Latest / The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of / Vet Josh Davis Q&A from August 26th, 2026
Transcript
- 0:00Speaker 1: Here he is.
- 0:04Speaker 2: He's our vet.
- 0:05Speaker 3: Yep.
- 0:06Speaker 4: Dr.
- 0:06Speaker 1: Josh Davis.
- 0:07Speaker 2: He takes care of our puppies.
- 0:09Speaker 1: Trilogy Veterinary. Go to TrilogyVetSandy.com and all the information is there.
- 0:15Speaker 2: Not just Dr.
- 0:16Speaker 4: Davis.
- 0:17Speaker 5: All the people that work with you there are very,
- 0:19Speaker 5: very nice people. We feel very comfortable taking our pets
- 0:23Speaker 5: to your facility.
- 0:24Speaker 6: Absolutely.
- 0:24Speaker 7: Absolutely.
- 0:25Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 0:26Speaker 1: Well, we were having a little discussion about dogs eating things.
- 0:29Speaker 7: Tale as old as time.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Maybe your dogs are eating things that they shouldn't.
- 0:37Speaker 1: A whole sock, Nick?
- 0:38Speaker 7: A whole sock.
- 0:39Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 0:39Speaker 7: Way back in the day.
- 0:41Speaker 2: Past it.
- 0:41Speaker 8: We were having a conversation off air again about dogs
- 0:45Speaker 8: eating stuff.
- 0:45Speaker 7: And we had a little baby proof our home.
- 0:49Speaker 8: Specifically for our Basset Hound, because you come to find out, oh,
- 0:53Speaker 8: the single sock that we left in the corner is
- 0:56Speaker 8: a health hazard. After my dog's first birthday, she was
- 1:01Speaker 8: out at the dog park, and in front of everybody
- 1:04Speaker 8: there at the park, she passed an entire.
- 1:08Speaker 7: whole sock.
- 1:09Speaker 2: Was there an applause?
- 1:10Speaker 7: No, there should have been.
- 1:11Speaker 3: There should have been.
- 1:12Speaker 1: It was impressive.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Why do dogs eat things like socks?
- 1:17Speaker 7: I mean, we do see it more in young dogs.
- 1:20Speaker 7: It tends to be a younger dog problem, but they
- 1:23Speaker 7: just love to get things in their mouth. They love
- 1:25Speaker 7: to chew on things, and sometimes... kind of gets past
- 1:28Speaker 7: that point of no return and away it goes, you know.
- 1:31Speaker 5: But it can, I mean, good thing she passed it,
- 1:35Speaker 5: but sometimes.
- 1:36Speaker 2: They don't, right?
- 1:37Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 1:37Speaker 9: Yeah.
- 1:37Speaker 7: Very lucky when they pass those things. And I mean,
- 1:40Speaker 7: dogs will, they'll swallow anything, rocks, toys, um, wedding rings.
- 1:45Speaker 7: I mean, underwear, uh, you name it, they'll, they'll go
- 1:48Speaker 7: for it. And, Most dogs will get lucky, and they'll
- 1:50Speaker 7: get through it, but the ones that don't, of course,
- 1:53Speaker 7: they end up in surgery a lot of times to
- 1:55Speaker 7: fix that problem. Oh, yeah.
- 1:56Speaker 8: She passed that one, but she did once eat a rock,
- 1:59Speaker 8: and that one did take surgery.
- 2:01Speaker 6: Wow.
- 2:02Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 2:03Speaker 1: I've been lucky with our three dogs. We have not
- 2:05Speaker 1: had that issue.
- 2:07Speaker 7: That's wild.
- 2:07Speaker 4: 877-602-9696.
- 2:07Speaker 2: All right. Let's begin with, looks like Stella is here.
- 2:11Speaker 9: Hello, Stella.
- 2:17Speaker 3: Hello.
- 2:18Speaker 4: So my cat, I have a cat. She's a gorgeous
- 2:22Speaker 4: little tortoise shell. Her name is Cinder, like Cinderella. So
- 2:27Speaker 4: my question is, can cats, dogs, pets, can they get depressed?
