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Dr. Greer and 'Squirt' in Studio - Checkout Vet · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: Thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts. Hanging out this
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Speaker 1: morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary. The website
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Of course,
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Speaker 1: doctor Marty Greer. She is recognized by the Westminster Keun
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Speaker 1: Club Veterinarian of the Year and always a great resource
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Speaker 1: for answers. As a matter of fact, if you've got questions,
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Speaker 1: the doctor is here for this morning. Six o eight
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Speaker 1: three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh eight three
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Speaker 1: two one thirteen ten. A really cool website. If you
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Speaker 1: haven't had a chance to check out checkout vet dot com,
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Speaker 1: definitely head on over there today. There's some great information
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Speaker 1: about how checkout Veterinary works, some of the really cool
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Speaker 1: benefits of getting your pet into Checkout Veterinary stress free,
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Speaker 1: drive in, drive out. It's just a really cool concept.
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Speaker 1: A really nice website, recently updated that really does a
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Speaker 1: good job illustrating how checkout Veterinary works. Again, that website,
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Speaker 1: checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com. Tel
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Speaker 1: form number six soh eight three one eight sixty seven hundred.
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Speaker 1: That's three one eight sixty seven hundred. Don't forget that
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Speaker 1: first visit. It is free that exam and everything like that. Now,
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Speaker 1: obviously if there are tests and other things, there are
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Speaker 1: fees associated with it. Everything's transparent, black and white. So
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Speaker 1: as a pet parent, pet owner, you get all the answers.
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Speaker 1: And then again joining us in studio this morning is
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Speaker 1: doctor Mardy Greer. Doctor, how you been.
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Speaker 2: I'm doing great.
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Speaker 1: You look very festive. You've got a very like a
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Speaker 1: wintery kind of look to it.
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Speaker 2: Well, it's easy to do. Come in in the snow.
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Speaker 1: Yeah, yes, yes, so you drive in go okay.
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Speaker 2: That was the last twenty minutes. It was great.
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Speaker 3: And you know, you get into Madison traffic and my
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Speaker 3: little GPS went from green to yellow to red and
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Speaker 3: I changed my route to get here on time.
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Speaker 1: Well, it's great to have you along this morning. And
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Speaker 1: you know, we've been talking the past couple of weeks
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Speaker 1: of getting ready for these type of events and getting
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Speaker 1: your pets ready for the for the holiday and people
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Speaker 1: coming and going, and I want to I want to
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Speaker 1: dig in because there's an interesting story about and we
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Speaker 1: see these from time to time. This was one though
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Speaker 1: with a Wisconsin actually a Dane County connection where cat
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Speaker 1: disappeared for like eleven plus years and was discovered in
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Speaker 1: Georgia and reunited. I want to talk about a little
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Speaker 1: bit about the importance of and different techniques for keeping
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Speaker 1: track of your pets and of course keeping your pets
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Speaker 1: in the house. But real quick, let's go back to
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Speaker 1: actually this past weekend Sunday, you had the reindeer in
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Speaker 1: we did. How'd that go?
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Speaker 2: It was amazing? Yeah, you missed it.
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Speaker 3: We're doing it again next year. I have to wait
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Speaker 3: a whole year. We are working on setting a date.
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Speaker 3: Probably the same weekend, the middle of December. We had
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Speaker 3: not one, not two, but three reindeer. Really, yeah, we
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Speaker 3: ended up with three beautiful girls. They were all absolutely gorgeous.
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Speaker 3: It was really fun, great photos. The kids and the
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Speaker 3: pets got to sit in the sleigh. If you wanted
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Speaker 3: to be in the sleigh too, you could be in
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Speaker 3: the photo. They took professional photos, or you could take
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Speaker 3: them with your own phone. They were very professional. By
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Speaker 3: the time they left, you wouldn't have even known they
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Speaker 3: were there. They oh, really they were tidy and neat,
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Speaker 3: And you know, reindeer aren't always tidy and neat, but
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Speaker 3: they know how to clean the bathroom. So they pulled
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Speaker 3: in a big trailer. They brought the sligh, they brought
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Speaker 3: the reindeer. The only thing we were missing was Santa,
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Speaker 3: so we we probably need to have a Santa next year.
