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Vet Q&A From June 18, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's a good thing.
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  Speaker 2: We have doctor Josh Davis, our veterinarian friend here to
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  Speaker 2: distract us from it.
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  Speaker 1: It is. He's here to answer your questions about your
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  Speaker 1: dogs and your cats and your capa baras. Doctor Davis
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  Speaker 1: actually knows something about capa baras. We were talking off
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  Speaker 1: the air.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, nothing useful medically, but they are They are pretty
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  Speaker 3: cute little guys.
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  Speaker 1: Apparently. Apparently they can run pretty fast and they can
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  Speaker 1: hold their breath for up to four minutes. Wow, which
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  Speaker 1: comes in handy.
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  Speaker 4: I guess that's impressive.
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  Speaker 1: And they and they like to struggle with people, and
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  Speaker 1: they're noted for their big snouts.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, okay snoots.
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  Speaker 1: You have any questions about your dogs or your cats,
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  Speaker 1: doctor Josh Davis is here to answer them. It looks
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  Speaker 1: like you have surgery today. Yeah, we do, got a
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  Speaker 1: your hip.
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  Speaker 3: Surgery and a limb amputation for Oh it's going to
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  Speaker 3: be a rough day.
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  Speaker 4: For them, but they need it.
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  Speaker 1: Is it a cat or a dog? Dogs? But animals.
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  Speaker 1: We've discussed this in the past. Dogs in particular, and
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  Speaker 1: cats seem to do just fine with missing a limb.
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  Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, yeah, they do fine with that missing an
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  Speaker 3: eyeball sometimes Yeah, they don't care about cosmetics. They just
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  Speaker 3: want to get around, so yeah, they're happy to not
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  Speaker 3: be in pain usually.
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  Speaker 1: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six nine six.
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  Speaker 1: If you have any questions at all about what your
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  Speaker 1: pets are are going through, is there anything that people
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  Speaker 1: ought to be aware of in the summer about their
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  Speaker 1: dogs and cats that they need to watch out for.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, the big one always is just heat and cars
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  Speaker 3: and pavement things like that.
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  Speaker 2: So yeah, we have a thing that must go today.
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  Speaker 2: Have a woman saying, don't get mad at me for
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  Speaker 2: leaving my dog in the car. He gets anxiety when
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  Speaker 2: I don't bring him with me.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it's scary. It's scary for sure.
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  Speaker 3: And it is so hot right now that it doesn't
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  Speaker 3: take a lot of time in a car and you
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  Speaker 3: can just get irreversible damage to them. And I've seen
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  Speaker 3: that firsthand, and it's not good at all.
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  Speaker 1: And they're paused, really do not do well on the pavement.
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  Speaker 4: Right Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: The hot are that pavement. I mean, the pavement's always
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  Speaker 3: hotter than the outside hair. And I've literally seen them
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  Speaker 3: just blister all their pop heads off just you know,
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  Speaker 3: running across the parking lot or just out doing.
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  Speaker 4: Too much in that VACS.
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  Speaker 5: Every day, Vacs and I sprint across the street and
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  Speaker 5: we'll stop at the median in the dirts and he
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  Speaker 5: can do thing.
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  Speaker 1: Do they get used to wearing those little booties? I
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  Speaker 1: see sometimes you can get them.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I just got to train them to get used to them.
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  Speaker 3: And that can really help hiking, because even though hiking
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  Speaker 3: isn't hot, not all dogs are ready for that and
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  Speaker 3: have their paws nice and thickened up, so they could
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  Speaker 3: just hike their pads off too.
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  Speaker 4: And I've seen that happen before.
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  Speaker 1: I pads eight seven six oh two nine six.
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  Speaker 4: We have a question on Michelle.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Michelle, how are you? I'm doing that Bill? How
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  Speaker 1: are you great? What's your u? Is there a dog?
