Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Vet Josh Davis Q&A from August 12th, 2026
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- 0:01Speaker 1: Doctor Josh Davis Trilogy Veterinary Services and Sandy. He's here
- 0:05Speaker 1: to answer questions you might have about your dogs and cats.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Call us. He can help you out, he can spot things,
- 0:12Speaker 1: he can tell you, give you some advice. And you
- 0:15Speaker 1: were saying while we're waiting for some calls to come in,
- 0:19Speaker 1: that there's a severe shortage of veterinarians in Utah. Is
- 0:23Speaker 1: that right?
- 0:23Speaker 2: Yeah, it's see Utah and probably even nationwide it's just
- 0:27Speaker 2: a very fast growing and almost everyone has.
- 0:30Speaker 1: A pet or two or three or four.
- 0:32Speaker 2: So yeah, it's it's uh and you guys have probably
- 0:35Speaker 2: experienced sometimes you have to call you know, five or six, seven,
- 0:38Speaker 2: eight vets to even get an appointment in a timely
- 0:40Speaker 2: manner sometimes, So it's tough right now.
- 0:43Speaker 1: Not a trilogy veterinary medical So I'm would you you
- 0:48Speaker 1: would suggest that is a good career for some people.
- 0:51Speaker 1: I wouldn't trade it for anything, yeaheah, I love it. Yeah,
- 0:54Speaker 1: it's you got to go to you got to take
- 0:56Speaker 1: some schooling to do it. Yeah, it's an eight years minimum. Yeah,
- 0:59Speaker 1: it's a it's a haul. It's worth it. Well, that
- 1:02Speaker 1: and that would probably and indicate why maybe there aren't enough.
- 1:06Speaker 1: That's just because it takes so long to do it. Yeah,
- 1:09Speaker 1: it's dedication for sure. Is something ailing your little kiddie
- 1:12Speaker 1: or your your your dog, Doctor Davis could perhaps help
- 1:17Speaker 1: you identify what's going on.
- 1:20Speaker 3: I just want to say thank you to Trilogy for
- 1:24Speaker 3: keeping up on my dog, Hudson's vaccinations.
- 1:29Speaker 1: He needs He needed.
- 1:30Speaker 3: His raby shot, you know, redone, and they always give
- 1:36Speaker 3: it a new tag. And the tags have always been
- 1:38Speaker 3: these big things for the longest time, you know. Now
- 1:41Speaker 3: they're little. So he's got a dainty kind of a jingle.
- 1:46Speaker 1: Did he get his measles too?
- 1:48Speaker 3: No, he got his rabies taken care of.
- 1:52Speaker 1: So, I don't know. Dustin's got a question. I don't
- 1:54Speaker 1: know if you can Hi, Dustin. I don't know if
- 1:56Speaker 1: doctor Davis can help with this, but let's see go ahead.
- 2:01Speaker 4: You had some questions about reptiles. If you know anything
- 2:04Speaker 4: about bearded dragons or butterfly of gamas.
- 2:09Speaker 1: Very limited, but maybe let's see. Let's what you got.
- 2:14Speaker 4: Okay, So I've got two bearded dragons. One of them
- 2:18Speaker 4: is having very loose screened school. I'm wondering if you
- 2:25Speaker 4: know rather than that he's healthy, active.
- 2:29Speaker 1: You know, he's eating the eating the tailor farms. Let us.
- 2:38Speaker 2: No, I mean in general digestibility, and I think there's
- 2:42Speaker 2: a lot of parallels, probably, but it's often either diet related,
- 2:46Speaker 2: so whatever they're eating, the digestibility can be an issue,
- 2:49Speaker 2: or if there is actually an issue with the intestinal
- 2:53Speaker 2: tract somewhere along the way. And at least in my
- 2:56Speaker 2: limited experience, a lot of things with reptiles and rodents
- 2:59Speaker 2: and a lot of the exotic animals is that the
- 3:02Speaker 2: husbandry is often part of of why they can have
- 3:05Speaker 2: ailments is just getting the right mix of nutrients and
- 3:07Speaker 2: everything there.
