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Vet Josh Davis Q&A from May 6th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: All right, is this sponsor gene.
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  Speaker 2: That's brought you by Trilogy Veterinary Center.
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  Speaker 3: It's doctor josh Davis, Joshua Davis, Trilogy Veterinary Center, and
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  Speaker 3: Josh is here to answer questions on the phone about
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  Speaker 3: your dogs and your cats. If you have any issues
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  Speaker 3: that you're concerned with, any cat or dog health problems,
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  Speaker 3: a little free veterinary advice for you. I have a question.
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  Speaker 2: I've read an article a day or two ago that
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  Speaker 2: this is supposed to be a bad year for ticks.
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  Speaker 2: Can you talk a little bit about protecting your animals
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  Speaker 2: from that?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah?
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  Speaker 5: Absolutely, I think with the lack of winter that we
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  Speaker 5: had this year, and ticks are actually active year round,
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  Speaker 5: certain species of them, but with the weather the way
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  Speaker 5: it is, you know we're going to get hot pretty
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  Speaker 5: fast and people are going to be out, and so
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  Speaker 5: the risk goes up just of exposure, but also think
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  Speaker 5: it's just going.
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  Speaker 4: To be good breeding.
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  Speaker 5: Probably mosquitoes too, which carry heartworm disease. So having your
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  Speaker 5: dogs on year round parasite control is always recommended. Even
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  Speaker 5: though we get cold and dry in the wintertime, the
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  Speaker 5: risk is never zero and heartworm disease is very preventable
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  Speaker 5: for sure, and so are the other parasites too.
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  Speaker 3: So I wear my personally wear a flee and tick
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  Speaker 3: collar myself. Is it good for Is it good for animals? Those?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the flea and tick collars, they're they're okay.
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  Speaker 5: Usually you're going to want to be on something either
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  Speaker 5: a monthly like chewable for dogs cats, I'm a big
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  Speaker 5: fan of.
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  Speaker 4: They're called spot on.
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  Speaker 5: So it's a liquid you put on their skin once
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  Speaker 5: a month and that prevents all the all the nasties
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  Speaker 5: that they can pick up.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I'll try that too.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine six
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  Speaker 3: is the number to call talk to doctor Josh Davis.
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  Speaker 3: We do have one person, but we have plenty of
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  Speaker 3: lines available, so you should use them. Do we have here?
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  Speaker 3: Nathan is here?
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  Speaker 6: Hi?
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  Speaker 3: Nathan? Something about your dog as old and what's your
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  Speaker 3: dog's name?
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  Speaker 7: His name is Jack. He's a Jack Russell Chiuala mix.
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  Speaker 7: He's about seventeen pounds and we've had him for fourteen years.
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  Speaker 7: At sixteen and he never really liked to be touched
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  Speaker 7: or picked up, but in the past few months he
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  Speaker 7: really doesn't want anything to do with being picked up,
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  Speaker 7: and so we got a soft crate for him, and
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  Speaker 7: he likes that and we can move him around in
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  Speaker 7: that pretty well. We're just kind of looking for additional
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  Speaker 7: kind of tips for you know, if we have to
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  Speaker 7: bring him to the vet in the soft crate, what's
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  Speaker 7: kind of tips on moving him around in the soft
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  Speaker 7: crate and especially taking him.
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  Speaker 8: To a vet.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, I think that's that's a good thing to be
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  Speaker 5: thinking about older pets, probably, you know, without seeing your pop.
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  Speaker 5: The most common reason they'll start to have those changes
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  Speaker 5: is as they get older, they get arthritis just like us,
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  Speaker 5: So chronic pain can be an issue with that, and
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  Speaker 5: they can be more grumpy about being handled as they
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  Speaker 5: get older.
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  Speaker 4: And that's true, you know, I'd.