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  Speaker 1: What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 4: It is a dog, her name is River, okay, And
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  Speaker 4: what's your question?
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  Speaker 6: So she has this little well defined circle spot on
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  Speaker 6: one of her ears showed up a couple of months ago.
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  Speaker 1: Took her of the that.
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  Speaker 6: He kind of just discredited it and said, oh, might
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  Speaker 6: be due to cold or something. Sometimes these dogs with
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  Speaker 6: the floppy ears get poor circulation. It's almost like frostbite.
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  Speaker 6: But it's persisted despite We actually did an anti bacterial
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  Speaker 6: and an anti fungal treatment in hopes that it wasn't
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  Speaker 6: either one of those. But it's still there and it's
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  Speaker 6: this really perfectly defined circle. Interesting, Okay, wondering if you know,
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  Speaker 6: without seeing it, if you have any idea what that
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  Speaker 6: could be, Doctor Davis, it'll be ringworm.
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  Speaker 3: If it was ringworm, usually it'll be kind of crusty
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  Speaker 3: and itchy a lot of times. So if it's like
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  Speaker 3: perfectly smooth and nothing going on, you know, I don't
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  Speaker 3: without seeing it. But when they get perfect circles like that,
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  Speaker 3: sometimes we do have to think that a vascular issue
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  Speaker 3: or a lots of blood supply could have happened, because
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  Speaker 3: blood vessels feed specific areas of the skin like that,
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  Speaker 3: and so that that is still a possibility. And my
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  Speaker 3: big thing is that if it's not bothering the dog,
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  Speaker 3: it's not crusty or red or inflamed or itchy or
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  Speaker 3: anything like that. Sometimes that we get those weird quirky
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  Speaker 3: things and you don't always get an answer.
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  Speaker 4: But the blood blood vessels in the ears, they.
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  Speaker 3: Can be damaged just from shaking their head playing with
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  Speaker 3: other dogs, and so could be as simple as that.
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  Speaker 3: And if it's not changing, then I'm less worried about those.
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  Speaker 3: But if it's changing, then sometimes a biopsy might be warranted.
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  Speaker 1: You might want to try putting some makeup on it.
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  Speaker 1: So the dog is an embarrassed.
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  Speaker 4: Hair some fake lashes, some fake hair on there, something.
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  Speaker 1: A makeup of some sort or yeah, fake hair. That's
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  Speaker 1: because you don't want you don't want River to be embarrassed. Everybody.
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  Speaker 1: Everybody's going to circle on my ear, all right, thanks.
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  Speaker 2: Thank you Davis eight seven seven six two nine six
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  Speaker 2: ninety six. Questions about puppies and kiddies.
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  Speaker 5: Uh, there's a text question that I kind of like.
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  Speaker 5: My cats are indoor cats, except for sometimes we let
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  Speaker 5: them out in our yard supervised. Should we get should
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  Speaker 5: we get them all of their shots like heartworm and
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  Speaker 5: everything like that?
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  Speaker 4: I would say you should have had those done already. Yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 4: preventive care.
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  Speaker 3: Even if your pets are one hundred percent indoors, parasites
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  Speaker 3: don't care about your doors and your windows and all that,
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  Speaker 3: so things can get in the house that way. For cats,
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  Speaker 3: especially even supervised there, they should be vaccinated because you
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  Speaker 3: never know if another cat is roamed through your yard
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  Speaker 3: of that area, and parasite control for cats. There's no
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  Speaker 3: shots for that, but there is. One of my favorites
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  Speaker 3: is called Revolution Plus. It's a spot on you put
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  Speaker 3: on their skin once a month prevents parasites, heartworm, intestinal worms.
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  Speaker 3: It's a very good over the counter. They're by prescription,
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  Speaker 3: but they can be ordered online and you that can
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  Speaker 3: approve that too. But that's one of my favorites for cats.
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  Speaker 1: All right, let's see we gotlined to Christina. My Christina,
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  Speaker 1: where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 7: I'm calling from Okay.
