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Vet Josh Davis Q&A For April 9th, 2025 · The Radio From Hell Show - Best Of

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  Speaker 1: Well, it's time to talk about your kiddies and your
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  Speaker 1: puppies and their health problems or behavioral problems. Doctor Josh
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  Speaker 1: Davis is here veterinarian extraordinaire. You can text us, but
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  Speaker 1: phone calls are better because.
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  Speaker 2: We can there's always something you leave out, Yeah, or
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  Speaker 2: you could follow up a little bit.
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  Speaker 3: Let's call us eight seven.
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  Speaker 1: Have you seen anything unusual in your practice lately, doctor Davis?
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  Speaker 2: I don't know.
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  Speaker 4: We had a dog yesterday that had some urinary issues
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  Speaker 4: and was obstructed, and so we had to get him
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  Speaker 4: on blocked to to try to keep him going, and
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  Speaker 4: then we'll be doing some surgery later on to hopefully
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  Speaker 4: clear everything else.
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  Speaker 3: Oh boy, those are always. Yeah.
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  Speaker 4: If you ever see your especially a boy dog or
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  Speaker 4: cat not able to pee or they look like they're constipated,
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  Speaker 4: that can be an emergency, so don't don't ignore that.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah.
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  Speaker 1: And cats get to get urinary problems quite a bit,
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  Speaker 1: don't they.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, their bladders their stress organ and cats like to
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  Speaker 4: be stressed.
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  Speaker 2: My bladders, my stress.
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  Speaker 1: And to me, it's so there was all Also, I
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  Speaker 1: remember there was all this panic about heartworm and dogs.
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  Speaker 2: Is that still a big deal?
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  Speaker 3: It is?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, And Utah, we are one of the fastest growing
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  Speaker 4: states for heartworm disease.
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  Speaker 3: So yeah, so what causes it and what is it?
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  Speaker 4: So heartworm disease is it's a parasite that's carried by mosquitoes,
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  Speaker 4: so that's how it's transmitted around and and our winters
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  Speaker 4: are less harsh and we're having longer warm seasons, so
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  Speaker 4: we do see more.
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  Speaker 3: And more of it.
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  Speaker 4: And the hard part with it is once they get it,
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  Speaker 4: it's it can be difficult to treat.
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  Speaker 3: And it's pretty much one hundred percent preventable.
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  Speaker 5: So I have a puppy, at what point should I
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  Speaker 5: get anything preventative.
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  Speaker 3: That I would start right away?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, So there's a couple of ways to go about
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  Speaker 4: it there, but it's all parasite control. So I'm having
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  Speaker 4: them on a good deal worming regimen but also specifically
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  Speaker 4: for heartworm.
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  Speaker 2: And so there's those heart guard squares.
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  Speaker 3: You can do your monthly chewables for that.
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  Speaker 4: There's also I take those injectables that can last for
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  Speaker 4: twelve months at a time for preventions.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, we've got a couple of calls here, so all right,
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  Speaker 2: let's begin with Tiffany. Hello, Tiffany, Hi, tiffany where are
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  Speaker 2: you calling from.
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  Speaker 6: Hi, I'm calling from Taylorsville.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's your question? So?
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  Speaker 6: I have a I have two sphinx cats, and one
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  Speaker 6: of them Carl. He is kind of a terrorist at night.
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  Speaker 3: Carl terror Carl.
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  Speaker 2: Carl is not naming him.
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  Speaker 5: Carl would calm him down or make him a nerd
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  Speaker 5: or something.
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  Speaker 2: So what does he do?
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  Speaker 6: Yeah, he looks like a little old he. So we
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  Speaker 6: have a one year old and ever since we brought
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  Speaker 6: her home, he likes to knock on doors in the
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  Speaker 6: middle of the night.
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  Speaker 2: Carl, are the one year old door?
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  Speaker 7: Oh?
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  Speaker 6: The Carl knock on.
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  Speaker 2: The How does he with his forehead out with his paws?
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  Speaker 6: He like stands up and knocks.
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  Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's funny.
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  Speaker 6: You want to I don't any behavioral if he ends
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  Speaker 6: up going in jail most nights, if he can't stop
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  Speaker 6: and let us sleep. But you don't know if there's
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  Speaker 6: anything you could advise that we could do for him.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, it sounds like probably the situation that got you
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  Speaker 4: started is that that change in the environment. You know,
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  Speaker 4: cats they can struggle with changes to their regual like
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  Speaker 4: and especially a little one because they tend to be noisy,
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  Speaker 4: and the cats don't always know what to do with that,
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  Speaker 4: so that might be part of it. And I don't
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  Speaker 4: know if there's anything super easy or specific to do
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  Speaker 4: with that, because I hear you. You know, most cats
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  Speaker 4: it's like ten o'clock and they have to go off.