- 3:08Speaker 1: So try and change up the trying to change up
- 3:10Speaker 1: his diet is what you're saying.
- 3:12Speaker 2: Yeah, And if that doesn't help, you know, then I
- 3:14Speaker 2: think there are some great exotic vets out there, so
- 3:16Speaker 2: it's worth getting looked at.
- 3:17Speaker 1: How do you find a vet that's so you can?
- 3:20Speaker 2: You can search for them Google. Yeah, Yeah, there's a
- 3:23Speaker 2: couple of places that do that kind of work.
- 3:25Speaker 1: Okay, there you go, there you go, dust. All right,
- 3:30Speaker 1: let's go to Anissa. Hello, Anissa, Hi, there, what's your question?
- 3:35Speaker 5: Hey? Hey, by the first thing I want to say
- 3:40Speaker 5: is I've had both my dogs into trilogy vets and
- 3:45Speaker 5: I have the pleasure of seeing doctor Davis one of
- 3:47Speaker 5: the times. The other time we saw one of.
- 3:48Speaker 6: His amazing deaths.
- 3:50Speaker 1: Awesome.
- 3:51Speaker 5: We just we went in through just the well and
- 3:56Speaker 5: the vaccinations, and I would reckon to everyone go see
- 4:01Speaker 5: doctor Davison his staff. But my question is one of
- 4:05Speaker 5: my dogs just he is an incessant liquor like his pads,
- 4:10Speaker 5: Like it's like, I don't know.
- 4:12Speaker 6: If he's itchy. I don't know what the deal is.
- 4:14Speaker 6: And you see all of these gimmicky things all over
- 4:17Speaker 6: the internet that says, oh, you need to buy to
- 4:20Speaker 6: stop your dog's greene, Like what do I need? Do
- 4:22Speaker 6: I need to either do anything? Or is it just neurotic?
- 4:26Speaker 2: Yeah, most of the time, So there are some rare
- 4:28Speaker 2: cases where they can be behavioral or neurotic or nervous,
- 4:32Speaker 2: but I'd say majority of the time, you're probably dealing
- 4:36Speaker 2: with some sort of allergy, whether that's environment, whether it's
- 4:39Speaker 2: food or even contact. Just sometimes grass is enough to
- 4:42Speaker 2: dis mess with dogs. So yeah, leaking feed is I
- 4:46Speaker 2: would always rule out all the important things before just
- 4:49Speaker 2: saying it's behavioral, because they can cause pretty bad infections
- 4:52Speaker 2: and pain, and it can really be a problem, and
- 4:55Speaker 2: then often that'll spread to other areas, ear infections, other
- 4:59Speaker 2: areas of the skin. So yeah, don't let it, let
- 5:01Speaker 2: it go and just think that that's just them, because
- 5:04Speaker 2: it often isn't just them.
- 5:06Speaker 5: All right, all right, sounds like I need another visit here.
- 5:10Speaker 1: We'll take care of you and this. I took Hudson
- 5:13Speaker 1: in for the same reason.
- 5:14Speaker 3: And uh, you know, because I was concerned because he kept,
- 5:17Speaker 3: you know, licking his paw and Josh looked at his
- 5:20Speaker 3: paw and said, there doesn't seem to be anything really
- 5:22Speaker 3: going on here, and we think it's just he's sucking
- 5:26Speaker 3: his thumb.
- 5:27Speaker 1: It's comfort, you know, just tell him to stop it.
- 5:29Speaker 6: That's what That's what I think. My dog's like almost
- 5:32Speaker 6: fourteen years old.
- 5:34Speaker 5: He just I know, dog never get old.
- 5:38Speaker 1: Yeah, I wish thank you, thank you.
- 5:42Speaker 3: All right, Well, we've got a couple of more calls
- 5:44Speaker 3: coming in.
