Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Vet Josh Davis Q&A For May 7th, 2025
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- 0:01Speaker 1: You got a sick puppy or kitty you got or
- 0:05Speaker 1: maybe they're having psychological problems. I don't know. Doctor Josh
- 0:10Speaker 1: Davis is here. He is a veterinarian who can answer
- 0:13Speaker 1: the questions that you might have about your puppies and
- 0:15Speaker 1: kitties and all of that. Do you have a problem
- 0:17Speaker 1: with your kitty or your puppy, please call us doctor Davis.
- 0:22Speaker 1: Good morning, Good morning, Hey you guys, do I'm good.
- 0:24Speaker 1: Did you see that? I think I deleted it, unfortunately,
- 0:27Speaker 1: But that story about the world's tallest dog that lives
- 0:30Speaker 1: in Idaho Falls.
- 0:30Speaker 2: Oh, I didn't see that one.
- 0:32Speaker 1: Great, he's a great Dane. What do they say, he's
- 0:33Speaker 1: three feet I think we have the picture. Do you
- 0:35Speaker 1: still have the picture, Katie, Let's take a look at it.
- 0:37Speaker 1: Three feet six inches tall or something like that.
- 0:41Speaker 3: I built as part of the story. Bill said that
- 0:44Speaker 3: dog's that big, don't very long? Is that true?
- 0:47Speaker 4: They do tend to go through more wear and tear
- 0:50Speaker 4: just because of their size. So with proper care, though,
- 0:54Speaker 4: especially with these guys, weight management is a huge thing,
- 0:56Speaker 4: and just proper preventive care you can get more mind
- 1:00Speaker 4: out of them.
- 1:00Speaker 2: Then you think the.
- 1:01Speaker 1: Story said three or four years and his name is Reginald.
- 1:04Speaker 1: There he is Reginald is a big boy, and Reginald
- 1:08Speaker 1: lives is seven years old. Yeah, and uh, and his
- 1:12Speaker 1: owner says, he's he's well, he does well, he's doing okay.
- 1:15Speaker 1: There are pictures of him like there are other pictures
- 1:18Speaker 1: of him standing on his hind legs, like with his
- 1:20Speaker 1: front paws up on the kitchen sink, and and it's
- 1:23Speaker 1: just like, what.
- 1:25Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a big, big boy.
- 1:28Speaker 3: How different is for you you treating a dog that
- 1:31Speaker 3: big versus a chihuahua. Is it like a whole different
- 1:35Speaker 3: other animal or is it similar?
- 1:37Speaker 2: It's fairly similar.
- 1:38Speaker 4: I mean a lot of the breeds, especially the pure breeds,
- 1:42Speaker 4: that they have their own things you have to watch
- 1:44Speaker 4: out for. But in general, a dog is a dog,
- 1:47Speaker 4: a cat is a cat. But large job is to
- 1:49Speaker 4: know the quirks and the different things.
- 1:51Speaker 3: That's what I mean.
- 1:51Speaker 2: I think your job is so hard for that. There
- 1:54Speaker 2: can be a lot of different breeds.
- 1:56Speaker 4: Because one breed could have a totally different thing and
- 1:58Speaker 4: another one, and and our job is just to try
- 2:00Speaker 4: and put all that together for sure.
- 2:03Speaker 1: So we do have a call online one I can't
- 2:05Speaker 1: wait to start out with a call about stinky pe. Yeah.
- 2:08Speaker 5: Now she's in her car and it's kind of noisy.
- 2:10Speaker 5: So here we go.
- 2:11Speaker 1: Hi, Carle, Hi, what's your kiddy's name? And what's the
- 2:19Speaker 1: problem here?
- 2:21Speaker 3: So she is a rescue cat.
- 2:24Speaker 5: She's about eight years old, and she has like.
- 2:30Speaker 6: P I've ever smelled from a cat, Like even after
- 2:33Speaker 6: she is his litter box.
