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Caring for Your Aging Pet with Dr. Greer from CheckOut Vet · Ask The Experts

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  Speaker 1: Height thirty six thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts
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  Speaker 1: with Checkout Veterinary hanging out this morning with doctor Marty Greer.
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  Speaker 1: Of course, doctor Greer recognized as Veterinarian of the Year
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  Speaker 1: by the Westminster Kennel Club. You can learn more about
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  Speaker 1: doctor Greer and check out Veterinary that vets as well
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  Speaker 1: as what makes the clinic so very very convenient and
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  Speaker 1: unique online checkout vets dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: Great day to start that relationship, make that appointment, Get
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  Speaker 1: on in. Their open Monday through Wednesday, Friday through Sunday.
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  Speaker 1: Say well what about Thursday. It's one great thing is
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  Speaker 1: their other clinic, check in Vet is open Monday through Friday,
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  Speaker 1: so fantastic. I mentioned starting that relationship. First visit is
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  Speaker 1: free to doctor. Good morning. You're not going to beat that.
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  Speaker 1: That is a great way to for a great introduction
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  Speaker 1: to what you guys do at Checkout Veterinarian. A really
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  Speaker 1: a really nice thing that you do for pets and people.
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  Speaker 2: Well, thanks.
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  Speaker 3: We want to make sure people feel comfortable with the
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  Speaker 3: business model. It's a different way for you to receive
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  Speaker 3: veterinary care, and we want to make sure you and
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  Speaker 3: your petter comfort that so you have absolute corfonde to
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  Speaker 3: drive up, give us a call, come on in, and
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  Speaker 3: let's see what your cat or your dog or cats
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  Speaker 3: and dogs think of us before you commit to anything.
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  Speaker 1: It's it's pretty and it's it's such a you mentioned
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  Speaker 1: kind of see what the clinics like and get that experience.
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  Speaker 4: And I know I've said this before.
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  Speaker 1: It's revolutionary, but it's also one of those things where
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  Speaker 1: you're like, why is you know, why is this just
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  Speaker 1: now that it's like one of those I think it's
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot of great ideas where you're like, why
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  Speaker 1: didn't we just always do things that way? What was
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  Speaker 1: kind of the backstory for you? Where did you come
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  Speaker 1: up with this idea of this concept and why did
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  Speaker 1: you say, you know what, we've got to do it
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  Speaker 1: this way.
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  Speaker 3: Well, we travel a lot, and when I go through
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  Speaker 3: the airport, I remember when we didn't have suitcases with wheels. Yeah,
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  Speaker 3: and now can you imagine going any place without wheels
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  Speaker 3: on your suitcase? So you're right, I mean that was
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  Speaker 3: patented sometime in the nineteen eighties and it's kind of hard, like, really,
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  Speaker 3: how did that happen? So our backstory is We built
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  Speaker 3: a clinic in Lamyra in two thousand and eight and
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  Speaker 3: at the time I put in one garage bay between
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  Speaker 3: our main clinic and the staff building where the lunch
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  Speaker 3: room and the doctor's offices are. And as we were
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  Speaker 3: undergoing construction, I called my architect and I said, I
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  Speaker 3: want more garage base. I want three, not one. He goes, okay,
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  Speaker 3: we'll push the other building over, but don't mess up
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  Speaker 3: my roofline.
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  Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, fine.
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  Speaker 3: So it works so well for us at the Lamira
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  Speaker 3: Clinic for clients, and it's not for the staff to
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  Speaker 3: pull in, you know, because.
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  Speaker 2: We're lazy or want to hide our car or anything
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  Speaker 2: like that.
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  Speaker 3: It's for our clients, so that when you come in
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  Speaker 3: and you have a dog that's recovering from surgery or
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  Speaker 3: Heaven help you, you need to have a euthanasia or something,
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  Speaker 3: you know they're really sick you can't get out. Or
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  Speaker 3: maybe it's you that has a mobility issue. Maybe you've
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  Speaker 3: got three kids with you on your way to soccer practice.
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  Speaker 3: Maybe grandma's with you in the car and you're a
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  Speaker 3: little worried that if you run inside for a second,
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  Speaker 3: Grandma may like slip over into the driver's seat and
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  Speaker 3: take off even though she's not supposed to be driving.