- 2:33Speaker 4: That's my short question. But the background is I just
- 2:36Speaker 4: broke up with my boyfriend, and he lives in New Hampshire. Anyway,
- 2:41Speaker 4: he loved that cat. He would pick her up, kiss her. They, like,
- 2:47Speaker 4: she's the most beautiful girl he's ever seen while I
- 2:49Speaker 4: was standing right there.
- 2:51Speaker 3: Anyway.
- 2:52Speaker 2: Oh, Stella. Wow.
- 2:58Speaker 4: Love that cat. This was in New Hampshire. We went
- 3:02Speaker 4: back and forth in a cargo van, so that was
- 3:06Speaker 4: the stress of the travel with that and airplanes. Anyway.
- 3:09Speaker 4: So we broke up and we left and this was
- 3:11Speaker 4: on a lake house. So she had lots of room
- 3:13Speaker 4: to run around and stuff. And now we're back at
- 3:16Speaker 4: my little townhouse. And I think she misses him. Like
- 3:21Speaker 4: she's lethargic, doesn't really move except to eat like leaves
- 3:27Speaker 4: all the time. Yeah.
- 3:28Speaker 7: So, you know.
- 3:29Speaker 5: Stella, I might even say she's picking up on you
- 3:33Speaker 5: being sad too.
- 3:35Speaker 2: It sounds like.
- 3:36Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 3:36Speaker 5: Yeah.
- 3:37Speaker 7: That's, that's possible. And, I would say to answer the
- 3:40Speaker 7: initial question is I do think that there, there are
- 3:43Speaker 7: definitely situations where you have a big break in their
- 3:47Speaker 7: normal routine and that can be a situation like yours. Um,
- 3:51Speaker 7: we see that often when, uh, you know, a pet
- 3:53Speaker 7: passes away in the home and, you know, especially when
- 3:56Speaker 7: they're good friends and they spend a lot of time together, um,
- 3:59Speaker 7: they can, they can mope around. I mean, I've, I've
- 4:02Speaker 7: definitely seen it sometimes even for months at a time.
- 4:05Speaker 7: And I also think pets, they do seem to have
- 4:08Speaker 7: their favorite person a lot of times, you know, I
- 4:11Speaker 7: know that's true in my household and many other, many
- 4:13Speaker 7: other folks say that too. So the thing I would
- 4:17Speaker 7: be careful of though, is there is, you know, depression
- 4:20Speaker 7: and kind of moping around, but there's also don't, don't
- 4:24Speaker 7: confuse that with, is there actually a medical problem too? Because,
- 4:27Speaker 7: you know, cats don't tolerate stress all that well sometimes.
- 4:30Speaker 7: So moving and all that, and that can be stressful. So,
- 4:34Speaker 7: I would just make sure it's not an actual medical problem, too,
- 4:37Speaker 7: on top of, you know, the change in routine.
- 4:39Speaker 6: Okay.
- 4:39Speaker 7: So, yeah, be careful about that.
- 4:41Speaker 1: All right.
- 4:43Speaker 4: Well, I guess we should just get back together. No.
- 4:46Speaker 6: No, Stella.
- 4:47Speaker 3: No, no, no.
- 4:47Speaker 2: I'm sorry you're having a hard time, Stella.
- 4:50Speaker 1: You'll get through this. You'll get through this. All right.
- 4:52Speaker 1: Thank you. Talk to you later. Let's go to Nathan. Hello, Nathan.
- 4:58Speaker 6: Hello.
- 4:59Speaker 9: I have a question. About a 16-year-old Chihuahua-Terrier mix. His
- 5:03Speaker 9: name is Ollie. And back at the beginning of June,
- 5:08Speaker 9: the vet took his blood panel and said he had
- 5:11Speaker 9: kidney disease, and his kidney value was 2.0. Now, a
- 5:16Speaker 9: few weeks later, we were going to get an eye
- 5:20Speaker 9: graft surgery done, and the surgeon took the blood values again,
- 5:24Speaker 9: and his kidney value was up at 3.4. So in
- 5:29Speaker 9: 10 weeks, it went from 2.0 to 3.4. And my
- 5:33Speaker 9: question is, how bad is it that it went up
- 5:36Speaker 9: that fast?
- 5:38Speaker 7: I mean, hearing your background on it, I do think
- 5:41Speaker 7: that is probably a faster progression than we would then
- 5:44Speaker 7: we'd like to see or like to hope for, for sure.