- 2:36Speaker 1: It just steaks up the whole house like it's wow,
- 2:42Speaker 1: it's like fousy or all right, what do you what
- 2:45Speaker 1: do the bet she is?
- 2:48Speaker 6: They say she's like normal, everything good with her, So I.
- 2:52Speaker 1: Don't know, is there Okay, what do you think, doctor Davis?
- 2:57Speaker 2: I mean, that's interesting.
- 2:59Speaker 4: Some pets can different smells to the urine, and I
- 3:01Speaker 4: would always want to rule out you know, U, T.
- 3:03Speaker 2: I S or other issues with that.
- 3:05Speaker 4: And if they've done that, then yeah apparently, yeah a
- 3:09Speaker 4: check up versus like a full year analysis and checking
- 3:11Speaker 4: those things out. I mean that that's really important. And
- 3:14Speaker 4: then diet certainly certainly can play.
- 3:16Speaker 2: A role in asparagus.
- 3:18Speaker 1: Yes, man, I got to start feeding start feeding the
- 3:22Speaker 1: cat roses.
- 3:23Speaker 4: Yeah, well, mister Crinkles likes asparagus and you were wondering
- 3:27Speaker 4: about that.
- 3:27Speaker 1: Wait, wait what did you say, Carly.
- 3:30Speaker 4: I was wondering if it was, you know, like, yeah,
- 3:34Speaker 4: so the food and the pH that could be a
- 3:37Speaker 4: factor in that too. If there's not really a medical issue,
- 3:39Speaker 4: so it never hurts to do a urinary health type
- 3:43Speaker 4: of diet. And there are many offer that are prescription
- 3:46Speaker 4: and non prescription. So maybe just something to think about.
- 3:49Speaker 4: And if that doesn't change anything, then I would definitely
- 3:51Speaker 4: want to dig deeper into that because you know, cat,
- 3:55Speaker 4: he has.
- 3:55Speaker 2: A smell, but it shouldn't be stinking up your whole house.
- 3:58Speaker 1: You should say, I think you're going to have to
- 3:59Speaker 1: start saying, look, if you have to go to the bathroom,
- 4:01Speaker 1: you're going outside. Okay, now go outside.
- 4:04Speaker 5: I have to be that way.
- 4:05Speaker 1: Thank you, Carly, Sia, thank you.
- 4:08Speaker 5: All right, No, we got another p question here.
- 4:10Speaker 2: Oh good.
- 4:11Speaker 7: My Chihuahua Sheitsu mix hal aka hel nine thousand has
- 4:16Speaker 7: a history of urine crystals.
- 4:18Speaker 5: Prescription food helps.
- 4:19Speaker 7: Keep them away, but it makes him pee all the time.
- 4:23Speaker 7: Any tips for this frequent urination in the house. He
- 4:25Speaker 7: now wears diapers all the time because he can't keep up.
- 4:28Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, and that so two things there is some
- 4:32Speaker 4: of the urinary foods part of how they work is
- 4:35Speaker 4: to dilute the urine so they do p more and
- 4:37Speaker 4: then that means they don't build the crystals up, so
- 4:40Speaker 4: that that is a normal benefit of some of them.
- 4:43Speaker 4: And then the only downside of the diapers is one
- 4:46Speaker 4: it's the diapers, but that can actually cause issues with
- 4:49Speaker 4: the skin and skin infections and also predispose them to UTIs,
- 4:53Speaker 4: which you're trying to avoid urinary issues too.
- 4:56Speaker 2: So there are.
- 4:57Speaker 4: Different urinary diets and so it may be worth looking
- 4:59Speaker 4: at it a version to see if that could help
- 5:01Speaker 4: a little bit.
- 5:02Speaker 1: All right, I find that little Friskies helps me not
- 5:04Speaker 1: pee as much. Absolutely love it. We're back now with
- 5:10Speaker 1: doctor Josh Davis. He is a veterinarian and can answer
- 5:14Speaker 1: questions about your dogs and cats. Since we like to
- 5:17Speaker 1: know the name of your cat and what's the problem,
- 5:20Speaker 1: or the same thing for your dog, what's the name
- 5:22Speaker 1: of your dog and the problem? So we'll go. We
- 5:24Speaker 1: got a couple of calls here, JJ is here, Hi JJ,
- 5:26Speaker 1: where are you calling from West Jordan? And you're what
- 5:31Speaker 1: is it a dog? What's your dog's name?
