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Busting All Your Favorite Pet Myths with Dr. Greer of CheckOut Vet · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Telephe number six oh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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  Speaker 1: That's six h eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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  Speaker 1: And joining us this morning from Checkout Veterinary is doctor
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  Speaker 1: Marty Greer, recognized as veterinary enough the year from Westminster
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  Speaker 1: Kennel Club. Doctor. How you doing 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're going
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  Speaker 1: to do a bit of a myth busters edition of
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  Speaker 1: the of the program this morning. Yeah, I did not
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  Speaker 1: I I you know, you and I talked a bit
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  Speaker 1: before the show and I thought there's probably a few
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  Speaker 1: myths out there about pets. So I just kind of
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  Speaker 1: quickly googled pet myths, common pet myths, and oh my goodness,
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  Speaker 1: there's pages and pages of this stuff. There's a lot, Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of it. A lot of it's kind
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  Speaker 1: of fun and just important, you know, relatively important, but
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  Speaker 1: not major stuff. But there are some serious ones in here,
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  Speaker 1: kind of the major ones as well, and just kind
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  Speaker 1: of picking up some of them. The one that I
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  Speaker 1: will start off with, and I'll ask you about this,
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  Speaker 1: and I've heard this since I was a child, about
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  Speaker 1: dog years, about there's dogs age differently than humans, and
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  Speaker 1: we always talk about my dog is eight, but in
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  Speaker 1: people years, he'd be forty or something like that. Is
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  Speaker 1: there any truth to that? Is there any correspondence to
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  Speaker 1: that belief?
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  Speaker 2: Well, there's no question that the age differently than us,
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  Speaker 2: but it's not a one to seven ratio the way
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  Speaker 2: most people think that it is. So if they're seven
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  Speaker 2: years old, that doesn't mean they're forty nine. In human years. Essentially,
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  Speaker 2: the first eighteen months or so is equal to our
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  Speaker 2: twenty one years. So they go through puberty, they've become
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  Speaker 2: young adults, so that's around eighteen months is twenty one
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  Speaker 2: and then it's at about a one to three ratio
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  Speaker 2: until they become elderly, until they get into their last
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  Speaker 2: seventy five or eighty percent of their expected life expectancy.
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  Speaker 2: And then of course there's differences breed to breed. So
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  Speaker 2: you have a chiuahuo, it's going to likely live to
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  Speaker 2: be much older than at great Danes, so there's a
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  Speaker 2: big difference. But then when we get to the anybitty
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  Speaker 2: really teeny dogs, like the two pound dogs, then they
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  Speaker 2: tend to have a shorter life expectancy as well. So
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  Speaker 2: the extremes, the two hundred pound dog and the two
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  Speaker 2: pound dogs tend to have a slightly shorter life expectancy.
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  Speaker 2: So if you look at that, so for instance, a
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  Speaker 2: cab that comes in that's ten, I don't consider a
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  Speaker 2: cat it tend to be elderly. I consider a cat
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  Speaker 2: at fourteen or fifteen to be elderly. And then we're
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  Speaker 2: going to recommend annual blood work starting when they're probably
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  Speaker 2: you know, twelve to fourteen years old, just to get
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  Speaker 2: a baseline and see what's going on. So a Great
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  Speaker 2: Dan at nine is pretty old. A chuauo o at
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  Speaker 2: nine is just getting started. So it really depends a lot,
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  Speaker 2: you know, Yorky Schnauzers, A lot of those dogs live
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  Speaker 2: to be well into their teens. And then we get
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  Speaker 2: to the labs in the Goldens and there's there's also
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  Speaker 2: this kind of thing with labs and Golden Retrievers some
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  Speaker 2: German Shepherds is around age seven and around age nine
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  Speaker 2: we start to see some increase in cancer. So if
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  Speaker 2: a dog comes in at age seven and they're not
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  Speaker 2: feeling well, cancer is going to be pretty high on
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  Speaker 2: my list if it's a Golden Retriever, a Bertie's Mountain Dog,
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  Speaker 2: labat or and shepherd. It's going to be a lot
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  Speaker 2: lower on my list if it's the Schnauzer. So there
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  Speaker 2: really are a lot of differences breed to breed, and
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  Speaker 2: the age of the dog based on the size of
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  Speaker 2: the dog. So it's not just a straight up one
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  Speaker 2: to seven.
