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Q&A with Vet Josh Davis from July 1st, 2026 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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Speaker 1: Well, so many, many, many of you out there have dogs,
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Speaker 1: and many, many, many of you have cats, and they
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Speaker 1: need healthcare, they need tendon to from time to time,
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Speaker 1: they need their vaccinations. Something looks weird on them. What's this?
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Speaker 1: There's something, there's something dripping out of their eye. You know,
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Speaker 1: there's all kinds of why are they doing that? Well,
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Speaker 1: doctor Josh gave us from the trilogy. Veterinary Clinic is
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Speaker 1: here to answer any questions you might have about your
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Speaker 1: dogs and your cats, their behaviors or or what seems
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Speaker 1: to be wrong with them.
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Speaker 2: That's right.
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Speaker 1: Where did you go to veterinary school?
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Speaker 2: Washington State?
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Speaker 1: And there used to be there was only like one
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Speaker 1: or two in the whole country, right.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, they've they've grown a lot, and Utah State now
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Speaker 3: has their program for the full program. Yes, so that's
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Speaker 3: that's pretty exciting for us for sure, because it seems
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Speaker 3: like there's never enough vets out there.
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Speaker 1: Really. Yeah, so those of you looking for maybe a
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Speaker 1: career might think about veterinary veterinary Yeah.
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Speaker 2: I wouldn't trade it for anything.
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Speaker 1: All right. Is there any controversy about calling bets doctors?
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Speaker 4: Uh?
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Speaker 2: Not, at least not in my career span.
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Speaker 1: Yeatuff for sure. I mean you get a doctor of Yeah,
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Speaker 1: that's that's the degree. Yeah, doctor a veterinary.
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Speaker 3: Man, eight years of school minimum. Yeah, it's a it's
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Speaker 3: a haul for sure. Yeah, then you deserve it. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: I think so.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, that's more than humans think. Years eight, seven, seven,
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Speaker 1: six oh two, nine, six, nine six is the number
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Speaker 1: to ask doctor Davids question and again three three, nine
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Speaker 1: eight six text question.
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Speaker 4: Yes, my wife had some special brownies. Do my dog
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Speaker 4: ate the whole thing?
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Speaker 2: He was really chill?
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Speaker 4: But do I need to worry take him in just
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Speaker 4: let it pass?
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Speaker 3: That is uh, you know, it's getting more common nowadays
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Speaker 3: for sure that we'll see something like that. So I
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Speaker 3: think the probably the bigger worry is just chocolate ingestion.
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Speaker 2: Part of that the THHC depending on the dose.
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Speaker 3: I mean, I've seen dogs that have been intoxicated, and
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Speaker 3: I mean they're almost comatose for days on end, and
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Speaker 3: we have to hospitalize them and make sure they're getting
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Speaker 3: ivy fluids because they can't really drink, they don't eat,
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Speaker 3: you know, they're just really bad shape. But most of
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Speaker 3: the exposures we see are small most of the time.
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Speaker 3: But brownie chocolate is Luckily it's unless they're like the
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Speaker 3: dark chocolate brownies. Worst case, you'll probably end with some
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Speaker 3: vomiting or diarrhea and just really lethargic and chill. But
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Speaker 3: chocolate toxicity can cause a lot of problems for that.
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Speaker 1: What is it about chocolate that is toxic to dogs.
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Speaker 3: There's a couple of different components in it that they
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Speaker 3: can cause elevated heart rates in some cacious seizures, and
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Speaker 3: then also pancreatitis because a lot of chocolate has a
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Speaker 3: lot of fat in it too, and so pancreatitis can
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Speaker 3: happen as well. So, yeah, stuff and brownies doesn't bother
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Speaker 3: us at all, but dogs don't tolerate it.
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Speaker 1: Well, it bothers me.
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Speaker 5: There's a there's quite a few things that dogs should
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Speaker 5: not eat, right, Chocolate.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, long long list.
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Speaker 1: They do they like chocolate, Oh, they love it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I've seen dogs eat like the three by three sheets
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Speaker 3: of brownies before. I mean, they'll they'll go for it. Yeah,
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Speaker 3: but it's not good and so yeah, I mean the
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Speaker 3: the list can be quite long. But some of the
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Speaker 3: big ones, so the chocolate, grapes and raisins are also
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Speaker 3: not great for some dogs. Onions can be pretty toxic.
