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Pet Treats with Checkout Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Thirteen ten Wi b A and ask the experts with
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Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary of course, Doctor Greer
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Speaker 1: of course when you meet with the vet doctor. How
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Speaker 1: you doing this morning.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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Speaker 1: It's good to talk with you. And we uh, we've
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Speaker 1: always got there's always just something new going on in
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Speaker 1: the world and questions I think for a lot of
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Speaker 1: pet owners. And I know we're gonna start taking calls
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Speaker 1: in upcoming shows and I'm really excited to hear from
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Speaker 1: folks about some of their their questions about their pet.
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Speaker 1: But before we get rolling, I want I was gonna
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Speaker 1: ask you this week about about treats and other things
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Speaker 1: to that may be good, some of that may be
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Speaker 1: that and other things, but I want to ask you
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Speaker 1: a little bit about that about pet relationships. People pet
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Speaker 1: relationships and you get to see it, get to see
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Speaker 1: it firsthand. You see, you know, folks bringing in bringing
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Speaker 1: in their their puppy or their kiddy when they first
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Speaker 1: get them, and they come in and they see you,
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Speaker 1: and you know, you get to see the pet grow
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Speaker 1: and the family and all that stuff through years and
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Speaker 1: obviously as pets get older and more needs and help
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Speaker 1: guide through. And then unfortunately, of course pets, one of
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Speaker 1: the sad things about pets is we will outlive them
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Speaker 1: and you get to see them kind of through that process.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you a little bit about that
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Speaker 1: is is obviously, as a veterinarian, that's a that's got
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Speaker 1: to be a very rewarding and it's I think it's
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Speaker 1: a little more. I don't know that we always appreciate
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Speaker 1: the role that veterinary veterinarians and vetechs and others really
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Speaker 1: really play in our lives. It's pretty substantial, I think
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Speaker 1: for a lot of folks, and I don't want to
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Speaker 1: speak for you, but a lot of folks that get
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Speaker 1: into vet care is obviously they care a lot about animals,
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Speaker 1: but they also care about the family and they care
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Speaker 1: about the people with those animals, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And that's one of my favorite things about veterinary
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Speaker 2: medicine is we're not just there for the pets. We're
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Speaker 2: there for the entire family. And the decisions we make financial, medical, emotional,
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Speaker 2: they're all very family oriented. So I think we don't
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Speaker 2: necessarily get the amount of credit that we should as
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Speaker 2: veterinary professionals, our staff in particular for the impact that
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Speaker 2: we have on those decisions, because we want to make
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Speaker 2: sure that we're making good decisions. We're not gonna expect
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Speaker 2: you to spend a ridiculous amount of money if there's
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Speaker 2: not going to be a good outcome. We want to
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Speaker 2: make sure that you're making decisions that makes sense for you.
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Speaker 2: And the quality of life isn't just the quality of
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Speaker 2: your pet's life. It's the quality of your life with
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Speaker 2: that pet as well. So when they become a patient
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Speaker 2: that has burdens that become overwhelming, sometimes we have to
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Speaker 2: make difficult decisions based on that alone. So it's not
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Speaker 2: easy and there's a lot that goes into this, and
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Speaker 2: it is an emotional tool for veterinary staff and veterinarians,
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Speaker 2: so you want to understand that we participate in all
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Speaker 2: those decisions. There was a webinar it was on two
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Speaker 2: nights ago that was going through what to say when
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Speaker 2: you don't know what to say, because it's really hard
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Speaker 2: for the staff as well as the doctors to know
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Speaker 2: how to make that conversation comfortable. Do you bring your
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Speaker 2: kids to a euthanasia do you leave them home? It
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Speaker 2: depends on the age, it depends on the child. You know,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot that goes into this, so it's not
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Speaker 2: just clear cut, simple decision making. We we spend a
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Speaker 2: lot of time and effort, and there's an increasing number
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Speaker 2: of organizations that are supporting veterinarians mental health, and I
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Speaker 2: think that's really important.
