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Forbidden Snacks with the Checkout Vet · Ask The Experts

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  Eight forty thirteen ten wib A and Ask the Experts. Joined in studio this
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  morning by doctor Marty Greer. Doctor Greer comes to us from Checkout Veterinary online
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  checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Cool thing too.
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  Not only at the website can you learn about checkout Veterinary. They also transparent
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  pricing. Gives you a good idea. I know, one of the things
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  that's important is making sure that folks fully understand that type of stuff. And
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  again you can learn more online checkout vet dot com, clinic writ and Sun
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  Prairie on Prairie Lakes Drive their telephone number six so eight three one eight sixty
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  seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty seven hundred. Monday through Wednesday nine
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  to five, Friday, Saturday Sunday nine to five as well. Yeah,
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  that means open weekends. Joining the studio. As mentioned by doctor Marty Greer,
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  doctor, how are you doing this morning? I'm doing great. Thank
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  you, it's good to see you. And real quick for folks that are
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  new to the program, welcome to the show. Let's really quick just talk
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  about Checkout Veterinary, a unique concept in a really amazing idea and it seems
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  like people are just loving what you guys do at check out Vet. They
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  are. The clients love it, the pets love it, My staff loves
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  it. You know. It's it's a great place to work. It's a
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  great place to be. So we're inviting anybody that wants to come visit us
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  to come take a look. And I'm going to come up there too and
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  hang out, Yeah, because I want to. I want to see it.
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  So for folks that don't know that, the concept is, rather than
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  parking in a stall and taking your pet out and walking in that way,
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  have drive in base and just people just pull right in and you can do
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  the How amazing? Is that better for the obviously for the for the patients,
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  also for the pet owners the opportunity to have a nice, relaxed atmosphere.
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  And I'm going to guess, too, do you guys get maybe better
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  readings and better results like for testing other things with a pet more normal state?
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  Oh yeah, they're not so anxious. They're much easier to handle.
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  We can use fewer medications to calm them. It's just all the way around.
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  It's just great. Remember I had a friend who audity at high blood
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  pressure and it was because they would check his blood pressure at the dentist,
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  and of course it was yeah, you'd go to the doctor and they're like,
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  no, there's nothing here, obviously white coat syndrome. Yeah, exactly
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  exactly. Last week we started, OK, of course we're talking this week
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  with doctor Murder Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. Last week we were just kind
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  of talking about just some things about pets, and we're talking diet, and
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  you had mentioned things like blueberries and some other other good things to feed your
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  pet, but you said no grapes, no raisins, and it kind of
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  caught my attention. Why no grapes, no raisins. What's the concern there,
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  Well, there is a subset of patients and we can't really identify if
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  it's the variety of grape or raisin or if it's the patient. But some
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  of them, when exposed to consuming grapes or raisins, which of course are
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  just dried grapes, they go into kidney failure and they have not been able
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  to figure it out. There have been many, many cases, so we
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  know that there's a correlation, but they can't figure out what the cause is.
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  If it's something sprayed on the grapes, if it's the variety of the
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  grape, if it's the dog, it's really been difficult to figure out.
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  One year, just before Christmas, we had a dog that ate got unto
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  the Christmas tree and had a package wrapped of chocolate covered raisins because that's what
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  Dad liked. And the dog got into the chocolate covered raisins, so we
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  had the double whammy. We had the chocolate and the raisins. So it's
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  it's just kind of a messy thing to try and work with. So we
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  try to avoid any grapes or raisins in the diet of the dog. What
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  about you mentioned chocolate, and I've heard all sorts of stories about pets and
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  chocolate. Is chocolate? Is it? Can it be fatal? Is it?
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  I mean, what's the concern there? A small dog with very dark
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  chocolate, Yes, it can be fatal. A large dog with a Hershey's
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  Kiss or an M and M or chocolate cake and oreo, some of those
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  things that aren't super chocolatey, they're not going to be fatal. You may
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  end up with a dog that's a little high strung. It's sort of like
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  an overdose of caffeine theobroman and so it kind of raises their heart rate and
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  they get a little wound up, and so we can see some hyperactivity and
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  things. Most of the time we just see a dog that's a little bit
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  overactive and has probably some diarrhea from the other things that they ate. One
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  of the other concerns that I see when dogs get into those things is the
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  wrapping on the packaging. So we've had dogs eat Hershey kisses whole they come
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  out the other end still wrapped. The flag is gone, but the wrapping
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  is still there. We you know, we have dogs that eat Easter baskets
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  and Halloween baskets full of candy, and the wrappers are also a big concern
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  because those can cause an obstruction. Talk this morning with doctor Marty Greer of
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  Checkout Veterinaria the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com clinic
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  right in sun Prairie on Prairie Lakes Road. Real convenient to get to telephone
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  number six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight
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  sixty seven hundred. So talking about some of the common things around the house
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  that that maybe pet owners we don't always think about that can be dangerous.
