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Speaker 1 (00:02):
Is pet Life Radio. Let's Talk Pets. Hello, Hello, Hello,
(00:24):
Happy Sunday. I hope you all had a good Fourth
of July. Safe. I hope your pets were safe. You know,
it's funny in all the years of Fourth July, and
I've had many, many, many dogs over the years, including
five now, and I have my dogs have never had
the problem with the with the noise of the sound
of fact, I leave outside fine there, it's like never happened.
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So I guess in that in that regard, I'm pretty lucky.
But I heard of something really cool. So you may
have heard this. I didn't know because i've it's been
new to me. Apparently they have these kind of noise
reducing heads answer almost like an earphone that you could
put over your dog. And I guess it must kind of,
you know, kind of a soft wrap around the head
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with some noise reducing sub product or fabric something right
that fits over their ears. And so one of my
clients let me know that he tried it and it works.
He said it was great. So I never heard of it,
but something to look into maybe in the years next
year or two. So how I got a question is
from Francesca All right, good morning. Question. Why do you
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suggest for mail dog that he gets fixed sooner or later?
What are the risks of not having a fixed? Thank you? Okay,
so great question. And when it comes to neutering and
spaying anyway, I am an advocate. I think that it
can avoid a lot of problems in the future. There
is one breed, however, that new studies have shown that
it might actually be better not to spade uter. But
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the only breed that that holds true is the Golden Retriever. Now,
more work is being done. I know UC Davis studying
this and a couple other universities are studying it. That
there seems to be a higher prevalence of tumors in
general in these dogs in the Golden Retriever if they
are spade or newters. So that's interesting. A couple of
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things have changed over the years. Number one, we do
know that in males, and I'm gonna give you a
statistic more from the behavior side, but there are some
advantages as well, but more from the behavior side, and
that is say, be that they've shown that if one
were to make a couple of assumptions, and the assumptions
being say, half the dogs in America are male and
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half are female. Just make it simple, and let's say
half are spade neuter, half aren't. So then probably more
are spade newter than not. But let's say half half,
just to prove my point. So then in any of
the quadrants, okay, male female, spade or not spade or
not neuter, the percentage of male that are intact should
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be around twenty five percent. Okay, so right, half male,
half female, half spade, half neutered, half not neutered. So
you're looking at twenty five percent. So then statistically, if
you were to hear a statistic about the dogs that
are found dead on US roads and highways, well, we think,
just by by the numbers, quarter of them males that
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are neutered, quarter of them males not neutered, a quarter
female space, a court not space. Well guess what it is.
Seventy five percent of dogs found dead on US roads
and highways are non neutered males. What does it tell you?
It tells you that these dogs, you know, behaviorally, they
like to rome, and they're the ones that are jumping
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fences and getting out, and they're picking up the sense
of females that are in season and estris and this
is what's going on. So right there, from a safety
you know and standpoint, it's probably better to get them
spaded and neutered. Now, how about medically, if you space,
if you neuter a dog young, then you can eliminate
prostatitis anytime, anytime prostat Now, there was a study down
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about prostate cancer and it seems to be there's no
benefit or detriment either way. So I'm not going to
tell you do it. It's kind of prevent prostate cancer. Fortunately,
protect cancer is not that very common, but prostatitis inflamed
prostate which is very painful for the dog. You'll see blood,
bloody urine. This is something that seems to be how
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much higher prevalence in intact males when you new to it.
In fact, if you get a dog that persistently gets prostatitis,
first of all, you know who's probably intact. Secondly, when
we get them through this about we want to neuter. Ideally,
you don't want to neuter a dog in the middle
of a prostatitis is that can lead to what's called
prostatic cysts. We want to wait till everything goes down,
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everything is normal, and then we want to get them fixed. Now,
so there are some of your advantages. Now. Of course,
testicular cancer again it's not super prevalent, but if you
remove the test if, there's no way they can get
testicular cancer. So, and here's another one. This is important too,
that when it comes to testicular cancer, if your dog
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has what's called a mon orchid or crypt orchid, meaning
the testicles have not descended, they are somewhere in the
abdomen or in the flank. Flank testicle is not as bad,
but abdominal testicles there is, they are much a much
greater higher risk of developing cancer. Why, testicles in the
scrotum are basically subjected to ambient temperature whatever it is,
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seventy eighty whatever. But a dog's body temperature is one
hundred point five to one hundred and two point five.
That means the testicle that is in the abdomen is
subjected to that temperature, and that temperature predisposes them to
more prostatic disease, including prostatic cancer. I mean, excuse me,
testicular disease. Then that means testicular cancer. So it's something
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you really really want to know that if you are
if you have a dog that is a house dog
and you're not gonna show him, you're not going to
breed him, then, in my opinion, is better safer long
all to get him neutered. You don't want to wait
until he's a problem and then do it if you
can do it prophylactically. So and it might save their
lives because if you have a dog gets going to
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roam and gets hit by a car or you know,
in a fight with a coyote or something like that,
it could be a real problem. So I hope that
answers your question. And so, and I'm dealing with a
case now and female, I mean as well, since we're
talking about this a five year old frenchye, Well again,
five year old frenchy, I would definitely neuter. Now, one
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can argue both ways. Well, got these figures al already,
nothing's ever happened, Well it's going to happen. Well, I've
had prostate infections prostatitis come in dogs that are ten
or eleven, and at that point you really want to
get them through the about and then you want to
fix them. Well, would I rather anesthetize a five year
old dog or an eleven year old dog. So unless
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you have this dog, and I'll give another statistic. Most
legitimate breeders, I mean we're talking breeding responsible. They know
their crafts. Once their dogs hit six or seven, they're
gonna fix them anyway because they're too old to breed.
