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Vet Q&A From September 10th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: And now it's time to talk about your puppies and
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  Speaker 1: your kiddies. Doctor Josh Davis has joined us here in
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  Speaker 1: the studio. He is a veterinarian extraordinaire and he's here
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  Speaker 1: to answer your questions about your animals, puppies and kitties specifically.
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  Speaker 2: Not not too good with the reptiles or birds.
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  Speaker 3: A lot less experienced there.
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, but I mean you may he may have
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  Speaker 1: some idea.
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  Speaker 2: But I have a question. I always have a question.
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  Speaker 2: You down in front right there, Yes, what's your question, ma'am?
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  Speaker 4: So, doctor Davis Oakley, my puppy, she's nine months old,
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  Speaker 4: and I'm wondering about starting to transition from puppy food
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  Speaker 4: to adult food.
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  Speaker 2: When should I do that? How should I do that?
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  Speaker 5: Well, you're probably getting close to where you can start
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  Speaker 5: thinking about that.
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  Speaker 2: What's the difference.
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  Speaker 5: Just the growth diets tend to be more high calorie,
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  Speaker 5: more nutrient dense that way, and so if you start
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  Speaker 5: getting into adulthood, it may be more than they need.
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  Speaker 5: So you know, you're probably okay up to a year
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  Speaker 5: as long as the weight and body condition are looking good,
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  Speaker 5: and some of the larger breeds, we might go up
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  Speaker 5: to a year and a half on you know, puppy food. Again,
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  Speaker 5: depending on a lot of factors there. So, but you're
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  Speaker 5: you're getting close to doing that. And anytime you transition dogs,
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  Speaker 5: you don't want vomiting and diarrhea. If you switch too
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  Speaker 5: quick that they could be a it could be a
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  Speaker 5: bad time for everyone. So I always say, take like
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  Speaker 5: five to seven days, slowly mix in your new food,
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  Speaker 5: slowly take out the old food, and you shouldn't have
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  Speaker 5: any problems with.
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  Speaker 1: That, Okay, Yeah, eight seven, seven, six oh two nine
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  Speaker 1: six ninety six. For your telephone questions for doctor Davis,
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  Speaker 1: you can also text questions three three nine eight six
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  Speaker 1: do we have that puppy picture Katie? We uh see.
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  Speaker 1: Here's so we had these puppies in in the studio yesterday.
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  Speaker 1: And if you go to X ninety six dot com
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  Speaker 1: or we're gonna put up a bunch of the others.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, did did Julie do these? Or did you Katie?
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  Speaker 1: Julie did uh? At the Humane Society, there's a picture
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  Speaker 1: of Parley the little puppy, and it says, don't.
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  Speaker 2: You know who I am?
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  Speaker 4: Challamex. These are those puppies that were over one hundred
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  Speaker 4: dogs they took out of that home in the avenue.
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  Speaker 4: So these puppies, they're they're healthy and happy and ready
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  Speaker 4: to be adopted.
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  Speaker 2: As humane society.
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  Speaker 1: They do a great job with the I mean they've
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  Speaker 1: they've made sure they all have their shots. The puppies
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  Speaker 1: are all chipped, you know, spade and or neutered. I
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  Speaker 1: think they were all old enough to do that. And
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  Speaker 1: there you go.
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  Speaker 5: You know, we're usually ready to roll coming out of there.
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  Speaker 5: You know, sometimes depending on their age, they might need
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  Speaker 5: a few more vaccine boosters. But they're they do a
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  Speaker 5: great job starting with them, for sure.
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  Speaker 6: Let's go to Mindy.
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  Speaker 1: I'm Mindy. Where are you calling from, yess? And what
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  Speaker 1: your what's your puppies name?
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  Speaker 6: By the way, nugget, maggot, naggot, not maggot.
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  Speaker 2: So it's maggot, naggat, not nagging.
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  Speaker 6: It's nugget.
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  Speaker 2: I know it's naggat, not nagged. All right, Mandy, what's
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  Speaker 2: your question?
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  Speaker 7: So he was born in April second, and for the
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  Speaker 7: life of us, we can't get him to quit go
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  Speaker 7: into the bathroom in the house. We'll take him out,
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  Speaker 7: he'll go to the bathroom and then he'll come right
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  Speaker 7: back in and go to the bathroom.
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  Speaker 2: You sure you don't want to change his name to maggot?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, no, he's too cute.
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  Speaker 2: So what is that? So behavioral issue of some sort?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Yeah. The what kind of breed does nugget?
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  Speaker 7: He was supposed to be a Yorkie, but I think
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  Speaker 7: he's a Maucheese and a Yorki.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah.
