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Itchy Pets with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Eight thirty seven thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts.
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Speaker 1: Brought to you by Checkout Veterinary Online. Checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Joined this morning by doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer, recognized as Veterinarian of the Year by the
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Speaker 1: Westminster Kennel Club. Of course you can learn more about
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Speaker 1: doctor Greer. You can learn more about Checkout Veterinary all
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Speaker 1: on the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. Don't forget that first visit that exam. It
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Speaker 1: is free again. You can learn more online. Great website,
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. Very convenient to get to checkout
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Speaker 1: Veterinary there right at twenty seven to ten Prairie Lags
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Speaker 1: drive in Sun Prairie just off the interstate, right off
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Speaker 1: the highway there, very convenient. If you can hear my
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Speaker 1: voice you are near checkout vet. Their telephone number six
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Speaker 1: oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred, that's six
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Speaker 1: 's' eight three one eight sixty seven hundred has mentioned
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Speaker 1: joined this morning. Bye, doctor Marty Greer. Doctor Greer, how
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Speaker 1: are you doing this week?
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Speaker 2: I'm great? Thank you. It's beautiful weather.
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Speaker 1: It is beautiful weather. And before we get rolling on
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Speaker 1: this week's topic, talk about, of course its being allergy season.
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Speaker 1: You got a big event coming up May the fourth,
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Speaker 1: A's Sunday from three until five at the clinic, don't you.
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Speaker 2: That's right, we've got Meet the Vet MTV. Different MTV
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Speaker 2: than you're probably used to. So Meet the Vet is
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Speaker 2: an opportunity for you to come in and meet me,
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Speaker 2: some of the other staff and doctors at check out.
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Speaker 2: That it's of course, it's all free. We'd love to
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Speaker 2: have you. You can bring your pet, but we're not
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Speaker 2: making any appointment. But if you want to bring your
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Speaker 2: dog to your cat and just thot, I'm kind of
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Speaker 2: experience that that'd be great. Love wine and a little beer,
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Speaker 2: a little cheese, you know, just a little reception, a
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Speaker 2: typical Wisconsin reception, and introduce you to the concept of
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Speaker 2: what it's like to be at checkout, what the doctors
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Speaker 2: are like, get to know our staff. Just an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to kind of meet and greet. So if you do
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Speaker 2: decide that we're the right kind of place for you, you
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Speaker 2: feel more comfortable coming in because you've been there, you
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Speaker 2: know what it's like, you know where it is. It's
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Speaker 2: right across from Woodman so it's easy to find, but
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Speaker 2: it gives you. It gives you the firsthand experience of
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Speaker 2: what it's like to drive in park your car, have
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Speaker 2: your pet in the garage bay, have yourself in the
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Speaker 2: in the pet, and the examin and just how it
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Speaker 2: works so that you don't have to interact with other
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Speaker 2: animals whire there.
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Speaker 1: You know, it's such an important relationship, what you know,
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Speaker 1: pets and their vets and having a good communication and
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Speaker 1: really really clicking and connecting with your veterinary. And what
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Speaker 1: a great opportunity that is. And I know, doctor for you,
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Speaker 1: whether it's at this event May fourth, that's Sunday, May fourth,
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Speaker 1: the Meet the Vet, the MTV event from three until
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Speaker 1: five out checkout Veterinary, whether it's at that event or
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Speaker 1: just in general, I know, building relationships is really really
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Speaker 1: important for you. And we see, really there's there's a
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Speaker 1: couple of good reasons. One obviously, I know you love
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Speaker 1: love getting to know people and love spending time with
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Speaker 1: their pets, but it also improves their all overall care
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Speaker 1: and treatment. If there's a good relationship. There isn't doesn't it.
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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, I mean we are the other family doctor.