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  Speaker 3: And do their thing.
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  Speaker 4: You know, they're zoomi's and they're crazy things that they
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  Speaker 4: like to do. But I think just trying to keep
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  Speaker 4: the environment as interesting as possible, utilizing things like the
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  Speaker 4: feel away diffusers and callers and things like that, but
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  Speaker 4: also making sure there's plenty of stuff to keep keep
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  Speaker 4: them busy.
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  Speaker 2: Is he not? He's knocking on the the bedroom door.
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  Speaker 2: Is that what it is?
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  Speaker 6: Correct? Bedroom door? The bedroom door.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, he's just Carl is just he feels left out.
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  Speaker 1: He wants to be in the he wants to be
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  Speaker 1: in the room.
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  Speaker 3: Well, and cats hate closed doors too.
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  Speaker 4: I mean you could literally have a door that's always
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  Speaker 4: closed and then they never go by it, and the
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  Speaker 4: mini open it, they're in there, and then they want
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  Speaker 4: in there all the time too.
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  Speaker 6: You know, we will open our door and let him
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  Speaker 6: in and then he knocks on the closet door.
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  Speaker 3: Oh geez, yeah, maybe open all the doors.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know, boy, that's a tough yeah, you know,
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  Speaker 2: he just needs to be in jail.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah, jail, directly to jail. All right, Carl, no question,
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  Speaker 5: You'll go to jail, Carl, Carl. All right, thanks Tiffany.
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  Speaker 2: Considering maybe my next pet. Carl.
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  Speaker 3: Now that is a good one.
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  Speaker 2: That is all right.
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  Speaker 1: We're back with doctor Josh Davis. He is a veterinarian.
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  Speaker 1: He can answer your questions about puppies and kiddies.
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  Speaker 2: Who do we have here? Ear, there's Randy. Hi, Randy, Hello,
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  Speaker 2: good morning morning. What's your puppies name?
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  Speaker 8: Well, this one's name is.
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  Speaker 2: Rue, okay, and what's the question.
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  Speaker 6: So he's like.
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  Speaker 8: Two months old and he's a doodlely thing. I don't
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  Speaker 8: know exactly what kind of doodle. Ife told him mini doodle,
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  Speaker 8: but he's a doodlee.
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  Speaker 5: He just he.
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  Speaker 8: Does that really excited peeing thing.
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  Speaker 3: And I'm hoping that who doesn't.
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  Speaker 2: I mean I do too when I get really excited.
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  Speaker 8: All Bill, maybe you need this.
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  Speaker 2: Question to that. Okay, what do you do about that?
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  Speaker 2: Doctor Davis?
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, the puppy urinating. It's often if they're either really
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  Speaker 4: excited or really stressed. And for the most part, unless
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  Speaker 4: there's a medical reason for that. Most dogs will grow
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  Speaker 4: out of that as they mature and they're exposed to
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  Speaker 4: more and more situations and get more and more comfortable
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  Speaker 4: just with life in general that way. So because young
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  Speaker 4: animals also, they their kidneys aren't fully developed, usually un
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  Speaker 4: till they're like six months old, and so they do
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  Speaker 4: make peel a lot faster than an adult animals, so
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  Speaker 4: they have a harder time holding it too.
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  Speaker 3: But that that fear or excitement can be part of that.
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  Speaker 4: So just really trying to make sure they're well socialized
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  Speaker 4: and get them used to lots of situations and environments
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  Speaker 4: and almost always they'll grow out of that and get
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  Speaker 4: better with that.
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  Speaker 2: And don't don't do stuff to get them so excited.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah when you get home, when you get home, do
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  Speaker 2: you like you do? Do you do that? Well?
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  Speaker 8: So he actually comes to work, so he's arounding a
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  Speaker 8: lot of people. So I'm guessing that that will socialize
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  Speaker 8: them and it will stop. He gets to be around
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  Speaker 8: a lot of people and yes, everybody does the whole.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that just gets them all excited, getting excited.
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  Speaker 5: So if you if you just ignore them for the
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  Speaker 5: first time you see them, you know for a few moments.
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  Speaker 5: I know, I had a trainer tell me, tell me, yeah,
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  Speaker 5: just ignore them for a minute or so and then
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  Speaker 5: acknowledge them, and then it's not as.
