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Keeping Your Pet Safe in the Smoke and Heat with Dr. Greer of Checkout Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: joining us this morning from Checkout Veterinary is doctor Murdy Greer,
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Speaker 1: doctor Greer is recognized as Veterinarian of the Year from
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Speaker 2: Doctor doing this morning.
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Speaker 3: I'm great, what's beautiful weather we've had in two today?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Wow?
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Speaker 3: What?
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Speaker 1: And it feels like it's it's and I don't remember historically,
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Speaker 1: but it just seems like the last few years we've
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Speaker 1: had a couple of weeks of this stuff and this
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Speaker 1: this smoke. And I'm seeing the warnings going out, even
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Speaker 1: for folks that aren't aren't dealing with any type of
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Speaker 1: breathing issues, folks with asthma and other things. Everybody this
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Speaker 1: has a negative effect on And we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about not only the effect on people, but as we
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Speaker 1: have have you joining us this morning, the effect on
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Speaker 1: pets as well. And it's a it's a tough time
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Speaker 1: of year, especially I'm a guy with a mentioned. I've
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Speaker 1: got a chilla at home. These temperatures are what he
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Speaker 1: he waits eleven months out of the year for the
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Speaker 1: for this one month of heat. It's hard to tell
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Speaker 1: him that this is not good for him, but it
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Speaker 1: can be. It can be dangerous for pets.
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Speaker 2: Can't it.
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Speaker 3: Doctor, It can the heat, the smoke, all these things
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Speaker 3: and It's kind of funny because last week we went
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Speaker 3: out to dinner with some friends and I had said something.
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Speaker 3: We were sitting outside of the restaurant and I said, gosh,
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Speaker 3: look at how beautiful the sunset is. That means they're smoking.
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Speaker 3: This guy, we must have fires in Colorado, and he's like, what,
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Speaker 3: what are you talking about? The even last week, before
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Speaker 3: the mornings were out about how bad the air quality was,
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Speaker 3: it was pretty obvious that the fires in Colorado were
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Speaker 3: affecting us. My sister and brother in law live in Colorado,
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Speaker 3: so we knew that there were fires there. But anytime
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Speaker 3: you see those really beautiful sunsets, you've got to think, hmm,
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Speaker 3: I wonder if there's a fire someplace. The answer was yeah,
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Speaker 3: there was, And now, boy, as they hit us hard here,
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Speaker 3: I went out this morning went holy cow, what happened overnight?
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Speaker 1: It is and going one step further, there were even
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Speaker 1: a number of and thank goodness, people are aware of
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Speaker 1: enough to do this, but maybe didn't realize what was
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Speaker 1: going on. But I get every morning, I get a
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Speaker 1: rundown of all the nine to one one calls and
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Speaker 1: folks as they were waking up this morning smelling smoke,
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Speaker 1: there were a number of just people calling nine when
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Speaker 1: one thing that there was a fire in nearby. And
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Speaker 1: again it is just that thick. If you haven't stepped
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Speaker 1: out today, you'll definitely experience it when you get out there.
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Speaker 2: And doctor.
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Speaker 1: I know in the past we've talked about like pugs
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Speaker 1: and pit bulls or bold like bulldogs excuse me, and
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Speaker 1: then like persian cats and things with those shorter snouts.
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Speaker 1: They are particularly susceptible to poor air quality, aren't they
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Speaker 1: They are.
