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Sit, Stay, Socialize! with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Veterinary · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts. Of course, brought
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Speaker 1: to you this morning by Checkout Veterinary onlinethwebsite checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Hope you've had
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Speaker 1: a chance recently to stop by the website. If you
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Speaker 1: haven't done that, it's a great website to learn more about.
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Speaker 1: Checkout veterinarya learn about what makes their clinics so unique.
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Speaker 1: Of course I drive through service. Don't forget also that
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Speaker 1: first apployment at Checkout Veterinary. That visit is free, that exam,
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Speaker 1: it is free. It's a fantastic day to start the relationship.
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Speaker 1: Open seven days a week, nine am until five pm.
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Speaker 1: And again, what a great thing that first visit, that
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Speaker 1: first exam is free to you and your pet. Great
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Speaker 1: day to get on. And of course I'll write at
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Speaker 1: twenty seven to ten Prairie Leags drive in Sun Prairie
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Speaker 1: tell phone number six eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: And joining us this morning is doctor Marty Greer, who
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Speaker 1: is recognized by the Westminster Kennel Club as the Veterinarian
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Speaker 1: of the Year. Doctor. How you doing today.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great. We have such beautiful weather in Wisconsin today.
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Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, it's it is.
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Speaker 1: It's been per It's been just so great. And I
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Speaker 1: know are both both dogs and cats are just I
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Speaker 1: know they love this time a year as well. We're
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Speaker 1: gonna be talking about speaking of this time a year
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Speaker 1: is pet behavior and dog and cat behavior, and of
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Speaker 1: course next week is take your Pets to work Weeks,
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Speaker 1: so also talk behaviors but also socialization as well. But
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Speaker 1: before we get rolling on this week's conversation, I was
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Speaker 1: funny just yesterday I was having a conversation with one
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Speaker 1: of our radio engineers. They are always fun people to
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Speaker 1: talk to. And one of the things we're discussing was
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Speaker 1: sun Prairie and that area just off Highway one fifty
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Speaker 1: one where Checkout vet is and what a great spot
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Speaker 1: that is. And he had commented and I'd seen this
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Speaker 1: as well, like twenty years ago. It was kind of
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Speaker 1: just field and somebody discovered said, hey, you know what,
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Speaker 1: this is a great place to if you want something
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Speaker 1: that that's convenient, this is a great place to put that.
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Speaker 1: And you and the team at Checkout VETDOC, you guys
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Speaker 1: really did a lot of research and there's a good
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Speaker 1: reason why you're located where you are, isn't it?
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Speaker 2: Sure is. As soon as Target went up, I started
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Speaker 2: watching that area because I knew it was an area
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Speaker 2: of great growth. And when we applied for our building permit,
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Speaker 2: our our parent company name is in UH Innovative Veterinary
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Speaker 2: Practices and some purry the board. The city board was like, oh,
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Speaker 2: we love that because we want to be innovative. So
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Speaker 2: immediately they grasped onto the concept of innovation and cool
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Speaker 2: and new and you know, that whole approach. So it's
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Speaker 2: it's delightful being there because it puts in the middle
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Speaker 2: of everything, Like I can walk to Criminal Cookies and
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Speaker 2: I can walk and get a burger. You know, I
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Speaker 2: think I can do everything I need to right from there.
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Speaker 2: It is.
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Speaker 1: It is amazing. You mentioned too about being innovative. Let's
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Speaker 1: talk real quick about the clinic itself, and we talk
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Speaker 1: about that drive through service. It is. This is this
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Speaker 1: is a creation, This is an invention. You put a
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Speaker 1: lot of work into and and really making this UH
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Speaker 1: this clinic very very conducive for really good pet care
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Speaker 1: and really really convenient for pets and their owners.
