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Pet-Kiddo Relationships with CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: the world is Doctor Greer? This morning, where are you
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Speaker 1: calling us from this week?
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Speaker 2: Doc Austin Texas?
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Speaker 1: Austin, Texas, What do you have going on down there?
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Speaker 2: We're having one of our veterinary meetings, so I'm in
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Speaker 2: a sentance for that. I'm posting this meeting, so I
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Speaker 2: needed to be here a little early. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's great to have you join us. And we
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Speaker 1: talked last week about what life is like as a
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Speaker 1: vet and what all goes into continuing education and other things.
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Speaker 1: And I know something that's very important to you is
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Speaker 1: not just learning but also sharing your knowledge, and it'll
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Speaker 1: be a great opportunity for folks that are attending this
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Speaker 1: conference to hear from you as well. And doctor, I
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Speaker 1: want to talk this week about about the kiddos and pets,
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Speaker 1: and it's a you know, as a parent and as
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Speaker 1: a person, I've got a dog and two cats. It
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Speaker 1: is an amazing relationship that forms between kids and pets,
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Speaker 1: and it can be beneficial for everyone, can't it It is.
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Speaker 2: I mean, it's a really wonderful thing. You know, kids
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Speaker 2: tend to beg their parents for a puppy, a kit,
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Speaker 2: and you know, whatever the pet may happen to be.
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Speaker 2: And I think it's really important that children have the
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Speaker 2: ability to own pets. I think there's a lot of
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Speaker 2: important things that they learned from pet ownership. So I
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Speaker 2: am a big fan. We had a pile of dogs
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Speaker 2: when our kids were little. Then as they got older,
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Speaker 2: we had cats, we had chickens, we had rabbits, we
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Speaker 2: had cows, we had horses, we had sheep. So they
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Speaker 2: learned a lot of responsibility in those relationships because they
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Speaker 2: were with responsible for taking care of a lot of
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Speaker 2: those animals. Certainly not one hundred percent responsible, but responsible
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Speaker 2: enough that they learned a lot of important life skills. That.
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Speaker 1: I think that you talk about that word responsibility as well,
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Speaker 1: and I think sometimes we forget part of that. That
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Speaker 1: bond is and with a with a pet is and
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Speaker 1: and as as adults, we may not always realize this,
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Speaker 1: but they are reliant on us entirely. I mean, their
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Speaker 1: their wellness, their happiness there, they're literally everything. And you know,
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Speaker 1: anybody with with a dog, for example, knows dogs very
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Speaker 1: much appreciate everything that you provide for them. But it's
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Speaker 1: really an important lesson for kids to learn. And it's
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Speaker 1: also important that that parents simply and I know there's
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Speaker 1: kind of that graduate. I think a lot of kids
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Speaker 1: first pet is and maybe a goldfish or a you know,
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Speaker 1: a lizard or something in an aquarium. But uh, to
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Speaker 1: really understand as parents as well, that to make sure
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Speaker 1: that kids are understanding not just the responsibility, but making
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Speaker 1: sure they're following through on those responsibilities, I've got a guess,
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Speaker 1: oh right.
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Speaker 2: I mean, if the kids run off to school and
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Speaker 2: forget to see the dog, then it's your responsibility to
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Speaker 2: finish that up. But I think that that's a really
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Speaker 2: important piece of how that relationship develops, is that the
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Speaker 2: kids understand that that's their responsibility. My daughter had a
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Speaker 2: Bernie's Mountain Dog puppy when she was in junior high
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Speaker 2: and the puppy had fair number of accidents in her
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Speaker 2: create she had diarrhea. So one day she said to me,
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Speaker 2: because she had to bath here every morning before she
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Speaker 2: went to school, because she was a mess. And she
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Speaker 2: looked at me and she said, so, how many baths
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Speaker 2: can I give her before all of her hair falls out? Like?