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Speaker 3: And then really a lot of our medications that we
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Speaker 3: take over the counter, dogs like to get into things.
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Speaker 2: So also we have to watch out for that for sure.
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Speaker 2: But there there's a long list. Yeah, you can google
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Speaker 2: it in there's there's a lot.
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Speaker 1: Garlic is another one.
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Speaker 2: Ye garlic family yep.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, And it pisses Hudson off because Sue cooks with
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Speaker 5: garlic a.
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Speaker 4: Lot and it smells great.
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Speaker 5: When it's like, nope, sorry, you know, mom made something
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Speaker 5: that will kill you.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, don't do it. Don't do it and have it
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Speaker 2: and then.
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Speaker 5: I mean you should take them to the emergency bet
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Speaker 5: if you can. But is it hydrogen peroxide you make
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Speaker 5: them drink to make them throw up?
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Speaker 3: You can do that if you're especially in a pain chure.
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Speaker 3: It's just VET care isn't easily available for you. But
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Speaker 3: it does come with risks because they can also aspirate
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Speaker 3: and they can end up with aspiration pneumonia if they're
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Speaker 3: especially if they're kind of not feeling well or sedate
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Speaker 3: at all. So I would only do that if if
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Speaker 3: you couldn't get to a vet and we can do
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Speaker 3: it in a controlled environment.
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Speaker 5: Yeah, they gave huts On a shot him throw up
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Speaker 5: when he ate he had a raise in the fell
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Speaker 5: and he got it before I could get it.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, you got to get to it quickly. You don't
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Speaker 3: have a lot of time. Sometimes I have a question,
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Speaker 3: but we do have a call on Long one.
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Speaker 5: We'll get we'll get to your Wendy is here.
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Speaker 1: Hi, Wendy, Hi, Hi, where are you calling from? I'm
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Speaker 1: Roy And what's your what's your dog's name?
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Speaker 6: My dog, his name is Luke, and I also have
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Speaker 6: a dog named Bella, who's kind of the alpha in
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Speaker 6: the situation.
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Speaker 1: Okay, what's up? My dog? Luke?
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Speaker 6: He goes backspraying him. We got him when he was
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Speaker 6: about one years old from a fostering situation Belgium, Mallinwave
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Speaker 6: and he's super bright. He's scared of the world though.
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Speaker 6: My daughter moved in in January and he's about seven now,
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Speaker 6: so she moved in. They don't quite got along. Her
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Speaker 6: baby moved in with us too. Luke club is the baby.
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Speaker 6: He doesn't like adults. When she was getting ready to
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Speaker 6: go visit her family in Washington, he started peeing on
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Speaker 6: her things and then she moved out officially back to
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Speaker 6: Washington where she lives and he's still marking up my
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Speaker 6: walls in my house, like he's still trying to mark
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Speaker 6: his territory. And I don't know. I've tried to get
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Speaker 6: diapers for him. I got my candle again to kind
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Speaker 6: of help Kendle train him again. But he does have
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Speaker 6: like anxiety men sometimes and he's just anxious boy.
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Speaker 1: Yeah.
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Speaker 3: I think that's a that's always a tough situation because
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Speaker 3: it probably has fallen into that behavior category versus like
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Speaker 3: a true medical problem. But I mean it's always good
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Speaker 3: to rule those out, of course, because medical problems can
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Speaker 3: can add to those types of things.
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Speaker 2: But I think that in that.
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Speaker 3: Situation, so one is just making sure to keep those
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Speaker 3: types of areas as cleaned up as possible, so there's
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Speaker 3: less strive to do that. Also, the melon waws especially there,
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Speaker 3: they need a job, they need something to do, so
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Speaker 3: I think.
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Speaker 2: Working on.
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Speaker 3: Wall yeah, yeah, and we don't want that to his
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Speaker 3: job for sure, but trying to get redirect and make
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Speaker 3: new behaviors from that. And and it may be in
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Speaker 3: that case too, if you're saying you're on behavior drugs,
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Speaker 3: sometimes he might need to be on something more long
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Speaker 3: term while you're working on that training and redirection and
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Speaker 3: that might get you better success to what I.
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Speaker 1: Would suggest by a small herd of sheep and keep
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Speaker 1: them in.
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Speaker 6: Your yard and let him afraid.
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Speaker 2: Be afraid of them. Yeah, and you may also.
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Speaker 6: Want to invest in friends with them and.
