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Planning a Purrrfect Summer for Your Feline with Dr. Greer of Checkout Vet · Ask The Experts

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Speaker 1: today is July eleventh. It's National Kitten Day. So you
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Speaker 1: want to guess we're going to talk about doctor career.
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Speaker 1: I'll let you tell everybody what we're going to talk
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Speaker 1: about this morning. How you doing too, By the way,
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Speaker 1: I'm great.
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Speaker 2: How about we talk about kittens.
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Speaker 1: I think it'd be perfect. That would be perfect, and
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Speaker 1: every funny very perfect. Yeah, I love it, and I
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Speaker 1: as somebody with two kiddies of my own, they are
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Speaker 1: just amazing pets, great companions, but they do require special care.
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Speaker 1: And I think sometimes and I know we've talked about
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Speaker 1: this before, compared to caine eines get compared to dogs.
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Speaker 1: Sometimes the poor kiddies get overlooked, mostly because they don't
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Speaker 1: demand a lot when it comes to your attention if
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Speaker 1: they're not feeling well real quick. Sometimes I think people
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Speaker 1: forget this. Cats live a very long time, don't they
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Speaker 1: doctor greer they do.
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Speaker 2: They typically live longer than dogs. So yes, they can
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Speaker 2: live to be well into their late teens. At one point,
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Speaker 2: I had a technician that was running out a seasion
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Speaker 2: for me on a dental cleaning on a cat, and
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Speaker 2: the cat was older than she was, and she was
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Speaker 2: a graduate of a veterinary technician program. Yeah, so the
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Speaker 2: cat was twenty two and she was twenty one, and
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Speaker 2: I'm like, oh my gosh, like this is just an
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Speaker 2: interesting combination. So yes, cats can live to be very old.
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Speaker 2: And if they are well cared for, well maintained, like
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Speaker 2: you change the oil and rotable fires, they can do
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Speaker 2: really well for a very long time. So I think
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Speaker 2: that's part of the problem is that people tend to
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Speaker 2: assume cats or self sufficient. They don't really need a lot,
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Speaker 2: And until the cat loses half of its body weight
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Speaker 2: when it's nineteen, I don't really notice that there's anything wrong.
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Speaker 2: They don't notice that they've changed their food or their
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Speaker 2: water consumption, or their urinary habits or some of the
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Speaker 2: other things, because it's so subtle, and cats just really
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Speaker 2: quiet about their illnesses. They don't announce it the way
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Speaker 2: a dog does. And dog comes up and stares you
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Speaker 2: in the face and says I'm sick, and the cat's like, oh, no,
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Speaker 2: I'm good, I'm fine.
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Speaker 1: So yeah, I know with my dog, for example, if
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Speaker 1: I come home today and be like, oh, poor Homer,
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Speaker 1: are you okay? Right away, he'll get down and like, actually,
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Speaker 1: I haven't thought about it, but maybe maybe I'm not yet,
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Speaker 1: really right, Yeah, really important differentiations with we talk cats
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Speaker 1: and dogs. Of course, we do it each and every
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Speaker 1: morning six eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six
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Speaker 1: soh eight three two one thirteen ten. We'll get you
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Speaker 1: right on the air with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
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Speaker 1: Of course. Doctor Greer recognized as Veterinarian of the Year
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Speaker 1: from the Westminster Kennel Club. The other thing too, speaking
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Speaker 1: of kind of cats behavior, and you know, they seem
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Speaker 1: they're quite independent, and you know, cats like to they're thing.
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Speaker 1: And I also think sometimes we then forget that that
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Speaker 1: they really do need love, attention, play. They are very
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Speaker 1: much bonded to us. It's just a different type of relationship.
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Speaker 1: And I think sometimes people that have cats that may have,
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Speaker 1: you know, behavioral issues, tend to overlook the fact that
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Speaker 1: maybe they're not spending enough time doing those fun things
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Speaker 1: with their cats.
