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A Beautiful Day for the Dog Park with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Vet · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Eight forty thirteen ten. Doubuib and ask the experts. Brought
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Speaker 1: to you by check Out Veterinary online. Check out vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Going to be
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Speaker 1: joined by doctor Marty Greer, recognized as Veterinarian of the
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Speaker 1: Year by the Westminster Kennel Club. I say we're going
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Speaker 1: to be joined by doctor Greer in just a moment.
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Speaker 1: I want to mention to you if you've got a
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Speaker 1: question for the doctor, we'd love to have you join us.
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Speaker 1: Of course, full lines are always open during the program.
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Speaker 1: Six oh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
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Speaker 1: the doctor about your pets, she is here to answer
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Speaker 1: those questions for you. Of course, you can learn more
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Speaker 1: about Checkout Veterinary on their website. Check out vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Convenient clinic, convenient location. They
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Speaker 1: really make it great for you and your pets, an
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Speaker 1: all around fantastic experience. It's a great day to start
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Speaker 1: that relationship at Checkout Veterinary. I gotta do this pick
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Speaker 1: eight sixty seven hundred talking about how convenient it is.
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Speaker 1: Checkout vet dot com you can learn more. Of course,
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Speaker 1: they're right in sun Prairie, right off the interstate. So
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Speaker 1: if you can hear us you are nearby, and that
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Speaker 1: first visit that exam, it'll be free to you and
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Speaker 1: your pet. In joining us this morning is doctor Marty
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Speaker 1: Greer from Checkout Veterinary Doctor. How you doing this week?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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Speaker 1: Thank you, it's good to talk to you. How did
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Speaker 1: the How was the open house? Unfortunately I had a
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Speaker 1: and this sounds weird. I had a wedding on Sunday.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, interesting day. Yeah, it was beautiful weather, wonderful opportunity
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Speaker 2: to come in and meet everybody. We had cheese and
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Speaker 2: crackers and beer and wine. We had beer from the
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Speaker 2: Fifth Ward Brewery which is up in Ashcott, and so
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Speaker 2: we had we had some pretty pretty good stuff.
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Speaker 1: That's awesome. And for folks that missed that opportunity, I know,
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Speaker 1: obviously sometimes people get busy and they do want to
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Speaker 1: check it out. You like having if folks want to
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Speaker 1: stop by and just kind of see how the clinics
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Speaker 1: work and maybe ask a couple of questions. One of
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Speaker 1: the great things about Checkout Veterinary is is you welcome
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Speaker 1: people to stop by and take a look at what
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Speaker 1: you're up to.
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Speaker 2: We do we do. If you want to come without
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Speaker 2: your pet, just come in, say hi, look around. That's great.
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Speaker 2: If you want to come with your pet, the first
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Speaker 2: exam is free, so that means if you want to
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Speaker 2: bring you in your pet and you just want them
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Speaker 2: to walk around, or you want a physical exam and
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Speaker 2: you don't want any blood work, you don't want any vaccines,
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Speaker 2: you just want to see this, see the place, have
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Speaker 2: the doctor meets the pets, see how our doctors relate
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Speaker 2: to your pet, and vice versa. You're absolutely welcome. That
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Speaker 2: costs you nothing. We do suggest that you make an
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Speaker 2: appointment so that you don't have to wait, but it
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Speaker 2: doesn't cost you anything if that's all you want to
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Speaker 2: do now. If you want vaccines, you want your heart
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Speaker 2: room tests, you want your heart room and you fling
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Speaker 2: tick preventives, then of course we charge for that. But
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Speaker 2: the exam is free. It's always free, and if it's
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Speaker 2: your pets first time, it's a great opportunity to see
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Speaker 2: If we click for you or you know, because a
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Speaker 2: lot of pets are they struggle with anxiety at the
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Speaker 2: veterinary clinic. So we want to make sure we fit
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Speaker 2: your needs. And that's it.
