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Pet Separation Anxiety with CheckOut Vet · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Eight forty three thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts
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  Speaker 1: with check Out Veterinary. Join this morning by doctor Marty Greer.
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  Speaker 1: joining us this morning with Checkout Veterinary is doctor Marty Greer.
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  Speaker 1: Doctor Greer, how you doing today.
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  Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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  Speaker 1: Thank you, It's good to talk with you. And technology
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  Speaker 1: is absolutely amazing stuff. And I know we've talked on
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  Speaker 1: previous shows about about some really really cool things in
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  Speaker 1: the world of vet care and pet care and some
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  Speaker 1: of the stuff that's on the horizon as well, really
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  Speaker 1: really cool stuff, and folks can listen back to those
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  Speaker 1: podcasts at w i BA dot com and doctor One
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  Speaker 1: of the things so I did want to talk about
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  Speaker 1: is one of the things that technology has allowed us
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  Speaker 1: to do, which has become more mobile, which means sometimes
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  Speaker 1: we may be spending a little more time away from
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  Speaker 1: our pets where it used to be you know, a
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  Speaker 1: couple hours here, a couple hours. Sometimes we may be
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  Speaker 1: maybe traveling for eight hours, six hours, those type of
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  Speaker 1: things away from the pet, and pets deal with anxiety.
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  Speaker 1: They love most of them, love having us around and
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  Speaker 1: love seeing our face and do we see I mean
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  Speaker 1: with overall kind of just overall separation anxiety. It is
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  Speaker 1: a legitimate thing for pets, isn't a doctor?
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, for sure, more for dogs than cats. Cats
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  Speaker 2: tend to do a little bit better when they're alone,
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  Speaker 2: but dogs are very dependent on us, not just to
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  Speaker 2: go out in and out the door, but for our
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  Speaker 2: social interactions. So they become very dependent and really can
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  Speaker 2: get very stressed out by being left alone, especially if
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  Speaker 2: they're off the schedule. They kind of get used to
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  Speaker 2: a certain schedule, and if you usually are gone Monday
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  Speaker 2: through Friday, but then your schedule is different on weekends,
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  Speaker 2: that can really upset them. So there's a lot of
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  Speaker 2: things we can do to help reduce those bits of
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  Speaker 2: anxiety and to help monitor sure what's going on with that?
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  Speaker 1: Then is is is with those anxiety and that kind
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  Speaker 1: of that that's distressed from separation. What are some of
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  Speaker 1: the like I feel like some pets it's it's very
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  Speaker 1: obvious that they're dealing with it. Some not so obvious
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  Speaker 1: are there things pet owners caretakers we should be looking
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  Speaker 1: for that say, you know what my pet is. My
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  Speaker 1: pet is getting anxious or having issues when I'm away.
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  Speaker 2: Right, So some of the things that people don't always
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  Speaker 2: associate with separation anxieties. They say, well, she doesn't eat
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  Speaker 2: when I'm gone, or she doesn't drink when I'm gone,
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  Speaker 2: So I think she knows she can't get outside and
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  Speaker 2: so therefore she won't drink. Well, I don't think there's
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  Speaker 2: really a correlation with that, So I think we need
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  Speaker 2: to be aware that that isn't really the situation. That
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  Speaker 2: they are oftentimes so anxious about being alone that they're
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  Speaker 2: stressed to the point of not eating or drinking. So
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  Speaker 2: I think it's really important that we identify that and
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  Speaker 2: that we can help them with those those things. So
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  Speaker 2: there's there's things you can do for getting I'm used
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  Speaker 2: to a routine so that they know when you pick
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  Speaker 2: up your keys or put on that special pair of
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  Speaker 2: shoes that you wear when you leave the house, that
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  Speaker 2: they start to identify that that's what's going to happen.
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  Speaker 2: But we can give them some training. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of things that we can do training wise to reduce
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  Speaker 2: that sometimes we go to the point of having to
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  Speaker 2: use medications for their stress levels, and there's nothing wrong
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  Speaker 2: with that. If it takes it's a learning curve for
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  Speaker 2: them to associate being alone with more comfortable by using medication.