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Speaker 2: I think so. And I think the other thing to
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Speaker 2: realize is that cats, when you have an older cat
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Speaker 2: and then you try to bring a young cat into
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Speaker 2: the household, that's that's often really difficult because cats are
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Speaker 2: kind of in their own social groups. They're different than
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Speaker 2: dogs in the way they interact. So I think if
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Speaker 2: people are thinking about getting a cat, in my humble opinion,
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Speaker 2: getting two at the same time is superior to getting one,
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Speaker 2: because an older cat doesn't adjust well to a young
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Speaker 2: cat coming into the household. But if you get two
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Speaker 2: at the same time, they grow up bonded. It doesn't
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Speaker 2: matter if they're male male, or male female or female male.
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Speaker 2: I don't care what the combination is. But you can
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Speaker 2: have a really good relationship in those cats, and they
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Speaker 2: are very social with each other, and then they tend
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Speaker 2: to be more social with other cats than if they're
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Speaker 2: raised alone. So I really encourage people if they're going
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Speaker 2: out to get a kitten, and you know, there's lots
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Speaker 2: of sources for kittens. There's breeders, of course, there's farms,
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Speaker 2: there's shelters, there's rescues, there's humane societies, there's lots of
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Speaker 2: places in the newspaper Craigslist, whatever, there's lots of places
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Speaker 2: to get kittens. And even if they're not littermates, if
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Speaker 2: you get them similar times and there are similar ages
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Speaker 2: and you raise them together, they are a bonded pair
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Speaker 2: and it really makes a big difference socially to that
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Speaker 2: cat in their their skills, not just with that other cat,
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Speaker 2: but there are social skills overall. So I think we
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Speaker 2: forget about those things and we think cats are aloof
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Speaker 2: and cats don't really need that interaction, and they actually
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Speaker 2: really do and they're really strusted if they don't have
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Speaker 2: those kinds of interactive relationships. So please place, please, if
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Speaker 2: you're getting a kid, and just go get to there.
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Speaker 2: They're small. You know, they eat twice as much they
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Speaker 2: you know they use much choice as much litter. But
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Speaker 2: are you're going to change the litter box anyway? You
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Speaker 2: might as well do it for two and for one.
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Speaker 2: So I think it's it's really good advice to have
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Speaker 2: that social relationship.
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Speaker 1: It's funny this morning, with it being a National Kiddie Day,
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Speaker 1: I was I was going through photos of my cats
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Speaker 1: and there they seem to be two. And this is
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Speaker 1: just probably typical, or maybe just I tend to take
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Speaker 1: pictures of them, either them sleeping together, you know, just
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Speaker 1: snuggled up together, or a picture of them in action
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Speaker 1: where they're where they're wrestling. It seems to be if
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Speaker 1: they're spending time together, it's either their napping or they're
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Speaker 1: or they're playing. It's like they're in their entire life.
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Speaker 2: Right right, And that's how bonded these tears are. So
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Speaker 2: And when you get two kittens, you don't even need
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Speaker 2: to turn on the television or sit at a computer.
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Speaker 2: You just turn on the kittens. At night, you walk
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Speaker 2: in the door, you turn on the kittens and if
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Speaker 2: they go and they will entertain you for the entire evening.
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Speaker 2: And cats do like to play. There's you know, fishing toys,
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Speaker 2: and there's there's actually a company called Cat Dancer that
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Speaker 2: makes a wired toy with a little spinnything on it.
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Speaker 2: There's multiple variations in that. They're based out of Nina, Wisconsin,
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Speaker 2: so again you know you can get your stuff. There's
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Speaker 2: a cat litter box company that's based out of beaver Dam,
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Speaker 2: so we have some. There's Pioneer Pets that makes cat
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Speaker 2: litter and cat boxes that are in Mechwon, so we
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Speaker 2: have some really great cat based companies. Here we have
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Speaker 2: from pet food company that's the stop and great with
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Speaker 2: some of big companies that we can use for our
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Speaker 2: cat supplies and cat equipment and you know, all the
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Speaker 2: stuff that we need. But gosh, I mean, when you
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Speaker 2: think about how bonded your two cats are to each other,
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Speaker 2: can you imagine how different they would be if you
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Speaker 2: had only gotten one, how much different their social relationships
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Speaker 2: would be. So I encourage people not to go get
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Speaker 2: a new kitten when they have an elderly cat. In fact,
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Speaker 2: I have a current veterinary student with us.