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Speaker 1: And I know the for folks, and I hope folks
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Speaker 1: are regular listen, I probably know all about this. But
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Speaker 1: for those of you that are new to the new
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Speaker 1: to the program, welcome to the show. But I know
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Speaker 1: literally from the ground up, Checkout Veterinary is designed for
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Speaker 1: to you know, low stress, keep your pet comfortable, keep
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Speaker 1: you comfortable as you're coming in. And it's really set
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Speaker 1: up to make that with a drive through service in
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Speaker 1: those four bays, really set up to make it safe
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Speaker 1: and convenient for you and your pet. Of course they're
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Speaker 1: right at twenty seven to ten Prairie Lakes Drive in
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Speaker 1: sun Prairie, right off the highway, right near the interstate.
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Speaker 1: There great data, make that appointment, start that relationship. As
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Speaker 1: the doctor mentioned, it's always best to have the appointments
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Speaker 1: six so eight three sixty seven hundred. That's three one
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Speaker 1: eight sixty seven hundred. More details online check out vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. And doctor I
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Speaker 1: always I call it Chihuahua Weather. The past few days,
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Speaker 1: we go out back in the and the chihuahua just
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Speaker 1: lays out and absorbs as much of that sunshine as
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Speaker 1: as his little body can can take in. But with
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Speaker 1: this changing seasons, in this chihuahua weather going on, there
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Speaker 1: are things to get prepared for with your pet spending
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Speaker 1: more time outdoors doing more activities. There's some import things
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Speaker 1: sometimes that we don't always think about, things like getting
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Speaker 1: kind of a spring tune up for your pet, kind
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Speaker 1: of getting getting going, but not too fast, not too hard,
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Speaker 1: making sure, just like any anyone that's going to participate
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Speaker 1: in any type of athletic endeavor, you really want to
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Speaker 1: do some training, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Right, you don't want to do a weekend warrior thing
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Speaker 2: with your pet where you go out and you run
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Speaker 2: five or six miles on the weekend and the poor
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Speaker 2: thing on Monday is just, you know, really exhausted and
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Speaker 2: sore and stiff. So if you do have an opportunity
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Speaker 2: to start them slowly, that's always a good idea. So
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Speaker 2: a short walk and then a longer walk, and the
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Speaker 2: longer so you gradually work your way up to it.
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Speaker 2: Of course, be careful that their feed are protected that
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Speaker 2: if the asphalt is hot, that you're careful with that,
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Speaker 2: so you know, you some good common sense. Take the
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Speaker 2: water along. So they make those nice little water bottles
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Speaker 2: now with this little tray that flips down, so you
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Speaker 2: can carry water with you for your pet. You're going
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Speaker 2: to be out on a longer walk. If your pet
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Speaker 2: has a history of allergies, make sure that you've got
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Speaker 2: your allergy meds stocked up before you go, because you
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Speaker 2: don't want to have something that's you know, pretty miserable.
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Speaker 2: And if your dog does have a tendency to have
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Speaker 2: arthritis or stiffness or any of those things, those anti
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Speaker 2: inflammatories that you can get from your veterinarian very important
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Speaker 2: to start those a day or two ahead of the
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Speaker 2: exercise that you do. Don't let them go out and
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Speaker 2: follow the lawnmower for four hours, you know, walking back
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Speaker 2: and forth in the yard if they haven't done anything
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Speaker 2: all winter. So you know, just kind of use some
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Speaker 2: common tents. Make sure you've got your flee in tick preventives,
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Speaker 2: because the ticks are out, man, they are out in
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Speaker 2: four So even if you live in a groomed yard
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Speaker 2: and in a little nice neighborhood, you still probably are
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Speaker 2: going to have ticks, and nobody wants them on their pet.
