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Vet Josh Davis Q&A from April 22nd, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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Speaker 1: This is brought to you by Trilogy Vetsandy dot com
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Speaker 1: and we have the vet from Trilogy Vet.
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Speaker 2: Here with this, you could say this is feature. This
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Speaker 2: feature is sponsored by doctor Josh Davis.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I can sponsor that.
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Speaker 4: Hi, good morning.
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Speaker 2: Doctor Davis is here to answer questions if you have them,
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Speaker 2: about what's ailing your pet puppies and kiddies, your dogs
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Speaker 2: and your cats, behavioral problems, itching problems, skin problems, behavioral problems.
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Speaker 4: All of that.
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Speaker 5: Well, while we're waiting for our phone calls and texts
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Speaker 5: to come in, let's see, well we got one here.
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Speaker 5: That's not a very serious question. I have two Chihuahua mixes,
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Speaker 5: Groot and Keanu. Groot and ke Keanu likes to burrow
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Speaker 5: under the blanket. Groot likes to cuddle on top of it.
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Speaker 5: Why does Keano like to burrow underneath?
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Speaker 1: I think, and my guess would just be prefer You know, dogs,
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Speaker 1: dogs and cats are they're a lot like us. They
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Speaker 1: prefer certain things and those small dogs like that, they
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Speaker 1: just they love to be warm. So yeah, it doesn't
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Speaker 1: surprise me at all.
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Speaker 5: My husband had a Chihuahua before we got married, and
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Speaker 5: that dog would burrow under a blanket, and I would
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Speaker 5: be worried.
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Speaker 3: He was going to suffocate. I'm like, how does he
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Speaker 3: breathe in there? They like twist themselves up, and I'm like,
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Speaker 3: I don't know how. He's like, he's fine, he likes it. Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Well, my two hairless cats there like that. I mean,
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Speaker 1: if you can't find them, you know they're under a
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Speaker 1: blanket somewhere.
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Speaker 3: They just are.
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Speaker 4: Let's see.
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Speaker 5: Occasionally, my mom watched my dog Ozzie, a Sheetsu mix,
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Speaker 5: but for some reason, he will not eat and drink
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Speaker 5: when he's at her house.
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Speaker 4: Hmmm.
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Speaker 5: As soon as he gets home though, it's straight to
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Speaker 5: his food and water. What can I do to get
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Speaker 5: him to eat when he's not home?
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Speaker 3: That one?
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Speaker 1: We do see that a lot with folks when they
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Speaker 1: go on vacation or something and have family members or
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Speaker 1: friends watching their pets or even go into boarding. They
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Speaker 1: just it's out of their root. And I think there's
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Speaker 1: a stress component to that as well. And some dogs
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Speaker 1: they just they just won't do it. And so I
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Speaker 1: think that trying to get them used to that environment beforehand,
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Speaker 1: So maybe playdates or sleepovers where they're going to be staying,
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Speaker 1: just to just to try and acclimate them a little bit. Also,
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Speaker 1: if you could get someone to come stay at your
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Speaker 1: house so at least they're not in a strange place.
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Speaker 3: Things like that can be helpful.
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Speaker 4: So all right, let's go to Kathy. Kathy, Hi, Kathy,
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Speaker 4: you have a key.
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Speaker 6: Good morning.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, what's your kiddy's name?
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Speaker 3: Yes, Oscar Oscar.
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Speaker 4: What's a problem with Oscar?
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Speaker 6: Oscar has had really really mad and everything, had him shaved.
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Speaker 6: He's very very skinny. Took him to the vet. His
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Speaker 6: glucose is high. It's but six twelve. I think they've
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Speaker 6: had six twelve twelve and so they recommended high protein diet,
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Speaker 6: and I'm just wondering if there's any recommendations.
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Speaker 1: I think you should probably start treating for diabetes. At
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Speaker 1: that point. Six hundred is very very high, and that's
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Speaker 1: probably why we're so skinny. And some cats get they
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Speaker 1: just get sick from that, and if they get to
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Speaker 1: a certain point, they can go into what's called diabetic
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Speaker 1: keto acidosis. And you don't want him to get there
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Speaker 1: because it's very hard to turn them around.
