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Spring and Easter with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Thirteen ten, Do wuib A and ask the experts. Brought
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Speaker 1: to you by check Out Veterinary Join this morning by
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Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer. Of course, doctor Greer is recognized as
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Speaker 1: Veterinarian of the Year from the Westminster Kennel Club. You
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Speaker 1: can learn more about doctor Greer and can learn more
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Speaker 1: about Checkout Veterinary all on their website. Checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. Really good website if you
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Speaker 1: haven't been there before. Kind of explains all the great
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Speaker 1: things that make check out vets so unique, so specially
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Speaker 1: and what a great place to take your pet again.
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Speaker 1: You can learn more online checkout vet dot com. Great
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Speaker 1: data start that relationship. Pick pone Gemmacall six oh eight
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Speaker 1: three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six oh eight
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Speaker 1: three one eight sixty seven hundred and I understand sometimes
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Speaker 1: phone numbers can be hard to remember. If you go
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Speaker 1: on over to the website checkout vet dot com, the
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Speaker 1: phone number is right there for you. It's super convenient
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Speaker 1: to get to ride in sun Prairie at twenty seven
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Speaker 1: to ten Prairie Lakes drive the clinic just off the Interstate,
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Speaker 1: right off the highway. There again, no matter where you are.
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Speaker 1: You're just moments away from Checkout Vet and they are
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Speaker 1: there for you and your pet Monday through Wednesday, Friday
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Speaker 1: through Sunday nine until five. You say, well, what about
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Speaker 1: what about Thursdays? Well, Monday through Friday, check in Vet.
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Speaker 1: The sister clinic of Checkout Vet is there, so they've
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Speaker 1: got you seven days a week. Also clinics in Marshall
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Speaker 1: and other locations across the state as well. As a
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Speaker 1: matter of fact, doctor great to talk with you this
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Speaker 1: morning and mentioned the Marshall Clinic and something that I
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Speaker 1: learned from you, and maybe people aren't aware of this
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Speaker 1: is those those you know, those community clinics, those smaller
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Speaker 1: clinics unfortunately are going by the wayside, and you were
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Speaker 1: able to do something great, which is keep the Marshall
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Speaker 1: clinic up and running when the previous vet there was
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Speaker 1: retiring and it's kind of stepping away. Having a clinic
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Speaker 1: like that in that community is a really great benefit,
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Speaker 1: isn't it.
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Speaker 2: It is because we have people that live in town,
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Speaker 2: they can't drive out of town. They may not have
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Speaker 2: a vehicle or may have the capability of driving out
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Speaker 2: of town. So we want to keep those small communities
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Speaker 2: veterinary clinics available because access to care is really important
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Speaker 2: to me. I want people to be able to get
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Speaker 2: in seven days a week. I want people to have
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Speaker 2: access to care. I want people to have affordable care.
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Speaker 2: And that's all very difficult to do, but it's it
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Speaker 2: requires a really dedicated staff, and I want all of
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Speaker 2: our clients to be aware of how dedicated the people
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Speaker 2: are that work for us. It's very exciting. We will
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Speaker 2: be seven days a week at the Drive to really soon.
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Speaker 2: Our two new doctors have started. They started last week
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Speaker 2: so to get them up and running. Will be available
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Speaker 2: seven days a week at checkout, five days a week
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Speaker 2: at check in, five days a week at Marshall, and
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Speaker 2: then of course if you're at Marshall or check in
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Speaker 2: as a client, you have access to it at checkout
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Speaker 2: because we're there on Saturdays and a Sunday. So I'm
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Speaker 2: excited about that and I think it's really important. The
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Speaker 2: Marshall phone number, just to mention this is six zero
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Speaker 2: eight six five five three nine sixty three, the same
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Speaker 2: number that they've always had, and we are taking new
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Speaker 2: clients and new patients at all of those locations. I
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Speaker 2: talked to a client the other day from Marshall. She said,
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Speaker 2: I've lived in Marshall for years, but I could never
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Speaker 2: get in and I have four dogs and two cats
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Speaker 2: and nobody could say. I'm like, well, you are my
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Speaker 2: comic client. So we're going to be able to offer
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Speaker 2: those services. So if you're a new client and you're
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Speaker 2: feeling like you have a new pet and you can't
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Speaker 2: get in or you're not able to get the access
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Speaker 2: to care that you need, please let us know because
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Speaker 2: we are going to bend over backwards to make that
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Speaker 2: happen for you.