- 5:47Speaker 7: And there's a couple different values we look at with kidneys.
- 5:50Speaker 7: So I think I know the one you're talking about.
- 5:52Speaker 7: And And that puts us, that kind of pushes us
- 5:55Speaker 7: into later stages of kidney disease. So I would be,
- 5:58Speaker 7: you know, I would be concerned about the progression and
- 6:00Speaker 7: how fast that is and just making sure that you're
- 6:03Speaker 7: doing everything in your power to help with that. So
- 6:07Speaker 7: often dehydration is an issue. So sometimes we'll use fluid
- 6:10Speaker 7: therapy to help with that. Prescription diets are beneficial. Sometimes
- 6:14Speaker 7: things to help with appetite and toxin buildup. So they
- 6:18Speaker 7: can be really complicated cases to manage. And, um, but yeah,
- 6:22Speaker 7: that is, that's kind of a fast progression. So I
- 6:25Speaker 7: would really try to stay on top of that with,
- 6:27Speaker 7: with your doctor for sure.
- 6:29Speaker 3: Okay.
- 6:31Speaker 9: That's what I needed was.
- 6:32Speaker 7: The reality check. Kidney disease. It always sucks. And it's, um,
- 6:37Speaker 7: and some pets, it just kind of gets to them
- 6:39Speaker 7: faster than others. So yeah, I feel you. I feel
- 6:42Speaker 7: you for sure.
- 6:43Speaker 1: There you go. Thank you, Nathan. Questions about your puppies
- 6:46Speaker 1: and your kitties. Jennifer has a question about her cat. Jennifer,
- 6:50Speaker 1: are you there?
- 6:53Speaker 7: Jennifer.
- 6:54Speaker 1: Oh, Jennifer, you hung on all that time.
- 6:56Speaker 8: Jennifer.
- 6:57Speaker 2: 877-602-9696. Oh, it's Luke.
- 7:02Speaker 3: Hello, Luke.
- 7:04Speaker 1: I got you, Jennifer. Okay, I got the numbers mixed up.
- 7:07Speaker 6: Sorry.
- 7:07Speaker 2: That's okay.
- 7:08Speaker 1: Hang on, Jennifer. Don't hang up. We'll get to you. Luke,
- 7:11Speaker 1: go ahead. He has a French bulldog.
- 7:13Speaker 2: Hey.
- 7:14Speaker 9: Yeah, I got a little Frenchie. Her name is Daisy Beast.
- 7:17Speaker 9: I've had her since she's a pup. She's 12 and
- 7:20Speaker 9: a half years old. So I was wondering, in your experience,
- 7:22Speaker 9: is that pretty old for a Frenchie?
- 7:25Speaker 7: It's starting to get there, but also the way health
- 7:29Speaker 7: care has gone for pets these last 15, 20 years,
- 7:33Speaker 7: we're seeing them live a lot longer, especially if we
- 7:36Speaker 7: don't let things like dental health and obesity and pain
- 7:40Speaker 7: and arthritis and things like that, if we manage those
- 7:42Speaker 7: things well, they definitely can keep on rolling. So, yeah,
- 7:46Speaker 7: it's getting up there, but I think you've got time
- 7:48Speaker 7: if they're healthy. Awesome.
- 7:51Speaker 9: Well, thanks for answering my question.
- 7:52Speaker 6: Yeah.
- 7:52Speaker 2: All right.
- 7:53Speaker 1: There you go. Jennifer, I'm sorry about that.
- 7:55Speaker 7: Here you go. Oh, that's okay.
- 7:58Speaker 3: I have a calico cat. She's five years. Well, I
- 8:03Speaker 3: have two cats, so I don't know how long my
- 8:05Speaker 3: calico has been constipated. constipated she started throwing up blood
- 8:10Speaker 3: monday evening so i took her to the vet they
- 8:14Speaker 3: did blood work that was fine her liver was a
- 8:17Speaker 3: little bit elevated and they gave her fluids and an
- 8:20Speaker 3: enema and she still has not gone to the bathroom
- 8:23Speaker 3: yet i don't know what else i can try.
- 8:27Speaker 7: Yeah i think that i'm eating okay Yeah, if we
- 8:31Speaker 7: can't get the that whole constipation thing resolved, I think
- 8:35Speaker 7: you're gonna have a really hard time getting any improvement there.
