May 22, 2025 • 31 mins
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So you know, first of all, I always say, you know, weatherwise,
here we are in LA and I was just telling Mark,
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our producer who's based in Florida. They're used to the
warm weather pretty much even during the winter, and we
were talking about rain here in La. We had not
such a great great April a you know April, we
say April showers, We get that. But yesterday it was
the first day that we really had sunshine here in Maine.
It was what yesterday was the tenth and now it's great.
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So today here in La says to make you jealous.
First of all, gorgeous blue skies. It's going to be
eighty three here in La, eighty eight or ninety in
the valley. And so that is really really great. So
I'm waving to those who joined those of you at
first timers. If you have any kind of questions, now
this's time to ask. We would love to hear what
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you any issues you have. So I had a great
The main reason was that, you know, I post, as
you know on Instagram, I post a lot of my
surgeries and love doing surgery, love seft tassue, love cancer surgery.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So I had two.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean first, besides the fact I said, we had
free sistotomies removing stones out of a bladder in the
last three weeks, which is not unusual. Me I'll do
maybe I don't know. Five a year. I had three
in three weeks, and I have another one coming up.
I think, sadly it's another cat. One of the three
was a cat, and this is a cat that already
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had what's called a pu.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What is it pu?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
When you have male cats, typically female cats don't block
as much as males. Why because the opening of the
urethrap okay, at the vaginal canal is much wider than
a male's, so males usually plug that stone can leave,
the bladder starts coursing through that in your eath. You're
ready to come out, and all of a sudden, boom
gets plugged. We have to do as we catharize, then
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try to push it back into the bladder and try.
Depending on what it is, some of the diets can
be somewhat still dissolving. It helps a little, sometimes it works.
Usually still we're gonna have to go in. That'sally if
it's a big stone. Anyway, this cat presents again not
only he materia, which means bleeding out of the penis,
but it doesn't even have one anymore, because the last
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time it was so small that this cat blocked a
few times they did what's called a pu, A paraneal
your a thrust to me, that's where they literally and guys,
don't hold your feet together and cringe. They actually amputate
the penis and they go all the way back to
this gland and that's where you want to remove it
and then open up. Basically, you change the male's plumbing
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into a female and it's called it as your athrostomy.
You open it up, you pull the urethra out a
little bit, and you sew to the outside at the
same area where it would have been, but now it's
much wider and they can still they can do everything
they can. Well obviously, oh these cats have been neuter anyway,
so it doesn't make a difference. So this one had
the pu might appear on yourthrostomy and well is past
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stones again and they're big enough. I don't think they're
going to pass. So now what does that mean? That
means that we are BacT to another surgery. What's so
sad about these cases are? And this is the take
home lesson. If you have a dog or a cat
that is a stone farmer that means form stones and
your veterinarian tells you you need to change the diet
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to one of these special diets. You gotta do it
because so far now we might be two of the
three that I did, they were redos redoing because a
year later in the case that we had last week,
the diet was never changed, even though they came back
like a midway point. I asked, I said, so that's
a dog doing on the diet and the new diet
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you we didn't we didn't try it yet. I don't
think myself, what you didn't try it? I mean, how
do you expect to make a change. So sure enough
Stone Farmer again now unfortunately, but they got it and
they're going to change the diet. So so that's what's
going on with this cat. But I had two cases
that were both as I posted.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
One was Barney.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now, Barney had this huge tumor on his album sixteen
year Old Large Redog. I mean, that's that's pretty amazing
by itself, but it was getting bigger based on his
feel and its location on an extremity probably something called
Hamanngio Perry's Sitouma. And you know, they are very aggressive locally,
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they have a very low metastatic potential that means probably
not going to spread to the loyal liver and lungs.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
So it was like, now what do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So we convinced them owners because it was getting bigger
and it was starting to affect his nobility, let me
take it out.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So I got as much I could. They're very, very
very difficult to get all.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Because they're so intertwined with this issue. It's really really bad. Anyway,
we had it coming Friday for follow up. Took the
bandage off. It looks amazing and he is doing so well.
And the good news sea is he's coming back is
probably Tuesday one. We'renn take the stitches out. But for me,
you know, as a bed on the area, as a surgeon,
knowing that these hands are helping this dog. He look,
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I can't promise he's going to make it to seventeen
or eighteens, sixteen. He's already way past his longevity statistical longevity.
But he's doing great. His blood's were fine, your analysis,
everything was good. I said, come on, we got to
do it. If he looks this good on the insight,
he will tolerate the anissect very well.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Which he did.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So now it's just good knowing that I can't predict
when's he going to go. It might be a year,
might be more, might be less, but I will tell
you it's not going to be because of that to
him and that to me, that brings a lot of joy.
Steph Iya, how are you so question from let's see Potter?
You got to help me on this one. Petter Algiro,
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that's a good one. You have to tell me what
it is. Potter means father, I know that in Latin.
But my three year old cat has always had very
loose tools. Is there a foody, a conrect commend that
might help? She's currently getting Kirkland salmon fila maintenance. Well,
loose tools can be a number of things, number of reasons,
sometimes just simple adding some fiber to the diet. I
mean a cat an eighth of a teaspoon of silium
husk powder pure silium husk. Do not give the silium
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that is artificially sweetened, because that potentially could be an
artificial sweetener like xylotol, which is terrible, well, not trouble
for us, terrible for cats. So anyway, we do not
want to use that. And or adding a little cooked
oat meal or can pumpkin if that doesn't work. I
sometimes put these cats on flagile metronitisol again a small
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amount and see if that works. You know, typically it
could be something else that the cat is eating. If
that's all he's eating, nothing else and everything else is cool.
Is when we see this soft stool and the cat
that is otherwise okay, good appetite, right, good coat, active, animated, Everything.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Else is normal.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So it's just localized to probably the colon. So we say, okay,
he's got this colitis. Nerves, stress, anxiety, excitement, diet, diet change,
parasites unlikely to vi real cap but if he hasn't
had a fecal sample in a while, it would be
worth just to rule it out before you start worrying
about some sort of food hypersensitivity. Now, if all that
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is negative, you cannot come up with anything else, then yes,
I would recommend slowly trying to switch on to a
different diet. And if it is a diet related problem,
hopefully it'll resolve. But the only way to test it,
but first I would rule out other things because that
you know, salmon is probably good. It's a feline maintenance diet.
It's a kirkling. I know people are saying, oh, and
all of that stuff is crap, And is it the
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best food out there as far as ingredients and the
way it's made.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
But you know a lot of these commercial foods you
have to go through a lot of testing, AFTCO, certification,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So I wouldn't jump to that yet.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But again, it wouldn't surprise me after all that it
turns out to be just a food hypersensitivity, or more
specifically that food hypersensitivity. However, I would not jump to
another salmon diet. I would jump to something else first.