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Speaker 2: I think one more, so we better get this under control. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, those are the things that kids need to learn,
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Speaker 2: is that it's not just all about them. And when
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Speaker 2: kids are in grade school and junior high, they have
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Speaker 2: a tendency to have that really internal focus. They don't
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Speaker 2: see the rest of it as clearly as the rest
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Speaker 2: of us do. So I think that it's a good
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Speaker 2: opportunity for them to start to see those relationships, to
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Speaker 2: see that they're just and on them. You know, it
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Speaker 2: shouldn't just be about responsibility. It should be about love
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Speaker 2: and having a great time and building that bond. I
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Speaker 2: was talking to somebody yesterday who said that when he
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Speaker 2: was a kid, one of the dogs in his family
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Speaker 2: bid him, but they kept the dog because it was
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Speaker 2: his brother's most important possession and thing and love the
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Speaker 2: one thing that he loved most. So clearly they weren't
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Speaker 2: going to get rid of the dog. So I think
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of give and take that happens in
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Speaker 2: those relationships, and kids need to be you need to
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Speaker 2: model the behavior. You need to teach them. You know
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Speaker 2: how to get the dog out in the morning, and
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Speaker 2: what to do after school, and you know when to
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Speaker 2: feed and what not to feed, and what's appropriate and
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Speaker 2: what kind of a schedule they should be on. I mean,
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Speaker 2: those are all really important things for kids to learn,
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Speaker 2: but it should be a really wonderful, loving and fun
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Speaker 2: relationship for them as well. So I think if we
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Speaker 2: can foster those relationships, kids learn a lot, and they
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Speaker 2: they will oftentimes if they've had a bad day at school,
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Speaker 2: if somebody's you know, give them a hassle, or their
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Speaker 2: teacher or their their classmates, or their homework isn't going well,
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Speaker 2: they have somebody to rely on. They can go in
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Speaker 2: the room, they can hug that dog, they can squeeze
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Speaker 2: that cat, and they can have, you know, a conversation
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Speaker 2: with them about a tough day, and and they'll listen.
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Speaker 2: They listen if you read to them. If you want
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Speaker 2: to read your homework, your turn paper to them, they'll
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Speaker 2: listen to you. I mean, there's some really wonderful things
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Speaker 2: that happen in those relationships that don't happen with a person,
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Speaker 2: don't happen with you know, somebody else's dog. It's your dog,
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Speaker 2: your cat, your rat, your goldfish or whatever. So I
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Speaker 2: think those are really important.
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Speaker 1: And you talk about that, that unconditional love to doctor
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Speaker 1: is you know, I think we tend to tend to
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Speaker 1: forget some time. School can be a rough place. I
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Speaker 1: mean it's it's you know, even the greatest day, it's
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Speaker 1: a grind for a for a lot of kiddo's And
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Speaker 1: having having that that companion there that's there to as
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Speaker 1: you point out, listen and and and just be there
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Speaker 1: for for you know, for the comfort and the hugs
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Speaker 1: and the and the all that good stuff. They are.
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Speaker 1: It's amazing. Get do you get kiddos that come to
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Speaker 1: the appointments with their with their pets that come to
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Speaker 1: the clinic to see to see what goes on at
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Speaker 1: at a vet visit.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I love that for a couple of reasons.
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Speaker 2: For one, I think it's really important that they see
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Speaker 2: the commitment that their parent makes in that pet's care,
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Speaker 2: and they understand that it's a pet is sick, that
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Speaker 2: there has to be host visit care, medications, diet changes,
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Speaker 2: all the things that have to happen. I think they
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Speaker 2: need to be engaged and involved, and I think if
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Speaker 2: they are, they're more likely to follow the recommendations because
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Speaker 2: it came from someone that isn't their mom or dad.
