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Vet Josh Davis Q&A For April 23rd, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Gina, No, it's fine.
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  Speaker 2: Uh.
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  Speaker 1: We Doctor Josh Davis is there, and if he were,
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  Speaker 1: if he were a people doctor, he'd be telling you
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  Speaker 1: don't eat the rich crackers after gallbladder surgery. But uh,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Davis is a veterinarian and he can answer the
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  Speaker 1: questions you might have about your puppies and kiddies. So
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  Speaker 1: call us yea or textra questions the three three nine
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  Speaker 1: A S, Doctor Davis, you're going to do surgery today.
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  Speaker 1: It looks like you're wearing your scrubs. Yep, surgery any
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  Speaker 1: anything serious or.
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  Speaker 3: Hopefully not just some dental surgery stuff.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. So you're you're in a you work at a
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  Speaker 1: veterinarian clinic in Utah.
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  Speaker 4: Out of you right, yeah, done? In American fork what's
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  Speaker 4: it called? Banfield Hospital? Banfield Pet Hospital?
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  Speaker 1: All right, all right, we're getting some calls now coming
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  Speaker 1: in if you have any question about your dogs or cats.
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  Speaker 1: Got a text question here? Good morning.
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  Speaker 5: I have a two year old pitbull slash lab mix.
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  Speaker 3: His name is Rio.
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  Speaker 5: He has allergies, hitching, scratching, licking a lot. I got
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  Speaker 5: these allergy bites by ZESTI pause. I cannot get him
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  Speaker 5: to eat them. He will eat anything. He likes cucubs even,
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  Speaker 5: but for whatever reason, he won't eat these. I've tried
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  Speaker 5: peanut butter, hiding them in hot dogs. He sniffs them
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  Speaker 5: out and eats the treat and then spits the chew out.
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  Speaker 5: Do you have any suggestions on how to get them
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  Speaker 5: and eat them or should I just try something different?
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  Speaker 1: First of all, are those shoes worth anything? Are they good?
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  Speaker 4: I think I've heard of those, especially coming into allergy
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  Speaker 4: season right now, there are a lot of you know,
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  Speaker 4: there's a lot of stuff out there, a lot of
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  Speaker 4: social media things that you'll see, and I.
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  Speaker 1: Don't trust any of it.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, I always say take everything with a grain of salt,
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  Speaker 4: because you know, anyone can try to sell something.
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  Speaker 3: There's not a lot of regulation around it, and it
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  Speaker 3: may or may not make a difference. Sometimes it does.
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  Speaker 1: You're saying you should put salt on it? Is that what? Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: In that case? I mean, you know, dogs are like us.
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  Speaker 4: They have preferences, and if you're trying to force something
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  Speaker 4: to happen every day, I would find a better avenue
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  Speaker 4: and also maybe something that might work better, because allergies
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  Speaker 4: can become really severe and cause a lot of harm
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  Speaker 4: to head if they're control.
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  Speaker 1: So see your vet, h Porter.
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  Speaker 5: Let's see there's Porter.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Porter, where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 6: I am calling from David Technical College?
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  Speaker 1: Okay? And what's your dog's name? Quinn? What's the problem
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  Speaker 1: with Quinn? Porter?
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  Speaker 6: So, Quinn historically has been a very disciplined dog, not
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  Speaker 6: that he's been trained to do so, but like he'll
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  Speaker 6: ask permission to come back inside after going out. And recently,
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  Speaker 6: i'd say over the last month or two, he's started
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  Speaker 6: doing the same behavior regarding eating.
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  Speaker 7: Not all the time.
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  Speaker 6: There's some days where he just eats like normal and
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  Speaker 6: does real good and then he'll have like two days
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  Speaker 6: in a row where he sits and like begs to
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  Speaker 6: be able to eat, and we give him permission to eat,
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  Speaker 6: not that he needs it, and then he just doesn't.
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  Speaker 6: And when we stop giving it attention because we don't
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  Speaker 6: want to make it too stressful an activity, he just
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  Speaker 6: walks away.
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  Speaker 1: So what kind of a behavioral issue is this, Doctor Davis.