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  Speaker 1: You know, I know, that's a really long answers. It's
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  Speaker 1: I love it, and and it shows that all the
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  Speaker 1: important nuances of this is I think obviously as pet people,
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  Speaker 1: as pet pet owners and caretakers, and oftentimes you want
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  Speaker 1: to use shorthand, and the reality is, I know, I know,
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  Speaker 1: as you explain a little bit about the aging process.
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  Speaker 1: There's way more to it that we could that we
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  Speaker 1: could get into, but it is something people need to understand.
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  Speaker 1: Is it's not just a simple simple formula. Dogs, cats,
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  Speaker 1: all your pets go through go through different stages of life,
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  Speaker 1: just like humans, and it's not always paced the same way.
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  Speaker 1: Is there Like for you doctor, as we talked about
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  Speaker 1: with doctor Marty, degree of checkout veteran, is there a
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  Speaker 1: myth that you see most often come into the clinic
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  Speaker 1: that if you could like be like, I just wish
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  Speaker 1: people realize this, is there something for you personally that
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  Speaker 1: kind of gets you.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think people try to skimp on veterinary care
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  Speaker 2: and in the long run, it ends up costing them money.
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  Speaker 2: And I think that's a frustration for all of us.
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  Speaker 2: Is all of us that are veterinary clinics, that all
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  Speaker 2: of our locations are happy to work with you to
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  Speaker 2: figure out the most cost effective way to treat your pet.
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  Speaker 2: But skimping on a vaccination, skimping on a heartworm test,
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  Speaker 2: or skimping on flea and tick preventive in the long
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  Speaker 2: run usually ends up costing you and oftentimes your pet
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  Speaker 2: some of their health. So if you really do have
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  Speaker 2: a limited budget, we can work with that and we're
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  Speaker 2: happy to Nobody wants to just feel like, you know,
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  Speaker 2: we're trying to take you to the cleaners. So what
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  Speaker 2: we want to do with you is have you come
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  Speaker 2: in and you know, we can help you figure out
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  Speaker 2: what pet food can be most cost effective because sometimes
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  Speaker 2: people are spending way more on dog food or cat
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  Speaker 2: food than they need to be. So there's definitely things
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  Speaker 2: we can do to manipulate how your care gets done
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  Speaker 2: and your budget is done to give you the best
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  Speaker 2: outcome for your pets health and still not be cost prohibitive. So,
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  Speaker 2: like I said, saving money and it's robbing easier to
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  Speaker 2: pay pull it oftentimes doesn't really work out well. So
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  Speaker 2: don't try to cheap up on it. Just come in
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  Speaker 2: and be really honest and say this is what my
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  Speaker 2: budget is, this is what I can do. Can you
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  Speaker 2: help me with that? And then we can go from there.
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  Speaker 1: And I know one of the things that if anyone
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  Speaker 1: that's listened to the program for any amount of time
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  Speaker 1: or had a chance to get to know you and
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  Speaker 1: the doctors at checkout Vet is getting your pet in
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  Speaker 1: for you know, whether it's the annual exam and those
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  Speaker 1: routine exam. Getting them in to get them seen is
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  Speaker 1: something you encourage. The point and it goes back to
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  Speaker 1: well that first visit, that first exam at checkout vet
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  Speaker 1: is free. Well big reason for that is is it
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  Speaker 1: really helps you establish with folks kind of an understanding
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  Speaker 1: of their pet and of their pets health and really
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  Speaker 1: gives you an opportunity to say care is is violent.
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  Speaker 1: And here's why I was going to ask you to
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  Speaker 1: doctor years ago. I remember this is one of the
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  Speaker 1: one of the other myths that I that I saw
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  Speaker 1: on this list, and there was a commercial for a
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  Speaker 1: pet food brand and they said talking about like the
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  Speaker 1: appearance of dog food and one of the things that
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  Speaker 1: the guy the guy had said, the narrator had said,
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  Speaker 1: and the reality is all dogs are color blind, and
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  Speaker 1: and I thought, well, that's interesting. Is is that true
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  Speaker 1: our dogs actually color blind? Or what about cats as well?
