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Summer Fun and Safety with the Checkout Vet · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Height thirty eight thirteen ten do wu ib a and
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Speaker 1: ask the experts with Checkout Veterinary doctor Marty Greer the
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Speaker 1: website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: Of course you can learn more online about checkout Veterinary
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Speaker 1: on that website. There open Monday through Wednesday and then
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Speaker 1: Friday through Sunday nine until five. Yes that includes weekends
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Speaker 1: nine am until five pm. Of course. Doctor Marty Greer
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Speaker 1: Veterinarian of the Year from the Westminster Kennel Club and doctor.
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Speaker 1: Great to have you along this morning and right out
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Speaker 1: of the gate. Interesting story and news this morning about
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Speaker 1: the new border rules when it comes to dogs. And
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Speaker 1: I was reading at the CBC, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation.
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Speaker 1: I'm saying their health minitors minister is just saying this
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Speaker 1: is kind of more of a grace period, not any
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Speaker 1: type of substantial change to those new rules. What do
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Speaker 1: we need to know there? Doctor, And welcome to the show.
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Speaker 1: By the way, great to talk to you this morning.
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Speaker 2: Well, thank you, it's great to be here. So yes,
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Speaker 2: they're having some very minor changes. The dogs still have
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Speaker 2: to be six months old, they still have to be microchip,
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Speaker 2: they still have t have a raby's vaccination, and you
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Speaker 2: still need to go online and shill out the form
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Speaker 2: that CDC has put up. They put it up on
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Speaker 2: July fifteenth, so that you have a receipt it's what
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Speaker 2: they're calling it, either on your device or on paper
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Speaker 2: when you get to the border coming back into the
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Speaker 2: United States. You can leave the United States, go into Canada,
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Speaker 2: go into Mexico, but if you're coming back, you need
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Speaker 2: to have that paperwork. So it basically has lightened the
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Speaker 2: load just a little bit. We don't have to have
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Speaker 2: veterinarians as involved as they were. But this is a
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Speaker 2: constantly changing target. So I wouldn't leave the country and
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Speaker 2: plan to come back into the country unless I had
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Speaker 2: been to the website for CDC with the updates on it,
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Speaker 2: because it could potentially change again tomorrow. So just be
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Speaker 2: sure that you're paying full attention to it and that
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Speaker 2: you are well prepared, and that your dog will be
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Speaker 2: over six months old coming into the country. And you're
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Speaker 2: going to say, well, how do they know that? Do
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Speaker 2: they just take your word for it? And the answer
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Speaker 2: is all this stuff that CDC is providing to the
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Speaker 2: border crossing people show a photograph of how the dogs
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Speaker 2: teeth need to look to be considered to be six
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Speaker 2: months old or older. So sometimes toy breeds, the small
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Speaker 2: breeds like pugs and sheetsos, and those may be slower
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Speaker 2: in teething, So really be careful with that because if
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Speaker 2: you have a delayed dentician eruption and you get to
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Speaker 2: the border and your puppy is really six months old
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Speaker 2: but it looks five months old based on its teeth,
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Speaker 2: you may be to deny the entry. So just be
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Speaker 2: really careful and pay a lot of attention because this
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Speaker 2: is just constantly a moving target right now.
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Speaker 1: And for folks who have who've passed other US Canada,
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Speaker 1: US Mexico, I think a lot of times, especially with
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Speaker 1: the Canadian border, since we're so close, we drive through.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes border security they're pretty they're pretty like friendly and
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Speaker 1: stuff I have run into on a number of occasions,
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Speaker 1: some that are quite strict and very and you never know.
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Speaker 1: So as you point out, doctor, great guidance to me
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Speaker 1: to be checking in and make sure that you are
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Speaker 1: prepared and have the latest information when it comes to
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Speaker 1: bringing your pets across border. And of course something that
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Speaker 1: seems to be kind of adjusted as things are going on,
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Speaker 1: looking at the forecast, which we don't always do, doctor,
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Speaker 1: but I think it's important. We've got some high eighty six,
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Speaker 1: high eighty eight, high of eighty nine, high ninety in
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Speaker 1: these coming days. Heat and humidity are coming, and it
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Speaker 1: is something that as humans we want to be aware
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Speaker 1: of for ourselves, but as with our pets, really want
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Speaker 1: to be careful also, don't we.