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  One of you mentioned the chocolate one that I've heard, and it's good to
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  good to hear firsthand that it is indeed something you want to want to keep
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  your pets away from. I have heard certain types of sugar free chewing gum
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  and other things that you really really want to watch out for around your pets.
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  What are we talking about their doctor. That's silatol. That's the specific
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  ingredient, and it is found in a lot of sugarless gum and candy,
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  and people like it for their children because they don't want them to have cavities,
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  they don't want them to eat that much sugar. And so understandably,
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  those are things that are in people's homes, sometimes in the kid's backpack or
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  school bag or your purse. You know, those things that you just come
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  in the house, drop on the floor and keep moving. You don't really
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  think much about. We've had them where they've the child has gone to sleep
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  with some of the candy in their hand, wrapped in a blanket, thinking
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  the dog couldn't get to it, and yet the dog still finds it.
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  So basically it does two things. One is it drops the dog's blood sugar
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  to the point that they can become either incoordinated or they can actually have a
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  seizure if they are levels drop low enough. And the other is it really
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  high dose, they can go into liver failure. So it's bad stuff and
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  it doesn't you know, little dogs, they're much smaller than we are.
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  There more the size of our children, and so we have to kind of
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  figure out how much of a dose they got. There's a really great service.
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  There's two animal poison control companies services that you can call. One is
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  National Animal Poison Control and the other is Pet Poisons. They both have a
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  fee associated with them, so you have to have your credit card in your
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  hand. You can call them as a client. Our doctors can call them
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  to see additional information. And it's really important that you know that there is
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  a fee because all the poison control services that are meant for people are funded
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  by our government. So it's not really free. You're paying for it,
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  but it's free as far as your phone call goes. But the things that
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  are toxic to people and the things that are toxic to dogs are not the
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  same thing. And dogs eat things that kids wouldn't eat, so we have
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  to realize that there's a lot that we really have to protect our pets from.
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  There's you know, poisons that we put out for rats and insects and
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  things like that. There's all kinds of things that get out that are out
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  there. There's plants, There's all kinds of things that we have to be
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  concerned about. I ask about some of those plants and some other things as
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  well, the other and some of the ones I guess some of the other
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  big ones that I hear. And it's funny you mentioned the xylo tall one.
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  When I take the Chihuahua for a walk, I'm always watching because he's
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  not I don't know what. He's very picky about food, but for some
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  reason, if there's like something on the ground, he'll at least put it
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  in his mouth. So you're always, obviously as a Petalwanner, always watching
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  that and that xylatall. That always scares me. I'm like, good goodness,
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  what about avocados? Is something I've heard? Is there is that something?
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  Is that something we should avoid with our pets or I have never seen
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  anything that says that that's a big concern. It is for birds, but
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  dogs are okay, But again, the pit if they avocado pit, just
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  like a peach pit or a nectarine pit, if they ingest those, those
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  again can cause an obstruction. I had a dog that ate a peach pit,
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  so yeah, they they'll eat. They'll eat all kinds of stuff.
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  You know, if you can put it in your mouth, and the faster
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  you try to run over and get it out of your pet's mouth, the
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  faster they swallow. So it's a it's a direct relationship between the speed at
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  which you're trying to get there. So it doesn't matter if it's a you
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  know, dead bird or something in your yard or what it is. If
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  you're trying to get it away, they're gulping it down just that much faster.
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  What about cats? Are there are there something you meant? Because when
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  you mentioned things like poisons and other things, obviously you think of dogs directly
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  eating them. I think of cats, and you know there are people that
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  they're pets. Are cats go out and those type of things and they're catching
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  mice? I think are there other Are there sometimes concerns out there, for
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  like with kiddies that people don't always think about as far as dangerous foods or
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  things you want to watch out for. Yeah, foods, we don't see
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  much of a problem with, but we do with certain plants. Lilies in
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  particular, so peace lilies, easter lilies, those kinds of things. Those
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  are toxic to cats. So again we have to be careful because cats will
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  chew on the edges of plants, leaves, you know, stems, stamens,
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  all those things, cats will chew on them, and the lily again
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  can cause failure of the kidneys, so we again have to be careful.