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Speaker 2: It's outside that family relationship where you know a lot
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Speaker 2: of kids don't listen especially well to their parents, but
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Speaker 2: they may listen to another authority. I think they it's
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Speaker 2: a good opportunity for kids to see if that's a
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Speaker 2: career they want to go into. A lot of kids
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Speaker 2: when they're in grade school and junior high make a
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Speaker 2: decision that veterinary medicine or some part of veterinary medicine
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Speaker 2: is an important career for them, and we used to
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Speaker 2: see a lot of it. I talked to a woman
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Speaker 2: this week several times who's done, who's sixteen is really
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Speaker 2: interested in becoming a veterinarian, and people were discouraging him
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Speaker 2: from doing that, and that broke my heart because I
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Speaker 2: think this is the best job in the world. I mean,
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Speaker 2: it's just absolutely an amazing opportunity, whether you're a veterinarian
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Speaker 2: or a vettech, or you know, whatever role you played
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Speaker 2: a veterinary clinics, the manager, the receptionist, the CSR, you know,
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Speaker 2: whatever you happen to be. I think it's really important
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Speaker 2: that kids, if that's something that they're interested in, that
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Speaker 2: they have that opportunity to see if that's a career
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Speaker 2: choice for them. And honestly and hard as this is,
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Speaker 2: sometimes the loss of a pet is the first loss
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Speaker 2: of someone that's really close to them that happens. So
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Speaker 2: before a grandparent, before a parent, before a friend or
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Speaker 2: a family member is lost, sometimes it's that pet that's
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Speaker 2: lost and they learn a lot from that experience. We
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Speaker 2: talked about this the other day that there's some really
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Speaker 2: good books out there. There's some really good learning skills
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Speaker 2: that happen from this. When kids come in, like little
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Speaker 2: kids for euthanasia, parents would say to me, well, just
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Speaker 2: tell him that he fell asleep, or just tell him
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Speaker 2: that that he died at the veterinary clinic. And I'm no, no, no, no.
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Speaker 2: If this is what we have to do, if euth
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Speaker 2: in asia is what has to happen, or the loss
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Speaker 2: of a pet has to happen. We need to have
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Speaker 2: that conversation. So I'm very willing to spend time with
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Speaker 2: the kids and explain to them what's happening, why it's happening,
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Speaker 2: how it's going to happen. I mean, I really think
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Speaker 2: it's important that children are involved in those things and
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Speaker 2: not sheltered from it because they learn and they understand
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Speaker 2: a lot more than we think they will. And if
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Speaker 2: you don't tell them the truth, they're going to know.
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Speaker 2: They're going to know you didn't, you know, honestly share
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Speaker 2: with him what was going on. So to me, it's
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Speaker 2: really important that we have a very transparent relationship with
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Speaker 2: those children. And if the parents aren't comfortable, then we
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Speaker 2: as veterinary professionals can step into that role and help
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Speaker 2: them so that they understand a lot more about what's happening.
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Speaker 2: So I just think that there's so many layers to
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Speaker 2: this relationship. It's really important.
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Speaker 1: You know, one of the and when you talk about death,
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Speaker 1: bereavement and kind of experiencing that is obviously pets for
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Speaker 1: for most of it is just about everybody I know
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Speaker 1: are very important family members. They are they are part
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Speaker 1: of that family structure and having that experience of love
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Speaker 1: and loss and and and the bereavement that follows. Also,
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Speaker 1: because pets lifespans are shorter, they go through different life phases.
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Speaker 1: They the puppies to dogs to to seniors, those type
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Speaker 1: of things. What a great tool for for young folks
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Speaker 1: to understand on a very personal, very intimate level, what
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Speaker 1: the life cycle is all about. Is you know, he's
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Speaker 1: a little puppy. It's all energetic and you know kind
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Speaker 1: of the teenager and adult maybe a mischievous one and
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Speaker 1: then as they get older, slowing down and and you know,
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Speaker 1: need a little bit more assistance. What a great lesson
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Speaker 1: that is as well for the kiddos.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, and then there's some wonderful activities that kids
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Speaker 2: can participate in. Forage has a lot of great things.
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Speaker 2: Whether you have a horse or a cow, or a sheep,
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Speaker 2: or a dog or a cat, there's forage activities in
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Speaker 2: four each. There are things like horseless horse projects, So
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Speaker 2: if the kids don't have a horse, but they love horses,
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Speaker 2: then there are paths for that that Some of the
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Speaker 2: for each organizations locally will have someone who owns horses
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Speaker 2: that the kids can have access to showing them doing agility,
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Speaker 2: doing physical activities like fastcat in obedience with the dogs.