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  Speaker 2: No, they're colorblind like you and like people are, especially men.
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  Speaker 2: Is red green color blind, So they don't recognize red
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  Speaker 2: and green, and they all look in like shades of gray,
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  Speaker 2: but they do identify yellow and they do identify blue.
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  Speaker 2: So a lot of times if you're watching dog sports
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  Speaker 2: on the internet or online or you know, on TV,
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  Speaker 2: or you go to an event, you'll see that the
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  Speaker 2: contact point on the like the agility teeters and the
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  Speaker 2: agility ramps are going to be yellow on the contact
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  Speaker 2: point where the dog is supposed to stop and touch
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  Speaker 2: their feet so that they don't go leaping off the
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  Speaker 2: end of the blok, But it's blue on the majority
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  Speaker 2: of it. So the center, two thirds or three quarters
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  Speaker 2: will be blue, but the contact points on the ends
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  Speaker 2: are yellow because dogs can see those colors really clearly.
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  Speaker 2: And my daughter actually did when she was in grade school,
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  Speaker 2: did a science experiment with her little Corgi and was
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  Speaker 2: teaching her to touch different colors by the words she
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  Speaker 2: was saying, and she learned pretty quickly and it was
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  Speaker 2: very clear that red and green were not colors that
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  Speaker 2: she could identify.
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  Speaker 1: It's just thing you talk about, you know what. And
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  Speaker 1: you can do online tests or obviously people that go
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  Speaker 1: to see an optometrist will discover a lot of guys.
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  Speaker 1: I am one of them, just like just like their
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  Speaker 1: pets as well. What about cats, as far as cats
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  Speaker 1: have pretty extreme vision, don't they any do?
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  Speaker 2: And we probably have some color blindness issues with those
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  Speaker 2: as well, But cats are a little bit more difficult
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  Speaker 2: to figure out, but they see really really really well
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  Speaker 2: in the dork, which is why you can see their
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  Speaker 2: pupils will dilate, and they have Dogs are interesting because
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  Speaker 2: dogs have around peopile. Cats have an elliptical pupil, so
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  Speaker 2: they're a little bit different than each other. Cats are
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  Speaker 2: not small dogs. You've said this before on the show.
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  Speaker 2: Cats are not small dogs. So you can't just treat
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  Speaker 2: a cat like you would a dog that's little. So
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  Speaker 2: it's really important that you distinguish those differences. And if
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  Speaker 2: you have a pet, for instance, that's starting to lose
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  Speaker 2: their vision as they become older, having lighting where they
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  Speaker 2: walk up and downstairs and go up and down hallways,
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  Speaker 2: those are really important. And it's so easy to buy
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  Speaker 2: motion sensitive lights now. You can have them that plug in,
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  Speaker 2: you can have the tap lights, you can have the
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  Speaker 2: ones that are solar. There's a lot of different combinations
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  Speaker 2: of what you can do. But at for instance, if
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  Speaker 2: you have a deck and it's dark in the backyard
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  Speaker 2: and there's no way for your pet to see the
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  Speaker 2: steps really well, so putting out motion sensor solar lights
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  Speaker 2: can be really helpful if they come up to the
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  Speaker 2: deck then the lights that come on and they can
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  Speaker 2: see where they're going or more importantly go down, so
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  Speaker 2: they go tumbling off the deck. So there's definitely things
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  Speaker 2: that we can do with vision. If you have a
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  Speaker 2: pet that has limited vision or as losing their vision,
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  Speaker 2: we certainly can help them with very simple solutions that
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  Speaker 2: you can get online or you know, go to Minard
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  Speaker 2: and pick up a few things.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Grier of Checkout Veterinary
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  Speaker 1: of course online checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet
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  Speaker 1: dot com. Talking about some common pet pet myths. That's
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  Speaker 1: kind of a tongue twister there, talking about some of
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  Speaker 1: the ones that are that are that are definitely need
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  Speaker 1: to be dispelled and some of them a little bit
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  Speaker 1: of truth and something to be to be considered of.