All right, hello, steph Okay, Now, the warm weather. We
talked about it just a little bit ago. Eighty three
degrees here. That kind of brings me to a subject
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that we need to obviously discuss. It's great that here
it is in May, we're already talking about it. Hopefully
it'll be a lesson throughout the summer. But we really
do need to treat our animals in this heat differently
than we would otherwise. So too cold, those of you
who live in climates where it gets below zero, I know, Minnesota, Illinois,
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I mean it gets pretty cold.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Kansas.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I've been there in the winter February and Kansas City
not nice, not good. I mean, when I was walking
three blocks and when I got to my destination, I
had to feel my ears. I felt like they were
going to crack off. Then you know it's cold. Well,
it's also that cold for our pets. So just like
we have a lot of precautions during the cold weather,
here's some hot weather precautions. Number One, exercise a lot
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of these animals, a lot of you. It's nice outside,
you want to get out. You want to work off
the excess winter weight that you may have put on,
And same thing with your pets. First of all, you
don't go from zero to sixty all right in one day,
so you got to paste it and slowly gradually get
them back into their routine.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
There's some routine.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Number Two, you don't do it in the heat of
the day. I haven't seen too many animals come in
with heatstroke because of they're running the trails at noon
or one or two o'clock or three o'clock in the afternoon,
So that's not a good idea. When you do exercise them,
you want to do it early in the morning, late
in the evening, and you want to make sure you
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have plenty of water with you and take plenty of stops.
It's very important take some stops. Let them have a break.
That's good for them as well. Now, also just remember
another couple of things. Let me just wave for you
guys here all right, Luise, Hello, Okay, if you need
to give fleam edge here around a just mind, we'll
talk about that in a minute. Oh go, we got
some questions coming in, so maybe let's talk to these
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questions because then we'll complete and we make it to
some of these answers.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Things that I want to talk about in these questions.
Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But so far is plenty of water early and late
in the afternoon. You got to read them, by the way.
You gotta read when they are starting to pant. Remember
FESSI dogs, they love us, they want to be with us.
They will do anything we want them to do, and
they will actually over exert just to satisfy that need.
So you got to be really careful read your pet
to learn. Watch the tongue, watch the panting, take a
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break with them. See if they continue to pant aggressively.
Make sure you have water with them. What I like
to do sometimes is I take like a bandana, I
wet it, roll it up and stick it in the
freezer overnight. In the morning before the walk, I wrap
it around their neck and tie it and then it'll
just add some chilling and it seems to keep them
a little more calm. But again, the water is essential.
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Foot protection essential foot protection is also essential. Let's talk
about that after a couple of these questions. So do
we need fleam edge year round or just when it's warm, Well,
really that depends on the fleet population. Typically in many
climates we don't see a lot of fleas during the winter,
even here in LA when it's not freezing cold, but
we see a drop in flea population. Now, if you're
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in the southeast, if you're down in Texas, if you're
in Florida and run the Gulf coasts Louisiana, you have
fleas year round and you should never stop flea treatment. Now,
having said that, the same thing goes because you have
fleas and ticks. Now, if you're an area where ticks
aren't afraid of cold weather, so you still might get
a lot of tick disease during the winter, in which
case you want to continue throughout the year. And lastly,
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heartworm if you're going to get either one of the
newer eieshocks, azoleine treatments which are Next Guard, Simperico or
Cordelio pervectos. Also they have vectos that doesn't have one
for heartworm, but you can get Next Guard or Next
Guard plus Cordelia or Cordelio plus, Simparico or Simperica trio,
the plus plus and the trio that takes here as fleas,
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ticks and heartworm. So again, warmer weather, moist weather, humidity.
So up in the northeast, for example, where you have
tons of mosquitoes, we're starting to see more more mosquitos
here in La as well. Then you want to get
a trio. And during the warmer weathers or the climate,
you want to make sure that you're doing then for sure.
And if fleas take some mosquitoes are year round, then
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your protection needs to be year round. So as I said,
it all depends on where you live in what kind
of threat you have during the different seasons. So if
a threat is seasonal, you can use the medication seasonally,
but if the threat is year round, you got to
use the ear Around twelve year old female dog keeps
getting irritated in your vaginal area, red and crusty and
smells and he okay, So cushings test because the skin
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issues is not my first thought. Excessive water drinking and
excessive peeing, that's my first thought. And then I would
do a blood test and if the alkaline phosphatas is
very high, then yes, why I consider cushings as a
rule out just bad skin, I would say allergy. But
here's what we see in when we have this kind
of dermatitis in the vaginal area, we call it vulvar
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fold hioderma. That is an infection deep in the vulvar folds.
Because when you have a dog that is either overweight
or just has prominent vulvar folds inside around the vulva,
it's dark, it's moist, and it's a perfect environment for
easton deck carrier. So you need to first of all
check that if you stick your finger in there, and
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I know it's gross, but there's something called soap and water,
so if you have to, you can wash your hands afterwards.
And if you feel a moisteness like stickiness and you
have a lot of black debris or dark renfigures, it's
vulvar fold biodharma. And that's what I be treating now.
If we have dogs that are not overweight and are
always getting its volvo fl polyderma, then we have to
do a vulvar fold plastic, which is we reduce the
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vulvar fold. It's a plastic surgery procedure. Most veterinarians should
be able to do it. Unfortunately many won't. I'm not
going to get into a discussion about the lack of
surgical training a lot of our new graduates are getting.
But it's not a difficult surgery. And if there's concern
and your veterinarian doesn't do it, take it to a
surgeon or find a veterinarian that does so. What it
does basically, it reduces the depth of those volvar folds.
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Now another thing you can do is, if you want
to work with it again, treat allergy side a point
apple quill or old fashioned corticosteroid antibiotic for sure, And
for those I really like either some sort of anti fungal,
anti bacterial, something with schlorhexidine and ketoconazole. I for example,
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have a spray called dermamist. I also have my derma
wipes which have both of those ingredients. For that reason,
we see a lot of this and also neopreedaf powder
and not getting page produced any to endorse these. Well,
maybe on my product I am, but not the Neopredaft.
It's fantastic. It's a powder you kind of take your fingers,
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you spread the folds open a little bit and put
this powder around. It's anti inflammatory, it's anti itch, it's drying,
it's antibacterial, it's anti fungal. It's got it all and
it really helps those areas as well. So one hundred
percent I would recommend that okay, And cushings only if
the dog is If all that fails and the dog
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is has a high alcin faster any dairy eye, it
could be eight hundred and nine one thousand or more.
And you're coming not because of the valagin a problem.
You're coming because my dog doesn't stop drinking water and
it's peeing all over the place. That ivy thinking of
cushings or of course diabetes or kidney problems. All right,
is it okay to keep a tu shirt on your
dog to cover up stitches? Does that cause a problem
to heal and popts and an air little orange?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
C's okay?
