Speaker 5: but she still likes you know, dogs like it where
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  Speaker 5: it's cold.
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  Speaker 3: They like the cold.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I've all you know.
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  Speaker 6: I have to make her go get on your bed.
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  Speaker 3: I got you a nice bed.
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  Speaker 6: You need to stay on that.
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  Speaker 1: Give her a maker, a bed made out of meat.
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  Speaker 1: Meat yeah cool soft, yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Very soft, and she can chew on it.
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  Speaker 7: Kids, you got to keep your meat cold. Amy is here, Hi, Amy?
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  Speaker 4: Where are you calling?
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  Speaker 8: From Utah County?
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  Speaker 4: And you have a cat? What's the cat's name?
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  Speaker 8: Mittens?
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  Speaker 6: Mittens standard cat names, straight ahead.
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  Speaker 4: So what's the what's the problem here?
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  Speaker 8: So about four months ago, if not maybe even longer,
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  Speaker 8: we took him into the vet because one day he
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  Speaker 8: just woke up and stopped using his back legs. He
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  Speaker 8: was like using his front legs, but his back legs
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  Speaker 8: were just scooting behind him. So we ran him into
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  Speaker 8: the vet. The vet did X rays and said there's nothing,
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  Speaker 8: no fractures, no brakes, no anything, and then send us home.
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  Speaker 4: He's faking and then trying to get your sympathy.
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  Speaker 8: He's getting it. Yeah, So here we are in January
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  Speaker 8: and he's still dragging them will not Yeah, well he's
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  Speaker 8: not dragging them as bad, but like he doesn't sit
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  Speaker 8: down like a normal cat. When he sits down, he
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  Speaker 8: puts his right leg way in front of his front legs,
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  Speaker 8: like he can't bend it to sit down more correctly.
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  Speaker 1: No, if he's not faking it, he's got psychological problems,
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  Speaker 1: that's what.
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  Speaker 4: What do you think, doctor Davis?
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  Speaker 3: Can you well?
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  Speaker 2: And there's a couple of reasons cats will lose feeling
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  Speaker 2: their legs really acutely like that, And it doesn't sound
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  Speaker 2: like any of those are the problem. But diabetes can
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  Speaker 2: cause weakness in the hind legs. Also, cats with heart
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  Speaker 2: disease can get a blood clot basically to the legs
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  Speaker 2: and then there. But those things don't sound like what's
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  Speaker 2: happening because they would not be getting better if those
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  Speaker 2: are the things. So the other thing I'm thinking is
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  Speaker 2: probably some sort of either.
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  Speaker 3: Joint or orthopedic injury.
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  Speaker 2: That maybe when you got in right away wasn't manifest
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  Speaker 2: yet on the x rays. But usually with joint injuries,
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  Speaker 2: if there's something severe, then they'll start to get scar
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  Speaker 2: tissue and what we call fibrosis, and so the joints
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  Speaker 2: may not function.
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  Speaker 3: Is good after they've had time to.
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  Speaker 2: Make that scar tissue, So that'd be my best guess
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  Speaker 2: without getting my hands on those legs. But you know,
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  Speaker 2: the other two things are way more severe, so it
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  Speaker 2: doesn't sound like we're dealing with that. But yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: would really wonder about either a joint or some sort
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  Speaker 2: of like living injury. Yeah, so it might be worth
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  Speaker 2: checking again now that it's had time to try and heal,
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  Speaker 2: even though it's not healing.
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  Speaker 3: Well, it doesn't sound like all right, yeah.
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  Speaker 8: No, all right, thank you? And well, should I do
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  Speaker 8: like some type of like therapy on his leg, like
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  Speaker 8: where I'm holding it and moving it back so that
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  Speaker 8: he hurt him?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I guess, yeah, it would be okay to do
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  Speaker 2: that if you knew what the problem was, so I
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  Speaker 2: would still because you can also cause harm if you're
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  Speaker 2: not if you're not sure what the problem is. So
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  Speaker 2: I would try to get a diagnosis because then physical
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  Speaker 2: therapy absolutely is a good thing.
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  Speaker 3: As long as we know what we're dealing with.
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  Speaker 2: So, oh, just be careful about that later him.
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  Speaker 7: All right, let's let's go to Christina.
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  Speaker 1: Hello, Christina, Christina, where are you?
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  Speaker 9: And I'm in provo?
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  Speaker 4: Okay, what's your what's your kiddies name?
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  Speaker 6: His name's Ozzy.
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  Speaker 4: Okay.
