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Speaker 1: Mardy Greer of Checkout Veterinary live on air with us
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Speaker 1: this week?
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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Speaker 1: It is great to talk with you, and we've got
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Speaker 1: get you on the air at six eight three two
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Speaker 1: one thirteen ten. That's six soh eight three two one
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Speaker 1: thirteen ten. It just kind of reading through some news
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Speaker 1: stories this morning, and now one of the things I
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Speaker 1: have flagged is anything involving pets and a really sad
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Speaker 1: and scary story out of the Pittsburgh area about a
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Speaker 1: family that's warning other pet owners after their their beloved
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Speaker 1: dog had died from a very rare uh fungal infection
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Speaker 1: something they had. A five year old German shepherd suddenly
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Speaker 1: died last month after something called blasts doctor about this?
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Speaker 1: What's this? What's it called blastomycosis? Blasto? Mike as, that's
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Speaker 1: easy enough I should have been able to do. It's
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Speaker 1: a fungal disease that shows up in soil and decaying
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Speaker 1: organic member matter, often around fresh water. I'd never heard
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Speaker 1: of this before, and you said, well, this isn't as
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Speaker 1: uncommon as you might might think. What are we talking
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Speaker 1: about here.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's a fungal pneumonia that can cause other symptoms
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Speaker 2: as well. It is relatively common in Wisconsin, particularly north
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Speaker 2: of US, so if you get up into Rhinelander, in
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Speaker 2: those areas, it's unfortunately pretty common. So I don't want
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Speaker 2: people to leave the show thinking, oh, my dog's never
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Speaker 2: going to have a problem with that, because that isn't
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Speaker 2: really the case. It is pretty common, so we'll see
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Speaker 2: a couple of cases a year. Usually it's more common
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Speaker 2: now that it was in past years, and maybe we're
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Speaker 2: better at diagnosing it, maybe it's more prevalent. I'm not
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Speaker 2: sure which of those is true. But when I first
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Speaker 2: got out of school, it was really hard to diagnose.
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Speaker 2: We didn't have a good test for it. We would
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Speaker 2: do cultures and serologies and all kinds of things. They
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Speaker 2: weren't very good. But in the last I don't know,
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Speaker 2: ten or fifteen years, there was a urine test developed
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Speaker 2: by a company called Miravista Labs in Indiana. I mean,
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Speaker 2: Miravista in Indiana doesn't quite hit in my head, those
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Speaker 2: like it should be in California, but okay, it's not.
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Speaker 2: So they do a urine test, and the first time
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Speaker 2: I saw this come through in a referral forum, I'm like, urine,
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Speaker 2: what do you mean youurine test? It's a urine test,
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Speaker 2: so it's pretty easy to do. We collect urine, you
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Speaker 2: can bring in a sample. You can have your vet
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Speaker 2: collected at the office. But we send that to the
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Speaker 2: lab and typically within about forty eight hours of the
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Speaker 2: time they receive the sample, we have a diagnosis, yes
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Speaker 2: or no. Now there are other fungal pneumonias. We can
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Speaker 2: see histo, we can see cocksidio on mycosis. That's more
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Speaker 2: prevalent down in Arizona, Utah, some of the dry climates.
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Speaker 2: But glastow is pretty common and it tends to be
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Speaker 2: in that organic material decaying wood gardening that can put
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Speaker 2: pets at risk, people at risk, and people get this too,
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Speaker 2: but not from their dog. I want to be really
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Speaker 2: clear that when people get it, it's from a common
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Speaker 2: exposure source. So it isn't as if you're dog comes
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Speaker 2: home and gives it to you. But it would be
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Speaker 2: that if you were out gardening together, or you were
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Speaker 2: hiking together, and you had happened to be in a
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Speaker 2: place that had blast those spores in the soil. Because
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Speaker 2: these are spores that live in the soil, you inhale
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Speaker 2: those spores. They set up housekeeping in your lungs. And
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Speaker 2: in dogs it can I can't speak to people as
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Speaker 2: much as dogs, but in dogs it can cause pneumonia.