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Speaker 1: Oh, doctor, do we lose Wait.
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Speaker 2: For the yeah, wait for the old cat to go,
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Speaker 2: and then when the old cat has gone, and go
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Speaker 2: get two kitchens.
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Speaker 1: Great advice and guys and that. Yeah, that's something I
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Speaker 1: think a lot of folks are tempted to do and had,
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Speaker 1: of course really good advice to hold often and wait.
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Speaker 1: I want to ask you about you mentioned things like
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Speaker 1: litterbox and other things. I want to ask you a
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Speaker 1: little bit about that. One of the things too, I
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Speaker 1: do want to before we take a quick break here,
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Speaker 1: ask about, you know, check out veterinary in the way
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Speaker 1: that the clinic is set up. Obviously, I think a
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Speaker 1: lot a lot of especially folks with big dogs, that
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Speaker 1: what a great what a great environment. It is tend
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Speaker 1: to forget that when you bring your cat in. How
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Speaker 1: fantastic has that got to be to you know, because
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Speaker 1: moving cats around can be a bit of a struggle.
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Speaker 1: They are much stronger and quicker than the Having them
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Speaker 1: in that environment to check out vet's got to make
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Speaker 1: things a whole lot easier for everybody, including the kiddies.
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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, the cats are relaxed. I have pictures of
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Speaker 2: them slopped on the floor because they never came through
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Speaker 2: a waiting room. There was never a dog barking or
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Speaker 2: a dog that is lurching at the crate. It's really
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Speaker 2: comfortable and safe for the cat. So it's a great environment. Now,
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Speaker 2: we don't typically do our exams for the cats in
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Speaker 2: the garage bay. We have an exam room associated with
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Speaker 2: the garage that you would pull into the garage with
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Speaker 2: your car, take your cat out of the carrier carrier,
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Speaker 2: go directly from the garage into the exam room, never
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Speaker 2: stepping into a lobby waiting room in general area, and
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Speaker 2: then you're right into your own exam room. And then
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Speaker 2: the cats have the damn table. Of course, we're big
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Speaker 2: on the things make a kitten happy. When they come in.
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Speaker 2: We get out the chicken baby food, and we get
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Speaker 2: out the toys, and we want these paths of things
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Speaker 2: that they're at a restaurant and not at a veninary clinic.
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Speaker 2: It doesn't smell like dogs, it doesn't look like dogs,
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Speaker 2: it doesn't sell like dogs. And then they get little
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Speaker 2: you know, baby food and suros and all these really
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Speaker 2: fun little things. So we want to make it really
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Speaker 2: pleasant and enjoyable for your new kittens, your kittens, both
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Speaker 2: of them. When you come in.
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Speaker 1: Doctor you mentioned a sense of smell, and obviously with
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Speaker 1: dogs we always think about in all the stories of
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Speaker 1: how acute a dog's sense of smell is. Cats are
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Speaker 1: no slouches in that area, either, are they.
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Speaker 2: No, they're not. They're really good. And their eyesight at
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Speaker 2: night is remarkable, so they don't see up close. They're
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Speaker 2: kind of dear sighted, so they don't see up close
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Speaker 2: really well. And that's one of the reasons people think
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Speaker 2: that when they pick up a piece of food or
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Speaker 2: they attack a mouse, that they pick it up and
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Speaker 2: they shake it before they eat it. We're kind of
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Speaker 2: suspicious that cats just want to make sure that it's
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Speaker 2: safe before they try to consume it. We're not really sure,
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Speaker 2: but they so they don't see near sight did really well.