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Speaker 2: So it's not just your physician, or your pediatrician or
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Speaker 2: your internest. We are the other family doctor, and it's
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Speaker 2: really important that we know each other. I know how
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Speaker 2: you think, you know how I think. We have the
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Speaker 2: opportunity to meet each other, and I kind of understand
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Speaker 2: then where you're going with something. If you say to me, yeah,
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Speaker 2: this is how I want to handle it, I understand
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Speaker 2: the direction you want to go. Because not all treatment
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Speaker 2: plans turn out to be the same. We have one
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Speaker 2: that's customized. We guarantee will customize a treatment plan, whether
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Speaker 2: it's vaccines or your pet is ill, if your pet
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Speaker 2: is injured, will come up with some kind of an
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Speaker 2: option for what you can do, so that you kind
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Speaker 2: of know how we think, and we can give you
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Speaker 2: the opportunity to say, well, this is planning, this is
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Speaker 2: plan B, this is plan C. Not because we're indecisive,
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Speaker 2: but because not everybody chooses the same level of care
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Speaker 2: for their pet, and we want to make sure that
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Speaker 2: we are customizing that pet care based on your resources,
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Speaker 2: your finances, what you have time to do, what you're
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Speaker 2: interested in doing, and what your pet really needs. Because
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Speaker 2: not everybody wants the same thing. Some people will go
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Speaker 2: all out. I have a doctor that just took her down,
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Speaker 2: her dog down to refer to, and she started off
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Speaker 2: with the CT. They decided to convert to an MRI.
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Speaker 2: She had insurance. Great, go for it, she can do
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Speaker 2: it all. And we have other people that are like,
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Speaker 2: you know, she's sixteen and I'm good, and so we
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Speaker 2: want to make sure that we aren't pushing pushing an
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Speaker 2: agenda on you. You have the option of how you
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Speaker 2: want your pet to be treated in it's the first
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Speaker 2: time we see you is when you're in a crisis.
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Speaker 2: It's a lot more difficult for us to understand you.
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Speaker 1: It's a great data start that relationship and how refreshing
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Speaker 1: it is to hear about about how that relationship is structured.
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Speaker 1: A great data start that conversation. Make that appointment, of
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Speaker 1: course you can learn more online. Check out vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Telphon number which is up
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Speaker 1: at the website as well. Telephone number to make an
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Speaker 1: appointment at checkout veterinary six oh eight three one eight
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Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred. That's six oh eight three one eight
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Speaker 1: sixty seven hundred and again that first exam, that first visit,
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Speaker 1: it is free doctor. A lot of folks or some
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Speaker 1: folks may have noticed their pet this week, maybe chewing
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Speaker 1: on there on their pause or licking their pause and
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Speaker 1: chewing on their on their fur and think, oh, my goodness,
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Speaker 1: does my pet have fleas or what's going on there?
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Speaker 1: It might be something other than a critter on them. Now,
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Speaker 1: could be a critter on them, but it could be
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Speaker 1: also just the season of the year, couldn't it right, And.
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Speaker 2: It can be their eyes that are running in lottery.
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Speaker 2: There's all kinds of things that start to happen this
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Speaker 2: time of year, as soon as the tree pollens and
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Speaker 2: the grass pollens start to come out, which I mean,
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Speaker 2: I love spring. It's my favorite season of the year.
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Speaker 2: I know a lot of people I call brings my
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Speaker 2: favorite season, and I love to see this time of
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Speaker 2: year roll around. But it does bring with it some challenges. So, yes,
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Speaker 2: allergies do start to flare up, and there are lots
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Speaker 2: of things that we can do for your pets. We've
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Speaker 2: always had, well for since the nineteen sixties, it's pretty
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Speaker 2: much always for most of us have had things like
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Speaker 2: steroids prednizone to treat those with. But if that creates
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Speaker 2: side effects that you're concerned about, that. Then we have
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Speaker 2: other alternatives. We have pills that you can give called apriquail.
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Speaker 2: We have pills called atopica. We have injections called side
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Speaker 2: of point. There's a pill called zenrelia. So we have
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Speaker 2: lots of things besides just shampooing your pet or putting
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Speaker 2: eye drops in. There's lots and lots of things that
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Speaker 2: we can do. So I think you again need to
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Speaker 2: meet your veterinarian and have an opportunity to understand what
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Speaker 2: your treatment options are. Discuss all of them, everything from
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Speaker 2: the most expensive to the least expensive, everything for the
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Speaker 2: most of the least side effects, and then you can
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Speaker 2: make a well informed decision on how your pet treatment
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Speaker 2: should go. Because we can really make a difference if
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Speaker 2: they're chewing at their feet to the and they come
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Speaker 2: in like they all have rust colored toes, if they're
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Speaker 2: a light colored dog, because the saliva turns the skin
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Speaker 2: and the hair a rust color, and people come in
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Speaker 2: and think that maybe blood or they're not quite sure
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Speaker 2: what's going on. If they think it's just a habit, well,
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Speaker 2: if you yell at your dog for chewing on their feet,
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Speaker 2: all they're going to do is leave the room and
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Speaker 2: chew in the other room for it, for it, because
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Speaker 2: you're not going to make their feet less itchy by
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Speaker 2: yelling at them. You're just going to teach them to
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Speaker 2: be closet cheers instead of out in the open. So
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Speaker 2: be sure that you're allowing your veterinarian to get you
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Speaker 2: the chance to talk about what all your treatment options are,
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Speaker 2: because we can offer you a number of them, and
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Speaker 2: depending if it's an eye problem, then we treat the
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Speaker 2: eyes and times of the ears, so we'll treat the ears.