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  Speaker 5: The some sometimes the smaller breed dogs that can be
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  Speaker 5: a little more challenging with with that, uh, anytime it
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  Speaker 5: comes down to training though, consistency is really important, and
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  Speaker 5: I do hear a lot of times it's like, oh,
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  Speaker 5: we'll let them out and you have to be you know,
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  Speaker 5: I recommend making making sure that they do what they're
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  Speaker 5: supposed to do before they're just allowed to roam free.
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  Speaker 5: Especially small breeds, they'll just go outside, they'll get distracted,
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  Speaker 5: run back in, and then they're like, oh, yeah, I
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  Speaker 5: got to go to the bathroom. So making sure, you know,
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  Speaker 5: take them for a leash walk, take them to the
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  Speaker 5: area you want them to go, make sure they go,
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  Speaker 5: reward them for.
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  Speaker 3: Going, and then play time, you know.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and then around meal times is a good time too,
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  Speaker 5: like right after they eat for you know. Number two
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  Speaker 5: action that the feeding and walking are often ways to
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  Speaker 5: stimulate that to happen too, so, but I think consistency
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  Speaker 5: and make it happen.
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  Speaker 3: Don't let them play till until they do what you
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  Speaker 3: need them to do exactly.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we're here on business.
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  Speaker 3: Then then you can have fun business then.
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  Speaker 7: Fun right, all right, alright, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: Best for maggot.
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  Speaker 6: Let's see, hang on there, Christine will get to you.
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  Speaker 6: Let's see. I have a seven month old black lab mix.
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  Speaker 6: He's a right pop suddenly has a bit of an
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  Speaker 6: ear rash, itches slightly, not often. It does not seem
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  Speaker 6: to bother him too much. Is there an ointment or
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  Speaker 6: something that I can pick up and try before going
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  Speaker 6: to see the vet?
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  Speaker 5: It's tough without seeing it to one hundred percent say
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  Speaker 5: that because usually if they are scratching their ears or
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  Speaker 5: shaking their heads, it may not look too bad on
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  Speaker 5: the outside, but it's what's down in the ear now
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  Speaker 5: that's the problem. So an ear infection, and if you
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  Speaker 5: just try to you know, doot over the counter treatments,
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  Speaker 5: you may just sometimes it'll get worse or you know,
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  Speaker 5: it just doesn't get better too. So that's a tricky one.
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  Speaker 5: So I can't say one hundred percent without seeing it.
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  Speaker 6: But all right, sorry about that.
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  Speaker 2: We have only one phone call for doctor Davis right now.
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  Speaker 1: If you have a question about what's ailing your puppy
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  Speaker 1: or your kiddie, what what behavioral problems is your dog
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  Speaker 1: or your cat have, Doctor Davis is here to help.
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  Speaker 2: All right.
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  Speaker 6: This is Christine.
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  Speaker 2: Hi Christine. What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 8: Skippy?
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  Speaker 2: And what's up with Skippy?
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  Speaker 9: Well, Skippy is dealing with another medical problem. But I'm
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  Speaker 9: wondering if how I can tell if he has a fever,
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  Speaker 9: and if there's anything I can do to treat a fever,
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  Speaker 9: Like can you give them ibuprofen or something like that?
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  Speaker 2: What do you what do you mean? He has another
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  Speaker 2: medical problem?
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  Speaker 9: He has two types of cancer. He has given like
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  Speaker 9: a month, given a month to live in May, but
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  Speaker 9: he is doing fine, and we the vet keeps giving
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  Speaker 9: him like Predna zone and he's done two kinds of antibiotics.
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  Speaker 9: But I'm really thinking that he has a fever. And
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  Speaker 9: I mean, I know fever is nothing compared to the cancer,
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  Speaker 9: but I mean he's still the total normal dogs, still
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  Speaker 9: eating everything, and so I just wondered if there's anything
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  Speaker 9: that we could alleviate a fever because he kind of
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  Speaker 9: feels hot to me and he's panting lot.
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  Speaker 5: Okay, Well, the depending on what you're dealing with, cancer wise,
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  Speaker 5: sometimes they can get fevers depending on how it affects
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  Speaker 5: their immune system and everything.
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  Speaker 2: That way.
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  Speaker 5: Being on prednozone, which is a steroid medication and antibiotics,
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  Speaker 5: odds are probably won't end up with a fever because
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  Speaker 5: that does have some anti inflammatory properties to it, and
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  Speaker 5: antibiotics if there's any secondary infections, would keep that at bay.