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Speaker 1: That's such, it's such so refreshing and great to hear,
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Speaker 1: and we talk about starting that relationship. It's a great
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Speaker 1: day again. You can learn more online the website checkout
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: first visit that exam. It is free to you.
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Speaker 2: Again.
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Speaker 1: You can learn more online checkout vet dot com. That's
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Speaker 1: check out vet dot com. And doctor the other week.
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Speaker 1: Last week we started a conversation of course, spring is here,
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Speaker 1: and that means and we get it through the spring
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Speaker 1: and summer months. Anytime the weather changes, behaviors change, there's
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Speaker 1: a whole new world of things that present to our pets,
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Speaker 1: and I just real quick before we get started started
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Speaker 1: on some new stuff. Way to put it, you know,
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Speaker 1: always the always the optimist, always looking on the bright
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Speaker 1: side before we get to some of some of the
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Speaker 1: new stuff, and of course looking forward to Eastern other things.
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Speaker 1: Real quick. Last week we touched on really important things
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Speaker 1: as far as vaccinations and of course keeping the little
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Speaker 1: blood sucking critters off your pets. It's really important this
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Speaker 1: time of year. We were talking earlier about making an
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Speaker 1: appointment to see the VAT. It's really important this time
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Speaker 1: of year that your pets are up to date with
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Speaker 1: all of their all their vaccines and all their preventative
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Speaker 1: isn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think people kind of let it fly
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Speaker 2: during the wintertime, so this is the opportunity.
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Speaker 3: To get in.
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Speaker 2: It's your heartworm tests onne that usually also includes testing
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Speaker 2: for line to these aniplasmasas and aerikia, so it's not
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Speaker 2: just heartworm. It also means taking in a stool sample
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Speaker 2: and checking to see if there are any intestinal parasites,
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Speaker 2: so that those are pretty common.
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Speaker 3: And this time of year, as you've mentioned, the snow
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Speaker 3: melts and.
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Speaker 2: All the stuff that was in the layers of the
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Speaker 2: snow I here, and you're spending more time outside. So
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Speaker 2: when you used to go out and your dog would
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Speaker 2: go out and you know, make two second trip outside
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Speaker 2: for fifteen minutes.
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Speaker 3: Or an hour. If you go out and cut the
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Speaker 3: grass and do.
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Speaker 2: The gardening and the dog is with you, they're going
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Speaker 2: to have time to poke around the garden and find things.
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Speaker 2: I actually talked to a client a few months ago
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Speaker 2: that had a dog. They moved into a new house
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Speaker 2: and the dog ended up finding where the previous owner
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Speaker 2: of the house had been throwing their marijuana. But and
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Speaker 2: the dog was eating them and came in stone. They
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Speaker 2: didn't know what was wrong with it. The second time
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Speaker 2: it happened, they're like, okay, it's in the yard. We
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Speaker 2: need to find it, because they couldn't the first time.
