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Pet Wellbeing Made Easy: Holistic Health & First Aid Essentials with The Natural Dogta · The Natural Dog Mum

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  Hi dog mums and dad. Welcome back to another episode
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  of the Natural Dog Mum podcast. I'm Sherry, otherwise known as
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  Bears Mum. Today with us is Carla from the
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  Natural Doctor, or I should say she is the natural doctor and
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  she also has an amazing brand also called Doctor of Portable
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  that's spelled with the pow are portable first aid kits for
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  pets. So we're going to be talking to
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  her all about that as well as all things nutrition and natural
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  health. So stick around.
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  Hi, thank you for coming again. Hello.
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  How are you? Good.
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  Good. How are you doing?
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  I'm good, I'm good. Busy day, but also not too busy.
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  Oh, that's all right for a Friday, are you then?
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  Yeah, well, it's rainy, so we got.
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  We got lucky, we did have that earlier in the week.
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  It's sunny today, but it's Victoria, so who knows, it could
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  change any second. Yeah, Melbourne's a bit rainy,
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  isn't it? It's a little.
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  Bit everything at the moment it'll be the summer we are it'll
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  be really bright and warm and then it'll start raining all of
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  some time it's. Yeah, I've always known as
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  Tasmania and Melbourne seem to be the places where it's like
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  Four Seasons in one day. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Yeah, absolutely. Now, to start us off, do you
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  want to talk to us a little bit about how you got into the space
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  where you're operating now? I know that your story started
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  with one of your lovely little Pomeranian babies.
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  Yes. So basically if I go way back,
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  it all started with about 10 years ago, I did my very first
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  canine nutrition course and I was always, I've always been a
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  dog lover and I even have a birthmark on my leg the shape of
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  a dog. So I'm thinking, I think I'm
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  born for this. So yeah.
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  So I think that's where it all started, where just my love for
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  dogs and I've never, ever lived my life without a dog.
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  I was born into family that already had two dogs.
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  And from there, we always had dogs all overlapping, always had
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  10 at one point, I think we had three.
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  And then, you know, as they do, they don't last as long as us,
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  which is awful. But no.
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  Anyway, that actually sparked a bit of interest in canine
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  nutrition is when my family's dog, Stanley, he was a staphy
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  kelpie. He passed away from liver issues
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  and something suspected on the brain.
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  And he was 14 at the time. Then he started getting a lot of
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  nosebleeds. And then one day he just
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  completely declined. And that was basically it.
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  And so I think that was a moment for me to think, hang on, like,
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  I wonder what really is going on?
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  Why do dogs not last as long? Why do they get these things so
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  easily? And what's going on?
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  And doing that course really, really helped me understand just
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  how much is wrong with the dog food industry.
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  And then most of the time, like in between my part time jobs, I
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  really, we really wanted to do dog walking because obviously as
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  a dog lover, I just want to be around all different dogs all
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  the time. I have like that instinct with
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  them, like for their safety and just want to just love them and
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  meet them and, and everything. So I also thought it's a good
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  way to put out there my services that I can do canine nutrition
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  for people that I was learning about it.
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  And so I did that for a while and then I always kind of was
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  doing it on and off with the dog walking and and house sitting
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  with people for pets. And then I started branching
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  into online business sponsored by Peter Australia, PETA, the
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  Animal Welfare. And.
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  Faulty I had an online website actually that specialised in
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  vegan fashion because I was very passionate about what was going
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  on over in the Asian countries with their dog meat trade and
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  some of the things they do to dogs for, you know, fabric and
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  fur and things like that. So I had an online business
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  doing things like that, trying to push vegan fashion as much as
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  possible. And then the sales and the
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  marketing, it just, it wasn't really there yet.
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  It just, it couldn't take off to that next level.
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  And I just, I guess I gave up because I thought, you know, I
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  always support this myself, but I just don't know how I can make
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  this business really thrive, you know, when sometimes there's
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  just that wall and you just can't nudge past it.
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  But anyway, then in general, I've always been passionate
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  about natural health anyway for humans.
