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Safe Doggie Activities for the Unofficial Start of Summer with Dr. Greer with Checkout Vet · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Team ten WIBA and ask the Experts, joined this morning
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Speaker 1: by doctor Marty Greer. Of course, doctor Greer comes to
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Speaker 1: dot com. Joining us in studio is doctor Marty Greer,
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Speaker 2: Doctor. How are you doing this morning?
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Speaker 3: I'm doing great. Thank you.
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Speaker 1: You and I were having so much fun talking before
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Speaker 2: Yeah, so great to see you this morning.
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Speaker 3: to our staff and our doctors.
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Speaker 1: I literally you said that I was reading a I
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Speaker 1: like this website reddit, and I'll read different things, and
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Speaker 1: there's a reddit for pets and one of the uh
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Speaker 1: one of the questions was it was calling all pet enthusiasts,
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Speaker 1: what do you find most challenging about pet care? And
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Speaker 1: I'm like scrolling through everybody's answer, Having a VET available
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Speaker 1: when I need them was the number one out of
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Speaker 1: like by far and away out of And that can
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Speaker 1: be and that's part of why you do things the
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Speaker 1: way you do is you know that that can be
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Speaker 1: a challenge and you want to make sure that pets
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Speaker 1: are getting good care and it's convenient for.
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Speaker 3: Folks absolutely, and that's a real driving force for us.
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Speaker 3: And it's not just evening, it's can I get in today?
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Speaker 3: I woke up this morning and my pet was sick.
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Speaker 3: I got home from work and my pet isn't feeling well,
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Speaker 3: has an ear infection, you know whatever. We're there on Saturdays,
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Speaker 3: where there, on Sundays, where there every day we have
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Speaker 3: openings in the schedule. We provide for those deliberately so
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Speaker 3: that you can get in. So please, if you have
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Speaker 3: a problem, you don't have to be established with us
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Speaker 3: to come in, give us a call. We will walk
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Speaker 3: through fire to get you in because it's really important
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Speaker 3: to us to make that happen.
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Speaker 2: Are we an ear infection season? Allergy sees? Okay?
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Speaker 1: I feel like I've heard from other some folks saying,
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Speaker 1: have my dog and my cat are just dealing with that?
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Speaker 2: Is it allergies that cause it this time of year?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, allergies? And you know, then we get into swimming
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Speaker 3: and rain and all the stuff that happens in the
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Speaker 3: environment that changes how much humidity there is and how
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Speaker 3: much moisture there is down in their ears are on
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Speaker 3: their skin, and pollens, grasp pollens and tree pollens. This
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Speaker 3: time of year, and then we get into the summer
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Speaker 3: and the fall, we'll start to see ragbreed pollens. So
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Speaker 3: there's a lot of things going on. Of course, there's fleas, into's, mosquitos,
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Speaker 3: all the stuff. It happens, and so the more time
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Speaker 3: you spend outside with them, the more exposure they have.
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Speaker 3: So it's important that you're providing those preventive cares and
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Speaker 3: that you're really paying attention to what's going on so
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Speaker 3: that we can catch it early.
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Speaker 1: And speaking of paying attention to things that are going on,
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Speaker 1: I know we are just good about to kick off
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Speaker 1: this weekend official start of summer with Memorial Day, and
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Speaker 1: you mentioned Pet's getting out into the water and doing
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Speaker 1: some swimming. Madison Public Health and Dane County they're getting ready,
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Speaker 1: of course, with water quality testing and other things. I
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Speaker 1: want to ask you a little bit about that in
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Speaker 1: just a moment, But first, if you have a question
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Speaker 1: for doctor Greer. I haven't said this enough and I
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Speaker 1: feel somewhat neglectful in doing this. The phone lines are open.
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Speaker 1: It's great to have a question and get you on
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Speaker 1: the air with doctor Greer. All I got to do
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Speaker 1: two one thirteen ten. That's six SOH eight three two
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Speaker 1: one thirteen ten. If you've got a question for doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary, we'd love to.
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Speaker 2: Have you join us again.