- 5:34Speaker 8: I've got a sixteen year old Yorkie named Zeke.
- 5:37Speaker 1: Zeke the Yorkie. All right, what's your question.
- 5:42Speaker 8: So he's pretty blind and pretty deaf. He follows me
- 5:46Speaker 8: around the house. His hind legs from time to time
- 5:48Speaker 8: will give out if he's on the tile or hardwood,
- 5:51Speaker 8: and I can just stand him up and he's fine.
- 5:53Speaker 8: But this morning it's perfect kindly gets the vets on
- 5:56Speaker 8: this morning. When I did that, I picked him up,
- 5:59Speaker 8: his body wholly straightened out. He threw his head back
- 6:01Speaker 8: and yelled. He screamed, I can't pay. He's fine now,
- 6:06Speaker 8: yeah here. I don't know who was a seizure or what,
- 6:09Speaker 8: but he it was a scream that a dog could scream.
- 6:12Speaker 8: That's exactly.
- 6:13Speaker 5: Oh yeah, I know that.
- 6:16Speaker 8: And then he peed on me while I was holding it.
- 6:18Speaker 8: And in about five minutes we were outside and I
- 6:21Speaker 8: gave him some treats and standing up and now he's
- 6:23Speaker 8: just fine. But he's never done that before.
- 6:25Speaker 5: It sounds familiar.
- 6:26Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, there's a couple I would say possibilities for
- 6:31Speaker 4: what you got for that age and that breed. So
- 6:33Speaker 4: one could definitely have been a seizure, you know, if
- 6:36Speaker 4: it sounds like it might fit the bill for that.
- 6:38Speaker 4: The other thing is that that age in that breed
- 6:42Speaker 4: is also very prone to heart disease, and so if
- 6:45Speaker 4: they have heart murmurs or heart disease or heart failure,
- 6:48Speaker 4: they can also have similar episodes, but it's more collapsing
- 6:52Speaker 4: because they lose blood supply to the brain and oxygenation,
- 6:55Speaker 4: so they'll have seizure like activity from that too.
- 6:58Speaker 2: So I would I would.
- 6:59Speaker 4: Want to know what we're dealing in that way and
- 7:01Speaker 4: then see if we could come up with a plan.
- 7:03Speaker 4: But it would it would take some work to figure
- 7:05Speaker 4: that out for sure, But I think it's worth getting
- 7:07Speaker 4: looked at because one episode is it's you know, it's
- 7:10Speaker 4: probably not going to be the only one, and you
- 7:11Speaker 4: want to know what you're dealing with exactly right, Yeah.
- 7:16Speaker 8: For shops pretty soon, so I'll get I'm definitely going
- 7:19Speaker 8: to address.
- 7:19Speaker 2: That for sure.
- 7:20Speaker 7: All right, good luck, j J you much. Let's see
- 7:26Speaker 7: here's I've never heard of this. What can you do
- 7:29Speaker 7: for happy tail? My empy tail, my German my German
- 7:33Speaker 7: shepherd wacks her tail on everything.
- 7:36Speaker 1: My cat does that too.
- 7:37Speaker 4: Yeah, the happy tail is it's kind of the bane
- 7:40Speaker 4: of existence sometimes, so happy tails when usually it's bigger
- 7:44Speaker 4: dogs and we call it happy tails. They get excited
- 7:47Speaker 4: and start smacking their tail on the corners of walls
- 7:49Speaker 4: and tables and chairs and things like that, and then
- 7:52Speaker 4: they'll actually break the skin open near the tip of
- 7:54Speaker 4: the tail and it will just paint.
- 7:56Speaker 2: The walls with blood.