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  Speaker 2: There's really no reason not to do that. There's some
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  Speaker 2: very good ones on the market that your veterinary can
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  Speaker 2: help you with, So we have those things that we
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  Speaker 2: can do. One of the technologies that's kind of cool
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  Speaker 2: is that we have all these cameras now, so we
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  Speaker 2: can watch from our personal cameras in our homes, or
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  Speaker 2: we can set up a Ferbough camera which is meant
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  Speaker 2: for pets, or other devices. There are wearables now that
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  Speaker 2: our pets can wear so we can see what their
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  Speaker 2: activity levels are. So I think by intervening with technology,
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  Speaker 2: we can better assess what's happening when we're not out
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  Speaker 2: there and therefore speak to your veterinarian or your behavior,
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  Speaker 2: your behavior as there trainers that can help you with
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  Speaker 2: behaviors that can really help that.
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  Speaker 1: It's ach you mentioned using technology of this this little
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  Speaker 1: robot at home. Amazon makes it called Astro and you
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  Speaker 1: can set like points around the house, like you know,
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  Speaker 1: check your front door to see if it's locked, or
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  Speaker 1: you know, go around the house and things. One of
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  Speaker 1: my settings is Homer spot on the couch is you know,
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  Speaker 1: I just want to see what he's up to during
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  Speaker 1: the day. But having that, you know, having that, you know,
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  Speaker 1: a way to kind of monitor and just kind of
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  Speaker 1: check in on them if nothing else gives gives pet
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  Speaker 1: owners a peace of mind. What about tools to keep
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  Speaker 1: your pet occupied while you're away. I know you've talked
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  Speaker 1: about some really neat techniques for maybe pets that overeat
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  Speaker 1: or other things, but are there some similar type activities
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  Speaker 1: you can do to keep pets kind of occupied and
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  Speaker 1: their brain off of missing you while you're gone.
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  Speaker 2: Sure. So a lot of people use the stuffed toys.
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  Speaker 2: They started off being made only by the company Kong.
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  Speaker 2: It was basically a hollow rubber snowman shaped toy, and
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  Speaker 2: because it was hollow, you could stuff it with peanut
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  Speaker 2: butter or scrambled eggs or cheese or whatever you could
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  Speaker 2: put in it, and then something to block the easy
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  Speaker 2: exit for that food, so that instead of chewing on
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  Speaker 2: the tree and having all the good he's gone in
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  Speaker 2: thirty seconds as soon as you walk out the door.
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  Speaker 2: They would have something to keep them busy for a
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  Speaker 2: longer period of time, and the smarter the pet got
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  Speaker 2: about getting things dislodged from it, the more creative you
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  Speaker 2: would become putting things in the freezer so that it
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  Speaker 2: was harder to get the peanut butter out and had
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  Speaker 2: to soften before they could lick it. There's a lot
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  Speaker 2: of techniques like that that you can use. And now
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  Speaker 2: there are many companies that make these hollow stuffed toys.
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  Speaker 2: There's one made by wolf wof that basically you freeze
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  Speaker 2: a little cube and it goes into this device that
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  Speaker 2: they spend a lot of time licking to melt it,
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  Speaker 2: and as they're licking it at melts and it keeps
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  Speaker 2: them busy for a longer period of time. So those
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  Speaker 2: are kind of cool. The easiest thing to do is
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  Speaker 2: just go to the dollar store and buy two muffin tins,
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  Speaker 2: the metal ones, not the silicon ones, and mix your
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  Speaker 2: pets food with chicken broth, beef broth, yogurt, something measure
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  Speaker 2: the same amount of food, because we don't want to
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  Speaker 2: get more food than they're accustomed to getting and put
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  Speaker 2: weight on them. But you can put those in the
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  Speaker 2: freezer with the yogurt and then pop it out and
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  Speaker 2: when you leave the house or go to work or
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  Speaker 2: go to do your zoom meeting or whatever it happens
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  Speaker 2: to be, that you're not going to be supervising the pet.
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  Speaker 2: You can give that to them as their breakfast or
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  Speaker 2: their dinner and they're going to spend instead of thirty
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  Speaker 2: seconds slurping down their food. I mean, let's face it,
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  Speaker 2: labradors are pretty efficient at eating fast. Then it takes
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  Speaker 2: them a longer period of time, and then it keeps
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  Speaker 2: them busy, occupied, something to do, something to look forward to.