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We're talking about baby teeth and neutering, so I like
for all the teeth to be and unfortunately the large
breeds and giant breath don't usually get deciduous teeth, so
it's less common to have to worry about it. So
I then look at how badly misplaced is the adult tooth.
If it is badly misplaced, we got to get the
baby tooth out of the way and give the chance
of the adult tooth to go back into normal position.
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If it's really not that badly displaced, then I would
wait until I can do them all in one sitting
or wait till neutering. With the large breeds, if I
do have one, I may recommend six eight months or so,
taking the baby and then still coming back because the
anesthesia for deciduous teeth is really quick, so it's not
like it's a long procedure. So I would probably do that.
But you know, every case is individual. It depends on
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a lot of factors. So but neutering, there you go.
Small breeds, it can be really anytime after they're fully mature.
Big breeds, I like to wait until they are built
fully mature, but it might be a year to year
and a half a large breeze, and it could be
up to two years in a giant breed. Okay, now
let's go back to some great questions from El Luis
pat Rescue. VICKI always has good questions for me. Is
there okay to keep a T shirt on your dog
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to cover stitches? It won't a pede healing because T
shirts are loose, it's not good and pedealing at all.
But because it's lose, it may also not keep the
animal away from licking. So it's a double edged swords.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
There. Is it convenient? Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Is it less obtrusive for the dog, and yes, because
they can still get around it pretty easily. It's not
going to confine them. We want them, and it's going
to really protect the incisions. And it may not do
such a great job, however, it is easier for you.
And because it is not as confining, then the dog
seems to like it better. All right, we have palm
trees and my dog keeps eating the little orange seeds.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Your dog mostly. I can't it what you would do?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You know what, I'm not sure exactly those little palm
seeds how toxic they are. If they're swallowing them, and
they can swallow a bunch at once, I'd worry more
of an impaction than I wore to toxic. I don't
think they're toxic, but that's something I would even have
to look up. You can go to a toxicology if
they're a toxicology website, or ask Google. All right, are
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orange palm seeds toxic to pets? A lot of things
we try to avoid are not that they're toxic, but
they're irritative to the gastro intestinal trap, meaning could cause vomiting,
could cause impaction if they're clumped up together. But it's
not like a poison, So that would be my answer
for that. One necessary to give your dog the lepto shot.
What are side effects?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
So all the vaccines leptoi, it's very personal. I look
at the lifestyle. For me, except for a couple of
years ago here in La it wasn't lifestyle because they
were finding hotst of lepto. Cases of dogs are just
going to parks because of the rat feces, so you
haven't seen many cases. I personally do not do my dogs.
If dogs are hiking, if they're going places where they're streamed,
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either in canyons or in the mountains, and there are
a lot of wild animals, wild rodents that might be
urinating and defecating around streams, and the stool in the
urine gets into the streams, then the dog going dreams
though stream water, then yes, I would protect them against lepto.
We don't see it very often. It is very serious.
I've had a number of cases back a few years ago.
Fortunly they're all still alive. Some of them still have
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an active tighter and we have to keep an eye
on the kidneys because it definitely caused kidney problems. So
That would be my criteria. What is your lifestyle Do
you take your dogs to these areas where the disease
is prevalent because of these wild animals and wild rodents.
If the answer to that is yes, then the lepto
vaccine is a necessity. If it's not, then don't now
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side effects. It seems, even though they've claimed a lot
of the companies claim that the nectro shot has gotten
so much better than it, doesn't call it. I've seen
a lot of dogs that will have a day or
two of soreness. I have never, in all my years,
seen a dog die from a lecto shot. So get
that out of here system.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Google says it's that dangerous. No, doctor, Google doesn't know
if there was one death, and therefore you have to
report it and Google gets a hold of it, and
all these people talk about the other people about what
they read on Google.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That's how it expands into like fear. But there's no doubt.
I get call some people after a lepto shot. My
dog's depressed, he doesn't want to eat, and it goes
on for a few days.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Not the worst.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
So I would not use only the post op potential
problem as an excuse not to get it. If your
dog is going to be exposed, why because the lepto
SHOT's not going to kill him, but lepto can. So
it's you got to do the right thing. So we
got them all. We got them all, the palm tree seeds,
the lepto shot. Uh right, all right, Janice JB. How
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you doing any other questions?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ask away? We got three minutes, so all right, let
me there was.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
One thing I wanted to talk about, and unless we
get a question that I will do that first.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Okay, the question is it's not me a question.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I get it a lot of questions in my practice,
and I always like to share because I guarantee if
I'm getting them, you're thinking about them. And that is
food allergy. How many times the animal people come in
and they're concerned about food alogy? Why is on the
internet it talks about all these food allergies. So let
me give you what I know. And again things can change,
and probably so foods can more frequently cause a GI
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upset than actual skin allergy. So keep that in mind.
When I'm talking about food allergies. They're going to divide
it into allergies that are affecting the skin and allergies
that are affecting the gi trap and the treatments are
unfortunately pretty much the same but so critical signs of
food allergy. As far as skin, you're going to notice
an animal that first of all is chewing its feet,
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especially front feet, licking like crazy, but enough that we
see saliva staining. I have a lot of people to
come in with dogs with just licking their feet, almost
like an ail bier or a thumbsucker. They just it
soothes them, It gives them some mental relief. That's non
allergy food allergy. Dogs that have true food allergy that
also often you might catch them rubbing at their face
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or dragging their face against the carpet or a wall.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And lastly ears, so food face and ears, those are
the things that we most commonly see in dogs that
are food allergies and most importantly non seasonal. Why because
unless you're changing your dog's food every season, okay, and
you're probably eating the same thing if it was true
food allergy but only happened started April, May, June, July, August, whatever,
it's not food Because why atopy atopic dermatitis okay, which
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is the inhaled allergen dermatitis much more common. That is
seasonal and also could be lictric ear, terrible ears, ears
and overlap ears, get both and even chewing the feet,
so you gotta be really careful. Dermatologists say that fifteen,
maybe max twenty percent of all skin allergies are actually
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food related. That means eighty to eighty five percent are not.
So don't just jump to food allergy now. If it is,
if you have everything that completely fits the bill, it's
all year round, it's feed ears, rubbing the face, all right,
then I would.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Look at the food. So a couple of things we know.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
It seems like the most common proteins that are implicated
in food allergies are your poultry it's so ticket and
turkey beef. Okay, keep that in mind. And as far
as grains is corn, wheat and rice. So the first
thing you want to do is look for foods. And
the same thing, by the way, let's talk about the
GI allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, Okay, things like that. Those
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also could be food related, and we want to get
them on hypoallergenic diets, single antigen diets and best could
be both, but it's not only single aanagen, but it's
either low fat and it is HA which is hypoalergenic,
or HP hydrolyzed protein. So they're what we're looking at.