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Speaker 2: So it depends on the pet, and it depends on
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Speaker 2: your resources. So I want people to know that they
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Speaker 2: have a lot of choices, but their pets should be
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Speaker 2: more comfortable in the long run. If you decide that
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Speaker 2: you want to go and see a dermatologists and have
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Speaker 2: skin testing done. Blood and slide the tests aren't generally
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Speaker 2: very useful, but the skin test can be done and
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Speaker 2: then you can do hyposensitization on the pet. They come
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Speaker 2: as drops, they come as injections. There's so many options
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Speaker 2: that you have now that you didn't have before, and
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Speaker 2: insurance has made a lot of them really cost effective.
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Speaker 2: So think about whether you want to get insurance on
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Speaker 2: your pet, because anything pre existing, of course, isn't going
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Speaker 2: to be covered. So think about what's going to be
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Speaker 2: best for your pet and best for you.
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Speaker 1: Talk this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: The website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. Talked about the website checkout
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Speaker 1: stop on buy to learn more about Checkout Veterinary. If
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Speaker 1: six soh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's
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Speaker 1: six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. Doctor.
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Speaker 1: I hear this term hotspot often mentioned, and I feel like,
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Speaker 1: just by your reaction there, I'm probably lucky that I'm
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Speaker 1: not familiar with that term, because it sounds like it
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Speaker 1: sounds like can be be a bit of a problem.
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Speaker 1: What is a quote unquote hot spot for a for
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Speaker 1: a pet or a dog, for example.
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Speaker 2: A hotspot is a special kind of allergy. It's a
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Speaker 2: special kind of nasty reaction. It's technically called an acute
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Speaker 2: to professional bacterial pioderma. Probably like that. Now you know what,
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Speaker 2: Now you know why we call it a lot of spots,
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Speaker 2: because acute to deficial bacterial pioderma is a little bit
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Speaker 2: of a mouthful to say. So. Basically, a hotspot starts
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Speaker 2: as any kind of break in the skin. It can
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Speaker 2: be allergies, it can be your pet scratched or hurt themselves.
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Speaker 2: It can be that they ran into a fence or
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Speaker 2: a bush or whatever. They broke the skin. It can
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Speaker 2: be an insect bite, and then it gets a little
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Speaker 2: bit itchy, and then the pet starts to scratch and
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Speaker 2: look at it, and then it gets wet, and then
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Speaker 2: it gets really gooey, and it spreads like wildfire. You
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Speaker 2: can go from a little tiny spot when you go
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Speaker 2: to bed one night to this giant area on your
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Speaker 2: pet skin overnight. And the worst ones are the ones
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Speaker 2: below the ear. The ones on the rest of the
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Speaker 2: trunk of the body are a little bit more manageable,
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Speaker 2: but the ones below the ear take at least three
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Speaker 2: weeks to clear up. It requires shaving. It may require
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Speaker 2: laser therapy to help reduce the inflammation and the bacteria.
