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Vet Q&A From November 19th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Who do you trust to provide medical care for your pet? Guy,
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  Speaker 1: when your pet needs to check up or urgent care,
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  Speaker 1: we trust our friends. A Trilogy Veterinary Medical Center in
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  Speaker 1: Sandy is a Trilogy Vetsandy dot com.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that guy, doctor Josh Davis right there standing there
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  Speaker 2: as tall How tall.
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  Speaker 3: Are you anyway? Six to seven six seven.
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Davis is a veterinarian and he's the guy who
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  Speaker 2: runs the Trilogy Medical Center Veterinary Medical Center, Veterinary Medical Center,
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  Speaker 2: and he can answer questions about your puppies and kiddies.
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  Speaker 2: This is free advice. And we'd like to know the
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  Speaker 2: name of your pet and what the problem is. And
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  Speaker 2: we already have a couple of calls.
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  Speaker 4: We do.
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  Speaker 5: But if you are put on hold and it hangs
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  Speaker 5: up on you, call right back.
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  Speaker 3: We are still.
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  Speaker 5: Experiencing a few problems with our phone. All right, Okay,
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  Speaker 5: let's begin with Sarah. Hello, Sarah, morning, Sarah.
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  Speaker 6: Hello.
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  Speaker 3: What's your dog's name? Sarah?
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  Speaker 6: Ny is Marley and he is about thirteen years old.
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  Speaker 7: He's a mutt.
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  Speaker 6: I don't exactly know. I think he's like maybe a coonhound,
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  Speaker 6: sick of some sort. He is deaf and probably going
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  Speaker 6: blind as well over the past, like you're or so
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  Speaker 6: he has started to eat socks, socks and he's never
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  Speaker 6: done this before.
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  Speaker 3: So it's like does he literally consume them, eat them?
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  Speaker 6: So he'll this is kind of gross. He will eat
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  Speaker 6: them and then he will throw them up.
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  Speaker 3: And are these clean socks or dirty socks? Or doesn't
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  Speaker 3: it matter?
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  Speaker 7: It does not matter, it doesn't matter.
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  Speaker 3: Socks.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, that's socks are a big offender for a lot
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  Speaker 8: of dogs where we have to go in and do
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  Speaker 8: surgery for obstructions, ball obstructions and things like that. I
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  Speaker 8: don't know, I mean, without knowing all the details of
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  Speaker 8: the environment, that is kind of strange. And I would
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  Speaker 8: wonder just with age and age related changes, if there
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  Speaker 8: is some sort of you know, behavioral change or cognitive
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  Speaker 8: change that are all doing that.
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  Speaker 3: Can dogs be have dementia?
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  Speaker 8: They can, Yeah, they can get cognitive decline. It is
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  Speaker 8: described in dogs. It's harder to kind of see and
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  Speaker 8: manage because it's it's slower over time. But there are
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  Speaker 8: some dogs that do kind of just exhibit those signs.
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  Speaker 8: You know, they'll just sit and stare at the wall,
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  Speaker 8: They'll just bark at nothing sometimes and can kind of
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  Speaker 8: have that sundowning like people with Alzheimer's have, so they
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  Speaker 8: can do some strange things. So in your case, I
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  Speaker 8: would wonder if it's something like that, because it's generally
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  Speaker 8: a younger dog problem to eat things they shouldn't, you know,
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  Speaker 8: rocks and socks and you name it. I mean, I've
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  Speaker 8: seen dogs eat just about anything. So one of the
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  Speaker 8: biggest things is, to the best of your ability, is
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  Speaker 8: trying to control the environment.
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  Speaker 3: So pick up the damn socks, don't let him get him.
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  Speaker 8: Control the environment to the best of your ability so
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  Speaker 8: that there's not things available to be picked up. And
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  Speaker 8: I know that's not always one hundred percent possible, but
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  Speaker 8: doing your best there and then and then being evaluated
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  Speaker 8: and kind of keeping a diary of any other strange
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  Speaker 8: behaviors because there are there are some meds that that
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  Speaker 8: might be able to help if there's cognitive things, but
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  Speaker 8: it's it's not always a sure thing either.
