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Josh Davis Vet Q&A for November 13th, 2024 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Doctor Josh Davis is here. He is a Veterinarian Extraordinaire.
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  That's a special degree that you get as a veterinarian
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  Special certification, Special Certification Extraordinaire they put on your license.
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  He can answer questions about your puppies and your kiddies,
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  specifically health problems with your pets. Get your pets questions answered,
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  or maybe your pet has a question. Put them on
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  the line.
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  Speaker 2: Let's say, you say, boy.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, we like to know the name of your pet
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  and the breed and then tell us the condition.
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  Speaker 3: So let's have at it. Okay, they're starting to call him.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, oh there we go.
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  Speaker 3: It'll take a minute. Yeah, you know.
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  Speaker 4: I'm so.
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  Speaker 1: I have this cat that he's way overweight, and so
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  we try, well we do. We limit his food to
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  one feeding a day at a certain time, but until
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  that time comes.
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  Speaker 3: He does he ask for it, I'd asked.
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  Speaker 1: And then goes and stands by the door. Oh yeah,
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  it's just it's so annoying.
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  Speaker 2: It's like they're being murdered all day long.
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  Speaker 1: And then he goes down and devours that food and
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  doesn't that's all he gets for the day, and usually
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  he quiets down after that. But I just you.
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  Speaker 3: Shut up not feeding you until nine o'clock.
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  Speaker 2: Yep, yeah, that happens. Our cats are the same way.
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  One thing I would do is break that into two
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  meals a day and then you can kind of balance
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  out how how hungry they get throughout the day. There,
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  So same amount of food, just break it in half.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, try that out, less whining. That's the kind of
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  stuff you're going to get from doctor Davis. Little tips
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  go to Brittany.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Brittany, Hi, Brittany. What's your your pet's name.
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  Speaker 3: Shaya Shaya?
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  Speaker 1: And what breed of dog is Shia?
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  Speaker 5: She is half husky and half.
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  Speaker 1: All right, So what's your question.
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  Speaker 6: She was just.
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  Speaker 5: Very recently, within like less than two weeks, diagnosed with
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  glaucoma in one of her eyes, and I was and
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  we've realized as of yesterday she lost her vision in
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  the left eye, and I'm wondering if that's going to
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  affect her right eye as well.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's a really good question. How old was she again?
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  Speaker 7: She is on just ten?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, at that age. If the glaucoma isn't directly
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  related to some other disease process, then there's a chance
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  it could You could get it in the other eye,
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  but also a chance not so I think sure your
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  real goal is to if that eye that has glaucoma,
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  if you've lost vision, and if there's any pain or inflammation,
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  then sometimes we do have to remove those eyes because
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  they just are a source of constant pain for them
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  and they can't see anyway, So sometimes they're her off
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  without it. But the other I there's not really any
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  preventive things you can do other than just making sure
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  checkups are happening at the ice, staying healthy and checking
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  those pressures regularly.
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  Speaker 1: But if you ever fit dogs with glasses or contact lenses.
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  Speaker 2: They do use contacts and they do do lens surgeries sometimes. Yeah,
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  the contacts are more to heal injuries. They don't permanently
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  have them, but they are used for certain things.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, all right, there you go. A dog
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  with a monak. Do you have brittany more like a
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  dog with an eyepatch? Man, it's a bad ass dog.
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  All right, let's talk about the courts and Meghan, Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Meghan, what's your dog's name and what breed is it?
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  Speaker 8: Good morning? My dog's name is lunch Meat like that.
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  She is a pitfall mix Okay, my question is more
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  of a concern. So about a month ago, we lost
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  our other dog, Ham, and he just stopped eating chicken
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  to the anyway how to sadly euthanize them. And I
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  don't know if this is affecting lunch Et or not,
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  but her and Ham used to eat at the same time.
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  Now that Ham's gone, Lunchy isn't eating anymore. I thought
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  it was the dog food, so I switched out the
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  dog food. She's been drinking a lot of water. She's
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  kind of showing the same signs that Ham did, so
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  kind of freaking out.
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  Speaker 1: Sure, have you thought about getting down on the floor
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  and eating with lunch meat and see if that feels
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  you know?
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  Speaker 9: I have.
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  Speaker 8: I'll lay down on the floor and like she'll eat
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  treat and I'll give her food like by hand. She'll
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  eat a little bit, but she won't eat on her own.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah. And one of the things that does worry
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  mean about what you're talking about is the if we
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  are drinking a lot more water than normal, that is
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  often a sign of some illness that's going on. So
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  after losing a friend, certainly dogs can kind of get
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  into a depressed state where they're just not as active.
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  They may not eat like a normal That does happen
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  for them when they lose a friend like that. But
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  some of those other things you're talking about may may
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  actually be a health reason on top of that. So
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  anytime a dog, if they're drinking a lot, peen a lot,
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  eating a lot, or not eating a lot, it's worth
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  doing some blood work. It's worth getting checked out for that.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, okay.