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  Speaker 2: My favorite trick is and there's nothing wrong with using
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  Speaker 2: a crate if your dog is going to have the
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  Speaker 2: tendency to be destructive to themselves or destructive to your
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  Speaker 2: home while you're not there. Crates are an absolutely acceptable
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  Speaker 2: device to use if it's used correctly to keep the
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  Speaker 2: pets safe and to keep your house safe. So you
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  Speaker 2: can pop those into the crate half an hour before
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  Speaker 2: you leave in the morning, and then lock the crate
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  Speaker 2: so that the dog can't get into it, and so
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  Speaker 2: they're sitting outside the crate looking at the goodies that
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  Speaker 2: you put in there, expecting that if you could hurry
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  Speaker 2: up and leave the house. I could get in there
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  Speaker 2: and I could get started on my breakfast. So you
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  Speaker 2: can kind of flip this in their head and make
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  Speaker 2: it a little bit more of something that they look
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  Speaker 2: forward to rather than something that they dread when you leave.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course the other things are things like
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  Speaker 2: when you come back into the house or when you
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  Speaker 2: leave at the time that you're going to leave. Don't
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  Speaker 2: make it a big production. Pat them on the head,
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  Speaker 2: pop them in the crate, tell them we'll see you.
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  Speaker 2: If you go kind of gaga over them, you're going
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  Speaker 2: to just elevate their stress levels and elevate their emotional state.
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  Speaker 2: And it's not good for them socially and psychologically to
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  Speaker 2: have that happen to be very matter of fact. When
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  Speaker 2: you walk in the door, get them outside to go potty,
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  Speaker 2: but don't gaga over them. And I don't want to
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  Speaker 2: overstep here, but oftentimes first pet owners are a little
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  Speaker 2: bit more likely to have those reactions because they don't
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  Speaker 2: understand that that's going to create that issue. And there's
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  Speaker 2: certain types of dogs, breeds of dogs, histories of dogs
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  Speaker 2: that can make them at greater risk. For instance, the
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  Speaker 2: rescue dogs we do tend to see more separation anxiety
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  Speaker 2: because they started off life in a pretty difficult place.
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  Speaker 2: You came into their life, they came into your life.
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  Speaker 2: You're the best thing that's ever happened to them. They've
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  Speaker 2: had a hard life, and therefore they become even more
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  Speaker 2: socially attached to you than a normal dog that came through,
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  Speaker 2: for instance, breeder channels or purpose bread dog channels. So
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  Speaker 2: it's a little bit different when you're dealing with some
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  Speaker 2: of these dogs that come with emotional baggage to recognize
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  Speaker 2: that you can help them not to be so anxious,
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  Speaker 2: and that you can use meds if you need the
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  Speaker 2: Please don't use over the counter stuff. It doesn't tend
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  Speaker 2: to work very well. We don't really know what's in
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  Speaker 2: some of those products. But your veterinary can prescribe one
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  Speaker 2: of several medications that we have. We have short term
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  Speaker 2: medications and long term medical cations that can really help
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  Speaker 2: with their anxiety. So we can use fluoxetine, we can
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  Speaker 2: use olproslam, we can use gabapentin and trasidone. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of good drugs on the market, and I know
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  Speaker 2: there are people who are like, well, I don't want
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  Speaker 2: to drug about something natural, Well, natural doesn't mean safer.
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  Speaker 2: Natural just means we don't really have the science behind it.
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  Speaker 2: So please use an FDA approved drug that your veterinarian
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  Speaker 2: prescribes and help your pet get through this period of
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  Speaker 2: learning faster so that you have a more enjoyable experience
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  Speaker 2: when you leave the house and when you come home.
