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Vet Josh Davis Q&A For March 12th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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Speaker 1: Thank you very It's time to talk puppies and kiddies,
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Speaker 1: primarily with our friend and veterinarian, doctor Josh Davis. Doctor
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Speaker 1: Davis is hearing and answer your questions. We want to,
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Speaker 1: you know, know the name of your animal, what kind
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Speaker 1: of an animal it is, and what your question is. Morning,
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Speaker 1: Doctor Davis, Good morning. How are you guys doing doing?
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Speaker 1: Doing pretty well? Uh, you don't have any surgery today.
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Speaker 1: I guess how.
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Speaker 2: You're uh maybe depends on a pet we saw yesterday.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, so because you're not wearing your scrubs and usually that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if I'm guaranteed, I'll do that. But yeah, it's uh,
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Speaker 3: we might have a sick dog to deal with today.
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Speaker 2: So we'll see. Hopefully not, but we'll see.
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Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine six.
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Speaker 1: Or you can text questions as well. Three three nine
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Speaker 1: eighty six.
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Speaker 2: I have a I have a puppy question. Oh, let's
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Speaker 2: hear it.
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Speaker 4: Does this count as a pup date as well? Pup
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Speaker 4: is two features now?
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Speaker 5: Yeah, this is on Uh Oakley, my new puppy. And
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Speaker 5: I'm feeling very Italian mom about this that I worry
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Speaker 5: that she's starving because no matter how much food I
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Speaker 5: put in the bowl, she will eat it in thirty seconds, okay,
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Speaker 5: And so I'm worried that she's still.
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Speaker 1: Hungry no matter how much food you put in there.
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Speaker 1: Have you tried like doubling the amount.
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Speaker 6: I've tried, like so I was measuring it like a
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Speaker 6: cup and a half kind of food, and she would
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Speaker 6: eat that fast. So I just started taking the bowl
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Speaker 6: and scooping it out of the and filling them and
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Speaker 6: she will eat all that, okay, So am I Should
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Speaker 6: I not be doing that?
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Speaker 2: Should I be worried about her being starving?
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Speaker 3: I think in the short term. So with puppies, we
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Speaker 3: want to feed them for growth. I mean, that's really
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Speaker 3: important that they're getting food for growth, but it is
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Speaker 3: you can overdo it too, and there's definitely some overweight
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Speaker 3: puppies out there that we have to be careful with,
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Speaker 3: and the bigger breeds becomes a big factor. So I
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Speaker 3: think having a routine is really important. So scheduled feedings
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Speaker 3: is always important there. And for dogs that like to
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Speaker 3: just gulp up their food in like two bites, you
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Speaker 3: can make a game out of it for them.
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Speaker 2: So they make special.
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Speaker 3: Bulls that force them to eat kibbles at a time.
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Speaker 3: An easy, cheap way is just spread it out over
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Speaker 3: the floor and make them pick up one at a time.
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Speaker 2: So it's a game to them.
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Speaker 3: But also let's there, let's them being full, catch up
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Speaker 3: with them too at the same time and having a schedule.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, I mean, make a game out of it.
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Speaker 3: Because dogs need enrichment that way too, for sure. So
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Speaker 3: and and then have a routine. So when they're adults,
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Speaker 3: it's here's meal time. Here's what you get, and you'll
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Speaker 3: have so much better success with managing their weight and everything.
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Speaker 1: Okay, I wish my I wish my mother had done
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Speaker 1: that with me. Eight seven six zero two nine six
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Speaker 1: nine six. And we do have a question. Let's go
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Speaker 1: to Nikki. Hi, Nikki, Ah, right, how's it going good? Nikki?
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Speaker 1: Where are you calling from? And what's your pet's name?
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Speaker 7: I am calling from the highway exit. It's seven hundred
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Speaker 7: east right now. I'm driving and talking on the phone
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Speaker 7: right now.
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Speaker 1: So okay, and what what's your pets name?
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Speaker 5: My name is.
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Speaker 7: My pet's name is Harley. She's a German shepherd, and
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Speaker 7: like most German shepherd she's allergic to everything on this earth.
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Speaker 8: A right that happens, so I would.