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Speaker 2: Oh absolutely, you know, our pets don't sweat like we do.
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Speaker 2: They don't have the ability to dissipate heat the way
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Speaker 2: we do, so we have to be very careful, especially
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Speaker 2: if we have those break thesecephalic dogs, the boxers, the pugs,
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Speaker 2: the bulldogs, the French scheeest, all those bridges with the
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Speaker 2: shorter faces, they have a more difficult time dissipating heat,
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Speaker 2: so they're going to overheat more quickly, and we have
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Speaker 2: to be very very careful with those short faced the
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Speaker 2: dogs with the narrower airways, So be extremely careful with those.
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Speaker 2: Whether you're out walking, whether you're out in the backyard
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Speaker 2: putting grass, if you're traveling with the dog, the dogs
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Speaker 2: in the vehicle with your running errands, or you're taking
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Speaker 2: a trip, just be very vigilant that you don't allow
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Speaker 2: the dog to overheat, because that is deadly for some
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Speaker 2: of these dogs, So be very careful. And the older
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Speaker 2: dogs too, if they have health conditions laurential paralysis, they're
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Speaker 2: just older and don't have the ability to tolerate those
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Speaker 2: heat changes as much. Be very, very very careful with it.
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Speaker 2: And I have a few tips for people. If you
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Speaker 2: want to go walking, then before you go out on
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Speaker 2: the asphalt, put your hands flat on the asphalt, the
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Speaker 2: back of your hands flat on the asphalt, and hold
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Speaker 2: it there for five seconds. And if it's too hot
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Speaker 2: for your hand, it's too hot for your dog to
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Speaker 2: be walking on asphalt. So that's key number one is
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Speaker 2: don't go in the middle of the day. Go when
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Speaker 2: it's cooler in the morning, cooler in the evening, and
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Speaker 2: just be careful that you're checking that. And of course
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Speaker 2: everybody knows that you're not supposed to leave the dog
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Speaker 2: in the car, and how quickly the cars get hot.
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Speaker 2: We all know that. But sometimes things happen. You run
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Speaker 2: into the store just for a second, you run into
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Speaker 2: the house to get your grocery us and instead of
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Speaker 2: getting the grocery lists, the phone rings and something distracts
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Speaker 2: you and then you forget and thirty minutes later your
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Speaker 2: dog is still in the car and the windows are up,
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Speaker 2: so again, you know, I usually have people do something
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Speaker 2: like throw a leash around their neck loosely, of course,
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Speaker 2: not around you know, height, but just around their shoulders
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Speaker 2: so that they remember the dogs in the car. It's
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Speaker 2: a lot easier to remember the dog's in the car
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Speaker 2: when that leash is hanging around their shoulders. So that's
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Speaker 2: just a little memory jogger. Or if you're in the
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Speaker 2: grocery store and you run into somebody, oh yeah, yeah,
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Speaker 2: I've got to get back. My dog's in the vehicle.
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Speaker 2: A couple of other things. There are some vehicles now
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Speaker 2: that have automatically air conditioning that will run when the
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Speaker 2: windows are up and the dog can stay cool. And
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Speaker 2: if you have someone walking through the parking lot, that
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Speaker 2: means well, but they don't identify that you have a
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Speaker 2: vehicle that's able to keep the dog or dogs cool
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Speaker 2: in the car. Make sure that you put a note
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Speaker 2: on the window, the windshield, the driver's side window that
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Speaker 2: has that information on it and your cell phone number,
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Speaker 2: because if somebody comes along and thinks your dog is
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Speaker 2: in trouble, you want them to call you, not just
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Speaker 2: bashing your window. So if that if that cell phone
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Speaker 2: number is there with the statement that the air conditioning
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Speaker 2: is running, the dog is safe. But if you have
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Speaker 2: concerns call this number. You're a lot less likely to
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Speaker 2: come out to the vehicle with your dog running a
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Speaker 2: run in the parking lot and some well meeting bystander
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Speaker 2: having opened the vehicle for you. That would be a disaster.