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  So I've worked in a natural health food store and everything
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  went a lot there as well, down a tonne of courses, natural
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  health, medicine, herbalism, everything like that.
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  And then the last couple of years, I've really branched back
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  into the whole direction of canine health and safety and
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  then the passion for safety and then rescuing our very first
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  Pomeranian Chihuahua. He was nine years old at the
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  time. When I first moved in with my
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  partner. He was absolutely adorable.
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  Oh my God, his name was Buster. And he was very sweet.
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  But the the unfortunate thing is he came to us with a broken leg,
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  terrible gingivitis, really overgrown battered fur.
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  And it was just so sad. And I thought, yeah, I'm going
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  to use all this knowledge I have to just give him a whole new
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  life and health. But then four years later when
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  he turned 14, I guess he's past caught up with him being that
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  for nine years he was mistreated, not fed well.
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  And I think he lived near the vines where they backed onto the
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  golf courses. And obviously, as you know,
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  glyphosate is always sprayed on these courses and there's a
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  massive link there between in dogs and wife estate and grass
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  treatments and everything. So I started looking back into
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  that and I thought this may be a connection because after all
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  I've done for four years to try and help his health, there's
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  nothing there that would have triggered him.
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  I've not fed him kibble. I've not done anything in any
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  way would ever create this. So I was still beating myself up
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  though, as you can imagine. So when he got limified, what we
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  were told from the vet, look, he's probably, we only got a few
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  weeks to live. Me obviously absolutely
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  devastated me and my partner like this dog Buster was, he
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  became my partner's first, it was his first dog and became his
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  sole dog basically. So we didn't accept that it
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  would be a few weeks. We said no, we're going to try
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  everything possible to to make him live longer and have quality
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  of life. I managed to get 3 months extra
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  out of him and he was completely himself.
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  You would never think that anything wrong with him.
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  And then it just came down to the very last week of his life
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  where laboured breathing, swelling of the lymph nodes
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  quite rapidly prolapsed anal canal and everything the rectum
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  sorry. And like all of these things
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  started happening and we basically gave me the best last
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  day ever is what what we could do.
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  And then you could tell in his eyes like he's just he he was
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  suddenly just kind of not there and we had to do a home
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  euthanasia and with that, and that just made me so determined
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  the pain of losing your first leg.
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  He was my first dog mom experience because he was my
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  own, not my family's. So you can understand that
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  having with that experience and actually seeing him last three
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  months longer, I thought, hang on off, something I'm doing is
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  right here. That's at least giving him more
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  time and he's happier, he's healthier.
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  And that made me even more passionate thinking I can help
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  other people get longer out of their dogs, especially if they
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  start early. From a puppy dogs used to be
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  living to 1822, now you're lucky to get the whole thing.
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  And this is what's shocking. So you can see now that whole
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  series of events of how it all started for me and the
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  experiences around dogs and sickness, plus that that inbuilt
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  on something in me that's just so passionate about adults and
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  loving them. So that was probably the the
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  longest start to my dog industry thing, but that here I could
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  have all of it. I could have baked that if, if
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  you know, if only in in years alone.
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  So talk to me a little bit about what happens during your
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  consults. What sorts of health issues are
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  pet parents presenting with and what sort?
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  What sort of advice are you giving?
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  Is is it primarily nutrition or are you talking about other
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  things as well? So mostly when I do pond salts,
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  it'll be for many reasons, but the ones I've seen happen a lot
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  is a lot of dog owners see skin issues, usually all rooted back
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  to the gut. So it's basically gut issues,
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  allergies, obviously undiagnosed allergies as well as basically,
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  yeah, I'd say a lot of gut issues mostly, but UTI's as well
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  for female dogs is that that happens a fair bit, like
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  reoccurrence, bacterial infections, yeast problems.
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  Usually from there we always start with let's change the food
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  and see what happens with just the food change.
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  Usually tell them give it a solid one month to three months
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  to see differences and keep me updated on the whole progress.