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Speaker 2: And nobody wants them on them not only because the
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Speaker 2: ticks are icky, but because they carry diseases that affect
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Speaker 2: you and your pets, like lime disease, at the plasmosis, erlikia,
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Speaker 2: a whole bunch of other things. So just use some
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Speaker 2: good common sense when you go out. Don't just you know,
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Speaker 2: take off for a three day camping hiking trip without
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Speaker 2: some preparation.
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Speaker 1: I talked this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout
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Speaker 1: Veterinary online checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet
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Speaker 1: dot com on great tips as always from the doctor,
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Speaker 1: and so we talked with doctor Greer and of course
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Speaker 1: talked about the website checkout vet dot com. We're going
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Speaker 1: to get into things like dog parks safety, and we
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Speaker 1: touched a little touched on earlier in the program about
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Speaker 1: dog parks and of course keeping your pets safe. There
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Speaker 1: also a lot of folks getting ready vacation season. Spring
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Speaker 1: break is now behind us, so we're getting into summertime
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Speaker 1: and maybe your pet's got to go to a kennel.
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Speaker 1: Some things need to do there, doctor, real quick though,
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Speaker 1: One thing I was going to ask you about is
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Speaker 1: kind of somewhat related and some unrelated. Seasonally, I was
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Speaker 1: on Reddit and I'm reading like there's like a whole
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Speaker 1: thing about ask a vet, and somebody had said I
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Speaker 1: haven't had my cats into the vet for like I
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Speaker 1: wish I would have saved it. But basically the crux
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Speaker 1: of the question was, my cat hasn't been to the
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Speaker 1: vet for a number of years. Should I feel guilt?
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Speaker 1: Should I feel shame or embarrassed about calling the vet?
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Speaker 1: And obviously the question and the answers from the vets
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Speaker 1: were very much like, no, just get them in. And
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Speaker 1: I do think that that is a thing for some
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Speaker 1: people that may fall behind on whether it's cat or dog,
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Speaker 1: with their preventative and other things. Times sometimes they start
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Speaker 1: to hesitate because they're like I don't want to seem
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Speaker 1: like a bad pet owner, or like I didn't care
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Speaker 1: life happens. The important thing is is to get them
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Speaker 1: up to speed and get them caught up, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Absolutely so, don't be embarrassed if somebody makes you feel
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Speaker 2: bad at the veterinary clinics, find another one because they
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Speaker 2: should be welcoming, they should be glad to see you.
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Speaker 2: It's our opportunity to get your cats back up to speed,
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Speaker 2: whether they need boosters or whether they need brianted preventives.
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Speaker 2: We don't see a lot of heartwarn disease in Wisconsin
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Speaker 2: and cats, so probably not too likely to need that.
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Speaker 2: But sometimes it's bloodwork. Once our cats get to be
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Speaker 2: at three quarters of their respected life expectancy, so usually
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Speaker 2: by age twelve or so, we want to start getting
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Speaker 2: them in for routine bloodwork so that we can make
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Speaker 2: sure that their liver and kidney function is fine, and
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Speaker 2: that their syroids are good, and if there's anything going
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Speaker 2: on with their intestinal tract, any of those things, we
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Speaker 2: can start addressing those and getting ahead of them instead
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Speaker 2: of waiting until our cats have lost after their body weight.
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Speaker 2: And trust me, we see that we see cats that
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Speaker 2: we haven't seen in twenty years. You know, they were
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Speaker 2: spade or new when they were six months old and
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Speaker 2: then they haven't been back. And now they're nineteen years old,
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Speaker 2: and so it's well past time and they're now down
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Speaker 2: to four and a half pounds and where they were,
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Speaker 2: you know, maybe sixteen or so, and so you know,
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Speaker 2: those are your opportunities. Don't let it get to that
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Speaker 2: point if you have, of course, still get help, but
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Speaker 2: if you haven't, please go in at the first sign
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Speaker 2: that something isn't right. If you have friends or family
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Speaker 2: that come over and say, gosh, your cat doesn't look
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Speaker 2: quite like it used to take advantage of that as
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Speaker 2: a you know, nudge to get in because it happens
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Speaker 2: gradually in front of you, and so oftentimes we don't
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Speaker 2: see the changes. But when somebody that hasn't seen the
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Speaker 2: cat for weeks, months, maybe years, walks into your house
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Speaker 2: and said, what happened, this is your opportunity to jump
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Speaker 2: in and fix the problem.