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Speaker 1: As we talked this morning with doctor Marty Greer of
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary, and I think about you know, in the past,
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Speaker 1: uh vets that that I've had with my pets, and
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Speaker 1: and you know, technicians and others that that do that.
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Speaker 1: It is, it is, it's it's it's an amazing job.
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Speaker 1: It's it's got to be amazingly rewarding. But we talked
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Speaker 1: to about, as you point out, doctor, about really having
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Speaker 1: an impact on on the well being of the pat
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Speaker 1: and the well being of that you know, of that
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Speaker 1: companion as well as of the of the of the
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Speaker 1: family and the people around them. And doctor as we
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Speaker 1: as we talked this week, we started a conversation the
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Speaker 1: other week about we're talking about specifically mostly about about
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Speaker 1: cats and things in their environment and the importance of
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Speaker 1: keeping them happy and stealing. Really this stuff also comes
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Speaker 1: back to building that bond between between the people and
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Speaker 1: their pets and their cat. And you point out cats
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Speaker 1: are often seen as seen as aloof in the reality
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Speaker 1: is cats really really love that attention, really love that bonding.
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Speaker 1: I was going to ask you about. I think one
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Speaker 1: of the things that we do with our cats is
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Speaker 1: when we do go find toys and other cool things
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Speaker 1: for cats and dogs as well as we look for
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Speaker 1: products that we find interesting and interactive as well. Are
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Speaker 1: there some out that always be the greatest toys for pets?
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Speaker 1: I mean, have we seen any type of issues. Obviously
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Speaker 1: there's if it was a serious one gets recalled. But
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Speaker 1: are there certain toys that maybe as we might avoid
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Speaker 1: whether it's for the cat or the dog, or is
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Speaker 1: it strictly on an individual pet to pet basis about
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Speaker 1: what's good for them and what they may like.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good question. And a lot of
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Speaker 2: our pets, unfortunately are especially dogs are pretty aggressive chewers,
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Speaker 2: but we can see that in cats as well, So
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Speaker 2: we want to select toys that are going to be
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Speaker 2: matched to the pet. Now, I have dogs that will
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Speaker 2: tear up a toy till the squeaker. That's the first
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Speaker 2: thing they want to do, and then they walk away
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Speaker 2: from the toy. So it's okay. I mean it costs
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Speaker 2: me some money, but it's not going to hurt the pet.
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Speaker 2: But we do see pets that do ingest their toys,
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Speaker 2: and those are really dangerous things to have happened. If
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Speaker 2: you see it happen, you can sometimes get in and
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Speaker 2: get the pet vomiting induced. We don't recommend that you
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Speaker 2: use peroxide anymore because hydrogen peroxide can cause some significant problems.
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Speaker 2: But the pet's health, so you want to seek thatinary care.
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Speaker 2: So you want to get that pet to vomit at
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Speaker 2: the toy if you know that they've recently ingested it,
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Speaker 2: and some of those things stocks toys, towels, things like that,
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Speaker 2: they'll stay in their stomach for up to fourteen days,
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Speaker 2: so you don't have to like ls out the door,
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Speaker 2: but you do want to get there in a reasonable
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Speaker 2: amount of time. So most pet toys are designed to
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Speaker 2: be safe, but unfortunately there's nothing we can't produce that
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Speaker 2: the dog can't undo. So even the most aggressive cheers
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Speaker 2: can chew up some of those really heavy duty toys.
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Speaker 2: So you want to be careful with the toys you're
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Speaker 2: providing and make sure that if you see that the
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Speaker 2: pet is to to tear off pieces of it, that
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Speaker 2: you take that toy away and get it get it
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Speaker 2: discarded so that they can't get back to it. Because
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Speaker 2: those are all dangerous things to have happened, so very
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Speaker 2: important that we do that. And we do have cats
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Speaker 2: that will eat things that they shouldn't. Especially dangerous to
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Speaker 2: cats are long skinny things, threads, yarn, the things that
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Speaker 2: we think are safe for pets to play with and
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Speaker 2: bad around aren't always safe. To be really careful because
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Speaker 2: if those are ingested, they can cause what's called a
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Speaker 2: linear foreign body. That's a long skinny thing like a string,
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Speaker 2: like in a dog, you know, part of a rug
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Speaker 2: or a pair of panty hose, all those long skinny things.