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  Speaker 1: And speak of cats and some of the myths about cats,
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  Speaker 1: cats and milk. I see I remember as a kid
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  Speaker 1: one of my Little Golden books. One of the illustrations
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  Speaker 1: was a was a little kit and cat drinking out
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  Speaker 1: of a out of a saucer of milk. And I've
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  Speaker 1: heard that's bad, I've heard that that's normal. Uh, is
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  Speaker 1: milk a problem for cats? Or what should what should
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  Speaker 1: cat owners know.
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  Speaker 2: Most of the time milk is fine. A few cats
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  Speaker 2: will be lactose intolerance, not very many, so some man
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  Speaker 2: to bost some soft stools or diarrhea. The most important
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  Speaker 2: thing is if you have a cat has bladderstones, especially
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  Speaker 2: if they're the calcium oxylate type of letterstones, that you're
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  Speaker 2: not giving milk ice cream. You know, a lot of
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  Speaker 2: people put the bowl on the floor after they're done
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  Speaker 2: with their ice cream at night, or after their bowl
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  Speaker 2: of cereal in the morning. You'll let the cat lap
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  Speaker 2: it up, or if you're a little careless, then you
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  Speaker 2: just leave it on the table or in the sink
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  Speaker 2: and the cat comes the li and gets up there
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  Speaker 2: and licks it. That can be a problem if you
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  Speaker 2: have a cat with bladder problems. In general, it's not
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  Speaker 2: going to hurt them, but they don't quote unquote need
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  Speaker 2: milk because they're getting enough calciuma, getting enough protein in
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  Speaker 2: the diet. I think a lot of the milk comes
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  Speaker 2: from the dairy farms where they would have a certain
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  Speaker 2: amount of milk that would have to be discarded because
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  Speaker 2: the cow was sick, or the cow was on antibiotics
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  Speaker 2: or whatever. So instead of throwing it out because you
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  Speaker 2: can't use it in the human food supply of to
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  Speaker 2: make cheese or liquid milk or anything like that. Then
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  Speaker 2: they would put it down in a big pan and
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  Speaker 2: all the barn cats that are in the barn doing
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  Speaker 2: their job of catching the little mice can come over
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  Speaker 2: and have a nice little brickfit, you know. So I
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  Speaker 2: think that's where a lot of that comes from, is
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  Speaker 2: people have just realized that cats enjoy milk. Most cats do.
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  Speaker 1: Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of check Out
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary Online checkout vets dot com. That's checkout vet dot
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  Speaker 1: com accepting new patients right now. It's a great day
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  Speaker 1: to make that appointment at checkout Vet. Don't forget that
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  Speaker 1: first visit, that first exam that will be free to
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  Speaker 1: you and your pet. You can learn more about checkout
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  Speaker 1: Veterinary Online again the website checkout vet dot com. That's
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  Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. So you have things that your
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  Speaker 1: pets consume. One that I always hear is if your
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  Speaker 1: dog is eating grass, it's because they're sick and they're
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  Speaker 1: trying to make their tummy upset. True or false.