We're looking at low anigen diets and single protein, single
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grain or a single car But it could be a vegetable,
it could be a fruit, it could be an actual grain.
Things that the body has never been exposed to before.
It's really hard to be allergic to something if the
body has never seen it before, such as and you're
gonna some of these are kind of wacko venison, bison, rabbit, alligator, kangaroo, salmon.
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Most of the time, tilapia cod duck is a good one,
so whitness last time a dog eate kangaroo or alligator.
So you're looking for weird proteins. So chances are they
won't have signs of allergy. At least it could happen
six or eight months later. They can develop analogy. They've
already shown that they have that sensitivity. However, it's going
to be a while. As far as great again, you
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want to avoid the cornba so you're can look it
things like barley, oats, sweet potato, potato, quinoa, so again
things that they've probably never seen, or green pea and
broccoli cauliflower.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So you can look for foods that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Have really weird, unique combination that the body has never
been exposed to before and put them on that minimum
minimum six weeks, might take eight. Well, here's the key
during this food trial as we call it, called them
elimination trial. If we truly suspect food allergy, it's going
to take a while to see a result. And that
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means also means six eight weeks. And also you got
to watch the treat that you give. The treats they
have to be the same as the food. So if
you're going to buy a cod based or a venison
based or a rabbit based type, you need to get
rabbits treats, rabbit or venison treats the same things, the
same protein and very small amount, and don't mix it
with something else.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
It's the biggest mistake.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
A lot of people make the food, They feed the
right food, but then they're going back to the regular
treats and guess what, there's chicken or beef in the treats. Well, yeah,
that's not going to work. So you've got to be really,
really strict. That's my recommendation. How long can ibdcat be imbudesciinie.
That's a great question. So first all, we love being estaite.
It's a steroid that a lot of us are using
over predice own or a cat pritness alone, And it
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really depends on I liked it. We start every day,
then we try to go to every other day, and
I would just do routine lab tests maybe every twelve,
sixteen weeks or four months, whatever, and just make sure
that their values the liver values. One good thing about
a cat when it comes to cats and steroids is
they can tolerate these.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Steroids way better than dogs.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So it's almost and don't get this the wrong way,
they can tolerate almost as I care with reckless abandon
They seem to do so much better than dogs do
on steroids. We don't see the same side effects, and
they do tolerate the steroids. But even still, sometimes we
can't see how the liver is doing on an outward sign.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So I would still.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Monitor their bloods, and if their bloods are fine, they're
doing fine, they're still maintaining their appetite, et cetera. Then
I would just try decreasing as much as you can see.
If you do it every other day, every third day,
you get to a point where youding b neestla every
third day, there's very little damage to be able to do.
You still monitor, but that's what I recommend.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
If you stop and like after a day, and they start,
then then you know you got some issues. Do you
think apple cider vinegar with water can help with feet
licking they cleaned with after a walk, Well, that's a
really good question. If we think that the chewing is
because of cleanliness or picking up some bacteria or something.
I don't imagine it could help personally. I've never tried
it myself, so I can't tell you. I can't even
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tell you how it tastes. But you're gonna baterly gonna
lick for feet. If it also helps prevent them from
linking their feet, ah, that's a good thing too. So
there's no downside to it. There's nothing toxic a poisonous
about it. So I would try it and if it works, fantastic,
and if it doesn't work, you could say at least
I try it. All right, Okay, I think there you go, Julia,
So I see a lot of names I've not seen before.
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the after serve. Oh the other surger I was going
to tell you about was amazing and if you've seen
I posted pictures, they were really gross. I even warned
everybody be careful. That was a dog. His name was Brian,
and Brian was bitten. It was my rescue went to
a first foster was bitten pretty badly, but they didn't
know because it was long hair. Foster had him. He
wasn't doing great. You'll know why in a minute. Went
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back to the rescue and then to another foster. The
other foster noted this swelling around his neck and when
he was feeling it, he looked at his hands and
it was like a gross discharge. So he brought him
in and the prost discharge was draining two holes. They
said he was trying to get under a fence and
they have cut himself. No, no, no, two holes like that. That
is a dog bite.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
From one or the other. Somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
This dog was bitten because of the long hair. Was
never really determined why or that it was even there
until it blew up. So we knew we had to
open up put some drains in. Well, no, that wasn't enough.
Check my instagram you're going to see what it looked like.
It was absolutely disgusting. We had to cut away so
much tissue, so much necrotic dead tissue and smelly and
(30:28):
plus pockets. It was just disgusting and horrendous for Ryan.
So we started on drew heavy duty antibotics. Cleaned out
as much as we could, freshen the edges of this
of this disgusting wound. Put suitus in, put a drain in.
We just pulled a drain Friday. You would not believe
what this thing looks like now. It is unreal. You
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would never in a million years imagine from what we
did now what it looks like now and what it
looked like when we started.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It is night and day.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So I'm of pictures that we took on Friday, still
not one hundred percent heeled.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
We're going to see you next week for the suser and mooval.
There's one little.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Spot near where one of the drain put in that
is still It may needed just a little refreshing of
the tissue. We call deep writing and then a couple
of suitors, but overall it's a new dog and again
thinking about what we can do to help these animals.
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I do. See you next week.
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So you know, first of all, I always say, you know, weatherwise,
here we are in LA and I was just telling Mark,
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our producer who's based in Florida. They're used to the
warm weather pretty much even during the winter, and we
were talking about rain here in La. We had not
such a great great April a you know April, we
say April showers, We get that. But yesterday it was
the first day that we really had sunshine here in Maine.
It was what yesterday was the tenth and now it's great.
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So today here in La says to make you jealous.
First of all, gorgeous blue skies. It's going to be
eighty three here in La, eighty eight or ninety in
the valley. And so that is really really great. So
I'm waving to those who joined those of you at
first timers. If you have any kind of questions, now
this's time to ask. We would love to hear what
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you any issues you have. So I had a great
The main reason was that, you know, I post, as
you know on Instagram, I post a lot of my
surgeries and love doing surgery, love seft tassue, love cancer surgery.
Speaker 1 (02:08):
So I had two.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
I mean first, besides the fact I said, we had
free sistotomies removing stones out of a bladder in the
last three weeks, which is not unusual. Me I'll do
maybe I don't know. Five a year. I had three
in three weeks, and I have another one coming up.
I think, sadly it's another cat. One of the three
was a cat, and this is a cat that already
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had what's called a pu.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
What is it pu?
