October 8, 2024 • 14 mins
The Dog Professor, Robb Lust from The Edgefield Animal Care Center, talks to hunters and ourdoors families about making sure you're dogs are ready for the woods and situations you may find yourselves experiencing.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Joining me in studio today is the Dog Professor Rob
Luss from the Edgefield to Animal Care Center. It's another
Dog Professor podcast, and today the Dog Professor wants to
talk about getting your dogs ready to be outdoors, whether
you're hunting or just going to be doing some things
outside and some things you need to do. And you know,
I know you you like to go hunting, you like
(00:22):
to have the dogs around, but when the weather starts
changing and things get crazy out there, it gets a
little questionable, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit. You know, a
lot of times as a hunter this time of year,
puts and hunting with dogs, there's kind of a lot
of different risk that people don't think about when they're out.
And now there's there's taking your dog out into your grass,
and then there's taking your dog out into a wildlife
(00:49):
area or the woods or or you know, a place
that has a lot more possible danger. So it's something
to think about number one. Number two, it's and we
talked a little bit about this in one of our
previous podcasts, but it is important to have a first
aid kit set up for your dog if you spend
a lot of time outside obviously we've all been watching
(01:11):
the news here lately, and you just never know when
you might just have to get up and go, So
it's something that's good to have on hand. And we've
got some good recommendations today of things that you can
put in a first aid kit for your dog that
are a little different, but not too much different than
something you put in your first aid kit for yourself.
But there are some things that you need to be
(01:31):
aware of when you take your dog out into wild
type areas. Okay, and we've seen this a lot of
times with hunting dogs more than anything else, but they
can also affect your dog if you're just going out
to run and enjoy a nice fall day, So it's
important to think about Number one, make sure your dog's
healthy enough to do this stuff. Okay, even with hunting
(01:54):
dogs when they're off season, just like me. Okay, when
the sea in you need to be in shape, okay,
and and dogs are no different in that case. And
a lot of times, when when this season starts this
time of year, it can be just as hot as
it is during the summer, or once in a while
we'll get some snow, so they have to be able
(02:16):
to be in a good physical condition to deal with
the weather itself. Number two, there's a lot of eye
eye pokey's and Paul Poky's, for lack of a better
way to say it. When you're out in wildlife areas
with your dog, Thorns, thistle, grass seed, all of these
(02:36):
things are can be a danger to your dog's eyes,
your dog's skin. But a lot but something that's kind
of common, especially in hunting dogs and and all dogs
in particular. Dogs like to go places and smell stuff. Okay,
that's what they do. So when you're in a high
weedy area, high natural grasses like foxtail and those different
(02:59):
types of grasses that have seed pods on them, sometimes
veterinarians have to remove those seed pods from different parts
of your dogs. Oh okay, it's not uncommon for those
foxtail pods to end up in your dog's nose or
in your dog's mouth or any of those places, and
oftentimes they'll be stuck in skin or whatever. Paw injuries
(03:23):
are pretty common in hunting dogs or any dogs that
go out in those wild areas because of the thorns, okay,
and not necessarily on the pads, but in between the toes,
as well, where you'll see a lot of that and
you won't necessarily notice it unless your dog starts to
bite at their foot or starts to limp, or it
starts to swell something like that. The pods in the
(03:45):
nose are a whole nother thing that's hard to notice
unless it stays in there a little while. It attaches
to the interior of your dog's nose. Your dogs have
some inflammation or infection because of that, and then your
dog starts to sneeze, rubbing their nose, you know, coughing, whatever.
(04:06):
Those are some things to think about or when when
you're in a situation where your dog spends a lot
of time in those weeds. Hunters know, especially if you've
been in a hunting situation like pheasant hunting, you're doing
nothing but following a dog that's you can basically see
zero percent of the time because the weeds are so
(04:26):
high and their head is down and they're in the weeds.
So those dogs are really really susceptible to issues like that.