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  Speaker 2: To a certain extent, it's false. There are some dogs
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  Speaker 2: that will go out and eat grass, but sometimes just
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  Speaker 2: like to eat grass. Mine especially like either the big
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  Speaker 2: clumps that come up from under the lawnmower or the
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  Speaker 2: long tall grass around the trees or the downspouts or
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  Speaker 2: wherever that you didn't quite get the trimming done. They
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  Speaker 2: really like that. So when people see that, that's what
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  Speaker 2: their dog is doing. And cats actually like grass too,
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  Speaker 2: and you can buy cat grass growing at the pet
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  Speaker 2: store or at the grocery store. But you can just
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  Speaker 2: feed your pets some fruits and vegetables to help them
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  Speaker 2: to get the ruffige that they're looking for. So if
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  Speaker 2: your dog like sea grass, see if they like celery,
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  Speaker 2: or like lettuce, or broccoli or asparagus or you know
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  Speaker 2: a lot of those things. Only fruits and vegetables that
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  Speaker 2: we don't want you to feed are grapes and raisins
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  Speaker 2: because those can be toxic to the kidneys. And then
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  Speaker 2: corn and potatoes are a little starchy, so they won't
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  Speaker 2: really hurt them, but they're not going to be that green,
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  Speaker 2: leafy vegetable. So my dogs love the end of the
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  Speaker 2: asparagus or the dam off of the broccoli that I
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  Speaker 2: think is a little too tough to chew. But the
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  Speaker 2: dogs think it's great. Carrots, celery, apples, bananas. Most dogs
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  Speaker 2: don't like citrus, but if you do, and if they
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  Speaker 2: like it, that's great. But if your dog is peeking
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  Speaker 2: out long grass, then maybe they're trying to tell you
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  Speaker 2: something and they're saying to you, let's have some additional
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  Speaker 2: interesting things in my diet. And they're low calorie snacks,
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  Speaker 2: so they're really good for your dog to have fruits
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  Speaker 2: and vegetables. As long as it doesn't exceed ten percent
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  Speaker 2: of their diet. It's a great little snack for them
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  Speaker 2: to have. It's the low coal version of And if
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  Speaker 2: you're you know when you used to come in the
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  Speaker 2: house and you say, Mom, I want a cookie. Your
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  Speaker 2: mom would say, honey, have an apple. Well, you know
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  Speaker 2: you can do the same with your dog. Splice up
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  Speaker 2: an apple, give it to them. They love that stuff.
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  Speaker 1: That is fun to hear. That's great, great advice. I
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  Speaker 1: speaking of, Yes, we talk Monty with doctor Martin. Gre're
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  Speaker 1: speaking of of putting things in your dog's mouth. I
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  Speaker 1: always heard the thing too, about dog's mouth is cleaner
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  Speaker 1: than yours. Are dog's mouths?
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  Speaker 2: No, absolutely no. So the worst bite on the planet
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  Speaker 2: is a cat bite, and second is a human bite
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  Speaker 2: because people do sometimes bite, but dog bites oftentimes they
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  Speaker 2: are not very clean. If you look at dogs teeth,
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  Speaker 2: they can be pretty pretty high in the amount of bacteria,
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  Speaker 2: the amount of tartar on the teeth. There was just
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  Speaker 2: an X ray that was put up on Facebook the
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  Speaker 2: other day that I was looking at, and it's a
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  Speaker 2: dog that came in with having some trouble breathing, and
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  Speaker 2: they took an X ray and in the dog's trachea
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  Speaker 2: you could see this really bright white item. It was
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  Speaker 2: the dog's own tooth. It had fallen out and he
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  Speaker 2: had inhaled it and it was stuck in his trachea. Okay,
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  Speaker 2: that's really bad. If your teeth are so bad that
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  Speaker 2: you're inhaling them, that's really bad. So no, dogs don't
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  Speaker 2: have a really clean mouth, so you don't want to
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  Speaker 2: have them, you know, sharing your ice cream or whatever
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  Speaker 2: it is. I had one client that came in one
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  Speaker 2: day for a gental cleaning and she she left the
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  Speaker 2: dog in the morning, picked her up in the afternoon,
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  Speaker 2: and she said, oh, I missed her so much at
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  Speaker 2: lunch because she sits on my lap and eats off
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  Speaker 2: my fork. And I was like, oh man, those teeth
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  Speaker 2: were so disgusting. I can't believe you share off your fork.
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  Speaker 2: So please don't share your toothbrush, don't share your fork.
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  Speaker 2: Don't share those things with your dog. Once you're done
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  Speaker 2: with the bowl of ice cream, it's fine if they
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  Speaker 2: want to look it out, but you know, let's not
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  Speaker 2: go back and forth their mouth, isn't that clean?
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  Speaker 1: Good and good advice and guys and perspective as well.
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  Speaker 1: As we talked this morning with doctor Marty.