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Speaker 2: But as this story detailed, started off as apparently started
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Speaker 2: off as a skin lesion, although the dog got sticked
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Speaker 2: pretty quickly, so I suspect that there was already early
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Speaker 2: pneumonia starting, just not enough if anybody had really noticed
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Speaker 2: that that the dog hadn't developed a cough or shortness
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Speaker 2: of breath or anything yet. But those of the symptoms
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Speaker 2: will typically see are going to be either a cough
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Speaker 2: that can look like kennel cough. It can look like pneumonia,
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Speaker 2: can look like a lot of things, and indeed it
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Speaker 2: is fungal pneumonia, but it can also cause these draining
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Speaker 2: skin lesions, usually on the seaten legs, but not only talk.
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Speaker 1: talk a little bit about the signs and symptoms. We've
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Speaker 1: talked a little bit about the cause of it, the
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Speaker 1: testing for it. What about treatment is there is there
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Speaker 1: are there treatments out there for pets that may be
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Speaker 1: exposed or maybe suffering from blastom.
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Speaker 2: There are and indeed they have gotten better as well.
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Speaker 2: O great So over the years, we used to have
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Speaker 2: amphatuirs and ving which had to be given intravenously, and
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Speaker 2: the dogs would develop kidney problems and they got really
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Speaker 2: stick from the drugs. Now we have either intraconaisol or
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Speaker 2: flu CONNAISOURL. Those are both oral medications you can give
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Speaker 2: it home. They are a long long course it maybe
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Speaker 2: four to six weeks I'm sorry, four to six months
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Speaker 2: of treatment. A very long course of treatment, but it
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Speaker 2: is a pretty effective treatment. And depending on where the
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Speaker 2: dog's lesions are, that's going to determine whether flu conisour
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Speaker 2: or intraconnaisseur or the drugs of choice. So one thing
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Speaker 2: if it's in because a lot of these dogs to
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Speaker 2: develop problem with their eyes, so we'll frequently seen these
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Speaker 2: dogs immediately to an optomologists because they will see things
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Speaker 2: in the eye and help us direct treatment. We can
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Speaker 2: see it, like I said, as pneumonia. It can show
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Speaker 2: up as a draining skin lesion, but it can end
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Speaker 2: up in the prostate. I've had four cases of dogs
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Speaker 2: with it in their prostata as a primary presenting cause.
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Speaker 2: I've seen it in other areas as well. I've had
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Speaker 2: pregnant dogs come in with it. We've had healthy dogs
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Speaker 2: come in with it, and it's typically a disorder that
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Speaker 2: we see in dogs between two and five years of age,
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Speaker 2: so not mature, elderly dogs by any stretch, and that's
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Speaker 2: usually where you expect to see pneumonia is either in
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Speaker 2: the really young or really old. It's like in people,
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Speaker 2: but in this case, it tends to be the two
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Speaker 2: to five year old dog that's in that early mature
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Speaker 2: stage but still pretty young, so nobody expects it to
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Speaker 2: be pneumonia. So a dog comes in coughing, You're like, oh,
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Speaker 2: it's probably kennel cough. Here's a bottle of pillows. Go home,
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Speaker 2: you'll be fine. And indeed, this progresses pretty quickly. You
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Speaker 2: need to avoid steroid use during this because steroids will
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Speaker 2: then suppress the immune system and allow the pneumonia to
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Speaker 2: become worse fairly rapidly. So there's a lot of things
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Speaker 2: that can go wrong with this. It is not an
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Speaker 2: easy treatment, it is not a short treatment, but it
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Speaker 2: is usually not always successful. In the case of this dog,
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Speaker 2: it wasn't. The dog was already so advanced by the
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Speaker 2: time that they diagnosed it that it passed away. And
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Speaker 2: that's the problem. Is that it takes a few days
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Speaker 2: to get the results back because we have to send
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Speaker 2: the sample to a diagnostic lab. By the time we
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Speaker 2: get the results, we could be several days in so
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Speaker 2: there are cases where we'll put a dog on it
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Speaker 2: the ittracnosole or flucnaisolt presumptively thinking that perhaps that's what
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Speaker 2: it is, and we just don't want to wait too
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Speaker 2: long so that the disease gets a stronger foothold than
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Speaker 2: it does. And when you take an X ray of
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Speaker 2: these dogs chests, it's a fairly significant change in the
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Speaker 2: X ray that almost always pretty much screams blast though
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Speaker 2: when you take the X ray and take a look.