- 5:44Speaker 1: All right, we're back now with doctor Josh Davis, uh
- 5:49Speaker 1: Trial Trilogy Veterinary Clinic in Sandy and uh he's going
- 5:54Speaker 1: to answer your questions. There's a lot of questions on
- 5:56Speaker 1: the phone right now. Let's go to Meg, Meg, Meg,
- 6:00Speaker 1: how are you. I'm good, good, what's your animal's name
- 6:06Speaker 1: and what's the problem.
- 6:08Speaker 7: So my animal's name is she Fu, And the problem
- 6:12Speaker 7: is that he thinks he's an untrained puppy even though
- 6:14Speaker 7: he's a cat. So my cat choose on sos, towels, blankets, cords,
- 6:25Speaker 7: not everything, but specifically those things. And I'm not sure
- 6:30Speaker 7: if there's anything that can be done to stop him.
- 6:34Speaker 7: I looked into it maybe being pika, but he doesn't
- 6:36Speaker 7: really eat things. He just wants to chew on them.
- 6:40Speaker 7: But I have lost so many socks and towels and
- 6:44Speaker 7: cords that I'm just wondering if there's anything that could
- 6:48Speaker 7: be done to treat that.
- 6:49Speaker 1: Give him a lollipop.
- 6:53Speaker 7: I would happily give him a lollipop if that.
- 6:55Speaker 1: Would fix the problem. Yeah.
- 6:57Speaker 2: Yeah, kitty cats like this can definitely be a challenge.
- 7:01Speaker 2: And the yeah, the pika thing you're talking about, that
- 7:04Speaker 2: that can be a problem for some pets, and that
- 7:06Speaker 2: can be from malnutrition or other reasons or just bad
- 7:09Speaker 2: bad habits, you know. But yeah, the chewing thing, Uh,
- 7:13Speaker 2: the biggest problem with that is is eventually a lot
- 7:16Speaker 2: of cats will end up swallowing things too. So that's
- 7:19Speaker 2: why it's really tough to deal with, and especially cords
- 7:22Speaker 2: and electric cords. They can actually get electrocuted and injured
- 7:25Speaker 2: from that.
- 7:26Speaker 1: So those are things we have to be careful of.
- 7:28Speaker 2: But with cats, especially the things that you can keep
- 7:33Speaker 2: out of their you know, their ability to get into
- 7:37Speaker 2: My cats like to do certain things like that too.
- 7:39Speaker 2: So one is keeping the environment just super cleaned up,
- 7:43Speaker 2: and everything that you can keep out of their access
- 7:46Speaker 2: is keeping out of their access, and that'll eliminate a
- 7:48Speaker 2: lot of problems. And it's hard to be diligent all
- 7:51Speaker 2: the time. I mean, I've definitely we have one cat
- 7:53Speaker 2: he'll if you leave a glass on the.
- 7:54Speaker 1: Counter, he'll just knock it off every time. So we've
- 7:57Speaker 1: lost a lot of glasses over the years. Just keep
- 8:00Speaker 1: your house clean. I would have moved, Josh, I would
- 8:03Speaker 1: move to plastic. Yeah, well we're out of glasses down
- 8:06Speaker 1: so yeah.
- 8:07Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 8:08Speaker 2: But so avoidance of the things that are possible in
- 8:11Speaker 2: your environment I think is really important, and then redirecting
- 8:14Speaker 2: them and making sure they have you know, all the
- 8:16Speaker 2: enrichment in the world and all the play that you
- 8:18Speaker 2: can get to kind of keep them away from things
- 8:20Speaker 2: that you want. And then there are other environmental there's
- 8:24Speaker 2: certain sprays and certain strategies to do things like that.
- 8:28Speaker 2: So I think that, you know, it's wouldn't be able
- 8:31Speaker 2: to talk about a million different things like this, but
- 8:34Speaker 2: avoidance of everything possible, keeping the environment really cleaned up,
- 8:37Speaker 2: and then working on some of those other behavior, trying
- 8:40Speaker 2: to redirect the behavior too, because I just hate to
- 8:43Speaker 2: see the kiddy, you know, end up. We had one
- 8:46Speaker 2: recently at eight like part of an exercise, Matt, and
- 8:48Speaker 2: we had to do surgery because there's foam stuck inside
- 8:50Speaker 2: of it.