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  Speaker 9: He's a little black, short hair. We just adopted him
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  Speaker 9: on the shelter like a week and a half ago,
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  Speaker 9: and the last couple of days he's been having a
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  Speaker 9: really stuff.
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  Speaker 7: He knows.
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  Speaker 9: He's been sneezing repeatedly. He's got a little small bubbles
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  Speaker 9: coming out of yeah, and so I'm not sure that's
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  Speaker 9: something I should take him into the VAT for. Is
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  Speaker 9: that just like a common thing and it'll pass?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's it. Catch catch cold, don't they they do?
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  Speaker 2: They get what we call upper respiratory complex. And cats
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  Speaker 2: that come from shelters, your situation is, unfortunately, it's very
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  Speaker 2: very common because in shelters there's just lots of animals
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  Speaker 2: there and they do their best, but sometimes they can
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  Speaker 2: be exposed to viral things. So a lot of viral
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  Speaker 2: things will get better on their own just given time.
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  Speaker 2: But if the cat stops eating or is lethargic, that's
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  Speaker 2: a problem. And then you know, some clear nasal discharge
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  Speaker 2: or some clear eye discharges is usually okay. But if
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  Speaker 2: they start to get really thick and snotty or their
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  Speaker 2: eyes get squinty, those are things that might be worth
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  Speaker 2: treating because they can progress and get sicker from that.
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  Speaker 2: And also we're in a brand new environment, so there's
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  Speaker 2: stress from that and that doesn't help their immune system.
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  Speaker 1: Gina would recommend afron I think probably. I'm a big
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  Speaker 1: fan of it.
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  Speaker 2: So sometimes we'll do antibiotics and anti virals to try
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  Speaker 2: and get them through it faster so that they don't
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  Speaker 2: get sick along the way. So it might be worth
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  Speaker 2: getting looked at if you see those things.
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  Speaker 7: All right, all right? Yeah see you Texter says, I
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  Speaker 7: have a one eyed cat named Olive. She'll use the
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  Speaker 7: litter box to poop, but never uses it to pee.
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  Speaker 7: She'll pee on puppy pads. Why in the love of Jesus.
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  Speaker 4: In the litter box.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a super common cat thing to do, and
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  Speaker 2: there's a variety of reasons. So behavioral is sometimes a reason,
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  Speaker 2: and that could be a thousand different things around the house,
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  Speaker 2: but also there's medical reasons for that, so it's always
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  Speaker 2: best to make sure that we rule those out because
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  Speaker 2: if you have something treatable, you want to get it
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  Speaker 2: treated and and go from there.
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  Speaker 7: Again, focusing on poop, what should I do if my
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  Speaker 7: dog doesn't regularly express his anal glands during a BM.
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  Speaker 4: That trouble yeap.
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  Speaker 2: That is unfortunately a common dog thing too that we
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  Speaker 2: see and if they're not doing it. Things we try
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  Speaker 2: to help with is one as there are. There's a
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  Speaker 2: supplement out there called Glandex that some dogs that helps
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  Speaker 2: them with that.
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  Speaker 3: Are you on that bill Landex?
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  Speaker 4: Yep? It does, it does help.
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  Speaker 2: And then also making sure that they have good, firm,
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  Speaker 2: normal poops because that that helps the glends express every
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  Speaker 2: time they go. But some dogs have abnormal or inflamed glands,
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  Speaker 2: and really keeping them emptied out is one of your
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  Speaker 2: best options so they don't get infections and absesses.
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  Speaker 1: I say that to myself every morning, Uh, express those glands,
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  Speaker 1: express them.
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  Speaker 5: I have.
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  Speaker 6: How can you tell if it's not being expressed.
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  Speaker 2: The most common things are the butt scoot, so they'll
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  Speaker 2: drag themselves along the floor, or they'll be licking back
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  Speaker 2: there constantly.
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  Speaker 4: Yep, Yeah, I couldn't reach it, so I sco.
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  Speaker 3: The scot that's the telltale sign.
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  Speaker 1: Usually that's why my wife said, I'm taking you in
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  Speaker 1: all right? Mark is here?
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  Speaker 4: Hello? Mark? Mark? Where are you? What's your question? High Metal?
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  Speaker 3: Mark?
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  Speaker 4: Your dog's name is?
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  Speaker 10: What dog's name is? Scout? Okay, it's about a seven
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  Speaker 10: it's about a seven year old Retriever mix. And she's
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  Speaker 10: got a fight on the edge of her eye. Should
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  Speaker 10: we be concerned about that? Or is it something that
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  Speaker 10: goes away or go to the bed?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 2: The the the most common thing you'll get on.