Speaker 2 (02:34):
When you have male cats, typically female cats don't block
as much as males. Why because the opening of the
urethrap okay, at the vaginal canal is much wider than
a male's, so males usually plug that stone can leave,
the bladder starts coursing through that in your eath. You're
ready to come out, and all of a sudden, boom
gets plugged. We have to do as we catharize, then
(02:54):
try to push it back into the bladder and try.
Depending on what it is, some of the diets can
be somewhat still dissolving. It helps a little, sometimes it works.
Usually still we're gonna have to go in. That'sally if
it's a big stone. Anyway, this cat presents again not
only he materia, which means bleeding out of the penis,
but it doesn't even have one anymore, because the last
(03:15):
time it was so small that this cat blocked a
few times they did what's called a pu, A paraneal
your a thrust to me, that's where they literally and guys,
don't hold your feet together and cringe. They actually amputate
the penis and they go all the way back to
this gland and that's where you want to remove it
and then open up. Basically, you change the male's plumbing
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into a female and it's called it as your athrostomy.
You open it up, you pull the urethra out a
little bit, and you sew to the outside at the
same area where it would have been, but now it's
much wider and they can still they can do everything
they can. Well obviously, oh these cats have been neuter anyway,
so it doesn't make a difference. So this one had
the pu might appear on yourthrostomy and well is past
(04:00):
stones again and they're big enough. I don't think they're
going to pass. So now what does that mean? That
means that we are BacT to another surgery. What's so
sad about these cases are? And this is the take
home lesson. If you have a dog or a cat
that is a stone farmer that means form stones and
your veterinarian tells you you need to change the diet
(04:20):
to one of these special diets. You gotta do it
because so far now we might be two of the
three that I did, they were redos redoing because a
year later in the case that we had last week,
the diet was never changed, even though they came back
like a midway point. I asked, I said, so that's
a dog doing on the diet and the new diet
(04:42):
you we didn't we didn't try it yet. I don't
think myself, what you didn't try it? I mean, how
do you expect to make a change. So sure enough
Stone Farmer again now unfortunately, but they got it and
they're going to change the diet. So so that's what's
going on with this cat. But I had two cases
that were both as I posted.
Speaker 1 (05:03):
One was Barney.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
Now, Barney had this huge tumor on his album sixteen
year Old Large Redog. I mean, that's that's pretty amazing
by itself, but it was getting bigger based on his
feel and its location on an extremity probably something called
Hamanngio Perry's Sitouma. And you know, they are very aggressive locally,
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they have a very low metastatic potential that means probably
not going to spread to the loyal liver and lungs.
Speaker 1 (05:33):
So it was like, now what do you do?
Speaker 2 (05:35):
So we convinced them owners because it was getting bigger
and it was starting to affect his nobility, let me
take it out.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So I got as much I could. They're very, very
very difficult to get all.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
Because they're so intertwined with this issue. It's really really bad. Anyway,
we had it coming Friday for follow up. Took the
bandage off. It looks amazing and he is doing so well.
And the good news sea is he's coming back is
probably Tuesday one. We'renn take the stitches out. But for me,
you know, as a bed on the area, as a surgeon,
knowing that these hands are helping this dog. He look,
(06:07):
I can't promise he's going to make it to seventeen
or eighteens, sixteen. He's already way past his longevity statistical longevity.
But he's doing great. His blood's were fine, your analysis,
everything was good. I said, come on, we got to
do it. If he looks this good on the insight,
he will tolerate the anissect very well.
Speaker 1 (06:24):
Which he did.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
So now it's just good knowing that I can't predict
when's he going to go. It might be a year,
might be more, might be less, but I will tell
you it's not going to be because of that to
him and that to me, that brings a lot of joy.
Steph Iya, how are you so question from let's see Potter?
You got to help me on this one. Petter Algiro,
(06:45):
that's a good one. You have to tell me what
it is. Potter means father, I know that in Latin.
But my three year old cat has always had very
loose tools. Is there a foody, a conrect commend that
might help? She's currently getting Kirkland salmon fila maintenance. Well,
loose tools can be a number of things, number of reasons,
sometimes just simple adding some fiber to the diet. I
mean a cat an eighth of a teaspoon of silium
husk powder pure silium husk. Do not give the silium
(07:08):
that is artificially sweetened, because that potentially could be an
artificial sweetener like xylotol, which is terrible, well, not trouble
for us, terrible for cats. So anyway, we do not
want to use that. And or adding a little cooked
oat meal or can pumpkin if that doesn't work. I
sometimes put these cats on flagile metronitisol again a small
(07:28):
amount and see if that works. You know, typically it
could be something else that the cat is eating. If
that's all he's eating, nothing else and everything else is cool.
Is when we see this soft stool and the cat
that is otherwise okay, good appetite, right, good coat, active, animated, Everything.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Else is normal.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
So it's just localized to probably the colon. So we say, okay,
he's got this colitis. Nerves, stress, anxiety, excitement, diet, diet change,
parasites unlikely to vi real cap but if he hasn't
had a fecal sample in a while, it would be
worth just to rule it out before you start worrying
about some sort of food hypersensitivity. Now, if all that
(08:09):
is negative, you cannot come up with anything else, then yes,
I would recommend slowly trying to switch on to a
different diet. And if it is a diet related problem,
hopefully it'll resolve. But the only way to test it,
but first I would rule out other things because that
you know, salmon is probably good. It's a feline maintenance diet.
It's a kirkling. I know people are saying, oh, and
all of that stuff is crap, And is it the
(08:30):
best food out there as far as ingredients and the
way it's made.
Speaker 1 (08:33):
Probably not.
Speaker 2 (08:34):
But you know a lot of these commercial foods you
have to go through a lot of testing, AFTCO, certification,
et cetera.
Speaker 1 (08:40):
So I wouldn't jump to that yet.
Speaker 2 (08:42):
But again, it wouldn't surprise me after all that it
turns out to be just a food hypersensitivity, or more
specifically that food hypersensitivity. However, I would not jump to
another salmon diet. I would jump to something else first.
All right, hello, steph Okay, Now, the warm weather. We
talked about it just a little bit ago. Eighty three
degrees here. That kind of brings me to a subject
(09:05):
that we need to obviously discuss. It's great that here
it is in May, we're already talking about it. Hopefully
it'll be a lesson throughout the summer. But we really
do need to treat our animals in this heat differently
than we would otherwise. So too cold, those of you
who live in climates where it gets below zero, I know, Minnesota, Illinois,
(09:26):
I mean it gets pretty cold.
Speaker 1 (09:28):
Kansas.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
I've been there in the winter February and Kansas City
not nice, not good. I mean, when I was walking
three blocks and when I got to my destination, I
had to feel my ears. I felt like they were
going to crack off. Then you know it's cold. Well,
it's also that cold for our pets. So just like
we have a lot of precautions during the cold weather,
here's some hot weather precautions. Number One, exercise a lot
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of these animals, a lot of you. It's nice outside,
you want to get out. You want to work off
the excess winter weight that you may have put on,
And same thing with your pets. First of all, you
don't go from zero to sixty all right in one day,
so you got to paste it and slowly gradually get
them back into their routine.