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  Speaker 3: So all those things make it a lot more difficult
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  Speaker 3: for clients to get their pets in and out and
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  Speaker 3: their families taken care of at the same time, So
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  Speaker 3: it just made sense to combine those.
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  Speaker 4: It's such an amazing concept.
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  Speaker 1: I do want actually one of these weeks, I think
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  Speaker 1: we should talk pat you ethan age, because I think
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  Speaker 1: it's such an important area and not talked about enough.
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  Speaker 1: But it's obviously with everything the circle of life, and
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  Speaker 1: I want to talk about this week though, I think
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  Speaker 1: it's a We've got a couple of things. First off,
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  Speaker 1: mentioned the phone lines are open six three two one
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  Speaker 1: thirteen ten six three two one thirteen ten. You can
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  Speaker 1: also email if you want to shoot me an email
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  Speaker 1: Sean at wiva dot com. We can get you on
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  Speaker 1: the air. But we had I had somebody message me
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  Speaker 1: about their dog going going through cancer treatments, and just
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  Speaker 1: like people dogs with cancer battling cancer with health concerns,
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  Speaker 1: appetite is effect and they were wondering what can be
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  Speaker 1: done to help keep the appetite up for their for
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  Speaker 1: their pet while they're undergoing these treatments and thought, that's
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  Speaker 1: a really.
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  Speaker 3: Great question because we're I know, on the human side,
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  Speaker 3: on the veterinary side, that one of the greatest risk
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  Speaker 3: factors to treatment is weight loss. When my mother was
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  Speaker 3: sick with cancer, I had to encourage her to eat.
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  Speaker 2: Oh my dad was I had to do the same.
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  Speaker 3: And you know, my dad's nurse kept looking at me saying,
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  Speaker 3: what are you so concerned about appetite for? And I'm like,
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  Speaker 3: because weight loss has such a high correlation with poor
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  Speaker 3: outcomes that it's really important that the caloric needs of
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  Speaker 3: the pet are kept up with. So it may mean
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  Speaker 3: cooking them a special meal. Hey, what the heck? You know,
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  Speaker 3: scrambled eggs, cottage cheese, a little chicken. A lot of
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  Speaker 3: people boil chicken. Don't boil it, poach it very gently,
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  Speaker 3: cook it, and use dark meat chicken. Don't use white
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  Speaker 3: meat chicken breast because the dark meat chicken taste better,
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  Speaker 3: has a little more fat in it, it's a little
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  Speaker 3: higher in touring for the heart. So all the reasons.
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  Speaker 3: Buy chicken thighs and chicken legs. They're fifty nine cents
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  Speaker 3: acount by ninety nine a pound, so throw them in
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  Speaker 3: your instant pot. Cook them up with some celery and
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  Speaker 3: some carrots.
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  Speaker 2: Make them fla.
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  Speaker 3: Favored cook for your pet. If you need to hamburger
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  Speaker 3: and rice, chicken and rice, you can do pasta, you
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  Speaker 3: can do There's lots of things that you can do
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  Speaker 3: to entice your pet to eat. If they have loose stools,
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  Speaker 3: you can use probiotics, and you can use yogurt and
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  Speaker 3: things like that. So there's lots of things you can
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  Speaker 3: do in the kitchen. So start with really going out
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  Speaker 3: of your way. If you open the fridge or you
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  Speaker 3: start making dinner and the pet comes over and looks
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  Speaker 3: at you, like that smells pretty good, unless it's grapes.
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  Speaker 3: Raisins are really spicy. I share, I share a lot,
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  Speaker 3: so start with that. There are drugs on the market
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  Speaker 3: that are really helpful. There's one called mertazepine. It's used
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  Speaker 3: as a tablet in dogs. We used to use it
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  Speaker 3: as a tablet in cats, but now they make a
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  Speaker 3: gel for the inside of the ear. So instead of
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  Speaker 3: trying to poke another pill down your cat when you
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  Speaker 3: already have a cat that's not feeling well, that's hard.
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  Speaker 3: So it's a little gel inside the ear. And then
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  Speaker 3: there's a liquid product. It's on the feline side.
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  Speaker 2: It's called a lura.