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Speaker 2: Of course, when you go to the emergency clinic with
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Speaker 2: a dog, it looks like that. They kind of look
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Speaker 2: at you with squinty eyes and say, mm hmm, sure
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Speaker 2: it wasn't yours, but it happened. So you know, just
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Speaker 2: be really watchful because if your dog picks up something,
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Speaker 2: you need to get it out of their mouth, whether
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Speaker 2: it's you know, stick or something toxic or a plant,
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Speaker 2: or you're not sure what it is, and the faster
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Speaker 2: you run toward the dog to get it out, the
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Speaker 2: faster they swallow. So you have to be quick and
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Speaker 2: you have to be able to exchange it for something
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Speaker 2: really delicious, So have a treat in your bucket as
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Speaker 2: an exchange so the dog will start bringing stuff to
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Speaker 2: you instead of swallowing it. So those are some things
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Speaker 2: that you need to really be aware of. And you
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Speaker 2: know there's there's poop out there in the yard that
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Speaker 2: the rabbits and the other species of animals have left
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Speaker 2: in your yard. We often get stool sample results back.
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Speaker 2: We send them out to a diagnostic lab that has
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Speaker 2: technicians that are highly skilled that identifying parasites, and they'll
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Speaker 2: send us back reports and say things like, well, this
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Speaker 2: dog has coxidia, but it's not a dog cooctidia. The
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Speaker 2: dog's been eating it stuff. So it can be rabbit,
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Speaker 2: it can be deer, it can be bird, and you
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Speaker 2: know you have to be really careful, and of course
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Speaker 2: bird fluid it concerns. So we just don't want our
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Speaker 2: dogs going on eating all that's really.
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Speaker 3: The stuffing stuff that dogs think are delicacy.
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Speaker 1: Yes, it's funny that they and they sure do. And
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Speaker 1: that's that is as you talk about two about how
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Speaker 1: quick the dog can be as well when it comes
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Speaker 1: to getting them out for a walk and if they
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Speaker 1: if that nose ces in on something, that mouth is
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Speaker 1: right behind. So yeah, really important to do that. And also,
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Speaker 1: I know we only think of it generally. I'll stereotype
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Speaker 1: pet owners like myself, we tend to think about this
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Speaker 1: stuff this time of year. But the reality is most
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Speaker 1: of this stuff is things that we should be definitely
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Speaker 1: queuing in on year round.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, it's just that there's more exposure and increase
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Speaker 2: in exposure this time of year because of the change
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Speaker 2: of the season. So yeah, it is all year round,
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Speaker 2: but it does kind of ebb and flow when you.
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Speaker 3: Have to be more concerned.
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Speaker 2: So this is definitely recent to be concerned. And it's
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Speaker 2: the time of year you start gardening, and you start
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Speaker 2: putting fertilizer and need killers and exercides down in the
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Speaker 2: yard and in the garden, and you're digging up things
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Speaker 2: and planting things, and so those are just opportunities.
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Speaker 3: For the dog to be exposed.
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Speaker 2: The things that they weren't exposed to in like this
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Speaker 2: ever January February, Yeah, that's not happening, but now it is.
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Speaker 2: So you want to be very watchful and careful and
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Speaker 2: read the labels on the products that you're putting down,
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Speaker 2: and look at the bulbs and see if what you're
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Speaker 2: planting is taughtic. You know, just be really aware of
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Speaker 2: what you're doing because it may not always be pet safe,
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Speaker 2: and you want your garden in your heart to be
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Speaker 2: as act safe as possible so the dogs can go out.
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Speaker 3: And have a good time.
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary,
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Speaker 1: the website check out vet dot com. That's checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com taking new patients right now. It's a great
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Speaker 1: day to start that relationship. More vets coming on board
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Speaker 1: at check out vet as we speak. What a really
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Speaker 1: really cool thing that is. Is a great day to
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Speaker 1: make that appointment. Tell for number six. So eight three
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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty
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Speaker 1: seven hundred for Checkout Veterinary again. Learn more online check
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Speaker 1: out vet dot com that's checkout vet dot com. And
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Speaker 1: doctor Before we came on the air, of course, Easter's
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Speaker 1: coming up, and you had mentioned a couple of really
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Speaker 1: important things for the Easter holiday first off, of course,
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Speaker 1: a lot of us get those easter lilies. They look beautiful,
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Speaker 1: but there is something you want to keep in mind
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Speaker 1: if you've got cats, isn't there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And interestingly, cats can develop a toxicity to easter
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Speaker 2: lilies if they eat them. Snipping them not going to
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Speaker 2: hurt them, but if they eat parts of the leaves
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Speaker 2: of the flowers that can be toxic.