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Speaker 1: The telephone number to get on the air six SOH
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Speaker 1: eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six SOH eight
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Speaker 1: three two one thirteen ten. And checking for things like
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Speaker 1: blue green algae and E.
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Speaker 2: Coli. And I know like blue green algae, and.
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Speaker 1: Obviously coli also is very can be very very dangerous
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Speaker 1: for pets. But it's like those really warm days or
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Speaker 1: what do we know about blue green algae? And why
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Speaker 1: let's talk about this.
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Speaker 2: I'll just put this in your car so it looks
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Speaker 2: like algae.
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Speaker 3: It's frequently not truly an algae, that it's truly a bacteria.
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Speaker 3: But it causes in some cases the water color to
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Speaker 3: change to a blue or green color, but not always.
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Speaker 3: It can be pink, it can be red, it can
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Speaker 3: be clear. So it's not always a true testimonial to
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Speaker 3: whether there's blue green aalergae in the water or not.
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Speaker 3: To look at the water. We see it at its worst,
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Speaker 3: typically in August, after we've had a nice long stretch
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Speaker 3: of hot weather, so it's a little early in the
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Speaker 3: season to see it. But I was doing some reading
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Speaker 3: about this because the Madison Department of Health just put
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Speaker 3: this article out and they can do testing on the
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Speaker 3: water for ecoli, and that represents all coliforms, so it's
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Speaker 3: not just ecoli, it's anything that's passed through the gut,
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Speaker 3: and it comes from wildlife geese and deer and cows
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Speaker 3: upstream and all the stuff. Those all can contribute to it.
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Speaker 3: But the blue grenalgae in particular is pretty toxic and
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Speaker 3: it's been a real challenge because there isn't a test
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Speaker 3: that you can do. You can't go down to the
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Speaker 3: pond or the lake and dip out some water and
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Speaker 3: test it. It has to be done by a public
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Speaker 3: health official. There isn't that do it yourself kit. And
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Speaker 3: the article I was reading just before we started was
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Speaker 3: from twenty nineteen, which is of course a few years ago,
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Speaker 3: but it was actually a dog in Madison that was
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Speaker 3: in a national publication that did survive. His name was Larry.
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Speaker 3: He did survive because he ended up at the UW
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Speaker 3: with the kind of supportive care that it takes. There's
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Speaker 3: not a specific antidote for this disease, it's basically supportive care.
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Speaker 3: But they can have respiratory problems, gi problems, they can
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Speaker 3: have neurologic problems like seizures, and it can look like
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Speaker 3: almost anything. It can look like leptosporosis, it can look
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Speaker 3: like hepatitis. It can cause liver failure like any other toxicity.
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Speaker 3: And so it's basically supportive care until they can make
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Speaker 3: a recovery. And hopefully they do recover, but it's bad
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Speaker 3: and it can affect them within fifteen minutes. It's really significant,
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Speaker 3: am I?
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Speaker 2: Am I right? In this too?
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Speaker 1: Is I think sometimes we think, well, the dog has
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Speaker 1: to maybe drink the water, but just simply being in it,
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Speaker 1: obviously they're in ailing some I mean, even just simple
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Speaker 1: very small amount can cause issues, can't it.
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Speaker 3: It can, And they even talk about veterinary staff being
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Speaker 3: careful with not getting contact on their skin from the
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Speaker 3: algae on the coat of the dog. So the first
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Speaker 3: recommendation is to give the dog a bath, and typically
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Speaker 3: will recommend something like dawn dish soap because it breaks
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Speaker 3: up the oils, does a nice job. If you can
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Speaker 3: bathe baby ducks in it, you can bathe your dog
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Speaker 3: in it. So you know, we've all seen the commercials,
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Speaker 3: so it's a good thing to have around. But basically,
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Speaker 3: if you don't think the water looks safe, you should
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Speaker 3: not let your dog wait in it drink it. And
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Speaker 3: even if you don't think they're going to drink, they're
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Speaker 3: just going to step out and kind of walk around. Yeah. No,
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Speaker 3: dogs immediately decide that they're going to drink, and they
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Speaker 3: don't have good judgment that the water doesn't look clear,
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Speaker 3: the water doesn't look safe, and they're just going to
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Speaker 3: drink it if they're thirsty. So you have to be careful.