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Speaker 2: Is well I hope. So that was the goal, was
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Speaker 2: to make it really work well for everybody. Most veterinary
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Speaker 2: clinics are really based on what the staff and the
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Speaker 2: doctors want. It's really client not client centric. It's not
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Speaker 2: patient centric, it's veterinaryan centric, which you know, it's okay,
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Speaker 2: but we can do better. We can do a lot
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Speaker 2: better by putting the patients at the center of everything
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Speaker 2: we do. So there's there's a whole movement toward fear
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Speaker 2: free and those stress and all these things. And you know,
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Speaker 2: we were doing this stuff long before that became a thing.
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Speaker 2: My daughter used to bake liver brownies for the dogs
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Speaker 2: to come in for the appointments, and so for you know,
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Speaker 2: for thirty five plus years, we've been addressing the needs
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Speaker 2: of giving them the peanut butter and the sicken baby
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Speaker 2: food and all this stuff so that they can have
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Speaker 2: a much more pleasant appointment. And in fact, last week
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Speaker 2: I spent a five day course for seven in the
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Speaker 2: morning until o'clock at night every day learning about animal behavior,
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Speaker 2: dog and cat behavior. And one day we went out
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Speaker 2: and did some horse stuff too, So not that I
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Speaker 2: do horses, but it was a really interesting look at
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Speaker 2: how you can train horses with positive reinforcement instead of
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Speaker 2: with the usual techniques that people have always historically done
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Speaker 2: or historically done in our lives tame anyway, So it
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Speaker 2: was great opportunity to sit in the room with like
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Speaker 2: minded people. There were about thirty people in the course
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Speaker 2: and they buy Design Keep It Small. It's top by
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Speaker 2: one of the premier behaviors in the country. That's Karen Overall.
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Speaker 2: And if you aren't familiar with Karen Overall, I would
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Speaker 2: suggest you google her because she has the coolest videos
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Speaker 2: of things like how to teach your dog relaxation techniques
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Speaker 2: and how to teach your dog to hold his breath.
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Speaker 2: So you're saying, well, why do I need to teach
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Speaker 2: him to hold his breath? Well, if you're going to
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Speaker 2: have your vet take an X ray and your dog
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Speaker 2: will hold his breath, then they're not going to need
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Speaker 2: to as much restrainer, as much sedation, or as much
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Speaker 2: of these other things that they might have to if
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Speaker 2: the pet isn't trained for those things. So teach your dog.
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Speaker 2: This is a really good opportunity when you get a
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Speaker 2: young dog or a new dog to go to the vet,
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Speaker 2: do some happy vet visits, not necessarily going and have
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Speaker 2: some thing done where they get blood drawn or vaccinations given,
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Speaker 2: or you know, even maybe an exam. But literally, that's
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Speaker 2: one of the reasons we've set it up at checkout
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Speaker 2: so that and check in now is doing the same,
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Speaker 2: so that you can come in and do that happy visit.
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Speaker 2: Just come in, hop on the scale, walk around, see everybody,
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Speaker 2: take a few threats, go back in the car, and leave,
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Speaker 2: and nothing bad happens to you, so that you now
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Speaker 2: have the experience of thinking that that's a restaurant, that's
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Speaker 2: not a bad clinic. And that's really the approach that
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Speaker 2: we want for all of our patients because it's so
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Speaker 2: much better for the patient if they can be happy
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Speaker 2: and relaxed and learn some of these techniques. Karen Overall's
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Speaker 2: got videos out there if you want to go take
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Speaker 2: a look. You don't have to be a veterinarian to
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Speaker 2: do it. You can just pop right down. I was
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Speaker 2: googling her this morning just to see what was out there,
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Speaker 2: and there's some really cool stuff that's available for the
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Speaker 2: general public to read.
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Speaker 1: You know, doctor one of the things that's interesting is
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Speaker 1: you mentioned you mentioned doctor Overall and and and you know,
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Speaker 1: the approach that she takes. One of the things that
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Speaker 1: you get the opportunity to do is is speak and
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Speaker 1: and also get a chance to listen to speakers. You
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Speaker 1: mentioned these small groups. I know you were recently out
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Speaker 1: actually out by doctor Overalling at Prince Edward Island area.