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Speaker 2: Then the intestinal track will basically accordion or bunch up
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Speaker 2: on that long toy or string or whatever it happens
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Speaker 2: to be and cause them to It actually cuts through
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Speaker 2: the intestine, so very very serious. So keep your spread
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Speaker 2: your needles you're knitting, you know, any long skinny things
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Speaker 2: that the dog starts to chew on the edge of
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Speaker 2: a rug, get rid of it because they'll unravel that
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Speaker 2: rug and thwallow pieces of it. To be really careful,
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Speaker 2: really thought, and really observe it about what's going on,
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Speaker 2: and only select toys and put your pets in place
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Speaker 2: that it's really safe. Even in a crate. I mean,
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Speaker 2: we've had a dog that in her crate was able
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Speaker 2: to reach your long leg out of the crate, pull
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Speaker 2: a bottle of gorilla glue over to her crate, swallow
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Speaker 2: the gorilla glue, and then the gorilla glue blew up
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Speaker 2: in her stomach and basically formed a cast inside of
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Speaker 2: her stomach. And the only way to get that out
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Speaker 2: is surgery. So to avoid expensive things like surgical procedures
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Speaker 2: or endoscopy to remove forum bodies, it's important that you're
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Speaker 2: really watchful and paying a lot of attention. There's great
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Speaker 2: toys on the market, so we need to stick to
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Speaker 2: the ones that are safe.
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Speaker 1: And it's interesting, you know. Some of the perspectives is
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Speaker 1: as we get to get our opportunity to hear from
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Speaker 1: you each week, is you tend to forget you. With pets,
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Speaker 1: it's not one size fits all because they're so so
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Speaker 1: varied and so different. I think of my little chihuahua, Homer.
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Speaker 1: He you know, we don't really worry about it.
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Speaker 2: He doesn't.
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Speaker 1: He's I don't know if he's not strong enough, but
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Speaker 1: he's really into like those little I don't know if
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Speaker 1: it's like a foil inside those crunchy toys, but he
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Speaker 1: never damages them. On the other hand, I know people
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Speaker 1: with bigger dogs that much like yours, that you give
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Speaker 1: them something, their their mission is is to dissect that
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Speaker 1: literally dissect and take everything about it's It's also another
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Speaker 1: thing too that just that that just kind of as
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Speaker 1: you were talking there about cats and like yarn ball.
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Speaker 1: So I think we all have that vision of and
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Speaker 1: I don't know if it was in books or whatever,
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Speaker 1: we all see that picture of that kitten playing with
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Speaker 1: that yarn ball. That can be as you point out,
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Speaker 1: can be very dangerouable. What about laser pointers, I know
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Speaker 1: we touched on that the other week. Are those potentially
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Speaker 1: dangerous for cats or are they or I know primarily
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Speaker 1: cats love change to chasing that dot. Are they dangerous?
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Speaker 1: Are they? Are they? Are they okay? Just want to
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Speaker 1: be cautious or what's kind of the thinking on those?
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Speaker 2: Doctor? Sure, on a limited basis, they're fine. I know
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Speaker 2: there are people who perhaps overdo it, uh And there
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Speaker 2: was actually a few dogs that will also play with those.
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Speaker 2: So you want to make sure that you're you know,
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Speaker 2: you're paying attention to what's appropriate, you know, turning off
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Speaker 2: the light and playing with it gently with a cat
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Speaker 2: is fine, but if you start asking them to do
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Speaker 2: things that are extreme, cats don't really cats and dogs
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Speaker 2: don't really have limitations on what their activity levels should be.
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Speaker 2: So my concern is then to like overdo it and
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Speaker 2: injure themselves. So we don't want to do anything that's schoolhardy.