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Speaker 1: It's a great time to do that and start that relationship.
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Speaker 1: As we talk with doctor Marty Grier of Checkout Veterinarian,
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Speaker 1: and we get more information online checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com Telvin number six eight three
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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six h eight three
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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. Between checkout Vet and check
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Speaker 1: in Vet. They are open seven days week nine am
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Speaker 1: until five pm. Of course checkout Vet Monday through Wednesday,
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Speaker 1: and then Friday through Sunday. Yes, that includes weekends at
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Speaker 1: checkout vet. And you say, well what about Thursdays? Well,
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Speaker 1: check in Vet. The sister clinic of Checkout Vet is
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Speaker 1: available Monday through Friday from nine until five. And of course,
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Speaker 1: as we talk with doctor Greer, don't forget to check
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Speaker 1: Out Vet. That first visit is free. So let's talk
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Speaker 1: doctor about just getting your pet ready for you know what,
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Speaker 1: I think a lot of it has to do with
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Speaker 1: this dogs, specifically socialization around other other dogs. There are
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Speaker 1: things obviously you want to make sure they're up to
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Speaker 1: up to speed on their vaccines and shot sha and
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Speaker 1: other other preventative stuff, But there are other things you
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Speaker 1: just want to kind of get them ready for this
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Speaker 1: time of year, aren't there when it comes to socializing
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Speaker 1: with other dogs?
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Speaker 2: Oh right, Yeah. I make sure that they're current on
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Speaker 2: their vaccines, especially things like bordertella, which is came cough.
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Speaker 2: Influenza may be indicated. Those are the upper respiratory in
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Speaker 2: sections that dogs can share by barking at each other,
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Speaker 2: sharing water bowls. Be careful not to share water balls
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Speaker 2: when you go to the brewery, a dog park or whatever.
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Speaker 2: Those could be sort of a cesspool for dogs. It's
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Speaker 2: polite of those businesses to put them out, but it
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Speaker 2: may not be the safest water source for your pet.
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Speaker 2: So carry your own and make sure that they're current
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Speaker 2: on their vaccines. Rabies, if of course, is required in dogs,
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Speaker 2: so don't try and cheat on that. Make sure that
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Speaker 2: they're up to date because if your dog scratches somebody
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Speaker 2: or bite somebody, then you can be in big trouble.
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Speaker 2: So don't think you're beaten the system by skipping those vaccines. Distemper, parvo,
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Speaker 2: those are typically given every three years or so. Lepto.
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Speaker 2: A lot of people have shied away from lepto over
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Speaker 2: the years because they've been concerned about the vaccine causing
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Speaker 2: some adverse events, but the vaccine is a much cleaner,
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Speaker 2: much less anergenic vaccine than it used to be that
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Speaker 2: does need to be given once a year, so wordtells
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Speaker 2: once a year, line is once a year, tenoclosts influences
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Speaker 2: once a year, and leptos once a year. Distemper and
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Speaker 2: parvo and rabies are every three so it can be
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Speaker 2: a little confusing to try and keep up with which
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Speaker 2: schedule you're supposed to be on. But lepto is a
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Speaker 2: bacterial infection that we see from standing water, urine in
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Speaker 2: the grass, things like that. So if your dog runs
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Speaker 2: up the door in the morning and runs out, licks
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Speaker 2: and rolls around. You can bet there was a little
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Speaker 2: wild animal in the yard the night before, and those
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Speaker 2: are the kind of things that pick up that spread
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Speaker 2: lepto to our dogs. And actually this week I had
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Speaker 2: a dog in that we diagnosed in twenty nineteen at
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Speaker 2: Halloween on Halloween Day with leptosporosis. And he is still
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Speaker 2: alive and doing well, but only because of the furs
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Speaker 2: were attentive and determined that the first diagnosis they got
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Speaker 2: on him, that was he's in kidney failure. He's going
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Speaker 2: to die wasn't the answer that they took. So we're
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Speaker 2: now almost six years out and he's doing great. But
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Speaker 2: you know, you have to be a tenante of those things,
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Speaker 2: So keep your dog up to date. On vaccines. There
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Speaker 2: is a vaccination for lame disease, there is a vaccination
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Speaker 2: for lepto. Those should be given once a year. Bordetella,
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Speaker 2: my favorite bordertella vaccine is the nose drops one that
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Speaker 2: has three different anigens in it, para influenza, abnovirus in bordetella.