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Speaker 3: May invest in some of the actually in person behavior
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Speaker 3: training and possibly with some behavior medicas.
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Speaker 1: Where can you find somebody who does There are a.
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Speaker 3: Lot of different online options. You can look do some
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Speaker 3: searches that way, and you can actually find people that
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Speaker 3: will come to your environment, because I think there's a
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Speaker 3: lot of benefit in that.
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Speaker 6: Just be afraid of them. You would be afraid of
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Speaker 6: any adult that comes into the house. He only has
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Speaker 6: about three adults he's comfortable with, poor.
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Speaker 3: Baby, and trainers have ways to work around them, right,
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Speaker 3: and they have ways to work around that. And again
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Speaker 3: with behavior modifying drugs on board, it may make that
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Speaker 3: more acceptable to to take that training. So yeah, that's
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Speaker 3: it's a tough one, but I think with consistency and
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Speaker 3: probably some help, I think you can get there.
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Speaker 1: All right, Thank you again. I've just looked up a
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Speaker 1: picture what a Belgium mellin wi. The very lovely dogs.
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Speaker 2: Very good, shiverty ish, but very athletic.
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Speaker 3: I mean they're the ones that climb up walls and
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Speaker 3: trees and they do crazy things.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, we have a few questions lined up, Yes, would work. Her.
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Speaker 1: Willie is here, Willy, good morning.
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Speaker 7: Hello, Good morning, Laards and doctor Davis.
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Speaker 1: Hey, Yeah, what's your question?
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Speaker 7: Sorry? I have a thirteen year old teacup yorkey named
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Speaker 7: Olive Oil, and she has a's getting the collapse trach yeah,
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Speaker 7: which is a small dog depict h And is there
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Speaker 7: something other than surgery? Like I get all the ads
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Speaker 7: on social media about these herds or drops or that'll
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Speaker 7: help her.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, with the collapsing trichy.
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Speaker 3: So it comes in different levels of how bad it
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Speaker 3: affects dogs, and surgery is kind of not un necessarily
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Speaker 3: a last resort. But generally, I would say a majority
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Speaker 3: of the don't need surgery for that unless they are
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Speaker 3: in respiratory distress kind of all the time. That's when
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Speaker 3: you would definitely want to consider surgery. And a lot
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Speaker 3: of herbal supplements and things. I just I always tell
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Speaker 3: people to take you know, take it with a grain
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Speaker 3: of salt and a lot of things. If they sound
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Speaker 3: too good to be true, then they probably are.
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Speaker 8: So.
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Speaker 3: But the big thing is we try to minimize the
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Speaker 3: impact of them coughing all of the time, and so
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Speaker 3: having them on medications to help control cough is often
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Speaker 3: very helpful. And then trying to just be careful about
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Speaker 3: overheating situations or really high excitement situations, because when they
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Speaker 3: get really excited, they breathe faster and then they tend
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Speaker 3: to start coughing. So but if it's you know, if
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Speaker 3: it's severe enough that they're having trouble, then surgery is
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Speaker 3: possibly worth considering. But it also, you know, it comes
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Speaker 3: with its own risks and its own recovery and potential
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Speaker 3: for complications too.
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Speaker 1: Okay, so good, thank you.
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Speaker 5: All right, right, well, thank you. Let's go to Julie. Hello, Julie. Hi, guys, Hi, Hi.
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Speaker 8: So I have a labrador Luna lob good and she
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Speaker 8: she got swimmers tail. We went up swimming and took
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Speaker 8: her paddle boarding, and yeah, I want to know. My
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Speaker 8: question is how can I prevent it next time we
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Speaker 8: up swimming?
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Speaker 1: What? What? What is it? Yeah?
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Speaker 5: What is swimmers tail?
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Speaker 3: You're probably talking about? Yeah, they call it swimmers tail
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Speaker 3: or cold watertail. It can happen and we see it
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Speaker 3: a lot in dogs that like to swim and water.
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Speaker 3: It can also happen any other situation too. But so
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Speaker 3: what will happen is they they'll get an inflammation to
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Speaker 3: the nerves in the tail and it'll just hang their limp.
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Speaker 2: They can't they can't bag if they can't lift it,
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Speaker 2: they can't do anything.
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Speaker 1: That happened to me.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, and it's and generally it is there's some pain associated.
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Speaker 3: And the other problem is since they can't really move
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Speaker 3: their tail, sometimes they'll sit down and bend their tail
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Speaker 3: or smash their tail when they're sitting down and stuff.