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  Speaker 1: And so do they talk this morning with doctor Marty
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  Speaker 1: Greer of Checkout Veterinaria. You can learn more online the
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  Speaker 1: website check out vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Not only is the convenient, the clinic convenient, an amazing
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  Speaker 1: setup at Checkout Veterinary. To get to check out Vet,
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  Speaker 1: it's very convenient as well. They are right off the
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  Speaker 1: highway near the Interstate in sun Prairie, right on Prairie
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  Speaker 1: Lakes Drive. Again. You can learn more online the website
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  Speaker 1: checkout vets dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Speaking
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  Speaker 1: of you know, people talking about well, you know, maybe
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  Speaker 1: techniques or things to kind of help with the pet.
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  Speaker 1: What about regular exercise and making sure or just getting
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  Speaker 1: them you know, if you're going to be going to
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  Speaker 1: be heading into the office, making sure that you take
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  Speaker 1: your dog for a good walk and kind of tucker
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  Speaker 1: them out a bit, maybe play some catch out back
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  Speaker 1: for a while, get them tired before you leave. Does
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  Speaker 1: that help?
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely? They look forward to those things, and if they're
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  Speaker 2: a little bit tired, more tired. It's like us on
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  Speaker 2: the morning after a Super Bowl game. You know, you're
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  Speaker 2: not quite as energetic as you were before because you
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  Speaker 2: may have stayed up a little too late or had
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  Speaker 2: a little bit too much fun. So, yes, if you
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  Speaker 2: can exercise them, it's good for them, it's good for
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  Speaker 2: you too. I mean. One of the reasons that we
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  Speaker 2: own pets is so that we can get out there
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  Speaker 2: and move a little bit. And when the pet is
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  Speaker 2: the dog in particular, because cats don't usually go for walks.
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  Speaker 2: When the dog is staring at you like where's my
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  Speaker 2: leash and let's go, it's pretty motivating for us to
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  Speaker 2: get the exercise and for us to get them out there.
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  Speaker 2: And you know, you can sit on the top of
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  Speaker 2: your flight of stairs and roll a ball down it.
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  Speaker 2: If the weather isn't good and you can't get them outside,
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  Speaker 2: you can still exercise them in the house. They can
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  Speaker 2: run up and down the stairs picking up the ball.
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  Speaker 2: You sit at the top of the stairs, you drop
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  Speaker 2: the ball, it rolls down the stairs, they run down,
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  Speaker 2: they run back up. They get a lot of exercise
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  Speaker 2: doing that. And so if they're young and vibrant enough
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  Speaker 2: that they can make those stairs happen multiple times, it's great.
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  Speaker 2: You can teach them frisbee, you can teach them ball.
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  Speaker 2: You know, there's ball launchers. Now. If your arm isn't
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  Speaker 2: good enough to throw it as far as your dog
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  Speaker 2: wants to run, you can get ball launchers. There's a
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  Speaker 2: lot of cool things that are on the market that
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  Speaker 2: we are really going to benefit from. So do a
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  Speaker 2: little googling, you know, see what's out there for exercising
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  Speaker 2: your dog and get those things built into them into
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  Speaker 2: their lifestyle. If they have physical problems, you may want
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  Speaker 2: to look into a place that you can take them
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  Speaker 2: swimming a couple times a week. There are therapy pools,
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  Speaker 2: underwater treadmills, and swimming pools that are specifically made for pets.
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  Speaker 2: So if they have orthopedic needs, or they're older, or
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  Speaker 2: they oh exercise well, you know, there are lots of
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  Speaker 2: options for things that we can do from people even
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  Speaker 2: use s treadmills. They make a dog jog treadmill for
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  Speaker 2: dogs too.
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  Speaker 1: I do they have video of that. I'd love to see.
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  Speaker 1: It's got to be very very cool all that. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: that is fantastic talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, Doctor Greer comes to us from check Out Veterinary.
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  Speaker 1: The website check out vet dot com. That's check out
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  Speaker 1: as well. Again, that's twenty seven to ten Prairie Lakes
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  Speaker 1: Drive in Sun Prairie. Doctor Greer, you mentioned crate and
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  Speaker 1: create usage for for when you're at work. Of course,
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  Speaker 1: we're talking this week about separation anxiety for your pets.
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  Speaker 1: I know, like we have a chihuahua. Previously I had
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  Speaker 1: an English setter and very high energy and from a
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  Speaker 1: puppy on, we used a crate for when we would leave.