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Speaker 3: I tried to talk my husband into it, but he's
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Speaker 3: got the beard for it.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, and we just have to get him in a suit.
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Speaker 1: Let's talk about what's in your lap? By the way,
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Speaker 1: I was, I was kind of just like, is that
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Speaker 1: what I think it is?
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Speaker 3: Is?
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness, who is this?
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Speaker 2: She's three weeks old? Her name is squirt? Oh gosh, what.
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Speaker 1: Kind of puppy is.
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Speaker 3: Hi?
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Speaker 1: Katie? Are you looking at this? Do you see what's
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Speaker 1: in studio here?
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Speaker 2: Do you see?
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Speaker 1: Oh my goodness? So, so is that your puppy?
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Speaker 3: Who's puppy us?
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Speaker 2: It's from one of my breeders. She was struggling a bit,
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Speaker 2: so you're taking care.
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Speaker 3: Yeah. Yeah, so I've been feeding her every four hours
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Speaker 3: since she was born.
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Speaker 2: So, yeah, she is.
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Speaker 1: That is so cool. I heard her earlier and I thought,
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Speaker 1: where is that is the doctor's phone making some squeaky noise.
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Speaker 2: It's me. It was a little cold deliver in the Yeah.
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Speaker 1: Probably good and good, and we may actually talk a
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Speaker 1: little bit about about those precautions. I wanted to ask
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Speaker 1: you too. Obviously with the event that happened this past
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Speaker 1: weekend open houses, well, people get a chance to check
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Speaker 1: that out. For folks that are just curious about seeing
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Speaker 1: checkout veterinary, you're very welcome to welcoming to have people
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Speaker 1: come in and just kind of check out your facility
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Speaker 1: and talk with some of the vets and stuff.
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Speaker 3: Absolutely, yeah, you can come without a pet if you
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Speaker 3: want to just come in, come in the front door,
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Speaker 3: walk around.
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Speaker 2: See how the drive through works.
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Speaker 3: Because people pull up to the door the first time
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Speaker 3: and they're like, do I really drive in? I'm not
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Speaker 3: sure this is really how it works. So you're welcome
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Speaker 3: to come without a pet. You're welcome to come with
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Speaker 3: a pet. Like we've already said, the first visit is free.
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Speaker 3: So if you just want to bring your dog or
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Speaker 3: your cat in, drive in, have the doctor take a
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Speaker 3: look at him, do an exam, do a little meet
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Speaker 3: and greet, give them a chance to look around see
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Speaker 3: if they're comfortable in those surroundings.
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Speaker 2: You're welcome. There's not a charge.
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Speaker 3: If we don't do any vaccines, bloodwork, medications, any of
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Speaker 3: those things. Now, of course, if we have you stay
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Speaker 3: and you're like, oh, yeah, this is great, I need
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Speaker 3: this and this. Then there of course would be a
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Speaker 3: few with it. But your first visit, regardless of whether
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Speaker 3: you come with or without a pet, is free. You
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Speaker 3: can meet the doctors. It's really a welcoming experience. You
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Speaker 3: can meet the staff and just kind of see how
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Speaker 3: we do things.
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Speaker 2: It's fun.
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Speaker 1: You mentioned the term welcoming experience, and it's really it
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Speaker 1: feels like the overall emphasis is on Obviously, care quality
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Speaker 1: is what I think matters most number one priority, but
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Speaker 1: the overall feel of is welcoming, comforting, not just for
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Speaker 1: people but for pets as well. And that's a big
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Speaker 1: priority for you.
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Speaker 3: Isn't it.
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Speaker 2: It is?
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Speaker 3: And we worked really hard to develop a business model
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Speaker 3: and a location, a facility that allowed for that to happen.
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Speaker 3: So many pets are more comfortable in their own vehicle
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Speaker 3: than they are in an exam room or a waiting room.
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Speaker 3: There's no waiting room, there's no lobby experience. You just
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Speaker 3: come directly into the garage bay. If your pet is
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Speaker 3: most comfortable in the car, we provide the care right there.
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Speaker 3: If you have a minivan or sedan or whatever you drive,
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Speaker 3: pick up whatever that all works. The garage bay is
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Speaker 3: large enough for a sprinter van if you drive something tall.
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Speaker 3: It's large enough for two mini vans. It's big enough
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Speaker 3: to bring like all of your pets at one visit.