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  Speaker 4: Well, I mean, it's tough without having a whole picture there,
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  Speaker 4: but you know, as a as a vet, I always
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  Speaker 4: want to make sure that we're ruling out any medical
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  Speaker 4: issues that could be contributing to that because behavior is
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  Speaker 4: often a result of of something.
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  Speaker 3: That's changed with them.
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  Speaker 4: So you know, if I if I saw a pet
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  Speaker 4: like that, I'd want to make sure we did a
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  Speaker 4: really good physical exam, a really good oral exam, make
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  Speaker 4: sure there's no oral pain or issues there.
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  Speaker 3: Just do a good thorough check.
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  Speaker 1: Are there pets? Are there? Are there pet therapists? This
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  Speaker 1: dog needs to go to a therapist.
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  Speaker 4: I think there's pet behaviorists for sure that that will
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  Speaker 4: come to your house and even help you. Because also
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  Speaker 4: if there's no medical issues, then behavior can change for many,
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  Speaker 4: many different reasons, and sometimes it's really subtle and it's
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  Speaker 4: hard for us to see that. So also getting those
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  Speaker 4: behaviors to come into your home if you rule out
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  Speaker 4: other things.
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  Speaker 1: So make sure make sure Quinn gets gets a good
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  Speaker 1: check up and then see what happens in there.
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  Speaker 6: Okay, all right, sounds good to me.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, let's go to Christina. Oh, Christina, what's
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  Speaker 1: your kitten's name?
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  Speaker 8: This is on Zomozmo.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, okay, all right.
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  Speaker 8: Yes, he's five weeks old, five weeks in two days.
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  Speaker 8: He's part of a Pharah litter I took in and
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  Speaker 8: everybody has been progressing great, except for Zomo. A couple
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  Speaker 8: of days ago, he started losing weight and throwing up
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  Speaker 8: and diarrhea. And when I first gave them a litter,
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  Speaker 8: they had pellets and non clumping clay, and I noticed
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  Speaker 8: he was eating the non clumping clay, so I took that.
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  Speaker 8: Once the symptoms started, I noticed some little the clay
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  Speaker 8: pellet things in in his diarrhea and he vomited it.
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  Speaker 8: Once I have him now where he's he's eating, I'm
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  Speaker 8: supplementing with form and he's no longer losing weight. He
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  Speaker 8: gained a gram overnight. But I don't know if there
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  Speaker 8: is something more I can do enough. Fading kitten syndrome
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  Speaker 8: failure to describe is sometimes really hard to treat, but
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  Speaker 8: I cannot lose another one.
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  Speaker 4: Any comments Doctor Davis, Yeah, I mean the you know,
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  Speaker 4: with that background consuming litter, some cats and kittens will
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  Speaker 4: do that and ideally they grow out of that, but
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  Speaker 4: that can cause a lot of harm to the GI tract,
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  Speaker 4: including obstructions, and so I think without getting the diarrhea
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  Speaker 4: under control, that's going to be really difficult because they're
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  Speaker 4: dehydrated and they don't get the nutrition from their food
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  Speaker 4: that they're eating, so it may be worth if you
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  Speaker 4: want to have a chance for this kitten is to
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  Speaker 4: get checked out because also there are viral infections that
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  Speaker 4: kittens can get that can do similar things. But that
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  Speaker 4: litter is suspicious and it may have really upset things,
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  Speaker 4: and so I would get checked out for sure, if
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  Speaker 4: you want to have a chance.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, he wasn't the vet two days ago. I did
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  Speaker 8: take him in and they said his hydration was good, good,
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  Speaker 8: and to do the formula just to get the nutrition
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  Speaker 8: in him. His diarrhea has it's it's changed, it's changing,
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  Speaker 8: kimart soft.
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  Speaker 9: So it is.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, there you go for it. Sounds like you're on
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  Speaker 1: the right track. You're on the right track. Keep keep
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  Speaker 1: in touch with your vet. Thanks Christina, thank you, Thank
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  Speaker 1: you guys, Thank you doctor. We're back now with doctor
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  Speaker 1: Josh Davis. Is that short for Joshua it is? Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Josh Davis is here to answer your puppy and
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  Speaker 1: kitty questions, and we have some on the line right now.