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Speaker 2: But if you don't take an X ray because it's
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Speaker 2: oh it's just kemel clock, yeah, it can sneak up
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Speaker 2: on you really quickly. So it's really important.
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Speaker 1: Doctor Greer, Is it you mentioned people and dogs? Is
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Speaker 1: this something I've got to guess cats. Do we see
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Speaker 1: it in cats as well or not as much or
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Speaker 1: not at all?
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Speaker 2: Or I don't think it's been reported in cats. Maybe
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Speaker 2: there are a few cases. There are some other fungal
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Speaker 2: diseases that we see in cats, typically in the nasal passages,
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Speaker 2: but not typically this disease, So I think that's important.
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Speaker 2: There was a case, gosh, probably ten or fifteen years
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Speaker 2: ago that a whole bunch of people that were at
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Speaker 2: a garden center on a Saturday morning, were at a
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Speaker 2: class at an event at the garden center up in
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Speaker 2: the Rhinelander area, and the wind must have just been
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Speaker 2: in the wrong direction. There had previously been a mill
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Speaker 2: that had milled wood across the river from where this
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Speaker 2: garden center was, and one hundred and twenty people got
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Speaker 2: sick from the same exposure because it was just the
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Speaker 2: wrong place, the wrong time, the wrong conditions, the wrong
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Speaker 2: wind direction, all the sort of wrong things all happen
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Speaker 2: in this whole accumulation of people got sick. That it's very,
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Speaker 2: very unusual. But I've had clients with suns that are
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Speaker 2: tree that cut down trees three fellas, and they have
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Speaker 2: had a pair of brothers that both got sticked from
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Speaker 2: the same exposure. So mutual exposure can create this. And
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Speaker 2: that's where I want people to be really clear. Is
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Speaker 2: your dog comes in coughing, You're not going to get
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Speaker 2: it from the dog. But if you were mutually outdoing
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Speaker 2: some of the activities that a lot of people do
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Speaker 2: together with their dog because it's fun, then you may
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Speaker 2: have had a mutual exposure. And I would suggest if
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Speaker 2: anybody in your family or another dog in the family
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Speaker 2: has become ill from this, and they've had any kind
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Speaker 2: of mutual areas that they've been in that you do
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Speaker 2: have the dog test. That it's a simple test, it's
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Speaker 2: just urine. It doesn't take anything complicated. It's a fairly
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Speaker 2: fast turnaround time. So in the case of this family,
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Speaker 2: they have their other dog tested and indeed she was
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Speaker 2: blasto positive as well, but wasn't showing symptoms. So that
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Speaker 2: doesn't mean every dog in Wisconsin should run in and
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Speaker 2: get a urine test today and have it tested for blasto.
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Speaker 2: But it does mean that if you have family members
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Speaker 2: and you've been up at their cottage or their cabin,
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Speaker 2: or you have been recently gardening or any of those things,
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Speaker 2: and you're not feeling well or the dog's not feeling well,
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Speaker 2: that you do go ahead and get that chased down
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Speaker 2: because you don't want to let this get too far advanced,
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Speaker 2: because it is a bugger of a disease. It is difficult,
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Speaker 2: and it can cause some pretty serious lung effects if
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Speaker 2: we don't see the optimologist quickly enough. We can have
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Speaker 2: these dogs with vision. So I just want it to
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Speaker 2: be really clear that it is a serious disease, but
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Speaker 2: it is not insurmountable if you are able to get
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Speaker 2: a hold of the disease and the drug quickly enough.
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Speaker 2: But it doesn't always work out well. So it can
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Speaker 2: have bad outcomes, but it doesn't always. So I encourage people,
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Speaker 2: if they have any hope at all of this dog
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Speaker 2: getting better, that they do start treatment as soon as possible.
