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Vet Josh Davis Pet Q&A for January 15th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Brought to you by Puppies and Kiddies.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Josh Davis is here. He is a veterinarian extraordinaire.
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  Speaker 2: He's an extraordinary veteran. Oh, thank you, you're welcome. He's
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  Speaker 2: here to answer questions about the help of your puppies
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  Speaker 2: and your kiddies. What's going on with him? We like
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  Speaker 2: to know the name of your animal, what kind of
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  Speaker 2: an animal it is, and then what the problem is.
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  Speaker 3: So we do have a phone call already.
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  Speaker 4: Already starting with looks like Nick is here?
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  Speaker 3: Hi? Nick, where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 5: Good morning, guys. I'm calling from Missoula, Montana.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, okay, what's the question?
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  Speaker 5: Hi, doctor Davis, Thanks for taking my call. I have
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  Speaker 5: a four year old German wire hair pointer. His name
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  Speaker 5: is Fritz. He is a big time hunter, about twenty
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  Speaker 5: to thirty days a year. He hunts up to ten
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  Speaker 5: to fifteen miles per hunt.
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  Speaker 3: Wow, pretty active dog.
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  Speaker 5: We were just hunting this last week and he came
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  Speaker 5: back to me limping. We examined his paw, his hind,
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  Speaker 5: his hind paw, didn't find anything exactly wrong, but we
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  Speaker 5: did take him to a local small town that where
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  Speaker 5: we were. We were out of town kind of out
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  Speaker 5: in the middle of nowhere and we found a small
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  Speaker 5: town that it wasn't broke. But he's been diagnosed with
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  Speaker 5: a plantar ligament tear. Oh interesting, I'm wondering, is this
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  Speaker 5: something I should have a surgical specialist look at? And
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  Speaker 5: where does advanced imaging like a C t R MRI
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  Speaker 5: fall in this kind.
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  Speaker 4: Of let's say, what what is this exactly that he's
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  Speaker 4: talking about.
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  Speaker 1: Well, it kind of depends.
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  Speaker 6: I mean, there's ligaments that make up all the foot, ankle, joints,
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  Speaker 6: all that, just like with us, and so they can
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  Speaker 6: have injuries there too. I think that would be hard
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  Speaker 6: to diagnose probably without advanced imaging, because there's so many
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  Speaker 6: places on that hind limb you can get an injury
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  Speaker 6: there too. So and hunting dogs they work very hard.
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  Speaker 6: It sounds like your dog works very hard, and so
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  Speaker 6: they also can get repeated use injuries, just like athletes
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  Speaker 6: and things like that. So, but sometimes it does take
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  Speaker 6: the advanced imaging like a CT to really look at
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  Speaker 6: some of those those joints and ligaments because it may
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  Speaker 6: not be just that you know, and of course without
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  Speaker 6: seeing it, I can't tell you that exactly.
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  Speaker 1: But a CT scan.
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  Speaker 6: Wouldn't wouldn't be a bad idea, especially because if you
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  Speaker 6: want your dog to keep working, you want to get
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  Speaker 6: that diagnosis and get the treatment for it, whether that's
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  Speaker 6: surgical or rest things like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's still bothering Fritz. I would I would understand. Is
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  Speaker 3: that right?
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  Speaker 5: Oh? Yeah, he will not put weight on it, and
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  Speaker 5: it's it's pretty swollen. He's got some pain meds, but
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  Speaker 5: it's yeah, he's not a happy camper.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, well get that right imaging. Yeah, of course, yeah,
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  Speaker 3: appreciate it, guys. Okay, take care.
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  Speaker 4: Let's go to Chris. Hello, Chris, Chris, right, where are
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  Speaker 4: you from?
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  Speaker 3: Chris Sugarhouse? Okay, good now, I really want to talk
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  Speaker 3: about this. What's up?
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  Speaker 5: Okay?
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  Speaker 7: So I have an eleven year old we adopted about
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  Speaker 7: he's a little Chiwaha mix that we adopted about six
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  Speaker 7: months ago. And about a month ago what's your name
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  Speaker 7: an instance? We adopted him. Anyway, about a month ago,
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  Speaker 7: he had a stool that was kind of like a
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  Speaker 7: mucasi read it almost like it was obviously blood, but
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  Speaker 7: very mucasin, not very sequel. Didn't happen again until like yesterday,
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  Speaker 7: it happened again. So I'm wondering from what I read,
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  Speaker 7: it's like a lower intestinal thing, but I'm wondering if
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  Speaker 7: it could be food allergies or with it being that
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  Speaker 7: far apart, I don't know what's going on.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, there could be a combination of things. I mean,
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  Speaker 6: anytime you adopt a new pet, just the stress of
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  Speaker 6: a new environment, and it takes them time to settle in. Sometimes,
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  Speaker 6: especially the small breeds, can be more nervous or more
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  Speaker 6: have a more anxiety about stuff like that.
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  Speaker 3: Anxiety can cause point.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, stress in general.