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Speaker 1: There's a reason why you're you're doing this stuff is
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Speaker 1: is I think you know the old adage, old dog
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Speaker 1: new tricks. Uh, we can all benefit from learning something
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Speaker 1: new and learning learning new ways of approaching that. And
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Speaker 1: I think we talk about the clinic itself, it's a
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Speaker 1: very revolutionary approach and and and and that's not an
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Speaker 1: understatement either and that or excuse me, that's not hyperbole.
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Speaker 1: It is it is really very much a progression of
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Speaker 1: for the better of veterinary care. Let's talk a little
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Speaker 1: bit about about the as we talk about the clinic,
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Speaker 1: about how that's easier for pets overall. And going back
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Speaker 1: to that old dog new tricks, do you guys get
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Speaker 1: older dogs that you're kind of reinitiating into into into
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Speaker 1: pet care veterinary care and really working hard to kind
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Speaker 1: of take some of those past experiences that they may
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Speaker 1: have had at other clinics and kind of give them
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Speaker 1: a new fresh start, and on how you guys approach
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Speaker 1: things that at check out veterinary.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and I love that question. I thought for a
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Speaker 2: minute you were trying to tell me I was oh.
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Speaker 1: Far forward about that at all.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you mean, old agnitrix? So, in fact,
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Speaker 2: I just saw a cat in the last half hour
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Speaker 2: that was diagnosis being diabetic. He's previously not had good
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Speaker 2: veterinary experiences, so he came in today for his blood
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Speaker 2: recheck on his medication, which, by the way, he's on
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Speaker 2: one of the oral medications for cats with diabetes. So
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Speaker 2: if you have a diabet cat, that's something to be
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Speaker 2: aware of, is that there's something new on the market.
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Speaker 2: And he was on GABA Pet's day and it was
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Speaker 2: a world of difference from his first visit when we
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Speaker 2: had never met him before and he came in for
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Speaker 2: his initial diagnosis and today when he came back two
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Speaker 2: weeks later for a recheck, was to say, let's give
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Speaker 2: him some medication and help him feel more comfortable during
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Speaker 2: this handling. Because he's twelve years old, he's never had
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Speaker 2: a good veterinary experience, and it was pretty easy for
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Speaker 2: him to get agitated because we were to let us
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Speaker 2: draw the blood and do his exam, and you know
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Speaker 2: all the things that are required at a veterinary visit.
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Speaker 2: And as hard as veterinarians try to be nice and
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Speaker 2: fear free in all those there's still a certain amount
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Speaker 2: of hands on work that has to happen or else
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Speaker 2: we really can't effectively provide care for your pet. So
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Speaker 2: needles still come with needles, but you can put on
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Speaker 2: ice packs and light it came before you inject them,
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Speaker 2: and you can give them treats to keep them distracted,
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Speaker 2: and you can give them medications. And we actually just
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Speaker 2: had our doctors meeting to have all my doctors on
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Speaker 2: a zoom call today, and there's about fourteen of us,
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Speaker 2: so that's no small task to get everybody in the
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Speaker 2: same room at the same time, or at least on
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Speaker 2: the same zoom call at the same time. And we
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Speaker 2: were discussing which doctors at the practice are comfortable with behavior,
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Speaker 2: and all kinds of hands went up. So they're all
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Speaker 2: comfortable talking about my older doctor, Doctor Dave loves it,
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Speaker 2: Doctor Johnson loves it, Doctor Nyaki, doctor Denny. They all
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Speaker 2: love behavior, and so I think it's important that you
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Speaker 2: go to a place that that's a priority for the
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Speaker 2: practice that behavior is addressed and behavior is managed. So
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Speaker 2: if the food treats, if a ginger snap or peanut
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Speaker 2: butter isn't enough, that we can pull the appropriate drugs.
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Speaker 2: Because things like benadru that's an ana histamine, not an
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Speaker 2: anti anxiety drug. People of use day's promising for many years.