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Speaker 3: So the high protein.
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Speaker 1: Diet is great, and that's not a bad thing to do,
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Speaker 1: but you probably need to be on treatment for diabetes.
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Speaker 2: At this point, I warn you I have a diabetic cat, Claus,
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Speaker 2: and he gets two shots a day, one in the
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Speaker 2: morning and one at night. And it's that's kind of
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Speaker 2: that's a big commitment. And he's still fatter than ever.
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Speaker 6: By the way, Yeah, Oscar is very very skinny. He
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Speaker 6: eats like a horse, though.
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Speaker 3: I mean, and that's the diabetes right there.
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Speaker 1: They'll eat a lot, they drink a lot, they peel
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Speaker 1: a lot, but they can't keep weight on and that's
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Speaker 1: because they can't use that blood sugar.
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Speaker 3: So I would get treatment going for sure.
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Speaker 4: All right, Okay, there you go, thank you. All right,
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Speaker 4: let's go to Rachel. Hi, Rachel, Rachel. What's your cat's name?
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Speaker 7: Luna?
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Speaker 4: Luna? Okay, what's Luna's problem?
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Speaker 7: She's getting really cynicky with me when I'm trying to,
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Speaker 7: like trim her nails. She didn't always used to be,
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Speaker 7: you know, kind of upset when I trimmed her nails,
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Speaker 7: but now she gets upset when I touch her paws,
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Speaker 7: and I'm wondering if maybe I should take her in
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Speaker 7: to get X rays or if there's something else that
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Speaker 7: might be going on.
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Speaker 4: Maybe she doesn't care for the color of nail paul ash.
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Speaker 3: You've selected, that's true.
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Speaker 7: Maybe Purple's not her dollar.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, I mean a couple of things could be going on.
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Speaker 1: I mean some some cats and dogs for that matter.
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Speaker 1: If if you've ever you know, trim their nails and
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Speaker 1: they tolerate it well.
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Speaker 3: But then if you.
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Speaker 1: Ever get too close to those quicks, even if you
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Speaker 1: don't cut them and make them bleed, that that can
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Speaker 1: be sensitive and sometimes painful. So that can be a
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Speaker 1: factor for some pets. And also just over time, sometimes
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Speaker 1: they don't like the restraint, they don't like the process
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Speaker 1: of it.
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Speaker 3: Trying to make it as positive as you can.
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Speaker 1: The little tube like Trurou treats or similar treats are
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Speaker 1: great for that. They do make really good restraint blankets
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Speaker 1: that are more comforting than just kind of holding them down.
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Speaker 3: Those are helpful.
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Speaker 1: But also I think it's worth getting checked out because
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Speaker 1: cats can have other issues with their feet, they can
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Speaker 1: have issues with their popads. X rays I would only
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Speaker 1: do if we're worried about a swelling or a possible fracture,
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Speaker 1: because otherwise you don't see a lot that way with
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Speaker 1: X rays, But some of those other things might be
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Speaker 1: worth checking. And also if their claws get too long,
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Speaker 1: they can overgrow and puncture into their popads sometimes, So
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Speaker 1: there's just lots of factors there. So if nothing else,
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Speaker 1: get the feet checked out, get the cat checked out,
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Speaker 1: and then we could make a plan from there.
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Speaker 7: Right, okay, thank you so much.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 5: I tried trimming our dog's claws once, and that's when
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Speaker 5: I realized, Nope, I didn't know it was a cat
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Speaker 5: A long time for which cat it was.
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Speaker 2: It was so many years ago. I didn't know about
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Speaker 2: the quick and so I started to well and I
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Speaker 2: didn't even know what I didn't know what existed, and
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Speaker 2: blood started pouring out of.
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Speaker 4: The cats, and I'm going, oh my god, what have
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Speaker 4: I done.