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Speaker 3: And any dog or cat with respiratory disease is going
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Speaker 3: to be Now we see a lot more I was
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Speaker 3: thinking about this while I was driving. We see a
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Speaker 3: lot more chronic respiratory disease and cats than we do
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Speaker 3: in dogs. But there are still dogs that can have
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Speaker 3: chronic respiratory disease, or dogs with cardiac disease, heart disease,
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Speaker 3: heart murmurs, cardiom wopsies, any of those things. They're all
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Speaker 3: going to be a lot more vulnerable when this kind
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Speaker 3: of air quality is happening. So you want to watch
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Speaker 3: the weather reports and see what they're saying on the
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Speaker 3: TV or on the radio or on the internet about
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Speaker 3: air quality, because it's really important that you're paying attention
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Speaker 3: for yourself, for your pets. I went out this morning
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Speaker 3: and absolutely cannot believe how smoky it was. I had
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Speaker 3: my lights on the whole drive down here, and that
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Speaker 3: is not typical for a night summer day. So we
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Speaker 3: have to be thinking about a lot of those things.
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Speaker 3: It's really important that we're watching it, that we're spending
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Speaker 3: a minimum amount of time outside with our pets. They're
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Speaker 3: going out to do the things they need to do.
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Speaker 3: But if you normally take long walks, if you oftentimes
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Speaker 3: do that, a watch how hot, how hot it is,
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Speaker 3: and how hot the pavement is, and we'll go into
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Speaker 3: that in a minute, and be watch the air quality
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Speaker 3: for not just smoke, but pollen as well. So just
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Speaker 3: really be thinking about what stays out there. And if
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Speaker 3: you normally like to keep your windows open but you
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Speaker 3: have an air conditioner, probably the time to run the
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Speaker 3: air conditioner, even if it doesn't feel like you want to.
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Speaker 3: You probably should have cut down a pollen, cut down
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Speaker 3: and smoke. Just improve air quality in your home as well.
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Speaker 1: Really important stuff this morning. So we talked with doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer. Check out Veterinary. If you've got a question
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Speaker 1: Six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
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Speaker 1: oh eight three two one thirteen ten. Mention some of
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Speaker 1: the stuff with the smokes, Well, I I've got a
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Speaker 1: guess that with pets as well, and I don't I
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Speaker 1: don't know this for sure. But closer to the ground
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Speaker 1: do we have is air quality generally poor the loria
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Speaker 1: get to the ground or do we know anything about that,
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Speaker 1: doctor or is it? Is it just something that that's
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Speaker 1: kind of universal, just to be aware of and be
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Speaker 1: concerned with, no matter who you are and where you
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Speaker 1: stand in these type of conditions.
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Speaker 3: Something that a little bit of difference is going to
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Speaker 3: make a significant amount of difference for our pets. But
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Speaker 3: when you're in a if you're in a home or
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Speaker 3: a building that's on fire, they always tell you to
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Speaker 3: get down and crawl. So it's probably a little bit
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Speaker 3: better at your knee level than it is at your
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Speaker 3: shoulder level. But I'm going to go with you should daring.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I was just curious about that. I wonder if
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Speaker 1: that's a part of it as well. What about age
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Speaker 1: age being a factor? I know, obviously as pets get older,
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Speaker 1: as same with humans everything, you know, your systems don't
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Speaker 1: function as perfectly as as they once did. Do you
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Speaker 1: want to be especially cautious with older pets in this
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Speaker 1: in these type of conditions, doctor.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, right, it's because a lot of them do have
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Speaker 3: those other other underlying conditions, the cardiac disease, other conditions.
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Speaker 3: So absolutely you want to be really cautious and careful
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Speaker 3: with all of that. So just you know, think about it,
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Speaker 3: and and when it looks cloudy out, when the weather
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Speaker 3: reports aren't good, just simply don't take those chances, because
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Speaker 3: it is not worth the chance of spending the time outside.
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Speaker 3: Is nice to be out in the summer, but it's
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Speaker 3: just it's just too risky.
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Speaker 1: well because they are currently accepting new patients at Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: And doctor mentioned some of the pavement temperatures that is
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Speaker 1: something for most of us. We're wearing shoes all the
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Speaker 1: time we don't always think about, but goodness, those those
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Speaker 1: even even and concrete, not just blacktop, but even concrete
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Speaker 1: can get very very dangerously hot, very quickly in these
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Speaker 1: type of weather conditions, can't they.
