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Speaker 1: Eight forty four thirteen ten WIBA and Ask the Experts
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Speaker 1: joined in studio this morning by the twenty twenty three
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Speaker 1: Veterinarian of the Year by the Westminster Kennel Club, doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer. Of course, Doctor Greer comes to us from
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary, the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
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Speaker 1: vet dot com, clinic Write in Sun Prairie at twenty
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Speaker 1: seven ten Prairie Lakes and Prairielakes Drive open every day
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Speaker 1: of the week except for Thursdays. At checkout Vet. They're
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Speaker 1: open nine am until five pm. And great thing they're
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Speaker 1: open on weekends and of course Thursdays they are open
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Speaker 1: at check in Vet, so they're always there for you
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Speaker 1: and for your pet. That first visit it is free,
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Speaker 1: that free exam when you get in for that first visit.
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Speaker 1: All that information you can learn more online at checkout
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Doctor. How
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Speaker 1: the heck you doing this week?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great, Thank you, it's good to see you.
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Speaker 1: And we're getting into the fall months, and they talk
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Speaker 1: a little bit about some obviously changing seasons, changing things,
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Speaker 1: and pet's of things that are new, things that are
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Speaker 1: different and I noticed a couple of acorns.
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Speaker 2: We have different pet sets, Yes, you do.
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Speaker 1: I noticed things like acorns dropping, and I thought, did
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Speaker 1: I hear once that the dogs have eaten them and
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Speaker 1: maybe even choked on them? Will dogs eat an acorn?
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Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, They'll eat anything they can get in their
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Speaker 2: little sorry lips. They're not very discriminating. They figure they
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Speaker 2: can always get rid of it later. But yes, they're
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Speaker 2: definitely risks, and acorns are one of them because that
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Speaker 2: can cause an obstruction, So you want to be very
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Speaker 2: careful with acorns. There's toxicities with walnuts, the black walnuts
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Speaker 2: with the outer shell, you know, those kinds of things
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Speaker 2: that tend to fall, so you want to be really
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Speaker 2: careful what you're allowing your pets to get access to
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Speaker 2: out there. It's you're right, it's always different. Every day
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Speaker 2: there's something new and exciting out the yard. So in
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Speaker 2: the spring we worry about the snow melting and all
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Speaker 2: this stuff that's been accumulating under the snow, the little
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Speaker 2: rabbit droppings and all that stuff. The dogs go out
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Speaker 2: and eat that in that yesterday, I don't know what
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Speaker 2: my dog was digging up in the yard, but she
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Speaker 2: was having a really good time and she came up
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Speaker 2: with a black nose. I'm like, oh goodness, no, no,
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Speaker 2: all the way up her face.
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Speaker 1: What's that too? By the way, you mentioned that, doctor,
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Speaker 1: I've had dogs in the past. We used to have
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Speaker 1: an Australian cattle dog, just a great, brilliant dog, if
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Speaker 1: I may say so, And she used to if there
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Speaker 1: was something dead, she liked to roll in it. Oh yeah,
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Speaker 1: Why do dogs do that?
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Speaker 2: I don't know, but I sure wish we could breed
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Speaker 2: that out of our dogs because that is just deeply
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Speaker 2: into their dna. They want to smell like something really disgusting,
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Speaker 2: so they have to throw them in the tub before
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Speaker 2: you can go to bed. And of course it's always
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Speaker 2: that last trip out at night that they do that.
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Speaker 2: You know, eleven thirty at night, You're ready, like, I've
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Speaker 2: been up way too long. I got to go to bed,
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Speaker 2: and then the dog comes in. Yeah. One of my
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Speaker 2: dogs used to go out only when it was freezing
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Speaker 2: weather and spread kalmanure up all sides of her neck.
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Speaker 2: It was never in the summer, but in the winter
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Speaker 2: she would do it and do that. So they'll have
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Speaker 2: their own little quirks and you just kind of have
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Speaker 2: to learn them. One of mine rolls where the French
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Speaker 2: drain is. It's just it's just what dogs do.