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Speaker 2: Well it's a sedative, but it's not anti anxiety. It
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Speaker 2: just paralyzes them so they're still terrified, but they can't
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Speaker 2: do anything. So it's important that you go to a
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Speaker 2: place that embraces the importance of behavior and importance and
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Speaker 2: behavior modification and medications to make everything go better. And
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Speaker 2: just to say in two weeks is the fourth of July,
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Speaker 2: and so if we're tension, we're going to have fireworks
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Speaker 2: going off in the neighborhood. And not the cats as
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Speaker 2: much because they typically are indoors, but the drugs can
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Speaker 2: be absolutely terrified. And it is the number one day
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Speaker 2: for dogs to run away from home is the fourth
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Speaker 2: of July, So people need to be aware of that,
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Speaker 2: they need to have safety measures in place. If they're
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Speaker 2: dog does have anxiety, gets your medications in advance, because
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Speaker 2: there's some really good meds to help your pets with that.
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Speaker 2: Get a collar on with your ID, you know, your
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Speaker 2: cell phone number on it. Put something fun on the
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Speaker 2: collar like have your people call my people, or my
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Speaker 2: mom's shrinking. You know things that tell people when they
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Speaker 2: read the tag that you really do want this pet.
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Speaker 2: It's an accident that it ran away. It wasn't because
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Speaker 2: you were careless. Get your phone number on there. Get
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Speaker 2: your microchip done. We're doing microchip specials in Sun Prairie
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Speaker 2: this week because we want to make sure everybody is microchiped.
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Speaker 2: And once you get your microchip, make sure it's registered,
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Speaker 2: because an unregistered microchip traces it back to your vet clinic,
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Speaker 2: but it doesn't get the pets back home. So those
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Speaker 2: are some really important things. So this is the time
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Speaker 2: to be your vet clinic and saying I need help.
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Speaker 2: My dog is got anxiety with the fireworks, with thunderstorms
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Speaker 2: and whatever it happens to be. Can I get some
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Speaker 2: medication Because A you need it in advance, your vet
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Speaker 2: can't give it too on the force of July, they're
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Speaker 2: likely to be closed. B you need drugs are going
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Speaker 2: to help your pet, and C you need to know
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Speaker 2: which drugs at which dose are going to help your pet,
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Speaker 2: because not every pet responds the same to every drug.
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Speaker 2: So I think it's really important that people aren't doing
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Speaker 2: this self medicating stuff with things that they can buy
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Speaker 2: over the counter, or that they're putting it to the
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Speaker 2: last minute and then not being prepared for the eventuality,
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Speaker 2: which is the fourth of July is coming, it's going
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Speaker 2: to be here.
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Speaker 1: I live in an area that's got a lot of
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Speaker 1: resort type folks who come from a state south of ours,
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Speaker 1: and they really like to start. Yeah, they as soon
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Speaker 1: as as soon as as soon as June rolls around,
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Speaker 1: they start they start igniting things. And that is something
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Speaker 1: that that I think a lot of pet owners are
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Speaker 1: often surprised by is how not only the effect that
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Speaker 1: the fireworks have on their on their dogs, but how
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Speaker 1: strong and how fast a dog can be when they're scared.
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Speaker 1: Is they're going to get out of there? Is we
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Speaker 1: talk about about behavior and our expectation. I think sometimes
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Speaker 1: we and correct me if it wrong that we kind of,
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Speaker 1: you know, we have like these known behaviors of how
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Speaker 1: our pets are gonna gonna react, and we don't always
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Speaker 1: anticipate something that terrifies them. Just how quickly they can.
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Speaker 1: They can get out of there if they feel if
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Speaker 1: they feel in danger.