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Speaker 3: So if you choose to load everybody in the car,
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Speaker 3: the kids, the dogs, the cats, everybody, we just make
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Speaker 3: an appointment that's long enough to accommodate all of those things.
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Speaker 3: The cats we usually bring into the adjacent examroom so
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Speaker 3: that they're on a table. Chasing cats around on the
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Speaker 3: garages it's not that much fun. But the dogs, especially
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Speaker 3: the bigger dogs, are much more comfortable in that setting.
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Speaker 3: They're not walking across slippery floors, and they're not being
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Speaker 3: ushered down a hall and then put into a room
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Speaker 3: with the door closed for their claustrophobic. It just gives
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Speaker 3: them the freedom to move around it. If you choose
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Speaker 3: either because you'd rather stay in your car because you
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Speaker 3: have a mobility issue, or the weather's not good, whatever,
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Speaker 3: you're welcome to stay right in your vehicle. We have
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Speaker 3: floor drains in so if you come in on a
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Speaker 3: day like this, then the slushes under your car, it
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Speaker 3: just goes down the drain.
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Speaker 2: We squeegee it away and off you go.
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Speaker 1: You thought of everything doctor had.
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Speaker 3: Oh well, we've been doing this a while, and we
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Speaker 3: worked on developing this for about eight years before we
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Speaker 3: built it, so it wasn't a spur of the moment decision.
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Speaker 3: We went through a lot of mental gymnastics to figure
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Speaker 3: out what was going to work. We have garages at
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Speaker 3: our clinic in the Maira not quite purpose the same way,
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Speaker 3: but we had some experience with how to provide veterinary
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Speaker 3: care in that setting, so it made it really pretty straightforward.
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Speaker 1: It's pretty amazing, and you can learn more online. Checkout
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Speaker 1: vet dot com. That's check out vet dot com. A
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Speaker 1: fantastic website and of course if you want to kind
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Speaker 1: of see some great illustrations of how checkout Veterinary works,
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Speaker 1: it's a very well done website for sure. Checkout vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. It's great to get day to get on
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Speaker 1: in there right at twenty seven to ten Prairie Lakes Drive.
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Speaker 1: Start that relationship, start that conversation. Of course, open Monday
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Speaker 1: through Wednesday and then Friday through Sunday at checkout Vet
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Speaker 1: from nine am until five pm. You say, well, what
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Speaker 1: about thursdays? Of course, check invet open Monday through Friday
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Speaker 1: right there as well, So you've got a chance to
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Speaker 1: see a vet no matter what day of the week.
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Speaker 1: And of course you got some issues or concerns, you
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Speaker 1: can get in to see your vet when you need
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Speaker 1: to and doctor. As you sit here with the little
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Speaker 1: pupper here and it's a colder day, is that? So
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Speaker 1: when it comes to pets and being outdoors, I've got
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Speaker 1: to guess, regardless of the breed, especially when they're very young,
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Speaker 1: you want to take very pay very special attention to
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Speaker 1: cold temperatures, warm temperatures, all of that stuff, especially when
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Speaker 1: they're little like that. Don't we the very.
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Speaker 2: Young and the very old. We shouldn't forget that.
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Speaker 3: Our fifteen year old dogs, they get outside, they're joint
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Speaker 3: stiffen up, and they almost if it's really cold, like
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Speaker 3: below zero, they almost just sort of freeze up. So
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Speaker 3: sometimes you have to just go out, put on your boots,
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Speaker 3: put on your coat, go pick them up and carry
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Speaker 3: them back in because sometimes it is just that startling
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Speaker 3: to them to be in that cold temperature. I know
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Speaker 3: dogs that don't want to use the outdoor bathroom when
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Speaker 3: it's that kind of yeather.
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Speaker 1: Chuha's to name a few.
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Speaker 2: Yes, So you want to be careful.