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  Speaker 5: Say dogs, cats and people sometimes as well. So the
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  Speaker 5: soft crade I think is a good idea if that
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  Speaker 5: minimizes the handling and certainly okay to get into the
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  Speaker 5: vet and if they are really painful or they do
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  Speaker 5: have a hard time, you know, being handled by the
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  Speaker 5: vet and the medical staff in some cases, it's definitely
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  Speaker 5: okay to even talk about pre visit, you know, mild
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  Speaker 5: sedatives to help make the visit easier.
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  Speaker 3: Does he bit it at you and that kind of thing,
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  Speaker 3: or well, when.
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  Speaker 7: You get ready to pick them up, he'll scamper off,
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  Speaker 7: and if you force them into it, he'll do kind
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  Speaker 7: of the rag doll Chiuala. We have tried trasodone, however,
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  Speaker 7: it just makes him restless. Okay, there's a few more things,
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  Speaker 7: a few other things we need.
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  Speaker 6: To try on that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, trasdone sometimes a medication called gabapentin. But
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  Speaker 5: I would wonder if we do need to get some
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  Speaker 5: sort of chronic pain under control, and and that's the
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  Speaker 5: best way to do it is to get an exam
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  Speaker 5: done and let us.
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  Speaker 4: Try to figure out if there's a specific problem.
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  Speaker 5: Sometimes X rays can help us determine the extent of
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  Speaker 5: arthritis or joint disease.
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  Speaker 4: So I do think it's worth getting checked out.
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  Speaker 8: Good luck with jas.
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  Speaker 7: He is on Librella and Carprofen for arthritis.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, all right, good luck.
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  Speaker 3: Thanks Nathan. What's thet For those of us who don't
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  Speaker 3: what's a what's a soft great?
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  Speaker 5: They make just some that are softer sides, like they're
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  Speaker 5: not the rigid sides or bars or things like.
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  Speaker 3: That, so you can kind of fold it up out
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  Speaker 3: and then yeah, some of them you can kind of
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  Speaker 3: fold it over them and zip it up.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, here's a text question. I have two Chihuahua mixes,
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  Speaker 1: Groot and Keano. When there's loud thunder and lots of lightning,
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  Speaker 1: what's a good way to calm them down.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, that's a super common thing, especially you know as
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  Speaker 5: we come into kind of stormy times of you're also
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  Speaker 5: fireworks times of year to be really stressful. So there
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  Speaker 5: are lots, I mean lots of different ways to do that.
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  Speaker 5: Some of the non medicated ways there are. One of
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  Speaker 5: my favorites, if it works, is called the thundershirt or
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  Speaker 5: thunder ease types of things.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, I looked at it and it looked hooky
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  Speaker 1: to me, but it sounds like it should be.
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  Speaker 4: But that swaddling feel like a little hug. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 4: like a little hug.
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  Speaker 5: Or it's worked for all of our dogs. Yeah, they're
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  Speaker 5: they're super great. And it's non medicated. There are other supplements,
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  Speaker 5: a lot of things with CBDs, other supplements that can
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  Speaker 5: help with that. There's even a probiotic called Calming Care
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  Speaker 5: that can help with that. And then for the more
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  Speaker 5: severe cases, that's where I do think medication can be
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  Speaker 5: beneficial as long as you can kind of get ahead
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  Speaker 5: of it.
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  Speaker 3: About how about just a bong hit? Would that?
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  Speaker 5: I mean, No, I can't tell you what to do
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  Speaker 5: or not do, but yes you can.
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  Speaker 4: I can recommend what not to do.
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  Speaker 1: But we can quickly do this text question. And we're
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  Speaker 1: getting a second cat. We're looking to use the blanket
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  Speaker 1: swap method. Does the doc have any other suggestions? We
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  Speaker 1: have two weeks to prepare.
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  Speaker 3: What's that mean? Yes, what is the blanket swap method?
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  Speaker 5: I haven't heard of that particularly, but I'm assuming it's
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  Speaker 5: some with cats, when you're putting them together, you want
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  Speaker 5: to you want them to know that each other is there,
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  Speaker 5: but you don't want them like direct contact, especially unsupervised
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  Speaker 5: direct contact, right away, and so it's over time. It's
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  Speaker 5: finding ways to At first, it's just knowing that there,
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  Speaker 5: maybe smelling them. So doors and baby gates things like
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  Speaker 5: that are good for that. So I'm assuming something along
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  Speaker 5: those lines that way. I haven't heard that one particular.