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Speaker 2: Right and people people say, well, why are they so
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Speaker 2: afraid of it, Well, they don't understand it. There's splashing
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Speaker 2: life in the sky, there's all these loud noises. They
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Speaker 2: probably hear noises that you and I can't hear because
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Speaker 2: of their specialized hearing it. So there's all these things
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Speaker 2: that are happening and there's not a good way to
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Speaker 2: exclim it to them. It's like taking a two year
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Speaker 2: old to fires and not having the children understanding is
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Speaker 2: you can't really explain to them what's happening. The same
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Speaker 2: with the thunderstorm, and they start to when they have
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Speaker 2: thunderstorm anxiety, they start to react similarly, but they back
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Speaker 2: they it's called back chaining. So first they'll hear the
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Speaker 2: storm when it's happening and there's rain and thunder and
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Speaker 2: all this stuff, and then they realize, okay, before that happens,
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Speaker 2: there's lightning. And then they realize before that happens, there's
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Speaker 2: a barometric pressure drop, and then they start to get
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Speaker 2: nervous about that. So dogs will learn very quickly, and
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Speaker 2: you're right, they can bolt. You know, you have the
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Speaker 2: door open a crack just just far enough to reach
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Speaker 2: out and you know, hand something and the dog is
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Speaker 2: out the door, gone down the street and it's usually
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Speaker 2: dark and it's gone. It's just and it's heartbreaking when
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Speaker 2: it happens. I've seen it happen too many times. So
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Speaker 2: we just have to be very protective of our pets.
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Speaker 2: So there's there's great drugs on the market. You can
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Speaker 2: talk to you about about Cilio, which is actually a
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Speaker 2: drug that able specifically for noise anxiety. It's given as
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Speaker 2: a gel and it's put inside the dog's mouth but
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Speaker 2: they don't have to swallow the drug for us to work.
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Speaker 2: It's a really unique drug delivery system that's developed over
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Speaker 2: in Sweden, and so if you put this drug on
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Speaker 2: the dog's gums, it absorbs through the gum and goes
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Speaker 2: directly to the brain through the pathways. It doesn't have
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Speaker 2: to go through the stomach into the circulation and then
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Speaker 2: to the brain. It immediately goes through the brain. So
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Speaker 2: it's very cool. There's other drugs that we have that
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Speaker 2: are really quite good. There's benzodiazepine, and there are gabinoids,
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Speaker 2: gabapentan and the like. Pregablin that can be really helpful
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Speaker 2: for these dogs. And sometimes it takes the cocktail to
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Speaker 2: not have them so sedate that they're sleeping, but relaxed
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Speaker 2: enough that they aren't panicking. And you know, it's hard
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Speaker 2: to understand, but I have a phobia. I have a
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Speaker 2: phobia pipe And you can tell me all day long,
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Speaker 2: you're not going to fall, you'll be fine, but I
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Speaker 2: have this very guttural response that that's how I react.
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Speaker 2: And it's the same with our dogs. So it's not
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Speaker 2: like you can reason with them and talk them out
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Speaker 2: of it. It's not like playing soft sounds of fireworks
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Speaker 2: and thunderstorms are going to decent them. Sometimes it just
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Speaker 2: flat out take anti anxiety medication and there's nothing to
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Speaker 2: be ashamed of or embarrassed about. If that's what your
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Speaker 2: pet needs, get your the help they need, and find
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Speaker 2: a vet clinic that is willing to work with you.
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Speaker 2: And if you're going to a clinic that seems reluctant
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Speaker 2: or unsure about what drug therapy they should be using,
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Speaker 2: please contact us because we have a whole array of
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Speaker 2: great veterinarians that are young and old and smart and
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Speaker 2: are accustomed to managing these dogs. They may have dogs
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Speaker 2: themselves like this. They've had experiences in school and they've
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Speaker 2: been in rotations that you know, have different vet clinics,
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Speaker 2: so they've learned all this stuff. So please take advantage
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Speaker 2: of it and don't wait until the fifth of July
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Speaker 2: to realize you should.
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Speaker 1: Have done some talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer
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Speaker 1: of Checkout Veterinary. Don't forget Checkout Vet Veterinary open seven
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Speaker 1: days week, nine am until five pm. Great data, start
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Speaker 1: that relationship. New patients are being accepted right now. Get
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Speaker 1: your pet in. Don't forget that first visit, that first exam.