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  Speaker 2: That's what cleared up my pit. Pit'll problem.
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  Speaker 3: I ignore Bill every morning.
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  Speaker 2: I'll pdle if you don't. Thanks.
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  Speaker 5: And we had a cocker spaniel that we used to
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  Speaker 5: have to when she came to the house.
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  Speaker 3: We'd say, well, hello, Molly, how are you today?
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  Speaker 5: You can't get down in their faces get excited yet
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  Speaker 5: it's open season there, Hey, Tim, what's your problem?
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  Speaker 9: Okay, So my wife's cat names an issue?
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  Speaker 2: What's the cat's name?
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  Speaker 9: The cat name is Patuli and I'm a cat tolerator,
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  Speaker 9: so okay, the wife's cat.
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  Speaker 2: What's your wife's cat like? Never mind, Ashley, Okay, what
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  Speaker 2: does the cat do?
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  Speaker 9: And won't get into that?
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  Speaker 3: Okay, the cat like sit.
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  Speaker 9: Shoe plastic and I'm afraid that he's either flocked in
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  Speaker 9: the wrong way. And the big joke around the house
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  Speaker 9: is that we found a new way.
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  Speaker 2: To recycle plastic. So what kind of plastic.
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  Speaker 9: So like plastic from like the case of the of
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  Speaker 9: water and any any plastic that he can find, you know,
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  Speaker 9: on the sides of the house.
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  Speaker 2: You know, that's probably not good.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that definitely cats love to do.
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  Speaker 4: Some cats really like stuff like that, so they often
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  Speaker 4: have a particular kind of taste for things. So some
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  Speaker 4: cats like string or sewing thread and things like that,
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  Speaker 4: which is very dangerous for them. But plastics can be
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  Speaker 4: dangerous for them too, because if they swallow enough of
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  Speaker 4: it or good enough in them, they can become obstructed
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  Speaker 4: from that and that becomes an emergency and usually a
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  Speaker 4: surgical problem.
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  Speaker 3: That you have to fix.
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  Speaker 4: So so helping them avoid that is really important. And
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  Speaker 4: then there are some cats too that if they get
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  Speaker 4: oral pain or dental issues, sometimes they'll chew as as
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  Speaker 4: a way to kind of try and get rid of
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  Speaker 4: that pain or try to deal with that.
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  Speaker 3: So it's always good to rule out dental issues.
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  Speaker 4: But keeping that stuff just the best of your ability
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  Speaker 4: not ex accessible is really important because they can get
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  Speaker 4: really sick from that.
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  Speaker 5: Did you say water bottles likes water bottles the plastic
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  Speaker 5: that's on the packaging cover like of a case.
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  Speaker 2: Oh okay, yeah, oh, the thin plastic.
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  Speaker 3: I have a cat that does the same thing.
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  Speaker 4: She'll chew on cellophane and plastic and stuff like that,
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  Speaker 4: but then she'll ingest some of it and barf it
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  Speaker 4: up later. But but sometimes they don't barf it up
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  Speaker 4: and that can become a problem for them. So we
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  Speaker 4: just have to keep it just as cleaned up as possible.
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  Speaker 1: Right, And you don't want to be having a four
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  Speaker 1: thousand dollars bill for a cat that you just tolerate.
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  Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly right.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, thats for you, Tim, The cat just tolerates
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  Speaker 2: you alright. Later, Meg the manager is here. Hello, Meg.
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  Speaker 2: What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 7: Pat the Ax? He is a purebred white rimming shepherd.
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  Speaker 7: He's enormous and he's beautiful. M ok so I actually
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  Speaker 7: this is going to be where So his human is
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  Speaker 7: actually my son who moves out over a year ago,
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  Speaker 7: and we have a split level house, so the downstairs
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  Speaker 7: is where his human is and still like the sense
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  Speaker 7: to reside, so that's where pact is always at. I
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  Speaker 7: we don't have any idea how old tax is to
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  Speaker 7: fire's their rescue, but he obviously has a problem coming
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  Speaker 7: up the stairs. It's only like five to seven stairs
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  Speaker 7: to come up to go outside. Once he's outside, he
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  Speaker 7: seems to be fine. It's the stairs that give him
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  Speaker 7: a hard time, And I have been very tempted to
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  Speaker 7: like walk off the downstairs because the only thing that's
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  Speaker 7: downstairs is our laundry. Nobody lives down there anymore. It's
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  Speaker 7: human is not down there anymore. And I look like
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  Speaker 7: without me like mentally horrible for him to be like, hey, guy,
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  Speaker 7: you have to live on our level now because the
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  Speaker 7: fifth are terrible.