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  Speaker 1: Let's go to Brandy. First of all, Hi, Brandy, what's
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  Speaker 1: your dog's name?
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  Speaker 9: Her name is Jezebel. She's a fourteen year old Border
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  Speaker 9: Collie Blue Healer mix. And last week we had to
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  Speaker 9: take her to the emergency hospital because he was acting
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  Speaker 9: like she was having a seizure, but ends up she
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  Speaker 9: was I'm diagnosed with idios pratic vestibular disease.
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  Speaker 1: What the hell is that?
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  Speaker 2: I know, it's a mouthful. She's doing well, she's still
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  Speaker 2: a little off balance though. We have to carry her
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  Speaker 2: up and down the stairs, which is getting old, you know,
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  Speaker 2: just to go to the bathroom and everything. I'm just
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  Speaker 2: wondering if there's anything else we can do as far
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  Speaker 2: as helping that along, or if it's going to be
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  Speaker 2: something that we're going to have to just deal with.
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  Speaker 3: Sure, Yeah, yeah, you're talking about.
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  Speaker 4: It's called idiopathic vestibular disease, or we call it kind
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  Speaker 4: of old dog vestibular disease, which I.
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  Speaker 3: Think you you'd fit into that category it sounds like.
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  Speaker 4: But it's a disease and it's idiopathic because we don't
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  Speaker 4: always know what causes it and it just comes on
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  Speaker 4: and it can be different severities. So some dogs they're
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  Speaker 4: so severe that they do have difficulty walking or even
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  Speaker 4: standing up sometimes because it's it's kind of like if
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  Speaker 4: you if you've ever ruptured your ear drum and you're
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  Speaker 4: and you're just your balance and equally gets way messed
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  Speaker 4: up with that and they're or Medically, we'll usually try
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  Speaker 4: to treat with like anti nausea medications, motion sickness, things
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  Speaker 4: like that, but it's it's often just a matter of
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  Speaker 4: time and and most dogs will get back to normal
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  Speaker 4: over time. I've had a few patients over the years
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  Speaker 4: that they might have a little bit of a head
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  Speaker 4: till to whatever side that that the problem was.
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  Speaker 3: But generally it's it's a time thing and and they
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  Speaker 3: will improve over time. So you just have to support
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  Speaker 3: them in the meantime.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, all right, awesome, thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you. Yeah, let's go to Daniel. Hello, Daniel, Daniel.
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  Speaker 1: What's your dog's name? Hey, you guys doing good? What's
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  Speaker 1: your dog's name?
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  Speaker 7: My name is My dog name is Brembo.
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  Speaker 4: What is it?
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  Speaker 7: He's a Brembo like the break Okay, okay, I know
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  Speaker 7: it's yeah. So he's an eighty pound boxer lab mix.
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  Speaker 7: Yesterday at the park he broke his I guess his
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  Speaker 7: do claw his thumb on his front foot, just a nail.
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  Speaker 7: It didn't completely come off and it broke it about
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  Speaker 7: the halfway mark. It didn't bleed like crazy, but it
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  Speaker 7: was bleeding.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they can get pretty bad.
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  Speaker 7: I didn't want to just clip it and force it
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  Speaker 7: to come off, so I used some septic powder on
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  Speaker 7: it and wrapped his foot. Like I said, it's about
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  Speaker 7: halfway up the nail. Does that something that you think
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  Speaker 7: I should take them to the vet and have them
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  Speaker 7: deal with it or let it heal and possibly fall off.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the dow claus are. That's a common nail
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  Speaker 3: that gets injured for many many reasons.