So it's important to be aware of your dog condition
and be able to handle situations if if we have
a situation arises, So it's a good first first aid
kit for your dog would include the following things. One
(04:50):
gauze rap Okay, a lot of people call it. It's
the stretchy gauze, the you know the vet rap or
you know the sports rap, all that stuff. Get a
couple of rolls of that. That's stuff we can use
for just about anything, as far as wrapping a wound,
as far as turning it into a muzzle and wrapping
your dog's nose if they're injured. Look, when your dog's
(05:11):
injured and you're trying to help them, ninety percent of
the time, if they're in pain, they don't care if
you're their owner or not. They're going to lash out
a little bit. So it's important to have that gauze
around to wrap that nose if we need to. But
it's a stretchy gauze. It works really well for a
lot of different issues. A pair of forceps, okay, like
(05:32):
surgical forceps. In case you see a thorn in the pad,
or you might see some foxtail in the roof of
their mouth or something like that, you can get in there,
get that picked out and get that taken care of. Scissors,
medical tape, a bottle of peroxide, and a syringe, like
(05:54):
a not just the small vaccination syringe, but maybe a
little bit bigger syringe. Side number one is a great
anti bacterial agent. Number two. If your dog ingest something
swallows something, uh, you know that they we we don't
want them to swallow. No, not necessarily a hard object,
(06:14):
but something uh that that we need to get back
right away. Peroxide works good to help make your dog vomit. Okay,
cap full or two will cause your dog to vomit.
Vomit up. What we whatever that was that they swallowed
that we didn't want them to swallow. Maybe it was
a squirrel, who knows, but anyways, that's that's something to
(06:34):
always have a bottle of on hand in cases like that.
Forceps for the ticks. You'll see ticks. I still see
ticks this time of year. We had some the other day.
Cotton swabs, you know, nail clippers. Okay, that probably the
number one thing we deal with, uh, injury wise with
(06:57):
pet dogs at home, normal dogs and hunting dogs, is
they get out and they break a nail and they
break it back towards the pad of the foot and
it's back where the nerve is. And that's a real,
real problem. Number one. Number two, it bleeds like crazy.
So keeping some steptic powder in that first aid kit
is key to that. That rap is key to that
(07:21):
a lot of times. The best you can do and
the best prevention for that, is make sure your dog's
nails are trimmed as short as they can be trimmed
before you go honting. We talked about that in a
couple episodes ago, using the Dremmel tool to grind them down. Whatever.
Short nails don't break as much as long nails do
(07:41):
get caught in things. If your dog has what are
called dew claws on their back leg, Okay, it's those
toes that are halfway up their leg or a third
of the way up their leg, and they're kind of
floppy and they still grow a toenail and everything else.
Most hunting dogs have those removed when they're young, but
a lot of a lot of dogs that just are
(08:02):
normal at home, they still have those do claws, and
those things get caught in just about everything. So it's
important to have a nail aspect to your first aid kit,
and that'd be a good pair of nail clippers and
stiptic powder and that gauze and that goes good with that.