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  So there are just certain plants that you need to avoid. And there's there's
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  some really good websites that have this information. National Animal Poison Control has they're
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  part of ASPCA. They have a really great website with plant pictures, so
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  if you have a question you can do that. And now there's some apps
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  too that you can put on your phone and take a picture of the plant
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  and it'll identify for you what it is, and then you can pair that
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  with the poison control website. Once you identify the plant on your phone,
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  you can then go to the website and say toxic not toxic, and toxic
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  can mean different things. Toxic may mean that it numbs their tongue and it
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  makes them drool. Eh, that's inconvenient. But there are things that are
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  more serious, so you do need to understand those things. And just there's
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  certain plants that you probably just simply need to eliminate from your environment. Are
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  there things as we're talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary,
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  the website check out vet dot com. That's check out vet dot com.
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  I think especially, I think like labs are probably notorious. Beagles are notorious
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  forlanges. Just willingness to consume. Just are there like other like products,
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  maybe things that we don't always think about, like things like lotions and other
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  things that as a human we would never eat. Now if you're a dog,
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  you're thinking it smells nice. Are there are there other things like that
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  around the house that people may overlook that you may want to lock away or
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  keep away from pets. Oh yeah, there's definitely lotions and creams, especially
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  the hormone ones that contain estrogens and testosterones. Those are pretty serious. There
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  are I've had a cat that ate potpourri, the liquid potpourri and burned her
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  tongue at esophagus. So they'll they'll lick all kinds of really odd things.
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  And the other things you have to be really careful about are things that maybe
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  you don't even think about as being a problem. CBD chows. We've had
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  dogs get into those and it doesn't you know, if you're supposed to take
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  a quarter of a CB chew for yourself and then the dog eats several of
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  them, that can be a big concern. And we've also had some toxicities
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  with ingesting marijuana. So the week that COVID happened and all the kids came
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  home from college, they chucked their stuff in their rooms and they took off.
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  We had two toxicities that week, and I've had others before and after
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  that as well. And the dogs will come in, you know, obviously
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  affected by those things, and sometimes we don't have a good history because as
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  the parent that brings in the pet, you may not be aware, especially
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  dogs, that that's happened. I've had people with traumatic brain injuries that their
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  kids use this stuff. I've had college kids, I mean, there's a
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  lot of a lot of them. I had one of them that I said
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  to them, is there any possibility that your dog ate marijuana? And they
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  said, oh no, And as soon as I stepped out of the room.
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  They grabbed my technician and they said, don't tell doctor Greer. But
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  and she's like, newsflash, she already knows. So you know, there
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  are things that we're going to watch for. The urine tests that we use
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  for people are not accurate and assessing whether a dog has ingested it or not.
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  So we're kind of in the dark. Dogs and just alcohol. I
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  mean, there's if you can figure out some way to put it on the
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  floor and the dog comes over and tries it, it's likely going to happen.
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  So just be really attentive and be forthcoming with your veterinarian. If you
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  do have a problem, tell us, because we can't manage what we don't
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  know. It's interesting about the and again, I think certain dogs, I
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  think everyone's maybe had one in their life or knowing somebody that'll they consume everything
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  and literally they find something that looks might be tasty, they'll give it a
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  try. And now, with like the marijuana toxicity, can that be deadly
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  to a dog or is it something that just really makes them very uncomfortable and
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  very miserable. Again, size of dog, size of dose is really highly
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  dependent. So if you do call poison control. They're going to want to
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  know what the pet ate, how much they ate, what they weigh,
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  and they're they're great at being able to help us. And then once a
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  case is established, that case number follows the pets. So if you call
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  and then come in with your pet, the veterinarian can use the same case
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  number. You only pay once. Call them and say, okay, this
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  is a dose of ivy fluids, this is a dose of the antidote.
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  They can be very specific about it, so, yeah, you do want
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  to get that information. But dog's lead. I've had dogs eat light bulbs.
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  I've had dogs eat in an entire bag of sugar and it was still
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  dry when we made the dog vomited up. I mean, it's just unbelievable
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  what dogs will put down because they're not good at judging. Thanks, but
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  Labs, Golden Retrievers, Bernie's Mountain Dogs, those are the probably the three
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  breeds that most frequently eat things that they shouldn't. But socks and underwear and
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  towels and dish claws and things, you know, all the things that you
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  wouldn't think that, but if the dishcloth smells good, the dog is going
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  to carry around and eventually they're going to chew on it and swallow it and
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  all those things cause obstructions. So those aren't toxic, but they can cost
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  you fifteen thousand dollars to take them out, So be really careful with what
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  you leave around the house. Dog This morning with doctor Marty Greer. Of
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  course, Doctor Greer comes to us from checkout Vetinari. The website is checkout
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  vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Right at twenty seven ten
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  Prairie Lags Drive in sun Prairie. There televel number six eight three one eight
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  sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty seven hundred. Again great website.