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  Speaker 2: He grows up.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, well they but they do make you feel You
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  Speaker 1: mentioned that the ice cream, like if the ice cream
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  Speaker 1: comes out, you know, our dog is easy. He knows
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  Speaker 1: exactly how to put on his little charm offensive and
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  Speaker 1: the guilt defensive. They have a big ground rush. Yes, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: somehow they've they've programmed us to believe that, Oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: I'm perfectly clean and cleanly. We can we can share
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  Speaker 1: Doing a little myth busting or confirming in some cases
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  Speaker 1: with doctor Greer this morning. When it comes to pat
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  Speaker 1: myths aggression, I hear a lot about certain breeds of
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  Speaker 1: dogs while they're more aggressive. Is there truth to that?
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  Speaker 1: Partial truth or or is it just nonsense? Doctor?
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  Speaker 2: Now, there's there's partial truth to it. You can't categorize
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  Speaker 2: every breed of dog as being always good or always
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  Speaker 2: bad anymore than you can say every you know, every
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  Speaker 2: teacher is good or every you know whatever is good.
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  Speaker 2: You can't always say that they're always good. They're good
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  Speaker 2: ones and they're bad ones. So unfortunately that's not the case.
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  Speaker 2: Are there some breeds that are more dangerous than others
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  Speaker 2: if they bite? And the answer is yes. The dogs
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  Speaker 2: with the heavier jewels, the terrier, the pible terrier type dogs,
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  Speaker 2: the rottweiler, the ones with the really heavy skulls and
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  Speaker 2: bigger bite power. If they bite you, they're probably going
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  Speaker 2: to do more damage than, for instance, your little chuellwell,
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  Speaker 2: you know, and I think it'show is more likely to bite,
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  Speaker 2: but the bites aren't is severe. They can't, you know,
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  Speaker 2: grab you and take you around the way that some
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  Speaker 2: of the bigger dogs can. Some of the serious pets, though,
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  Speaker 2: are cats. And I'm so thankful that cats only come
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  Speaker 2: as a ten pound version and not as one hundred
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  Speaker 2: pound version. We haven't domesticated bobcats that live in our
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  Speaker 2: house and an one hundred pounds. When a cat in
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  Speaker 2: the exam room loses their mind, they really, they really
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  Speaker 2: can go off. They can be really difficult to handle,
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  Speaker 2: and if they came as a hundred pound version, they're
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  Speaker 2: a lot more difficult to manage them, for instance, one
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  Speaker 2: hundred pound dog. So thank goodness that they only come
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  Speaker 2: in the little versions. But you can't ever categorize all breeds,
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  Speaker 2: you know. I have some breeds of dogs that I
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  Speaker 2: trust completely, but I've seen Golden Retrievers that they are
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  Speaker 2: not always friendly. The labradors are not always friendly. So
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  Speaker 2: we think that they are, but sometimes they're not. Some
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  Speaker 2: of the little dogs can be a little bit more
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  Speaker 2: likely to be I think they're going to be a
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  Speaker 2: little more aggressive first, simply because they they are little
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  Speaker 2: and they want to make that first move. The ones
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  Speaker 2: that are the scariest are the little dogs sitting on
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  Speaker 2: a little old lady's lap and we try to pick
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  Speaker 2: up the dog off of her lap, and the dogs like,
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  Speaker 2: uh oh no, no no, because they're trying to protect her,
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  Speaker 2: I think in most cases, and not that they're protecting themselves.
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  Speaker 2: So there's definitely things that go on in their head
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  Speaker 2: that I wish I understood better. But we do a
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  Speaker 2: pretty good job of knowing who's going to be somebody
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  Speaker 2: that we should trust and who's somebody that we should
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  Speaker 2: be a little bit more cautious with.
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  Speaker 1: Hi, doctor, what about as we talked mentioned some small dogs,
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  Speaker 1: I hear this about all small dogs being kind of
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  Speaker 1: yippy or yippy or they bark a lot true false,
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  Speaker 1: or a little in between, a.
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  Speaker 2: Lot in between. Again, you know, there's dogs that have
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  Speaker 2: a lot of barking, but they may be colleagues. You know.