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Speaker 1: Oh, some of the fun of petal ownership.
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Speaker 2: Goodness, cats don't do that.
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Speaker 1: No, no, never. Cats are Yeah, cats are very meticulously clean.
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Speaker 1: And that's is and that is for cat owners. That's
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Speaker 1: an important thing is if if a cat's even a
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Speaker 1: little bit dirty, there's something not right. Is that? Is
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Speaker 1: that true?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they've stopped grooming themselves. We worry that they're diabetic
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Speaker 2: or that they've got some of their health condition because
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Speaker 2: they do typically keep themselves pretty clean. So you do
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Speaker 2: want to want to pick up on those cues. If
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Speaker 2: they're changing their habits, it doesn't matter if it's a
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Speaker 2: dog or a cat. If they've changed their habits, then
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Speaker 2: you need to get them in for a veterinary care.
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Speaker 2: I have had cats who have been into outdoor cats
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Speaker 2: and have come in covered in mynde and then looked
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Speaker 2: at me like, I'm not going to lick this stuff off. Yeah, exactly,
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Speaker 2: you better fix this because I'm a I'm a wreck.
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Speaker 2: The same with burdocks, the long haired cats that go outside,
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Speaker 2: they come in with burdocks caught in their coats, so
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Speaker 2: and then if they groom themselves, they do cause a
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Speaker 2: lot of or you know, lesions in their mouth from
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Speaker 2: grooming and dogs too, So we'll see dogs that come
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Speaker 2: in with this great kind of lumpy, slimy looking tongue
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Speaker 2: and that's generally because they've had products on their coat
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Speaker 2: and then pull them out with their their mouth and
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Speaker 2: their teeth. So if you're seeing changes like that, please
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Speaker 2: get into the veterinarian and or the groomer and get
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Speaker 2: some help.
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Speaker 1: As we're talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer, of course,
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Speaker 1: doctor Greer comes to us from Checkout Veterinary. The website
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Great
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Speaker 1: website to learn more. They're telephone number six so eight
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Speaker 1: three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight
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Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. Great day to make an appointment at
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Speaker 1: checkout Veterinary Again. You can learn more online checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. And speaking of those the changes and seeing
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Speaker 1: changes in your pets, we're also seeing changes in the
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Speaker 1: length of day as we're getting closer to winter, it
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Speaker 1: could be long and sunny. I'll do pets deal. I
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Speaker 1: know obviously, as humans we certainly experience changes in mood
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Speaker 1: and attitude seasonally, do pets. Exp It's that same thing
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Speaker 1: they do to.
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Speaker 2: A certain extent. It changes their sleep cycle, it changes
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Speaker 2: their activity levels. So yeah, there are definitely changes. In fact,
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Speaker 2: with cats, we see more bladder infections and bladder problems
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Speaker 2: in the especially in the male cats, between December and March.
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Speaker 2: So their seasonality to that. As the days get shorter,
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Speaker 2: the cats get up off the furniture or off the
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Speaker 2: bed or whatever they're sleeping on, less often to go
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Speaker 2: to the litter box, and the less often they urinate,
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Speaker 2: the more likely they are to develop those crystals in
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Speaker 2: their urinary tract that then can cause infection or inflammation
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Speaker 2: and urinary obstruction in mail cats. So you want to
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Speaker 2: be really observant again about those things. Is if you're
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Speaker 2: noticing those changes and there's something not right, come in now.
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Speaker 2: Last weekend at checkout, I saw two cats, two mail
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Speaker 2: cats with urinary issues. And it was a little early
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Speaker 2: in the year for that. Usually, like I said, it's
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Speaker 2: more in the winter months. But even that short amount
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Speaker 2: of day like change had affected these two boys. So
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Speaker 2: on different households, different owners, different everything, And I was like, huh,
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Speaker 2: this is a little weird to have to the same day.