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Speaker 3: Oh? Absolutely. There was somebody on the radio this morning
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Speaker 3: talking about the beach and they'd been to the beach.
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Speaker 3: I only can get one radio station in my vand
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Speaker 3: so you know, I can't listen to you. It's a
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Speaker 3: really old van that doesn't go on reverse anymore, and
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Speaker 3: I had the haulsome stuff today, so I'm driving the
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Speaker 3: old one. But so I was listening to a different
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Speaker 3: radio station and they were talking about having been at
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Speaker 3: the beach last week and how hot the sand was.
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Speaker 3: We were at a beach last year where the sand
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Speaker 3: was black, and oh wow, does that make a difference.
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Speaker 3: So yeah, even the sand can be hot if you're
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Speaker 3: not careful with as faut, with concrete, all those things.
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Speaker 3: You want to be really careful with your dogs. And
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Speaker 3: if you're not sure, if it's too warm, what you
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Speaker 3: need to do is not put the palm of your
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Speaker 3: hand on the sidewalk or the street, but the back
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Speaker 3: of your hand, because your palm in your hand is
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Speaker 3: a little bit tougher, and feel how that would be
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Speaker 3: if you held your hand there for a minute or two.
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Speaker 3: And if it feels too warm for you to keep
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Speaker 3: your hand there, then it's too warm for your dog
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Speaker 3: to be out walking without some kind of protective gear
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Speaker 3: on their feet. Or simply don't go, wait until it
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Speaker 3: cool is off enough. And it just because the sun
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Speaker 3: went down doesn't mean that the asphalt is instantly going
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Speaker 3: to be cooler. So think about it before you go again,
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Speaker 3: you know, just be thoughtful, be careful. We don't want
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Speaker 3: you to have burned paused and years and years ago
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Speaker 3: I went to a dog summer camp that people would
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Speaker 3: bring their dogs in there themselves to it. It's really fun.
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Speaker 3: It was up in Almond Camp Helen Brockman. If anybody
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Speaker 3: was in any of those camps years ago, it was
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Speaker 3: pretty fun. But all the dogs would end up that
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Speaker 3: were city flickers because my dogs were country dogs. Their
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Speaker 3: city slicker dogs would be out on the sand. And
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Speaker 3: the activity level was much higher at this event because
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Speaker 3: people would spend the whole day running around their dog
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Speaker 3: doing activities, and the dogs would all come back with
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Speaker 3: ulcerated feet like they had worn through the bottoms of
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Speaker 3: their footpads. So before I would go, I would pack
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Speaker 3: all kinds of little kids socks. I'd go to the
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Speaker 3: store and buy oodles of little kid sucks and all
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Speaker 3: kinds of protective gear because these dogs would end up very,
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Speaker 3: very painful. If all four of your feet hurt, it's
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Speaker 3: pretty hard to walk. So you know, think about those things,
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Speaker 3: and you don't want to end up at the emergency
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Speaker 3: clinic urt. Your regular veterinary critics was sort of this
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Speaker 3: embarrassing story about how you didn't really pay attention to
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Speaker 3: what the conditions were. So is there they do make
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Speaker 3: booties for dogs. That seems a little ridiculous to have
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Speaker 3: to put them on in the summer because it seems
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Speaker 3: like a winter thing. But again, just think about those things,
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Speaker 3: because we don't want any danger to happen to your
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Speaker 3: pet that you could have prevented. There's enough things that
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Speaker 3: happen without things that you can control. Let's not get
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Speaker 3: into trouble with things you can control and doctor.
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Speaker 1: Between the heat and the air quality to day, it
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Speaker 1: might be a good data to do some inside inside
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Speaker 1: fun and games and you know, maybe play play. I
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Speaker 1: don't know if you can play fetch in your house
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Speaker 1: but I know, like with with our dog, he loves
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Speaker 1: a little bit of wrestling.