- 7:57Speaker 4: It's it's kind of terrible, you know, and it can
- 8:00Speaker 4: be painful and it is difficult to treat because we
- 8:05Speaker 4: can put bandages on, patch it up, try to get
- 8:08Speaker 4: it to heal up. But then the minute you get
- 8:10Speaker 4: it healed up, they'll they'll do it again often, and
- 8:12Speaker 4: so it can be quite a process to get that
- 8:14Speaker 4: to heal. In extreme cases, I have performed like partial
- 8:19Speaker 4: tail amputations to get rid of the unhealing tissue, kind
- 8:24Speaker 4: of shorten the tail a little bit, and then they
- 8:25Speaker 4: often do well. But you know, and I wouldn't say
- 8:28Speaker 4: we do that every time, but there are extreme cases
- 8:29Speaker 4: where you just cannot get it to heal, and it's
- 8:31Speaker 4: it's a pain.
- 8:32Speaker 1: My cat does that too, it and my cat also
- 8:35Speaker 1: bangs his head into stuff and I mean hard well,
- 8:41Speaker 1: it does it constantly. Scott's why he's an idiot.
- 8:44Speaker 2: Yeah, so happy tail is not not fun.
- 8:47Speaker 5: It's the first I've heard of this. This is interesting,
- 8:49Speaker 5: all right.
- 8:50Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six zero two ninety six ninety six. Oh,
- 8:53Speaker 1: by the way, my cat's name is Klaus. There you
- 8:56Speaker 1: go eight seven seven six oh two ninety six ninety
- 8:59Speaker 1: six for your goal.
- 9:01Speaker 7: We have a three year old black, short haired cat
- 9:04Speaker 7: named Gemini.
- 9:06Speaker 5: Three year old.
- 9:06Speaker 7: We just recently moved, and our previous living quarters had
- 9:10Speaker 7: multiple cats and dogs, but now being in our new place,
- 9:13Speaker 7: she's the only animal. It's been about two months and
- 9:16Speaker 7: sheyows all night long.
- 9:19Speaker 2: I'm not sure.
- 9:19Speaker 5: What's going on.
- 9:20Speaker 1: Oh, miss the she really misses the other animal.
- 9:24Speaker 4: Yeah, cats are relatively social, most of them, and so
- 9:27Speaker 4: could be partly that we're missying our friends.
- 9:30Speaker 2: And then also cats don't always.
- 9:32Speaker 4: Do well immediately in new environments, and so there can
- 9:35Speaker 4: be some stresses and change in behavior associated with that.
- 9:39Speaker 4: So I wouldn't say run out and get another cat,
- 9:41Speaker 4: but it's something you might want to think about and
- 9:43Speaker 4: just see. Even foster. Sometimes fostering you can see if
- 9:46Speaker 4: they get along and go from there.
- 9:48Speaker 1: Klaus, I can tell how when he's hungry, and I
- 9:51Speaker 1: can tell that now, and then I could miss his mate,
- 9:54Speaker 1: mister well not mate, but his buddy mister fluffy Pants
- 9:58Speaker 1: has been dead for a couple of years, but I
- 10:00Speaker 1: can still tell when he this other meal that he
- 10:03Speaker 1: does that he's looking. Where's mister Philippia.
- 10:05Speaker 2: Yeah, I have one of our cats does the same thing.
- 10:08Speaker 4: We've lost our cat a couple of years ago, and
- 10:10Speaker 4: he's still ten o'clock every night he's walking around the house.
- 10:12Speaker 2: Howland for her for years? He's done it for years?
- 10:15Speaker 5: So yeah, all right, Amy is here?
- 10:18Speaker 2: Hello?
- 10:18Speaker 1: Amy? Hi, Hi, Where are you calling from.
- 10:23Speaker 9: I am driving in Sandy right now to work.
- 10:25Speaker 1: Okay, tell us about your dog and what its name
- 10:28Speaker 1: is and everything.