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  Speaker 2: It causes him pain. Obviously causes him pain to come
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  Speaker 2: up the stairs. Yeah, well, so well, I went on,
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  Speaker 2: I would just try blocking it off and see what happened.
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  Speaker 2: She's worried.
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  Speaker 4: Will that be mentally? Mentally could be? Yeah, I think
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  Speaker 4: you're dealing with two things there for sure. So I
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  Speaker 4: think that if if they are struggling to get up
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  Speaker 4: the stairs, then I do think that needs to be
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  Speaker 4: addressed and and and come up with a.
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  Speaker 3: Solution for that.
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  Speaker 4: Because even blocking off the stairs, let's say mentally that
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  Speaker 4: he tolerates that and that we're fine with that, that
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  Speaker 4: still means we're in pain.
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  Speaker 3: It just we don't have to navigate the stairs anymore.
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  Speaker 4: So I think I would try to get in, get
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  Speaker 4: an orthopedic exam done and determine, you know, is it
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  Speaker 4: just arthritis, is there it actually injury or other problems,
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  Speaker 4: and then I think trying to block it off could
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  Speaker 4: be okay as long as the dog tolerates it, But
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  Speaker 4: you don't want to add undue stress or anxiety from that.
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  Speaker 3: And I think the real issue.
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  Speaker 4: Is try to address the arthritis or pain there and
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  Speaker 4: see if you can get that dealt with, because then
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  Speaker 4: maybe it's not a big deal either.
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  Speaker 7: All right, man, Yeah, okay, yeah, that constantly like how
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  Speaker 7: old is he?
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  Speaker 10: Were like I don't know.
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  Speaker 7: Now now I can go back to Tim the street
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  Speaker 7: guy and be like they're.
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  Speaker 1: Right, all right, you go, okay, we got to go.
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  Speaker 5: Well, thanks Matia. Monty the mail man is here, Monty
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  Speaker 5: the All Star. What's your dog's name?
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  Speaker 10: Chink later?
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  Speaker 2: Okay, what's your question?
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  Speaker 10: He is an English bulldog that we recently kind of adopted.
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  Speaker 10: He was just found in a park. But his problem
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  Speaker 10: is is he'll drink water and he'll fade and then
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  Speaker 10: he'll throw up almost regularly. He's not underweight, he's not suffering,
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  Speaker 10: he just always pukes. And I'm just wondering if we
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  Speaker 10: switching can we talk about that with like a wet
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  Speaker 10: dog foods? I think it's just going in and expanding
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  Speaker 10: and then puking it up.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah, for bulldogs especially, you always want be careful with
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  Speaker 4: any vomiting or regurgitation because they're really high risk for
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  Speaker 4: aspiration pneumonia, which can be life threatening to them.
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  Speaker 3: So the food could be part of it, but also
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  Speaker 3: how fast.
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  Speaker 4: They eat, how much they eat in one's sitting or
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  Speaker 4: drinking one's sitting. So with food you can definitely there's
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  Speaker 4: different kinds of feeders, there are different ways to slow
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  Speaker 4: them down and make sure they're just going at a
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  Speaker 4: slow pace, So I think that's important, and then sometimes
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  Speaker 4: changing the food can benefit that. But changing the food
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  Speaker 4: is usually because of a food intolerance or allergy, whereas
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  Speaker 4: in your case it.
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  Speaker 3: Might not be that.
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  Speaker 4: It might be something else too, And so the other
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  Speaker 4: thing you want to rule out is some dogs can
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  Speaker 4: get a condition where their esophagus doesn't quite work right,
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  Speaker 4: and so I would want to make sure that's not
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  Speaker 4: part of the problem too, So it's worth getting checked out,
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  Speaker 4: and if nothing else, just slow down the eating if
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  Speaker 4: you can, and just try to find ways to do that,
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  Speaker 4: but make sure there's not a medical issue on top
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  Speaker 4: of it, because bulldogs are notorious for all sorts of
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  Speaker 4: medical problems.
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  Speaker 10: All right, okay, thank you.
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  Speaker 5: See you later many there you go, mony, thank you
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  Speaker 5: very much. Well that's all the time we have, I'm
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  Speaker 5: sorry to.
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  Speaker 1: Say, Doctor Josh Davis, thank you very much for being
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  Speaker 1: with us and we'll see you in a couple of weeks.
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  Speaker 2: Yep.
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  Speaker 3: Always a pleasure.
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  Speaker 2: Guys. There all right,