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  Speaker 6: It's very common when dogs get borded or do stressful things,
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  Speaker 6: they can have bloody stools. That's not the only reason though,
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  Speaker 6: So if it's recurring problem, you know, you want to
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  Speaker 6: make sure they're on parasite control. We want to make
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  Speaker 6: sure that we are looking at diet. Is there a
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  Speaker 6: problem with that too, So hopefully it's something straightforward and
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  Speaker 6: if they're you know, still have good energy, still eating good,
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  Speaker 6: still active, then you're probably you know, it's probably not
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  Speaker 6: an emergency. But blood in the stool is never a
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  Speaker 6: good thing, especially if it's a chronic problem, because they
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  Speaker 6: can become anemic and have other problems from that.
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  Speaker 1: So I would definitely get it looked at further.
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  Speaker 7: Okay, all right, all right, Actually, can I do you
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  Speaker 7: know about the price of allergen tests for like food
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  Speaker 7: allergies for dogs?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: No, I mean it would vary, but often there's not
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  Speaker 6: a specific test. It's more of doing diet trials to
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  Speaker 6: try and eliminate things from the diet and then judging
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  Speaker 6: their response over time to that.
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  Speaker 1: So they're just like people.
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  Speaker 6: It's hard to do allergy testing to get specific answers.
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  Speaker 1: It's more of elimination often.
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  Speaker 3: All right, thank you, Chris.
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  Speaker 2: Later, Chris, right back to the phones with doctor Josh Davis.
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  Speaker 2: Questions about your puppies and kiddies.
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  Speaker 3: We'll go to preats.
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  Speaker 2: Pat, Where are you calling us from?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? What is that? Is that right? As preat correct?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah?
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  Speaker 3: Okay? What's your dog's name? And what's your question?
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  Speaker 8: Okay, So we have a ten week old golden doodle.
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  Speaker 8: His name's Allie. He's gone through the fighting phase or
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  Speaker 8: or teething phase. How long should we expect that?
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  Speaker 1: You know, the teething phase.
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  Speaker 6: So most dogs will start to actually lose their teeth
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  Speaker 6: around four months of age roughly, and then by six
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  Speaker 6: months of age they should have their full set of teeth.
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  Speaker 6: So you may be a little early for true teething,
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  Speaker 6: but you know that biting and playing, that's that's pretty
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  Speaker 6: normal puppy behavior.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, we do have to be careful.
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  Speaker 6: We don't want anyone getting injured by that or anything,
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  Speaker 6: and making sure to direct them to to toys and
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  Speaker 6: things that are appropriate to play with, but very common
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  Speaker 6: and often will get better over time as they actually
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  Speaker 6: are teething and get through that phase.
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  Speaker 2: You know, you'll find that they really like a two
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  Speaker 2: hundred and fifty dollars pair of athletics.
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  Speaker 7: Do you love that?
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  Speaker 3: I chee you h later, thank you?
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  Speaker 1: Right, it's just puppy, you just gotta They love to choose.
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  Speaker 1: It's part of being a puppy.
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  Speaker 3: Hym Let's go to Monica.
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  Speaker 2: Hello Monica, Monica, Hi, where are you calling us from?
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  Speaker 9: I'm calling her mom?
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  Speaker 7: Then?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what's your kiddies name?
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  Speaker 9: So it's Yukine and Mustang.
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  Speaker 3: All right. Question.
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  Speaker 9: So my question is my cats are like seven years old,
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  Speaker 9: and I wanted to know, like, should I be cleaning
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  Speaker 9: their teeth if that's something I can do at home?
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  Speaker 9: If I need to take them into a vet or.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, that's a that's a great cat question for sure,
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  Speaker 6: because cats do tend to be underserved in the vet
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  Speaker 6: community because they don't they don't get sick often, and
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  Speaker 6: when they do, it's usually really, really bad by the
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  Speaker 6: time we see them. So dental care for dogs or
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  Speaker 6: cats is really important to start young, and you can
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  Speaker 6: provide home care to them. Kind of think of about
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  Speaker 6: as we would take care of our teeth. So we brush,
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  Speaker 6: we floss, we do all that, but we still go
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  Speaker 6: to the dentist every year or twice a year, you know,
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  Speaker 6: for normal cleanings, and for pets, we definitely recommend for cats,
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  Speaker 6: usually after two years of age is a good time
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  Speaker 6: to start thinking about getting in for their yearly actually
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  Speaker 6: under anesthesia teeth cleaning, to do a really thorough cleaning
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  Speaker 6: and polishing, and then a good oral assessment because most
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  Speaker 6: cats won't let you do a great job if they're awake,
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  Speaker 6: you know, unless they're really cooperated. But then at home
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  Speaker 6: oral care is really important to keep that plaque down
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  Speaker 6: throughout the year. So dental brushing, they make these really
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  Speaker 6: great products. They're a little finger wipe, so it's like
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  Speaker 6: a little sleeve you put on your finger and you
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  Speaker 6: can wipe white plaque.
