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Speaker 1 (00:04):
Welcome to Tail Talk
Grooming Chronicles with Hound
Therapy, the podcast where wetalk all things pet grooming,
daycare academy and more.
Hosted by Shannon and Tanya ofHound Therapy serving pet owners
across North Texas, we're hereto share expert tips, hilarious
pet stories and the inside scoopon keeping your furry friends
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happy and healthy.
Our motto humanity over vanity.
And don't worry, we don't bite.
Let's get started.
Who let the dogs out?
Speaker 2 (00:37):
Who let the dogs out
Before the suds and snips.
There's one crucial step thatprotects pets and groomers alike
.
Shannon and Tanya explain whyvaccinations matter.
Welcome back everyone.
I'm Sofia Yvette, co-host andproducer, back in the studio
with Shannon and Tanya,professional groomers at Hound
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Therapy.
How's it going today, ladies?
It's good, sofia, thanks forbeing here today.
Yeah, it's great to be backwith you guys today.
Now let's go ahead and get intoit.
Why are vaccinations soimportant before a pet's first
grooming?
Speaker 3 (01:15):
Well, I would say
they're 100% good for all
groomings.
Most doggy daycares orveterinary you can get your dog
groomed at several places.
Most anywhere you go to getyour dog groomed is going to
require you to at least have ayearly shot of.
You know the basics, which isthe DHPPV, which is parvo
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distemper lepto.
You've got a rabies vaccine.
Some of the rabies vaccines canbe three years.
We always refer to whatever thevet labeled it, as these things
are all very easily contagiousfrom dog to dog.
Now the first round of puppyshots it's four rounds.
So when we say your firstgrooming should be in four
months, it's because it usuallytakes about four months.
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It can be five before a puppycan get all their shots.
It depends on when you got themand where you got them from.
I've seen some vets.
It also requires on the weightof the puppy.
Yeah and yeah, if they'rereally little, they don't want
to.
You know, give them too muchtoo soon.
So it's kind of like our flushots is.
You know it's putting thestrain of whatever it is you're
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giving them into their body.
I am a huge fan of holistic,where you can use it and you
know, not pumping.
You know your animals full ofstuff.
But I also don't want smallpox,so you know I go ahead and get
vaccinated for that.
It's been proven to work.
These vaccines that are foryour animals have been given for
years and years and years.
And you know, I think up untilrecently there has not been an
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outbreak of rabies in dogs, forsure in our area.
But I heard someplace recently,I think.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Austin.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Maybe it was from a
bat, I believe had three cases
of rabies in a dog, which is forme that's a huge amount.
You can get rabies from a lotof different skunks and bats,
things that are out if you liveout in the country, but if your
dog is vaccinated for them, thelikelihood of them getting that
or contracting it are prettyslim.
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It's important for us here thatyour animals are on it when
they're young and when they'relittle, especially if you're
traveling around, if you'regoing anywhere.
But we don't want our animalsthat are elderly, who may not be
able to continue on with theirshots, we don't want them
exposed to the viruses that youknow these animals carry from
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being out and about.
And I hear a lot of people saywell, my, my animal never goes
anywhere.
You know we don't do anything.
Completely a myth, yeah, I mean, people come over.
You know a lot of that, parvo,it's, it's from, you know, pcs,
and if they've stepped in itsomewhere, if they went to a dog
park they came in and your doglikes it, then it's just highly,
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highly contagious.
So we, we don't want, and weunderstand that Some dogs reach
a certain age and they can'thandle it anymore or they've got
an immune system problem.
Those dogs here.
We do them straight through sothat they're not here very often
, but we keep our surfaces asclean as we possibly can.
We don't have any surfaces inour facility that would harbor
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any type of disease as well.
So a lot of people you know,look at it.
If you've got wood kennels, ifyou've got, you know, cages that
are not easily wiped out, ifyou've got a tile, the little
square tiles, those are allplaces where diseases can can
lay in wait and grow, especiallyif it gets warm or hot.
And you know, another dog comesby, steps in it licks his paw
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and now that dog is sick.
I actually have a client that'shere that their dog had lepto.
I haven't heard of a dog havinglepto in a very, very long time
.
They were going to a holisticvet and they were being seen by
the vet.
They thought they were doingeverything that they should have
done, but they were alsoventuring out to dog parks on a
weekly excursion just to lettheir dog run and they really
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thought that their dog wasprotected and it wasn't at all.
I ended up coming down withthis.
They really couldn't tell whichis very, very sick, dehydrated,
couldn't eat.
They went to a different vetbecause their current vet didn't
really have.
You know, they try to holisticthings as let's try this, let's
try that.
By the time she went to aregular MD vet and I'm not
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saying that holistic vets aren'tMDs, because they can be but
she went to a just a normalWestern doctor that believes in
vaccines and they were able togive them fluids and they were
able to determine that this waslepto and they were able to get
the dog back from it.
But but he almost died.
And that's just from.
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It's not even really lack ofknowledge, it's just hey, they
didn't have it.
There's two things that are very, very similar kennel cough and
and the canine flu.
Most people, most vets andboarding facilities, will
require you to have that everysix months.
That it's an inner nasal, it'sjust some wet drops that go on
your nose.
It's not even a shot, but whatit does is it boosts that immune
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system and it helps you from.
They're both very similar.
They're viral and they'rethey're spread through diseases
like sneezing.
It's through the mucus, fromsneezing or licking, you know,
chewing on something that issaliva.
All of those things is howthat's transmitted.
Dogs are kind of like children.
They're gross.
They share everything?
Yes, they do, they do so, andthere's two shots.
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Right, there's a shot as well.