Rags towels have on hand during the hot part of
(08:26):
the season, you know, just like we've talked about with
heat exhaustion, that's important. We can wet down some towels
with water and cool the dog down with or we
can you know, just like everything else, rags, you can
wipe them off this time of year, after our hot summer,
very little rain. Most standing water now is nothing but
(08:48):
basically as cesspool. Yeah okay, And if your dog goes
in that after something, if your dog swallows a bunch
of that, going in that after something, the mud, whatever,
they run the possibility of dealing with a couple different
waterborne issues like giardia or swallowing something they're not supposed
to there also, so it's important to monitor them if
(09:09):
they're in that type of environment for the next couple
of days and monitor their stool. A lot of times
the first sign of bacterial infection like giardia comes from
loose stool vomiting those type of things, so it's important
if that's the environment that they're in a lot of
that you really pay attention to that and maybe get
(09:30):
that stool checked by your veterinarian so you can start
on some medication in that case, pet CPR is something
that you can learn. I believe most places that teach CPR,
like the Red Cross also have something as far as
pet CPR, or they can send you in the direction
of pet CPR. So you get a dog that's usually
(09:52):
hanging around by the fireplace or on the couch for
eleven months out of the year, and you take them
on a beautiful fall running through the woods, and all
of a sudden he passes out and he has an issue. Yeah,
CPR is key in that case. Okay, Exercise induced collapse
(10:13):
is actually a physical ailment that's very common to hunting
breeds like Labrador retrievers or other retrievers. So it's important
to if you have that breed, or if you have
a dog that has had that in their line, to
get yourself educated on some pet CPR. Your dog doesn't
(10:34):
realize how much energy they're exerting when they're out there,
so it's important for you to know what to do
in that situation. A lot of times, you know, certain
dogs may get hypoglycemic, hypoglycemic beating they're out there running wild,
and you know, just like when people get hypoglycemic, they
(10:55):
lose energy they run down. In a kit like this,
the first aid kit, I might put a small jar
of honey in there, okay, just like with people, you know,
with me, a Snickers bar kind of kicks me up
for yeah, it's a little while or whatever. But a
little pure honey is known to be a good thing
(11:15):
to battle hypoglycemia in your dog without having really any
issue in that case. But it's important to kind of
throw think about that kind of stuff also and get
that in your kit. Stung by a bee, all right,
or getting into something that causes your dog to go
into anaphylactic shock or swelling or whatever, usually the answer
(11:38):
to that is an anahistamine. So having some liquid benedrill
on hand in that kit would be key. The normal
dosage you always check with your veterinarian as far as
the dosage and everything. But the normal dosage that most
people use with benadrill and a dog is milligram per pound, okay,
(11:59):
and that tends to be at the lower end of
the scale, but the safest end of the scale. And
if your dog gets a bee up the nose, which
most often if dogs are going to get stung by bees, hornets, anything,
like that. It's usually on the nose. Yeah, okay, in
the place where if you're out hunting and they have
a lot of venomous snakes, okay, just like you're going
(12:22):
to worry about getting a bit by a snake, your
dog's probably going to find a snake first. So it's
important to know what you need to do in cases
like that as far as snake bite. A lot of
times you can just call your veterinarian and say, look,
this is the environment we're in. Is there anything I
need to think about. Hunters usually have a pretty good
network and pretty good information network on all these things
(12:44):
that other hunters face, so they're pretty well informed with that.
But folks who like to get their dogs out in
the wild area and they're not out there a lot,
they don't have necessarily the same type of network. So
it's important to kind of know the environment, know the area,
you know, before you just go out there willy nilly
and run your dog crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah that's some really good advice. I mean, all of
that is so important. And you think about that, you
think that maybe it's not a bad idea that before
you get your dog out into that that you make
sure you go see the vet and go through maybe
that annual physical before you start doing any of that work.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, it's always yeah, it's always important when you're out
in the out in the big world to make sure
vaccines are up to date. Get your annual physical, get
your dog's annual physical. Yeah, absolutely, and get out there
and enjoy the outside world. But a lot of times
the dogs that don't have a lot of experience in that,
and people same way that don't have a lot of
(13:44):
experience in that, it becomes kind of a dangerous situation
if you're not aware of things.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, no question. Tell everybody how they can hook up
with the Edgefield Animal Care Center.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Edgefield Animal Care Center is a family pet care business.
We've been in business in the mary And Ohio Central
Ohio area for almost fifty years. We are a full
service veterinary hospital, boarding, grooming, training, and daycare. We have
that also just about everything you need all in one place.
Easiest way to get all our information about everything we
(14:16):
do and then all the Dog Professor podcasts is go
to our website Edgefieldanimalcare dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Some great stuff and you will find the Dog Professor podcast.
Wherever you find your favorite podcasts, including on the iHeart app,
and once you find it there, make sure you hit
follows so you get a notification every time we post
a new
Joining me in studio today is the Dog Professor Rob
Luss from the Edgefield to Animal Care Center. It's another
Dog Professor podcast, and today the Dog Professor wants to
talk about getting your dogs ready to be outdoors, whether
you're hunting or just going to be doing some things
outside and some things you need to do. And you know,
I know you you like to go hunting, you like
(00:22):
to have the dogs around, but when the weather starts
changing and things get crazy out there, it gets a
little questionable, doesn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, a little bit, a little bit. You know, a
lot of times as a hunter this time of year,
puts and hunting with dogs, there's kind of a lot
of different risk that people don't think about when they're out.