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  Speaker 3: The same drug as a dog drug is called entice.
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  Speaker 3: The actual name of the drug is kind of a
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  Speaker 3: long and complicated you know, who wants to really say that,
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  Speaker 3: but a lot of people can remember a license called
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  Speaker 3: cap rome. Morelen is the generic name, but you can
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  Speaker 3: buy it from your vet. It comes as a liquid
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  Speaker 3: if you ask your vet for that. Great and some
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  Speaker 3: of our pets we put on steroids for a number
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  Speaker 3: of reasons, like prednozone, and if they're not feeling well
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  Speaker 3: and not eating well, prednizone can stimulate the appetite as well.
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  Speaker 3: So there's lots of things we can do, and that
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  Speaker 3: weight loss is really it's very important that we don't
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  Speaker 3: let that get ahead of us. I have taken care
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  Speaker 3: of many pets over the years with cancer and I
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  Speaker 3: had a Golden Retriever that came in a number of
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  Speaker 3: years ago. We lived with lymphoma, which is a pretty
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  Speaker 3: common kind of cancer. It's lymph node cancer and Golden's
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  Speaker 3: and I said to her the greatest risk is weight loss.
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  Speaker 3: Go home and feed him. She brought him back. He
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  Speaker 3: had gained twenty pounds. You could set a table.
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  Speaker 2: For four on this dog's back like it was.
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  Speaker 3: He became enormous, but he lived for over a year
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  Speaker 3: with nothing other than predna zone. So there's a really
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  Speaker 3: strong correlation there, So make sure your pet is eating it.
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  Speaker 3: If your pet isn't, talk to your veterinarian about what
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  Speaker 3: else can we do to support them.
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  Speaker 1: It's fine, And it's interesting about cancer treatments for pets,
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  Speaker 1: cats and dogs is obviously we experience for humans. There's
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  Speaker 1: great treatments out there for dogs and cats. Are there
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  Speaker 1: are there good treatments that can help really prolong life
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  Speaker 1: and really keep a good quality while they're in that battle.
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  Speaker 2: It depends on the kind of cancer.
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  Speaker 3: Just like with us, we don't have quite the sophistication
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  Speaker 3: level of cancer treatment that we do for humans. But
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  Speaker 3: you know, if we start coming up with some of
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  Speaker 3: the things that the AI proposed health care changes are
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  Speaker 3: going to be, that we can make a vaccine for
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  Speaker 3: specific kinds of cancer, we're going to see some major
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  Speaker 3: breakthroughs in the next few years. But for right now,
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  Speaker 3: we have prednozone which works for a lot of kinds
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  Speaker 3: of cancer, especially lymphoma. There are very specific protocols for
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  Speaker 3: lymphoma One was actually developed at the Universe University of
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  Speaker 3: Wisconsin in the oncology department, called the Chop protocol, and
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  Speaker 3: it's been used for probably thirty years and it's still
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  Speaker 3: the backbone of that. We have some newer drugs ones
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  Speaker 3: called Palladia, and it's used as a pill every other
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  Speaker 3: day at home, so this doesn't require hospitalization. That takes
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  Speaker 3: care of mass cell tumors. In certain other kinds of cancer.
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  Speaker 3: We also have a drug for lymphoma, specifically Lavardia. It's
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  Speaker 3: a pill that's given orally again at home. They're ccnu
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  Speaker 3: or low mustine, which is given at home. So not
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  Speaker 3: all treatments require in the hospital care. They do require
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  Speaker 3: periodic blood work. They do require seeing the pet from
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  Speaker 3: time to time to make sure that they're doing okay,
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  Speaker 3: that their dose is correct, that there's nothing else that's
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  Speaker 3: come up that we need to adjust. But we are
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  Speaker 3: getting better at chemotherapy for dogs. There's also specific radiation therapy,
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  Speaker 3: so they will have to do anesthesia for your pet
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  Speaker 3: because of course they won't lay under the radiation machine
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  Speaker 3: for the extended period of time that it requires. And
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  Speaker 3: surgery can still be one of the most important parts.
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  Speaker 3: Things like mammory tumors. Really there's no chemo for those,
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  Speaker 3: so really surgery is your best choice. So we have
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  Speaker 3: those options and we're going to see some pretty impressive breakthroughs.