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  Speaker 1: And what's your animal's name? It's a cat?
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  Speaker 2: Is it a cat?
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  Speaker 7: Yep, it's a cat and her name is miss his Miss.
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  Speaker 1: What's your question?
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  Speaker 7: Well, she was a feral that came to me with
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  Speaker 7: some babies and she's done nursing and getting ready to
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  Speaker 7: go get fixed. She also has an injury and needs
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  Speaker 7: an amputation, and so we have discussed like the risks
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  Speaker 7: of doing those at the same time, the sarahlevation and
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  Speaker 7: the amputation.
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  Speaker 1: So can you do this?
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  Speaker 7: I'm wandering or is they're like added risks to doing
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  Speaker 7: them both? Should we do them separately?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: That one gets pretty tricky anytime you put surgeries, big
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  Speaker 3: procedures like that together. An open abdominal surgery and then
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  Speaker 3: a limb surgery, especially if there's an injury or any infection.
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  Speaker 3: Your risk of complications does go up in those situations,
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  Speaker 3: and also the anesthetic time will probably be doubled or
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  Speaker 3: tripled in that case, depending on the skill level of
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  Speaker 3: the surgeon. So I would just say, if you had
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  Speaker 3: the option, it may be good to prioritize, you know,
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  Speaker 3: if the injury is more of a problem right now,
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  Speaker 3: because a spade is never an emergency unless you know
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  Speaker 3: there's an infection or some other problem that way. But
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  Speaker 3: so i'd say, if you have the ways and the means,
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  Speaker 3: it's it's probably safer to do them separately. But if
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  Speaker 3: you don't have a choice, just you know, you want
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  Speaker 3: your surgeon to be very skilled and efficient and surgery
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  Speaker 3: for that.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, okay, yeah, I'll keep her as long as she
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  Speaker 7: needs to stay with me. I just want her to
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  Speaker 7: be safe.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, absolutely, all right, thank you, Christina. Let's see, uh,
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  Speaker 1: we got have time to go to another call.
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  Speaker 5: Let's yeah, let's take that one call and then.
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  Speaker 1: And then we'll go to a break eight seven seven
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  Speaker 1: six oh two nine six Who we have?
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  Speaker 5: Lee?
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  Speaker 7: Hi?
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  Speaker 1: Lee, where are you calling?
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  Speaker 8: From I'm calling from Murray currently.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And what's your dog's name.
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  Speaker 8: My dog's name is Flying Stormy the Lima.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, okay, So this is more of.
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  Speaker 8: An answer for two weeks ago when full we're talking
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  Speaker 8: about their dogs after they swim what to do for
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  Speaker 8: their ears, because floppy air dogs have problems after swimming
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  Speaker 8: if they do it frequently, and being as my dog's
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  Speaker 8: job is diving off a dock into a big giant
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  Speaker 8: swimming pool, we use a product for that called Liquid
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  Speaker 8: Help Canine Ear Solutions. Just if anybody's having problems with
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  Speaker 8: ear ear problems after swimming.
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  Speaker 1: I think I get problems with my ears after swimming.
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  Speaker 1: It would work for me. Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: They have drops for people, drops for dogs and stuff
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  Speaker 3: like that. So if that's, you know, a good product.
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  Speaker 3: I haven't heard of that one specifically, but a lot
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  Speaker 3: of them have the same ideas and same principles to
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  Speaker 3: try and help dry those ears out because the moisture
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  Speaker 3: is not your friend, especially in those big floppy years
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  Speaker 3: like that.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, all right, thank you, thanks ll all.
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  Speaker 10: Right, thank you.
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  Speaker 2: I still have time to take your calls. Eight questions
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  Speaker 2: about your puppies and kiddies.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, so let's go to questions for doctor Josh Davis.
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  Speaker 1: He's a registered license, he's got all he's got. He
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  Speaker 1: went to school to do this.