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Speaker 3: It doesn't seem to affect dogs, but any lily.
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Speaker 2: Lily in your garden, lily in your house, easter lilies included,
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Speaker 2: it's gonna be toxic. And cats like to chew on
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Speaker 2: leaves and plants, and that's a big concern. Other some
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Speaker 2: plants that if your dog, if your cat choose on
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Speaker 2: the leaves, that's okay, Like there's cat grass, and there's
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Speaker 2: spider plants, and there's some things you're like, oh, yeah, whatever,
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Speaker 2: But the easter lily has a toxicity in it and
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Speaker 2: it will affect their kidneys, so they can go into
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Speaker 2: kidney failure from eating those. So if you do get
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Speaker 2: easter lily, either don't bring them into your house, donate
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Speaker 2: them to somebody, or put them in a spot that
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Speaker 2: your cat can't get to, and you may think they
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Speaker 2: can't get into a place, but they are absolutely amazing
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Speaker 2: where they can climb up to. I mean I see
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Speaker 2: cats on top of the refrigerator and you know, so
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Speaker 2: you have to look around and say where is it
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Speaker 2: exactly that's safe. So be really thoughtful about that because
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Speaker 2: we don't want you on any up in ear with
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Speaker 2: your cat on IV fluids to treat their kidney problems.
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Speaker 2: So just avoid that situation.
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Speaker 1: Great advice.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah. The other thing at Easter is the Easter baskets,
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Speaker 2: and of course our kids get East baskets. They get
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Speaker 2: eggs and all the stuff.
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Speaker 3: So chocolate.
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Speaker 2: Everybody knows that there's a toxicity to chocolate, and the
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Speaker 2: darker the chocolates.
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Speaker 3: The bigger the toxicity.
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Speaker 2: The number one we have to worry about chocolate in
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Speaker 2: the Easter basket that should be out for the kiddo.
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Speaker 2: Number two, if they eat the packaging like the foil
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Speaker 2: on the Hershey Kisses or the recent peanut butter cups
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Speaker 2: or whatever.
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Speaker 3: Because dogs are.
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Speaker 2: Not selective, they will just sulpic downhole instead of taking
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Speaker 2: time to unwrap it.
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Speaker 3: Some dogs are on wrappers.
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Speaker 2: Some dogs are golfers, so if they swung the packaging
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Speaker 2: that can cause them not only irritation in their gut,
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Speaker 2: but it could potentially.
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Speaker 3: Cause an obstruction. And the biggest concern I have is
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Speaker 3: last year.
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Speaker 2: And this year I have started to see scented easter
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Speaker 2: grass that you're supposed to put in the kid's basket. Well,
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Speaker 2: that's great if you don't have any pets in the house,
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Speaker 2: but dogs and cats will eat those things. They will
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Speaker 2: eat long skinny things like pincil on the tree, like
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Speaker 2: easter basket grass, of the fake plasts of grass, And
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Speaker 2: if it's scented, you're going to have a dog that's
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Speaker 2: much more likely to want to go over and eat
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Speaker 2: it than if it was just plain plastics. So again,
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Speaker 2: careful because those long skinny items don't pass through the
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Speaker 2: intestinal track well and can cause obstructions and placations and
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Speaker 2: all kinds of terrible things in the gut. So you
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Speaker 2: want to be really really careful if you're not buying
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Speaker 2: that because it's like cool, it's new, valid if you
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Speaker 2: have a labrador puppy that's going to eat it, So
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Speaker 2: just think it through before you jump on the oh
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Speaker 2: that's cool new thing.
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Speaker 1: I'm going to ask something that's that's kind of uncomfortable.