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  Speaker 3: Some of the drugs we use were developed for dogs
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  Speaker 3: and moved into the human healthcare, some were reversed, some
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  Speaker 3: came from human healthcare to our dogs. Osteosarcoma, for instance,
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  Speaker 3: they've been doing a lot of studies on dogs for osteosarcoma,
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  Speaker 3: which is bone cancer, because children's osteosarcoma is similar, so
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  Speaker 3: they have used dogs as a treatment model. So we
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  Speaker 3: see that healthcare going both directions, and it's pretty cool
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  Speaker 3: when we can see a breakthrough that comes from the
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  Speaker 3: veterinary side that helps human health as well.
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  Speaker 4: That's really fascinating.
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  Speaker 1: As we talked this morning with doctor Marty Greer of
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  Speaker 1: Checkout Veterinary, the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com. Mentioned the Great Clinic, and of course
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  Speaker 1: you can learn more online at checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: A really cool animation that kind of walks you through
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  Speaker 1: how checkout vet works and what makes it so unique.
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  Speaker 1: I have mentioned how convenient it is to get to
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  Speaker 1: They are right off the Interstate, right in Sun Prayer
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  Speaker 1: and Praier Lakes dri the Interstate on one P fifty
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  Speaker 1: one and it's right there, so it's a very convenient
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  Speaker 1: location as well. At checkout Veterinary again the website checkout
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  Speaker 1: vets dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. I'm going
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  Speaker 1: to talk a little bit about caring for an aging pet,
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  Speaker 1: but I wanted to ask one thing too. As we
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  Speaker 1: are on pet cancers, identifying pet cancers is typically just
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  Speaker 1: done through noticing. Obviously, different types of cancers are going
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  Speaker 1: to are going to present differently, But what are we
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  Speaker 1: doing for identifying cancers and pets?
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  Speaker 3: Well, any lump or bump that is newer, starts to change,
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  Speaker 3: should be addressed by seeing your veterinarian. Different lumps can
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  Speaker 3: mean different things, and that's pretty difficult for you as
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  Speaker 3: a pet owner to really be able to tell. If
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  Speaker 3: you have your pet groomed every six to eight weeks
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  Speaker 3: and your groomer says, I just found this or this
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  Speaker 3: is getting bigger. The groomers have their hands on those
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  Speaker 3: pets far more often than your veterinarian does, and they
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  Speaker 3: will identify and be able to let you know that
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  Speaker 3: there's a change or something new or a changing type
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  Speaker 3: of mass. And I see lots of clients, lots of
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  Speaker 3: clients will say, well, you know, I'm just going to
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  Speaker 3: watch and see what it does. Well, I can tell
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  Speaker 3: you what it's going to do. It's going to get bigger.
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  Speaker 3: So don't wait until it's so big that it's surgically unapproachable,
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  Speaker 3: or that it metastasizes, or it turns into something really serious.
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  Speaker 3: When you find something that looks at all suspicious to you,
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  Speaker 3: make an appointment, go in see your veterinarian or your
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  Speaker 3: veterinary professional. If you're a VET can't get you, and
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  Speaker 3: maybe your vet tech can take a look and take
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  Speaker 3: a look and see is this something that needs to
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  Speaker 3: be addressed surgically? Should we do a needle aspirit and
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  Speaker 3: determine what the problem is. There's a new piece of
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  Speaker 3: equipment that a lot of veterinary clinics have now. It
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  Speaker 3: uses some artificial intelligence. It's a little microscope that sits
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  Speaker 3: on the counter in the lab at the veterinary clinic.
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  Speaker 3: And if you have your vet do a little needle
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  Speaker 3: asprit like they slip a needle in, pull out a
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  Speaker 3: few cells, put it under the microscope. A pathologist remotely
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  Speaker 3: can come in, look through your microscope and look at
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  Speaker 3: the cells. They'll look at a number of different fields.
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  Speaker 3: So sometimes it uses artificial intelligence if it's doing something
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  Speaker 3: like a urine sample or a stool sample. But if
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  Speaker 3: it's looking at a tumor type or possible tumor type,
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  Speaker 3: the pathologist looks at it and within two hours you
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  Speaker 3: can have an answer of is this serious or is
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  Speaker 3: this something.