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  So usually it'll be definitely changing their food if they're
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  on kibble, changing the kibble, changing to better homemade
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  food, real food, what I call human food but should be dog
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  food and usually along the lines of what you also do.
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  The herbal kind of infusion of heal, like the healing
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  properties in herbs can really help as well, along with the
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  food as their supplement. Also incorporating just
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  different habits as well. For example, if there's a dog
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  that's allergic to grass, maybe take them to enclosed tennis
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  courts and throw the ball and let them run them around rather
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  than them feeling the need to have to still go down to an Oval
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  and run around. Or take them for walks, places
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  that they're less likely to come into contact with some grasses
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  and just things like that. Different habits.
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  Food and supplements, mostly, yeah.
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  Amazing. So telling our listeners a
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  little more about where the idea came for Delta, for the.
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  First aid kits. So that came mostly just, I've
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  seen a lot of instances where dog owners have been stuck in a
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  situation and then had to try and find their way to a vet in
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  an emergency. And that also got me thinking
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  that there's certain situations where if you don't have a vet
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  nearby, what do you do basically?
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  And it's not that everyone's in a carry on a massive canine
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  dedicated first aid kit, you know, in the back of their car
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  all the time. Some people do, which is
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  fantastic. It's an amazing dog owner, but
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  something that is portable and convenient.
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  You can just slip it on a leash. You can just slip it on a
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  backpack, your belt, anything, right And it is lightweight.
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  It's got 13 items inside of it and it's made to have that
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  assurance and almost like a cheaper version of pet insurance
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  in here's what I say. So having that just which
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  really, really helps if you are needing to, you know, especially
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  if you're somewhere you can't get to a vetting time.
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  So for example, if your dog cuts its poor open on some glass or
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  or something in the Bush on a high or it gets ticks or
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  anything, you've got different things in that kit to be able to
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  aid those issues until you can reach your vet or mean certain
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  things. I'm not going to say don't go to
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  a vet that there's certain problems maybe you can just
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  solve yourself. But obviously it's great to
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  check with certain, you know, for the vet if there is certain
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  issues of you know, especially if there's been a lot of
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  bleeding or anything like that from cuts and wounds and
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  everything. We've got the saline solution,
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  everything to clean out everything that's needed.
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  But that that came from seeing a man in a similar situation where
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  he's staffing, he pulled up to the vet very quickly, needing a
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  lot of help his staff, he jumped through the window and cut
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  himself with all the glass. And luckily I had towels in my
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  car. I was able to help straight
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  away. And so that also sparked that
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  urgency to, to create something that's going to help people in
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  these difficult situations that, you know, you just can't
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  predict. So it's one of the most handy
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  things. And my partner, funny enough it
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  it's good for humans too because my partner wants.
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  We were out and we were trying to pick some lemons off of an
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  overhanging lemon tree, and he tried to get like the best ones
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  for me, but he ended up cutting his arm on a fence.
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  And crazy enough, we had the doctor kit with us and it
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  actually completely solved the situation.
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  And you didn't need a doctor or anything.
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  So we solved it ourselves. So it can be used for humans as
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  well. And being that it's so portable,
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  being that it can help a human and a dog, that's fantastic.
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  So absolutely. Yeah, and it'd be so handy to
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  have just whether you're going on bushworks or you're at the
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  dog park. I mean simple little things, you
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  know, they get into a buckle with another dog and somebody's
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  bleeding. Well, exactly.
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  Yeah, you know. Yeah, absolutely.
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  Or the number of times. I mean, there's a velodrome
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  local to me where I'll often let my dogs run.
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  Everyone does in the area because it's completely
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  enclosed. Yeah.
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  And mobiles are run up and down the sides which which is on
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  quite a steep angle. And the number of times torn a
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  paw pad or they've torn a nail, not not exactly an emergency,
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  but my God, it bleeds a lot. Like you think they're going to
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  die. Simple little things like that.
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  It's just so handy to have something to take care.
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  Of it it is, Yeah. No, it is.
