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Vet Josh Davis Q&A from June 17th, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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Speaker 1: It's a doctor Josh Davis from Trilogy Veterinary Clinic in Sandy,
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Speaker 1: and doctor Davis is here to answer the questions that
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Speaker 1: you might have about what's ailing your dogs or your cats,
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Speaker 1: your buppies, you're giddies.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Davis can help you.
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Speaker 1: Know. Ever since you mentioned here some time ago the
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Speaker 1: what is it the the weeds that get in their
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Speaker 1: paw getting dogs foxtails, I've been hearing that story on
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Speaker 1: other media.
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Speaker 2: It's for some.
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Speaker 1: Reason, it's the animal story of the week.
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Speaker 2: Or yeah, something like that.
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Speaker 3: In like the last two months.
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Speaker 2: It feels like, yeah, it's just now everybody's talking about it. Well,
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Speaker 2: I hadn't really ever noticed it before.
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Speaker 3: I'm not sure if this year is just worse. I mean,
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Speaker 3: this time of year, you see them all the time,
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Speaker 3: and they're really difficult the longer they're in there to
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Speaker 3: get out and find them. Sometimes you just can't find
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Speaker 3: them even though you look around and we've had them, ears, feet, eyes,
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Speaker 3: i mean, you name it. They can go anywhere and
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Speaker 3: they're just terrible.
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Speaker 4: And what are the issues that can arise when.
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Speaker 3: Becomes really severe infections and pain and they'll migrate and
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Speaker 3: the really severe cases they can actually migrate into the lungs,
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Speaker 3: they can migrate into the nose and eyes and stuff,
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Speaker 3: and then they can cause severe health problems.
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Speaker 1: What so, the best way to avoid them, I mean,
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Speaker 1: where are they usually?
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Speaker 2: Uh?
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Speaker 3: In your backyard? I mean they're They're literally everywhere, and
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Speaker 3: they look kind of like little wheat stocks when they're
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Speaker 3: growing and then they dry out and just poof out
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Speaker 3: into the wind. So if you can keep a mode
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Speaker 3: down and cleaned up in your yard and then just
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Speaker 3: try to avoid areas the best you can, and if not,
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Speaker 3: check their feet, check their ears the minute you come
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Speaker 3: back indoors, because they're they're very difficult to find. Sometimes
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Speaker 3: my whole neighborhood is plagued with them.
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Speaker 4: So whenever I want to take my dog on a walk,
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Speaker 4: I try to do a foxtail check afterwards, as she
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Speaker 4: gets annoyed because I roll her on her back.
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Speaker 1: And you know, I'm gonna I'm gonna suggest that people
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Speaker 1: do the same thing with their kids. Just check their ears,
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Speaker 1: check their for fox fiels huh and uh one.
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Speaker 4: Max Power here never own dogs, but about till about
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Speaker 4: three years ago. Labs Gin and Tonic are their names.
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Speaker 4: My girl Tonic drags her butt on the rug. How
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Speaker 4: do I stop it?
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Speaker 2: I do that? Yeah.
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Speaker 3: The most common reason for that is the old anal
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Speaker 3: gland issues. So dogs have glands back and they're wrecked
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Speaker 3: in there and if they get full or impacted or infected,
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Speaker 3: they will drag and scoot and that's their way to
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Speaker 3: try to empty them out. But it doesn't always work.
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Speaker 3: So your groomer or your veterinary team can help you
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Speaker 3: address that. Express the glands, rest the glands, yeah, and
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Speaker 3: then make sure there's not underlying skin allergies because that
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Speaker 3: can make them worse too.
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Speaker 2: It'd be worms too, could.
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Speaker 3: In some cases. Yeah, but the anal glands are by
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Speaker 3: far the most common.
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Speaker 2: Let's so we've got somebody online one to gen Hello, Jen,
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Speaker 2: and what's your question for doctor Davis?
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Speaker 5: Yeah?