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Speaker 1: It's very painful, and they never forget. I'll tell you,
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Speaker 1: I'll never forget.
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Speaker 4: I know. I had to get rid of that cat.
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Speaker 3: All right, that's joking.
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Speaker 2: All right, more questions for our veterinarian friend, doctor Josh Davis.
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Speaker 4: There are two people holding been there for a long time. Hello,
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Speaker 4: all right, this is Julie. Hi, Julie, what uh? Hi?
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Speaker 4: Good morning? You got a cat?
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Speaker 8: Huh?
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Speaker 4: What's the cat's name?
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Speaker 8: Ming?
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Speaker 2: Mingling ding? Okay, it's a long name. What do you
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Speaker 2: just call them for short mingor Okay, what's what's the problem.
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Speaker 8: So he will be fifteen next month, and he's just
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Speaker 8: gradually started losing weight. So we've tried to supplement with
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Speaker 8: more canned cat food squeeze up. He gets like deli meat,
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Speaker 8: rotissory chicken meat, but he's just not putting on weight,
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Speaker 8: and we're not sure if we should be concerned or
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Speaker 8: if this is typical for a fifteen year old cat.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's really good question, and I think that for
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Speaker 1: that age, I do think you should get some diagnostics done.
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Speaker 1: The most common issues for older cats is chronic kidney
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Speaker 1: disease will do similar things. Also hyper thyroid, so high
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Speaker 1: thyroid hormone can cause that, and then like the previous
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Speaker 1: cat we talked to, diabetes can cause that to happen two.
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Speaker 1: So old cats shouldn't just get skinny. And if you're
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Speaker 1: feeding all that stuff and they're still not gaining weight,
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Speaker 1: that would be a problem for me for sure.
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Speaker 3: And if we have kidney disease.
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Speaker 1: Then throwing all that protein in there also can accelerate
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Speaker 1: that kidney disease. So yeah, I would definitely get some
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Speaker 1: lab testing done so we could know exactly what the
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Speaker 1: problem is, because it's not normal. They don't just get
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Speaker 1: old and get skinny most of the time. There's a
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Speaker 1: reason for that.
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Speaker 8: Okay, are there other like symptoms that I should look
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Speaker 8: for that might tell me that it's a kidney disease?
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Speaker 1: The other common ones are they can drink a lot
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Speaker 1: of water and peel a lot, so that's pretty common. Also,
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Speaker 1: they can have vomiting episodes. They can have high blood pressure,
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Speaker 1: so that can cause them to be lethargic. Some cats
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Speaker 1: can go blind from that. So yeah, I think it's
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Speaker 1: worth definitely worth getting checked out.
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Speaker 4: Okay, okay, all right, Julie, thank you. Let's go to George. Hello, George, George,
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Speaker 4: what kind of animal do you have?
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Speaker 9: So this is my house. We have a husky. We
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Speaker 9: have an older cat that's fourteen years old, and then
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Speaker 9: we have another kit and that's probably between one and
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Speaker 9: two years old. And I just got an orange tabby
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Speaker 9: that's a little over a year old.
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Speaker 3: Wow.
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Speaker 9: And they won't integrate with each other like well the
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Speaker 9: other ones will. The new tabby is terrorizing the rest.
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Speaker 9: Even the husky doesn't want anything to.
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Speaker 3: Do with You need a house all the time.
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Speaker 9: Well, I have a downstairs basements where we've kept the tabby,
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Speaker 9: and now the tabby has gotten territorial of the downstairs.
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Speaker 9: Anybody comes down the stairs, he runs after him, Yeah, everybody.
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Speaker 9: And then when I bring him up into the rest
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Speaker 9: of the house, all he does is run underneath the
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Speaker 9: couch and won't come out.
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Speaker 4: Where did you get this cat?
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Speaker 9: I bought him at pat Co. He was from Celestial
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Speaker 9: Zoo adoption.
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Speaker 4: So he was a mature cat. Where you got him.
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Speaker 9: About they said his birth he is about a year
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Speaker 9: and a month.