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Speaker 2: It requires antibiotics. It may require a steroid or another
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Speaker 2: kind of an allergy like atopica or is then really
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Speaker 2: one of those meds to get it under control. Because
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Speaker 2: it's really really itchy, really uncomfortable, and if it's really bad,
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Speaker 2: you may have to put your pet in one of
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Speaker 2: those Elizabethan collars or a surgical suit or something to
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Speaker 2: keep them away from it. They sell surgical suits on
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Speaker 2: Amazon now for dogs and cats. They're amazing. So whether
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Speaker 2: you're having surgery or some other kind of a reason
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Speaker 2: that you need to keep your pet away from a
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Speaker 2: certain area of their body to keep them from licking, biting, chewing, scratching,
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Speaker 2: pulling out the sutures of the staples or whatever, the
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Speaker 2: bodysuits are amazing. You can buy them on Amazon. They
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Speaker 2: come so just type in surgical suit for dog or
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Speaker 2: surgical suitor cat, and it pulls up all kinds of
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Speaker 2: different choices on each individual page, and I'll tell you
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Speaker 2: what size the pet is, so, how long their back
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Speaker 2: is from their neck to their tail, and how much
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Speaker 2: they weigh, so you can get the right size, and
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Speaker 2: then you can get a really cute one of the
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Speaker 2: little flowers on it if it's a girl dog or
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Speaker 2: a little sail bunce that fits a boy dog. You know,
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Speaker 2: whatever you want, you can you can get. And so
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Speaker 2: that's why I usually don't order them for my clients
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Speaker 2: because I may pick the wrong pattern if you love
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Speaker 2: lady bugs, and you may want more of the vidigugs
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Speaker 2: on it. So there's there's some really great options out
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Speaker 2: there for you. So it's probably a good idea to
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Speaker 2: have one just hanging around the house anyway, because at
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Speaker 2: some point your pet's going to have something that happens.
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Speaker 2: But for sure, if they're having surgery, get that ordered
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Speaker 2: in advance. Get them used to wearing it so that
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Speaker 2: the first time that they have it on is not
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Speaker 2: as they're waking up from surgery and run wondering why
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Speaker 2: you've put them in this ridiculous outfit. But they do
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Speaker 2: a great job of keeping pets away from the things
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Speaker 2: that we don't want them to scratch, bites you or
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Speaker 2: lick at. So it's really a great tool that people
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Speaker 2: can use instead of the Elizabeth and collar because those
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Speaker 2: are miserable for pets. They run into doorways in your legs,
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Speaker 2: and you know the coffee tables there, they're just they
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Speaker 2: can't eat or drinking them. They're just kind of miserable.
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Speaker 2: So I try to avoid those when possible.
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Speaker 1: I hadn't thought about using Amazon or that's well, that's good,
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Speaker 1: good advice and guides. As always from doctor Greer's we
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Speaker 1: talk with doctor Marty Greer. Of course, Doctor gear comes
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Speaker 1: to us from Checkout Veterinary online. Checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's check out vet dot com. Don't forget that first
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Speaker 1: visit that exam. It is free. You can learn more online.
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Speaker 1: Checkout vet dot com. Telfhll number to make an appointment
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Speaker 1: six to oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: We're going to continue our conversation with doctor Greer of
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary. We will do that next as Ask the
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Speaker 1: Ask the Experts. Hanging out with doctor Marty Greer. Of course,
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Speaker 1: doctor Greer comes just from Checkout Veterinary. The website, checkout
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Great website
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Speaker 1: to learn more about Checkout Veterinary. The website was redesigned
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Speaker 1: a couple of months ago, and it does a really
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Speaker 1: eight sixty seven hundred. That's six SOH eight three one
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Speaker 1: eight sixty seven hundred. Before we get back to talking allergies, doctor,
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Speaker 1: I did want to ask you, I know something I learned.
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Speaker 1: I've learned every week. I learned a bunch of really
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Speaker 1: really new things from you. One of the things that
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Speaker 1: that I learned that that is I think a very
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Speaker 1: very interesting thing is I didn't realize that that vets
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Speaker 1: were were in short supply and they can be hard
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Speaker 1: to find. And I know you've been working very very
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Speaker 1: hard at adding vets to checkout Veterinary. You've got amazing
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Speaker 1: hours and one of the things you're looking to do
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Speaker 1: is have Checkout Veterinary open seven days a week. What's
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Speaker 1: the timeline on next? I know you found some really
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Speaker 1: really good fits for Checkout Veterinary. What's the timeline on
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Speaker 1: getting back to getting to the seven days week at
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 2: We should be up and running by the time we
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Speaker 2: do our meet to vet on May fourth, so we
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Speaker 2: should be good. Yeah. So I have two doctors that
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Speaker 2: just work one week and a month, Doctor Gomez, who
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Speaker 2: is from Mexico, so he does have Spanish as a
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Speaker 2: language action for us, so that's good for people that
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Speaker 2: may have language barriers for that language. We have one
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Speaker 2: doctor who works a week in a month, one week
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Speaker 2: and a month because he's an IT guy. He does
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Speaker 2: a lot of work with nationwide Pet Insurance, so he
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Speaker 2: wants to continue to be active in veterinary medicine, so
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Speaker 2: he works one weekend a month. We have a couple
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Speaker 2: of other doctors that are absolutely amazing. Doctor Engelbert has
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Speaker 2: just come back to us. She used to work for
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Speaker 2: us for a couple of years and moved away and
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Speaker 2: to be with her mother and now she's back. That's
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Speaker 2: been great, So she's love surgery does a lot of
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Speaker 2: surgical procedures that we haven't been able to offer before.