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Speaker 6: So I have two dogs, Odin and Luna, and you
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Speaker 6: guys were talking about the foxtails, which I mean, it's
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Speaker 6: a nightmare at my house because my entire backyard is
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Speaker 6: just foxtails, and so every couple of days I'll go
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Speaker 6: through their paws and all of that. But is there
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Speaker 6: anything I can give to Odin? He's a he's a pyrenee,
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Speaker 6: so he's a big dog and he's really strong and
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Speaker 6: he like kicks me. I do it because it's so.
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Speaker 2: Comfortable for them.
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Speaker 6: And I just don't know, like can I give him
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Speaker 6: like melatonin or something just to like relax him, Like
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Speaker 6: I don't know, I don't know.
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Speaker 2: He had tried whiskey or wine or anything like that.
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Speaker 3: Oh I have, Yeah, there, I mean there are some,
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Speaker 3: you know, relatively safe over the counter things. Sometimes we'll
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Speaker 3: use benadryl. It's got a mild you know, sedative makes
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Speaker 3: them a little sleepy. Melatonin generally is safe and won't
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Speaker 3: hurt most animals. And then if they are really fussy
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Speaker 3: about it though, I think it's worth getting a visit,
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Speaker 3: make sure they're healthy. And sometimes we'll even use medications
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Speaker 3: like trazodone or gabapittin because it just helps facilitate sometimes
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Speaker 3: nail trimming, sometimes hair trimming. And if you can keep
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Speaker 3: the feet they look kind of funny. But if you
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Speaker 3: can keep the feet shaved short in the summertime, that
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Speaker 3: also helps identify and keeps foxtails easier to manage. But yeah,
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Speaker 3: those big dogs, they can be stubborn and they're they're
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Speaker 3: strong for sure.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what kind of a dog is your other one
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Speaker 2: that Luna.
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Speaker 6: Luna is a lab berneath Nick, Okay, not not so big.
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Speaker 3: Okay, they're the fluffy feet though they're tough sometimes.
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Speaker 6: All right, I pulled out thirty six of one pas.
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Speaker 1: Oh my gosh, yes, yeah, thanks Jen, thank you, thank you?
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Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, I have a drink. Jen.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's got a brody brody.
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Speaker 2: What's your question?
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Speaker 5: Lords, Yeah, I have three housecats. Their names are Edgar, Milo,
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Speaker 5: and Diana. But my question is it's kind of a
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Speaker 5: two parter. How am I able to go keep them
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Speaker 5: off the counters? And am I able to go and
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Speaker 5: stop them from eating the houseplants? If you know that?
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Speaker 3: Yeah? They both of those can be really difficult because
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Speaker 3: cats are they like to be up high, and that's
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Speaker 3: part of just their lifestyle and how they live. But
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Speaker 3: so part of it is finding places that are more
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Speaker 3: attractive to them. So plenty of cat trees, plenty of
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Speaker 3: things to play in, and shelves and things like that.
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Speaker 3: Some people will do the aluminum foil on the countertop,
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Speaker 3: the double sided sticky tape on the countertop, because the
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Speaker 3: idea there is it's kind of a loud noise or
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Speaker 3: texture that they don't like, and so but some cats
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Speaker 3: will work for and some cats they will they just
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Speaker 3: like to play on it. Some cats are entertained by it.
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Speaker 3: So but trying to redirect is I think really good.
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Speaker 3: And then some of those other tips can be helpful
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Speaker 3: too for that.
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Speaker 2: And the houseplant thing is just get rid of your
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Speaker 2: damn house plant.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that one. I mean, unless you can keep them
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Speaker 3: out of reach, it's it's very difficult because cats also
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Speaker 3: they they like to go out and eat grass. And
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Speaker 3: you can also get places like pet smart and things
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Speaker 3: they carry like the edible little grass pots and things
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Speaker 3: like that, because cats like to do that and in
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Speaker 3: general it doesn't hurt them as long as they're not
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Speaker 3: in just a large amounts. But but somehows plants are
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Speaker 3: poisonous or toxic. Yeah, and so you have to be
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Speaker 3: careful about that.
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Speaker 4: Katie says she uses a white vinegar and water mixer
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Speaker 4: on plants to try to keep the cats away.
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Speaker 2: Well, you spray the leaves.
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Speaker 4: They smell the vinegar and they oh, they kind.