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  Speaker 3: All right.
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, So he does also bark randomly, so that's interesting
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  Speaker 6: that you would say that.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah, so he may be having some cognitive decline. I mean,
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  Speaker 8: he's definitely the age where you can see that.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, maybe try THHC. Thanks Sarah, Can I ask him
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  Speaker 3: a question. Sure, hang on lamps.
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  Speaker 1: So for Thanksgiving, I would like to give my dogs
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  Speaker 1: a treat that will keep them occupied while we're eating
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  Speaker 1: Thanksgiving dinner.
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  Speaker 3: A live rabbit.
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  Speaker 1: I know, like bully sticks really aren't supposed to be,
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  Speaker 1: But is there one you recommend that I could give
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  Speaker 1: them as a treat on Thanksgiving that will keep them
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  Speaker 1: off keep them busy?
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  Speaker 9: Yeah?
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  Speaker 8: I mean, there are lots of things out there, and
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  Speaker 8: bully sticks themselves aren't necessarily bad.
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  Speaker 9: They just are their animal based shoes.
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  Speaker 8: I don't know if you've ever looked at what bully
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  Speaker 8: sticks actually are, but they're you know.
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  Speaker 3: So the risk with.
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  Speaker 8: Animal products like some of the raw heads and coated
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  Speaker 8: raw hides and animal products is that if they're not
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  Speaker 8: treated well, they can have just bad bacteria on them.
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  Speaker 8: They can cause you know, diarrhea or other things. And
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  Speaker 8: sometimes they'll have recalls where because it's things that can
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  Speaker 8: affect people too.
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  Speaker 3: So I would say.
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  Speaker 8: In general, they're not the worst thing out there, but
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  Speaker 8: you know, and raw hides like the big knuckled rowds
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  Speaker 8: have to be careful because some dogs will swallow those.
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  Speaker 8: So I think if you know your dog and you
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  Speaker 8: have experience that they're not going to take big chunks
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  Speaker 8: of those things.
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  Speaker 9: You're probably okay.
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  Speaker 8: They do make the Kong Kong brand things have the
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  Speaker 8: big Kong toys you can put like peanut butter inside
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  Speaker 8: and that keeps them good. Idea, I'll do that and
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  Speaker 8: some of the Nyla bones and things like that. Again,
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  Speaker 8: knowing your dog and what they're willing to do with things.
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  Speaker 2: Here's an idea, socks sock treat learning.
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  Speaker 8: And I'm sure there's a bunch of other things out there,
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  Speaker 8: but you know, chew chewing.
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  Speaker 9: His dog behavior, But you just have to be careful.
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  Speaker 2: We're back now with doctor Josh Davis, Veterinarian Extraordinaire, and
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  Speaker 2: he's of course with the Trilogy Veterinarian Medical Hospital.
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  Speaker 5: That's ninety eight seventy two South seven hundred East in Sandy.
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  Speaker 3: So let's get the questions. We've got a bunch of
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  Speaker 3: on the fire. All right. Let's begin with Lance. Hello, Lance, Lance,
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  Speaker 3: what's your question?
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  Speaker 4: By Yeah, So I've got my dog, Recess. She's about
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  Speaker 4: four years old. She's a mutt, but she's primarily like
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  Speaker 4: a hug Chihuaha mick k. She was recently diagnosed as
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  Speaker 4: diabetic a few months ago, and we've been giving her
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  Speaker 4: her insulin following the regimen, but we recently noticed about
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  Speaker 4: a week or so ago, he started to lose some
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  Speaker 4: of her fur, primarily on her belly. So that's got
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  Speaker 4: a little bit concerned because she's looking kind of bald
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  Speaker 4: when she like rolls over in your rubber belly. Can
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  Speaker 4: he're like, oh my gosh, like the furs gone? Is
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  Speaker 4: that related? Is that a concern? You know? Do we
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  Speaker 4: need to get her back into the vet? Maybe you
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  Speaker 4: look at something else. I don't know, we're just wondering.