- 8:38Speaker 7: Because when you have a blockage like that, it's they
- 8:42Speaker 7: won't eat because they just get sick every time they
- 8:44Speaker 7: try to eat. And with especially if there's bloody vomit,
- 8:48Speaker 7: I also be worried, maybe something else is going on.
- 8:51Speaker 7: I mean, maybe the constipation is the only problem. But
- 8:54Speaker 7: I would say probably should get back in and really
- 8:57Speaker 7: get that blockage cleared and probably needs to be on
- 8:59Speaker 7: like IV fluids and other therapies because the longer you wait,
- 9:03Speaker 7: the more dehydrated and sick they get. And then it's very,
- 9:06Speaker 7: very difficult to turn them around after that. So, yeah,
- 9:10Speaker 7: I don't know if there's anything easy at home you
- 9:12Speaker 7: can do for that.
- 9:12Speaker 3: Nothing I can do at home.
- 9:14Speaker 7: I don't think so, yeah. Not if they're in that situation.
- 9:16Speaker 6: Okay.
- 9:18Speaker 4: All right.
- 9:19Speaker 3: Well, thank you so much. I appreciate it.
- 9:21Speaker 7: Best of luck.
- 9:22Speaker 6: All right.
- 9:23Speaker 1: Ask him a question about your puppy or your kitty.
- 9:26Speaker 1: Here is a text question. What's a good over-the-counter sleep
- 9:31Speaker 1: aid for two Chihuahua mixes for a two-day drive from
- 9:35Speaker 1: Texas to Utah?
- 9:40Speaker 7: The only thing, and again, I mean, nothing is without
- 9:42Speaker 7: risk without having them, you know, making sure they're healthy.
- 9:45Speaker 7: But sometimes we will do just a little bit of
- 9:47Speaker 7: children's Benadryl for them just to help a little bit.
- 9:50Speaker 7: But if driving or traveling is really stressful... I also
- 9:53Speaker 7: think medication to help with the stress and anxiety is
- 9:55Speaker 7: also really beneficial too, so that they're not just sleepy,
- 9:59Speaker 7: but active. actually kind of decreasing the stress on trips
- 10:02Speaker 7: like that.
- 10:02Speaker 2: So it's by weight, I would guess?
- 10:05Speaker 7: Yeah, by weight. Yeah. And you can look at doses online.
- 10:08Speaker 7: You know, I can't say for sure without knowing much
- 10:11Speaker 7: about them. But and then if you want actual anxiety medications,
- 10:15Speaker 7: you know, usually a quick you know, quick consult with
- 10:18Speaker 7: a vet and we can prescribe things like that too.
- 10:20Speaker 1: Oh, okay.
- 10:20Speaker 7: Yeah. Let's see.
- 10:22Speaker 1: Can you recommend a good brand of fish oil for dogs?
- 10:26Speaker 6: Hmm.
- 10:27Speaker 5: And why would you want your dog? Is that something
- 10:30Speaker 5: they should have anyway?
- 10:31Speaker 7: I guess is the other question.
- 10:33Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 10:33Speaker 7: Fatty acid supplements can be very helpful, especially in certain situations,
- 10:38Speaker 7: skin and skin allergies. We do find some dogs benefit
- 10:41Speaker 7: from that. And then also even dogs with arthritis or
- 10:45Speaker 7: other inflammatory things can benefit. So not always, but they can.
- 10:50Speaker 7: And there are many different brands out there. So, you know,
- 10:52Speaker 7: I can't say that, you know, I want, I always
- 10:55Speaker 7: recommend like a good, you know, veterinary sourced one because
- 10:58Speaker 7: there are also with supplements, you know, unfortunately everyone's in
- 11:03Speaker 7: it to make a buck and they're not always the same.
- 11:06Speaker 7: So anything that sounds too good to be true probably is.
- 11:09Speaker 7: So be careful about that.
- 11:11Speaker 5: Yep.
- 11:11Speaker 1: Now, here's a reason that we like you to call,
- 11:14Speaker 1: because this is confusing. Male cat named Stitch, seven years.