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Speaker 2: That the drugs are not terribly expensive. They used to
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Speaker 2: be expensive because it used to have to be IV,
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Speaker 2: it used to have to be with monitoring kidney values
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Speaker 2: and hospitalization. But fortunately the better the drugs are, the
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Speaker 2: better the treatments are. So we do have much better treatments.
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Speaker 2: But if you have any suspicion, then just go in
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Speaker 2: and talk to your VAT or talk to your physician
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Speaker 2: and see what they can do to diagnose to or
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Speaker 2: at least put your mind to these that that's not
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Speaker 2: what it is.
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Speaker 1: spiral keats and other illnesses out there, it's been a
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Speaker 1: year for for ticks, hasn't it. Doctor?
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Speaker 2: Oh my gosh. Yeah, everywhere the country is talking about
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Speaker 2: ticks everywhere. I've been to multiple meetings across the country, Pittsburgh,
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Speaker 2: I just got back from Kansas City. Everybody is talking
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Speaker 2: about how bad the ticks are. I was walking to
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Speaker 2: dinner the other night with a front at this meeting
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Speaker 2: and he said he's originally from Ohio, but he's lived
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Speaker 2: in California for decades. And he said, yeah, we stopped
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Speaker 2: back home where it came from, visiting family. And I
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Speaker 2: stopped at the place and I said, well, I could
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Speaker 2: go for a little walk out here, and they said,
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Speaker 2: oh no, you don't, no, no, no, no, no, it's way
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Speaker 2: too bad out there. So it is remarkably bad, and
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Speaker 2: we are very we have to be very careful that
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Speaker 2: we don't let our guard down, that we think, oh,
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Speaker 2: my dog never leaves the yard. I don't have ticks.
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Speaker 2: Ticks fall don't fall out of trees. They're in your yard.
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Speaker 2: They're in the tall on grass. If any little critters
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Speaker 2: come up in your yard at night, moles or voles,
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Speaker 2: or rabbits or whitetailed mice or white tail deer, any
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Speaker 2: of those things, then all of these creatures are carrying
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Speaker 2: these little ticks. And your dog goes out whorls around
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Speaker 2: on the grass in the morning because it's wonderful and
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Speaker 2: dewey and feels great and smells wonderful, and then they
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Speaker 2: come in with a tick or multiple ticks. So please
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Speaker 2: use your tick preventions. Don't let your guard down. Any
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Speaker 2: month of the year, especially this time of year. We
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Speaker 2: have a great product that's a one year injectible. You
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Speaker 2: can come in, come to the drive through, we pop
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Speaker 2: your dog out of the car, put them on the scale,
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Speaker 2: see what their dose should be. We can give them
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Speaker 2: an injection and that will give you twelve months of coverage.
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Speaker 2: You don't have to think about it again. You're covered
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Speaker 2: for a whole year, and then next summer when it's
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Speaker 2: time to do the injection again, then you just pop
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Speaker 2: back in. We see you again and we can take
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Speaker 2: care of it. So we do have to see you.
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Speaker 2: It does require a visit, but if you haven't been
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Speaker 2: to either of our practices before and it's a wellness
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Speaker 2: visit such as this, then we'll do that visit for
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Speaker 2: no charge, and then you just pay for the injection.
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Speaker 2: So the injectible is there's a charge for that, but
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Speaker 2: not for the office visit when we establish your care
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Speaker 2: so that we can start treatment. So it's a pretty
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Speaker 2: cool treatment. It's so easy that dogs don't mind it
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Speaker 2: at all. We're give them a little peanut butter while
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Speaker 2: we're doing the injection. They're busy licking the peanut butter.
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Speaker 2: They don't even notice that anything's happening. Now, we don't
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Speaker 2: have this for cats at this point. We do have
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Speaker 2: topicals for cats, the ones that you can put on
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Speaker 2: the back of the neck, but we don't see as
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Speaker 2: many kickboarn diseases and casts as we do in dogs,
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Speaker 2: mostly because of a lifestyle. But it is really a
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Speaker 2: good idea to be talking about this. If your regular
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Speaker 2: veterinary clinic isn't offering this, or if you want to
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Speaker 2: establish care with us, we would love to see you
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Speaker 2: at either check in or check out or again Marshall,
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Speaker 2: because we can provide it any of those three practices
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Speaker 2: and got to being bada boom, you're done.