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  Speaker 2: That I don't have to be concerned about.
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  Speaker 3: It's really cool to see what artificial intelligence is doing
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  Speaker 3: for us.
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  Speaker 4: That is amazing.
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  Speaker 1: As we talked this morning with doctor Marty Greer, I
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  Speaker 1: had no idea such technology existed, and I love technology.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, so cool. I want to I want to.
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  Speaker 1: Talk as mentioned, we're going to talk about caring for
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  Speaker 1: aging pets and some of the adaptations you can make
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  Speaker 1: around the house and to make things easier for your pet.
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  Speaker 1: We're going to talk with a doctor about that in
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  Speaker 1: just a moment. Don't forget if you've got a question,
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  Speaker 1: We've got tom for you. We'd love to have you
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  Speaker 1: on the air six so eight three two one thirteen
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  Speaker 1: ten that's six soh eight three, two one, thirteen ten
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  Speaker 1: gets you right on the air with doctor Marty Greer
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  Speaker 1: and again the website for checkout Veterinary, checkout vet dot com.
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  Speaker 1: That's checkout vet dot com. First visit is free, get
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  Speaker 1: that free exam obviously of treatments, medications, those type of things.
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  Speaker 1: There are fees. And a nice thing about checkout Veterinary
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  Speaker 1: is if you go check out vet dot com, they've
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  Speaker 1: got a great section that'll help you understand costs as
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  Speaker 1: a pet owner. I know every for everybody, I mean
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  Speaker 1: money makes the world go around understanding what what the
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  Speaker 1: costs are going to be. It's very transparent, black and white.
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  Speaker 1: Right at checkout vet dot com. We'll into our conversation
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  Speaker 1: with doctor Prey. We will do that next as ask
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  Speaker 1: the experts with Checkout Veterinary continues right here not thirteen
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  Speaker 4: Shortest break in the world. I look up and I realized.
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  Speaker 1: We didn't have a commercial in wich is which makes
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  Speaker 1: it easier and so that's good to see. So just
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  Speaker 1: talking this morning with doctor Martin Greave. Checkout Veterinary. The
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  Speaker 1: one eight sixty seven hundred. Talked about the website checkout
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  Speaker 1: vet dot com. You can learn more about checkout Veterinary,
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  Speaker 1: the unique model and how it's so convenient for you
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  Speaker 1: and really good for your pet to come. Drive right
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  Speaker 1: explanation of how it works. The other cool thing about
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  Speaker 1: the website is if you are a patient, your pet's
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  Speaker 4: Doctor inevitability. We all get old, and so.
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  Speaker 1: Do our pets if we're lucky, if we're that very
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  Speaker 1: good point, very very good point. And obviously with all pets,
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  Speaker 1: and I always focus in with this, I start thinking
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  Speaker 1: about dogs, cats as well. You want to, Yeah, they
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  Speaker 1: start aging. What are some of the as far as
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  Speaker 1: like around the house, some areas that people should maybe
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  Speaker 1: be thinking of when it comes to aging pets and
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  Speaker 1: making sure that the house is still accommodating and this
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  Speaker 1: is their place.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, and I think this is really important because there
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  Speaker 3: are definitely things we can do for our pets unlike
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  Speaker 3: what they tell us to do. They tell us to
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  Speaker 3: pick up the rugs so we don't have a trip hazard. Actually,
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  Speaker 3: for our pets, the rugs can be helpful because if
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  Speaker 3: they are starting to lose their footing and they're sliding around,
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  Speaker 3: they can use those rugs for better gripping. They make
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  Speaker 3: Doctor Busby makes a toe band. It goes around the
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  Speaker 3: toenails of the pets. You put one on each. How
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  Speaker 3: that helps with gripping as well. You can use little
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  Speaker 3: inserts to put on your steps to make it easier
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  Speaker 3: for the pets to go up and down. They make
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  Speaker 3: a harness for dogs now that if they're bigger dogs.