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Speaker 3: You want to be thoughtful about what you put down
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Speaker 3: for salt. If you have to shovel and then it's
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Speaker 3: going to be a little slippery, you want to be
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Speaker 3: using a pet safe salt because they do make those
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Speaker 3: that aren't irritating to the feet. You can use cat
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Speaker 3: litterate tracks in a bit, but of course that's safe
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Speaker 3: and it gives you some traction. So there's definitely things
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Speaker 3: that you can do. If your dog will wear a jacket,
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Speaker 3: wear boots, any of those things, that's fine. Sometimes putting
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Speaker 3: those on takes a little bit of time and it
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Speaker 3: might be too late by then, so be prepared for
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Speaker 3: those things to happen, but just be thoughtful. You might
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Speaker 3: have to shovel a little path through the snow so
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Speaker 3: that your dog can get into the yard. It's kind
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Speaker 3: of shocking, but that's Wisconsin.
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Speaker 1: It's a good practice to get them started young, like
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Speaker 1: you talk about, you know, I think jackets are probably
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Speaker 1: a little easier, but like I think it's like the
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Speaker 1: boots and stuff, like when they're little pops. Even if
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Speaker 1: you can just kind of put them on just to
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Speaker 1: get them used to having, is that beneficial as well.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, anything you can do to desensitize them about some
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Speaker 3: of those things would be great. We do have dogs
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Speaker 3: that get accustomed, like after surgery, we usually don't use
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Speaker 3: those elizabeth And collars. We put them in a surgical suit.
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Speaker 3: You can buy them on Amazon. They're really convenient. They
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Speaker 3: run thirty bucks. They're much more comfortable than the Elizabethan collars.
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Speaker 3: And before surgery, before your dog needs to have something
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Speaker 3: like that done, you want to practice putting them in those.
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Speaker 3: And then we have clients that come back and say,
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Speaker 3: you know, she loved her surgical suit so much after
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Speaker 3: she had her SPAE, she wants us to put pajamas
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Speaker 3: on her every night.
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Speaker 2: I'm like, okay, if that's what makes you happy.
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Speaker 3: Go for it.
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Speaker 1: Speaking of that, by the way, are there like with
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Speaker 1: I know that there's some products out there for like
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Speaker 1: specifically for like thunderstorms or dogs that stuffer anxiety. Do
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Speaker 1: those things work on some pets or is it marketing?
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Speaker 1: What is the what's kind of the doctor's perspective on
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Speaker 1: those type of things.
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Speaker 3: They will work for certain levels of anxiety. If they
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Speaker 3: get to be really extreme, you might have to go
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Speaker 3: to something like a pharmaceutical agent, and please talk to
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Speaker 3: your veterinarian. Don't use the over the counter products because
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Speaker 3: we just don't know what they do. But yes, those
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Speaker 3: thundershirts are like swaddling a baby. Wrap them snugly and
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Speaker 3: they are more secure. They're actually make a thundercap as well,
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Speaker 3: that'll cover their eyes if they really have a problem
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Speaker 3: with flashing lights and the lightning and the thunder and
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Speaker 3: the fireworks and those things. So anything you can do
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Speaker 3: to help desensitize your pad and require less drug and
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Speaker 3: less anxiety is best. Things like Benadryl that people tend
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Speaker 3: to use are not anti anxiety drugs. They make them sleepy.
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Speaker 3: They're just paralyzed where they are. They're not less afraid,
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Speaker 3: they just can't get up and move. So please speak
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Speaker 3: to your veterinary professional about medications that are appropriate. We
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Speaker 3: have lots of good choices. We have short acting ones,
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Speaker 3: long acting ones. We have good choices. So please talk
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Speaker 3: to your veterinarian and get some help for your pets
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Speaker 3: so that you can assist them through those crises.
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Speaker 1: It's always important to have that conversation with your pat Again,
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Speaker 1: with your vet about your pet, and of course as
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Speaker 1: we talk with doctor Marty Greer this morning from Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: It's a great day to start that conversation, start that relationship.
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Speaker 1: At Checkout Veterinary, they make it really easy to do again,
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Speaker 1: of course you can always stop on in. That first
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Speaker 1: visit is free, the exam is free as well. You
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Speaker 1: can learn more online checkout vet dot com. That's check
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Speaker 1: Out Vets and doctor Greer. With the holiday season upon us,
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Speaker 1: We've got Christmas, We've got New Year's, I got all
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Speaker 1: this stuff, which means you may have guests and folks
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Speaker 1: coming in and exiting the house. I know for a
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Speaker 1: lot of pets that can be caused anxiety. It can
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Speaker 1: also cause unusual behavior. I think some cats, especially that
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Speaker 1: maybe completely mellow year round, when companies starts coming over
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Speaker 1: makes them lancy, they might decide to run. And there
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Speaker 1: was a story, and we hear these from time to time.