Speaker 1 (10:10):
There's some routine.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Number Two, you don't do it in the heat of
the day. I haven't seen too many animals come in
with heatstroke because of they're running the trails at noon
or one or two o'clock or three o'clock in the afternoon,
So that's not a good idea. When you do exercise them,
you want to do it early in the morning, late
in the evening, and you want to make sure you
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have plenty of water with you and take plenty of stops.
It's very important take some stops. Let them have a break.
That's good for them as well. Now, also just remember
another couple of things. Let me just wave for you
guys here all right, Luise, Hello, Okay, if you need
to give fleam edge here around a just mind, we'll
talk about that in a minute. Oh go, we got
some questions coming in, so maybe let's talk to these
(10:53):
questions because then we'll complete and we make it to
some of these answers.
Speaker 1 (10:57):
Things that I want to talk about in these questions.
Talk about that.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
But so far is plenty of water early and late
in the afternoon. You got to read them, by the way.
You gotta read when they are starting to pant. Remember
FESSI dogs, they love us, they want to be with us.
They will do anything we want them to do, and
they will actually over exert just to satisfy that need.
So you got to be really careful read your pet
to learn. Watch the tongue, watch the panting, take a
(11:22):
break with them. See if they continue to pant aggressively.
Make sure you have water with them. What I like
to do sometimes is I take like a bandana, I
wet it, roll it up and stick it in the
freezer overnight. In the morning before the walk, I wrap
it around their neck and tie it and then it'll
just add some chilling and it seems to keep them
a little more calm. But again, the water is essential.
(11:42):
Foot protection essential foot protection is also essential. Let's talk
about that after a couple of these questions. So do
we need fleam edge year round or just when it's warm, Well,
really that depends on the fleet population. Typically in many
climates we don't see a lot of fleas during the winter,
even here in LA when it's not freezing cold, but
we see a drop in flea population. Now, if you're
(12:04):
in the southeast, if you're down in Texas, if you're
in Florida and run the Gulf coasts Louisiana, you have
fleas year round and you should never stop flea treatment. Now,
having said that, the same thing goes because you have
fleas and ticks. Now, if you're an area where ticks
aren't afraid of cold weather, so you still might get
a lot of tick disease during the winter, in which
case you want to continue throughout the year. And lastly,
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heartworm if you're going to get either one of the
newer eieshocks, azoleine treatments which are Next Guard, Simperico or
Cordelio pervectos. Also they have vectos that doesn't have one
for heartworm, but you can get Next Guard or Next
Guard plus Cordelia or Cordelio plus, Simparico or Simperica trio,
the plus plus and the trio that takes here as fleas,
(12:47):
ticks and heartworm. So again, warmer weather, moist weather, humidity.
So up in the northeast, for example, where you have
tons of mosquitoes, we're starting to see more more mosquitos
here in La as well. Then you want to get
a trio. And during the warmer weathers or the climate,
you want to make sure that you're doing then for sure.
And if fleas take some mosquitoes are year round, then
(13:09):
your protection needs to be year round. So as I said,
it all depends on where you live in what kind
of threat you have during the different seasons. So if
a threat is seasonal, you can use the medication seasonally,
but if the threat is year round, you got to
use the ear Around twelve year old female dog keeps
getting irritated in your vaginal area, red and crusty and
smells and he okay, So cushings test because the skin
(13:30):
issues is not my first thought. Excessive water drinking and
excessive peeing, that's my first thought. And then I would
do a blood test and if the alkaline phosphatas is
very high, then yes, why I consider cushings as a
rule out just bad skin, I would say allergy. But
here's what we see in when we have this kind
of dermatitis in the vaginal area, we call it vulvar
(13:53):
fold hioderma. That is an infection deep in the vulvar folds.
Because when you have a dog that is either overweight
or just has prominent vulvar folds inside around the vulva,
it's dark, it's moist, and it's a perfect environment for
easton deck carrier. So you need to first of all
check that if you stick your finger in there, and
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I know it's gross, but there's something called soap and water,
so if you have to, you can wash your hands afterwards.
And if you feel a moisteness like stickiness and you
have a lot of black debris or dark renfigures, it's
vulvar fold biodharma. And that's what I be treating now.
If we have dogs that are not overweight and are
always getting its volvo fl polyderma, then we have to
do a vulvar fold plastic, which is we reduce the
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vulvar fold. It's a plastic surgery procedure. Most veterinarians should
be able to do it. Unfortunately many won't. I'm not
going to get into a discussion about the lack of
surgical training a lot of our new graduates are getting.
But it's not a difficult surgery. And if there's concern
and your veterinarian doesn't do it, take it to a
surgeon or find a veterinarian that does so. What it
does basically, it reduces the depth of those volvar folds.
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Now another thing you can do is, if you want
to work with it again, treat allergy side a point
apple quill or old fashioned corticosteroid antibiotic for sure, And
for those I really like either some sort of anti fungal,
anti bacterial, something with schlorhexidine and ketoconazole. I for example,
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have a spray called dermamist. I also have my derma
wipes which have both of those ingredients. For that reason,
we see a lot of this and also neopreedaf powder
and not getting page produced any to endorse these. Well,
maybe on my product I am, but not the Neopredaft.
It's fantastic. It's a powder you kind of take your fingers,
(15:45):
you spread the folds open a little bit and put
this powder around. It's anti inflammatory, it's anti itch, it's drying,
it's antibacterial, it's anti fungal. It's got it all and
it really helps those areas as well. So one hundred
percent I would recommend that okay, And cushings only if
the dog is If all that fails and the dog
(16:05):
is has a high alcin faster any dairy eye, it
could be eight hundred and nine one thousand or more.
And you're coming not because of the valagin a problem.
You're coming because my dog doesn't stop drinking water and
it's peeing all over the place. That ivy thinking of
cushings or of course diabetes or kidney problems. All right,
is it okay to keep a tu shirt on your
dog to cover up stitches? Does that cause a problem
to heal and popts and an air little orange?
Speaker 1 (16:27):
C's okay?
Speaker 2 (16:27):
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We're talking about baby teeth and neutering, so I like
for all the teeth to be and unfortunately the large
breeds and giant breath don't usually get deciduous teeth, so
it's less common to have to worry about it. So
I then look at how badly misplaced is the adult tooth.
If it is badly misplaced, we got to get the
baby tooth out of the way and give the chance
of the adult tooth to go back into normal position.