So there's two things that youcan do to prevent that from
happening, and we've had thathappen here before, where
somebody has gone someplace elseand everybody in here has
Bordetella, bordetella,bordetella.
We require it every six monthsbecause we feel like that
booster does it.
It's a good immune booster, asdo most vets and most boarding
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facilities.
Some will require it every yearwith their regular vaccines,
but we do it on a regular basis.
That said, we had an outbreakhere.
It was years ago and it was notkennel cough.
There was 15 dogs that wereaffected.
We know exactly when it came in, we know who brought it in and
it took two weeks becausethere's an incubation period.
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Long story short is that Iended up taking my dog to the
vet and we did eye swabs, nasalswabs, ear swabs, and we ran
everything for a ton of money.
Later we were able to determinethat it was, in fact, not
kennel cough, but it was the flu, and you know.
My question to the vet was youknow, I've done everything I can
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do to make sure that everyanimal that comes in here is
safe.
I've done what I can do, youknow, per recommendations of
giving these shots and you know,giving these these intranasal
things and making sure that myanimal can go places and not get
sick.
And here she is sick with 15other dogs and you know this is
a problem for me.
I'm going to need somebody toreason this for me, and the
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reason was it's they presentthemselves very, very similarly.
Yeah, and they both got a cough, they both got sneezing.
They can both kill your dog,depending on the immune system.
It's usually for older dogs.
Younger dogs fight these thingsoff much quicker, but they're
also the biggest carriersbecause you know they're into
everything and you know theyjust they're at the vet more
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often and they go more places.
So, long story short, it was forsure the flu.
They gave me the exact samestuff that they give you if
she'd had cow cough, but she forthe first time, and you would
think I would know better.
I had switched vets and the vetthat I went to I went for her
yearly shots did not give herthe flu vaccine and I called
them and I said you know whathappened, what's going on?
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And she said oh well, we don'toffer that Some vets.
Still to this day they don't.
It's a costly vaccine and it's,I believe, that it's got a
shorter shelf life than most.
So if they don't use it or theycan't sell it, they're not
going to give it and it doesn'tmake it cost effective for them
to carry it.
So you need to ask specifically.
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You've got to advocate for yourdog.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
I mean you have to if
you think something looks wrong
, if you've got allergies, youknow.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
yeah, you know, keep
them on a heartworm.
You know these are all things.
We give these, we recommendthem.
It's not so that we can makemore money, because we get
nothing out of it, but it's notso vets can just say, oh yeah,
we want to charge more and ithas nothing to do with that.
It's a very proven fact thatwithout these, these dogs come
up sick and when they becomesick then they can pass that on.
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You know we've all experiencedthis whole covid.
You know era, and it's shouldhave hopefully brought some
things home for people that youknow diseases are spread and
when they're not, when theydon't have a vaccine, history
has taught us the same thing.
It affects everybody and it cango worldwide and it's no
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different than dogs.
So if you are going all towardsholistic and we're no longer
going to vaccinate these animalsand I'm not spitting the extra
to get my dog roomed Well, ifyour dog is around other dogs
and whether they're next toanother dog here or not, we do
dogs, that's what we do.
This is out, this is out ofyour house, so they are being
exposed.
If people come over, they'rebeing exposed.
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If you've got a cat that comesfrom your neighbor's yard to
your yard.
Your dog is being exposed.
There's human to animal.
Squirrels, raccoons, possums,anything, any animal, All of
those things, snakes, these areall things they have.
They have a thousand differentthings they can give your animal
, based on where it's going andwhat it's doing to prevent it
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and keep it safe and healthy.
I'm just going to touch reallyquick.
There are also human and animaltransmitted diseases.
So you know, we can give dogssome things and dogs can give us
some things.
One of those most common thingsis ringworm and I just like to
get cats get those more oftenthan dogs.
They're just out and about.
Speaker 2 (10:54):
I've had it.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
It's not fun, it
itches.
My son has had it.
He had it in his head and hestill has a scar there from 30
years ago.
It's a real life.
You know transmittable diseasethat animals can give humans,
and there's many, many more.
So the more reason to protectyour animals.
You know you don't want fleasin your house.
Keep them on flea intakepreventative Mosquitoes.
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Keep them on.
You know any kind of repellentfrom bugs.
Don't keep them infested.
If they eat certain things theycan get worms.
We have heartworm medicine.
We've got tapeworm medicine.
We have all of these thingsbecause dogs get them.
They've been proven and they'vedied from them before.
And what we don't want to do isexpose animals who cannot have
them, because there are ahandful of animals who just
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can't tolerate them, due towhatever kind of a Medical old
yeah, can't tolerate them due towhatever kind of a yeah,
several situations that theyjust, you know they're not able
to do that.
So we do our best to protecteverybody the best way that we
can, and for sure, ourselves.
And my dog comes to work withme every day.
So I definitely don't want mydog to get sick and then bring
it home to my cat and then youknow it's it's just, it's not
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ideal.
So I guess the takeaway here isjust be aware, do the homework.
There's a lot of things thatyou can cut out.
Yes, you can do really goodfoods.
You can make a lot of stuffyourself.
Not doing your shots is not agreat way to save money, and
vaccines may be expensive, butit's cheaper than the
alternative.
Speaker 2 (12:21):
So we hope that
answers some of your questions
the alternative.
So we hope that answers some ofyour questions Most definitely,
and thank you so much forbreaking that down for us on how
to keep the pets safe today andthe benefits of one clear shot.
I can tell it really does leadto a lifetime of love and safety
.
We'll catch you next time.
Thanks, have a great day.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
Safety, we'll catch
you next time.
Thanks, have a great day.
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