- 11:20Speaker 1: Why would be constantly like plastic since he was a kitten? Now,
- 11:24Speaker 1: does that mean that the cat resembles plastic?
- 11:29Speaker 2: It probably eats plastic.
- 11:30Speaker 7: Yeah, I wonder. Some cats do, and we were talking
- 11:34Speaker 7: about things we shouldn't be eating, and cats do love
- 11:38Speaker 7: Some of them do love plastic, especially like the crinkly
- 11:41Speaker 7: cellophane plastic. They love to just chomp on that and
- 11:43Speaker 7: chew on it. And most of the time, as long
- 11:47Speaker 7: as they're not swallowing it, it's not the end of
- 11:49Speaker 7: the world. But as we were talking about, too, is
- 11:51Speaker 7: trying to really limit exposure to stuff like that the
- 11:54Speaker 7: best that you can, or else you will end up
- 11:56Speaker 7: with a problem sometimes.
- 11:57Speaker 1: Now we're getting clarification.
- 11:58Speaker 7: Licks plastic. Licks plastic. I mean, not the end of
- 12:02Speaker 7: the world, probably.
- 12:03Speaker 8: Yeah.
- 12:04Speaker 7: Licking sometimes again they get it into their mouth and
- 12:07Speaker 7: then end up swallowing it because they can't get it
- 12:09Speaker 7: out so.
- 12:10Speaker 1: And another texter says since we're on this whole swallowing
- 12:14Speaker 1: thing subject what's the craziest object that you have seen
- 12:17Speaker 1: oh that's a good.
- 12:18Speaker 7: Question uh the craziest i mean i've seen definitely a
- 12:24Speaker 7: fair number of sewing needles that cats will swallow and
- 12:27Speaker 7: um surprisingly sometimes they'll actually make it all the way
- 12:30Speaker 7: through them without a problem that's crazy um underwear, some,
- 12:35Speaker 7: and actually I have a story when we took some
- 12:37Speaker 7: underwear out of a dog, it wasn't the wife's underwear.
- 12:39Speaker 7: So that one was actually really interesting. Um, and it
- 12:44Speaker 7: wasn't anyone in the house's underwear. So that, that one
- 12:47Speaker 7: was interesting. We left it alone.
- 12:49Speaker 3: Yeah.
- 12:50Speaker 7: And then, um, treble fish, treble hooks. Uh, I've seen
- 12:53Speaker 7: those before. And, uh, yeah, I've, um, yeah, those are
- 12:58Speaker 7: some peach pits, nectarine pits, all sorts of stuff like that.
- 13:01Speaker 6: Yeah. All right. Eleni?
- 13:06Speaker 5: Eleni?
- 13:08Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:08Speaker 1: How do you say your name? Is it Eleni?
- 13:11Speaker 4: Yeah.
- 13:11Speaker 7: Okay. Go ahead.
- 13:14Speaker 4: Okay.
- 13:14Speaker 3: So I have a Sharpay.
- 13:17Speaker 6: He's about 12 years old. He's getting really grumpy. Well,
- 13:20Speaker 6: they're kind of grumpy anyway. But he is not letting
- 13:23Speaker 6: us cut his nails.
- 13:25Speaker 3: Or shower him or clean his ears or do anything.
- 13:28Speaker 2: Don't touch me.
- 13:28Speaker 9: I'm just wondering.
- 13:31Speaker 4: What we can give him to calm him down.
- 13:33Speaker 7: Yeah, there's with older dogs, there's definitely that calming them peace,
- 13:40Speaker 7: but also. And Sharpies are, you know, they're notorious for
- 13:43Speaker 7: if they don't want something, they don't want something. But
- 13:46Speaker 7: at that age too, if this is not a newer development,
- 13:50Speaker 7: you know, also managing pain. So a lot of old
- 13:53Speaker 7: dogs have pain and arthritis. And so handling them or
- 13:57Speaker 7: restraining them is even worse because they may not like
- 14:00Speaker 7: it on top of it's painful for them. And then Sharpies,
- 14:03Speaker 7: they can have other diseases that can contribute to pain
- 14:07Speaker 7: and things like that. So I would make sure we're
- 14:10Speaker 7: managing pain if that's present. And then also there are
- 14:13Speaker 7: some good kind of mild sedatives or anxiety meds that
- 14:17Speaker 7: we'll use for that too, but they're all by prescription.