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  Checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet dot com. Talk more
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  with the doctor about some of the things that you want to watch out for
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  when it comes to some maybe household pet dangers as well as things that they
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  may be consuming that they probably shouldn't. And I think anyone that's got a
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  dog and a cat knows there's one particular thing that dogs really seem to like
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  from cats that just seems gross. We'll get the details it is. So
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  you need to have that covered liitterbox oak you Yeah, good choice, maybe
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  maybe angle it into the corner so it's a little harder for the dog to
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  get to. But yes, those are the treats that a little bit it's
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  hard to s it's really hard to understand. Talking that's running with doctor Marty
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  Greer more of Checkout Veterinary and ask the experts. Next here at thirteen ten
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  w U I B E thirteen ten WU I b A and ask the experts
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  talking with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website checkout vet dot com.
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  That's checkout vet dot com. Before we get to get to really cool
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  features, I check out vet a couple of couple other things. We were
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  talking about things that pets may consume, and Autumn stopped in during the break
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  said, what about cicadas? And we're hearing all the news about cicadas?
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  Is do we have any information on that? Doc Is that something that that
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  pet owners should be concerned with. I got to guess the size at all
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  something, But yeah, and you know there's so many of them around right
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  now, that is it is definitely a great question. And according to the
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  things that I can find, they're not toxic to dogs. The shell may
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  be irritating because it's crispy and hard and it may not be good for them,
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  but it's not a toxin. And so if your dog eats a cicada,
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  you know, don't panic, don't don't get alarmed about it. And
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  the other thing is a lot of people read online and have experienced that they
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  use hydrogen peroxide to make the dog vomit when they've ingested something that they shouldn't,
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  and there's actually some toxic toxicity with that as well. We've had dogs
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  get really severe gi upset, intestinal burns, things like that. So we
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  don't wreck amend that if you do see the ingestion of something, you can
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  go to your vet. There's a drug that we can give as an injection
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  that will induce vomiting. And there's also a product that came to market about
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  two years ago. It's called cleave Oor cl v R. It comes in
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  a little packet and I send it home with clients that have dogs that have
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  a tendency to ingest things that they shouldn't. It's an eye drop. You
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  put it in that dog's eye. Depending on the size of the dog,
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  it may be one drop if it's a small dog, it may be four
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  drops if it's a big dog, and within minutes, like three to seven
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  minutes, the dog will vomit. And so for those people who have those
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  repeat offenders that do eat socks and underwear and telephones and remotes and pens and
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  glasses and you know, anything that they can get their little furry lips on,
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  it's a good thing to have around the house. Now, I don't
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  know that all vets will dispense it, but I'm certainly willing to because I'd
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  much rather have you take care of that at eight o'clock at night than run
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  the risk that you end up sitting in the parking lot at an emergency clinic
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  overnight or by the next morning that it may be too late to induce vomiting.
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  So it's a great thing that have around the house. And so speak
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  to your veterinarian about it. Again. It's kleave oor c L e v
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  O R. And it's it's it's not an expensive drug, and it will
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  certainly save you a lot of grief if you have dogs that you know are
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  doesn't work on cats interesting interesting only works on dogs. But it's a it's
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  a great product to have in your house if you have those repeat offenders.
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  Talk this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website checkout vet
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  dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. If you're looking for a vet
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  definitely learn more online of course telephone number three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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  That's three one eight sixty seven hundred. And let's talk about that first appointment
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  pet in, don't you right, Because it is a different way to provide
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  veterinary care. It's a little baffling to certain people that haven't really figured it
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  out, and we do have great videos on our website. But if you
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  just want to get to know us and come in, we do first visit
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  tests, to we'll check medications, any of those things, then there is
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  a charge for those. But the first visit, so basically just driving in
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  the door and getting out of the car and having us take a look at
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  your pet, give you an exam, give you a prognosis, an idea
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  of you know what your pets do for our needs based on their illnesses.
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  We can get that first visit for you free at checkout, and of course
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  seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty seven hundred, first visit free.
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  That is great to hear on the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
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  vet dot com, Doctor Greer. It's always great sing with you. You
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