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  Speaker 2: But this is why a phone call is good, so.
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  Speaker 3: You can explain. Doctor Josh Gavis is here, he's the veterinarian. Uh,
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  Speaker 3: we have three lines full of I think we have
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  Speaker 3: a couple of other lines available and Tim, thanks, thanks,
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  Speaker 3: for holding on for such with tim.
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  Speaker 9: Hey, yeah, go ahead, good morning, Good morning lords, Good morning,
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  Speaker 9: doctor Josh. How are you yet? Voice texting just does
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  Speaker 9: not work?
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  Speaker 3: Guys? No, no, So what's your dog's name and what's
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  Speaker 3: the problem I have too?
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  Speaker 9: I have a chocolate labberdoodle named Finn, and I have
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  Speaker 9: a Bernie doodle named Barrett. So it's Fin and Barrett
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  Speaker 9: have a house.
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  Speaker 3: Full of noodles, Fin and Barrett. I got it? Okay,
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  Speaker 3: Yeah that yeah, I figured you'd like that one.
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  Speaker 9: So hey, they eat well, doctor Josh. They're super active,
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  Speaker 9: super healthy, no issues, no problem with the bathroom stuff
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  Speaker 9: out there in the yard. But they are absolutely obsessed
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  Speaker 9: with eating the grass.
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  Speaker 3: Hmmmm. Is that a problem?
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  Speaker 4: Eating the grass in small chunks? Not necessarily.
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  Speaker 5: There are cases though, where if dogs are eating too
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  Speaker 5: much too often, they can actually get obstructions from that,
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  Speaker 5: ball obstructions or stomach obstruction.
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  Speaker 7: Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: To make sure that the grass has not been braid
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  Speaker 3: with some kind of pastra side, Yeah, you have.
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  Speaker 5: To watch out for that kind of stuff too, and
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  Speaker 5: so in small amounts not a big deal. But also
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  Speaker 5: this time of year, if your yard has the little
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  Speaker 5: foxtail weeds growing in it, dogs will trade eat those
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  Speaker 5: two and those can get embedded in the tonsils and
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  Speaker 5: the eyes, the ears, kind of everywhere.
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  Speaker 4: So you do have to watch out for that.
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  Speaker 5: And if they're otherwise healthy, some dogs, when they're feeling sick,
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  Speaker 5: we'll also eat crass. But it sounds like that's not
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  Speaker 5: the case for you, So I would just be careful
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  Speaker 5: about it in small amounts.
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  Speaker 4: Probably not a big deal, but I would be careful.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, Hey, Tim, Yeah, let me let me let me
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  Speaker 3: ask you a question. Why didn't you go all the
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  Speaker 3: way and instead of naming your dog Finn, why didn't
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  Speaker 3: you name the dog Grin. That's a fine name.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, yeah, well it's actually they both it's Charles Finley
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  Speaker 9: and uh it's Blaze.
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  Speaker 3: Well all right, all right, okay, all right, thanks, thanks
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  Speaker 3: thanks for calling him.
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  Speaker 9: Thanks dog Josh, Thank you, guys.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's go to wreck Cal Hello, Raquel, Hello, Hello,
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  Speaker 1: go ahead.
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  Speaker 10: So I have a cat and her name is Ruby,
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  Speaker 10: and she has a watery eye that she has had
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  Speaker 10: for a while. She's been to the vet and taken
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  Speaker 10: like powder antibiotics that you like sprinkle on food for
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  Speaker 10: like a week, and we flushed her eye a couple
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  Speaker 10: of times she took medicated eye.
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  Speaker 7: Drops and it's better than before, but it.
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  Speaker 10: Still gets watery.
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  Speaker 3: What should I do?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, that's a good one.