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Speaker 2: And some of the stuff too can be tricky.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned, you know, things like e colon and other
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Speaker 1: things they don't have that there's no color. It can
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Speaker 1: be right, water look perfectly normal, So you definitely want
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Speaker 1: to follow along and monitor those type of situations. Now, dogs,
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Speaker 1: if they're a water dog, they live for that stuff.
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Speaker 3: I know. We used to have labs and I had
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Speaker 3: the one. I swear she should have been born with
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Speaker 3: gills because she would have spent her entire life in
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Speaker 3: the water if we could have let her. But she
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Speaker 3: didn't have good hips, so we'd have to drag her
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Speaker 3: back out because she would end up trying to overdo it,
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Speaker 3: so our dogs don't have good judgment. If you really
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Speaker 3: want to have your dog swim and it want to
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Speaker 3: be safe, a pool is going to be your best bet,
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Speaker 3: So a waiting pool in your backyard, a full sized
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Speaker 3: pool in your backyard, taking them to a facility. There's
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Speaker 3: lots of places you can take your dog for swimming
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Speaker 3: and swimming lessons and they're good physical therapy. There's a
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Speaker 3: lot of things you can do, so just be really
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Speaker 3: thoughtful and pay attention to the news reports. If there's
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Speaker 3: a posting at the lake or the pond or wherever
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Speaker 3: you're going and it says it's not safe for you,
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Speaker 3: it's not safe for your dog either, So use some
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Speaker 3: good common sense and pay attention to the news because
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Speaker 3: it's very early in the season to already be testing.
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Speaker 3: But like you said, it's an official beginning of summer,
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Speaker 3: well unofficial beginning of summer because it's Memorial Day, so
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Speaker 3: we all think we should, you know, bust out and
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Speaker 3: you know, start doing fun summer stuff. But our dogs
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Speaker 3: don't have any idea and they don't have any judgment,
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Speaker 3: so it's really up to us to keep them safe.
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's check out vet dot com. And
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Speaker 1: I do know also, dogs love sprinklers, like a particularly
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Speaker 1: certain dogs, I should say universally. I don't think my
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Speaker 1: dog would care for sprinkler, but I see like like
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Speaker 1: garden hoses and stuff. They love like that stuff too,
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Speaker 1: which is probably a safer alternative as well to keep
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Speaker 1: it them cool.
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Speaker 3: And it's a nice safe way to do it. So
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Speaker 3: put up a waiting pool in your backyard. Get out
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Speaker 3: the sprinkler. They make little doggy sprinklers that they can
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Speaker 3: run back and forth. And they aren't really meant to
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Speaker 3: sprinkle your lawn, but meant for the dog. So the kids,
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Speaker 3: the dog, they can all go out and have a
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Speaker 3: good time together. Of course, you know, put sunscreen on
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Speaker 3: the kids. You don't have to worry about that quite
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Speaker 3: so much on the dog. But there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: fun stuff you can do with water. They love frisbee,
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Speaker 3: so you can throw the frisbee into the pool. So
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Speaker 3: do some things that are really fun. There's actually a sport.
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Speaker 3: Do you know about the sport dock diving?
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Speaker 2: Oh, where they throw the thing they run and yes.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's an official sport that AKC holds. It's called
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Speaker 3: dock diving and essentially it's like a broad jump for
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Speaker 3: your dog into the water. So they set up all
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Speaker 3: these pools when they go to events. So for instance,
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Speaker 3: the Kettle Marine Kettle Club the last weekend in June
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Speaker 3: is going to have their show at Washington County at
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Speaker 3: the Fairgrounds and they'll be duck diving there. I don't
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Speaker 3: know if there will be at Wakashaw, so keep an
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Speaker 3: eye out for some of those events. But they're really fun.
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Speaker 3: The dogs are very athletic, so they stand on a platform.
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Speaker 3: The owner will throw a dummy that will float into
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Speaker 3: the water and the dog goes chasing down the platform,
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Speaker 3: leaps into the water, and then they measure how far
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Speaker 3: your dog could jump, and it's based of course on
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Speaker 3: the size of the dog. So I have little dogs.