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Speaker 1: There was a story though recently about a cat named Rutherford,
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Speaker 1: which is a great name. Yeah, disappeared eleven and a
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Speaker 1: half years ago from Oregon, right down the road here
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Speaker 1: from the radio station. The kiddy cat turned up in Georgia,
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Speaker 1: hundreds of miles away. Now, who knows how Ruthiford got there.
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Speaker 1: But I'm going to guess that the microchip that the
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Speaker 1: owner had implanted was invaluable to getting that pet back.
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Speaker 1: And there's obviously some great tools out there for whether
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Speaker 1: micro chipping. I'm a guessing every pet should be microchip,
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Speaker 1: but there's other ways too to keep even real time
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Speaker 1: track of where your pet may be.
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Speaker 2: Sure.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, back in the old days, I used to put
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Speaker 3: tattoos on dogs with their socialis checurity number, phone number
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Speaker 3: something inside the thigh that of course didn't require a reader,
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Speaker 3: but it was uncomfortable for the pet to have the
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Speaker 3: tattoo done.
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Speaker 2: We have advanced.
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Speaker 3: We have these great microchips now, some of which will
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Speaker 3: even allow you when you scan them, to take the
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Speaker 3: body temperature of the pet, so you don't even have
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Speaker 3: to put a.
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Speaker 2: Thermometer in you that.
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Speaker 3: Yes, so those are very helpful. Yes, the microchip was
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Speaker 3: permanent identification, and it's not going to send a signal
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Speaker 3: to a satellite, so don't assume that it's beaming something.
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Speaker 3: So no one's going to track where your pet is
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Speaker 3: with that. But it is a way to prove without
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Speaker 3: a shadow of a doubt that that pet is your pet.
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Speaker 3: So great tool, but if you don't register the microchip,
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Speaker 3: it doesn't do you any good.
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Speaker 2: So when you get the pet.
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Speaker 3: Microchip, make sure you or your veterinary clinic registers it
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Speaker 3: with a registry. And there's several out there. AKC Reunite
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Speaker 3: is a great one.
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Speaker 2: We have several choices. That's fine.
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Speaker 3: We have micro my D system midst there's a number
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Speaker 3: of them that do a good job. But the other
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Speaker 3: thing that you can use for real time, and Apple
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Speaker 3: doesn't want us to say this, but I'm going to
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Speaker 3: say it anyway, is Apple Air Tags. And of course
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Speaker 3: I think there's a tag, a tile version for the
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Speaker 3: Android that you can put on your pets collar. They
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Speaker 3: actually make little holders for them so that instead of
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Speaker 3: dangling down, they're flat against the collar and the batteries
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Speaker 3: in those can be replaced. They run about twenty five dollars.
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Speaker 3: They need to replace the battery every twelve to eighteen months.
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Speaker 3: They last a pretty long time. I have used one
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Speaker 3: on one of my own pets because she has a
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Speaker 3: tendency to she doesn't live with me, and she has
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Speaker 3: a tendency to kind of wander a bit.
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Speaker 2: So we put that on her.
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Speaker 3: And then with your iPhone if it's an Apple device,
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Speaker 3: with your Google phone or or Android phone. With the
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Speaker 3: Tile device, you can then track directly where they are.
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Speaker 3: And I've shown this to clients in the Examiner. It
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Speaker 3: points in air, it beeps if you want it to
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Speaker 3: make a beeping noise. Of the cat's under a bush.
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Speaker 3: You can't see them, you can hear where the cat is,
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Speaker 3: points you with an arrow, and it tells you three
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Speaker 3: hundred feet, two hundred feet, one hundred feet. They're pretty
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Speaker 3: amazing devices. So if you have a situation with a
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Speaker 3: pet that might wander a bit, or the door is
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Speaker 3: going to be opening and closing at your home a
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Speaker 3: number of times, with guests coming and going, bringing in food,
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Speaker 3: bringing in gifts, bringing in the kids, all those things,
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Speaker 3: consider putting one of those on the pet unless you
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Speaker 3: can just put them securely in a bedroom, bathroom, create
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Speaker 3: someplace that they can be safe. So those escapes happen
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Speaker 3: in an instant and the last thing you want to
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Speaker 3: do is spend Christmas Eve night running around outside with
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Speaker 3: a flashlight trying to find your pet. So please use
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Speaker 3: some devices, in some safety features to keep your pet safe.