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Speaker 2: You know, take your handle, shake his little belly and he's.
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Speaker 1: A you know, maybe do some activities like that just
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Speaker 1: kind of you know, as much as it pains to say,
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Speaker 1: maybe avoid the outdoors today altogether, if you can, yeah, probably, And.
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Speaker 3: There's some simple things you can do. You can put
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Speaker 3: some jumps in your hall so that the dog has
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Speaker 3: to be a little bit more active. They can't just
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Speaker 3: run up and down the hall. If you have stairs
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Speaker 3: in your house, you can sit at the top of
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Speaker 3: the stairs, drop the ball at the dog, run up
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Speaker 3: and down the stairs. Well you just sit there. The
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Speaker 3: dog can get pretty good exercise if they're physically fit
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Speaker 3: enough to do those kinds of things. So it's not
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Speaker 3: hard to get the activity. The hard part is to
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Speaker 3: create it in a situation that is suitable based on
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Speaker 3: the climate, the weather, your pets needs and yours. And
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Speaker 3: if obviously, if your dog won't bring the ball back
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Speaker 3: up the stairs, dropping it down the stairs once it's
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Speaker 3: enough because then you have to go get it. But
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Speaker 3: if your dog is willing to do it, it's fun.
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Speaker 3: And if you have a dog that can swim and
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Speaker 3: you have a place that it's safe for them, just whim.
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Speaker 3: They have a swimming pool, you have a beach that's safe.
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Speaker 3: Any of those things. You know, those are great to do.
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Speaker 3: But watch the air quality. That's going to get you
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Speaker 3: out of the heat. But watch the ear quality and
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Speaker 3: then heat. I think we really need to talk about
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Speaker 3: heat exhaustion in dog because a lot of people forget
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Speaker 3: about it and they think about like when I go
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Speaker 3: to dog shows, people will put a fan on their dog. Well,
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Speaker 3: dogs don't cool by a vaporaty of cooling. They don't
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Speaker 3: sweat like we do, so putting a fan on the
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Speaker 3: dog doesn't really cool them. And then they'll put a
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Speaker 3: wet towel on the dog and then think that that's
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Speaker 3: going to help them, and that actually just seems the dog.
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Speaker 3: It actually makes it worse for the dog. So there
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Speaker 3: was a study done that was presented last summer at
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Speaker 3: the AKC event that was held in North Carolina. I
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Speaker 3: was honored to get to go to that. And there
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Speaker 3: was a study done at University of Pennsylvania. So if
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Speaker 3: you want to google this, it's the University of Pennsylvania
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Speaker 3: working Dog cooling, and they taught dogs to bob for
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Speaker 3: either a food treat or a ball in a bucket
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Speaker 3: of water. They would start off with just a little
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Speaker 3: tiny bit of water in the bucket and then slowly
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Speaker 3: increased the amounts so the dog would dunk their head in.
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Speaker 3: You wouldn't push it in. The dog would voluntarily dunk
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Speaker 3: their head into the water to pick up the trade
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Speaker 3: or the ball. And then you finally get it deep
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Speaker 3: and deep and deeper enough that the dog dunks their
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Speaker 3: head and submerges it. And they found that submerging their
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Speaker 3: head in water voluntarily was the most convenient and most
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Speaker 3: effective way in cooling your dog. It wasn't putting them
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Speaker 3: in the pool, it wasn't running a hose over them,
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Speaker 3: it wasn't setting up a waiting pool. It was dunking
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Speaker 3: their head in a bucket of water, because that much
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Speaker 3: cooling happened from their heads. So don't wait until your
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Speaker 3: dog needs to be cooled off, and don't think that
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Speaker 3: submerging their head by plunging it into the water is
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Speaker 3: a good idea. But start practicing as your dog and
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Speaker 3: it's really pretty fun. You just have to get a
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Speaker 3: bucket and a treat. You can go to the dollar store.