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  And even if they've just got something simple stuck in their
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  paw and, you know they're not letting you get out with your
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  fingers, you've got tweezers in the kit as well.
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  You can pull things out, something, you know, if anything
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  stuck in their body like, you know, the prickles and things
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  like that, that there's just, there's just so many things you
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  can do to help your dog on the go with a small kit like this.
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  Because I think some people, obviously we're not all
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  completely financially, you know, stable and they can't
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  afford to go to the vet and then be paying $500.00 for one simple
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  thing that was an accident. And if they had the tools to do
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  it themself, they could have pulled something out themselves,
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  or they could have dressed something knows in their own way
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  without having to pay $500. Absolutely.
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  If it's, if it's not a deep wound, if it's something that
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  just simply needs to be cleaned and needs to be covered, you
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  know, if they don't need stitches, they may not.
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  Yeah, exactly. Consult a vet SO.
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  There's certain situations where, yeah, where it's not
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  severe, you can save money with having this kit.
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  I mean, it's only 3599 on my website, so obviously that
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  doesn't include shipping, but being there, that is a lot
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  cheaper than having to spend God knows how much at the vet.
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  And if, if your kit does have the charcoal in it, it's going
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  to be an option in the future. That in itself will also help a
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  lot because there's been scenarios where I've had to take
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  my dog to the vet and spend $300 when I didn't really have to.
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  I'm not saying that, you know, don't go to the vet, but there's
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  in scenarios where it could be maybe helped at home, yeah.
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  Absolutely. And look, even if it is a
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  situation that does require a vet's attention, at least having
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  that kit there with you can get you through.
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  You can keep a wound clean, you can cover it.
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  You can stem bleeding if they've swallowed something they
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  shouldn't have. You can at least do the ball
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  rolling so that you know, hopefully they won't need, you
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  know, as invasive a treatment when you do get to the vet.
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  And as as you said, if you live far from the vet, I mean, I'm in
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  a country area, my dearest bed is a 50 kilometre drive.
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  So having something like that with you or even just in the car
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  could be a life. So you know.
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  Most definitely it can be well, what exactly like you said, it
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  can be a literally a lifesaver in some situations.
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  And like, as I said, I'll put that out there again is that I'm
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  not telling anyone to not go to a vet for anything serious, but
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  there really is benefits to having this kit as just a
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  reassurance. You know, if you want to take
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  your dogs out for a hike, you've got that at least you know, that
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  can change everything. Most definitely.
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  And you can even like customise it because with our dog, I'm not
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  legally allowed to put any medication as such in there, but
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  I've put our own sachet of Claritine in there, you know,
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  like an antihistamine. So I just keep that in his
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  little kit because he's had a bad reaction once to these
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  stings. So if anything like ants or any
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  anything stings in makes him uncomfortable and swelled up
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  like we've got access to the these things straight away, most
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  definitely. Absolutely.
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  And it's all in one place. So you don't have to fumble
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  about wondering when you put it, it's all there.
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  Yeah, when you need it. And the other thing I really
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  love is you've got a really great range of holistic care
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  products on your website including add ONS for the year.
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  So if there are, if there are other products that you want to
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  use or that you want to generally there, if you've got a
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  herbal eye wash, tell us about some of the other products that
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  you've got available. Yes, so green pet is there's a
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  lot of green pet products on my natural dog to website.
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  I'm going to start incorporating more on the dog to Australia,
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  which is the more the pet safety first aid kits.
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  I'm going to start incorporating that as like a brunt from you
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  can order your own kit, but if there's other things that you
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  want to get as well, you can get like different green pet
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  products to add to it. So basically that's the avenue
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  and wanting to go down in regards to just doctor as the
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  brand itself is all holistic health and pet safety so that
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  there's always a natural alternative to everything as
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  well as safety as well as diet. Obviously most of the time when
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  I consult with people, I'll make a nutrition plan.