- 8:51Speaker 1: My cat cat ate a little tiny piece of surgical tubing.
- 8:54Speaker 2: Yeah, it doesn't take much lodged in its. Yeah, their
- 8:58Speaker 2: intestines are so tiny.
- 9:00Speaker 7: All right, Megan, I adopted I adopted siblings, which was
- 9:04Speaker 7: my first snake of kittens and his sister of bend
- 9:07Speaker 7: debt before. But they also have learned to open cabinets
- 9:11Speaker 7: and drawers and work together.
- 9:13Speaker 4: Again.
- 9:14Speaker 2: Yeah, sometimes you'll literally have to child proof your house
- 9:17Speaker 2: against your cats because they are they're very smart and
- 9:20Speaker 2: even though they don't have thumbs, it's real close.
- 9:24Speaker 1: One. Well, I'm glad my cat's a dome. Thanks, Megan.
- 9:27Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Nathan. Nathan is here. Hello, Nathan,
- 9:32Speaker 1: what's your question?
- 9:34Speaker 9: Hello, I have a Jack Russell Chiuala mix who we've
- 9:38Speaker 9: had for fourteen years, so he's you know, getting up there.
- 9:41Speaker 1: What's his name? His name is Jack okay.
- 9:44Speaker 9: Okay, and Jack the Jack Russell. And my question is,
- 9:51Speaker 9: as he's gotten older, he's had some accidents and stuff
- 9:54Speaker 9: in the house, but that's not really what I'm concerned about.
- 9:57Speaker 9: We've learned that we have to take him out until
- 9:59Speaker 9: you're a new in our grass. Like, if we take
- 10:01Speaker 9: him out, he ironates almost right away. But when we
- 10:04Speaker 9: go camping, he really just like does not want to urinate.
- 10:08Speaker 9: And we'll walk him for you know, an hour, and
- 10:10Speaker 9: he sniffs around, and then we take him in the
- 10:12Speaker 9: camper or put him in his crate and many urinates
- 10:14Speaker 9: because he just can't hold it anymore. And so would
- 10:18Speaker 9: it be crazy to collect some of his urine, like
- 10:23Speaker 9: on paper towels or something and scatter it kind of
- 10:26Speaker 9: around the camp site so he would have something to smell.
- 10:29Speaker 1: What about the grass, you say he likes your grass
- 10:32Speaker 1: at home? Just take a big hunk of sod with you.
- 10:35Speaker 9: Well, they bill they make that for apartments, so they'll
- 10:37Speaker 9: ship you a piece of grass. Really yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
- 10:41Speaker 9: I don't know, because because when we walk him in
- 10:44Speaker 9: the neighborhood, he doesn't pee on other people's grasses.
- 10:47Speaker 1: Interesting, that's interesting.
- 10:49Speaker 2: Some dogs are they're really particular about that kind of
- 10:53Speaker 2: stuff too, and even like pooping, sometimes they will only
- 10:57Speaker 2: go in their spot and the right scenario.
- 11:00Speaker 1: I don't camping, so I mean, I wouldn't know.
- 11:04Speaker 2: It wouldn't be a weird thing to do to try,
- 11:06Speaker 2: you know, catch some urine or something like that and
- 11:09Speaker 2: just see if that helps. But I think it's it's
- 11:12Speaker 2: probably a preference thing for them a lot of times.
- 11:15Speaker 2: And and some dogs, like I said, they're very particular
- 11:18Speaker 2: about their environment and when they'll do what they'll do.
- 11:21Speaker 2: So but if you do enough camping, I guess, or
- 11:24Speaker 2: long enough durations holding the urine too much can also
- 11:27Speaker 2: cause other issues.
- 11:28Speaker 1: For them too.
- 11:29Speaker 2: So yeah, I think that's Yeah, that's an interesting one.
- 11:32Speaker 2: I've never had anyone say something quite that extreme.