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Speaker 3: So the the it doesn't there's no set trigger for it.
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Speaker 3: Like often we don't know why it happened. I mean swimming, Yes,
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Speaker 3: that can be a thing. And the colder the water,
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Speaker 3: you know, there's that connection go away.
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Speaker 2: But it does go away.
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Speaker 3: It's usually we treat them with anti inflammatories and just
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Speaker 3: kind of rest, you know, kind of like an injury.
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Speaker 3: I've never had a case where it didn't improve. Usually
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Speaker 3: after a couple of days of anti inflammatories they'll start
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Speaker 3: to get better with that. But just trying to avoid
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Speaker 3: you know, those types of situations. But you could go swimming,
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Speaker 3: you know, a hundred times and it never happens, you know,
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Speaker 3: it's just we don't always know the exact trigger for it.
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Speaker 3: But but the cold water tail, it's called that or limbertail.
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Speaker 1: Lintail, So I would I would say if if if
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Speaker 1: it gets so, it'll get better. And if you go
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Speaker 1: again and it happens again, stop doing that.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, Yeah, and just trying to avoid maybe colder temperature
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Speaker 3: lakes or waters. But you know, it may never happen again.
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Speaker 3: There's no guarantee of that, Okay, but we'll definitely manage
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Speaker 3: it with pain meds because it is a painful condition
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Speaker 3: for sure.
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Speaker 1: All Right, thanks for the call, Thanks Julie.
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Speaker 5: Let's go to appen, appen appen.
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Speaker 9: Yes, Hi, Hi, So I'm actually calling about my daughter's cat.
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Speaker 9: They're really struggling with him because he is like pooping
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Speaker 9: all over the house randomly.
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Speaker 5: What's his name and his name's Malcolm.
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Speaker 1: Well that explains it.
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Speaker 9: Yeah, And they have like extra litter boxes. They have
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Speaker 9: a litter box on every level of their place. And
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Speaker 9: he just it does not like it happens every time,
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Speaker 9: but it happens often enough, even if the letterboxes are
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Speaker 9: clean and they're home, and.
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Speaker 1: Just has he always done this?
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Speaker 9: He has done it about the last.
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Speaker 1: Year, so it's behaved for he used the litter box
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Speaker 1: fine and then and then started doing this.
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Speaker 3: Yes, yeah, and those with cats especially, we always have
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Speaker 3: to try and drill down. One is make sure there's
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Speaker 3: no medical concerns with it, so you know, getting that
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Speaker 3: checked out, and then if that's not the problem, okay, okay,
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Speaker 3: And then if that, if that seems like everything's fine,
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Speaker 3: then it's looking at often something that's changed with cats,
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Speaker 3: something has caused a change or stress or change in
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Speaker 3: their behavior.
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Speaker 2: So always if we.
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Speaker 3: Can figure that out that that's always a plus to me.
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Speaker 3: It sounds like they're also doing mostly the right things.
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Speaker 3: Extra litter boxes, I'm a big fan of also doing
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Speaker 3: the pheromone therapies in the areas you really want them
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Speaker 3: using and trying to reinforce.
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Speaker 2: Those what is that what you Yeah, the most popular
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Speaker 2: ones called feel Away. They have sprays.
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Speaker 3: The plugins are nice because they'll just kind of diffuse
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Speaker 3: into those areas that you want and and just you know,
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Speaker 3: it sounds like other things they are doing well, but
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Speaker 3: it may be there's some underlying stress or some underlying
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Speaker 3: problem that may be contributing to that. And sometimes they
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Speaker 3: just do.
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Speaker 1: That maybe not. It doesn't like the Have they tried
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Speaker 1: changing the litter the bran, Yeah.
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Speaker 9: They've tried different types of litter.
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Speaker 1: Well jeez, Yeah, I guess the pheromones, the pheromone spray,
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Speaker 1: I guess, or change or change his name from Malcolm
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Speaker 1: to something else.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, if they haven't tried the pheromones, that might not
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Speaker 3: be a bad option to do as well.
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Speaker 2: And then if there's other cats.
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Speaker 3: I don't know if there's other cats, but really making
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Speaker 3: sure that they're not fighting for territory with the litter boxes,
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Speaker 3: because cats will do that sometimes.
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Speaker 1: All right, thanks, okay, all right, thanks for calling me.