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Speaker 1: For a year is one of the mistakes that that
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Speaker 1: pet owners are making as well. Not obviously we're when
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Speaker 1: we think ticks right now, I think most pet owners think,
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Speaker 1: you know, mid August, hot humid, we're hearing the cicadas.
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Speaker 1: All the ticks got to be they've got to be
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Speaker 1: going crazy. Tick seasons seems to be a year round
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Speaker 1: thing now or am I off on that?
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Speaker 2: Doctor, No, it's definitely become year round. You're absolutely correct
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Speaker 2: about that. It's not that they're terribly active in January
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Speaker 2: on really cold days. But if we get a forty
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Speaker 2: degree day, just warm enough that it's above freezing, the
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Speaker 2: ticks will come out. They hang out on a blade
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Speaker 2: of grass and wait for your dog to come past
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Speaker 2: or you to come past. It's called questing. If you
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Speaker 2: look at videos, it's kind of interesting if ticks could
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Speaker 2: be cute. It's a kind of cute activity. They sit
16:05
Speaker 2: on the end of the blade of grass and they
16:06
Speaker 2: have their little front legs kind of waving looking for something,
16:10
Speaker 2: and then a dog walks past. They are on it.
16:13
Speaker 2: They can feel the heat, they can smell the carbon
16:16
Speaker 2: dioxide that your pet exhales. So those are the things
16:19
Speaker 2: that attract the ticks to you and to your pets.
16:21
Speaker 2: So be careful with yourself where your protective clothing put
16:25
Speaker 2: your tick sprays on. Be careful with that. Because we
16:27
Speaker 2: don't have these great products for people. We can't give
16:31
Speaker 2: you an injection or have you take any of these
16:33
Speaker 2: fully medications clean tick preventives. But I mean, at some
16:36
Speaker 2: point they're working on things. They're actually working on a
16:39
Speaker 2: vaccine to prevent ticks. And I don't understand how a
16:41
Speaker 2: vaccine can prevent a tick, but I'm not an immunologist,
16:44
Speaker 2: so that's not my job to understand. My job to
16:47
Speaker 2: understand how to use these medication. But it is pretty great.
16:50
Speaker 2: Now if you're not interested in the injectable, if you
16:53
Speaker 2: want to just do something a little bit less. There
16:55
Speaker 2: are the oral medications. There are four of those on
16:57
Speaker 2: the market that do tick control that prevect Own, next Guard, Cordelio,
17:01
Speaker 2: and Simperica. Those will do flee and tick preventives. Some
17:05
Speaker 2: also include heartworm preventives. Pro Vecto does not. And then
17:08
Speaker 2: there's the topicals. Some pets tolerates the topicals really well,
17:11
Speaker 2: and they do give you a little bit better repellency
17:13
Speaker 2: than the injectible, but a lot of dogs don't tolerate them.
17:16
Speaker 2: They get the hebgvs from the way that the product
17:18
Speaker 2: evaporates off of their skin. It feels really strange. So
17:21
Speaker 2: for a day or two after the application, the dogs
17:23
Speaker 2: will act really weird and roll around and you know,
17:26
Speaker 2: just get these really funny sensations. And I have personally
17:29
Speaker 2: used perme threads, so I can tell you it's a
17:31
Speaker 2: real sensation. It is unfortunate I didn't do it with
17:35
Speaker 2: a dog product. I did it with a human product.
17:36
Speaker 2: But nevertheless, it's not a fun experience. So if your
17:40
Speaker 2: dog isn't tolerating those topical as well, don't keep doing it.
17:43
Speaker 2: Just come in and get the injectible and then be
17:45
Speaker 2: done and you don't have to continue to think about
17:47
Speaker 2: when is my next dose? Oh my gosh, you know,
17:49
Speaker 2: you get up to the cabin and then the dog
17:51
Speaker 2: jumps in the water, and so did it wash everything off?