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  Speaker 3: You know, if they're little like yours, you can pick
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  Speaker 3: them up and carry them up the stairs. But for
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  Speaker 3: the bigger dogs sometimes we need to put that harness
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  Speaker 3: on them. It's a dog lift to help them up
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  Speaker 3: and down the stairs. Because you know, if your bedroom's
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  Speaker 3: upstairs and you want your pet to go up there
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  Speaker 3: at night with you and come back down at the
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  Speaker 3: end of the night. You want just still be able
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  Speaker 3: to accommodate that and not have to sleep on the
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  Speaker 3: main floor on the couch. They make dog ramps that
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  Speaker 3: fold up and go into your vehicle, so if you
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  Speaker 3: have an suv or a minivan and your pet needs
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  Speaker 3: to go with you, like weather Tech makes a great one.
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  Speaker 3: There's some really nice products on the market, like that
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  Speaker 3: orthopedic beds. Oh Man, they make temper pedic beds for dogs.
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  Speaker 3: Now they make heated beds, so it's really comfy. And cats,
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  Speaker 3: of course, we don't want to forget the cat's love heat,
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  Speaker 3: so those heated pet beds can be really fantastic. So
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  Speaker 3: there's a lot of little things we can do to
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  Speaker 3: improve their quality of life and to improve their comfort
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  Speaker 3: during that time period. If your pet is really cool
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  Speaker 3: or cool, you know, buy i'm a heated bed. Make
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  Speaker 3: sure they can get to their food and water bowl.
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  Speaker 3: My sister feeds one of her young cats up high
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  Speaker 3: because she has two and one you know, so if
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  Speaker 3: you don't remember that, like you used to put the
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  Speaker 3: food and water bowls up high so that the dog
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  Speaker 3: didn't get them, and the cat used to jump onto
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  Speaker 3: the washing machine or the bathroom count or whatever. Now
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  Speaker 3: they can't anymore. They can start losing weight because they
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  Speaker 3: literally can't get there. If your litter box is down
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  Speaker 3: in the basement, move it for your old lady cat
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  Speaker 3: so that she can get to the box. There's a
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  Speaker 3: lot of little things we can do for our pets
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  Speaker 3: that sometimes we forget about. They make senior pet diets
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  Speaker 3: and those aren't just a gimmick. Those actually have a
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  Speaker 3: higher fiber content to improve their intestinal health. They're lower
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  Speaker 3: in calories. They put el carnatine into them to help
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  Speaker 3: lose weight. And there's some brain diets. Now there's two
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  Speaker 3: different companies make a brain diet. One it's called Neurocare
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  Speaker 3: Bright Minds from Purina. The other is BD from Hills
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  Speaker 3: and they just introduced. Hills just introduced the Cat Brain
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  Speaker 3: Diet last weekend. So it's a combination of a diet
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  Speaker 3: for cats that have arthritis and have some mental slipping
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  Speaker 3: so that we can keep them up to date. And
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  Speaker 3: then of course we have the new drugs Silentia for
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  Speaker 3: cats and Librella for dogs that approaches ourthritis pain using
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  Speaker 3: a nerve growth factor, monoclonal A and a body technology.
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  Speaker 3: So it's an injection that's given once a month. We
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  Speaker 3: use testosterone in our practice as well as a monthly
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  Speaker 3: injection to improve muscle tone in male and female dogs.
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  Speaker 3: So there's a lot of things that we can be doing.
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  Speaker 3: Keep them at the right weight, keep them groom make
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  Speaker 3: sure their teeth are clean. I mean, there's lots of
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  Speaker 3: things that we can and should be doing to improve.
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  Speaker 2: Their quality of life.
• 17:50
  Speaker 3: Get your blood work done on a regular basis once
• 17:53
  Speaker 3: or twice a year. We see a lot of older
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  Speaker 3: cats and dogs that go into kidney failure, have diabetes,
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  Speaker 3: have cancer, have heart disease, all that stuff we can
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  Speaker 3: We have great drugs and great interventions now with diet
• 18:06
  Speaker 3: and modifications of your lifestyle that you can really help
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  Speaker 3: your pets age gracefully and keep them comfortably, not just alive,
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  Speaker 3: but comfortably alive.
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  Speaker 1: It's it when you mentioned the beds we bought Homer
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  Speaker 1: or and we goof at it because he's got we
• 18:22
  Speaker 1: bought him. It's a certa, it's a human bread.