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Speaker 2: But their their night vision is excellent because of course
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Speaker 2: when do they hunt, they hut at night. Cats are nocturnal,
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Speaker 2: and we sometimes forget that when we're trying to sleep
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Speaker 2: and the cats are you kittens are bouncing around at
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Speaker 2: They're all over our feet and they're you know, as
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Speaker 2: soon as you move under the cover as they see
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Speaker 2: your toes move and they you know, hop on your feet.
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Speaker 2: So keen who little challenge, just sleep with them. They
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Speaker 2: want to get up at four o'clock in the morning
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Speaker 2: and have breakfast, so their schedule may not necessarily meet
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Speaker 2: your schedule really well until you get them adjusted to
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Speaker 2: what your expectations are.
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Speaker 1: Great day to be looking at adding a couple of kiddies,
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Speaker 1: bringing kitties in if that's something you've been thinking about,
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Speaker 1: definitely start that journey, start that conversation. Of course, you
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Speaker 1: want to make sure that your your kiddies are getting
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Speaker 1: that proper care and a great data start a relationship
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Speaker 1: Greer of check Out veterinarya the website check out vet
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Speaker 1: dot com. That's check out vet dot com. And and
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Speaker 1: doctor when we were talking about a different products, you
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Speaker 1: mentioned kitty litter and cat boxes is an important obviously,
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Speaker 1: an important part of having a happy cat is having
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Speaker 1: a good clean litter box. There's different materials, different types
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Speaker 1: of things. I always heard the rumor that the story
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Speaker 1: that if you have two cats, you should have three
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Speaker 1: separate litter boxes. What is kind of the guidance on
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Speaker 1: on litterboxes for cats.
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Speaker 2: I'm really glad you asked that. So, yes, it's typically
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Speaker 2: one litter box per cats plus as fare. So if
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Speaker 2: you have four cats, that's five boxes. It's always a
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Speaker 2: good idea to have that extra box in case the
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Speaker 2: boxes smelly or soil. The cat doesn't want to use
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Speaker 2: that particular type of litter or that location, so you
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Speaker 2: want to give them different locations. You want to give
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Speaker 2: them different substrates. So they make litter out of clay,
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Speaker 2: they make the clumping litters, they make corn cobs, they
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Speaker 2: make all kinds of different substrates. So if you have
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Speaker 2: a cat that's a little reluctant to use the litter box,
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Speaker 2: ask them what kind of litter they like best. By
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Speaker 2: putting it out in multiple boxes and letting them do
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Speaker 2: the voting with their feet, the one that they use
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Speaker 2: the most is the one that they like the best.
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Speaker 2: I also want to talk a little bit about the
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Speaker 2: feline healthcare that kittens. I like the kittens to all
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Speaker 2: be tested for leukemia and FIV before you bring them
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Speaker 2: into the household of an established cat or for getting
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Speaker 2: too new, and then we can do that testing at
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Speaker 2: checkout and check in. I also think that people need
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Speaker 2: to know that there are differences in cat vaccines, that
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Speaker 2: all cat vaccines are not created equal they do make
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Speaker 2: a rabies vaccine that's called pure vac. It's for cats
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Speaker 2: and it doesn't have an edge event in it, which
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Speaker 2: means the cats are less likely to have an adverse
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Speaker 2: reaction to the vaccine. If you're looking for a practice
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Speaker 2: that understands medicine, I want you to know that we
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Speaker 2: have those vaccines available and we use them most of
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Speaker 2: the time. Unless you ask for through ye vaccine, you're
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Speaker 2: going to get the one year pure Va vaccine, which
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Speaker 2: is less likely to cause an adverse event. There are
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Speaker 2: more reports th number of views ago that one in
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Speaker 2: ten thousand cats developed a tumor of the injection site.