17:53
Speaker 2: And did I remember give the pill? And did the
17:55
Speaker 2: dog take it and door? Did they go behind the
17:57
Speaker 2: couch and spit it out or did they throw up
17:59
Speaker 2: in the yard after they got it? You know, all
18:01
Speaker 2: these things that go through your head. And people worry
18:03
Speaker 2: about topicals on their own exposures as well. They just
18:06
Speaker 2: don't like the idea of having their children or themselves
18:09
Speaker 2: in touching those areas where you've applied the product. So
18:12
Speaker 2: this alleviates all those concerns. It's just one injection and
18:16
Speaker 2: it's done, and you don't have to You don't have
18:18
Speaker 2: to think about it till that next year when the
18:21
Speaker 2: reminder comes in you're like, yeah, yeah, I think, really,
18:23
Speaker 2: has it really been a year already?
18:27
Speaker 1: I want to talk to you a little bit about
18:28
Speaker 1: check out vetu in just a moment. One of the
18:30
Speaker 1: thing I think I've mentioned this on the on the program.
18:32
Speaker 1: It was a couple of winters ago. It was like
18:34
Speaker 1: it was like December January, it was it was one
18:36
Speaker 1: of these days though, where the sun was out, snow
18:39
Speaker 1: had been melted, and I'm just sitting on a log,
18:41
Speaker 1: kind of taking it all in, enjoying the sun, enjoying
18:44
Speaker 1: the warmer temperatures. And I look down and there is
18:46
Speaker 1: a tick walking on my hand. It must have been
18:48
Speaker 1: enjoying the same same things I was, And I thought,
18:51
Speaker 1: Holy moly, these guys, these guys are out. I always
18:54
Speaker 1: assumed that they would just freeze to death when it
18:57
Speaker 1: got cold, or that they died away, And know just
19:00
Speaker 1: they just kind of take a little nap and kind
19:02
Speaker 1: of almost like high rate. Once it gets warm enough,
19:04
Speaker 1: they pop right up. So you mentioned that wellness exam
19:09
Speaker 1: what goes on typically with those For folks that are
19:11
Speaker 1: kind of experiencing checkout VET for the first time, let's
19:14
Speaker 1: kind of just walk through how that appointment works and
19:16
Speaker 1: what all goes into that.
19:18
Speaker 2: Oh I love that. So yeah, you can make an appointment.
19:21
Speaker 2: You can email us, you can make an appointment online,
19:24
Speaker 2: you can call us, whatever your preferred method of communication is.
19:27
Speaker 2: Let us know what you need and approximately what day
19:30
Speaker 2: or time will work for you, and we'll take a
19:32
Speaker 2: look at the schedule and make sure that we can
19:34
Speaker 2: get you in when you get there. You don't have
19:36
Speaker 2: to get out of your car. You pull up to
19:38
Speaker 2: the garage bay, so you just pull up. We'll see
19:41
Speaker 2: your car as soon as that garage bay is free
19:42
Speaker 2: from the previous appointment, or if it's already free, we'll
19:45
Speaker 2: pop the door open, so you'll come in the McDonald's
19:48
Speaker 2: driveway and pull up to the garage door. And the
19:51
Speaker 2: four exam bays are named by farm names, so we
19:54
Speaker 2: don't do farm animals, but it just makes it easier.
19:56
Speaker 2: We have rooster, pig, chicken, and sheep, i'm sorry, cow
20:00
Speaker 2: and cheap. So we have these really nice garage bays
20:03
Speaker 2: with little emblems on them. So if they tell you
20:05
Speaker 2: to pull to the garage bay, you go to the
20:07
Speaker 2: bay where there's a cow on the outside. You wait,
20:09
Speaker 2: we put the door up and you pull in, and
20:11
Speaker 2: then you can stay in your car if you choose,
20:13
Speaker 2: or you can get out. Your pet will then either
20:15
Speaker 2: stay in the car if it's a large pet, if
20:17
Speaker 2: it's a cat or a small dog. Will take them
20:18
Speaker 2: into the adjacent exam room. They'll get their examination with
20:22
Speaker 2: the veterinarian. They'll listen to their heart, look at their
20:23
Speaker 2: eyes and ears, feel their bellies, do all this stuff,
20:27
Speaker 2: draw the blood. If we need to give the vaccines,
20:29
Speaker 2: if we need to provide all those things, make sure
20:31
Speaker 2: that they get weighed before we administer any medication. And
20:35
Speaker 2: then as soon as you're done, you pop back in
20:37
Speaker 2: your car, you pay your bill and drop out the door.