And now there's there's taking your dog out into your grass,
and then there's taking your dog out into a wildlife
(00:49):
area or the woods or or you know, a place
that has a lot more possible danger. So it's something
to think about number one. Number two, it's and we
talked a little bit about this in one of our
previous podcasts, but it is important to have a first
aid kit set up for your dog if you spend
a lot of time outside obviously we've all been watching
(01:11):
the news here lately, and you just never know when
you might just have to get up and go, So
it's something that's good to have on hand. And we've
got some good recommendations today of things that you can
put in a first aid kit for your dog that
are a little different, but not too much different than
something you put in your first aid kit for yourself.
But there are some things that you need to be
(01:31):
aware of when you take your dog out into wild
type areas. Okay, and we've seen this a lot of
times with hunting dogs more than anything else, but they
can also affect your dog if you're just going out
to run and enjoy a nice fall day, So it's
important to think about Number one, make sure your dog's
healthy enough to do this stuff. Okay, even with hunting
(01:54):
dogs when they're off season, just like me. Okay, when
the sea in you need to be in shape, okay,
and and dogs are no different in that case. And
a lot of times, when when this season starts this
time of year, it can be just as hot as
it is during the summer, or once in a while
we'll get some snow, so they have to be able
(02:16):
to be in a good physical condition to deal with
the weather itself. Number two, there's a lot of eye
eye pokey's and Paul Poky's, for lack of a better
way to say it. When you're out in wildlife areas
with your dog, Thorns, thistle, grass seed, all of these
(02:36):
things are can be a danger to your dog's eyes,
your dog's skin. But a lot but something that's kind
of common, especially in hunting dogs and and all dogs
in particular. Dogs like to go places and smell stuff. Okay,
that's what they do. So when you're in a high
weedy area, high natural grasses like foxtail and those different
(02:59):
types of grasses that have seed pods on them, sometimes
veterinarians have to remove those seed pods from different parts
of your dogs. Oh okay, it's not uncommon for those
foxtail pods to end up in your dog's nose or
in your dog's mouth or any of those places, and
oftentimes they'll be stuck in skin or whatever. Paw injuries
(03:23):
are pretty common in hunting dogs or any dogs that
go out in those wild areas because of the thorns, okay,
and not necessarily on the pads, but in between the toes,
as well, where you'll see a lot of that and
you won't necessarily notice it unless your dog starts to
bite at their foot or starts to limp, or it
starts to swell something like that. The pods in the
(03:45):
nose are a whole nother thing that's hard to notice
unless it stays in there a little while. It attaches
to the interior of your dog's nose. Your dogs have
some inflammation or infection because of that, and then your
dog starts to sneeze, rubbing their nose, you know, coughing, whatever.
(04:06):
Those are some things to think about or when when
you're in a situation where your dog spends a lot
of time in those weeds. Hunters know, especially if you've
been in a hunting situation like pheasant hunting, you're doing
nothing but following a dog that's you can basically see
zero percent of the time because the weeds are so
(04:26):
high and their head is down and they're in the weeds.
So those dogs are really really susceptible to issues like that.