- 10:30Speaker 9: Okay. She's an eighteen months old Newfoundland that I had
- 10:34Speaker 9: stayed about three weeks ago, and ever since she was staid,
- 10:39Speaker 9: she's become very aggressive, Like she wasn't aggressive before she
- 10:42Speaker 9: was stayed, but now she's become aggressive.
- 10:44Speaker 6: And I'm just wondering why that.
- 10:46Speaker 1: Was he aggressive it? How?
- 10:48Speaker 9: I mean, how bad is it like when she's so
- 10:52Speaker 9: I have a labradoodle also, and when they're playing, it
- 10:55Speaker 9: becomes it goes too far and they become things start fighting.
- 11:00Speaker 2: Hmmm.
- 11:00Speaker 5: Interesting.
- 11:02Speaker 2: Yeah, that is an interesting one.
- 11:03Speaker 4: So the space surgery itself, sometimes, I mean there's gonna
- 11:07Speaker 4: be some post operative pain from that and that that
- 11:10Speaker 4: can linger for a while after the surgery, even though.
- 11:12Speaker 2: The healing has occurred.
- 11:13Speaker 4: There's scar tissue and healing tissue, so pain could be
- 11:17Speaker 4: part of the equation. It also does change you know
- 11:20Speaker 4: that the hormones there, which usually most dogs, you know,
- 11:23Speaker 4: we have the hope that it kind of mellows them
- 11:25Speaker 4: out or makes them a little less territorial sometimes or
- 11:27Speaker 4: less aggressive.
- 11:28Speaker 2: So it's early on. So I would say just to
- 11:32Speaker 2: be careful in.
- 11:32Speaker 4: Those specific situations and see about just you know, giving
- 11:36Speaker 4: more time for it, and then if that's not changing anything,
- 11:40Speaker 4: then I probably would start looking into, all right, what
- 11:42Speaker 4: do we need some behavior modification here, whether that's looking
- 11:46Speaker 4: into some training or just trying to figure out what
- 11:48Speaker 4: those triggers are and trying to trying to deviate away
- 11:52Speaker 4: from those, trying to pull attention to.
- 11:53Speaker 2: Other things, because it shouldn't be that way.
- 11:56Speaker 4: Yeah, that would be very rare, just from the space
- 11:59Speaker 4: if there's not some underlying thing.
- 12:00Speaker 6: All right, I know that That's what I thought too.
- 12:03Speaker 9: I thought she'd become really mellow, but she's I don't know.
- 12:08Speaker 1: Yeah, Well, good luck, thank you, bye bye.
- 12:14Speaker 5: Ella. The nanny has a question.
- 12:16Speaker 7: Let's see, it's hang on, should I be concerned when
- 12:20Speaker 7: my cats sneeze in my face. I wash my face
- 12:24Speaker 7: and eyes after it happens, but damn I swear she
- 12:27Speaker 7: does it on perfect I'll be lots of stuff they do,
- 12:30Speaker 7: lots of ready to go to sleep.
- 12:32Speaker 2: And.
- 12:34Speaker 4: Yeah, in general not I wouldn't be too worried about that.
- 12:38Speaker 4: There's not a lot of things that we transmit between
- 12:41Speaker 4: each other, you know, except very rare cases of certain things.
- 12:44Speaker 4: But sometimes if they're sneezing a lot, it is me,
- 12:49Speaker 4: you know, worth making sure they don't have any other issues.
- 12:51Speaker 4: Severe dental disease can actually lead to sinus irritation sneezing,
- 12:56Speaker 4: so making sure the teeth and gums are healthy and everything.
- 13:00Speaker 4: I'm just ruling out medical issues. But in general, it's
- 13:02Speaker 4: it's gross. My cat does it sometimes too, so, but
- 13:05Speaker 4: clean yourself up and in a ship problem.
- 13:07Speaker 1: All right?
- 13:07Speaker 7: Final question here from Hi Janette.
- 13:11Speaker 1: Hello Janette, Hello, where are you calling from South Jordan?