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Speaker 2: Wonderful experience for children to be able to train with
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Speaker 2: the dog, to spend time with them, to have, you know,
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Speaker 2: a competitive kind of opportunity, because not how kids are
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Speaker 2: athletic enough to I was really not athletic at all,
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Speaker 2: Like I was a wreck as an athlete. So to
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Speaker 2: have something that you could be in the team sport
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Speaker 2: still with a dog and it didn't highlight your worgan
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Speaker 2: abilities but rather your abilities. You know, there's some really
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Speaker 2: interesting things that kids can do. So you should look
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Speaker 2: into four Each or FFA. Even if you don't live
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Speaker 2: in an ag cultural area, there are still opportunities for
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Speaker 2: those to happen. Obedience classes you just need to look
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Speaker 2: around and find Like Badger Kennel Club has some really
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Speaker 2: great opportunities. They're right into for us, So you don't
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Speaker 2: have to live in the country, you don't have to
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Speaker 2: have a sheep or a horse to be a participant
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Speaker 2: for it. There's a lot of really cool things you
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Speaker 2: can do by working with the dogs in those activities.
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary,
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Speaker 1: talking about the relationship between pets and people, and of
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Speaker 1: course the family, the kiddos, and of course the great
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Speaker 1: value of children and things that they learn from pets.
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Speaker 1: Also things that the family can benefit from having a
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Speaker 1: pet in the house as well. It's a great day
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Speaker 1: if you've got a new pet, maybe you're looking to
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Speaker 1: that relationship. Talk with the doctors, get to know the doctors.
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Speaker 1: about what kids can learn from having a pet, also
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Speaker 1: your pet learning with your kiddo as well. We'll get
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Speaker 1: Ask the Experts with Checkout Veterinary continues here on thirteen
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Speaker 1: b A and Ask the Experts with check Out Veterinary,
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Speaker 1: talking with doctor Mardy Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: One of the cool things with the modern technology and
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Speaker 1: your smartphone. I use Google Photos, but I know there's
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Speaker 1: an equivalent for Apple as well. And just during the break,
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Speaker 1: I typed in my son's name and our dog's name
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Speaker 1: and it brings up all the photos that they are
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Speaker 1: both featured in and there's just thousands.
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Speaker 2: So it's cool.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, So it's such a great relationship. And doctor you
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Speaker 1: had mentioned before the break about different organizations and different groups,
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Speaker 1: and you also mentioned obedience classes, and that's an important
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Speaker 1: one obviously for pets, but if you've got a kiddo
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Speaker 1: in the house, it's an important one that they attend
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Speaker 1: those as well, isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I used to take my kids to obedience
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Speaker 2: class with my dog because of course, the kids will
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Speaker 2: listen to the instructor much better than listen to me,
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Speaker 2: So it was very useful for me to take them
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Speaker 2: and have them be in that experience. But I think
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Speaker 2: that we need to kind of go back to where
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Speaker 2: kids are really young, and we really haven't discussed what
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Speaker 2: happened if you bring a dog into a household with
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Speaker 2: a child, or a child into a household with a dog,
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Speaker 2: that we make sure that that relationship is a safe one.
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Speaker 2: When you have little kids, toddlers and younger, you really
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Speaker 2: should never leave the room, regardless of the circumstances with
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Speaker 2: leaving the dog and the child unattended together, because you
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Speaker 2: just never know. Sometimes things happen, like the kid kids
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Speaker 2: will you know, grab an ear or you know, they
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Speaker 2: don't mean to do any harm, but they're very young.
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Speaker 2: They're very small. They don't really understand. So it's important
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Speaker 2: that you make sure that the children understand what's safe
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Speaker 2: and what's not. But it's important that if you're bringing
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Speaker 2: a baby into a household, in particular, that you introduce
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Speaker 2: that dog appropriately to the baby. Get am used to
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Speaker 2: the smells, get am use to the sounds, do all
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Speaker 2: the things, and you know, you can really have some
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Speaker 2: wonderful relationships, but you have to make sure that the
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Speaker 2: baby is always safe. The other thing, of course, is
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Speaker 2: you know, you throw the factors in the garbage bin,
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Speaker 2: and sometimes you always find those stuff. There's a lot,
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Speaker 2: there's a lot of moving parts. As soon as you
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Speaker 2: put the child in the highchair, when they get about
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Speaker 2: six months old, they start sitting up and eating solid food.
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Speaker 2: Food starts flinging off the high chair pretty quickly. That
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Speaker 2: relationship changes completely. The dog goes from I'm not sure
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Speaker 2: if I like the way that that baby cries and.
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Speaker 1: Smells, but.