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Speaker 2: Old, traumatized him somewhere along the.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's definitely.
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Speaker 8: Yeah.
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Speaker 9: And I've tried like taking stuff from the other cats
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Speaker 9: and putting it in where he's at and vice versa,
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Speaker 9: and all they do is either hiss at each other
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Speaker 9: or try to attack each other.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you may. So that's definitely a tough spot.
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Speaker 1: Anytime you integrate a new cat, it's always, uh, there's
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Speaker 1: always a chance for things like this to happen. You know,
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Speaker 1: sometimes they're friends and sometimes not. But I do think
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Speaker 1: that I'm taking it slow. Sounds like you've been keeping
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Speaker 1: them separated and trying to do small introductions. I would
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Speaker 1: definitely get more things going on with the pheromone therapies
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Speaker 1: like the felays, just using all those tools, and some
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Speaker 1: cats where they have that really hard kind of that
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Speaker 1: they can play aggression, they can have the stress and
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Speaker 1: aggression or territory illness.
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Speaker 3: Some of those cats.
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Speaker 1: We even need to progress to actual behavior medication and
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Speaker 1: a lot of vacation because at some point you're either gonna,
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Speaker 1: you know, give up on the cat, or somebody's going
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Speaker 1: to get seriously injured and then you know, and then
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Speaker 1: it's a tougher decision to make in those cases. So
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Speaker 1: I do think that it may be getting close to
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Speaker 1: where you want to just be more just more aggressive
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Speaker 1: with therapies, but there are lots of things, the shirts,
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Speaker 1: the collars, the FeelA ways, different ways to go about that.
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Speaker 1: But it may maybe progress beyond that too.
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Speaker 4: How about sedatives of some sort, Yeah.
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Speaker 1: They fall into that category of kind of the behavior
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Speaker 1: modifying medications, you know, and the sedatives can be helpful
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Speaker 1: for the short term, but we always want to find
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Speaker 1: long term solutions with that.
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Speaker 4: So yeah, I'm sorry.
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Speaker 2: You know, I have an orange cat and he's he
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Speaker 2: got traumatized somewhere before we ever got him, and he's
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Speaker 2: just he's always had problems, and he's gotten better as
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Speaker 2: he's gotten older and slowed down. And I always got
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Speaker 2: the diabetes. That's that slows him down even more. But
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Speaker 2: you know, he just never got We've tried it, we
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Speaker 2: tried everything, and just he's a weirdo.
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Speaker 9: Well this aren't this aren't tabby. He loves people, he'll
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Speaker 9: sit there and love on you all over the place,
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Speaker 9: but another animal comes around and he's like, I'll kill you.
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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, that territory illness.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I do think it may be worth considering,
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Speaker 1: like behavior modification.
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Speaker 4: Sure you mind, try and offer him some malasagna.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, also I assumed, but he's putting him in a
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Speaker 9: carrier and putting him in the living room so he
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Speaker 9: can't go underneath the couch and all he does is
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Speaker 9: sit there and me out, O, me out. Yeah, try
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Speaker 9: and care through the carrier.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, that'll make him feel trapped. So yeah, I don't.
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Speaker 3: But also yeah, just I would assume so, but make sure.
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Speaker 1: If he's not neutered, that would be helpful. But usually
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Speaker 1: if they're adopted.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, so sorry, it's just he's a mess.
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Speaker 3: Yeah sorry, George, all right, all right, right, that's okay.
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Speaker 5: That leads to this text question, is there such a
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Speaker 5: thing as too much cat nip?
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Speaker 3: Can they od on?
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Speaker 1: Such a good question as far as the od part, No,
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Speaker 1: I mean, it's it mostly mimics like a pheromone.
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Speaker 3: So what some cats will do, though, is they'll eat a.
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Speaker 1: Lot of it, and then they can get you know,
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Speaker 1: gastro intestinal upset from that. So that's usually the biggest
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Speaker 1: thing you gotta watch out for.