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Speaker 1: Yes, talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer. Of course
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Speaker 1: doctor Greer comes. So it's from checkout Veterinary the website
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Tell
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Speaker 1: forh number six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's six soh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred. Again,
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Speaker 1: a lot of great information about checkout Veterinary right on
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Speaker 1: so you as a pet owner know what things are
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Speaker 1: going to cost or what they should cause when it
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Speaker 1: comes to that pet care and doctor. I know a
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Speaker 1: lot of folks with their pets, they get them as
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Speaker 1: exercise companions, you know, take the dog for a walk
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Speaker 1: or a jog. Probably want to limit that to obviously
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Speaker 1: later in the evening or earlier in the morning, and
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Speaker 1: obviously mentioned too with older dogs, maybe something you might
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Speaker 1: want to check with your vet with before you do
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Speaker 1: that type of routine this type of time of year.
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Speaker 2: Absolutely, and then there's always fun things that you can do.
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Speaker 2: You can have a sprinkler in the yard. A lot
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Speaker 2: of dogs like the waiting pool in the yard. So
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Speaker 2: you can go to the store and just buy one
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Speaker 2: of those kids waiting pools, put them out there. The
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Speaker 2: dogs love those, They love to be in them. They
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Speaker 2: can stand in them, they can you know, drink out
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Speaker 2: of them, they can play in them. You can put
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Speaker 2: toys in them that kind of float around in the water,
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Speaker 2: and the dogs from Bob for the toys. So there's
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Speaker 2: lots of really fun things that you can do with
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Speaker 2: your dog. So I don't want to sound like you
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Speaker 2: can't enjoy the summer with your pet. You just want
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Speaker 2: to be careful. And of course if you have an
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Speaker 2: either above ground pool or an in ground pool gets
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Speaker 2: too high for the water's too high for the dog
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Speaker 2: to stand in, you want to be very careful that
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Speaker 2: the dog doesn't accidentally fall into the pool unattended. So
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Speaker 2: far this year, I think all three of my dogs
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Speaker 2: have fallen into the pool, much to their chagrin. None
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Speaker 2: of them seems very happy about it when they got
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Speaker 2: in there. But there are dogs that love to swim.
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Speaker 2: If there's a pool cover on and the dogs get
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Speaker 2: under the pool cover, or if they fall in and
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Speaker 2: they don't know how to get back to the side,
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Speaker 2: whether the it's a safe place for them to pull
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Speaker 2: themselves out, you want to be very vigilant and really
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Speaker 2: careful as drownings can occur, and those are really very
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Speaker 2: tragic things to have happened. So again, it's a lot
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Speaker 2: of good common sense, but there are things that you
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Speaker 2: don't necessarily think about unless we've discussed them and pointed
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Speaker 2: them out to you. So it's just important that you're
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Speaker 2: on top of those things so it doesn't happen. There's
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Speaker 2: not a tragedy at your house.
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary
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Speaker 1: again the website check out that dot that's checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. Monday through Wednesday, Friday through Sunday. Closed on Thursdays.
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Speaker 1: They are open though those those six days from five
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Speaker 1: a h. Excuse me, nine am until five pm. Again
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Speaker 1: open on weekends and available to you can learn more
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Speaker 1: online checkout vet dot com. That's check out vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: I asked the doctor a little bit about some signs
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Speaker 1: of heat, stress and some other things to be paying
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Speaker 1: attention to this time of year with your dogs and
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Speaker 1: other pets. We're going to get those details from doctor
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Speaker 1: Greer next as ask the experts with Checkout Veterinary continues
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Speaker 1: right here on thirteen ten wu I b A thirteen
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Speaker 1: ten wui b A and ask the experts with check
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Speaker 1: Out Veterinarian. Doctor Marty Greer talking this week about keeping
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Speaker 1: your pets, specifically at dogs because obviously dogs, we take
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Speaker 1: them for walks and like to take them places. Got's
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Speaker 1: a little more complicated to do both of those things
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Speaker 1: and other pets as well, but dogs, Yeah, talks do
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Speaker 1: make it easy. On the website checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com and doctor. Some dogs have fur,
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Speaker 1: some dogs have hair. If you have a dog that
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Speaker 1: gets haircuts, should you be trimming them down short this
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Speaker 1: time of year or is it breed specific? I've heard
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Speaker 1: I've heard both. Some people say, oh, you get them
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Speaker 1: nice and cool, and others say, well, that actually is
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Speaker 1: counter productive. I don't understand the science or the heat
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Speaker 1: physics of it all. What's kind of the guidance on that.