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Speaker 3: Just give a bucket if you don't have something sitting
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Speaker 3: around the house that's the right heights and the right depth,
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Speaker 3: and just start it. Depends on whether your dog likes
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Speaker 3: balls better or food better. But if you can put
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Speaker 3: some kind of a treat in there or a ball
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Speaker 3: in there and just teach them just a little bit
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Speaker 3: like just submit, submerge the tip of their nose and
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Speaker 3: then gradually make it deeper and deeper sols up to
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Speaker 3: their ears. It can really be an effective tool to
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Speaker 3: very simply cool the dog. So if you're out hiking,
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Speaker 3: or you're out of the park, or you're camping or whatever,
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Speaker 3: have that bucket with you so that you can fill
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Speaker 3: it with water. Once you've taught the dog to do it.
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Speaker 3: Please please please practice first.
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Speaker 2: What and it what a fun thing to do?
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Speaker 1: Want to do the day as well as just looking
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Speaker 1: for some fun activity. Fill up the fill the bucket,
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Speaker 1: get the toys, get the treats and uh and get
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Speaker 1: to get to do it doing some really important treading.
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Speaker 1: Great great advice and insight as always from doctor Marty
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Speaker 1: Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: and this labrador kept setting the ball down and it
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Speaker 1: would roll down the hill and like you could see
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Speaker 1: it like it was acting like it was kind of
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Speaker 1: like frustrated and annoyed to go run down, go into
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Speaker 1: the lake. It would pick up the ball and then
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Speaker 1: run back up the hill, set the ball down and
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Speaker 1: then and I just I absolutely loved that. I thought, what,
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Speaker 1: I didn't know if the dog was annoyed or if
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Speaker 1: he was having fun, but it definitely definitely made me happy.
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Speaker 1: What are some of the signs as we talk about
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Speaker 1: the heat and the temperatures too, I mentioned the heat exhaustion.
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Speaker 1: Are there things that that pet owners should be should
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Speaker 1: be really aware of that are kind of really important
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Speaker 1: signs that your pet is suffering from heat exhaustion or
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Speaker 1: other heat related health issues.
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Speaker 3: Yes, obviously panting is a sign that they're starting to
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Speaker 3: get warm. And if they get to the point that
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Speaker 3: their color, the color of their tongue is starting to
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Speaker 3: get kind of grayish or blueish, you're really in trouble.
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Speaker 3: I always encourage people to have a thermometer that can
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Speaker 3: be used reclellly on the dog. Get a digital one,
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Speaker 3: put the dog name on it, don't use it for
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Speaker 3: the kids and the dog. Once it's better dogs, you
16:50
Speaker 3: don't really want to share, So make sure that you
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Speaker 3: label it carefully because nobody wants that under their tongue.
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Speaker 3: So just really be careful about having that thermometer. Have
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Speaker 3: in your glovebox, have it in your travel bag, whatever
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Speaker 3: it happens to be. If you go north a lot,
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Speaker 3: have a thermometer up at the cabin or the cottage
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Speaker 3: or the lake houst or whatever you do, so that
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Speaker 3: you've got one. And it's really a good idea to
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Speaker 3: teach your dog to have their temperature taken. Normal temperatures
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Speaker 3: should be one hundred and one to one hundred and
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Speaker 3: two and a half. Anything over one hundred and three
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Speaker 3: is a sign of either a fever or overheating. And
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Speaker 3: if the dog does overheat, you want to start to
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Speaker 3: cool them. When we talked about dunking their head, if
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Speaker 3: you don't have the ability to do that, then cooling
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Speaker 3: them with a hose or with a pool of water,
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Speaker 3: any of those things can be helpful. But you don't
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Speaker 3: want to cool them colder than one hundred and three.