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Speaker 2: So you know, basically use some good common sense because
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Speaker 2: unfortunately our pets don't have well, sometimes we don't either
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Speaker 2: have good common sense. Let's face that we tend to
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Speaker 2: overdo things ourselves, so it's important that we're paying attention
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Speaker 2: and watchful. But there's lots of there's lots of really
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Speaker 2: fun things that you can do. I like to use
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Speaker 2: fruits and vegetables for treats and for toys for my dogs.
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Speaker 2: Grapes clearly not safe, probably not a good idea for
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Speaker 2: cats either, But you can take something like a cherry
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Speaker 2: tomato and roll it around on the floor and it
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Speaker 2: becomes a really fun toy. And then when the dog
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Speaker 2: gets done what's playing around with it, they can and
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Speaker 2: they can bite it, they can chew it, they can
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Speaker 2: eat it. Of course you don't want to do that
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Speaker 2: on your white carpet. But there's you know, there's some
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Speaker 2: fun things that you can do to really give them
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Speaker 2: environmental enrichment and give them opportunities to enjoy some different things.
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Speaker 2: I take candlelope or watermelon, honeydew melon and slice it
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Speaker 2: so that there's no rind associated with it and like
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Speaker 2: scoop it out and let them like run around with
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Speaker 2: pieces of melon. They love that, especially in the summer
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Speaker 2: when it's hot. You know, those are really fun things
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Speaker 2: for our pets to be able to experience, and they're simple,
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Speaker 2: inexpensive things that you know you've got around the house anyway,
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Speaker 2: So why not share some of those things. Cobs with cob,
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Speaker 2: you know, like corn on the cob. Never ever let
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Speaker 2: your dog have a corn cob, because if they bite
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Speaker 2: off a piece of it or the whole thing and
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Speaker 2: swallow it again, we can get back to having vowel obstruction.
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Speaker 2: So we have to be really cautious and thoughtful about
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Speaker 2: what we're doing. But with the right interventions, you can
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Speaker 2: really have a pretty good time without spending a lot
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Speaker 2: of money and without having to go out and buy
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Speaker 2: all kinds of fancy toys, because, like, like we've talked
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Speaker 2: about before, sometimes the most simple toys like the empty
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Speaker 2: cardboard role that the toilet paper or the paper tels
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Speaker 2: case of can be that's free. You were going to
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Speaker 2: throw that away anyway, So why not have fun with
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Speaker 2: those kinds of toys for your pets?
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Speaker 1: That is that's really great to hear. And doctor I've
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Speaker 1: got to ask too, is as folks get in and
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Speaker 1: and you know, I think of obviously the initial visit,
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Speaker 1: bringing your bringing your puppy or kiddy in, is that
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Speaker 1: something that that you wish more more folks would ask about,
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Speaker 1: which is, you know, how do I what are the
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Speaker 1: best ways where some good ways off to interact with
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Speaker 1: my pet? What are some good ways to to roard
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Speaker 1: my pet that that are that are going to be
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Speaker 1: healthy and good for everybody? Do you do you sometimes
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Speaker 1: wish more more pet owners would ask that question absolutely?
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Speaker 2: And actually I wrote a book during the pandemic. It's
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Speaker 2: still on the market called Your Pandemic Puppy, but it
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Speaker 2: doesn't just apply to the pandemic, and it goes through
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Speaker 2: all kinds of things that you need to get your
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Speaker 2: shopping list before you get your pet, the things that
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Speaker 2: are safe for them to do. One of my very
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Speaker 2: favorite things to do with young dogs that are eating
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Speaker 2: their meals too fast. I mean they make slow feeders.