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Speaker 1: I think it's as you were talking about the easter
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Speaker 1: grass too. It's something that kind of popped in my
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Speaker 1: head for folks with dogs, where you know, dogs do
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Speaker 1: their business and let's say they ate a little easter
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Speaker 1: grass or they got a hair and not everything, you
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Speaker 1: know when they're doing their business. Yeah, what is the
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Speaker 1: what is the guidance for pet owners in that situation?
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Speaker 2: So you mean, if it's still attacking, yes, there a
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Speaker 2: string or grass or hair that having the little dingle berrying.
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Speaker 3: Delicate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, the general rule of thumb is to not pull
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Speaker 2: hard on it. If you can gently pull and remove it,
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Speaker 2: that's great. If you can't get something to cut it,
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Speaker 2: a pair of scissors, a pair of garden shears, whatever
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Speaker 2: is available so that you can cut it and leave
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Speaker 2: the rest in the intestinal tracks, and then my favorite
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Speaker 2: trick is to feed can spinach. That will help quite
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Speaker 2: a bit in getting things to pass. But if the
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Speaker 2: dog is vomiting and sick, then that may be something
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Speaker 2: that's either going to need ivy fluid hospitalization of the
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Speaker 2: medication to help us to pass.
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Speaker 3: Or may end up in surgery.
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Speaker 2: So you don't want to yank hard on it. If
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Speaker 2: it's gentle and you can you can slightly pull on it,
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Speaker 2: but if you're pulling hard on a dog or a cat,
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Speaker 2: you're potentially going to cut through the intestinal walk really
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Speaker 2: serious damage. So gentle traction. And then I have some
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Speaker 2: clients I use can spinach for all kinds of things
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Speaker 2: that dogs need. Now, it's not going to pass a
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Speaker 2: towel on a on a dog's that's two big. It's
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Speaker 2: little things like the dog ates, you know, the rappers
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Speaker 2: that may be an to get it to pass. If
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Speaker 2: it's little pieces of pea gravel, you know, they chewed
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Speaker 2: up a ball point pen, they chewed up stuff like that.
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Speaker 3: You can see them.
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Speaker 2: Can spinach and I see based on the size of
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Speaker 2: the dog, up to one can twice a day for
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Speaker 2: a big smaller amounts, and I just feed it until
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Speaker 2: the stools come out spinach colored and then you know
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Speaker 2: it went all the way, was in there came.
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Speaker 3: Out the other end. But if the dog is sick,
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Speaker 3: if the.
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Speaker 2: Dog is vomiting, is the cat is vomiting, then you
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Speaker 2: need to go to the veterinary tonic. Sometimes hospitalization and
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Speaker 2: ivy fluids will pass it. Sometimes it requires surgical intervention.
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Speaker 2: Do you want to be thoughtful about what they're exposed to.
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Speaker 3: I have some labrador or client breeders, Golden retriever breeders
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Speaker 3: and not to you know, not to try and.
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Speaker 2: You know, put them in too much of the category.
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Speaker 2: But reality is some of them just feed a can
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Speaker 2: of spinish every Saturday because they're like, you know what,
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Speaker 2: I'm sure four or five days he ate something he
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Speaker 2: wasn't supposed to, and so it just kind of keeps
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Speaker 2: them moving through.
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Speaker 3: So I have a lot of people buying can s finish.
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Speaker 2: It needs to be canned fresh spinach.
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Speaker 3: Frozen spin it doesn't have the same texture.
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Speaker 2: There's something about the process thing that makes it dringing,
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Speaker 2: and colored greens would probably work instead. I have one
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Speaker 2: client say, well, I have colored greens at home. I'm like, oh,
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Speaker 2: do means those okay? And colored drinks just dog, I'm in.
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Speaker 2: But it's not going to be me that's eating that stuff.
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Speaker 2: So those are some little tips to have at home.
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Speaker 2: There's also a medication called Cleavor.
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Speaker 3: Some veterinarians will dispense its to their clients. Most veterinaries
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Speaker 3: will use it as a vesterinary.