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Speaker 7: Yeah, So I was wondering if there are any supplements
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Speaker 7: that I can give her that would help. She takes
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Speaker 7: side a point right now, and I you know, I
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Speaker 7: give it to her every month, but I was wondering
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Speaker 7: if there are any any supplements that might help with
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Speaker 7: her itchiness as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's when it comes to itchy skin, there's a
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Speaker 3: lot of things out there that can be considered. Side
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Speaker 3: a point is a fantastic thing to use, and it
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Speaker 3: helps many many dogs out there, But as a thing
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Speaker 3: by itself, it's not gonna always fix all of your problems.
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Speaker 3: So good skincare on the outside, which is usually like
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Speaker 3: a good high quality shampoo, and regular bathing can help
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Speaker 3: keep stuff off their skin and keep their skin just
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Speaker 3: in better condition. And then fatty acid supplements of fish
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Speaker 3: oil types of supplements can also be shown to be beneficial.
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Speaker 3: And then good quality food makes a huge difference. So
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Speaker 3: you know, from the outside and the inside, you want
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Speaker 3: to work on it from all angles.
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Speaker 1: Does that help perfect?
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Speaker 9: Yeah?
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Speaker 7: It does. How I guess, how frequently would you advise
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Speaker 7: bathing her?
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Speaker 3: It kind of depends on the level of how how
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Speaker 3: rough their skin gets or how you know, how red
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Speaker 3: or irritated or itchy, but once a week, once every
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Speaker 3: other week, some dogs need to do that.
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Speaker 2: So it just kind of depends.
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Speaker 1: Don't you like it?
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Speaker 9: She she tolerates it?
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Speaker 2: Good enough?
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Speaker 1: Yep, good enough? All right, yeah, okay, thanks for calling.
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Speaker 7: Well, hey, yeah, thank you guys so much.
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Speaker 4: Eight seven seven six two.
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Speaker 1: Why would German shepherds be he sauld like most German
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Speaker 1: shepherds allerging everything in the world.
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Speaker 3: A lot of the pure breed dogs often things over
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Speaker 3: time are kind of bred into the lineages, and so
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Speaker 3: German shepherd's skin, hip, dysplasia, other issues can be there.
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Speaker 3: So pure breeds are great and there's nothing wrong with that,
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Speaker 3: but not everyone's responsible when they're breeding, and they don't
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Speaker 3: always check for those things and then kind of breed
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Speaker 3: it out of them at the same time.
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Speaker 1: All right, let's go to Mike. Hello, Mike, Mike, Hi,
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Speaker 1: where are you calling from? I'm driving okay, and you
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Speaker 1: got a puppy and what's the puppies name? And what's
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Speaker 1: your question?
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Speaker 9: Well, it's this is more of a I think it'd
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Speaker 9: do a lot of people some good for him to
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Speaker 9: talk about it, because I learned the lesson the hard way.
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Speaker 9: I've got a I've got a Pyrenees mix, and when
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Speaker 9: he was a puppy, I thought I was doing the
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Speaker 9: right thing by feeding him really protein rich, grain free food.
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Speaker 9: But it turns out it's too hot and he was
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Speaker 9: actually growing at a rate that was unhealthy for his
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Speaker 9: scalable structure, and it actually caused some problems with him.
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Speaker 9: He his front legs are kind of deformed as a result.
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Speaker 9: I just thought it's worth, it's worth, it's worth letting
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Speaker 9: people know that you can actually see them too hot
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Speaker 9: a food when they're puppy.
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Speaker 2: What does that mean too?
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Speaker 1: And what what? What's this unfortunate animal's name? Max? Max,
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Speaker 1: which is great doing great?
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Speaker 2: Do you know what that means?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So what we're talking about, and this is typically
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Speaker 3: a problem with the larger giant breed dogs, So your
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Speaker 3: Great Danes and Pyrenees things like that, is too hot
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Speaker 3: a food means too either too much or too energy
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Speaker 3: rich of food, and it's that's not it may not
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Speaker 3: be balanced for these large breeds because they do have
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Speaker 3: a longer growth period and if they grow too fast,
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Speaker 3: they'll kind of outgrow their joints and they'll develop different conditions.
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Speaker 3: So the most common ones called o CD. It's uh,
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Speaker 3: it's a problem with the cartilage and some of their
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Speaker 3: joints and it's often elbows and shoulders and hips and
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Speaker 3: knees and things like that, and so that can be
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Speaker 3: a real problem.