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Speaker 2: I have doctor Dave who has been in practice for
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Speaker 2: forty years, thirty five years, forty years and has a
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Speaker 2: lot of wisdom, a lot of great communication skills. Clients
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Speaker 2: are loving him. So we've got just a really great
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Speaker 2: array of doctors. Two young, young female doctors. So depending
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Speaker 2: on what your pet prefers, what you prefer, what communication
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Speaker 2: style you have, what your needs are for hours, we
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Speaker 2: can pretty much accommodate everything that requires minor care. Once
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Speaker 2: you get into something more extensive, something that requires a
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Speaker 2: CT scan or an MRI or a board certified surgeon,
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Speaker 2: then of course we're going to send you to see
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Speaker 2: somebody at that level of that caliber. But between check
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Speaker 2: in and check out, we can provide the basic surgical services,
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Speaker 2: which are going to be space neuters, lumpermovals, dental cleanings,
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Speaker 2: those kinds of procedures that are considered to be pretty
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Speaker 2: routine lacerations. So if your dog hits a barberare or
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Speaker 2: fence or bush or whatever, you know, those kinds of
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Speaker 2: things are all things that we can handle. In. I'd
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Speaker 2: say probably ninety nine percent of the stuff we get
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Speaker 2: phone calls about we can manage, and the other one
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Speaker 2: percent we help you find the right referral. And again,
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Speaker 2: not every veterinarian is suited for every client, and not
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Speaker 2: every client is suited for every veterinarian. So, for instance,
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Speaker 2: yesterday I had somebody in that said I wasn't really
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Speaker 2: crazy about the specialists that I saw. I'm like, well,
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Speaker 2: we'll find you another one because we have other options.
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Speaker 2: It's not that they were bad, it's just they didn't
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Speaker 2: like their communication and what they were offering them. So
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Speaker 2: we can help you find somebody that really meets your
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Speaker 2: needs based on what your needs are cost wise, time wise,
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Speaker 2: travel wise. You know, we have access to veterinarians in
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Speaker 2: the Madison area, in the Milwaukee and Waukeshire area, in
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Speaker 2: the Chicago area, so we have lots of choices. And
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Speaker 2: if you're of the opinion that your pet needs something
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Speaker 2: that's only offered at one place in the country, we're
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Speaker 2: going to figure out a way to get there. There's
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Speaker 2: a place in North Carolina that's doing them phoma treatment
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Speaker 2: that nobody else is doing, and we know those things,
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Speaker 2: so we can get you in with the person that's
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Speaker 2: the best suited for you. So just let us know
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Speaker 2: what you need and what your expectations are, and we're
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Speaker 2: going to work really hard to make that happen for you.
16:10
Speaker 2: The university is doing some really cool studies on certain
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Speaker 2: kinds of cancer and other diseases, so if your pet
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Speaker 2: has one of those, some of those are funded so
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Speaker 2: that you don't have to pay the entire bill. Having
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Speaker 2: pet insurance is a great way to handle it. So
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Speaker 2: we have lots of options for how we can get
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Speaker 2: the care that your pet needs without you feeling like
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Speaker 2: you can't give them the very best. We can help
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Speaker 2: you figure out what that looks like for you and
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Speaker 2: your pet.
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Speaker 1: We talk about it always being a great day to
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Speaker 1: start that relationship, and as we talk with doctor Greer
16:36
Speaker 1: and talk about the other doctors at Checkout Veterinary, and
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Speaker 1: of course the convenience the availability of course Checkout Veterinary
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Speaker 1: between Checkout Vet and check in Vet the sister clinic
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Speaker 1: right in Sun Prairie. They are open seven days a week.