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  Speaker 5: It sounds like you've got a good start to trying
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  Speaker 5: to figure out what's going on with it. For some cats,
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  Speaker 5: if that's a chronic problem, sometimes environmental allergies can be
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  Speaker 5: a part of the problem. Sometimes just inflammation from other sources.
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  Speaker 5: And then there are cats that sometimes we have to
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  Speaker 5: actually put them under anesthesia, and because they can get
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  Speaker 5: obstructed tear ducts and so sometimes we have to put
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  Speaker 5: them under and actually kind of flush out the tear
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  Speaker 5: ducts and make sure there's no mucus or build up
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  Speaker 5: in there, because if the tears can't drain through the
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  Speaker 5: nose like normal, they'll just drain out onto the face.
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  Speaker 5: So that's also a possibility, but they do have to
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  Speaker 5: be sedated or anesthetized to do that.
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  Speaker 3: Some cats look really good with an eyepatch, you might
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  Speaker 3: consider that.
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  Speaker 5: And then they can also have hairs along their eyelid
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  Speaker 5: margin that point the wrong direction that can also irritate
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  Speaker 5: their eyes.
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  Speaker 4: And and if they're.
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  Speaker 5: Squishy faced breeds like your Persians and things like that,
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  Speaker 5: they also just tend to have more issues with that.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, so it sounds like you've got to do a
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  Speaker 3: little more detective work with your your local veterinarian, Raguel.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, oh okay, okay, thank you so much, or.
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  Speaker 3: Try the eyepatch, Thank you very much. Let's go to Peter.
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  Speaker 3: Hello Peter, Hello, great Peter. You have a dog named
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  Speaker 3: what her name is? Okay, what's Lulu's problem?
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  Speaker 6: But she's for the last it's been a while, like
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  Speaker 6: after we got her fixed, it was more of a problem.
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  Speaker 6: But after she's active, she seems to kind of just
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  Speaker 6: lay down and relax, but having to leak out a
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  Speaker 6: little bit of yearine moneins it.
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  Speaker 4: Okay, I do that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, sounds like you might be dealing and maybe it's
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  Speaker 5: more of a mild case of what we call urinary incontinents,
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  Speaker 5: and it is more common in female dogs, and it's
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  Speaker 5: more common after they've been spaded. So it's it's not
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  Speaker 5: a reason not to spay your dog, because it's it's
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  Speaker 5: not you know, every dog isn't going to experience this.
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  Speaker 5: In fact, most dogs don't experience this. But if if
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  Speaker 5: it's mild, you know, here and there, I don't I
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  Speaker 5: don't necessarily get too worried about it initially, but if
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  Speaker 5: it's consistent, and most dogs you'll see it's when they're relaxed.
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  Speaker 5: So when the overnight they might have an accident in
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  Speaker 5: their bed or in their sleeping area, or when they
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  Speaker 5: get really excited sometimes you'll see that.
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  Speaker 4: But it's it's also very treatable.
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  Speaker 5: There's a couple different medications that we have to use
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  Speaker 5: for stuff like that. And the other risk is with
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  Speaker 5: chronic issues like that, they can be more predisposed to
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  Speaker 5: urinary tract infections, so it's it's probably worth getting checked out.
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  Speaker 5: And then if we are dealing with in continents, like
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  Speaker 5: I said, there's some great medications.
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  Speaker 4: To use for that.
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  Speaker 3: It's a solvable problem. Yep.
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  Speaker 6: Oh good, Yeah, I was worried it was going to
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  Speaker 6: be like, oh, Megan for surgery or something like that.
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  Speaker 6: Good to hear there's other things, all right.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, yep, shouldn't need surgery for that.
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  Speaker 3: All right, there you go, Peter, Awesome, Best to Lulu.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to Brian.
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  Speaker 3: Hello, Brian, Ryan, what's your dog's name.
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  Speaker 8: My dark's name is Miles.
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  Speaker 4: What's going on with Miles?
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  Speaker 8: Miles? We're starting the third day that he won't eat.
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  Speaker 11: He's three and a half years old, and this morning
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  Speaker 11: he just lays there looking at us giving anything.