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  Speaker 2: That's not a small breed. They're big dogs. So it
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  Speaker 2: really depends on the dog. There are breeds that are
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  Speaker 2: more likely to bark, and they tend to be the
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  Speaker 2: dogs that are bred for that reason. For instance, the
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  Speaker 2: finished lap on which very few people are going to
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  Speaker 2: be familiar with. It's not a common breed. They are
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  Speaker 2: bred to her reindeer in Finland and the Arctic Circle,
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  Speaker 2: and they're the way they heard is by barking at
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  Speaker 2: the reindeer, So they're going to be a dog that
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  Speaker 2: barks a lot. A Schnauzer barks a lot. A Golden Retriever, though,
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  Speaker 2: can be just as difficult and bark just as much.
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  Speaker 2: So it really depends a little bit on the breed.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on what the breed was bred to do.
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  Speaker 2: So if they were bred to be a quiet dog,
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  Speaker 2: that's a hunting dog, it's going to be different. And
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  Speaker 2: Nova Scotia duck tolling Retriever is meant to run up
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  Speaker 2: and down the beach and yodel. They have this most
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  Speaker 2: interesting bark to yodel to attract the ducks. Those they'll
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  Speaker 2: come in and then the hunters can shoot them. So
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  Speaker 2: there's different things that different breeds are meant to do.
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  Speaker 2: And then we have something like the Basenji. I have
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  Speaker 2: a friend who raises Bisenti. Then they are the barkless dog.
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  Speaker 2: They're African imports and those dogs don't bark, so sidehounds
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: tend to be greyhounds Borzoi. They tend to be pretty
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  Speaker 2: quiet dogs. My sister used to have two Bozoi and
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  Speaker 2: she was known in her neighborhood as, Oh, you're the
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  Speaker 2: women with dogs that don't bark. So there are definitely
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  Speaker 2: differences breed to breed, but it depends a lot on
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  Speaker 2: what they were bred to do. So if you are
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  Speaker 2: really interested in figuring that out, go back and read
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  Speaker 2: their history. A Casey's website has a lot of great
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  Speaker 2: information about what they were bred to do in the
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  Speaker 2: first place, and that'll give you a lot of information
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  Speaker 2: about their basic traits, including barking, but activity level in
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  Speaker 2: the house, activity level outside, their tendency to be protective.
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  Speaker 2: It's really interesting information. You start diving into the breeds.
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  Speaker 1: Really fascinating stuff, and you say, well, that's a lot
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  Speaker 1: to understand. One of the great things about developing a
• 20:29
  Speaker 1: relationship with your vet is having that conversation and thinking
• 20:32
  Speaker 1: about adopting a cat, thinking about adopting a dog really important,
• 20:36
  Speaker 1: and having a cat or a dog great at the
• 20:38
  Speaker 1: opportunity to talk with your vet about that. And one
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  Speaker 1: final thing, and this was something that we could probably
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  Speaker 1: do a whole show on, But doctor, I did want
• 20:45
  Speaker 1: to ask you purring by cats. It's a complex thing.
• 20:49
  Speaker 1: Like I think a lot of us as cat owners
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  Speaker 1: assume cats purring cat's happy. That's not necessarily the case.
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  Speaker 1: Am I right on that or am I off?
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  Speaker 2: No, you're right. Most of the time it means they're happy.
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  Speaker 2: But we can see cats that are in big trouble
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  Speaker 2: that are purring. They can they can be pretty sick
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  Speaker 2: and they'll purr, and I think it's a sort of
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  Speaker 2: a self soothing kind of activity. So we can't always
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  Speaker 2: trust that purring means that they're happy. They're typically if
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  Speaker 2: they're going to try to bite you, they're they're not
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  Speaker 2: going to be purring just ahead of that. But you know, again,
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  Speaker 2: cats can turn it on and off pretty quickly. So
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  Speaker 2: I'm always a little cautious around cats because they can
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  Speaker 2: be A great cat is a great cat. The cat
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  Speaker 2: that's not happy can be a little challenging. So again,
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  Speaker 2: we want to be really careful with all of our
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: all of our assessments.
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  Speaker 1: Really great stuff this morning from doctor Marty Greave. Checkout
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  Speaker 1: seven hundred, Doctor Greer, it's always great chatting. Enjoy this
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  Speaker 1: beautiful day and we'll talk soon.
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