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  Speaker 1: And one of the things I remember being told might
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  Speaker 1: have been by our vet at the time, saying things like,
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  Speaker 1: make sure you don't use this as like a never
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  Speaker 1: enforce that. It's a punishment that like if they're doing
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  Speaker 1: something wrong to put them in there, always reinforced. And
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if that was great, it's certainly worked.
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  Speaker 1: What is some of the advice then for using a
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  Speaker 1: crate for keeping your pets safe?
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  Speaker 2: Well, you don't want to keep them in there for
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  Speaker 2: more hours than would be appropriated, especially for young dogs,
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  Speaker 2: maybe two to four hours is the best that you
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  Speaker 2: can expect from them to stay in a crate. There
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  Speaker 2: people used a whole sit for the human side if
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  Speaker 2: you're looking for somebody to help with babysitting or senior
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  Speaker 2: care or whatever, but there's also a pet side. So
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  Speaker 2: you go to care dot com. You can look up
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  Speaker 2: the information that you're looking for for pet sitting, and
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  Speaker 2: you can find people that can come in and walk
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  Speaker 2: your dog in the middle of the day if you
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  Speaker 2: get hung up at work or if you know you
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  Speaker 2: have a long work day. Sometimes you'll have next door
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  Speaker 2: neighbors that are older and they would love to have
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  Speaker 2: a pet, but don't want the long term responsibility. So
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  Speaker 2: they would love their home during the day. They would
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  Speaker 2: love to have something to do in the middle of
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  Speaker 2: the day, so they could come over, let your dog out,
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  Speaker 2: go for a little walk around the neighborhood. High school
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  Speaker 2: kids or junior high kids after school might come home
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  Speaker 2: and be home before you would be home from work.
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  Speaker 2: So again, you know, look around your neighborhood, look around
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  Speaker 2: care dot com, look at some of the sources of
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  Speaker 2: places that you can find somebody to help you with
• 15:39
  Speaker 2: that pet care. Because you know kids, sometimes the parents
• 15:42
  Speaker 2: are like, no, we're not going to own a dog.
• 15:43
  Speaker 2: But if you have a neighbor kid that they can't
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  Speaker 2: own one, but they love the dogs, what a great
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  Speaker 2: opportunity for you to develop an alliance with them or
• 15:52
  Speaker 2: a senior to get the exercise for your pet, and
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  Speaker 2: to get your pet out and about and meet some
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  Speaker 2: new people and have some social experiences. It's really important
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  Speaker 2: when they're young that we socialize them well, that they
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  Speaker 2: get out get to see a lot of things they
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  Speaker 2: have Typically, we'd like to have a hundred experiences in
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  Speaker 2: one hundred days, so that means all kinds of new opportunities.
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  Speaker 2: I love fresh fruits and vegetables for our pets to
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  Speaker 2: keep them occupied during the day as well. So other
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  Speaker 2: than grapes, raisins, and macadamia nuts, your pet can eat
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  Speaker 2: almost any kind of snack that you would want your
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  Speaker 2: kids to eat, so apples, peaches of course without the pit, broccoli, lettuce, carrots,
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  Speaker 2: bell peppers. There's lots of really fun things that you
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  Speaker 2: can do to give them a food treat and to
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  Speaker 2: get something kind of switched up for them. So every
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  Speaker 2: day is a little bit something for them to look
• 16:42
  Speaker 2: forward to and said, oh it's another bull dog food.
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  Speaker 2: They have something kind of fun to look forward to, like, okay,
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  Speaker 2: what's today, Like today's peanut butter, and tomorrow is bell
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  Speaker 2: peppers and you know, Friddys cauliflower. You can really be
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  Speaker 2: pretty creative in how you can keep your pets mind
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  Speaker 2: and send is occupied.
• 17:01
  Speaker 1: I think we've got a future topic and a future
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  Speaker 1: show there. One hundred days hundred thinks experiences. We'll talk
• 17:06
  Speaker 1: with the doctor about that and so much more. Doctor Greer,
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  Speaker 1: so great chatting with you this morning. You have a
• 17:10
  Speaker 1: fantastic day and enjoy your enjoy your time. Thank you,
• 17:14
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