- 13:16Speaker 1: And you have a dog question? Is it your dog?
- 13:19Speaker 10: I do have a dog. Yes, he's five years old
- 13:22Speaker 10: and he's a multie ship through your key mix. He's
- 13:25Speaker 10: about fifteen pounds, so not super big. He's the sweetest
- 13:29Speaker 10: fluffiest little thing. But I have neighbors that are the
- 13:32Speaker 10: best neighbors ever, and he has bitten each member of
- 13:37Speaker 10: the couple. He bit the lady like two weeks ago,
- 13:42Speaker 10: and two years ago he bit the man.
- 13:44Speaker 1: But what's what's what's his name? What's his name? Jimmy, Jimmy?
- 13:50Speaker 6: Actually sorry, his name is Socks.
- 13:52Speaker 1: Oh so Jimmy is a good name too. Yeah, so
- 13:58Speaker 1: that but these are the only people he's bitten.
- 14:01Speaker 2: Yes, huh, Yeah, that's interesting for sure.
- 14:04Speaker 10: Maybe he knows, like they do my yard work and
- 14:07Speaker 10: they do my snow blowing.
- 14:09Speaker 1: He knows something you don't know.
- 14:11Speaker 6: Maybe I'm like, I don't know if they're costing him
- 14:14Speaker 6: in the backyard or what.
- 14:15Speaker 7: Well, if he if he bit them because they were
- 14:18Speaker 7: they in your yard, it could be a territorial thing.
- 14:22Speaker 6: They were in the yard. But I was talking to like,
- 14:24Speaker 6: it was so bizarre because I was just talking to
- 14:27Speaker 6: them at each.
- 14:28Speaker 5: Point and he just ran up and bit them.
- 14:31Speaker 10: Yeah, trying to charge.
- 14:32Speaker 6: Yeah, he came out of the house. He's an inside dog,
- 14:34Speaker 6: so he you know, he came out of the house
- 14:36Speaker 6: and yeah, he charged this lesson the other time he
- 14:39Speaker 6: was on a leash. Actually, so yeah, but he got
- 14:41Speaker 6: away from the.
- 14:42Speaker 4: Very It is strange, and I would wonder, you know,
- 14:46Speaker 4: is there some territorial illness or protectiveness whether it's you
- 14:50Speaker 4: or the yard or the territory or whatever.
- 14:53Speaker 2: There shouldn't be, you know.
- 14:55Speaker 4: Again, if he's only doing it to them, there's probably
- 14:57Speaker 4: some some sort of thing that that's stimmy reading that,
- 15:00Speaker 4: and so I think one thing you could try over
- 15:02Speaker 4: time is just to try and do get in more
- 15:05Speaker 4: use to them in those situations, you know, on a
- 15:08Speaker 4: leash to start with, and just see if if you
- 15:11Speaker 4: can make some changes over time.
- 15:12Speaker 2: I bet if you gave you bet.
- 15:13Speaker 1: If you showed me a picture of Jimmy, I wouldn't
- 15:15Speaker 1: like his looks.
- 15:18Speaker 6: Well, yeah, that's the funniest part. They're just totally innocuous
- 15:21Speaker 6: and super nice people.
- 15:22Speaker 4: So I can't figure Yeah, dogs work differently, so you
- 15:26Speaker 4: just got to figure out what it is and just
- 15:27Speaker 4: try to work away from.
- 15:28Speaker 1: It or just keep him away from them.
- 15:30Speaker 2: Yeah, I mean, worst case scenario for sure, we put up.
- 15:33Speaker 6: A baby gate so.
- 15:34Speaker 10: You can't get out with the dog anyway most of
- 15:37Speaker 10: the time.
- 15:38Speaker 1: Okay, Well, thank you, thanks, good story, thank you. All right,
- 15:42Speaker 1: Well there we go, doctor Josh Davis, thank you so much.
- 15:46Speaker 2: Yeah, always a pleasure. Guys see in a couple of weeks.
- 15:49Speaker 1: Thank you.