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Speaker 1: Of course check Out Vet Monday through Wednesday and then
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Speaker 1: Friday through Sunday. Yes weekends nine to five Monday through
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Speaker 1: Friday as well at check in Vet and of course
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Speaker 1: the clinic in Marshall also the Myra clinic as well,
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Speaker 1: And of course you can learn all about that online
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Speaking
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Speaker 1: of opportunity to start the relationship, don't forget about the
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Speaker 1: big event Sunday, May fourth, Meet the Vet from three
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Speaker 1: until five at the checkout Vet clinic in Sun Prairie.
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Speaker 1: Doctor one thing two about allergies is pets experience allergies
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Speaker 1: and people sometimes experience allergies from their pet. Are there
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Speaker 1: things that people can do to you know, let's say
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Speaker 1: you have a new kiddo in the house and all
17:30
Speaker 1: of a sudden you discover, oh, they've got a bit
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Speaker 1: of a pet allergy. Are there things that I remember
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Speaker 1: there used to be like wipes they would sell for
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Speaker 1: like cats that kind of keep the dander down. Do
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Speaker 1: they still make stuff like that? Have they gotten better?
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Speaker 1: Are there things to kind of help people manage that stuff?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? They do. So a lot of people will pick
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Speaker 2: a pet that suits there needs, like a dog that's
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Speaker 2: list likely to shed a lot for doodle. Oftentimes those
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Speaker 2: are less setting. But yes, you can have your wipes,
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Speaker 2: you can do your pet grooming, So having somebody else
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Speaker 2: do the grooming to get the loose hair in the
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Speaker 2: dam and all those things off on a four to
18:01
Speaker 2: six week basis can really be helpful. But they make
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Speaker 2: a cat food now that makes the cats less allergic
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Speaker 2: to the people. I have no idea how it works,
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Speaker 2: Like I haven't sat down and really read the literature
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Speaker 2: on it, but it's on the commercials and I'm like,
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Speaker 2: oh my gosh, Like how cool is that? Because cats,
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Speaker 2: the things that most people allergic to with cats are
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Speaker 2: their dander and then the saliva that they groom themselves,
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Speaker 2: So having that kind of food would be a good
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Speaker 2: option for people. The other thing is some people are
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Speaker 2: allergic to cat litter and not the cat itself. I
18:30
Speaker 2: used to work for a veterinarian who thought for years
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Speaker 2: he was allergic to the cats, and it turned out
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Speaker 2: it was a cat litter. So take a look at
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Speaker 2: everything in the environment and make sure that you're blaming
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Speaker 2: the right the right source, because it's these exchange litter
18:42
Speaker 2: and it's hard to get rid of the cat. So
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Speaker 2: you know, take a look at what your what your
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Speaker 2: options are. You're not going to have the rest of
18:47
Speaker 2: the family real happy if you're like, I'm not going
18:49
Speaker 2: to have this pet in my house anymore. Some people
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Speaker 2: get more accustomed to them as they've been in the
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Speaker 2: house for a longer period of time. They kind of
18:55
Speaker 2: hypo sensitize themselves to them. But having a groomer bathe
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Speaker 2: them and crimp clean them up regularly can be really helpful.
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Speaker 2: There are some garage or gas stations that have a
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Speaker 2: garage bay in between them that have a pet wash
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Speaker 2: station in them, but that still puts you if you're
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Speaker 2: the person allergic in that exposure situation. So if it's
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Speaker 2: you have somebody else in the family do the grooming
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Speaker 2: if you're not going to take them to a professional groomer.
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Speaker 2: Those are a nice way to you put your quarters in.
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Speaker 2: It gives you the soap, it gives you the rint,
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Speaker 2: it gives you the blow dryer, and so you can
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Speaker 2: get all that stuff done at some of those gas
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Speaker 2: stations that have the garage and the pet grooming station
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Speaker 2: at them as well. Some of the pet stores have
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Speaker 2: those too, so take a look at what your options
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Speaker 2: are instead of just paying a groomer. Grimmers are fabulous people,
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Speaker 2: and I think they do a tremendous job. And I
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Speaker 2: don't know how they trim the nails and get some
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Speaker 2: of these dogs to cooperate with them that won't cooperate
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Speaker 2: with us, But they're magical people. So please don't say
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Speaker 2: that I don't want to use a groomer, but if
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Speaker 2: you need to be bathing once a week, then a
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Speaker 2: groomer might not be a financial option.
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Speaker 1: Great, great guidance and great stuff. As always, doctor Greer,
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Speaker 1: You enjoy this great day. You have a happy Easter,
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Speaker 1: and we'll talk real soon. Thank you, And of course
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