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Speaker 1: So your cat's almost because I've I've experienced this where
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Speaker 1: it's it'll be like a morning where you're like just
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Speaker 1: all bundled in, nice and comfy and you just don't Yeah.
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Speaker 2: The alarm goes off. I'm very daily sensitive. I really
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Speaker 2: like the long days, like swimming, I really like the
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Speaker 2: warm weather and oh yeah, it's almost crashing to an
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Speaker 2: end here. So it's very disappointing.
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Speaker 1: Do we know do cats and dogs they we obviously
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Speaker 1: we see mood changes as you were mentioning as during
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Speaker 1: the seasonal seasonal things? Do they do dogs and cats?
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Speaker 1: And I want to call it like depression? But do
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Speaker 1: they are there times where they they do? We know that.
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Speaker 1: I know that's kind of a deep thought about pets.
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Speaker 1: But do we know like how they like? Are there
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Speaker 1: things that affect like maybe losing a family member, kids
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Speaker 1: going away? I know this time of year a lot
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Speaker 1: of kids going away to school. I mean, do do
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Speaker 1: cats and dogs feel that that type of emotional loss
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Speaker 1: or have questions and questions? But you know what I'm saying, Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I think they do. I mean it's a little hard
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Speaker 2: to assess because they can't really speak to us. But
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Speaker 2: certainly the loss of another pet in the household, the
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Speaker 2: change if kids going back to a class during the
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Speaker 2: day isn't so bad, but kids that move away to
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Speaker 2: college or move out of the house altogether, that can
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Speaker 2: be really rough on them because they're accustomed to it.
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Speaker 2: It's at least a change in their routine, even if
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Speaker 2: it may not be clinical depression. But there are some
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Speaker 2: dogs that I've put on medications because they have become
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Speaker 2: very withdrawn and upset about those kinds of changes. So, yes,
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Speaker 2: you want to speak to your veterinarian about whether there's
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Speaker 2: something that they can do to help. If their appetite changes,
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Speaker 2: you really want to address that. So you start to
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Speaker 2: see those kinds of alterations in how they're acting, please
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Speaker 2: see the veterinarian before it gets out of control. You
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Speaker 2: need to get that taken care of.
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Speaker 1: With a lot of this stuff, And as you're talking
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Speaker 1: the Swiss Coast, we're talking this morning with doctor Marty
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Speaker 1: Griff checkout veterinarian. Doctor. When you're talking about some of
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Speaker 1: these things, whether it's you know, changes in attitude, maybe
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Speaker 1: it is seasonal, maybe it's changing you know a different
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Speaker 1: pet in the house or no longer in the house,
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Speaker 1: or it could also be an indicator of other type
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Speaker 1: of ailments. It seems like an and going back to
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Speaker 1: the previous conversations we've had as a pet owner being
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Speaker 1: you see your pet, you observe your pet day in
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Speaker 1: and day out. You're going to pick up on things
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Speaker 1: way before a lot of a lot of other folks
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Speaker 1: may it's important to really really not ignore those signs
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Speaker 1: or if you've got a concern.
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Speaker 2: Right and I will sometimes see pets at the hospital
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Speaker 2: of the owner, we'll describe something, we do an exam,
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Speaker 2: we may do blood work, and we may not find anything.
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Speaker 2: But I always believe my owners because they do know
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Speaker 2: their pets best, and if they see any kind of
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Speaker 2: those changes, then we just need to be very observant
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Speaker 2: that if there's another symptom that shows up, that we
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Speaker 2: start to pursue that. And I don't doubt my clients.