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Speaker 5: All Right, let's see. Should I be concerned that my
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Speaker 5: dog is obsessed with eating dirt clods? I would think
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Speaker 5: that's not a good thing.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, I think, you know, a cloud here and there
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Speaker 3: maybe not a problem, but you know, yeah, ingesting enough
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Speaker 3: dirt or and especially if there's any rocks or anything,
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Speaker 3: and it definitely isn't good for the GI tract.
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Speaker 2: So I would work on avoid and discourage.
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Speaker 5: Sure, there's been a lot of questions about the fireworks season.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, is.
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Speaker 3: The season, And it seems like everyone's kind of banning
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Speaker 3: them at the same time too, but I think the
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Speaker 3: cities will still be able to do their big shows
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Speaker 3: and all that. So yeah, if the dog, if you
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Speaker 3: have a dog that's afraid, or even cats for that matter.
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Speaker 3: I know my cats hate when the fireworks start going off.
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Speaker 3: But don't wait till you know, Saturday morning to contact
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Speaker 3: your vet about medications to help with that, because you know,
15:44
Speaker 3: try to get it ahead of time for sure. And
15:47
Speaker 3: the medications are they're safe to use, they can be
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Speaker 3: very helpful and I can definitely tell you I've had
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Speaker 3: a lot of requests this week for that, So don't
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Speaker 3: wait till the last minute. But medications can be really
15:57
Speaker 3: beneficial because we have basically two holiday seasons here in
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Speaker 3: Utah as well the twenty fourth, So yeah, don't be
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Speaker 3: shy with the meds. It won't hurt anything and it
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Speaker 3: might make their day a little bit better.
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Speaker 5: And final question, my Wimerriner loves snatching dropped popcorn off
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Speaker 5: of the floor. Will this create any problems for her health?
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Speaker 2: Of course not really.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, unless there's like garlic on it or anything like that,
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Speaker 3: but yeah, just a regular popcorn, a quick one, Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
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Speaker 4: With all the fires they said, there have been lots
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Speaker 4: of reports of rattlesnakes being driven kind of closer to civilization.
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Speaker 4: Oh tell me what to do if my dog is
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Speaker 4: bitten by a rattlesnake.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, the rattlesnakes are just it's tough, tough for the snakes.
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Speaker 3: I mean, you know, it sucks for them to be
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Speaker 3: the push that close. But in general, the bites and
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Speaker 3: in venomation from those, of course, can be deadly for
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Speaker 3: dogs because you know, dogs aren't big creatures, and so
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Speaker 3: if they do get a bite, the best thing to
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Speaker 3: do is, I mean just rush to an emergency center.
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Speaker 3: There are anti venoms that can help with that. Historically,
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Speaker 3: there's been a rattle snake vaccine. I don't know that
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Speaker 3: it's used too often anymore, but I'm getting too emergency
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Speaker 3: because the anti venom is important, but also wound care
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Speaker 3: with infections and necrosis, and also just supportive care with
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Speaker 3: fluids because they can become shocky and it can cause
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Speaker 3: all sorts of problems.
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Speaker 2: So just get there as soon as you can and
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Speaker 2: be careful.
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Speaker 3: I know we want to let our dogs roam when
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Speaker 3: we're out hiking and doing things like that, but it's
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Speaker 3: it's much harder to keep your dog under control. And
17:29
Speaker 3: if you hear that rattle, you know, dogs find that
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Speaker 3: interesting sometimes and it's obviously not.
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Speaker 1: So now, did you say there there there used to
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Speaker 1: be at a vaccine. Vaccine that would protect dogs from it.
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Speaker 2: It would help.
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Speaker 3: I mean, it's not going to stop the bite or
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Speaker 3: some of those things, but it can help buy you
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Speaker 3: some time to get them somewhere.
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Speaker 2: But so some places may carry that.
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Speaker 3: I I haven't used it myself personally, because it's one
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Speaker 3: of those things. It's like a one in a million
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Speaker 3: probably anyway, but I think get that supportive cares by
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Speaker 3: far the most important thing.
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Speaker 1: All right, doctor Josh Davis. It's a trilogy veterinary clinic
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Speaker 1: and Sandy yep. And you can pick your dogs and
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Speaker 1: cats there if you want.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, come see us. All right, all right, thanks, I
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Speaker 2: have a good one.
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Speaker 5: Guys, Katie had a question for you on your way.
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Speaker 2: Yeah,