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  Speaker 4: He did go to school.
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  Speaker 1: He went to school to be a veterinarian. Where'd you
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  Speaker 1: go to veterinarian school?
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  Speaker 4: Washington State?
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  Speaker 1: There used to be only like one or two in
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  Speaker 1: the whole country, right, and then.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, it's grown a lot over time, and there there's
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  Speaker 3: such a demand for veterinarians. They're opening new schools like
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  Speaker 3: Utah State will be a four years program up there now,
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  Speaker 3: so we'll have our own kind of VET school here
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  Speaker 3: in Utah.
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  Speaker 1: That's all four years. So eight eight seven, seven, six
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  Speaker 1: oh two nine six nine six. We do have a
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  Speaker 1: call online one it says Tony Terrible Audio, Tony are
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  Speaker 1: you there?
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  Speaker 10: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: I am, Okay, Tony, what's your question for doctor Davis?
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  Speaker 10: I have read healer Katahula indoor dog, but we live
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  Speaker 10: in Wyoming. Loves to run him run, even autographs runs
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  Speaker 10: out of his pod and choose on them in their
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  Speaker 10: hard to heel one for suggestions, Yeah, for.
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  Speaker 3: Those kind of cases, especially for it's it's kind of
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  Speaker 3: like us if you're not super active, and then you
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  Speaker 3: go try to, you know, hike twenty miles or run
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  Speaker 3: a marathon or something. It's really hard on you. And
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  Speaker 3: dogs and their pop heads are kind of the same.
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  Speaker 3: So I mean, the short term, you have to get
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  Speaker 3: them healed up. But any activity you can do to
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  Speaker 3: strengthen those pads and kind of thicken them going into
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  Speaker 3: that activity, I think that's kind of your best preventative.
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  Speaker 1: How do you do that?
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  Speaker 4: Just walking?
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  Speaker 3: Just like us, if you walk bare feet on the
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  Speaker 3: right surfaces, you'll get pretty tough skin or calluses on
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  Speaker 3: your hands. And then the other alternative would be if
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  Speaker 3: you can get them to tolerate the active the active
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  Speaker 3: booties that they can wear to kind of protect their feet.
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  Speaker 3: So that's an alternative, if you can get them trained
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  Speaker 3: to tolerate them.
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  Speaker 10: Okay, yeah, but I mean I'm talking my grass just
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  Speaker 10: playing bench in my backyard.
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  Speaker 4: Every day, and if if, if they're not toughened up,
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  Speaker 4: that could be a part of it.
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  Speaker 3: But also there are also specific types of immune diseases
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  Speaker 3: that can affect how how skin and those cells can attach.
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  Speaker 3: I think that would be rare, but things like that
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  Speaker 3: can happen. But it may just be the just the
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  Speaker 3: conditioning of them. You know, it's it's hard to say,
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  Speaker 3: but we're checking out with the b Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: I mean, if they come off.
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  Speaker 3: That easy and they have been you know, mobile enough
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  Speaker 3: and kind of got somewhere into them, it may be
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  Speaker 3: worth checking. But I'm wondering if it's just not enough activity,
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  Speaker 3: and then if they grow back but they don't get
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  Speaker 3: toughened up again, if you get a cycle of that
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  Speaker 3: going on.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, all right, that works.
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  Speaker 5: It looks like we've got is it, miss Alla Melissa, Melissa, sorry,
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  Speaker 5: it is missy.
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  Speaker 1: Misspell Here on the screen it says Macilla. Yes, So
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  Speaker 1: what you got to Melitia? You've got a kiddie. What's
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  Speaker 1: your kiddy's name? His name is Mochi, Mochi, And what's
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  Speaker 1: your question?