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  Speaker 9: Yeah, that's no, that's a good question.
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  Speaker 8: The hair loss, it could be related, not necessarily to diabetes,
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  Speaker 8: but some dogs will actually get a concurrent metabolic illness
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  Speaker 8: called cushions disease, and some ducks can have both diseases
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  Speaker 8: at the same time. So that's one I would probably
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  Speaker 8: want to get ruled out. But also if the if
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  Speaker 8: the skin underneath is looking you know, if it looks normal,
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  Speaker 8: it's not red or inflamed, or we're not constantly scratching
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  Speaker 8: or licking, you know, it's probably not necessarily you know,
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  Speaker 8: an emergency or urgent thing to get looked at either.
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  Speaker 8: But if they do have cushings, it is something you
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  Speaker 8: do have to manage alongside with the diabetes. And they
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  Speaker 8: will often lose hair in other spots if they have
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  Speaker 8: Cushing's disease, and they can have problems with too much
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  Speaker 8: of an appetite.
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  Speaker 9: And because diabetes and cushings.
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  Speaker 8: Kind of fight with each other as far as managing them,
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  Speaker 8: so it might be worth getting checked out and then
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  Speaker 8: also making sure it's not something else like skin allergies
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  Speaker 8: or some other skin issue that's there too. That the
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  Speaker 8: because diabetes does change them, even if you're managing, it
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  Speaker 8: does change how things work for them.
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  Speaker 3: All right, there you go, There you go, lamps see
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  Speaker 3: a lad?
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, all right, let's go to Jacob.
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  Speaker 4: Hey, Jake, Jacob very, go ahead, hey, doctor Davis.
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  Speaker 10: So I've got a fourteen year old much she's a
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  Speaker 10: mix between a short Shitsu and New Yorky.
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  Speaker 3: What's her name?
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  Speaker 4: And she's her name is Mattie.
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  Speaker 10: Sorry in the last, but she started develop some skin
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  Speaker 10: bumps kind of like skin tags. The largest one is
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  Speaker 10: probably a quarter of an ash across. She's only got
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  Speaker 10: about three or four, but they've just kind of started developing.
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  Speaker 3: Where are the last?
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  Speaker 4: A little while she's aged.
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  Speaker 10: Where on the dogs are they The largest one is
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  Speaker 10: between her shoulder blades, and then she's got another one
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  Speaker 10: on her back, one on her hip, and one that's
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  Speaker 10: just started developing on her head.
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  Speaker 8: Okay, yeah, and for that breed and kind of any
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  Speaker 8: dog as they get older. Skin tags and skin cysts
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  Speaker 8: are are relatively common, and they are considered benign for
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  Speaker 8: the most part. Generally, if I'm going to recommend removing him,
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  Speaker 8: it's because they've gotten big enough to cause the dog
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  Speaker 8: a problem irritation wise, or cysts can rupture open and
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  Speaker 8: then they can get infected and kind of gross. But
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  Speaker 8: and then sometimes they just get big enough in certain
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  Speaker 8: areas to cause trouble. Or the skin tags they're more
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  Speaker 8: the ones that kind of hang off the skin versus
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  Speaker 8: kind of a lump under the skin. In general, they're benign,
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  Speaker 8: but sometimes it's worth removing.
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  Speaker 9: And the other thing if they grow fast.
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  Speaker 8: You know, most of these will grow over years pretty slowly,
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  Speaker 8: but if they grow faster than that, it might not
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  Speaker 8: be just a simple skin bump, you know, an age
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  Speaker 8: related bump. So it's always worth getting them checked out
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  Speaker 8: just to make sure.
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  Speaker 3: All right, cool, cool, big, all right, thank you? All right,
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  Speaker 3: let's go to Amy Amy. Hello, good morning, Good morning.
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  Speaker 11: So my dog Louie and I are going through it.