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Speaker 2: They make some stuff that you can use, but I
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Speaker 2: just take metal muffin tins and mix their dog tibble,
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Speaker 2: their dog food with yogurt, with chicken broth, beef broths,
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Speaker 2: you know, any of those things. Put it in the freezer,
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Speaker 2: let it freeze, and then you can pull it out
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Speaker 2: when you have a zoom meeting, or you have to
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Speaker 2: make dinner for the kids, or you have to run
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Speaker 2: some errands and you don't want your dog to just
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Speaker 2: gobble down their dinner in one bite. They can then
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Speaker 2: lick in to and kind of mess around with those
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Speaker 2: little cubes that you've made their dinner out of. Now,
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Speaker 2: this doesn't mean you add to the amount of calories
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Speaker 2: that they take in a date. This is a different
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Speaker 2: way to distribute it. So I'll typically have two of those,
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Speaker 2: one in the freezer and one in the dishwasher, so
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Speaker 2: you've always got one ready to go. And then if
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Speaker 2: your neighbor stops over, you have an impromptu phone meeting
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Speaker 2: or whatever, you just pull it out of the freezer,
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Speaker 2: pop it down, and instead of your dog taking thirty
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Speaker 2: seconds to eat a meal, it takes them thirty minutes
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Speaker 2: or an hour, and they can slowly gradually chew and
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Speaker 2: bite and lick and kind of enjoy their dinner instead
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Speaker 2: of just down in one thirty second period. So simple
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Speaker 2: things that maybe you haven't thought of are in the
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Speaker 2: book are and are you know, there's lots of great
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Speaker 2: things on websites as well. So those are the things
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Speaker 2: that I like to see happening. The other thing I'm
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Speaker 2: going to say is before, perhaps even before you get
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Speaker 2: that new pet, the best thing for you to do
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Speaker 2: is to talk to your veterinarian about what kind of
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Speaker 2: pet would be best for you. Maybe you're thinking about
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Speaker 2: getting a dog. I've had lots of people come in
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Speaker 2: and say, I think I want to get out Bernie's
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Speaker 2: Mountain Dog. They're beautiful dogs, But if you're eighty two,
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Speaker 2: getting a young Bernie's Mountain Dog may not be your
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Speaker 2: best lifestyle choice. So really consult your veterinarians and your
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Speaker 2: veterinary staff. They have a lot of experience with activity
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Speaker 2: levels and behavior and all kinds of things that can
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Speaker 2: be super helpful for you so that the pet selection
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Speaker 2: that you make is the most suitable. Rescue dogs have
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Speaker 2: a lot of advantages, but they're also somewhat unpredictable in
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Speaker 2: behavior size, some of those things. So again, you know,
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Speaker 2: before you jump into pet ownership and you're making a
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Speaker 2: fifteen year commitment to a pet, dog, cat, whatever, birds,
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Speaker 2: you know birds can be like one hundred years. So
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Speaker 2: get some input from your veterinarian who knows you and
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Speaker 2: knows what your lifestyle is like, and get some help
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Speaker 2: from them in selecting the right pet, the right breeder
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Speaker 2: if you choose to go with a breeder, so that
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Speaker 2: you're getting the pet that's going to mesh with your
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Speaker 2: lifestyle the most suitably. Because we want as veterinarians and
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Speaker 2: veterinary staff, we want your relationship with your pet to
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Speaker 2: be wonderful and long lived and rewarding. We don't want
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Speaker 2: to just have you come in once or twice a year.
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Speaker 2: We want to see that this life experience is really
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Speaker 2: great for you.
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Speaker 1: And by the way, I looked your pandemic puppy available
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Speaker 1: in Amazon. Yes, that is awesome.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's like twenty bucks. Yes, so get it before
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Speaker 2: you get a puppy because it goes through pet selection
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Speaker 2: and get some you know, get some good input before
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Speaker 2: you make that decision. So thanks for looking that.
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Speaker 1: Up really great stuff. As we talked this morning with
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Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer, Checkout Veterinary the website, check out vet
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Speaker 1: raw hide and there's all sorts of questions about is
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Speaker 1: raw hide good for your dog? Bad for your dog?
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Speaker 1: What's the what's the thinking there? Is it which isn't?
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Speaker 1: We'll find out from the doctor. We will do that
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Speaker 1: this week about things that you may not always think
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Speaker 1: about when it comes to your pet. In some of
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Speaker 1: those areas that we often overlook, and I think for
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Speaker 1: a lot of folks that are leaving that last segment, doctor,
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Speaker 1: we end up, you know, we just we were at
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Speaker 1: the at the pet store, or we're at the kennel
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Speaker 1: or at the at the Humane society and we see
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Speaker 1: this this cat, we see this dog, and we're like,
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Speaker 1: all right and having a cat or a dog, but gosh,
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Speaker 1: they are specifically rawhide is one that comes to mind,
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Speaker 1: as I've heard.