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Speaker 1: It is free. Their telephone number six oh eight three
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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six oh eight three
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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven of one hundred. And doctor has
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Speaker 1: kind of come up the last couple of weeks, and
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Speaker 1: I I don't know that I've I hope other folks
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Speaker 1: have picked up on this, But one of the things
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Speaker 1: that that I've noticed in the past couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: is really the importance of expressing and talking with your vet,
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Speaker 1: not just about your pet care, but kind of your
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Speaker 1: values and where things are, what's important to you, and
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Speaker 1: making sure that that that those things align. For example,
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Speaker 1: as you mentioned, some vets maybe hesitant to do things
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Speaker 1: like prescribe medication. If you're somebody who you know who
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Speaker 1: feels as though that's the right route, it's important to
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Speaker 1: have that conversation with the VET and make sure that
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Speaker 1: that your that your ideas and your feelings match up
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Speaker 1: on that right.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, And I think that's a very important point, and
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Speaker 2: it is one that you have options for. There's veterinary
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Speaker 2: clinics all over Madison, and if you feel like the
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Speaker 2: clinics that you're going to doesn't align with what's important
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Speaker 2: to you, check out other places because, as you've said,
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Speaker 2: we have first exam free, so you can come and
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Speaker 2: get to know us and see if we're going to
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Speaker 2: fit yourself for the style of your pet, because it's
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Speaker 2: a really important relationship. We're the other family doctor. We're
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Speaker 2: not just you're you know, like you've got a pediatrician,
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Speaker 2: you've got a physician, you've got a dentist. But we're
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Speaker 2: part of your family too. And I love it when
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Speaker 2: my clients have long standing relationships with us. I have
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Speaker 2: clients that have been clients of us for forty four years,
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Speaker 2: So to me, that's a really important relationship, and I
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Speaker 2: know how they think what they want. You know, we're
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Speaker 2: friends outside the clinic, and it's just really important that
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Speaker 2: people feel comfortable with their vet, that they can get
16:32
Speaker 2: the kind of a care address that they need. And
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Speaker 2: it's it's not the same for everybody, but we guarantee
16:38
Speaker 2: a one size fits all is not what we're going
16:40
Speaker 2: to provide to you. We're going to give you the
16:42
Speaker 2: options for how your pet care needs to go, whether
16:45
Speaker 2: it's regarding an illness or you know, a serious injury,
16:48
Speaker 2: or just regular old routine care. We do instead of
16:52
Speaker 2: if you don't want to do a vaccination every year,
16:54
Speaker 2: we do tighters instead every two or three years. So
16:57
Speaker 2: we have a lot of tools in our toolbox and
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Speaker 2: we're happy to pull them all out and help you
17:01
Speaker 2: because my doctors are very willing to be young and
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Speaker 2: flexible and smart and thoughtful about what fits your needs,
17:10
Speaker 2: your lifestyle, your pets needs and lifestyle. So don't hesitate
17:13
Speaker 2: to let us know you want to come in and
17:15
Speaker 2: get some help.
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Speaker 1: Really good data to start that conversation, start that relationship.
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Speaker 1: I got to do this morning. Pick a phone, give
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Speaker 1: them a call sixh eight three one eight sixty seven
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Speaker 1: hundred for checkout vet again. That's six oh eight three
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Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred, where I saw all the
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Speaker 1: information right online checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. Of course, at first first visit that exam,
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Speaker 1: it is free at checkout vet again, all the details
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Speaker 1: online check out vet dot com. Or to continue our
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Speaker 1: conversation with doctor Marty Grere, we will do that next
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Speaker 1: as ask the experts with Checkout Veterinary continues right here
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Speaker 1: on thirteen ten wu ib A thirteen ten wi b
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Speaker 1: A and ask the experts talking this morning with doctor
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Speaker 1: Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website checkout vet dot com.
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Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. I didn't mention before the break,
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Speaker 1: and I feel terrible about it because this is big news.