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  Speaker 5: But you're probably noticing that prednan zone comes with a
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  Speaker 5: lot of side effects depending on the dose, and so
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  Speaker 5: panting is one of them. They tend to drink more,
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  Speaker 5: they tend to pee more. They might have a bigger
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  Speaker 5: appetite than normal, which with cancers is often a good thing,
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  Speaker 5: you know, because they don't always want to eat much.
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  Speaker 5: So you're probably okay. But taking temperatures, I mean, the
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  Speaker 5: best way, unfortunately is rectal temperatures. With a rectal you know,
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  Speaker 5: thermometer probe you can get if they're not black skin.
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  Speaker 5: You can also get the the little readers you can
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  Speaker 5: kind of put on on like down in their ear,
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  Speaker 5: the little button readers, the infrared readers. They're okay, but
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  Speaker 5: they're not as accurate as rectal temperature, and if they
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  Speaker 5: have black skin, those don't work very well either.
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  Speaker 3: So oh that's interesting. All right, there you go, okay,
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  Speaker 3: all right.
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  Speaker 6: Oh we got a few text questions, but again you
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  Speaker 6: always leave details out of the text questions. My dog
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  Speaker 6: ru has been has ben problems with his back legs
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  Speaker 6: since either March or April, where he couldn't walk initially.
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  Speaker 6: We've got him walking stiffly again through adequin injections, hydro therapy,
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  Speaker 6: and laser therapy. Is there anything else that I can do.
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  Speaker 2: For you're doing a lot?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah, those are a lot of good things,
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  Speaker 5: and it really depends if it's a neurologic problem, which
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  Speaker 5: it kind of sounds like maybe there's some that. But
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  Speaker 5: also if they've got really about arthritis or hip or
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  Speaker 5: knee issues, joint tissues, then those things are good for that.
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  Speaker 5: But also make sure anti inflammatory is good, weight manage
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  Speaker 5: meant that type of thing.
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  Speaker 6: So I have a sheep doodle named Willow. She is
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  Speaker 6: three and started to have bad allergies. Is there anything
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  Speaker 6: over the counter that I can.
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  Speaker 5: Buy if they're bad allergies? Probably not anything simple to
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  Speaker 5: fix that. Yeah, and those long haired dogs, if the
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  Speaker 5: hair is longer, that's that doesn't help either. So yeah,
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  Speaker 5: you want to make a plan with your vet for.
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  Speaker 2: That, get them to get them to the vet. There's
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  Speaker 2: line one. Laura, Hi, Laura, Hi, Hi? Why are you fine?
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  Speaker 2: What's your kiddy's name?
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  Speaker 10: Her name is Bonnie?
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  Speaker 2: What's up with Bonnie?
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  Speaker 9: So?
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  Speaker 10: Bonnie is ten or eleven years old, completely healthy. We
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  Speaker 10: just had some blood work done. Everything came back normal.
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  Speaker 10: But she's having accidents in the house. Despite having two
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  Speaker 10: clean litter boxes. She always goes on the same rug
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  Speaker 10: in the same room for the past year. So I
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  Speaker 10: want to keep having to replace the rug and clean
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  Speaker 10: the floor, but nothing seems to help. I don't know
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  Speaker 10: if it's stress related or put the rug in.
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  Speaker 2: The letter box. Yeah, there you go.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, and that kind of behavior can it can stem
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  Speaker 5: in cats for a lot of different reasons. So stress
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  Speaker 5: can be part of it, especially if you've introduced new pets,
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  Speaker 5: new anything moved, that kind of stuff can be a
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  Speaker 5: factor there. And if they're going to the same spot,
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  Speaker 5: if you can't ever get that spot, like really cleaned
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  Speaker 5: up and addressed, then there's always the odors there and
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  Speaker 5: sometimes that can draw them back to those spots. And
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  Speaker 5: so if you know, healthwise, if your blood work was good,
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  Speaker 5: I would hope they did like a urine analysis, So
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  Speaker 5: you make sure that there's no like bladder.
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  Speaker 3: Issues or crystals or stones or anything like that.
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  Speaker 5: Rule all that out, yeah, and then make sure you're
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  Speaker 5: on a good like urinary diet too. There's some good
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  Speaker 5: urinary health diets that also deal with stress, just in
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  Speaker 5: case that's a factor. And then the pheromone diffuse rs
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  Speaker 5: also can often be helpful, you know, just to kind
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  Speaker 5: of calming effect and just helps with stuff like that.
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  Speaker 1: Maybe Bonnie's trying to tell you that you need a
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  Speaker 1: different kind of rug. You need a rug that will
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  Speaker 1: really tie together the room is what you need.