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  Speaker 9: Well, he got so him and his brother play a lot,
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  Speaker 9: and I don't know if his brother scratched him somehow
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  Speaker 9: on the neck. It's right about where a caller would go,
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  Speaker 9: and it wasn't a big deal at first, but he
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  Speaker 9: keeps reopening it and then it's getting bigger. It's now
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  Speaker 9: it's almost tripled. Aside. I've tried making like a tourniquet
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  Speaker 9: or something with gauze to try and protect because he
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  Speaker 9: hates collars. I don't know what to do at this
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  Speaker 9: point because he keeps itching him and keeps reopening it
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  Speaker 9: is my only option to try and get him like
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  Speaker 9: a baby onesie. He's never worn one, he's got lung
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  Speaker 9: for two. I just don't know what to do at
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  Speaker 9: this point.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, I mean without seeing that. My question would be
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  Speaker 3: if he is continuously bothered by it. They can have
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  Speaker 3: with bite wounds and fight wounds from other cats. They
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  Speaker 3: can get infections which will cause it to be just itchy,
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  Speaker 3: irritated and bother them, and then they're going to keep
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  Speaker 3: scratching it and scratching it. So if you can keep
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  Speaker 3: it clean and dry, keep some ointment on it, a
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  Speaker 3: onesie might be a good alternative because the neck is
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  Speaker 3: hard to it's hard to put a lamp shade or
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  Speaker 3: anything else on them anyway when your neck's involved. And
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  Speaker 3: then you also can do again if they tolerate it,
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  Speaker 3: you can cut those back nails short and put those
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  Speaker 3: soft caps on them so then it's less damaging to
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  Speaker 3: the skin.
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  Speaker 4: So that's also an alternative we use sometimes.
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  Speaker 1: But a onesie would be so cute.
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  Speaker 4: They are cute.
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  Speaker 5: I put my I put my cats that spade and
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  Speaker 5: a onesie they leave them on. Well they Bilbo did,
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  Speaker 5: but she's blind.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, a lot of them do, okay, And it's actually
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  Speaker 3: some cats find those the shirts comforting, Like when we
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  Speaker 3: make mister Krinkles wear shirt, it makes them a lot
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  Speaker 3: less uh fidy with the other cats.
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  Speaker 4: It kind of calms them down a little bit. So
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  Speaker 4: that could be a good alternative.
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  Speaker 3: But clean and dry, shave the hair around it if
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  Speaker 3: you need to, and try those toe caps if you
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  Speaker 3: need to as well.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, the onesie too, ideas is good, but then the
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  Speaker 1: other cat might make fun of them. All right, Thanks Melissa,
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  Speaker 1: thank you, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: We have Brandon.
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  Speaker 1: Hey, Brandon, good morning. Hey. What's what have you got there?
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  Speaker 1: A dog? What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 7: Yeah, her name is Sydney.
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  Speaker 9: What is she's Sydney Sydney Okay, Yeah, she's a Pyrenees
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  Speaker 9: Shepherd mixed.
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  Speaker 8: But she's five years old, and like I never got
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  Speaker 8: her fixed, but I never had a letter of puppies
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  Speaker 8: with you like I wanted to.
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  Speaker 10: So I was wondering, like, you're getting kind of old,
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  Speaker 10: and I.
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  Speaker 7: You know that time crowns, like your dogs have menopause.
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  Speaker 3: If they get old enough they can, they can stop cycling.
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  Speaker 3: I think in your case, especially if you're just enough,
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  Speaker 3: breeding's not on the table anymore. The consideration of a
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  Speaker 3: spade is a good thing because dogs as they get
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  Speaker 3: older can also develop what's called piometra, which is an
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  Speaker 3: infection in the uterus after they've had a heat cycle.
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  Speaker 3: And the older they get, they're more at risk for
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  Speaker 3: that over time, and then instead of a controlled, healthy surgery,
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  Speaker 3: now we have to do an emergency surgery on a
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  Speaker 3: sick dog. And so if you can avoid that, it's
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  Speaker 3: not a bad recommendation by any means.