20:40
Speaker 2: You go. And like you've said, the first wellness visit
20:43
Speaker 2: is free, so you don't even have to pay so much.
20:46
Speaker 2: So it's a really good experience for you, or good
20:48
Speaker 2: opportunity for you to get to know us. And if
20:50
Speaker 2: you don't need anything, or you don't want anything done
20:53
Speaker 2: with your pet, you just want to like experience it.
20:56
Speaker 2: What is this place really all about? And I don't understand,
20:58
Speaker 2: And this is weird and I've never heard of this before.
21:01
Speaker 2: I'm not sure how this works. Don't even have to
21:04
Speaker 2: have anything done if you want to, just come over,
21:06
Speaker 2: meet one of the doctors whoever's working that day, meet
21:08
Speaker 2: the staff, see the experience, see how your pet enjoys it.
21:13
Speaker 2: Because it is so much less stressful for pets than
21:15
Speaker 2: the traditional way that you park the car in the winter,
21:19
Speaker 2: you have to log through the snow in the summer,
21:21
Speaker 2: or the heat or the rain or whatever's happening. You
21:23
Speaker 2: don't have to do all those things. There's no lobby,
21:25
Speaker 2: there's no waiting room. You just come into the bay.
21:28
Speaker 2: We get taken care of, and it's very efficient. It's
21:31
Speaker 2: very convenient, very safe, there's no exposure to other pets,
21:34
Speaker 2: and we can clean everything down. We can hose down
21:37
Speaker 2: the garage base when we're done, so everything is really
21:40
Speaker 2: clean and really fresh and really efficient. So it's a
21:44
Speaker 2: really interesting and nice way to provide veterinary care. And
21:47
Speaker 2: we've had lots of fun with it because it is
21:50
Speaker 2: so different, and the owners of the pets really love it.
21:52
Speaker 2: The staff and my doctors adore it. So it's pretty
21:56
Speaker 2: hard to go back once you've experienced it. It's hard
21:59
Speaker 2: to go back to a regular REDAD and every care.
22:00
Speaker 1: Yeah, it's pretty amazing and real quick to along those lines.
22:03
Speaker 1: Does that make the exam more effective as well? I
22:06
Speaker 1: mean just I just think of like even people like
22:08
Speaker 1: going if you know, waiting in a waiting room to
22:10
Speaker 1: go see your doctor, like those type of things, see
22:12
Speaker 1: blood pressure comes up? Does that does that help make
22:14
Speaker 1: the exam more effective?
22:16
Speaker 2: Also? I think it probably does. That's white coat syndrome,
22:19
Speaker 2: and yes, it's a real thing. We all get it
22:22
Speaker 2: when we go to the dentist or when we go
22:24
Speaker 2: to our doctor's office. I know my blood pressure isn't
22:28
Speaker 2: the same there there as it is at home, and
22:30
Speaker 2: I don't think that's because I don't know how to
22:33
Speaker 2: take blood pressure. That's what happens. So yeah, it's it's
22:37
Speaker 2: a whole different experience, you know. It's like going to
22:40
Speaker 2: the dentist or any place else that you're really not
22:42
Speaker 2: too comfortable in. Is the more comfortable we can make you.
22:46
Speaker 2: And if your more comfortable in the vehicle, then we
22:49
Speaker 2: just totally, you know, leave them in the vehicle and
22:51
Speaker 2: we don't have to do anything else.
22:53
Speaker 1: Fantastic great data. Make that appointment. All you got to
22:55
Speaker 1: do is give them a call six so I three
22:57
Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. That's three one eight sixty
23:00
Speaker 1: seven hundred. You can also make your appointment online telephone
23:02
Speaker 1: numbers there as well. Check out vet dot com. That's
23:05
Speaker 1: check out vet dot com. Doctor Greer, it's always great chatting.
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Speaker 1: You have a great day, and we'll do it all
23:08
Speaker 1: again real soon.
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Speaker 2: Thank you.
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