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Speaker 1: Open seven days week, nine am until five pm at
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Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinarian. Don't forget. Of course, at first visit at
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Speaker 1: exam that is free. I get to pick a phone,
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Speaker 1: get to call six eight three six sixty seven hundred,
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Speaker 1: that's six eight three one eight sixty seven hundred, and
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Speaker 1: of course online checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. Speaking of pet behavior, and I saw on
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Speaker 1: the calendar next week is uh, take your pet to
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Speaker 1: work week, And for certain pets it is a great treat,
18:31
Speaker 1: it's a great opportunity. Other pets maybe not the not
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Speaker 1: the best thing, but a lot of it comes back
18:36
Speaker 1: to as we were talking about behavior behavior for cats
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Speaker 1: and dogs in that last segment, really the importance of
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Speaker 1: socialization and really getting your your pets started early around
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Speaker 1: other people, other pets, other situations to kind of make
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Speaker 1: that and also we talked about it at the clinic
18:53
Speaker 1: as well, making them very comfortable in those environments, and
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Speaker 1: that stuff starts earlier the better, right.
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Speaker 2: Doctor, Absolutely, we try to work really hard with the
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Speaker 2: puppies when they come in. As you already know, we
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Speaker 2: do work with some breeders at the Lamira practice and
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Speaker 2: so we have the opportunity to see lots of cool puppies,
19:13
Speaker 2: and we work really hard even at that very first
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Speaker 2: visit to get you in and make it a positive
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Speaker 2: experience that we're not just going to you know, make
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Speaker 2: you tough it out, that we can do some really
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Speaker 2: fun stuff. So it's very important and certainly if you're
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Speaker 2: thinking of taking your pet to work, that's another opportunity
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Speaker 2: for you to get some socialization. Make sure that they're
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Speaker 2: comfortable around it. So if your dog is good with
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Speaker 2: other dogs, that's a great opportunity. If your dog's not
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Speaker 2: great with other dogs, maybe this isn't the year to
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Speaker 2: take your dog to work. Maybe you work on it
19:42
Speaker 2: before and now between now and next year, at that
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Speaker 2: time it's appropriate for you to do it. You want
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Speaker 2: to be careful when you're doing things like going to
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Speaker 2: the dog park and you know, going to the gurmur
19:55
Speaker 2: or going to the bed and people are like, oh,
19:57
Speaker 2: my dog's great with other dogs. Well maybe yours is,
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Speaker 2: but not all of them are. So you want to
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Speaker 2: be careful that you're attentive to what's happening with the
20:05
Speaker 2: other dogs that are there, because sometimes your dog may
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Speaker 2: be super friendly and the dog that it's running up
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Speaker 2: to is not so comfortable. So you know, just think
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Speaker 2: about those things. But your opportunities to socialize don't end
20:17
Speaker 2: when the puppy is young. It starts when they're young.
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Speaker 2: Puppies critical social period starts when they're seven weeks old. Kittens, interestingly,
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Speaker 2: are from three to seven weeks, and by seven weeks
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Speaker 2: their social period is the door has slammed shut, which
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Speaker 2: I think is kind of interesting. But dogs just start
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Speaker 2: at seven weeks, So even if you did get an
20:35
Speaker 2: older dog or a dog that has some behavioral issues,
20:38
Speaker 2: doesn't mean that you can't help them and you can't
20:40
Speaker 2: teach them new things. So get some help, you know,
20:43
Speaker 2: get some drugs if you need to. It's okay, there's
20:46
Speaker 2: nothing to be embarrassed about. Your veterinary is not going
20:48
Speaker 2: to tell you don't need them, but they're going to
20:51
Speaker 2: help you to guide to the right drugs because not
20:54
Speaker 2: every drug works for every dog at the same post,
20:57
Speaker 2: so it takes a little bit of finesse to figure
20:59
Speaker 2: out which cock sale to use, which combination of things
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Speaker 2: to make.
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Speaker 1: Work and doctor. Before we wrapped this week, as we're
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Speaker 1: talking about really important stuff for your for your pet,
21:07
Speaker 1: I also mentioned, of course, and it's important to point
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Speaker 1: out at checkout Vet, that first visit, that exam, that
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Speaker 1: first visit that's free. Let's talk about about the clinic
21:16
Speaker 1: itself and a little bit about that experience for folks
21:19
Speaker 1: that haven't been into check out Vet yet, Let's talk
21:22
Speaker 1: a little bit about what goes on, how that first
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Speaker 1: visit works, and what folks and their pets can expect.