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  Speaker 7: All right, Wave magazine or friend doesn't help out.
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  Speaker 1: I guess, yeah, no, probably not all right, So you
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  Speaker 1: see you later. I think we have time for one
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  Speaker 1: more call, if we get this person put on hold
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  Speaker 1: quickly enough. Eight seven seven six two nine six nine six.
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  Speaker 1: I have a quick question.
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  Speaker 8: Sure, h.
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  Speaker 4: So Oakley, she's six months old? When can I expect
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  Speaker 4: her first heat?
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  Speaker 2: Uh?
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  Speaker 3: It'll depend eight eight to nine months is often when
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  Speaker 3: we'll start to see that. So and then from there.
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  Speaker 3: Most dogs are once or twice a year after that.
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  Speaker 3: But it can be the bigger dog sick.
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  Speaker 4: It can be messy.
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  Speaker 3: So you just gotta you know, they can have a
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  Speaker 3: lot of bleeding and spotting when they're in that part
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  Speaker 3: of their heat cycle.
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  Speaker 10: Great.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, my girlfriend has a great Dane.
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  Speaker 4: She said it was messy. Yeah, the big dogs, it's
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  Speaker 4: it's a lot of blood. Sometimes that looks like we
• 16:15
  Speaker 4: have Julia.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Julia, what's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 8: Hi?
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  Speaker 11: My dog's name is Harry Meatball.
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  Speaker 1: All right, love it? What's your question?
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  Speaker 11: So he's a Rottweiler. He was born in October. He's
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  Speaker 11: a pretty big dog. When do I neuter him? I've
• 16:33
  Speaker 11: read I thought maybe six months, but I mean, obviously
• 16:36
  Speaker 11: we're past that mark ish. I don't know if I
• 16:42
  Speaker 11: wait a year, is he going to have really bad
• 16:45
  Speaker 11: ingrained habits that like marking that are going to be
• 16:47
  Speaker 11: hard to break later on? When's the right time to
• 16:49
  Speaker 11: neuter a big dog?
• 16:51
  Speaker 3: M h Yeah, there's still so the jury's still out
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  Speaker 3: on the perfect time for every dog in every situation.
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  Speaker 3: But the thing you are talking about is the behaviors,
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  Speaker 3: and and some of them we'll kind of ease off
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  Speaker 3: that once they've had the neuter surgery, it'll change a
• 17:08
  Speaker 3: little bit their behavior and sometimes they'll mellow out a
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  Speaker 3: little bit.
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  Speaker 4: But it's never a guarantee.
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  Speaker 3: So if those behaviors are already there and pretty strong,
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  Speaker 3: I just wouldn't count on them going away. But we
• 17:19
  Speaker 3: can hope for that for sure. But it's the October,
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  Speaker 3: So what are we eightish months now? I mean, you're
• 17:25
  Speaker 3: probably fine any time, but if you went up to
• 17:28
  Speaker 3: a year, you'd probably be fine too, as long as
• 17:30
  Speaker 3: you can accept that you may have those behaviors hanging out.
• 17:33
  Speaker 3: But that'll let him finish most of his growth by
• 17:36
  Speaker 3: then too.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, all right, thank you so much.
• 17:40
  Speaker 1: All right, see you later. Well that's it. Thank you
• 17:43
  Speaker 1: for calling, and thanks for coming in doctor Davis. We'll
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  Speaker 1: see you in a couple of weeks.
• 17:46
  Speaker 4: Yeah, absolutely, good questions today, and have a good surgery.
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  Speaker 4: I will try. It'll be a long day, but we'll
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  Speaker 4: get it.
• 17:53
  Speaker 5: Do me a favorite stop by the producers booth. My
• 17:55
  Speaker 5: intern has a question for you we didn't get a
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  Speaker 5: chance to get. Thanks. Thanks doctor of us uh I.