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Speaker 2: My parents grew a big cat nip plant out in
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Speaker 2: the garden and they put a like a net over
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Speaker 2: it or something, you know, kind of a little cage
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Speaker 2: over it, so because all the cats in the neighborhood
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Speaker 2: would come and decimated if it weren't covered and protected someone.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, fresh catnip, they love that stuff. Yeah, and even
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Speaker 1: the dried stuff they love it. But usually they'll they'll
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Speaker 1: just get tired of it and kind of move on.
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Speaker 1: But they get pretty crazy. It's fun to watch them.
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Speaker 4: Let's go to Sally. Hello, Sally, Sally, what's your question? Oh,
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Speaker 4: it's a puppy question. We have all cat questions and
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Speaker 4: telling me a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of cats today.
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Speaker 4: What's your what's your puppies name?
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Speaker 6: His name is Remy.
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Speaker 8: He's fifteen weeks No, he is just really aggressive. He
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Speaker 8: really only likes me.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, he's in menace.
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Speaker 7: He always is like biting people, and I just wanted
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Speaker 7: to know how I could help with that.
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Speaker 2: What kind of puppy is it? What what breed of dog,
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Speaker 2: teacup or Oh, well.
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Speaker 1: He's like a pound, you know, tiny little guy, the
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Speaker 1: biggest thing, you know for the for the short term,
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Speaker 1: and he's getting to the age where you're probably.
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Speaker 3: Getting through your vaccine series.
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Speaker 1: So I would definitely look into some puppy training courses
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Speaker 1: because even though the small breeds, they can be a
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Speaker 1: little more difficult for that kind of training, but I
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Speaker 1: think you have to you have to get them used
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Speaker 1: to that because even though they're small, they can they
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Speaker 1: can cause.
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Speaker 3: Some pretty serious injuries.
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Speaker 1: So you know, if they get out of that zone
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Speaker 1: of where they're playing versus they get that really strong
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Speaker 1: bond to you and then they have anxiety around everyone else,
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Speaker 1: and so I think you got to kind of push
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Speaker 1: out of that zone.
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Speaker 3: So puppy training would be good.
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Speaker 1: And also if you have you know, close friends and family,
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Speaker 1: is like have them take him for the day or
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Speaker 1: part of the day to get him used to other
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Speaker 1: people and other environments. And that can be another way
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Speaker 1: to kind of get them used to those things.
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Speaker 3: But puppy training definitely is.
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Speaker 5: Kind of it kind of sounds like he's trying to
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Speaker 5: protect you.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, he's probably got that protective or that that separation anxiety,
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Speaker 1: and that doesn't get better over time, generally, it tends
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Speaker 1: to get worse.
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Speaker 4: All right.
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Speaker 3: I would really try to get out of that behavior.
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Speaker 7: Yeah. I have two younger brothers and he's also very
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Speaker 7: protective over then, so I'm trying to get him to
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Speaker 7: not be a protective Yeah, kind.
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Speaker 3: Of branch out a little bit. He's a baby, you got,
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Speaker 3: it's a good time to start.
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Speaker 5: Don't don't let it get out of hand, start fighting exactly,
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Speaker 5: all right, Sally.
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Speaker 2: I had a text here just I wonder if it
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Speaker 2: was George that had the orange cat, right, I think so? Yeah,
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Speaker 2: it says I somebody says, I work with Celestial Zoo
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Speaker 2: as a volunteer and foster, and that's where he got
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Speaker 2: that cat. He says he needs to reach out to
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Speaker 2: them for help. They're really good about it. If it
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Speaker 2: and if it really isn't working out, they'll take the
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Speaker 2: cat back.
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Speaker 3: Oh, those adoptions will do that for sure.
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Speaker 2: All right, well there you go, doctor Josh Davis's trilogy Veterinary.
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Speaker 3: Trilogybatsandy dot com.
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Speaker 4: Yeah, that's what I said.
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Speaker 3: That's the easy one. Yeah, absolutely so yeah, come see
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Speaker 3: us for sure.
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Speaker 4: All right, thanks Josh, all right, thanks guys, sir, all right,