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  Speaker 8: And I've noticed that she wasn't like pooping, but this
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  morning she did like let go of a little nugget,
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  So I'm kind of.
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  Speaker 7: Believe talking that.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for that information encouraging.
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  Speaker 10: Yeah, anytime, all right, thank you, Megan, Thanks Meggy.
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  Speaker 3: Eight seven seven six oh two nine six ninety six.
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  We get your questions lined up here.
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  Speaker 1: I have to say, listen, I've got to go let
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  go of a little nugget, little nugget.
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  Speaker 6: Yep.
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  Speaker 1: We're back with doctor Josh Davis, a veterinarian extraordinaire, here
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  to answer your questions about your puppies and your kiddies.
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  And we have a full bank of phones, so I
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  guess we get to it.
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  Speaker 3: You get the candy, Hi.
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  Speaker 1: Candy, Hi, let me listen. Yeah, Candy, what's your cat's name, Ozzy?
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  And what's Ozzie's problem?
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  Speaker 11: He's a sneezy boy. He's always been a sneezy boy
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  since we got him, and he's too now and now
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  that it's snowed, he is just snoozing up a storm.
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  And is there anything we can give him?
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  Speaker 2: So in the short term, most cats, it's not too
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  big of a deal unless they're blowing out a lot
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  of just gross snotty nose, or their eyes get kind
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  of crusty or weepy or anything like that, probably dealing
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  with the seasonal change seasonal allergy stuff that way. So
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  if it's not causing too much trouble, usually just kind
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  of let it right through. But in some cases, if
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  it gets really bad, you can look into medications for it.
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  But antihistamines typically don't work that great in pets, so
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  I wouldn't do anything like that. But if everything else
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  is fine, I just kind of let it ride out.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, all right, all right, thank you, all right, you
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  go later, Candy. All right, let's go to Hector. Hi, Hector,
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  how are you today?
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  Speaker 7: Pretty good?
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  Speaker 6: Bro? How you doing guy good?
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  Speaker 1: What's your cat's name?
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  Speaker 5: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: Yes, it's Gandalf and Medusa, two Maine coons.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, big old kiddies, Yeah.
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  Speaker 3: Tell us about it.
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  Speaker 6: Ye yeah, yeah, I just got a quick question. So
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  my cats, they love to go in the backyard and
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  hunt grasshoppers, like that's their favorite thing to do. But
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  then they eat so many they just kind of come
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  inside and kind of throw up. So my wife's kind
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  of a little bit upset about it because we've got
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  to call zero res more than we just wondering are
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  they going to learn their lesson or do I just
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  have a bunch of sealy cats.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I very unlikely they'll learn anything because grasshoppers are fun,
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  and cats are you know, they're predatory so and the
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  grasshoppers are just it's very irritating to their gut because
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  the legs are spiny and and all the all that
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  carapist they have. So one thing I would watch out
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  for if they are out back hunting even little things,
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  is making sure they're on some parasite control because they
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  can pick up things by that hunting behavior. So just
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  one thing to watch out for, you.
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  Speaker 1: Know, Hector, I grew up with cats that did that.
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  We had a big garden, and they love to go
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  out and stock the grasshoppers, but they would they would
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  eat them, but they would leave behind the legs. Really, yeah,
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  they wouldn't the legs and the and the and the
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  heads a lot most of the time. Interesting, So the
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  spiny parts they wouldn't touch.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that's good because they'll probably barf it right back up.
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  Speaker 6: That's because they swallow them hole and then like the
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  lave and bring them inside like little trophies like for us. Yeah,
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  and then and the next thing we know, there's like
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  two or three grasshoppers just rolling around in the house.
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  Speaker 10: There you go, many, Thank you very much, thank you.
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  Hector then put yes, h Hi, sorry, Hi.
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  Speaker 9: No, I'm getting I get to interrupt you. So I
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  wanted to call in. I have a fourteen year old
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  cat named Cato, and he recently was diagnosed with kidney
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  disease and hyperthyroidism. So we're trying to do the whole
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  hyperthyroidism medication. But we have three other cats and he
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  wants to kill one of them. The other two are fine,
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  but for some reason, it's not just like play fighting
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  or any of that. He is stalking that cat and
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  trying to kill him. And we've had scratches, bites, on us.
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  We've tried separating them, so one lives downstairs, one lives upstairs,
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  but he tries to break the barricades to try to
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  get them, just knowing he's there. So like we've tried,
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  we've tried, like the plug ins to try to call
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  the cat, and the call are. I didn't know if
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  there's like another medication or something that we can do.
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  I mean, this is going to be very stressful until
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  I think you.
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  Speaker 1: Need to get you need to get my kuckaby to
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  come and see if you can negotiate a peach settlement.