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  So, you know, there's so many options here to completely
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  overhaul the way you take care of your dog through
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  incorporating natural doctor and Doctor pet first aid all
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  together. So that's, that's the future of
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  Doctor. The brand is incorporating all
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  of that and really like standing by, you know, brands like
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  yourself and bring pet for all of the holistic and herbal
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  approach to everything. Yeah, unfortunately there's a
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  lot of chemicals in a lot of things and it's hard sometimes
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  for some dog owners that aren't aware of some things and they
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  might get something else called new reaction to their dog when
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  it when it's not. So having that awareness around
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  everything and educating people on pet health and safety is just
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  very important. I think all round under that one
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  name is the goal, definitely. Absolutely.
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  And the other thing that I love as well with all of these extra
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  add ONS, not only can you customise it to your dog's
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  needs, but I mean, it may not be necessarily something that you
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  need for help with that a physical wound or incident.
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  It could be that you have some sort of event while you're out
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  on a Walker at the dog park and your dog's yeah, you know, so
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  he's nervous or has anxiety. You can you can keep you know,
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  you can keep a calming. Or a rescue remedy and a number
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  of different things in there and to help the whatever the
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  situation is. Yeah, and there's a great CBD
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  oil brand I have as well on the Natural dr.com website is I,
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  I've seen some amazing changes in some dogs that have some
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  anxiety or if they're overly like aggressive in some ways or
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  very, very excitable, having a few drops of that in their
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  breakfast and dinner every single day consistently.
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  It's even helped our dog that can sometimes be a little bit
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  nuts. So I noticed the differences on
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  the days he has it and the days he doesn't.
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  I can tell that it definitely works.
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  Definitely. Absolutely.
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  And also something very handy to have, you know, if, if they've
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  strained something, if they've pulled a muscle, if they're, if
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  they've pulled up a little. Bit sore?
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  For an exercise session, you know really really handy to have
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  to keep them comfortable until you either get more looked at or
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  get them high and to rest. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
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  My big believer in things like the Rescue Remedy and
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  everything, because that also plays a big part in pet first
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  aid and even real human first aid is that adding that holistic
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  approach, something that will help bring calmness and less
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  anxiety and stuff. Because I mean, if you're trying
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  to work on your dog with, with an emergency, you know, it's
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  very hard if they're running around panting, anxious, you
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  know, shaking, whining, barking, you know, if you can do
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  something to just kind of take the edge off, just to have
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  having access to something like that is just so important, even
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  for less humans to have that. Definitely.
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  I'm a big believer in incorporating with safety and
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  pet, their stage, human first aid, overall health, natural
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  health, Yes, definitely. No, I think so.
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  It's fantastic idea. And as as I said to you, I think
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  I think it's just so smart. Don't know whether you
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  necessarily planned it as a strategy or whether it just
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  happened this way because it's your where your passion lies.
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  But the fact that it's where the.
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  Passion lies. Yeah, I figured, but you have
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  this focus on emergency care and first aid.
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  It's so unique in Australia at this point.
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  So that's something that's not only going to be incredibly
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  useful and and he's so. Needed, yeah.
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  Hopefully that'll hit your competitive edge.
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  Yeah, no, definitely. And from what I know of and from
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  some of the other people in the dog industry that I've spoke to,
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  basically the only pet First Aid product that's portable with
• 22:49
  that amount of aids and everything inside of the kit aid
• 22:53
  material, sorry, inside of the kit being so small smoke so
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  portable for pet First aid. And being that there's a bit of
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  a, it doesn't look super like medical, it doesn't look like
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  that. It looks like something bright
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  and fun and just it has an energy about it where it's like,
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  oh, it's cool to be a good dog parent and have this clipped
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  onto your lead. You know, I wanted it to look
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  like something that's handy and bright.
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  And, you know, I didn't want it to just look at the typical
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  cross kind of thing where, you know, every dog owner then feels
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  like their dog's got a disability of some sort, like
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  walking around. I wanted it to be like, an
• 23:30
  accessory in a way. Yeah.
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  Absolutely. Not to mention it is tailored
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  specifically for pet owners. You're not trying to market a
• 23:37
  human first aid kit. Exactly.