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Speaker 3: So if they started one hundred and six or one
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Speaker 3: hundred and seven, and trust me, we've seen them at
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Speaker 3: one hundred and eight, you don't want to cool them
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Speaker 3: past one hundred and three because at one hundred and
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Speaker 3: three they'll continue to drop. So you don't want to
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Speaker 3: overdo it, but you do want to monitor it. So
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Speaker 3: have your vesseline, have your thermometer, and those digital thermometers
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Speaker 3: can be kept safely in your car in a glove box,
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Speaker 3: and some of those things not the way the old
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Speaker 3: mercury thermometers used to be. If you left it in
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Speaker 3: the glove box to your cart to get to hot
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Speaker 3: and glode. These digital thermometers won't and check the battery
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Speaker 3: once in a while to make sure that it's still working.
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Speaker 3: They're five dollars at the store. They're not a big
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Speaker 3: deal to have. So it's just a really handy tool
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Speaker 3: to have so that you can monitor. And if somebody
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Speaker 3: calls and says, my dog is running a fever, then
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Speaker 3: I'm going to want to know the number. I'm going
18:17
Speaker 3: to want to know you know the conditions. So those
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Speaker 3: are all really important pieces of information for us to
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Speaker 3: have as a veterinarian and for calling us for some help. So,
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Speaker 3: you know, just be careful with not letting it happen.
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Speaker 3: If it looks like you're starting to get too warm,
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Speaker 3: don't wait until they're definitely in trouble. If you're cutting
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Speaker 3: the grass and you're out on the writing lawn mower
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Speaker 3: and the dog is following you back and forth and
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Speaker 3: back and forth, that dog is going to overheat, you'd
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Speaker 3: be thinking about it. Because dogs don't have great judgment.
18:43
Speaker 3: They're relying on us. They don't know when to stop eating,
18:45
Speaker 3: because if you put down ten pounds of food, they'll
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Speaker 3: eat it. They don't have good judgment on a lot
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Speaker 3: of things like too much fun, too much heat, too
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Speaker 3: much of this. So you have to be careful. We
18:54
Speaker 3: used to have a yellow lab that would do something
18:55
Speaker 3: similar to what you were describing. She would have she
18:57
Speaker 3: had a rubber ring that would float in the pond
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Speaker 3: and she would sling it up in the air and
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Speaker 3: throw it back into the water and then swim out
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Speaker 3: to get it. And she also had some pretty terrible hips. Unfortunately,
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Speaker 3: she ended up with both of her hips being replaced,
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Speaker 3: and I would have to go out and get her
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Speaker 3: out of the water because she would literally have swam
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Speaker 3: until she couldn't sim anymore. She would have gone underwater.
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Speaker 3: So we had to be the parents. We had to
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Speaker 3: be the grown ups that made those decisions. So, just
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Speaker 3: like your kids, you can't always rely on them to
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Speaker 3: be able to judge what the right amount of activity
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Speaker 3: is or right conditions are. So think about it. If
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Speaker 3: you really need to pick your dog on walks and
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Speaker 3: the air quality is good and your dog can't tolerate it,
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Speaker 3: well get them a little wagon or a stroller. There's
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Speaker 3: lots of really nice ways to do it. And I
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Speaker 3: don't care if the neighbors think you're kind of ridiculous
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Speaker 3: if your dog likes to be out in the neighborhood,
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Speaker 3: but they're just not physically in the condition that they
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Speaker 3: can do that kind of walking. Or you want to
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Speaker 3: go further than the dog can. Maybe you're a runner
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Speaker 3: and you have a little dog, then figure out a
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Speaker 3: way that you can make it safe for the dog.
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Speaker 3: Put him in a stroller, put him in a wagon,
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Speaker 3: put him in a buggy, and just you know, just
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Speaker 3: have fun with him. Don't don't be so afraid of
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Speaker 3: air and heat that you lose the joy of having fun.
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Speaker 3: But use some good judgment so that it doesn't happen
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Speaker 3: that it gets to be too extreme.
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Speaker 1: Really good guidance, really good insight as well from doctor
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