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Speaker 2: Clinic, and it induces vomiting with an eye drop. So
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Speaker 2: I send home packets in this with clients that have
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Speaker 2: dogs with a known track record of eating what they
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Speaker 2: shouldn't eat, something that might be toxic or something that
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Speaker 2: might be a foreign body, and they just put a
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Speaker 2: dropper to and the dog's eye and the dog goes vomit. Now,
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Speaker 2: there are certain things you shouldn't make the dog vomit with,
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Speaker 2: like caustic things like batteries and bleach, but most of
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Speaker 2: the time good and using peroxide has some serious risks
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Speaker 2: with it. I've seen one cat guy see one dog
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Speaker 2: have a stroke because of peroxide, So it's not innocuous.
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Speaker 2: Even though every website on the planet says get your
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Speaker 2: dog peroxide, it'll make a vomit, I've seen too many
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Speaker 2: side effects from it. So I tend to lean heavily
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Speaker 2: on the.
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Speaker 3: Product called cleb Or.
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Speaker 2: It's c L E v O R cleve Or. It
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Speaker 2: doesn't make cat vomit, but it makes dogs on it.
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Speaker 2: Kind of weird that it doesn't work in a cat,
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Speaker 2: but remember cats are not small dogs and talks about
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Speaker 2: big cats, so they're different species, are different reactive, react
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Speaker 2: differently to different things. So cleav Or is the name
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Speaker 2: of the product to go to your vet, knock on
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Speaker 2: the door and say can I have someone this or
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Speaker 2: do you have it in stock? So if my dog
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Speaker 2: does something incredibly in bad judgment that you can help me.
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Speaker 2: Is it?
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Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer this of check
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Speaker 1: out Matt and I knew doctor, I'd get to I'd
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Speaker 1: get the best answer. Thank you for handling that time,
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Speaker 1: because I was like one, like, what do you do?
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Speaker 2: How did I say that?
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Speaker 3: Exactly?
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Speaker 1: some spring stuff taken care of. We started actually last week.
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Speaker 1: doctor I just some some things that are important that
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Speaker 1: maybe we don't always think about. I'm talking with our vet.
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Speaker 1: But these are important conversations to have. Is of course
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Speaker 1: this time of year. As the seasons change, grooming should
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Speaker 1: be changing as well for certain breeds, shouldn't it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, A lot of people have held off on cutting
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Speaker 2: the dog's coat shorter for the winter time because it
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Speaker 2: keeps them a little bit warmer.
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Speaker 3: When the sermostats down the house and some things like that.
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Speaker 2: You don't want the little dog, you know, the shivering,
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Speaker 2: so we tend to let their coats grow a little
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Speaker 2: bit longer. But now that it's spring, a couple of
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Speaker 2: things happen with longer coat. One is the may get
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Speaker 2: too warm. Secondly is they're going to drag in mud
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Speaker 2: and leaves and sticks and all this stuff. So you know,
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Speaker 2: the dogs are lower to the ground, especially the little ones,
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Speaker 2: and they drag and stuff and ends up having.
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Speaker 3: To be clean after vacuums up in the in the house.
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Speaker 2: So it's time to call the groomer get your dog in.
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Speaker 2: Most people have standing grooming appointments. That's probably the smartest
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Speaker 2: thing to do because groomers are biddy and it can
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Speaker 2: be difficult to get an appointment if you're not a regular.
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Speaker 2: You want their nails trim so they can go out
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Speaker 2: and do the walks with comfortable feet. You just want
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Speaker 2: to kind of clean them up all the way around.
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Speaker 2: It's spring cleaning time and the dog too so and
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Speaker 2: some people do that with their cats as well. Most
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Speaker 2: people leave the cat's quotes as they are, but there
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Speaker 2: are a few people who have hats the mat Their
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Speaker 2: coats are just difficult to maintain, so sometimes they go
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Speaker 2: in and have a lion cut so that the cat
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Speaker 2: has s fur around their face and fur down their
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Speaker 2: tail and their lower legs. But the body is short
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Speaker 2: and it's just easier to keep their coats from matting.