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Speaker 3: I have Danish Swedish farm dogs. They can't jump as
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Speaker 3: far as a Labrador. But it's really fun to watch.
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Speaker 3: And these dogs are really serious about this sport, like
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Speaker 3: they are serious. They get very excited.
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Speaker 2: Oh that is that is really cool.
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Speaker 1: I think I've seen maybe like one of the espns,
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Speaker 1: like one of the heads has had it on before
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Speaker 1: and it's one of.
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Speaker 2: Those where you're like, wow, that'd be really cool to see.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but you can see it in person, So don't
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Speaker 3: hesitate to Kettle Marine Dogs shows the last week in
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Speaker 3: June and Walkshaw's the last weekend in July. So there's
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Speaker 3: some really fun dog events out there if you want
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Speaker 3: to just go and see different breeds or see different events.
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Speaker 3: We have Fastcat I'm a member of all these clubs. Yes,
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Speaker 3: so there's fastcat, and there's doc diving, and there's agility
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Speaker 3: and rally obedience and regular obedience and some really fun stuff.
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Speaker 3: So if you're interested, go watch and then get your
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Speaker 3: dog signed up for a class and start doing some
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Speaker 3: of these sports. You don't have to have a pure
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Speaker 3: bread dog to do those sports. You can do it
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Speaker 3: with almost any dog.
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Speaker 2: Oh that should be that's really cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, as we talked this morning with doctor Marty Griff,
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Speaker 1: and maybe a sport your future pet or your current
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Speaker 1: We'll talk fleas, we'll talk tics, and you spark something
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Speaker 1: as you always do. Doctor in my mind, I was
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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask you coming up the next time
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Speaker 1: and two about for folks at are prospective pet parents
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Speaker 1: and pet families, is there a place to go where
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Speaker 1: you can maybe get to know different types of breeds
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Speaker 1: the Experts with Checkout Veterinary and studio. This morning, we've
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Speaker 1: got doctor Marty Greer recognized as Veterinarian of the Year
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Speaker 1: from Westminster Kennel Club. Of course, doctor Gary does come
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Speaker 1: to us from Checkout Veterinary their website check out vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's check out vet dot com. Flee and Ticks,
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Speaker 1: we are definitely into that season for sure, and in
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Speaker 1: Wisconsin it's correct me.
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Speaker 2: Everyone kind of a year round thing now right. We've
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Speaker 2: got to be prepared.
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Speaker 3: It is because even a forty degree afternoon in January
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Speaker 3: can make the ticks move, or if a rabbit dies
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Speaker 3: out in your yard and your dog goes out in
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Speaker 3: February and rolls around on it. Yeah, the fleas are
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Speaker 3: coming in. They like that little warm body that your
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Speaker 3: dog has.
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Speaker 2: They'll hop hop a right in. Why do dogs do that,
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Speaker 2: by the way.
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Speaker 3: Because they because they do, because they like to, because
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Speaker 3: they can't. I don't know.
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Speaker 2: That's probably the best reason of all.
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Speaker 1: And so with the fleeing tick, obviously you can get
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Speaker 1: at the vet clinic, right you picked that up there. Yes,
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Speaker 1: are there online options because I've seen and I don't
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Speaker 1: know are they Are they the same? Like I'll see
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Speaker 1: like the Big A to Z company with the trucks
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Speaker 1: all over the place.
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Speaker 2: I feel like they've got like a flea and tick
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Speaker 2: and I feel like I've seen that is are like
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Speaker 2: they all created equal or.
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Speaker 3: No, they're not. The heart room preventives are all by prescriptions,
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Speaker 3: so you have to have a veterinarians prescription for those,
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Speaker 3: and they recommend a heart room test before the flea
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Speaker 3: and tick meds. About half are over the counter, about
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Speaker 3: half our prescription. The orals are all by prescription, so
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Speaker 3: that's Vecto, next guard Cordelia, and Simperica. Those are all prescription.