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Speaker 2: The oral vaccine doesn't protect against para influenza, and that's
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Speaker 2: a very common cause of kennel coffin doogs. So if
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Speaker 2: they're going to the dog park, going to the groomer,
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Speaker 2: going to dog training classes, any of those things that
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Speaker 2: they're exposed to, the dogs, they're exposed, So make sure
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Speaker 2: you're keeping your vaccines up to day.
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Speaker 1: Is kennel clough kind of a catch all for for
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Speaker 1: respiratory illnesses for dogs?
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Speaker 2: Yes, okay, yeah, there's about fourteen or fifteen organisms that
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Speaker 2: cause kennel coughs. So you're absolutely correct.
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Speaker 1: It's a garbage can diagnostic because I've obviously I've heard
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Speaker 1: of it, and i've when we've with Homer when he's
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Speaker 1: he doesn't our dog doesn't, he doesn't spend time at
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Speaker 1: the kennel. But when he was little and of course
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Speaker 1: you know, had those conversations and he was taking obedient
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Speaker 1: school and on some other things, are like, yeah, make
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Speaker 1: sure he's got all that stuff. And it's so important.
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Speaker 1: As we talk with doctor Greer, it's a great data
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Speaker 1: to get your pet in. It's if you haven't had
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Speaker 1: a chance to check out check out veterinary, today is
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Speaker 1: the day to do that. Of course, Kindler more online,
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Speaker 1: check out vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: Great day to day to start that relationship. Obvious pick
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Speaker 1: up pone gamccall six so eight three one eight sixty
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Speaker 1: seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty seven hundred. The
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Speaker 1: website check out vet dot com. That's check out vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. We'll come to your conversation with doctor Marty
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Speaker 1: Greer of Checkout Veterinary. We'll do that next as Ask
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Speaker 1: the Experts continues here on thirteen ten double U I
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Speaker 1: B I eight fifty five thirteen ten WUI b A
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Speaker 1: and Ask the Experts talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer.