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Speaker 2: So there's a couple of ways to approach that. It
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Speaker 2: is harder to find a groomer to do a cat,
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Speaker 2: but it is to find a groomer to do a dog.
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Speaker 2: And if your dog is matted and it happens, I
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Speaker 2: mean sometimes you know, things get away from you and
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Speaker 2: the mask happened, especially if some of the doodles and
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Speaker 2: some of the other breathe with a longer coat that
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Speaker 2: doesn't shed, and they do have to be shaved down
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Speaker 2: just because the mass is so close to the pin
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Speaker 2: and so dense that it can be very painful from
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Speaker 2: the dog to have them brushed.
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Speaker 3: Or combed out. So if your groomor calls you or says.
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Speaker 2: When you drop off, I'm gonna have to shave it down,
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Speaker 2: don't give your rumor a hard time.
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Speaker 3: Realize that they're doing what's most comfortable for your pets,
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Speaker 3: and hair grows back.
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Speaker 2: So next time the hair is growing in and keep
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Speaker 2: up with the grooming and then flipping and so forth.
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Speaker 2: There's a lot of groomors that have concerns about the
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Speaker 2: doodle's coats matting.
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Speaker 3: And I'm not trying to profile anybody or pick on anybody.
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Speaker 3: That's just what we hear from the groomers. And I'm
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Speaker 3: not a groomer, so I have to take the rood
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Speaker 3: for it.
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Speaker 1: What about as we talk about grooming and literally doing
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Speaker 1: some spring cleaning. I know, for you know you're mentioning
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Speaker 1: their doc about you know you got the out the dog,
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Speaker 1: spend the time outdoors, coming back home money muddy. I
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Speaker 1: don't have. My dog is not a big fan of
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Speaker 1: getting dirty at all. He's very very neat on that,
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Speaker 1: but he does need baths for time to time just
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Speaker 1: to keep them smelling good and feeling good. What's kind
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Speaker 1: of the guidance on on giving your giving your dog
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Speaker 1: a bath.
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Speaker 2: Well, a dog with normal skin, normal coats should probably
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Speaker 2: only be bathed a couple of times a year. Now,
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Speaker 2: grooming dogs are typically groomed every six to eighty so
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Speaker 2: they're going to get a bath at that frequency. If
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Speaker 2: your dog has unhealthy skin, if you have a dermatology problem,
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Speaker 2: allergies or rashes, or you know, infections or any of
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Speaker 2: those things, and some of those dogs make you be
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Speaker 2: bathed sometimes as often as worth a week, so you
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Speaker 2: really need to rely on your running Mariane tell you
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Speaker 2: what the frequency of grooming should be if it's more
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Speaker 2: often than twice a year. So it's the answer is
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Speaker 2: a good solid It depends. There are medicated shampoos that
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Speaker 2: can really work well to help with some of those problems.
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Speaker 2: You don't want to bathe the dog so often.
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Speaker 3: That you dry out the coat.
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Speaker 2: But you know, if the dog's a little white, fluffy
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Speaker 2: dog and it sleeps on your pillow, it's different than
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Speaker 2: the big, you know, one hundred and twenty pounds lab
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Speaker 2: that may sleep on the foot of the bed or
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Speaker 2: on the on the side of the bed, on the floor.
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Speaker 2: So a little bit of that.
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Speaker 3: Depends on lifestyle.
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Speaker 2: It depends on how clean they are, how dirty they are.
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Speaker 2: They go out and they go swimming and they're in
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Speaker 2: a pond that they come back just sinky.
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Speaker 3: Then yeah, yeah, you know they're going in the pub.
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Speaker 2: And you know what's really cool and a lot of
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Speaker 2: people don't know. This is some of the car washings
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Speaker 2: and you can google to find these in your neighborhood.