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  Speaker 4: But if it is broken about midshaft like that, and
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  Speaker 4: if the nail is the nail still attached to it
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  Speaker 4: as well, the part that's broken it is, yeah, okay,
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  Speaker 4: and there I would recommend at least getting it looked at,
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  Speaker 4: because if that piece stays on, it's always there and
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  Speaker 4: it's always moving and it can be quite painful. And
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  Speaker 4: also it'll make the dog more likely to lick and
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  Speaker 4: chew on it, which can cause infections. The skin and
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  Speaker 4: nail better around that, and keeping it wrapped up all
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  Speaker 4: the time isn't ideal either, because that can also trap
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  Speaker 4: moisture and if the bandages aren't done right sometimes that
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  Speaker 4: can cause harm too, so and sometimes it's as simple
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  Speaker 4: as just kind of yanking it off, you know. Under
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  Speaker 4: Sometimes we have to sedate them to do that, but
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  Speaker 4: we'll remove it, kind of clean it up, and then
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  Speaker 4: bandage it from there. So but if that chunk of
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  Speaker 4: nails there, it's it's probably really painful.
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  Speaker 7: All right, okay, perfect, I'll get it man, Okay, all.
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  Speaker 1: Right, see yeah, let's go to Stephanie. Hi, Stephanie, where
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  Speaker 1: are you calling from?
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  Speaker 2: Hello?
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  Speaker 10: I am calling from I fifteen right now.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, be careful talk to us about what's your kiddie's name.
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  Speaker 10: My cat's name is Drew and she is a Maine coon.
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  Speaker 10: She has kitty, Yes, she is a big kitty. She
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  Speaker 10: just has really bad allergies and I am wondering it's
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  Speaker 10: to the point where she actually gets sores on her
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  Speaker 10: face from a geen. I try to keep her nail,
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  Speaker 10: you know, down and everything, but right now she has
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  Speaker 10: a sore that she's created on her face that I'm
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  Speaker 10: taking care of. I'm wondering about allergy medicine for cats
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  Speaker 10: because I'm finding that say, no, there's nothing that we
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  Speaker 10: can do, and I'm like, no, there has to be
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  Speaker 10: something we can do.
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  Speaker 1: That's unacceptable.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, there is different.
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  Speaker 10: That's an acceptable answer.
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  Speaker 3: Right, right, yeah, And there are ways to go about that.
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  Speaker 4: With cats though, they can have traditional allergies whether it's
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  Speaker 4: environment or food or things like that, but also they
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  Speaker 4: can have there are a couple of different kind of
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  Speaker 4: immune system diseases that they can develop as well that
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  Speaker 4: can look similar to allergies. So there are medications to
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  Speaker 4: help with those things, but you just have to make
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  Speaker 4: sure we know what we're dealing with. And so in
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  Speaker 4: some cases, especially if it's on the face, the nose,
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  Speaker 4: the lips, or anything like that, I would definitely consider
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  Speaker 4: a biopsy to rule out because there are other things
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  Speaker 4: besides allergies. And then once you get that diagnosis, you
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  Speaker 4: know there or not, then you can beyond some medications.
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  Speaker 4: And there are allergy meds. You know, it's different than dogs,
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  Speaker 4: but there are meds that will use in certain situations
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  Speaker 4: to help with that. And then also just good quality food.
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  Speaker 4: A hyperllergenic diet never hurts and some things.
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  Speaker 10: That way all right, I have around small the turkey
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  Speaker 10: diet because she's allergic. She's been allergic chicken. Is that
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  Speaker 10: a good idea?
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  Speaker 3: It depends. So if we're really trying to rule out
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  Speaker 3: food as part of the problem.
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  Speaker 4: I usually tend to go towards the actual prescription diets
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  Speaker 4: because they are formulated to not have anything else in them,
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  Speaker 4: and a lot of commercial diets are made where other
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  Speaker 4: food might be made, and so it's hard to one
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  Speaker 4: hundred percent say that it's just turkey or just chicken,
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  Speaker 4: whereas the really high level prescription diets are you know,
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  Speaker 4: they're guaranteed to be free of those type of contaminants
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  Speaker 4: that way, Okay, okay, all right, thank.
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  Speaker 1: You, thank you very much, Steffanie, And we are out
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  Speaker 1: of time. Where can you I guess you could find
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  Speaker 1: a breeder.
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  Speaker 3: Of main clean caps and yeah, just online searches.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, you just want to try and get the best
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  Speaker 4: quality because they can have issues with heart disease and
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  Speaker 4: other things, so you want to make sure they're healthy.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Doctor Josh Davis, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 3: All right, thank you guys for being a couple of weeks.