- 11:34Speaker 1: I think that's a good idea, though, take some some
- 11:37Speaker 1: urine of some of his urine.
- 11:39Speaker 2: Or even if you can train him to use those,
- 11:41Speaker 2: like you know, the artificial turf like mats or something.
- 11:44Speaker 2: I don't know if that's if he's too old for that.
- 11:46Speaker 9: I got the idea because the training for pepads is,
- 11:51Speaker 9: you know, you get some of their urine, put it
- 11:52Speaker 9: on the p pad, right, yeah, I thought, well, if
- 11:55Speaker 9: I do that, if I put you know, on So
- 11:57Speaker 9: do you think maybe paper towels are actually like collect
- 12:00Speaker 9: what urine and like spray it?
- 12:02Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean you could, I think either one.
- 12:04Speaker 2: Or again, if you can get those like portable you know,
- 12:07Speaker 2: turf mats and maybe train him to.
- 12:09Speaker 1: Use that, that's possible too.
- 12:11Speaker 2: But all right, yeah, I don't think any of it
- 12:12Speaker 2: would be worth not trying for sure.
- 12:15Speaker 1: All right, try it, let us know, all right, we'll
- 12:17Speaker 1: see you, all right. James is here, Hi, James, Hello,
- 12:24Speaker 1: what's your what's your question? What kind of animal do
- 12:26Speaker 1: you have? The cat? Is a cat or a dog?
- 12:28Speaker 1: What do you got?
- 12:30Speaker 6: So two cats?
- 12:31Speaker 8: Quatro's fourteen years old and Turbo was twenty years old.
- 12:36Speaker 8: About five weeks about three months ago, Quatro got really sick.
- 12:41Speaker 8: We got him on some antibiotics, We got him over it,
- 12:44Speaker 8: and about three days after we finally decided, okay, he's fine,
- 12:49Speaker 8: Turbo just died a terrible night, led out of hell.
- 12:54Speaker 8: I looked over at her and she just fell over.
- 12:56Speaker 1: Oh Jesus, so.
- 12:59Speaker 8: Girl going up together. They were never really friends. They
- 13:03Speaker 8: never played together, they never swept together. Whenever they were
- 13:07Speaker 8: post to each other, they would.
- 13:08Speaker 1: Hiss at each other.
- 13:11Speaker 8: About a week ago, Quatro started acting different, not sick
- 13:18Speaker 8: again so much. When he was sick, he wouldn't eat,
- 13:21Speaker 8: he wouldn't use the litter box, he was lethargic, he
- 13:24Speaker 8: was always hiding. Over the last few days, we've noticed
- 13:28Speaker 8: that he's not eating as much as he used to.
- 13:31Speaker 8: He is still drinking. If we put out tuna juice,
- 13:34Speaker 8: he'll he's all about it. His poop is fine, he's
- 13:39Speaker 8: still using the litter box. But he's just acting really different.
- 13:43Speaker 8: I feel like it's depression and just our excess heat
- 13:47Speaker 8: are getting to him. I'm just really not sure if
- 13:50Speaker 8: there's anything that we can do for him.
- 13:53Speaker 1: Yeah, anytime, I mean anytime.
- 13:55Speaker 2: There's a loss like that, even if they weren't friends,
- 13:58Speaker 2: that can affect their behavior, or sometimes because it's a
- 14:01Speaker 2: big break to their routine that they're used to. But
- 14:04Speaker 2: any time an old cat starts acting weird or not
- 14:09Speaker 2: quite eating like normal, or if you're looking at him,
- 14:12Speaker 2: you're like, man, I think he's lost a little bit
- 14:14Speaker 2: of weight or something that. To me, that's always a
- 14:17Speaker 2: concern and an older cat, and you know, I don't
- 14:19Speaker 2: know if you had any diagnostics done previously, but there.
- 14:23Speaker 1: Are many, you know, many.