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Speaker 2: Well, I think they're more comfortable, especially the dogs that
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Speaker 2: junior's haircuts, if they're kept shorter. There are people with
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Speaker 2: the double coated breeds with samoias, the gold and you
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Speaker 2: know those breeds that really feel like they shouldn't be
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Speaker 2: shaved down. I don't know if we have any hard
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Speaker 2: science on that. I wish we had more information, but
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Speaker 2: use some good common sense. If the dogs gums are
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Speaker 2: really red, they're panting, they're uncomfortable, they're seeking places that
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Speaker 2: are shady, pay attention. Let them go someplace that's comfortable,
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Speaker 2: back into the house or into an air conditioned vehicle,
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Speaker 2: or somewhere that it seems safe. And it's never a
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Speaker 2: bad idea to carry that rectal hermamer with you in
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Speaker 2: your car, have one at the house for the dog.
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Speaker 2: Once you've used it on the dog, you probably don't
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Speaker 2: want to give it to the kid. So I do
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Speaker 2: label mine pretty carefully that it's dog only. But rectal
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Speaker 2: temperature on a dog should be between one hundred and
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Speaker 2: one and one hundred and two and a half. Once
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Speaker 2: they get above one hundred and four, we start to
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Speaker 2: get really concerned, and above one hundred and seven that's
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Speaker 2: you know, literally a near death experience. So those dogs
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Speaker 2: need immediate medical care. So have a somemometer with you,
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Speaker 2: take their temperature. If your dog does overheat, you want
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Speaker 2: to start cooling them down to one hundred and three.
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Speaker 2: At one hundred and three, you stop the cooling process
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Speaker 2: and let their body then cool it the rest of
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Speaker 2: the way, because if you drop below one hundred and three,
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Speaker 2: then they're going to chill, so you want to be
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Speaker 2: careful that you don't cool them too quickly. But you
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Speaker 2: can put water on their feet, water on their bellies.
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Speaker 2: Alcohol rubbing alcohol and not the drinking kind can be
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Speaker 2: used to help get the dogs a little bit cooler.
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Speaker 2: So there are some things that you can do on
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Speaker 2: an emergency basis, while you're getting to a veterinarian that
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Speaker 2: can help you with that heat strop. Should it be
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Speaker 2: the case, then, like I said, the older dogs that
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Speaker 2: have other health problems, they're just not as able to
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Speaker 2: tolerate the heat. And of course the babies, you know,
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Speaker 2: the puppies again, the extremes of age don't have the
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Speaker 2: resiliency that the adult dogs do. So just be very
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Speaker 2: very careful with your puppies, be very careful with your
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Speaker 2: older dogs, and just be thoughtful about it. Don't let
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Speaker 2: those things happen to you, because it's way easier to
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Speaker 2: prevent than it is to treat and way less expensive.
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Speaker 2: So be thoughtful of theme and just plan ahead.
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Speaker 1: One of the things doctor I have at home is
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Speaker 1: and it's curia. I'd be curious about. This is when
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Speaker 1: my son was little, he had one of those earth
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Speaker 1: thermometers and then we got him a temporal one, and
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Speaker 1: so his old earth thermometer I started using on the
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Speaker 1: dog and like, I've checked his temperature and I just
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Speaker 1: wrote on there what is regular ear?
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Speaker 2: Those?
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Speaker 1: Do those type of thermometers obviously you mentioned rectal thermometers
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Speaker 1: probably the gold standard, but do those type of things
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Speaker 1: kind of give you any type of accurate indication or
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Speaker 1: is it probably not really even worth the time.
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Speaker 2: They're typically about a degree lower than rectal temperature would be.
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Speaker 2: And what's really cool is that there's the microchips coming
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Speaker 2: to market now that have the ability to have a
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Speaker 2: temperature built into the microchips, so you can scan the
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Speaker 2: microchip and assess the temperature. Now, of course you need
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Speaker 2: a scanner, and those are expensive. They run over one
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Speaker 2: hundred dollars. But eventually we're going to get to the
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Speaker 2: point that most veterinary clinics will have those in them.
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Speaker 2: But right now we're still using rectro thermometers as our
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Speaker 2: gold standard. So yes, there are other ways to do it,
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Speaker 2: but they're not nearly as accurate we have in the hospital.