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Speaker 2: Of spray the spray them occasionally with them.
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Speaker 3: And if it if it works, that's great. And as
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Speaker 3: it dryser wears off. You know, it's it's a constant
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Speaker 3: battle if you leave them in reach, even if you're
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Speaker 3: trying those things. So but every everything has a chance
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Speaker 3: to work. It's just some cats could care less about it.
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Speaker 1: I mean, you know, I'm Brodie. Another thing is that
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Speaker 1: you just sit the three of them down and just
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Speaker 1: have a good talk. Just have a good talk and
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Speaker 1: talking to you. You can all right, thanks for calling.
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Speaker 2: Oh Brody.
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Speaker 4: Tryuh try coffee grounds too.
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Speaker 2: Coffee grounds, Yeah, that might work, like in the pot.
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Speaker 4: In the pot. Yeah, they may not like that.
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Speaker 5: Sometimes it's just too for the plant. But I don't
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Speaker 5: give that a try with Yeah.
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Speaker 4: It's a tough BALI I go, how do I get
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Speaker 4: my newly adopted two year old cat on a sleep schedule?
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Speaker 2: Man?
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Speaker 3: That's a that is a tough one for sure. But
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Speaker 3: always with new pats is trying to establish a routine
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Speaker 3: with uptime, feeding time, with dogs outdoors, you know, potty
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Speaker 3: break time and all of that. And if you can,
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Speaker 3: try not to let the cats sleep all day, because
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Speaker 3: that's also difficult because then they're you know, they are
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Speaker 3: nocturnal often by nature, and so if they just sleep
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Speaker 3: all day, they're going to be up half the night
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Speaker 3: helling at you. And wanted to play.
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Speaker 1: Let's see doctor Josh Davis here, veterinarian with trilogy Veterinary
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Speaker 1: Glinnic and Sandy. He's here to answer your questions about
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Speaker 1: dogs and cats specifically. And we've got a couple of people.
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Speaker 2: On the line. Start off with Dennis DNS. Dennis, how's
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Speaker 2: it going good? Where are you calling from?
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Speaker 7: I am called for an American tor.
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Speaker 2: Okay, what's your question? You have a dog or a
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Speaker 2: cat or what is it?
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Speaker 3: So?
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Speaker 7: I'm looking to get a dog, but so with the
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Speaker 7: two part question for the good doctor.
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Speaker 2: Okay, I'm looking.
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Speaker 7: I want to get a French bulldog. But everywhere I
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Speaker 7: look it seems like there's like an urban legend that
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Speaker 7: they're just these incredibly unhealthy dogs and you know, buyer beware,
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Speaker 7: And first off, how true is that? You know it
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Speaker 7: runs from oh, breathing problems to they have a risk
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Speaker 7: of becoming paralyzed. How true are all these health issues?
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Speaker 7: And if they are true, what exactly do you look
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Speaker 7: forward to getting a healthy French bulldog? If those even.
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Speaker 3: They're not supposed to exist is the Yeah, they're they're
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Speaker 3: a special breed and one of the one of the
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Speaker 3: things we're finding one of the things we're finding is
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Speaker 3: that they are officially one of the most popular dogs
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Speaker 3: in America now and so I've definitely seen a lot
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Speaker 3: more of them in recent times. But I would see
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Speaker 3: some of the things you're talking about are true in
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Speaker 3: some regards. So they are higher risk breeds for breathing issues,
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Speaker 3: They're higher risk breeds for spinal issues, orthopedic issues, and
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Speaker 3: also dental disease. They just and skin disease. You know,
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Speaker 3: those are the common things. So it doesn't mean every
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Speaker 3: one of them is going to have that. But what
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Speaker 3: you'll find is when dogs become popular, then everyone wants
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Speaker 3: to breed them, And if you're not responsible about breeding
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Speaker 3: them and trying to breed these traits out of them
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Speaker 3: or minimizing them, then it's it can be buyer beware.
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Speaker 3: But if you do research and the breeders are responsible
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Speaker 3: and you get good health checks and things like that,
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Speaker 3: then you can minimize that. Because there are many healthy
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Speaker 3: Frenchies out there too, you know, So it's just you
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Speaker 3: just have to be.