- 14:20Speaker 7: So you would want to get, you know, get looked
- 14:21Speaker 7: at and make sure we're healthy enough for that, but,
- 14:24Speaker 7: but make sure pain is managed for sure. Cause that's,
- 14:26Speaker 7: that's a big factor for some dogs.
- 14:29Speaker 9: All right.
- 14:29Speaker 1: Thank you, Melanie.
- 14:30Speaker 6: Thank you.
- 14:31Speaker 2: All right.
- 14:32Speaker 1: Uh, Lori wants to talk about cat knee.
- 14:35Speaker 6: Uh, Hi, thanks for taking my call. Hi.
- 14:39Speaker 2: Hi.
- 14:41Speaker 7: Go ahead.
- 14:42Speaker 6: Yeah, so I have a six-year-old cat named Simba, and
- 14:46Speaker 6: he never had a problem with acne until we got
- 14:49Speaker 6: a new kitten named Jekka. She's about five months old,
- 14:53Speaker 6: and she's a little turd and attacks him all the time.
- 14:56Speaker 6: So I'm wondering if this is related to stress rather
- 15:00Speaker 6: than some sort of bacteria, and if you have any
- 15:02Speaker 6: recommendations on how to treat it.
- 15:05Speaker 2: I didn't know cats could get acne.
- 15:07Speaker 7: I've never heard that.
- 15:08Speaker 1: It's catney.
- 15:09Speaker 7: Catney, yeah. Cats, yeah. The most common thing we'll see
- 15:13Speaker 7: is it's called chin acne, where they'll get these big
- 15:16Speaker 7: kind of yucky, oozy sores on their chin. And with
- 15:20Speaker 7: introducing a new cat, certainly stress could be a component
- 15:23Speaker 7: of that. Yeah. Often it's related to things in the household.
- 15:28Speaker 7: So bowls, we always recommend that cats don't have plastic
- 15:31Speaker 7: bowls because sometimes plastic can be irritating to them. So
- 15:34Speaker 7: ceramic or stainless and then moisture. So if they do
- 15:37Speaker 7: eat wet food or they, you know, if they, when
- 15:39Speaker 7: they drink, if the mouth is really wet. Oh, I
- 15:44Speaker 7: was saying just with your food bowls and then also
- 15:47Speaker 7: moisture can be a problem. So some breeds of cats,
- 15:50Speaker 7: they do, when they drink water, eat, they get more
- 15:52Speaker 7: moisture on their chin. So, The biggest thing is trying
- 15:55Speaker 7: to keep it clean and dry and decreasing bacteria. So
- 15:59Speaker 7: I like to use antibacterial wipes on the chin regularly
- 16:03Speaker 7: and sometimes even shaving the hair short to try and
- 16:06Speaker 7: get it healed and managed. But if it's very severe,
- 16:09Speaker 7: usually a course of antibiotics to calm it down and
- 16:11Speaker 7: then preventive care from there.
- 16:13Speaker 1: There you go.
- 16:15Speaker 4: Okay. Awesome.
- 16:16Speaker 6: Is there an antibiotic wipe you would recommend for cats?
- 16:20Speaker 7: Um, the, I guess my favorite one and dermatologists like it,
- 16:23Speaker 7: it's the brand is called Duke. So, and they have, um,
- 16:26Speaker 7: they have really good medicated wipes for stuff like that.
- 16:29Speaker 7: And it's D O U X O. So you can
- 16:32Speaker 7: find those on Amazon and things like that.
- 16:33Speaker 1: There you go.
- 16:34Speaker 2: All right, Lori.
- 16:35Speaker 1: Thank you.
- 16:35Speaker 4: Perfect. Thank you.
- 16:37Speaker 2: All right.
- 16:38Speaker 1: Well, Josh, thank you so much.
- 16:40Speaker 7: Yeah. Always a pleasure guys. Thanks for helping.
- 16:42Speaker 1: We'll see you soon.
- 16:43Speaker 3: Thank you.
- 16:45Speaker 1: In two weeks?
- 16:46Speaker 2: You got an appointment? No.
- 16:50Speaker 1: Well, maybe we'll see you. Maybe we'll see you in
- 16:53Speaker 1: two weeks.