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Speaker 2: If they come in and say something's not right, they're
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Speaker 2: probably right. It's something's wrong. But it may be that
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Speaker 2: the changes are so early or so subtle that we
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Speaker 2: can't pick up on it yet. So it's important that
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Speaker 2: you address that, you keep track of things. If you
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Speaker 2: see something unusual going on with your pet, this should
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Speaker 2: be in your DNA. Grab your cell phone. Get video
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Speaker 2: of the cough that sneeze, the limp though. Whatever you
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Speaker 2: happen to see, the seizure or whatever it is, grab
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Speaker 2: some video of that because it may not be easy
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Speaker 2: to replicate when you get to the veterinary clinic. But
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Speaker 2: if you have that, it makes the diagnostics much cleaner.
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Speaker 2: It makes it a lot easier to figure out which
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Speaker 2: direction to go with those tests. Do we do X rays,
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Speaker 2: do we do ultrasound, do we do blood work? What
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Speaker 2: do we need to do next? So just have your phone,
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Speaker 2: Like if it's happening and it's hard in the heat
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Speaker 2: of the moment the first time you see it, because
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Speaker 2: you don't think about it. So I just want to
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Speaker 2: plant that seed in people's head. Is that Put it
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Speaker 2: in your DNA. If there's something going on, grab your
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Speaker 2: phone and get some video.
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Speaker 1: Really good tool. And you think too. You mentioned things
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Speaker 1: like seizures or the type of events, especially if it's
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Speaker 1: something that's never happened before. As a pet owner, I
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Speaker 1: think sometimes you get very again, it's very concerning. You
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Speaker 1: don't always remember things as clearly as you're still trying
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Speaker 1: to describe. That's a great advice, great guidance there this morning.
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Speaker 2: How long did it last? You know, think we can
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Speaker 2: look at things that we just can't any other way understand.
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Speaker 1: It's and that's in such a great tool that we
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Speaker 1: all have with us make better use of as well.
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Speaker 1: And having that video and getting that information to your
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Speaker 1: vet is really really important. As we talked this morning
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Speaker 1: with doctor Marty Greer, we'll come into your conversation talk
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Speaker 1: about some of the other things that your pet may
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Speaker 1: encounter out on walks are things and we'll get into
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Speaker 1: all of that next. In the meantime, you haven't been
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Speaker 1: of our conversation with doctor Marty Greer next as Ask
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Speaker 1: ask the Experts with Checkout Veterinary talking with doctor Marty
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Speaker 1: Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Great day to start that relationship.
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary again. The website checkout vet dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. We're talking earlier about I noticed
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Speaker 1: some acorns are I sartain to fall. I see a
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Speaker 1: lot of and I don't know if it's the moisture.
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Speaker 1: What mushrooms as well, And going back to curious pets,
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Speaker 1: they like to sample things. I know some mushrooms can
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Speaker 1: be quite toxic. Is that a concern also for dogs?
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Speaker 2: Indeed, a lot of mushrooms, a lot of plants can
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Speaker 2: be toxic, and our dogs don't really understand that those
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Speaker 2: aren't safe. So again, use your phone. There's all kinds
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Speaker 2: of apps now on your phone that you can take
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Speaker 2: a picture of a mushroom and look it up to
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Speaker 2: see if it's toxic. You can call poison control. So
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Speaker 2: there's a couple of organizations, National Animal Poison Control as
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Speaker 2: part of ASPCA, there's pet poisons. Both of those are
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Speaker 2: fee based services. But if you have a concern about
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Speaker 2: a toxicity, whether it's a plant, a mushroom, something that
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Speaker 2: happened outside, something that your dog ate in the house,
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Speaker 2: and you're not sure if the medication or the gum
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Speaker 2: or the candy or you know, whatever it happens to
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Speaker 2: be chocolate, you know, whatever might be toxic, then please
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Speaker 2: contact one of those organizations. It runs about sixty five
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Speaker 2: dollars to use those services. You call them, you give
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Speaker 2: them your credit card, They put you through to a technician,
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Speaker 2: they take the history, then they put you through to
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Speaker 2: see or to talk to a veterinary toxicologist. They are
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Speaker 2: fee based because our human ones are not, because those
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Speaker 2: are subsidized by our government. We aren't subsidized for the pets.