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  Speaker 11: We're trying to determine what kind of fung or bacterial
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  Speaker 11: infection he has. So he's on six different medications and
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  Speaker 11: has become really suspicious of me because I keep giving,
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  Speaker 11: and so I'm just checking all my resources. I mean,
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  Speaker 11: we're doing steak, hamburger, chicken, and I'm just wondering if
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  Speaker 11: anybody has any other tricks to getting pills down a
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  Speaker 11: dog's throat.
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  Speaker 9: Just out of curiosity, what are we treating for?
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  Speaker 11: We don't know.
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  Speaker 3: Oh, we don't know. Okay, we are.
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  Speaker 9: I guess what are the signs that you're working on?
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  Speaker 11: He has necrotic skin, they removed a necrotic lymph node,
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  Speaker 11: high fever. But one of the pills is n row
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  Speaker 11: flowaxin and it's huge, and uh, I don't want to
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  Speaker 11: shove it down its throat.
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  Speaker 8: Yeah yeah, And that's that one's an antibiotic, I mean,
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  Speaker 8: and so it sounds like it's probably important to get
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  Speaker 8: that in there, and you do have to be careful
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  Speaker 8: giving him a bunch of like the things that you're
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  Speaker 8: talking about, just in case they can get some Gi upset,
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  Speaker 8: but they do make I mean, there's lots of products
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  Speaker 8: out there.
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  Speaker 9: There's some pill pockets. There's pill it's.
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  Speaker 8: The there's also a paste, so it comes as a
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  Speaker 8: paste and you can kind of it's like play down
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  Speaker 8: and you can mold it and put pills in it
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  Speaker 8: that way. There are also you can get like gelatin
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  Speaker 8: capsules to kind of hide things in and hide the
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  Speaker 8: taste of them. The Kong Kong brand makes like a
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  Speaker 8: peanut butter, like little squeezy cheese peanut butter things.
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  Speaker 9: Sometimes that can be helpful.
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  Speaker 1: They're really good at though, eating all the yummy stuff
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  Speaker 1: they can, Yeah, for sure, and sometimes you do have
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  Speaker 1: to just what works with mine is not shove it
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  Speaker 1: down their throat, but get it far in the back
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  Speaker 1: of their mouth.
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  Speaker 9: And then if I just hold my hand under the.
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  Speaker 1: No, not like closed, but if you just put your
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  Speaker 1: hand under their chin. Oh really, yeah, so you don't
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  Speaker 1: have to hold it at least that's what I've found.
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  Speaker 9: You just hold it there. They will usually, Yeah, some
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  Speaker 9: dogs that will.
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  Speaker 3: Work for there's some kind of gun you can just
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  Speaker 3: shoot it in there.
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  Speaker 8: There are pill guns probably if it's a bigger dog
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  Speaker 8: like this, they're not they're not going to fit inside
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  Speaker 8: of those very well. And also another one, you have
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  Speaker 8: to be careful, like too much calories are fat, but
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  Speaker 8: even just peanut butter, and you put the pill on
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  Speaker 8: the back of a spoon with some peanut butter and
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  Speaker 8: just wipe that across the roof of their mouth and
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  Speaker 8: it kind of sticks, and once you get it far
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  Speaker 8: enough back there, there's.
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  Speaker 9: Only one direction most things will go. So well, that's
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  Speaker 9: a good idea.
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  Speaker 8: There's just there's so many different ways and it really
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  Speaker 8: depends on your dog, but it's probably really critical you
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  Speaker 8: get those in the best way.
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  Speaker 2: I'll bet there are any number of videos on YouTube
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  Speaker 2: that would that have, you know, techniques like that.
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  Speaker 11: Okay, thank you, I might try to calm thank.
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  Speaker 3: You, yeah, thank you. Let's go to Wendy. Hell, Hello, Wendy, Wendy.
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  Speaker 3: What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 1: By?
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  Speaker 7: His name is Buckenheimer Schmidt.
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  Speaker 4: Wow.