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Speaker 1: Of course, doctor Greer. She comes to us from Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: The website check out vet dot com. That's all one
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Speaker 1: word checkout vet dot com. Fantastic website kind of lays
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Speaker 1: out how Checkout Veterinary works, what makes it so unique,
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Speaker 1: what makes it so special. It makes it especially convenient
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Speaker 1: for you and safe for your pet as well, and
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Speaker 1: convenient for your pet. Pets absolutely love getting into Checkout
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Speaker 1: Veterinary again. You can learn more about the clinic online
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Talk
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Speaker 1: in springtime into summertime this morning with doctor Greer. Getting
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Speaker 1: your pet ready for the season. And speaking of we're
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Speaker 1: talking about dog parks and you know, dogs socializing. It's
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Speaker 1: really good for them obviously to spend time with with
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Speaker 1: other dogs and friends, to run and play with and
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Speaker 1: do all that fun dog stuff that they that they
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Speaker 1: like to do. There's things that you want to be
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Speaker 1: on the lookout for. There's things you want to prepare
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Speaker 1: for as well. And doctor I often think about man
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Speaker 1: made things that could be a danger, and there's plenty
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Speaker 1: of those, but there's also things like just naturally occurring
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Speaker 1: things like mushrooms and other things you really do, even
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Speaker 1: at dog park, want to be keeping a very close
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Speaker 1: eye on what your pet is experiencing and encountering, don't you.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, mushrooms, there's toxic plants. We had a dog
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Speaker 2: in a couple of weeks ago that lives down the
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Speaker 2: street from a junior high and high school and came
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Speaker 2: in in the afternoon. It was fine. At eight o'clock
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Speaker 2: in the morning, own her left to visit her husband
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Speaker 2: in the hospital. Came back, the dog was wobbly, falling, asleep, daggering,
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Speaker 2: drinking a lot, urinating a lot. Looked really weird and
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Speaker 2: turned out it was a marijuana toxicity that dog picked
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Speaker 2: up a I think a gummy or a bud of
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Speaker 2: a joint or something. We don't really know for sure
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Speaker 2: because it happened in the yard and the owner saw
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Speaker 2: her pick something up and didn't get to her fast
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Speaker 2: enough to get it out of her mouth, and ended
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Speaker 2: up with a pretty significant toxicity from the marijuana. They
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Speaker 2: don't get the munchies, and unfortunately, the urine tests that
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Speaker 2: are available at the dollar store and the other pharmacies
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Speaker 2: for checking people for marijuana and their metabolite of marijuana
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Speaker 2: and their urine doesn't work on dogs very effectively. So
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Speaker 2: we were left with a presumptive diagnosis. But the dog
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Speaker 2: made a beautiful recovery with some supportive care and she's
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Speaker 2: fine now. So you just have to be aware that
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Speaker 2: people are careless and they don't think about what dogs
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Speaker 2: can pick up and eat, so you have to be
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Speaker 2: the protector. You can't just let them run wild and
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Speaker 2: loose because who knows, and you know, sometimes people do
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Speaker 2: things deliberately. Most of the time it's an accident, So
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Speaker 2: just be really careful with what your pet's putting in
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Speaker 2: their little mouth when they're on the end of the leash,
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Speaker 2: because they are fast. Man the faster you run toward
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Speaker 2: them to get it out, the faster they swallow. So
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Speaker 2: it's a challenge.
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Speaker 1: I've always amazed to their curious, Like I don't know
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Speaker 1: that dogs get enough credit for the cat too, whereas
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Speaker 1: I know they're saying about curiosity and cats, but dogs
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Speaker 1: as well. I think sometimes we don't fully appreciate. They
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Speaker 1: want to know as much information about everything, like what
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Speaker 1: it tastes like, was you know that stuff?
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Speaker 2: Yeah? Absolutely, Yeah. My dog was my grandson's baseball game
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Speaker 2: last night and there was a little boy walking around.
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Speaker 2: It was just a toddler and there was a spray
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Speaker 2: of cheetos everywhere. Oh my goodness. She had a blast.
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Speaker 2: So those were cheetos. I saw the kids drop them.
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Speaker 2: It was pretty safe. But yes, dogs are very curious.
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Speaker 2: They put things in their mouth. They experience the world
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Speaker 2: just like young children do. Everything goes in their mouth,
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Speaker 2: they touch, they feel, you know, all the stuff that
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Speaker 2: you're not supposed to do. They do because that's what
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Speaker 2: they that's who they are and what they do, and
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Speaker 2: they don't hesitate, and they don't really understand that there's
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Speaker 2: a negative impact to putting something in their mouth. It's
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Speaker 2: like a kid that drops their sucker on the leaves
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Speaker 2: in the grass. You know, they put it back in
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Speaker 2: their mouth. You're like, eh, go do that. So our
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Speaker 2: dogs don't have the understanding of those things. So we
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Speaker 2: have to protect them just like we do our children.
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Speaker 2: So they're just kids that don't ever grow up.
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