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Speaker 2: How do you find a good breeder?
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Speaker 3: UH do in your research if you have friends or
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Speaker 3: family with Frenchies, talking to them about where they may
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Speaker 3: have gotten them and their health status because they're again,
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Speaker 3: they're very there's a lot of variation in that and
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Speaker 3: some are great and some it's just it's difficult to
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Speaker 3: manage when you get multiple things going on.
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Speaker 2: So all right, danis is that to answer it?
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Speaker 7: Yes and no. Yes, thank you for verifying the breeds.
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Speaker 7: But when you say do your research that and he said, well,
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Speaker 7: where do you find a breeder by doing research? It's circular, like.
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Speaker 1: Well, no, you just look at there are there are
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Speaker 1: there all kinds of comments. You know, they're rating systems online.
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Speaker 1: You'll see you know, you'll see like a breeder and
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Speaker 1: you look at it and say.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, And and interviewing with breeders talking about do they
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Speaker 3: do health testing and genetic testing and and the appearance
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Speaker 3: of the breeding facility. You know, there's a lot of
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Speaker 3: things you can see just visually. And if it just
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Speaker 3: seems like a backyard breeder that doesn't really have experience.
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Speaker 2: I got them pops out in careful or if.
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Speaker 3: You're finding them in the parking lot at Walmart and
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Speaker 3: things like that, and again it's just you have to
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Speaker 3: use caution. But there are actual breeders that take their
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Speaker 3: time and you're gonna probably pay more for those dogs too,
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Speaker 3: but if they are responsible for that, and you'll usually
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Speaker 3: see that in their communication, you'll see that in the facility.
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Speaker 4: So okay, if you're dead set on a French bulldog otherwise,
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Speaker 4: I just say.
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Speaker 1: I just I have one question for you. If you
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Speaker 1: get a French bulldog, what will you name it?
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Speaker 2: Okay, not British.
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Speaker 1: We'll see you later, Okay, okay, all right, see you later.
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Speaker 2: Dennis. It's gonna Amy. Hello, Amy, Hello, guys, what's your question?
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Speaker 8: Our question. We've just got a four month old German
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Speaker 8: Shepherd husky mixed and he's the most adorable thing ever.
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Speaker 8: He's got one blue eye, one brown eye. His name
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Speaker 8: is Victor Vaughn Stockholm and we call him Holmes, and
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Speaker 8: he is super smart. But what my question is is
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Speaker 8: we looked up how how much to exercise him, and
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Speaker 8: we had a couple different things of well, he needs
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Speaker 8: to sleep for sixteen hours, he needs to have five
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Speaker 8: minutes of exercise per month that he is so like
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Speaker 8: four four times for twenty minutes of exercise. What is
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Speaker 8: best for him? Like how how much exercise should he
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Speaker 8: be getting and how much time should he be sleeping?
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Speaker 3: And those are good questions and I think it sounds
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Speaker 3: like what you're seeing is you will see a million
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Speaker 3: different opinions. And I don't know that you have to
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Speaker 3: get into the weeds down to you know, the minutes
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Speaker 3: of exercise and things like that. But young dogs, and
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Speaker 3: especially you've got two breeds that are they can be
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Speaker 3: difficult to train. They can have a lot of energy,
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Speaker 3: and they need a lot of input, and so I
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Speaker 3: think for young dogs it's more focusing on that training
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Speaker 3: and even going to training courses because I think if
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Speaker 3: you can get them well trained when they're young, then
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Speaker 3: it's easier to do other things as far as exercise
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Speaker 3: and burning off that energy because the training burns mental energy,
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Speaker 3: which I think is important too. But you know, consistency,
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Speaker 3: so consistent feedings, consistent walks, consistent that it's just with
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Speaker 3: young dogs. You don't want to be running them ten
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Speaker 3: miles a day because that is hard on their joints
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Speaker 3: that are developing. But you want to burn that energy
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Speaker 3: both mentally and physically. And I think you know, targeted
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Speaker 3: training because both of those breeds can be very good
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Speaker 3: and they can be very naughty if if they're not
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Speaker 3: well trained.