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  Speaker 7: We call him Bucky or Bucky being for short because
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  Speaker 7: he has an extra nipple like Chandler Banks. Anyway, he's
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  Speaker 7: eight and he's a the white, straight haired Jack Russell
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  Speaker 7: and he's so cute. He's eight years old. I think
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  Speaker 7: I said that, but uh my, my question. He's a
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  Speaker 7: chewing lunatic and he doesn't he doesn't chew the wrong things,
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  Speaker 7: but he just needs to chew all the time. So
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  Speaker 7: my friend suggested that I give him, like the the
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  Speaker 7: beef bones that have like marrow that are and I've
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  Speaker 7: used those to make you know, bone broth and stuff.
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  Speaker 7: And he said he gets them from if A and
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  Speaker 7: I've gotten them from like out of the freezer section
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  Speaker 7: at the grocery store. Is that safe? And he also
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  Speaker 7: told me that you know, his dog has perfect teeth and.
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  Speaker 3: Blah blah blah.
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  Speaker 5: Some some bones are problematic.
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  Speaker 8: In general, bones, they always have the potential to cause problems.
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  Speaker 8: So with those big beef knuckles like you're talking about,
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  Speaker 8: are the big beef bones the I mean the risks
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  Speaker 8: are bacteria is always a risk for stuff like that.
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  Speaker 8: And then dogs, some dogs, especially as the age or
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  Speaker 8: if there have been heavy chewers their whole lives, bones
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  Speaker 8: can also break their teeth, which will lead you down
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  Speaker 8: a whole nother path of problems with fractured teeth and
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  Speaker 8: pain and abscesses and things like that. And then also
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  Speaker 8: you can't always control how big of chunks they're chewing
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  Speaker 8: off these bones and so they can swallow quite large
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  Speaker 8: pieces of bone, which can be an intestinal obstruction or
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  Speaker 8: cause a lot of harm.
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  Speaker 9: To them that way. So no, so yeah, bones are
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  Speaker 9: always risky.
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  Speaker 8: Bones, antlers, any of that hard stuff is always risk
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  Speaker 8: for them. So I would urge a lot of caution
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  Speaker 8: with stuff like that.
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  Speaker 2: Can you have a custom made mouth peach like custom
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  Speaker 2: made mouth peach like athletes where there's mouthguard, Yeah, and there.
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  Speaker 8: There's tons of other chewing options out there. And with
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  Speaker 8: your you know, the rustles in general, they are they're
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  Speaker 8: high energy dogs.
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  Speaker 9: They're generally you know, they're smart.
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  Speaker 8: They need so I think also finding other avenues to
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  Speaker 8: burn that energy if possible, you know, with your living situation,
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  Speaker 8: keeping them really active, really really engaged, can also be
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  Speaker 8: helpful too.
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  Speaker 7: Sure, but okay, I totally get that. And unfortunately our situation.
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  Speaker 7: He's always had a yard and blah blah blah. Now
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  Speaker 7: we're in an apartment. So I take him for as
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  Speaker 7: many walks as I can a day, but it's not
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  Speaker 7: really working for him. So he wants to be more chewy.
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  Speaker 7: So I've got I've found other than like congs and
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  Speaker 7: things like that, some chewy toys that he doesn't just written.
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  Speaker 3: Well, sounds like you're trying to do everything you can
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  Speaker 3: so but no bones. Okay, yeah, all right, we gotta go.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you very much. Well, we're out of time.
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  Speaker 5: These two people who are on hold, Katie tell them
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  Speaker 5: that if they'd like, they could play Beat Gena.
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  Speaker 3: If they want to stick around.
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  Speaker 1: You can also go see doctor Davis.
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  Speaker 9: Yes that is, come see me live. I can do
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  Speaker 9: a better job for you for sure.
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  Speaker 5: Ninety eight seventy two South, seven hundred East and Sandy
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  Speaker 5: Trilogy Veterinary Medical Center.
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  Speaker 9: Thank you, Thanks you guys.
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  Speaker 3: Thank you later.