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Speaker 2: And there are.
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Speaker 3: Special diets made for giant breed dogs to to consider,
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Speaker 3: but the amount of food, like we talked about earlier,
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Speaker 3: is also a factor in that and it can really
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Speaker 3: shorten life spends and debilitate dogs and sometimes have to
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Speaker 3: have surgery to fix those problems. And sometimes you can't
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Speaker 3: fix the problems too, and so they're they're just in
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Speaker 3: pain and arthritis and.
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Speaker 1: All that stuff.
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Speaker 3: So very good, very good point to bring up with
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Speaker 3: those giant breezes.
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Speaker 1: Well, thanks for thanks for calling in with that, Mike,
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Speaker 1: Thank you, Mike. Yeah, yep, yeah, we're back with doctor
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Speaker 1: Josh Davis to answer the questions about your puppies and kiddies.
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Speaker 1: And we got a full line of phones or full
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Speaker 1: bank of phone so now you folks texting in.
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Speaker 4: I'm sorry, but we put priority on phone calls as
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Speaker 4: opposed to texting.
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Speaker 1: Sorry about that, but that's just the way it is.
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Speaker 1: As well. It's a radio show. Let's go to Chris. Hello, Chris,
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Speaker 1: Hi there, Chris. Where are you calling from.
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Speaker 8: The Salt Lake City Airport? Actually?
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Speaker 1: Okay, well you have a cat, It says, what's your
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Speaker 1: cat's name?
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Speaker 8: We're looking at Sweetye today, sweetie.
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Speaker 1: And what's the story.
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Speaker 8: So sweety had an issue with her paw few months ago,
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Speaker 8: and we took her in, but the doctors can't find
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Speaker 8: anything wrong with the paw, and now she started limping again.
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Speaker 8: I'm she's a very affectionate kiddy. I'm actually wondering if
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Speaker 8: she perhaps faking an injury just to get attention.
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Speaker 1: Or yeah, Hudson was looking for your dog has done that.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, Hudson was doing this the other day. I was
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Speaker 4: convinced that his arm there's something wrong with his arm.
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Speaker 4: And then next you know, hours later, it's like nothing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, with limping or lamelessness like that. I mean, dogs
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Speaker 3: and cats are just like this. They can get sprained, strained,
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Speaker 3: types of injuries on joints and ligaments. So sometimes a
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Speaker 3: short term limp could be something as simple as that is,
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Speaker 3: your cat been declawed by chance?
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Speaker 8: No, we haven't done that.
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Speaker 3: Ch okay, okay, Because some some D class surgeries can
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Speaker 3: kind of go go wrong.
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Speaker 2: Over time.
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Speaker 3: So but if there is a limp there, it's probably
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Speaker 3: not just you know, a sympathy limp or something like that.
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Speaker 3: So it may be a soft tissue injury, or there
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Speaker 3: may be something more serious. Cats and even young cats
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Speaker 3: at times, can develop arthritis and their joints, so sometimes
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Speaker 3: you have to keep that in mind. So if you
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Speaker 3: didn't get extras at your check up, it might be
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Speaker 3: worth considering that just to check for our signs of
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Speaker 3: arthritis or anything like that or any other problems. But
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Speaker 3: sometimes it can be hard to pin those things down,
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Speaker 3: but over time you'll often find the reason.
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Speaker 1: Okay, thank you guys, all right, go to you.
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Speaker 4: All right, let's go to Janine.
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Speaker 1: Hello, Jeanine, Jeanine, Hello, I am in Murray. What's your
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Speaker 1: dog's name?
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Speaker 8: Excuse me?
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Speaker 10: Hannah?
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Speaker 1: All right? What's Hannah doing?
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Speaker 10: Hannah is an obsessive liquor. She's a very anxious dog.
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Speaker 10: She licks everything her tongue. She's like an odd varc.
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Speaker 10: She's constantly sticking out her tongue trying to lick us,
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Speaker 10: lick the floor, lick her bed, lick every thing that
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Speaker 10: is possible.
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Speaker 1: I think you need to give it, give her a licking.
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Speaker 1: That's what you need to do.