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Speaker 2: So you expect to pay a fee. But that little
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Speaker 2: bit of money that you're going to spend, and it
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Speaker 2: seems like a lot until you realize what it really
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Speaker 2: entails is that if it keeps you out of the
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Speaker 2: emergency clinic, if it gives you something that you can
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Speaker 2: do at home, or it gives you peace of mind
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Speaker 2: that you don't have a toxicity. Then you don't have
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Speaker 2: to go to the emergency clinic or your regular veterinarian
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Speaker 2: and spend hundreds, maybe thousands of dollars. And if you
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Speaker 2: do have to go in, they'll give you a case number,
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Speaker 2: and when you arrive at the veterinary clinic, you give
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Speaker 2: them that case number, and then that gives the veterinarian
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Speaker 2: that you're walking in the exam room with a treatment plan,
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Speaker 2: that they don't have to pay another fee. So they'll
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Speaker 2: come up with what the fluid dose should be, what
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Speaker 2: the antidote does should be, all the supportive care that
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Speaker 2: needs to happen, and a lot of things are toxic
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Speaker 2: that we're not aware of. And as a veterinarian, I've
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Speaker 2: been doing this for a long time, but I don't
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Speaker 2: know every single anecdote for every single thing, and a
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Speaker 2: lot of times there's not a specific test for those toxins.
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Speaker 2: It's not like you saw on the TV shows where
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Speaker 2: they say run a dog. Screen doesn't really work that way,
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Speaker 2: and even if you could, it would take you days
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Speaker 2: to get something back. So it's important that your attentive.
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Speaker 2: You grab a picture of whatever it happens to be.
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Speaker 2: A mushroom, a package of gum whatever it happens to be.
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Speaker 2: Call poison controlled, Tell them the way to your dog.
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Speaker 2: Tell them how much you think they ingested this time
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Speaker 2: of year. Oh my gosh. Rat poison very very common.
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Speaker 2: Rat poison and mouse poison, and there's different kinds. There's
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Speaker 2: some that are not terribly toxic, like the corn gluten ones.
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Speaker 2: They're not toxic at all. If you put those out
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Speaker 2: the mouse of the rat eat to plugs up their
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Speaker 2: gi track doesn't affect your dog. In fact, I know
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Speaker 2: that because one of my dogs had a whole package
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Speaker 2: of them. It wasn't exactly by design. There are some
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Speaker 2: that cause blood clotting to stop so they can bleed,
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Speaker 2: and then there's some that are neurotoxins, so you need
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Speaker 2: to know which one it is and if the pet
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Speaker 2: ate the package, try to find a package of the
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Speaker 2: same thing quickly. Of course, you don't want to go
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Speaker 2: to the store and buy another package, but try to
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Speaker 2: quickly figure out what it is, or get at least
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Speaker 2: a photograph of as much as you can your pet's weight.
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Speaker 2: Give them a call and they are absolutely life saving.
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Speaker 2: They are amazing resources. They have a database that's unbelievable,
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Speaker 2: so it's definitely a life saving situation. So spend the
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Speaker 2: sixty five dollars or seventy or whatever it is. That's
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Speaker 2: a tiny little bit of money to save your pet.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing too, how integrated. As you mentioned getting
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Speaker 1: that case number of stuff. I listened to an interesting
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Speaker 1: podcast about the human side of a lot of us
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Speaker 1: probably remember as kids those mister yuck stickers they used
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Speaker 1: to be on things, and kind of how that all
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Speaker 1: came together, and you mentioned different toxins and different antidotes
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Speaker 1: other thing. It's even for humans. It's a similar type
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Speaker 1: of thing. So it's a great resource to have. As
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Speaker 1: we talked this morning with doctor Martin Greer speaking of
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Speaker 1: oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three
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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. Doctor. It's always so enlightening.
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