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Speaker 2: Sometimes we'll have them that are down in the esophagus,
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Speaker 2: but again, these are internal temperatures, so those are really
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Speaker 2: the ones that are the most useful, the most accurate,
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Speaker 2: the most sensitive. So those are really things that we
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Speaker 2: want to rely on and not rely on the other technology.
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Speaker 2: It's just not as good.
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Speaker 1: Well, one thing I want to I want to before
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Speaker 1: we wrap up this week, I do want to talk
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Speaker 1: about too, is when we talk about the warmer temperatures.
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Speaker 1: I know that as having walked out in the backyard,
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Speaker 1: the mosquitos are. They're loving the hot, humid wether. They
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Speaker 1: live for this stuff and other type of parasites. It's
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Speaker 1: a good reminder to make sure that flea, tick and
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Speaker 1: the other you know, heartworm, all that stuff that your puppy,
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Speaker 1: your pet is up to date on. All that stuff,
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Speaker 1: isn't it right?
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Speaker 2: And the topical flea and tick products, not the orals.
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Speaker 2: The topicals do have some repellency against mosquitos and other
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Speaker 2: biting insects, flies and naps and all those things. So
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Speaker 2: those are really important that you're really keeping up with
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Speaker 2: the application of those, So don't lapse on those. Don't
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Speaker 2: just assume that you're okay for a while. The dogs
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Speaker 2: are really uncomfortable, and of course mosquito transmission and weft
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Speaker 2: now virus happening dogs, so we want to be careful
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Speaker 2: with our dogs avoiding mosquito bites as well. Just because
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Speaker 2: they have furry little bodies doesn't protect them against mosquitos.
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Speaker 2: They still get bitten on their ears and on their
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Speaker 2: faces and on their bellies with the hair more thin,
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Speaker 2: so they are still vulnerable to those diseases. If they
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Speaker 2: weren't then of course we wouldn't have such a thing
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Speaker 2: as heartwroom disease. And every year we find patients with
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Speaker 2: heartwroom disease. We had when this week at one of
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Speaker 2: our clinics. So we do want to be protective. So
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Speaker 2: you can have that double defense of using a topical
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Speaker 2: flea and tick product to prevent the mosquito yes, and
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Speaker 2: to have the oral medication for the heartworm prevention, so
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Speaker 2: you can double up on how you can prevent those diseases.
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Speaker 2: And I have some really exciting news that I haven't
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Speaker 2: told you yet drum roll, is that we just we
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Speaker 2: just acquired Marshall pet Care as one of our clinics.
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Speaker 2: So we will be taking over Marshall pet Care at
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Speaker 2: the beginning of September. They were scheduled to close permanently,
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Speaker 2: and we are in the process of making that one
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Speaker 2: of our clinics, so it will not be corporate owned.
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Speaker 2: It will be family owned and accessible to the people
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Speaker 2: in the community, and we will be taking new patients there.
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Speaker 1: Oh, that is absolutely fantastic marsh Marshall.
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Speaker 2: Pechture going to be part of.
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Speaker 1: That is great to hear and it's it's so nice
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Speaker 1: to you mention, and I think one of these weeks
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Speaker 1: maybe we should we should touch on that you mentioned
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Speaker 1: corporate ow'nt I sometimes I think people don't realize and
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Speaker 1: it's I think intentionally kind of behind the scenes. How
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Speaker 1: how some of you know there are big corporate you know,
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Speaker 1: operations for pet care, and there are also good local
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Speaker 1: folks as well. We talked about Checkout Veterinarian, what you're
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Speaker 1: doing as well. Folks aren't always aware of that. I
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Speaker 1: think maybe one of these wee should probably talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit about kind of how all of that works.
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Speaker 1: So we talked this week with doctor Marty Greer, of
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Speaker 1: course Veterinarian of the Year with the Westminster Kennel Club.
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Speaker 1: Of course. You can learn more about doctor Greer and
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Speaker 1: all the doctors at Checkout Veterinary, as well as what
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Speaker 1: makes checkout vets so unique. Checkout vet dot com is
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Speaker 1: the website checkout vet dot com. First visit it is
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Speaker 1: free for that office visit. They are open six days
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Speaker 1: a week, closed on Thursdays, but every other day nine
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Speaker 1: am to five pm. Again, you can learn more at
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