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Speaker 2: Some car washings have dog bathing facilities at them. You
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Speaker 2: go in, it's got a little bay in between the
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Speaker 2: garage bath where the cars drive through. You put in
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Speaker 2: your quarters, It shoots out shampoo. You put in a
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Speaker 2: little more quarters. It puts out creamer, and you put
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Speaker 2: in a few more quarters.
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Speaker 3: It does the blower and now you've.
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Speaker 2: Got your dog all cleaned up and it's not in
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Speaker 2: your bathroom. It's not you know, the dog's not shaking everywhere,
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Speaker 2: and there's a hair replace. It's pretty great.
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Speaker 3: They have those high speed blowers that help loosen up
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Speaker 3: the coats.
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Speaker 2: That are ready to shed because this time of year
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Speaker 2: dogs start shedding. So even the dogs that don't grow
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Speaker 2: continuous hair like labs golden. You know a lot of
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Speaker 2: the breeds that have that kind of coat will start
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Speaker 2: to shed this time of year. And Fiberian huskies, oh
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Speaker 2: my gosh, there, Sammy's they're a mess. So it's really
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Speaker 2: good to be able to go into those places and
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Speaker 2: get a good blowing gune so that the dog comes
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Speaker 2: out clean and smelling good and it's not going to
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Speaker 2: come home and shuttle over your house. So those are
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Speaker 2: some tips from people that don't use a groomer or
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Speaker 2: don't think they need to use a groomer. If you
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Speaker 2: don't need the hair trimmed, you may be able to
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Speaker 2: do that.
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Speaker 3: Of course, nails and you're on.
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Speaker 2: Your own fre nails. Yes, for sure.
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Speaker 1: You've been speaking to of grooming. As you were talking
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Speaker 1: about dogs, what about cats? And I think obviously if
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Speaker 1: a cat's got something, you know, they're dirty or they
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Speaker 1: got something on them, like they got into something. You
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Speaker 1: may ran into a skunk. That's one thing. But do
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Speaker 1: do cats require just bathing shampooing? Is that something that
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Speaker 1: that most like a healthy, normal cat would need or
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Speaker 1: what's kind of the guidance there.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, most people either don't be in their cat at
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Speaker 2: all or maybathe and they're like maybe once a year.
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Speaker 2: Cats don't really like the water. In most cases, the
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Speaker 2: few that do, like they'll sit on the side of
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Speaker 2: the bathtub and you know, hang out while you showering.
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Speaker 3: Then most of them really don't.
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Speaker 2: Have any interest in getting in the tub or taking
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Speaker 2: a bath, so it can be a bit of a battle. Again,
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Speaker 2: that gets back to maybe you need a groomer for that,
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Speaker 2: but you're gonna have to call one hundred places before
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Speaker 2: you find two that will be grooming on cat, so
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Speaker 2: you know, kind of plan ahead. But they are nice
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Speaker 2: when they're nice and clean and all the oils are
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Speaker 2: off the code and all the.
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Speaker 3: Dander is off.
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Speaker 2: So I don't think it's a bad idea to bador
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Speaker 2: cat once a year, but it's a bit of a trick.
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Speaker 2: You need to have, like a inside your bathtub. You
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Speaker 2: want to have a couple of bins of warm water
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Speaker 2: already set up so you can kind of dunk the cat,
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Speaker 2: lather them up, dunk them duncum, dunkum, and then let
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Speaker 2: go because they're going to be out of there. Like,
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Speaker 2: if you have the bathroom door open, you're not going
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Speaker 2: to see that cat for several hours. So if you
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Speaker 2: try to tell them dry, it better be with the
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Speaker 2: doors shut because they're gone.
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Speaker 1: One thing that you realized too is they're basically they're
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Speaker 1: a ball of muscle and claws. I mean, yeah, they
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Speaker 1: are really really great information this morning, as always from
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Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer. Don't you can learn more about doctor Greer.
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