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If it's really not that badly displaced, then I would
wait until I can do them all in one sitting
or wait till neutering. With the large breeds, if I
do have one, I may recommend six eight months or so,
taking the baby and then still coming back because the
anesthesia for deciduous teeth is really quick, so it's not
like it's a long procedure. So I would probably do that.
But you know, every case is individual. It depends on
(17:59):
a lot of factors. So but neutering, there you go.
Small breeds, it can be really anytime after they're fully mature.
Big breeds, I like to wait until they are built
fully mature, but it might be a year to year
and a half a large breeze, and it could be
up to two years in a giant breed. Okay, now
let's go back to some great questions from El Luis
pat Rescue. VICKI always has good questions for me. Is
there okay to keep a T shirt on your dog
(18:20):
to cover stitches? It won't a pede healing because T
shirts are loose, it's not good and pedealing at all.
But because it's lose, it may also not keep the
animal away from licking. So it's a double edged swords.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
There. Is it convenient? Yes?
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Is it less obtrusive for the dog, and yes, because
they can still get around it pretty easily. It's not
going to confine them. We want them, and it's going
to really protect the incisions. And it may not do
such a great job, however, it is easier for you.
And because it is not as confining, then the dog
seems to like it better. All right, we have palm
trees and my dog keeps eating the little orange seeds.
Speaker 1 (18:55):
Your dog mostly. I can't it what you would do?
Speaker 2 (18:57):
You know what, I'm not sure exactly those little palm
seeds how toxic they are. If they're swallowing them, and
they can swallow a bunch at once, I'd worry more
of an impaction than I wore to toxic. I don't
think they're toxic, but that's something I would even have
to look up. You can go to a toxicology if
they're a toxicology website, or ask Google. All right, are
(19:18):
orange palm seeds toxic to pets? A lot of things
we try to avoid are not that they're toxic, but
they're irritative to the gastro intestinal trap, meaning could cause vomiting,
could cause impaction if they're clumped up together. But it's
not like a poison, So that would be my answer
for that. One necessary to give your dog the lepto shot.
What are side effects?
Speaker 1 (19:38):
All right?
Speaker 2 (19:39):
So all the vaccines leptoi, it's very personal. I look
at the lifestyle. For me, except for a couple of
years ago here in La it wasn't lifestyle because they
were finding hotst of lepto. Cases of dogs are just
going to parks because of the rat feces, so you
haven't seen many cases. I personally do not do my dogs.
If dogs are hiking, if they're going places where they're streamed,
(20:00):
either in canyons or in the mountains, and there are
a lot of wild animals, wild rodents that might be
urinating and defecating around streams, and the stool in the
urine gets into the streams, then the dog going dreams
though stream water, then yes, I would protect them against lepto.
We don't see it very often. It is very serious.
I've had a number of cases back a few years ago.
Fortunly they're all still alive. Some of them still have
(20:22):
an active tighter and we have to keep an eye
on the kidneys because it definitely caused kidney problems. So
That would be my criteria. What is your lifestyle Do
you take your dogs to these areas where the disease
is prevalent because of these wild animals and wild rodents.
If the answer to that is yes, then the lepto
vaccine is a necessity. If it's not, then don't now
(20:43):
side effects. It seems, even though they've claimed a lot
of the companies claim that the nectro shot has gotten
so much better than it, doesn't call it. I've seen
a lot of dogs that will have a day or
two of soreness. I have never, in all my years,
seen a dog die from a lecto shot. So get
that out of here system.
Speaker 1 (21:00):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
Google says it's that dangerous. No, doctor, Google doesn't know
if there was one death, and therefore you have to
report it and Google gets a hold of it, and
all these people talk about the other people about what
they read on Google.
Speaker 1 (21:13):
Doctor.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
That's how it expands into like fear. But there's no doubt.
I get call some people after a lepto shot. My
dog's depressed, he doesn't want to eat, and it goes
on for a few days.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
Not the worst.
Speaker 2 (21:24):
So I would not use only the post op potential
problem as an excuse not to get it. If your
dog is going to be exposed, why because the lepto
SHOT's not going to kill him, but lepto can. So
it's you got to do the right thing. So we
got them all. We got them all, the palm tree seeds,
the lepto shot. Uh right, all right, Janice JB. How
(21:44):
you doing any other questions?
Speaker 1 (21:46):
Ask away? We got three minutes, so all right, let
me there was.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
One thing I wanted to talk about, and unless we
get a question that I will do that first.
Speaker 1 (21:56):
Okay, the question is it's not me a question.
Speaker 2 (21:59):
I get it a lot of questions in my practice,
and I always like to share because I guarantee if
I'm getting them, you're thinking about them. And that is
food allergy. How many times the animal people come in
and they're concerned about food alogy? Why is on the
internet it talks about all these food allergies. So let
me give you what I know. And again things can change,
and probably so foods can more frequently cause a GI
(22:24):
upset than actual skin allergy. So keep that in mind.
When I'm talking about food allergies. They're going to divide
it into allergies that are affecting the skin and allergies
that are affecting the gi trap and the treatments are
unfortunately pretty much the same but so critical signs of
food allergy. As far as skin, you're going to notice
an animal that first of all is chewing its feet,
(22:45):
especially front feet, licking like crazy, but enough that we
see saliva staining. I have a lot of people to
come in with dogs with just licking their feet, almost
like an ail bier or a thumbsucker. They just it
soothes them, It gives them some mental relief. That's non
allergy food allergy. Dogs that have true food allergy that
also often you might catch them rubbing at their face
(23:06):
or dragging their face against the carpet or a wall.
Speaker 1 (23:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (23:10):
And lastly ears, so food face and ears, those are
the things that we most commonly see in dogs that
are food allergies and most importantly non seasonal. Why because
unless you're changing your dog's food every season, okay, and
you're probably eating the same thing if it was true
food allergy but only happened started April, May, June, July, August, whatever,
it's not food Because why atopy atopic dermatitis okay, which
(23:35):
is the inhaled allergen dermatitis much more common. That is
seasonal and also could be lictric ear, terrible ears, ears
and overlap ears, get both and even chewing the feet,
so you gotta be really careful. Dermatologists say that fifteen,
maybe max twenty percent of all skin allergies are actually
(23:56):
food related. That means eighty to eighty five percent are not.
So don't just jump to food allergy now. If it is,
if you have everything that completely fits the bill, it's
all year round, it's feed ears, rubbing the face, all right,
then I would.
Speaker 1 (24:12):
Look at the food. So a couple of things we know.
Speaker 2 (24:14):
It seems like the most common proteins that are implicated
in food allergies are your poultry it's so ticket and
turkey beef. Okay, keep that in mind. And as far
as grains is corn, wheat and rice. So the first
thing you want to do is look for foods. And
the same thing, by the way, let's talk about the
GI allergies, inflammatory bowel disease, Okay, things like that. Those
(24:36):
also could be food related, and we want to get
them on hypoallergenic diets, single antigen diets and best could
be both, but it's not only single aanagen, but it's
either low fat and it is HA which is hypoalergenic,
or HP hydrolyzed protein. So they're what we're looking at.