So it's important to be aware of your dog condition
and be able to handle situations if if we have
a situation arises, So it's a good first first aid
kit for your dog would include the following things. One
(04:50):
gauze rap Okay, a lot of people call it. It's
the stretchy gauze, the you know the vet rap or
you know the sports rap, all that stuff. Get a
couple of rolls of that. That's stuff we can use
for just about anything, as far as wrapping a wound,
as far as turning it into a muzzle and wrapping
your dog's nose if they're injured. Look, when your dog's
(05:11):
injured and you're trying to help them, ninety percent of
the time, if they're in pain, they don't care if
you're their owner or not. They're going to lash out
a little bit. So it's important to have that gauze
around to wrap that nose if we need to. But
it's a stretchy gauze. It works really well for a
lot of different issues. A pair of forceps, okay, like
(05:32):
surgical forceps. In case you see a thorn in the pad,
or you might see some foxtail in the roof of
their mouth or something like that, you can get in there,
get that picked out and get that taken care of. Scissors,
medical tape, a bottle of peroxide, and a syringe, like
(05:54):
a not just the small vaccination syringe, but maybe a
little bit bigger syringe. Side number one is a great
anti bacterial agent. Number two. If your dog ingest something
swallows something, uh, you know that they we we don't
want them to swallow. No, not necessarily a hard object,
(06:14):
but something uh that that we need to get back
right away. Peroxide works good to help make your dog vomit. Okay,
cap full or two will cause your dog to vomit.
Vomit up. What we whatever that was that they swallowed
that we didn't want them to swallow. Maybe it was
a squirrel, who knows, but anyways, that's that's something to
(06:34):
always have a bottle of on hand in cases like that.
Forceps for the ticks. You'll see ticks. I still see
ticks this time of year. We had some the other day.
Cotton swabs, you know, nail clippers. Okay, that probably the
number one thing we deal with, uh, injury wise with
(06:57):
pet dogs at home, normal dogs and hunting dogs, is
they get out and they break a nail and they
break it back towards the pad of the foot and
it's back where the nerve is. And that's a real,
real problem. Number one. Number two, it bleeds like crazy.
So keeping some steptic powder in that first aid kit
is key to that. That rap is key to that
(07:21):
a lot of times. The best you can do and
the best prevention for that, is make sure your dog's
nails are trimmed as short as they can be trimmed
before you go honting. We talked about that in a
couple episodes ago, using the Dremmel tool to grind them down. Whatever.
Short nails don't break as much as long nails do
(07:41):
get caught in things. If your dog has what are
called dew claws on their back leg, Okay, it's those
toes that are halfway up their leg or a third
of the way up their leg, and they're kind of
floppy and they still grow a toenail and everything else.
Most hunting dogs have those removed when they're young, but
a lot of a lot of dogs that just are
(08:02):
normal at home, they still have those do claws, and
those things get caught in just about everything. So it's
important to have a nail aspect to your first aid kit,
and that'd be a good pair of nail clippers and
stiptic powder and that gauze and that goes good with that.
Rags towels have on hand during the hot part of
(08:26):
the season, you know, just like we've talked about with
heat exhaustion, that's important. We can wet down some towels
with water and cool the dog down with or we
can you know, just like everything else, rags, you can
wipe them off this time of year, after our hot summer,
very little rain. Most standing water now is nothing but
(08:48):
basically as cesspool. Yeah okay, And if your dog goes
in that after something, if your dog swallows a bunch
of that, going in that after something, the mud, whatever,
they run the possibility of dealing with a couple different
waterborne issues like giardia or swallowing something they're not supposed
to there also, so it's important to monitor them if
(09:09):
they're in that type of environment for the next couple
of days and monitor their stool. A lot of times
the first sign of bacterial infection like giardia comes from
loose stool vomiting those type of things, so it's important
if that's the environment that they're in a lot of
that you really pay attention to that and maybe get
(09:30):
that stool checked by your veterinarian so you can start
on some medication in that case, pet CPR is something
that you can learn. I believe most places that teach CPR,
like the Red Cross also have something as far as
pet CPR, or they can send you in the direction
of pet CPR. So you get a dog that's usually
(09:52):
hanging around by the fireplace or on the couch for
eleven months out of the year, and you take them
on a beautiful fall running through the woods, and all
of a sudden he passes out and he has an issue. Yeah,
CPR is key in that case. Okay, Exercise induced collapse
(10:13):
is actually a physical ailment that's very common to hunting