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  Speaker 3: The edge of the eye is that the eyelid.
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  Speaker 2: Has glands all the way across it, and sometimes they'll
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  Speaker 2: get either inflamed or plugged up, and they usually don't
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  Speaker 2: go away, and they usually will get bigger over time, and.
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  Speaker 3: A lot of dogs they don't.
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  Speaker 2: Start out causing any problems other than they're just there.
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  Speaker 2: But for some dogs, if they get big enough or
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  Speaker 2: inflamed enough, it'll actually start to irritate the eyeball, and
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  Speaker 2: then that becomes a problem because they'll start rubbing and scratching,
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  Speaker 2: and then they can hurt themselves on top of having
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  Speaker 2: the little bump on the eyelids.
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  Speaker 1: The same same thing people. It's called blefaridis. Yeah, and
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  Speaker 1: the glands that are underneath your eyelid get clogged, little
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  Speaker 1: oil glands.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're called my bomyan cysts or my bomyan adenomas.
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  Speaker 2: And removing them when they're small is always best. They
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  Speaker 2: can get them in other places, but usually if they're smaller,
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  Speaker 2: I just cauterize them off, Just knock them out for
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  Speaker 2: a short procedure and cauterize them off.
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  Speaker 4: Is that okay, Mark, Okay, thank you? There go see ya.
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  Speaker 4: All right.
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  Speaker 7: Let's see my seven year old border Collie Leah is
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  Speaker 7: getting overly clingy with me. She's been checked out recently,
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  Speaker 7: not any health issues. There hasn't been any changes at home.
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  Speaker 7: She still gets her exercise and her toys. Nothing that
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  Speaker 7: I can think of to make her suddenly more clingy,
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  Speaker 7: any idea.
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  Speaker 3: She loves you, yeah, yeah, she loves you.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: Those are always tricky because even if we don't think
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  Speaker 2: something has changed in their.
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  Speaker 3: Mind or their version of what's going on, maybe something
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  Speaker 3: has changed.
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  Speaker 2: But Also, as dogs get older, they have mental changes too,
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  Speaker 2: and probably not in the age group where we worry
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  Speaker 2: about just the senior changes, but they can have cognitive changes.
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  Speaker 4: Over time, get dementia.
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  Speaker 2: They can, yeah, they can get a version of that.
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  Speaker 2: We call it it's canine cognitive disease or decline. And
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  Speaker 2: there's a whole list of things because we kind of
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  Speaker 2: have to diagnose that just based on what we see
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  Speaker 2: because there's not a real test for that. But if
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  Speaker 2: they start meeting a lot of these categories, then we
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  Speaker 2: start to lean towards that as a diagnosis.
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  Speaker 1: But right there you go, Ashley is here. Hello, Ashley, Ashley,
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  Speaker 1: where are you? Where are you calling.
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  Speaker 11: From driving to Salt Lake for work?
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  Speaker 4: Okay? And what's your animal's name?
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  Speaker 11: Her name is Olive the Dog?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, yes, go ahead.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, so she is a pitbull Ardale Terrier huss Boxer mix.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, somebody got around.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: She's got a lot of allergies. Four and we have
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  Speaker 11: had her on apaquel, We've had her on the monthly shots.
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  Speaker 11: She's always got ear infections, always red, always itching, and
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  Speaker 11: we've done allergy testing and all we ruled out was
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  Speaker 11: that she's allergic to beef, some type of honeybee, and
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  Speaker 11: a plant that we don't have here in Utah. So
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  Speaker 11: every time I take her to the vet, it feels
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  Speaker 11: like they just are like, oh, yeah, she's got allergies.
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  Speaker 11: But there's like no resolution. I don't have any I
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  Speaker 11: don't know what to do. And is it reasonable to
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  Speaker 11: get a second opinion?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so yeah, for the second opinion, I think that's
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  Speaker 2: always reasonable because nobody is right one hundred percent of
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  Speaker 2: the time. But also different doctors have different experience and
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  Speaker 2: different ways to go about managing disease, and skin is
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  Speaker 2: by far one of the most difficult and frustrating and
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  Speaker 2: just annoying things to deal with, and a lot of
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  Speaker 2: times we reach for, you know, the the epiculs and
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  Speaker 2: the other ones called cido point that you're probably talking about,
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  Speaker 2: and by themselves, they are very good and very effective.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, they've changed the landscape around dermatology, but they
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  Speaker 2: don't work in a vacuum. And so if we're not
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  Speaker 2: treating externally with I often use really good medicated shampoos
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  Speaker 2: and mooses and ear cleaning and ear management. Also, food
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  Speaker 2: is a factor. There's special supplements that can be factors,
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  Speaker 2: and and some dogs have to be on all of.