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  Speaker 9: Okay, do you have its contact?
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  Speaker 1: What do you think doctor Davis?
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  Speaker 2: Well, I think I mean you're dealing with probably two
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  things there. So one is the medical condition it cats
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  until they're well managed for hyperthyroidism. High thyroid can also
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  change behavior and sometimes they can be a little more
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  aggressive or a little more kind of strange that way
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  if their levels aren't well controlled. So that's one piece
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  of it. And then the other piece of it is
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  they just they just may not like each other for
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  whatever reason. Cats do like like that, And so I
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  think you're doing all the right things to start with too,
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  And there are other non medication, ways to go about it.
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  It sounds like you're doing some of those things now,
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  but if it is to the point where we're risking
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  injuries and absesses, then you may have to do something medical.
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  But the problem is with your thyroid kidney cat you
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  have to be really careful what else they're on. So
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  physical separation may be your best bet in the short
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  term until you can get that sorted out. But and
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  then make sure that thyroid is well managed because if
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  it's running high, some cats are a little little wonky
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  and weird with that.
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  Speaker 1: As you go for pain in the ass isn't, Yes,
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  it is?
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  Speaker 9: And in the hands and arms.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks for calling, Julie, Thank.
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  Speaker 9: You, thank you, appreciate it.
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  Speaker 3: All right, let's get to Phil. I Phil, are you good?
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  What's up?
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  Speaker 1: What's your problem?
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  Speaker 3: Are your cats?
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  Speaker 6: Okay?
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  Speaker 4: I have a dog. If he said, seven year old
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  lap you have on his right rear, ray, we're gonna
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  get it removed. But the doctor wants to talk about
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  doing Wannie, I'm concerned about what the chemo is gonna
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  do to him, and you know the.
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  Speaker 2: Rest of it, yours, gotcha? I guess it depends what
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  type of tumor it is. And what they're treating. But
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  in general dogs, they do tend to do well with
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  tolerating the chemo, and they're not like us. They're not
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  going to lose all their hair and all that kind
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  of stuff. And as long as the tumors removed and
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  the chemo helps resolve it, they can go on to
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  be pretty normal after that, assuming the tumor doesn't recur
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  or cause any other problems.
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  Speaker 4: All right, Yeah, that's kind of what we're looking at.
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  Speaker 3: Good luck, Phil, all right, Phil, good luck? All right,
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  we have time for one more. Josh is here.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, Josh, what's your question?
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  Speaker 7: Hey, guys, thanks for letting me listen. Yeah, my question
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  is I've had I have had two German shepherds, their littermates.
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  They're eleven years old. Well, one passed away at the
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  end of August, and since then, my boy he's had
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  he's had some real real changes in his behavior. He's
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  aggressively barking.
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  Speaker 4: At anything, he chases things on.
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  Speaker 7: The property that he never would before. He's in a
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  lot of pain all of a sudden. I've read a
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  few things about something like canine dementia. Do you know
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  anything about that and what to look for and get evaluated.
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  Speaker 1: What's your dog's name, Josh, it's Striker.
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  Speaker 2: Striker. Yeah, so you're probably dealing with some of the
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  similar things we were talking about earlier. Is when they
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  do lose, especially a lifelong friend like that, they will
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  have behavior changes because it's such a change to their
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  routine and their partnership and how they go through the day.
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  So you may be experiencing just some of that. And
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  then at that age there probably is some arthritic pain
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  going on, so that is also known to change behavior
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  for animals, and so I think it's really important to
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  manage those things and keep them busy and enriched so
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  they don't have all that downtime they may not have
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  had before having a friend around and things to do.
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  And then dementia the other side of it is it
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  is described in dogs. Definitely canine cognitive dysfunction and they
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  will have behavior changes, but it's often like people with dementia,
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  So especially in the afternoons and evenings that you can
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  just stare in a wild Yeah, they sun down sometimes,
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  so they'body's staring at walls or walking in circles. They'll
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  sleep a lot sometimes, So I definitely urge you. You know,
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  there's there's some specific things to look out for for that,
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  but I'm not sure that's quite where you're at with
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  the other changes that have happened, so you probably have
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  to work on differentiating that more definite. Just so people
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  feel like, oh, I should run out and get another dog.
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  Some people do that, and sometimes it works out, and
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  sometimes it doesn't because old dog and a young dog
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  they may not mesh very well because the young dogs
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  are just active and crazy, and the old dogs may.
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  Speaker 1: Not find rescue. The Human Society of Humane Society of
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  Utah they have lots of really lovely older dogs.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Josh, thank you, all right, thank you, all right,
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  thanks for calling.
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  Speaker 1: Well that's it, doctor Josh Davis, thanks so much.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Thanks you guys, seeing a couple of weeks. Answer,
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  all right,