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Speaker 2: Like they hang their hand over the side of that
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Speaker 2: highchair with hunting out cheerios stuck to their hand. Boom.
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Speaker 2: You know, the dog is like whoa freak machines. There's
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Speaker 2: less of how relationships change and if you're aware of
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Speaker 2: it and you're careful with it, you can have just
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Speaker 2: incredible relationships. When you feed the dog, we used to
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Speaker 2: have the children take the cup of food over and
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Speaker 2: dump it into the food dish. That the dog saw
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Speaker 2: the child approaching the food dish as a positive and said, oh,
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Speaker 2: I love this kid, because every time I love the kids,
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Speaker 2: I see the kid. Then food goes into my dishes
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Speaker 2: or the are you know, bugging the dog at the
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Speaker 2: food bowl. So really, some very subtle things can happen
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Speaker 2: that can make sure that the relationships thing instead of
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Speaker 2: worrying that you're going to have something that happens. There's
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Speaker 2: some dogs that are really good with kids. There's some
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Speaker 2: dogs that aren't really good with kids. So again, you know,
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Speaker 2: think that through. If you have a couple of kids
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Speaker 2: and you're thinking about a dog, think about the dogs
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Speaker 2: that are going to get along really well with the children.
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Speaker 2: Don't pick a dog that might be a problem. And
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Speaker 2: there's some good books out there there. You can talk
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Speaker 2: to your veterinary professionals. You know, we're happy to consult
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Speaker 2: with people and ask, you know, what kind of dog
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Speaker 2: they think they're going to want, and make sure we
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Speaker 2: pick something like a Golden Retriever that's going to be
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Speaker 2: a wonderful dog. Maybe not a carrier. You know, maybe
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Speaker 2: there's some things that are some breeds that are better choices,
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Speaker 2: some lines of dogs that are better choices, some breeders
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Speaker 2: that are better choices. So again, with some really thoughtful planning,
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Speaker 2: you can have just incredibly wonderful relationships that are really
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Speaker 2: really fun and really really safe. But they need to
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Speaker 2: be thought true, just like anything else. You know, when
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Speaker 2: you pick a car seat, you're really careful. So you
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Speaker 2: want to pick a dog that's you're going to live
17:53
Speaker 2: with this dog in your house for fifteen years. You
17:55
Speaker 2: want this to be a really wonderful, carefully thought out relationship.
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Speaker 1: One final thing before we wrap, when you mentioned diapers
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Speaker 1: as treats are are is that is? Are those toxic?
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Speaker 1: I mean, have you had any are our diapers? Is
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Speaker 1: that a toxic or is that? Is that something that they've.
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Speaker 2: No But it's really gross. Yeah, oh yeah, you know
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Speaker 2: that's a technical term that that's a veterinary technical term.
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Speaker 2: It's really gross. There's a lot of gel and material
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Speaker 2: and things in the diapers sent helps to be absorbent,
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Speaker 2: so we don't want those going down into the dog.
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Speaker 2: But seriously, you need to have locking handles on your
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Speaker 2: garbage can or make sure that they all get carried
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Speaker 2: out because I'll tell you, if a dog can find it.
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Speaker 2: You know, you think you put it someplace that the
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Speaker 2: dog can't get, but.
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Speaker 1: You are wrong.
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Speaker 2: The dog is very clever, very creative, and very willing
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Speaker 2: to find things that you have no expectation that they will. So,
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Speaker 2: you know, setting the diaper bag with the cheerios in it,
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Speaker 2: or the bottles of milk in it, whatever. You just
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Speaker 2: have to really think about everything that you are moving
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Speaker 2: through the house with because as babies develop and change
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Speaker 2: the they go from the crib to the playpen, to
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Speaker 2: the floor, to the tie chair to the you know
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Speaker 2: all stuff. You have to just kind of think through
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Speaker 2: everything because the dog is The dog is watching you
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Speaker 2: twenty four hours a day and taking good notes of
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Speaker 2: where you are. You have mitches in your armor where
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Speaker 2: you have weeks points, and they're going to take advantage
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Speaker 2: of that.
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Speaker 1: Really great information is always great perspective as well. What
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Speaker 1: a great relationship that develops with pets, peoples and the
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