breeds like Labrador retrievers or other retrievers. So it's important
to if you have that breed, or if you have
a dog that has had that in their line, to
get yourself educated on some pet CPR. Your dog doesn't
(10:34):
realize how much energy they're exerting when they're out there,
so it's important for you to know what to do
in that situation. A lot of times, you know, certain
dogs may get hypoglycemic, hypoglycemic beating they're out there running wild,
and you know, just like when people get hypoglycemic, they
(10:55):
lose energy they run down. In a kit like this,
the first aid kit, I might put a small jar
of honey in there, okay, just like with people, you know,
with me, a Snickers bar kind of kicks me up
for yeah, it's a little while or whatever. But a
little pure honey is known to be a good thing
(11:15):
to battle hypoglycemia in your dog without having really any
issue in that case. But it's important to kind of
throw think about that kind of stuff also and get
that in your kit. Stung by a bee, all right,
or getting into something that causes your dog to go
into anaphylactic shock or swelling or whatever, usually the answer
(11:38):
to that is an anahistamine. So having some liquid benedrill
on hand in that kit would be key. The normal
dosage you always check with your veterinarian as far as
the dosage and everything. But the normal dosage that most
people use with benadrill and a dog is milligram per pound, okay,
(11:59):
and that tends to be at the lower end of
the scale, but the safest end of the scale. And
if your dog gets a bee up the nose, which
most often if dogs are going to get stung by bees, hornets, anything,
like that. It's usually on the nose. Yeah, okay, in
the place where if you're out hunting and they have
a lot of venomous snakes, okay, just like you're going
(12:22):
to worry about getting a bit by a snake, your
dog's probably going to find a snake first. So it's
important to know what you need to do in cases
like that as far as snake bite. A lot of
times you can just call your veterinarian and say, look,
this is the environment we're in. Is there anything I
need to think about. Hunters usually have a pretty good
network and pretty good information network on all these things
(12:44):
that other hunters face, so they're pretty well informed with that.
But folks who like to get their dogs out in
the wild area and they're not out there a lot,
they don't have necessarily the same type of network. So
it's important to kind of know the environment, know the area,
you know, before you just go out there willy nilly
and run your dog crazy.
Speaker 1 (13:05):
Yeah that's some really good advice. I mean, all of
that is so important. And you think about that, you
think that maybe it's not a bad idea that before
you get your dog out into that that you make
sure you go see the vet and go through maybe
that annual physical before you start doing any of that work.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Well, it's always yeah, it's always important when you're out
in the out in the big world to make sure
vaccines are up to date. Get your annual physical, get
your dog's annual physical. Yeah, absolutely, and get out there
and enjoy the outside world. But a lot of times
the dogs that don't have a lot of experience in that,
and people same way that don't have a lot of
(13:44):
experience in that, it becomes kind of a dangerous situation
if you're not aware of things.
Speaker 1 (13:49):
Yeah, no question. Tell everybody how they can hook up
with the Edgefield Animal Care Center.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
Edgefield Animal Care Center is a family pet care business.
We've been in business in the mary And Ohio Central
Ohio area for almost fifty years. We are a full
service veterinary hospital, boarding, grooming, training, and daycare. We have
that also just about everything you need all in one place.
Easiest way to get all our information about everything we
(14:16):
do and then all the Dog Professor podcasts is go
to our website Edgefieldanimalcare dot com.
Speaker 1 (14:23):
Some great stuff and you will find the Dog Professor podcast.
Wherever you find your favorite podcasts, including on the iHeart app,
and once you find it there, make sure you hit
follows so you get a notification every time we post
a new
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I’m Jay Shetty host of On Purpose the worlds #1 Mental Health podcast and I’m so grateful you found us. I started this podcast 5 years ago to invite you into conversations and workshops that are designed to help make you happier, healthier and more healed. I believe that when you (yes you) feel seen, heard and understood you’re able to deal with relationship struggles, work challenges and life’s ups and downs with more ease and grace. I interview experts, celebrities, thought leaders and athletes so that we can grow our mindset, build better habits and uncover a side of them we’ve never seen before. New episodes every Monday and Friday. Your support means the world to me and I don’t take it for granted — click the follow button and leave a review to help us spread the love with On Purpose. I can’t wait for you to listen to your first or 500th episode!