- 14:24Speaker 2: Diseases that older cats can run into that will cause
- 14:27Speaker 2: very similar signs. So I think it's very worth getting
- 14:31Speaker 2: that looked at to make sure you're not dealing with
- 14:33Speaker 2: an old cat medical problem.
- 14:36Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, right up.
- 14:38Speaker 8: When he was sick, we did take him to the vet.
- 14:41Speaker 8: We got all the blood work and everything done. Everything
- 14:43Speaker 8: came back clean.
- 14:44Speaker 1: All right.
- 14:44Speaker 8: He's a pure bread, main tune, so typical eighteen nineteen
- 14:49Speaker 8: pound cat. Yeap, he did drop to about fifteen pounds,
- 14:53Speaker 8: and my wife doesn't think that he's gaining it back
- 14:56Speaker 8: as fast as he should. I don't think he should
- 14:58Speaker 8: gain that much weight back in a few weeks.
- 15:02Speaker 2: No, definitely not. But yeah, if it's persistent. Though, even
- 15:06Speaker 2: blood work being normal doesn't mean there's not a problem.
- 15:09Speaker 2: And actually many, many types of cancers, for example, don't
- 15:13Speaker 2: have bloodwork abnormalities, but they can still be very sick.
- 15:16Speaker 1: So it's probably worth at least.
- 15:18Speaker 2: A follow up exam to see if anything has changed
- 15:20Speaker 2: that way, because I would just hate to, you know,
- 15:22Speaker 2: write it off and then it's very sick.
- 15:24Speaker 1: All right, right, James, we got we got to move
- 15:29Speaker 1: on to one. We got to I got it. We're
- 15:31Speaker 1: gonna one more call real quick, Jill, go ahead.
- 15:35Speaker 8: Hey, So my cat is named Louis.
- 15:37Speaker 4: He's a jerk.
- 15:39Speaker 5: He randomly walks up to his fellow cat Mete.
- 15:41Speaker 9: And rips like full clusters of hair out of their back.
- 15:45Speaker 7: Reason, And then if I'm not paying attention to him,
- 15:48Speaker 7: he will grab my elbow and shake it like he's
- 15:49Speaker 7: trying to kill it.
- 15:50Speaker 1: Yeah, with his mouth.
- 15:53Speaker 4: How do I stop this behavior?
- 15:56Speaker 2: For those extreme cases, Yeah, for cases like that, I
- 16:00Speaker 2: think that a lot of I mean, there's a lot
- 16:03Speaker 2: of environmental things that you can do and enrichment that
- 16:05Speaker 2: you can do. And when cats especially are really getting
- 16:10Speaker 2: close to the severe harm or at least the risk
- 16:13Speaker 2: of severe harm to you or the other cats, sometimes,
- 16:15Speaker 2: that's where I think behavior modifying drugs can be of
- 16:19Speaker 2: great benefit, along with doing other things in the environment
- 16:22Speaker 2: to try and minimize.
- 16:23Speaker 1: Stress, because cats are they'll stress about.
- 16:26Speaker 2: The strangest things sometimes, and so how you have to
- 16:29Speaker 2: come at it from multiple angles.
- 16:30Speaker 1: But at the end, of the day. We don't want
- 16:32Speaker 1: anyone getting.
- 16:33Speaker 2: Hurt, whether it's you or the other cats. So yeah,
- 16:35Speaker 2: it's probably worth the consult about that.
- 16:37Speaker 1: There you go, Jill, we gotta go. Thank you very much.
- 16:40Speaker 1: I know those behavior modification drugs work for me, so
- 16:43Speaker 1: they can be very effective. Yeah, but Billy, you're still
- 16:47Speaker 1: a jerk. I don't know if they're really working. I
- 16:50Speaker 1: took the ones that make you a jo. They modified
- 16:53Speaker 1: my behavior. I used to be a really nice guy.
- 16:56Speaker 1: So there you go. Doctor Josh Davis Trilogy Veterinary Clinic
- 17:00Speaker 1: in Sandy Yep. All right, thanks you guys, thank you
- 17:03Speaker 1: very much.
- 17:04Speaker 7: All Right,