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Speaker 3: There are topicals that are over the counter, but the
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Speaker 3: safer ones are actually from the veterinarian. Vectra three D
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Speaker 3: is an amazing product. It has three products in it
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Speaker 3: to help as a repellent as well as to kill
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Speaker 3: the fleas and ticks. So there's some good ones out there,
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Speaker 3: so speak to your veterinarian. Cheaper isn't better, and over
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Speaker 3: the counter doesn't mean safer, so check with your vet.
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Speaker 3: We all have great rebates. The more you buy, of course,
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Speaker 3: the bigger the rebate, so you can come up with
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Speaker 3: some really great pricing. And all of the veterinary clinics
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Speaker 3: that I know also have an online store, so we
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Speaker 3: do it Veterinary Village. We do it check in and
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Speaker 3: check out at Marshall, so you can go to our
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Speaker 3: online store, sign up, put in your name, your information,
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Speaker 3: and then if you need medication, go on there, hop
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Speaker 3: on the website, order it and then the veterinarian that
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Speaker 3: you go to will approve it. For instance, the other
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Speaker 3: day I started a cat on Bexa cat, which is
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Speaker 3: an oral drug for diabetic cats. We don't have one
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Speaker 3: for dogs, just for cats. And it was actually fifteen
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Speaker 3: dollars a month, less expensive from our store than it
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Speaker 3: was from anyplace else online so don't assume that your
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Speaker 3: veterinarian is going to charge you more. Assume that your
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Speaker 3: veterinarian knows your pet and knows their entire medical history
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Speaker 3: and can put together a treatment care plan that's most suitable,
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Speaker 3: because if you don't know the whole story, you may
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Speaker 3: make a mistake on the drug you pick.
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Speaker 1: I love the perspective any I think that's something a
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Speaker 1: lot of folks don't always think about. Of course, we've
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Speaker 1: got doctor Greer in studio as we do each and
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Speaker 1: every Thursday. Don't forget if you miss part of the program,
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Speaker 1: and this maybe something we probably want to carry over
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Speaker 1: to a whole other show for folks looking to get
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Speaker 1: to get a you know, bring a new family member in.
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Speaker 1: Is there like a place to go to like learn
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Speaker 1: about different maybe first hand experience actually see some dog Like,
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Speaker 1: is there a place where folks could be looking to
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Speaker 1: kind of get get familiar with some of the different
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Speaker 1: breeds there are?
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Speaker 3: And there's some great dog shows coming up. So we
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Speaker 3: have one in Manitu Walk pretty soon. There's one in
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Speaker 3: Gray's Lake, Illinois coming up in June. We have just
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Speaker 3: had some shows, but Jefferson is coming up this weekend,
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Speaker 3: so Jefferson's pretty close by. We have, like I said,
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Speaker 3: Kella Moraine and Walk a shot in June and July.
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Speaker 3: So if you take a look at dog shows in Wisconsin,
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Speaker 3: you can go to AKC Calendar of Events and then
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Speaker 3: put in the state and it'll list all the dog
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Speaker 3: shows and you can then look up the show schedule
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Speaker 3: and figure out what time the breeds you're going to
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Speaker 3: want to see will be there, go talk to the breeders,
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Speaker 3: meet some dogs, and yes, we definitely need to go
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Speaker 3: into more detail on this.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, well definitely.
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Speaker 1: One thing I do know, and I'm guilty of this,
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Speaker 1: and I think I've told you off air, I've got
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Speaker 1: to avoid this. People love talking about their pets. So,
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Speaker 1: like you know, you go to one of these dog shows,
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Speaker 1: these folks will definitely love to tell you right, but you.
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Speaker 3: Can see them, you can see how they act. It's
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Speaker 3: just a lot nicer to see it in person than
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Speaker 3: it is. Try and figure it out online.
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Speaker 1: Now.
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Speaker 3: AKC has a great website. There's a lot of one
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Speaker 3: you know, good ones out there, but nothing is as
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Speaker 3: good as being able to see, touch, feel, and really
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Speaker 3: understand the behavior of that dog.
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Speaker 2: That is that is really cool.
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Speaker 1: And of course, as doctor mentioned, AKC they've got a
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Speaker 1: listing each each stadia and check that out. Of course,
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