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  Speaker 3: So it's not always easy to find the problem. But yeah,
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  Speaker 3: there you go.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, I about a year and a half ago, so
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  Speaker 10: I don't that's kind of when it all started with
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  Speaker 10: getting the nursery writing and whatnot, and there you go.
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  Speaker 2: You know, Bonnie isn't give me is pissed off.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, but those calming things they make, calming callers, the diffusers,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of those things can be helpful because you know, babies.
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  Speaker 5: As they grow, they get more active and more loud.
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  Speaker 5: And if you know any amount of stress that's increasing, sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: You see those signs of your nation too.
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  Speaker 5: So try to try to get it as best controlled
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  Speaker 5: now as you can so that you don't have to
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  Speaker 5: deal with it, you know, as worse.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you, Thank you, Laura, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 10: Have a great day.
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  Speaker 2: Bye. Okay Alison as miss.
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  Speaker 8: Hi. Yeah, so i I'm getting my first colonoscopy today.
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  Speaker 8: Oh wait, crap, wrong, doctor.
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  Speaker 2: Roscoe or something like that.
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  Speaker 8: Now, Siona, she's she's a little terrier mixed. She's about
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  Speaker 8: twelve years old. Recently, back in April, she was diagnosed
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  Speaker 8: with kidney failure and doctor gave her about a year.
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  Speaker 8: She is on clo fridrow grill, which seems to be helping,
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  Speaker 8: and also Gaba penton for pain, but and additional like, uh,
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  Speaker 8: some sub cutaneous fluids three times a week. But I've
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  Speaker 8: noticed that she started kind of shaking a lot, involuntarily shaking,
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  Speaker 8: like on the days that she doesn't get her fluids.
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  Speaker 8: Is that kind of like an advancement of the kidney
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  Speaker 8: failure or maybe what's going on there. I'd love to
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  Speaker 8: hear the doctor's opinion.
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  Speaker 5: I mean that that could be a progression of it.
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  Speaker 5: The shaking is probably not. It's probably in relation to
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  Speaker 5: something else. A lot of times kidney patients, they do
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  Speaker 5: tend to lose weight, and they can lose weight.
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  Speaker 3: More rapidly as the disease gets worse.
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  Speaker 5: So sometimes they just lose weight and muscle mass, and
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  Speaker 5: so they'll shake because they don't have the strength or
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  Speaker 5: they don't have the masks that they used to have.
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  Speaker 5: I've definitely seen that happen. Also a lot of things
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  Speaker 5: are happening underneath the surface in their lab works and
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  Speaker 5: stuff like that. So also they get a lot of
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  Speaker 5: toxins build up, and that's what becomes the problem, you know,
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  Speaker 5: and we don't do You can do dialysis, but we
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  Speaker 5: don't typically do it as much as they do in people,
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  Speaker 5: you know, with kidney disease and stuff. So if the
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  Speaker 5: subcubes seem to help, you can do them more frequently
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  Speaker 5: just for hydration status. But you know, there's there's probably
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  Speaker 5: other factors for the shaking, you know, because old age
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  Speaker 5: comes with its things already, and then kidney disease and that,
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  Speaker 5: so if you're addressing pain, gabapetan sort of helps, but
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  Speaker 5: there are other things you can do to help with
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  Speaker 5: pain management and and then just tracking the progress of
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  Speaker 5: the disease and and intervening when you can, because blood
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  Speaker 5: pressure can be an issue, you know, GI can a
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  Speaker 5: lot of things can become issues with that.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, okay, all right, final question on a text here.
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  Speaker 6: My kid thinks that her cat needs to literally eat
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  Speaker 6: nothing but meat. I know cats are carnivores, but am
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  Speaker 6: I wrong in thinking.
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  Speaker 2: This is not a good idea?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, the cats technically fall into the what we call
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  Speaker 5: obligate carnivores, So you know, a majority of their diet
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  Speaker 5: should be protein, but especially the raw diets or just
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  Speaker 5: straight meat things like that, they they probably aren't getting
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  Speaker 5: everything they need from that either. And they're at risk
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  Speaker 5: on the raw diets of GI issues and and things
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  Speaker 5: that can be passed to people too. So just a
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  Speaker 5: good quality cat food is totally fine, not gonna hurt thing.
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  Speaker 5: And cat foods have higher protein. That's that's part of
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  Speaker 5: what they do. All right, Well, there you.
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  Speaker 2: Got, doctor Josh Davis, Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 3: All Right, thanks you guys.
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  Speaker 2: We'll talk to you again a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 6: Thank you.
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  Speaker 3: There, right,