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  Speaker 4: But they make it.
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  Speaker 1: And we always joke like when we go on vacation,
• 18:30
  Speaker 1: we always we always are take them to travel with
• 18:32
  Speaker 1: them always, like we had a little Homer voice to
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  Speaker 1: go don't forget my surdu He wants that with him
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  Speaker 1: everywhere he goes. But I guess with all pets is
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  Speaker 1: comfortable sleep and those things. What about things like steps,
• 18:45
  Speaker 1: ramps You mentioned ramps for getting into getting into cars
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: and things like that. What about having steps to get
• 18:50
  Speaker 1: up on, like if you have a pet that's on
• 18:52
  Speaker 1: the couch, having something there for him to get up there.
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  Speaker 3: You know, they make those. In my experience, most of
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  Speaker 3: the pets don't want to use them.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, they to well, they might use them.
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  Speaker 3: Going up, but when they come off, they usually just
• 19:03
  Speaker 3: leap off. You know, your dog doesn't walk down the
• 19:06
  Speaker 3: full flight of stairs when they're young either. They about
• 19:08
  Speaker 3: three or four from the bottom. They just like jump
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  Speaker 3: in and leap, you know. So it's a good idea
• 19:14
  Speaker 3: if you can get your pet to use it, But
• 19:15
  Speaker 3: sometimes they won't. So sometimes it takes some training. Sometimes
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  Speaker 3: you just have to realize you're going to have to
• 19:20
  Speaker 3: lift them, so you know, do your best.
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  Speaker 1: What about morning routines is you know, is I think
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  Speaker 1: of as myself as a little not quite as spry
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: when I'm rolling out of bed in the morning. I
• 19:32
  Speaker 1: mean that is that something like if you're somebody. Let's
• 19:35
  Speaker 1: say you've got a dog that's a running companion. You
• 19:37
  Speaker 1: guys are doing it, starting the day off, stretches, those
• 19:40
  Speaker 1: type of things, especially as they get older, are probably
• 19:42
  Speaker 1: pretty important.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, all the.
• 19:43
  Speaker 3: Same stuff you should be doing for yourself. Even if
• 19:45
  Speaker 3: you're not doing it for yourself, at least think about
• 19:48
  Speaker 3: it for your pet, because they don't have the judgment
• 19:50
  Speaker 3: and they don't have the ability to say, excuse me,
• 19:53
  Speaker 3: but let's do a little warm up here before we
• 19:55
  Speaker 3: go out, and if they are cold, if we have
• 19:58
  Speaker 3: a cold day like we have not today we've had.
• 20:00
  Speaker 3: They also aroo Ro that little company that makes the
• 20:05
  Speaker 3: heated human vests. They make heated dots per two that
• 20:10
  Speaker 3: are rechargeable batteries, so you can just put that on
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  Speaker 3: your little dog and you can still go out for
• 20:13
  Speaker 3: your walk.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: But they can be comfortable.
• 20:15
  Speaker 3: Put little booties on if you need to. But keep
• 20:17
  Speaker 3: our pets comfortable, keep them warm, keep them happy, make
• 20:20
  Speaker 3: sure they've got access to food and water. You know,
• 20:22
  Speaker 3: all the obvious stuff, but don't forget special diets do
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  Speaker 3: make a difference. They make joint diets, they make they
• 20:29
  Speaker 3: make weight loss diets, they make brain diets, They make
• 20:31
  Speaker 3: heart diets, they make intestinal diets, they make all these
• 20:34
  Speaker 3: things that we can really help our pets. So talk
• 20:38
  Speaker 3: to your vet or your veterinary technician, your veterinary professionals.
• 20:41
  Speaker 3: Your vet may not be the one that takes care
• 20:44
  Speaker 3: of this, but you may have a vet tech that
• 20:46
  Speaker 3: loves to help with the elderly pets. Orvius has a
• 20:49
  Speaker 3: whole web page about aging pets that has all their
• 20:52
  Speaker 3: products on it. Avma has a great web page. So
• 20:55
  Speaker 3: do some research and figure out what you can work
• 20:59
  Speaker 3: into your lifestyle for that, because those oh my gosh,
• 21:02
  Speaker 3: those little orthopedic beds, they they're they're the bomb.
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