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  Speaker 3: Those things to even have a chance at that.
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  Speaker 2: So I do think that, you know, it is frustrating, probably,
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  Speaker 2: but there's other avenues to take, there's other other ways
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  Speaker 2: to go.
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  Speaker 3: So it's it's worth asking the question and maybe getting
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  Speaker 3: a second opinion.
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  Speaker 1: You know, there's a there's a vet right here who
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  Speaker 1: has his own clinic.
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  Speaker 4: You can bring your Yeah.
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  Speaker 11: Yeah, we're going to bring a few of our dogs in.
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  Speaker 3: So awesome, good few of your dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we'll take the time with you and we'll you know,
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  Speaker 2: we'll make a plan and we'll help you try to
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  Speaker 2: do something different.
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  Speaker 9: There you go, Okay, great, thank you.
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  Speaker 4: All right, somebody says, a few of our dogs.
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  Speaker 7: My dog cut her pop head on a hike on Saturday.
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  Speaker 7: We've been using a pain reliever and aseptic cleaner daily.
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  Speaker 7: Is there a cream like neosporin that can be used
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  Speaker 7: or is the cleaned our best route the aniseptic cleaner.
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  Speaker 3: Some of those are okay.
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  Speaker 2: The problem with anything topicals they can just lick it off.
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  Speaker 2: So if they don't have, you know, the old lamp
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  Speaker 2: shade or some way to protect it. Popads are tough anyway,
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  Speaker 2: because they're they're hard to heal, but neo sporn plain
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  Speaker 2: old neo sporn is actually fine as long as they're
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  Speaker 2: not licking it off. So the licking tends to be
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  Speaker 2: a bigger problem at dogs.
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  Speaker 1: What about so instead of a collar or the lampshade,
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  Speaker 1: the cone of shame, why did you put something on
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  Speaker 1: the popad and then put one of those little booties.
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  Speaker 2: On for outdoor stuff or temporary That's okay. The problem
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  Speaker 2: is that if they're left on too long, they will
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  Speaker 2: trap moisture and then you get a whole new problem
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  Speaker 2: with that too. So if used appropriately, that stuff is great,
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  Speaker 2: but you can't monitor your dog twenty four seven and
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  Speaker 2: they can just pull that stuff off and still chew
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  Speaker 2: on their foot.
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  Speaker 7: I have a one year old French bulldog that will
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  Speaker 7: destroy the heck out of every toy that we buy them. Yay,
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  Speaker 7: and you recommend a durable brand.
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  Speaker 5: That's that's my constant battle.
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  Speaker 7: The Kong toys are pretty durable, are they? Well, there's
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  Speaker 7: the Congs are the plastic toys, but they also have
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  Speaker 7: a series of plush toys that are really really durable.
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  Speaker 4: I've got one that's been through three dogs.
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  Speaker 2: That's the brand and k Yeah, Unfortunately, there's no toy
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  Speaker 2: out there that's not impossible to break down. And the
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  Speaker 2: problem is with some of them is dogs their their
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  Speaker 2: jaw muscle can be stronger than their teeth sometimes, so
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  Speaker 2: they can break their teeth if the toys are too hard. So, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: the clungs are the most popular. Probably there's also.
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  Speaker 3: Nyla bones, which can be too hard for some dogs.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, that's a that's a tough one because it
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  Speaker 2: is good behavior for them and probably keeps them manageable.
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  Speaker 2: But I also think finding other ways to keep them
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  Speaker 2: entertained as much as possible is a good thing.
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  Speaker 6: How do you feel about antlers?
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  Speaker 2: I would I would not do antlers because they they
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  Speaker 2: will break their teeth on them.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and that's and you're talking about like real Yeah
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  Speaker 1: they sell them.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, they sell them. I've seen a lot of harm
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  Speaker 3: done by those. Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: All right, well that's it, Doctor Josh Davis, thank you
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  Speaker 1: for being with us. It's trilogy, Veterinary.
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  Speaker 6: Trilogyvesandy dot Com.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that's the easy one. Okay, okay, all right, all right,
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  Speaker 3: see you guys. Thank you. Sen