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Speaker 10: The vet has given us prozac. When she was on it,
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Speaker 10: she stopped eating, we took her off. What else can
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Speaker 10: we do?
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's not an uncommon thing to have happen and
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Speaker 3: can be in some cases a behavioral.
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Speaker 2: Type of thing.
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Speaker 3: And you know, sometimes people don't work, so it doesn't
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Speaker 3: hurt anything. But you'd also want to make sure there's
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Speaker 3: not medical conditions underlying that, because some dogs can have allergies, pain, itchiness,
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Speaker 3: that kind of stuff can also trigger those types of things.
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Speaker 3: And if it is pure behavior while you're on the prozac,
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Speaker 3: if you saw any change, then maybe it is a
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Speaker 3: behavior thing. And there are different types of behavior medications
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Speaker 3: that can be tried just to see if it makes
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Speaker 3: a difference. But I always want to make sure there's
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Speaker 3: not a medical reason that they're doing that too. Even
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Speaker 3: oral pain, like pets with oral pain or pat teeth
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Speaker 3: can have issues that way too.
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Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I had a cat that liked to lick me,
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Speaker 1: you know, and I liked the cat a lot, and
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Speaker 1: then but then they'd start licking my arm and I
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Speaker 1: just godn't.
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Speaker 3: Cats will do that because they are groomers and social
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Speaker 3: groomers and you're part of their social groups sometimes, so.
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks, thank you. Let's go to Eric. Hello, Eric,
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Speaker 1: where are you calling from? Eric?
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Speaker 11: I'm calling from Riverton.
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Speaker 1: Can you have a dog named?
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Speaker 11: What Scout?
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Speaker 1: Okay? And what's Scout doing?
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Speaker 12: So?
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Speaker 11: Scout is a toy poodle will be ten this year,
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Speaker 11: and randomly the other morning he yelped in in pain
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Speaker 11: and was limping and kind of guarding his his left
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Speaker 11: leg and not too unlike Sweetie A couple of callers ago.
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Speaker 11: By the end of the day, I you know, we
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Speaker 11: took him to the emergency vet because it was just
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Speaker 11: so out of the blue and not sure what was
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Speaker 11: what was going on. And at the vet they didn't
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Speaker 11: find anything either, but we kind of observed him guarding
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Speaker 11: one side and they said it could have been a
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Speaker 11: luxey to patella. My question is is this something that
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Speaker 11: we can anticipate probably happening, happening more frequently more often
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Speaker 11: as he gets older, And at what point do you
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Speaker 11: typically see the need for like surgery on something like this.
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Speaker 3: Okay, yeah, yeah, the when you were talking about that,
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Speaker 3: the luxitting paateella is the first thing that came to
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Speaker 3: mind for me too, especially you know, obviously has to
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Speaker 3: be a back leg for that.
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Speaker 2: But and yeah, yeah, Patilla's is just a knee.
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Speaker 3: It's the knee cap and in some small breeze, especially
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Speaker 3: like the toy poodles, that's a common it's kind of
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Speaker 3: a genetic malformation of the knee joint and that. But
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Speaker 3: it comes in grades. So there's a grade one to
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Speaker 3: grade four, with four in the most severe. So a
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Speaker 3: lot of dogs at grade one they can have it
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Speaker 3: pop out and cause a little bit of pain.
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Speaker 2: And they'll get it back in and be fine.
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Speaker 3: The problem is if it keeps happening over time, it
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Speaker 3: can cause more pain and cause more trouble for that
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Speaker 3: popping out of place.
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Speaker 2: So at that age, hopefully you'll never need surgery.
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Speaker 3: But it's best preventives are weight management, so make sure
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Speaker 3: they're not overweight. And and then you know, joint supplements
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Speaker 3: are never bad. And avoiding jumping up and down off
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Speaker 3: things is a big one if you can pull that
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Speaker 3: off too.
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Speaker 9: M A.
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Speaker 11: Right, Yeah, that one's tricky because the furniture.
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Speaker 1: But yeah, you need to build some little ramps up
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Speaker 1: to your couch.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, but the little stairs or ramps up that saves
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Speaker 3: a lot of dogs, especially a lot of old dogs.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, thanks very question so much. Yeah, thank you. All right,
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Speaker 1: let's go to Joe. Oh, Joe, where are you?