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  Speaker 3: She's tired of the crappy food you've been given him.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe he's lobbying for some food.
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  Speaker 11: We thought so, So we tried some cheese, We tried
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  Speaker 11: some peanut butter. He won't eat or drink anything to drink.
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  Speaker 11: Threw up a little bit of buile last night.
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  Speaker 2: This is what I was dealing with with Oakley.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, it's for a young dog like this, I would
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  Speaker 5: be definitely concerned about that. Three days is probably enough
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  Speaker 5: time to say it's not going to get better. And
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  Speaker 5: young dogs, one of the things we have to worry
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  Speaker 5: about is that they can eat things they shouldn't and
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  Speaker 5: battle obstructions are a big concern. Actually, I had a
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  Speaker 5: cat recently that ate a workout mad and we had
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  Speaker 5: to go do surgery on it. But dogs, they like
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  Speaker 5: to eat all sorts of things. So I would get
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  Speaker 5: in and get seen for sure, because if there's an obstruction,
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  Speaker 5: you only have so much time before it turns really south,
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  Speaker 5: and then surgery is less of an option if they
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  Speaker 5: get really sick.
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  Speaker 3: It could be it could be that the dog has
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  Speaker 3: eaten something that he shouldn't.
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  Speaker 5: Have and there's many other reasons, and that's that's why
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  Speaker 5: a check up would be really important for you.
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  Speaker 8: So you suspect that it most likely is probably an
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  Speaker 8: obstruction rather than he ate something that upset him.
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  Speaker 4: It could be either one.
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  Speaker 5: But that's why you know at this point, not eating
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  Speaker 5: for that many days, you need to be seen because
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  Speaker 5: if it's not an obstruction, we need to rule out
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  Speaker 5: the other things that it could be.
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  Speaker 2: And so, and when I took Oakley and she had
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  Speaker 2: the same thing, and doctor Davis, they gave her ivy
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  Speaker 2: fluids because she had not been been.
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  Speaker 4: Drinking or get so, even if it is just a
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  Speaker 4: bug of iris or something, and that's what.
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  Speaker 3: It turned out to be with your dog, right, just
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  Speaker 3: no obstruction.
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  Speaker 2: Now, doctor Davis did some imaging and checked and she
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  Speaker 2: didn't have anything in there, so it was just something.
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  Speaker 2: But at the very least she needed that that.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, those little supportive care just to push them through it.
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  Speaker 5: But we just don't know enough without seeing it. So
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  Speaker 5: I would get seen for sure.
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  Speaker 8: All my I just called my vet's office just before
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  Speaker 8: I called you guys, and they're closed today. Is this
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  Speaker 8: something that you think it's.
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  Speaker 3: A veterinary it's tomorrow, it's veterinarian day, hospital day. It's free.
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  Speaker 3: That's it's a vacation.
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  Speaker 5: I would try not to and uh, you know, I
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  Speaker 5: don't know where you're calling from. But you can come
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  Speaker 5: see me today probably if you want to.
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  Speaker 4: So trilogy we're in Sandy.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, trilogy Vetsandy dot Com Trilogy.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, thank you?
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  Speaker 3: All right? Yeah, by Brian. I wonder, I wonder why
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  Speaker 3: is that's closed today?
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  Speaker 5: It's it just depends. Yeah, there's just like I said,
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  Speaker 5: it's it's hard to get in sometimes.
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  Speaker 3: For sure.
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  Speaker 2: I haven't had a hard time getting in with you.
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  Speaker 4: No, we are.
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  Speaker 5: We have availability, and that's that's what that's what we
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  Speaker 5: love you.
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  Speaker 3: Just wait, you're showing up here on the radio. It's
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  Speaker 3: gonna get harder.
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  Speaker 5: That's a I've got two new doctor's certainty, and so
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  Speaker 5: we're gonna have space for sure.
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  Speaker 3: All right, okay, Uh Josh Davis Trilogy, Veterinary Center sans Andy.
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  Speaker 4: All right, all right, thank you very much, see you guys.