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  Speaker 1: Off the surface of the tea small dogs. Yeah, it's
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  Speaker 1: really good for cats and small dogs.
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  Speaker 6: And because some pets don't like the brush, so the
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  Speaker 6: wipes are a little less thorough, but they're still very good.
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  Speaker 1: So and then there are treats and chews.
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  Speaker 6: And additives to water, things like that, but they get
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  Speaker 6: less and less effective the less.
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  Speaker 1: You know, if you're physically removing the.
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  Speaker 6: Plaque, there's special diets for that too, so a lot
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  Speaker 6: of ways to do it. But at seven I would
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  Speaker 6: get in and get a dental cleaning done if they're
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  Speaker 6: healthy enough to do that. Most most seven year old
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  Speaker 6: cats should be healthy enough for that.
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  Speaker 2: Make a note here I should see my dentist at
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  Speaker 2: least once a year. Yeah, there you go, all right, Thanks,
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  Speaker 2: see you later.
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  Speaker 9: For follow up. Is there a brand you would recommend?
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  Speaker 3: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: The one I see a lot advertised for the finger wipes.
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  Speaker 6: It's it's called hick Pat. I don't know anything about them.
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  Speaker 6: I'm not, you know, not part of them, but it's
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  Speaker 6: h ic C Pet. They have some good finger covers.
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  Speaker 6: I've used those on my own pets, so, but there's
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  Speaker 6: probably others.
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  Speaker 4: A right, Thanks Monica much let's go to Angie. Hello, Angie, Hi, Angie.
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  Speaker 4: What's where? Where are you calling from? And what's your
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  Speaker 4: cat's name.
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  Speaker 10: I'm calling from Salva, and my cat's name is Henrietta,
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  Speaker 10: but we call her Henry.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, what's a question.
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  Speaker 10: The question is is she is diabetic and she recently
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  Speaker 10: had a UTI which we treated with antibiotics. But before
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  Speaker 10: we took her in, she had started to pee outside
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  Speaker 10: the katie box, which was why we took her in.
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  Speaker 10: And now that she's doing better and she's gone through
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  Speaker 10: the antibiotics, she's still peeing in a few places outside
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  Speaker 10: of the box, and so I'm just wondering what do like,
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  Speaker 10: are there any ideas or things that we can do
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  Speaker 10: to try to get her back into the kitty litter.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, that it can be a tough situation.
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  Speaker 6: So diabetic pats are always more prone to having urinary
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  Speaker 6: issues because all the sugar in their urine can back
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  Speaker 6: to real like that, so it is a little easier
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  Speaker 6: to get UTIs. And cats also like to get inflammation
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  Speaker 6: in their bladder just for other reasons. So I would
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  Speaker 6: definitely want to confirm we still didn't have a medical issue,
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  Speaker 6: and if that's all clear, then the next steps would
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  Speaker 6: be anywhere they've urinated before, it can draw them to that.
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  Speaker 6: So you have to get some really good either carpet
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  Speaker 6: cleaning done or making sure you're actually removing the odor,
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  Speaker 6: the ammonia, all of that has to be removed and then.
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  Speaker 1: They're less likely to go back to it.
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  Speaker 6: But so you have to kind of make sure not
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  Speaker 6: a medical problem and get the environment super super clean
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  Speaker 6: and odor reduced.
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  Speaker 3: You know what I did. I just put cat boxes
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  Speaker 3: all over the house.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, Alie, We're going to take one more quick call
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  Speaker 4: Natalie High by Natalie, where are you calling from?
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  Speaker 11: I'm calling from Salt Lake.
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  Speaker 3: Okay, question, it's.
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  Speaker 11: About buddy stools. No, I'm kidding. So my cat has
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  Speaker 11: he got a sore he's got on the side of
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  Speaker 11: his head. We got to take him into the bed today.
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  Speaker 11: But previously the doctor had given us some Gabby Penton
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  Speaker 11: to like calm him down because he freaks out bad
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  Speaker 11: going to the going to the bet right, So am
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  Speaker 11: I okay giving him that today with him being injured?
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  Speaker 11: Or should I not give it to him?
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  Speaker 5: Uh?
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  Speaker 6: If it facilitates the visit, you probably should still give
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  Speaker 6: it unless he's like lethargic and not wanting to eat.
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  Speaker 6: If he's really lethargic, I have to be careful giving
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  Speaker 6: them meds. But if it'll get the visit done safely,
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  Speaker 6: I would give it.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, what's his name?
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  Speaker 11: Okay, his name's Porky.
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  Speaker 2: All right, thanks, thank you.
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  Speaker 3: All right, Well that's all the time. We have folks
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  Speaker 3: who are still hanging on.
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  Speaker 4: If you'd like to stick around and play meat, Gina,
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  Speaker 4: we'll give you that opportunity.
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  Speaker 3: But Rody wanted to talk about puppy drool or out
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  Speaker 3: of time. Sorry about that. Well, doctor Davis will be back.
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  Speaker 3: I will be back a couple of weeks. Thank you doctor.
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  Speaker 1: Thanks you guys,