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  I didn't want it to look like, yeah, I didn't want it to look
• 23:42
  so much like pet models, human first aid.
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  I wanted it to have its own kind of energy and look about it most
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  definitely. And I just think it's just so
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  important. It's just so, so important
• 23:53
  having a whole new approach to dog health now that there's so
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  many platforms and there's so much awareness coming to light
• 24:00
  about how you can look after your dog in a better way.
• 24:03
  And some of the old school ways that will always believe that,
• 24:08
  you know, kibbles good for your dog and you don't need to keep
• 24:11
  for its taste. And it's just like not anymore
• 24:16
  isn't there's new there's new evidence that that's not right.
• 24:19
  So nuts it's it's good that that's coming to light we.
• 24:22
  Just need to keep shouting it from the rooftops until it
• 24:25
  reaches. Everybody, all these people, all
• 24:27
  of us goodies in the industry will definitely make a change.
• 24:31
  You know, if we're all putting different bits of knowledge out
• 24:34
  there and it comes to light, you know, over time people start
• 24:39
  seeing and following that a lot more.
• 24:41
  And you know, thinking it's a cool thing to actually be
• 24:44
  prepared when you take your dog out from, you know, pet first
• 24:47
  aid and thinking it's a cool thing to make your own dog food.
• 24:50
  And you know that that's where we should be going because like
• 24:54
  I said, you can, your dog can live 18 to 22.
• 24:58
  Well, it's been 25 year old dogs, you know, in the past, but
• 25:01
  now it's like it seems to be the norm is, oh, they're lucky if
• 25:04
  they make it to 14. And I'm it's, it's sad because
• 25:09
  it's not really the norm. That's if they're on kibble, you
• 25:11
  know, or other processed foods and, you know, not really well
• 25:15
  taken care of or exercised regularly and just all these
• 25:18
  different things. Yeah, absolutely.
• 25:21
  Yeah. And most definitely.
• 25:24
  Before we close, yeah, what's the first thing that pops into
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  your head? If I, if I asked you, what is
• 25:30
  the number one thing that you wish more pet parents knew
• 25:34
  about? What's the first thing that
• 25:36
  comes to mind? Just don't think you're
• 25:37
  responsible with your pet leaving them in a hot car.
• 25:40
  Ridiculous. Tying them up outside of a
• 25:42
  shopping centre in a loose knot. Yeah, like all these things,
• 25:46
  Like don't tie them up outside a shopping centre with a loose
• 25:48
  knot. Ridiculous.
• 25:50
  Don't. Leave them there to start with.
• 25:52
  I'm paranoid they'll get stolen. Or there's that as well.
• 25:55
  It's just even this, there's just certain things that I've
• 25:59
  seen in regards to how you, you keep your dogs at home.
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  There's just safer ways around everything with your pet.
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  And be vigilant always with your pet when you've when you're out
• 26:09
  with them and when you're at home.
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  And if you know of anything in your community where there's
• 26:14
  weirdos or something's happening, keep your pets
• 26:17
  protected because they're relying on you to protect them
• 26:20
  as well as feed them more naturally so.
• 26:22
  And don't always rely on vets that they know everything about
• 26:26
  how to heal your pet because they don't.
• 26:28
  They know allopathic medicine, which is masking the problem,
• 26:31
  doing tests and great for emergencies.
• 26:34
  But when it comes to nutrition, when it comes to well being
• 26:38
  longevity, vet is not the face to be.
• 26:41
  It's canine nutritionists, it's the herbalists, it's the natural
• 26:44
  health specialists that will get your pet, you know, living a
• 26:48
  longer, healthier life. Definitely.
• 26:49
  And that's probably not one thing that I thought of.
• 26:51
  It's like a whole range of things that I feel is the most
• 26:54
  important is be safe, go natural and like be your own vet and
• 26:59
  doctor. Absolutely.
• 27:01
  Absolutely. Thank you so much for coming on.
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  We're going to have to get you back because we've got we've got
• 27:07
  a lot more to talk. About you.
• 27:08
  Oh, for sure.