We're looking at low anigen diets and single protein, single
(24:59):
grain or a single car But it could be a vegetable,
it could be a fruit, it could be an actual grain.
Things that the body has never been exposed to before.
It's really hard to be allergic to something if the
body has never seen it before, such as and you're
gonna some of these are kind of wacko venison, bison, rabbit, alligator, kangaroo, salmon.
(25:19):
Most of the time, tilapia cod duck is a good one,
so whitness last time a dog eate kangaroo or alligator.
So you're looking for weird proteins. So chances are they
won't have signs of allergy. At least it could happen
six or eight months later. They can develop analogy. They've
already shown that they have that sensitivity. However, it's going
to be a while. As far as great again, you
(25:41):
want to avoid the cornba so you're can look it
things like barley, oats, sweet potato, potato, quinoa, so again
things that they've probably never seen, or green pea and
broccoli cauliflower.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
So you can look for foods that.
Speaker 2 (25:56):
Have really weird, unique combination that the body has never
been exposed to before and put them on that minimum
minimum six weeks, might take eight. Well, here's the key
during this food trial as we call it, called them
elimination trial. If we truly suspect food allergy, it's going
to take a while to see a result. And that
(26:17):
means also means six eight weeks. And also you got
to watch the treat that you give. The treats they
have to be the same as the food. So if
you're going to buy a cod based or a venison
based or a rabbit based type, you need to get
rabbits treats, rabbit or venison treats the same things, the
same protein and very small amount, and don't mix it
with something else.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
It's the biggest mistake.
Speaker 2 (26:36):
A lot of people make the food, They feed the
right food, but then they're going back to the regular
treats and guess what, there's chicken or beef in the treats. Well, yeah,
that's not going to work. So you've got to be really,
really strict. That's my recommendation. How long can ibdcat be imbudesciinie.
That's a great question. So first all, we love being estaite.
It's a steroid that a lot of us are using
over predice own or a cat pritness alone, And it
(27:00):
really depends on I liked it. We start every day,
then we try to go to every other day, and
I would just do routine lab tests maybe every twelve,
sixteen weeks or four months, whatever, and just make sure
that their values the liver values. One good thing about
a cat when it comes to cats and steroids is
they can tolerate these.
Speaker 1 (27:18):
Steroids way better than dogs.
Speaker 2 (27:20):
So it's almost and don't get this the wrong way,
they can tolerate almost as I care with reckless abandon
They seem to do so much better than dogs do
on steroids. We don't see the same side effects, and
they do tolerate the steroids. But even still, sometimes we
can't see how the liver is doing on an outward sign.
Speaker 1 (27:38):
So I would still.
Speaker 2 (27:39):
Monitor their bloods, and if their bloods are fine, they're
doing fine, they're still maintaining their appetite, et cetera. Then
I would just try decreasing as much as you can see.
If you do it every other day, every third day,
you get to a point where youding b neestla every
third day, there's very little damage to be able to do.
You still monitor, but that's what I recommend.
Speaker 1 (27:57):
Now.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
If you stop and like after a day, and they start,
then then you know you got some issues. Do you
think apple cider vinegar with water can help with feet
licking they cleaned with after a walk, Well, that's a
really good question. If we think that the chewing is
because of cleanliness or picking up some bacteria or something.
I don't imagine it could help personally. I've never tried
it myself, so I can't tell you. I can't even
(28:17):
tell you how it tastes. But you're gonna baterly gonna
lick for feet. If it also helps prevent them from
linking their feet, ah, that's a good thing too. So
there's no downside to it. There's nothing toxic a poisonous
about it. So I would try it and if it works, fantastic,
and if it doesn't work, you could say at least
I try it. All right, Okay, I think there you go, Julia,
So I see a lot of names I've not seen before.
(28:40):
Thank you for joining me. Please tell your friends I'm
here every Sunday morning, same time, same channel. If you
have questions, reach out to me during the week we
get a great subject for me to talk about. And
if not, if you want to wait until the show
is live, then you can go ahead and ask me
your questions, et cetera. Would love to answer them help
you out. So once again, you can reach me verbs
Underscore DVM here on Instagram. You can reach me on
(29:00):
doctor Jeff at Petlafe radio dot com, and that's here
on Instagram. And other than that, I think that's it.
That's all we have time for. So again, tell your
friends that if they were first of all, I would
love to have them join me. And just check into
my Instagram only because I post really cool stuff. I
get a lot of good feedback, especially my surgeries and
(29:21):
the after serve. Oh the other surger I was going
to tell you about was amazing and if you've seen
I posted pictures, they were really gross. I even warned
everybody be careful. That was a dog. His name was Brian,
and Brian was bitten. It was my rescue went to
a first foster was bitten pretty badly, but they didn't
know because it was long hair. Foster had him. He
wasn't doing great. You'll know why in a minute. Went
(29:44):
back to the rescue and then to another foster. The
other foster noted this swelling around his neck and when
he was feeling it, he looked at his hands and
it was like a gross discharge. So he brought him
in and the prost discharge was draining two holes. They
said he was trying to get under a fence and
they have cut himself. No, no, no, two holes like that. That
is a dog bite.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
From one or the other. Somewhere along the line.
Speaker 2 (30:05):
This dog was bitten because of the long hair. Was
never really determined why or that it was even there
until it blew up. So we knew we had to
open up put some drains in. Well, no, that wasn't enough.
Check my instagram you're going to see what it looked like.
It was absolutely disgusting. We had to cut away so
much tissue, so much necrotic dead tissue and smelly and
(30:28):
plus pockets. It was just disgusting and horrendous for Ryan.
So we started on drew heavy duty antibotics. Cleaned out
as much as we could, freshen the edges of this
of this disgusting wound. Put suitus in, put a drain in.
We just pulled a drain Friday. You would not believe
what this thing looks like now. It is unreal. You
(30:50):
would never in a million years imagine from what we
did now what it looks like now and what it
looked like when we started.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
It is night and day.
Speaker 2 (30:59):
So I'm of pictures that we took on Friday, still
not one hundred percent heeled.
Speaker 1 (31:03):
We're going to see you next week for the suser and mooval.
There's one little.
Speaker 2 (31:06):
Spot near where one of the drain put in that
is still It may needed just a little refreshing of
the tissue. We call deep writing and then a couple
of suitors, but overall it's a new dog and again
thinking about what we can do to help these animals.
Speaker 1 (31:21):
And this is why I get so excited about what
I do. See you next week.
Speaker 3 (31:26):
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