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Speaker 2: Sure, so check in is just like every other vet
21:30
Speaker 2: clinic you've been to. You park your car in the
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Speaker 2: parking lot. We try to keep you in the parking lot.
21:34
Speaker 2: We had one person ran a car into the building
21:37
Speaker 2: last year. That's another conversation. So you parked a car,
21:40
Speaker 2: come in at check out, you pull up to the
21:43
Speaker 2: garage door. We put the door up. You pull into
21:45
Speaker 2: a garage bay and it's your own garage bay. When
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Speaker 2: you're there, you're the only vehicle in there. Your pets
21:49
Speaker 2: are the only pets in there, so you can come in.
21:52
Speaker 2: If your dog is comfortable being cared for in the vehicle,
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Speaker 2: in the backseat or in the hatch of the minivan
21:59
Speaker 2: or the hatch of the suv, that's great. They can
22:01
Speaker 2: stay in there. If their mobility isn't good, this is great.
22:03
Speaker 2: If your mobility isn't good, it's great because you don't
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Speaker 2: have to get out. If your pet is comfortable out
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Speaker 2: of the car, they can walk around in the garage.
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Speaker 2: We have a step up exam table in the garage
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Speaker 2: so that they can get onto the table themselves and
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Speaker 2: then they can sit on that if we need to
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Speaker 2: do something like draw blood. And then if they're a
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Speaker 2: little dog or a cat then won't take them into
22:22
Speaker 2: the examiner, and that's next to it, so you never
22:25
Speaker 2: lose track of where your vehicle is. If you've got
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Speaker 2: your two year old sleeping in the car, or a
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Speaker 2: grandma that's in the vehicle with you and you're a
22:32
Speaker 2: little worried that she might grab the keys and take
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Speaker 2: off because she forgot she wasn't supposed to drive. You're
22:36
Speaker 2: right next to the vehicle, so you've got all the
22:38
Speaker 2: advantages of being at a drive through. So it's just
22:42
Speaker 2: like the drive through oil changes or the places that
22:44
Speaker 2: they do other work. You can just pull in, sit
22:47
Speaker 2: in your car, we can do your stuff, you can
22:49
Speaker 2: come in if you want. You can see in your vehicle,
22:50
Speaker 2: you can see through the window into the examiner. So
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Speaker 2: it works out really quite well for almost situation. Kids,
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Speaker 2: both people, little dogs, big dogs, hat many dogs. If
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Speaker 2: you want to bring six dogs at the same appointment, hey,
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Speaker 2: we do that a lot, so it's all fine. I
23:08
Speaker 2: don't recommend that you bring six cats.
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Speaker 1: Yeah you'll, you'll, you'll make a you'll, you'll find a way.
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Speaker 1: But I know I got the doctors. I guarantee everybody
23:17
Speaker 1: gets giddy when you pull up. If you got a
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Speaker 1: car full of puppies. I think everybody you'll yeah. The
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Speaker 1: other the other thing that's important to mention too, is
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Speaker 1: for folks that are curious, I know you love, for
23:28
Speaker 1: folks that just want to stop on in, take a
23:29
Speaker 1: look at it. Very welcoming, very great environment. It's really
23:33
Speaker 1: a good day again. I would say, start that relationship.
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Speaker 1: Make that call today. If you want to learn more
23:38
Speaker 1: about check out bet The website's fantastic. If you want
23:40
Speaker 1: to stop on in a great day to visit twenty
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Speaker 1: seven to ten Prairie Lakes, drive in sun Prairie even better,
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Speaker 1: pick up the phone, make that appointment today. Don't forget
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Speaker 1: that first visit. They're so welcoming that first visit. It's free.
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Speaker 1: That exam is free. I'll get just pickup phone, give
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Speaker 1: a call. Six o' eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred,
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Speaker 1: doctor Gear. Thank you so much time for taking time
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Speaker 1: with us this morning. Have safe travels and we'll talk
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Speaker 1: real soon.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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