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Speaker 2: The dog for having something to do in the tew one,
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Speaker 2: but also have some secondary effects throughout. They can be
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Speaker 2: fairly high in fat, So you want to think about
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Speaker 2: the caloric intake, the usefulness, what all these factors are
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Speaker 2: that are playing a role in our pets. For my
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Speaker 2: treats for my dogs and cats, they mostly get fruits
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Speaker 2: and vegetables. Carrots, the shortcut carrots are great for little dogs.
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Speaker 2: Big carrots are great. You want to avoid grapes and
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Speaker 2: raisins because they're toxic. You want to avoid cob corn
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Speaker 2: because of the cob and you want to avoid potatoes
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Speaker 2: because they're kind of starchy. But in general, the other
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Speaker 2: fruits and vegetables are fine. A lot of dogs don't
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Speaker 2: like citrus, but if they do, hey, go for it.
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Speaker 2: Watch out for the pits and things like pears and
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Speaker 2: I'm sorry nectarines and peaches and those kinds of things.
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Speaker 2: But I have a staff member that gives an apple
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Speaker 2: to our dog every day and he carries it around
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Speaker 2: with him for a while and then he choose it
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Speaker 2: up and that's his toy for the day. So there
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Speaker 2: are some really simple and easy and safe things that
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Speaker 2: you can do for your pet to keep them busy,
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Speaker 2: occupied interested, without, like I said, spending a lot of money.
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Speaker 2: And you know, if you have an apple that's got
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Speaker 2: a little bruise on it, and you know you don't
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Speaker 2: really want to eat it yourself, it's fine. For the dog.
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Speaker 2: There's nothing harmful about a little bruise or a little
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Speaker 2: were wilted. The broccoli stems, the asparagus stems, the cauliflower base,
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Speaker 2: all those things are fine. The dogs like to chew
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Speaker 2: on those. My dogs love lettuce and carrots and cooked vegetables,
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Speaker 2: raw vegetables, so lots of different things that you can do.
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Speaker 2: They're creative and that give variety to your dog. We're
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Speaker 2: with puppies. We generally like to see a hundred experiences
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Speaker 2: in one hundred days. So if you pick out fifteen
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Speaker 2: or twenty fruits and vegetables, you've just accomplished twenty percent
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Speaker 2: of that goal with only going to the grocery store
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Speaker 2: and buying what you were going to buy for your
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Speaker 2: family to eat. Anyway, so the end of the broccoli stem,
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Speaker 2: that might be a little tough. You don't really want
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Speaker 2: to chew it up. It's a little tough. Cut it off,
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Speaker 2: give it to the dog. Slightly wilted vegetables are fine,
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Speaker 2: not of course, mouldy, slimy, icky, gross stuff. But some
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Speaker 2: of those things that are no, they're not quite up
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Speaker 2: to your standards, but they're not harmful, are absolutely perfectly fine.
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Speaker 2: If you don't want to cook them down into soup.
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Speaker 2: They're absolutely fine for your pets. So just you know,
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Speaker 2: not a banana peel, but a banana is great. Grapefruit,
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Speaker 2: not the not the peel, watermelon, not the rhine, but
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Speaker 2: the other aspects of those things can all be really
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Speaker 2: fun and really useful. So there's a lot of things
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Speaker 2: you can do with your pet, and they're fun and
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Speaker 2: they're interactive, and it's sometimes fun to see, like you
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Speaker 2: might have two dogs and one loves watermelon and one
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Speaker 2: looks at it like looh, So it's interesting to see
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Speaker 2: that variety and that they do have individual preferences. It's
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Speaker 2: a lot of fun to do those things.
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Speaker 1: That's great. Sounds like a lot of fun for folks
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