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Speaker 4: So all right, thanks Amy, thank you so much.
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Speaker 2: See you later.
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Speaker 4: Let's go to Darcy.
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Speaker 2: Hi, Darcy, what's your question?
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Speaker 3: Hi?
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Speaker 9: I have a six month old yellow lab puppy and
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Speaker 9: she seems to have sniffed something up her nose.
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Speaker 4: Wait a minute, kind of snorting.
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Speaker 2: Wait a minute, what's what's her name?
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Speaker 5: Marge like March?
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Speaker 2: I like it? Okay, so snorting? Now?
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Speaker 1: Are you are you sure there's something up up her
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Speaker 1: nose or well?
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Speaker 9: I wasn't there when she maybe did that, but she's
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Speaker 9: kind of making these like kind of snort and then
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Speaker 9: the gag.
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Speaker 8: But it's kind of rare that.
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Speaker 5: She does it.
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Speaker 9: So I'm wondering if she's sick, if she has something
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Speaker 9: up her nose that might go away on its own,
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Speaker 9: or if I need to take her to.
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Speaker 3: The bet Okay, yeah, the one The most common thing
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Speaker 3: we'll see this time of year is some dogs will
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Speaker 3: do what's called reverse sneezing. I don't know if you've
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Speaker 3: looked at that or you can see videos of dogs
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Speaker 3: doing that, but it is kind of that snort. It
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Speaker 3: looks kind of violent sometimes for some dogs, and it
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Speaker 3: doesn't generally hurt them, but it can be a sign
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Speaker 3: of allergies or irritation. Like we talked about earlier. Is
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Speaker 3: also there are rare cases where dogs can inhale foxtail
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Speaker 3: weeds up into their nose, and generally with those you're
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Speaker 3: going to see, it's usually one side of the nose
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Speaker 3: that's affected. So if you see a snotty nose only
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Speaker 3: out of one side, or just repeated sneezing and sneezing
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Speaker 3: and sneezing, that can be a sign. And also some
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Speaker 3: dogs will get bloody noses from foxtails too, but it's
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Speaker 3: often one side of the nose versus just both sides
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Speaker 3: and that activity, so it may be worth checking out,
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Speaker 3: especially if you get snotty or you see blood or
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Speaker 3: we're pawing at our face. You know, those are times
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Speaker 3: it's probably worth getting checked out.
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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, thank you so much, thank.
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Speaker 2: You, good luck.
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Speaker 4: Here's a text. We went to Trilogy Vet two weeks ago.
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Speaker 4: Shout out to doctor v didn't think I could love
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Speaker 4: a vet more than my current.
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Speaker 3: Vetch Oh, that's awesome. Yeah, doctor Vai is fantastic. She's
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Speaker 3: one of our newer doctors.
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Speaker 2: Make her your new veterinary.
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Speaker 4: Let's see, I have a cat named Kaiser, so he's
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Speaker 4: twenty two and a half years old. Wow, he's a
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Speaker 4: little blind, but that's it. Nothing wrong with him. I'm
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Speaker 4: just bragging it up. That's pretty good, my cranky geezer.
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Speaker 2: As we got Richard online one Richard.
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Speaker 4: We're gonna have to make this one quick. We're running
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Speaker 4: out of time.
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Speaker 2: Richard.
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Speaker 4: Hi, oh sorry, Is there a way to desensitize a
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Speaker 4: kitten to like grooming like water and.
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Speaker 2: Touching? Pause?
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Speaker 3: Just patience and positive reinforcements, so you know, find a
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Speaker 3: favorite treat. The Churu Lick treats are very popular for
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Speaker 3: stuff like that, for nail trimming and grooming. So but
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Speaker 3: just consistency and positive as much as positive with positivity.
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Speaker 2: Okay, well, I hope that's good. Thanks, thanks Richard.
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Speaker 3: Here we go.
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Speaker 1: Hello, it is doctor Josh Davis. You can check them
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Speaker 1: out at Trilogy Veterinary Clinic
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Speaker 3: In Sandy Trilogy at Sandy Yep, come and see us,
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Speaker 3: all right, Thank you, sir, guys,