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Speaker 9: Yeah, I'm driving, I'm driving.
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Speaker 1: Okay, you gotta dog named what?
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Speaker 13: I have a pup name when Sin. He's a six
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Speaker 13: year old lad and we're thinking about doing homemade food
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Speaker 13: for him. But I've read online that you can miss
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Speaker 13: out on important vitamins and so forth by doing your
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Speaker 13: own pet food.
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Speaker 12: Mm hmmm is that true?
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Speaker 3: It can be true, for sure, And uh, you have
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Speaker 3: to be really careful and really diligent about making sure
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Speaker 3: they get all the vitamins and minerals they need. And
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Speaker 3: there there are many great commercial foods out there that
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Speaker 3: just do it all for you, you know. And so
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Speaker 3: a lot of people do want to do that at
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Speaker 3: the home care that way, And that's okay if you
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Speaker 3: want to spend the time and the money to do it,
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Speaker 3: and you just have to make sure and there are
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Speaker 3: many online sites.
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Speaker 2: With reputable recipes to do that.
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Speaker 3: But it's at the end of the day, it's just
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Speaker 3: not necessary most of the time unless you just really
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Speaker 3: want to do it.
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Speaker 1: Why do you want to do it?
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Speaker 13: Well, she's a little yeavy and clergees and a friend
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Speaker 13: of ours converted theirs over you complete homemade dog food,
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Speaker 13: and the dogs walked ten pounds in less than like
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Speaker 13: a month.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and part of that's just calorie control too, you know,
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Speaker 3: just maintaining good calorie control. And some dogs can benefit
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Speaker 3: from those types of diets, but not always.
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Speaker 1: Why don't you share your ozembic with them? I should? Yeah,
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Speaker 1: all right, thanks.
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Speaker 4: Joe, thank you, John, you got it, Thank you buy,
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Speaker 4: Thank you.
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Speaker 1: Lauren. You're our last call, so make it good and quick. Hi, Lauren,
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Speaker 1: what's your kiddie's name?
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Speaker 12: Hi? She is a black, long haired cat and her
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Speaker 12: name is through a Stader cat.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 12: I've been waiting to call in or something because I
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Speaker 12: knew Gino would get a kick out of that. I'm
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Speaker 12: not gonna lie.
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Speaker 5: Does she have a little lace caller? I hope she
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Speaker 5: has a.
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Speaker 2: Little lace collar.
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Speaker 12: I have been scouring Etsy for years trying to find
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Speaker 12: on the right. It is on her little left.
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Speaker 1: What's the question?
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Speaker 12: But so, she is about five or six years old,
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Speaker 12: and I try and keep her nails fairly. I tend
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Speaker 12: to trim her nails and stuff. But I've noticed, you know,
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Speaker 12: when I do it, there's one of her front nails
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Speaker 12: that she tends to have h pay really close attention
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Speaker 12: to where she's like constantly biting it and ripping at.
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Speaker 10: It and stuff.
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Speaker 12: And I'm just wondering if there's anything I can do
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Speaker 12: or if it's causing her any irritation, if I need
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Speaker 12: to do anything because I feel bad for her.
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Speaker 3: No, that's a good question, and it would, I mean,
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Speaker 3: it would entirely depend on if there is an issue
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Speaker 3: with the actual nail bed or they have a sheath
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Speaker 3: of skin that kind of opens up when they put
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Speaker 3: their nails out, and so making sure that it's clean
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Speaker 3: inside of that too, and that there's no other problems
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Speaker 3: with the nail itself, because if they focus on something,
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Speaker 3: it's often because it's bothering them some way, shape or form.
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Speaker 3: So it might be worth getting it checked out just
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Speaker 3: to make sure there's not a problem there, because they
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Speaker 3: can get tumors, they can have injuries to the nail beds,
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Speaker 3: they can have all sorts of things going on.
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Speaker 1: All right, Okay, ye see you later, Thank you very much. Well,
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Speaker 1: there we go. It's doctor Josh Davis. You'll be back
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Speaker 1: in a couple of weeks. Have a nice day, Have
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Speaker 1: I hope you don't have to do the surgery.
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Speaker 3: I hope not too. Yeah, it'll mean we're we're in trouble.
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Speaker 3: So I have a good one.
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Speaker 1: Guys,