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Speaker 1: I've seen people that have just for curiosity will put
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Speaker 1: the air tag on, like their cat that's like an
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Speaker 1: outdoor cat, and like they're like, I always believe my
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Speaker 1: cat stayed right kind of in the yard, and we
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Speaker 1: all have that perception. And they realized now they are
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Speaker 1: they're not one or two doors down, they're like a
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Speaker 1: block away.
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Speaker 2: Yeah, they're working it. Man, They've been fed. It's something
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Speaker 2: really good three blocks down the street.
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Speaker 3: Yeah, So don't doubt that your cat has bigger ranges
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Speaker 3: than you think.
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Speaker 1: Clever little creatures. I was going to ask you with
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Speaker 1: those microchips, is there like a universal depository for like
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Speaker 1: the data, like the I'm guessing that they probably just
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Speaker 1: have like a code or something that's in reference from
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Speaker 1: a data. Is that like universally shared or like if
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Speaker 1: you have you mentioned the AKC reunite, which I know
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Speaker 1: we have for our dog, is the one that we used.
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Speaker 1: Is that accessible if somebody were to have a scanner
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Speaker 1: that was with a different, different brand or whatever.
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Speaker 3: Yes, And we're also eventually right now, you can get
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Speaker 3: a tag along with those microchips from MIDS that has
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Speaker 3: a QR code, So on a phone, an iPhone or
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Speaker 3: Google phone, you can scan that QR code. It'll take
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Speaker 3: you to a website and get you the contact information
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Speaker 3: for the owner of the pet, so that already exists.
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Speaker 3: Eventually we'll have scanners in our phones so that you'll
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Speaker 3: be able to pick up the microchip number with your
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Speaker 3: Google phone, iPhone, Android phone, whatever it happens to be.
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Speaker 3: So those things are under development. We don't have them yet.
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Speaker 3: But the QR code does exist, so unless your pet
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Speaker 3: choose it. Up to the point the QR code isn't legible,
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Speaker 3: you just take take out your phone, hold it over
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Speaker 3: at hover it just like any other QR code, takes
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Speaker 3: you to the website and then you, as the pet owner,
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Speaker 3: can put any information in all that you want. If
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Speaker 3: you want your phone number, great, If you want your
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Speaker 3: address you can. If you want to say my pet
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Speaker 3: is diabetic and needs insulin, you know, any of those
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Speaker 3: things you can include in that QR code listing. So
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Speaker 3: it's a safer way to communicate information to pet owners.
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Speaker 1: kind of this time of year and there are always
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Speaker 1: dangers and stuff and it's really you just want to
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Speaker 1: be with your pets, whether it's your cat, your dog,
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Speaker 1: or any any I just want to make sure that
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Speaker 1: And sometimes different routines can make pets do things a
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Speaker 3: Right, And so you want to think about keeping their
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Speaker 3: routine as similar to what you're customed to as possible.
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Speaker 3: If you're putting up Christmas decorations, putting out packages, running
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Speaker 3: extension cords, any of those things. Extension cords, cables, those
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Speaker 3: can be risky to our pets. They can chew through
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Speaker 3: them and become electrocuted. So think about where you're placing those,
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Speaker 3: how you're covering those. They do make cord covers that
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Speaker 3: you can buy at the hardware store on Amazon that
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Speaker 3: are for pet safe cords. So think about those things.
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Speaker 3: Get down on the floor, crawl around, like look and
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Speaker 3: see what your dog or your cat sees. Realize, cats
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Speaker 3: are going to think the tree you installed in the
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Speaker 3: living room is their new favorite to life, so they're
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Speaker 3: going to be up in the tree. So I think
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Speaker 3: about the ornaments you put on where you put them.
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Speaker 3: You know, they're really valuable. You might want to tuck
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Speaker 3: them away this year and not put them out so
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Speaker 3: Grandma's glass balls don't get broken by the new kitten
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Speaker 3: that scurries up the tree. So just think about those things.
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