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Speaker 2: So number one, we use the vaccine that doesn't cause that,
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Speaker 2: and number two we use the vaccine very low in
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Speaker 2: the leg so that there's less likely to have an
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Speaker 2: asers event that's not approachable. And then the other thing
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Speaker 2: I do a law of is I use the intrnasal
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Speaker 2: sea line vaccine instead of the injectable for the sea
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Speaker 2: line to stemper and pamikopedia. So I think that's an
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Speaker 2: important distinction as well. The cats take to the vaccines
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Speaker 2: the interrnaso's really well better than dogs do with the
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Speaker 2: internaso bodicella, and again it gives you better protection. It
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Speaker 2: gives you nice respiratory protection. The cats don't mind it.
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Speaker 2: It's not an injection. So we have lots of options
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Speaker 2: for people that are understanding that cats aren't small dogs
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Speaker 2: and that we have options for you. So I just
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Speaker 2: think it's important that people know that they have the
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Speaker 2: ability to ask those questions. So call your veterinary clinic
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Speaker 2: and say, are you feeling friendly? Can I give Gaba
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Speaker 2: penance to my cat before they come in if they're nervous?
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Speaker 2: Can you provide me with Gaba pennant? Do you use
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Speaker 2: feel Away, which is the spray that helps to reduce
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Speaker 2: their anxiety? Do you use the interrnasal vaccines? Do you
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Speaker 2: use the pure vax vaccine? So you can be an
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Speaker 2: educated head owner, give the call a call to your
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Speaker 2: clinic before you go in and make sure that they're
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Speaker 2: going to meet your needs and expectations before you get there.
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Speaker 2: Do you have a litter box for my cat if
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Speaker 2: you get there and the cat needs to use the
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Speaker 2: litter box? Or do I have to run home and
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Speaker 2: get home in time? So there's all these little things
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Speaker 2: that you may not think about. As a cat owner,
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Speaker 2: did you put a warm towel on the table before
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Speaker 2: my cat sat there or was it just on a
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Speaker 2: cold heart table? What are the things that you do
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Speaker 2: to make this event more pleasing to myself and my
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Speaker 2: cat doctor?
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Speaker 1: Do we deal with people that have kind of the
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Speaker 1: feeling that because I have an indoor cat, that's some
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Speaker 1: of this stuff, like some of the vaccines, or maybe
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Speaker 1: some of the some of the preventative like flea in
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Speaker 1: and warming and those type of things not necessary because
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Speaker 1: I have an indoor CATM good question.
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Speaker 2: My sister in law a number of years ago had
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Speaker 2: a dog and an indoor cat, and I think the
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Speaker 2: dog must have brought the fleas into the house and
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Speaker 2: that they didn't stay on the dog because the dog
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Speaker 2: has fleet prevent about it. But it was long enough
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Speaker 2: to get the flea into the house and the cat
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Speaker 2: ended up being the you know, the house the new
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Speaker 2: host for the fleas. So yes, even if your cat
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Speaker 2: is not going outside, they still have the ability to
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Speaker 2: have those parasites we have. Unfortunately, occasionally I have a
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Speaker 2: mouse in my house and I don't like to admit that,
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Speaker 2: but it's true. You know, it's Wisconsin and in the winter,
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Speaker 2: things move in, so there are times that mice move
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Speaker 2: into the basement and you may not be aware that
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Speaker 2: your cat went downstairs and had this wonderful hunting festival
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Speaker 2: with the mice in the basement. And they can get
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Speaker 2: parasites from that, especially if they're immunosuppressed because of diabetes
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Speaker 2: or steroids or something that they're on that affect their
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Speaker 2: immune system. So there's definitely things that cats can get.
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Speaker 2: Even if they're living in the house, they typically you know,
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Speaker 2: don't have as much of an exposure, but you know,
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Speaker 2: don't be naive to the fact that that's still a possibility.
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Speaker 1: I think of one of the prime reasons one companionship.
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Speaker 1: But the one of the prime reasons we got cats was, uh,
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Speaker 1: when we were buying our house, there was a mouse
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Speaker 1: in our house that we saw and we said, you
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Speaker 2: I typically only said my cats dry food because it's easy,
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Speaker 2: it's safe, you can leave it out that the canned
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Speaker 2: food can help if they have urinary tract infections or
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