No one's gonna want to breed with a seven or
eight year old dog. Females, they're not going to do
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well anyway. So that's why. So when you know a
legitimate breeder wants to get their pets fixed and they're
making lots of boku bucks doing the breeding, those studs
go out for who knows a frenchy stud, but they
probably get I wouldn't surprise you. They get three to
five thousand dollars a breeding, so why not. But when
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they hit that certain age, they usually get them fixed.
And so females before we go into the boaz, we'll
talk about that in a second. Before we get there,
I want to talk about the females again. There are
more advantages to spaying a dog early. Unlike the male, medically,
it can be done almost any time. Females, there's the
incidents of breast cancer. Memory cancer in a female dog
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jumps up dramatically when they are intact. If you spay
them before the first heat, then the it's almost ninety
eight percent ninety five percent reduction. Risk reduction if you
let them have one and spain before the second is
about eighty eight to ninety percent, still pretty darn good.
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But after that there's no risk reduction. So you want
to get them at least before the second heat. Now,
what about other issues? Why not do them all before
the first heat? Ah, In very small breeds, then that
is still acceptable. But there are a number of studies
out now that are realizing. They're showing that there are
more problems in dogs that were spayed too early later
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on in life, and therefore they recommend letting them have
one heat, And so I'm on that. I'm in that
camp right now. Larger breeds you can, you can let them,
you can wait, let them have one heat, but spay
them before the second. Small breeds you can still. I
just wait till all their adult teeth are in, because
you don't want to knock them out twice unless there's
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severe crowding early on, and it's going to affect how
the teeth come in if you wait too long. Some
of those dogs rarely that need to have two procedures.
One as soon as the puppy tooth, the deciduous tooth
does not fall out, and you can see the adult
tooth is coming in in an abnormal position. You want
to go ahead and I get the puppy teeth out
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most of the time, to wait till like six months.
All the adult teeths to be in, and any teeth
that are still in baby teeth that are still in
by six months needs to come out anyway, so do
them at that time. Males on neutering, for example, though
larger the breed, the longer I want to wait, they
take longer to mature. They they're eat faster, but longer mature.
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So if I have a giant breed, I'll try to
keep until the year and a half, even two a
lo large breed to one one and a half, so
medium breeds one at least twelve months. But the little
guides if you want to do it earlier, you can
do it earlier. Okay, waving waving, waving behavior, And do
I see a change the behavior after operation? I usually
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don't see a change at all. And people say, yeah,
but he's such a good watch dog. Let me tell
you something if you talk too military or police departments
that use a lot of these dogs, they are the
females are just as aggressive, just as credable, So you
can't use that argument. It's not gonna work now, either
male or female, they are going to be the same.
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So I want I don't if with the hope is
they become a little more homebody, They become a little
less aggressive with other dogs, like walking them out in
the neighborhood. If there's another male dog, they should chill.
Now have I seen that my little frendsheet or one
of my little terriers. No, still as obnoxious as they come,
but they are neutered. And but sometimes it's just the
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nature of the dog, whether male female, in tax bait,
it doesn't any difference. So anyway, but overall, I do
think they mellow. They become a little bit more better
family oriented in my opinion. Okay, hippos, how do you
know if your dog has boas so boas is break
acephallic obstructive airway syndrome break. Thesephalics are the dogs with
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the pushed in faces, the Bostons, the Frenzies, the Pugs,
the English bulldogs, the Sheetsu's, the loss all those Japanese
chin all those dogs are really pushed in faces are subject.
The French bulldogs are notorious. They are probably the number
one breed to suffer from this syndrome. How do you know,
First of all, they're just their breathing. Their breathing, it's
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not like it's when they get excited, they really struggle.
They get overheated, They really struggle. Their noses are also
really pinched. If you look at their nostrils and compare
it to a normal dog, they're really like this. So
they can't even you know, do air exchange through their
nose either. So their throat, what happens is they have
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what they call laryngeal saccules are enlarged, they have elongated
soft palate, they have stenotic naaries. Okay, this all and
just the whole back of the throat is just very thickened.
Some of these things are anatomic and they also get
I often hyatl hernias. So there are so many problems
associate with these dogs. So I do the surgery the naies,
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the sacules, the soft palate. I use laser. I think
it's fantastic. A lot of doctors just still do with
good old fashioned surgery. You get bleeding, they it all stop.
They know they cut the nose. I do laser, So
laser I get. I mean I have to rarely use
the suture for laser. There's I would say ninety eight
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percent don't bleed at all. Two percent a little bleeding.
I can neither use a little epin or I'll just
put one or two sutures in. But it's very, very unusual,
So I think laser is the way to go. But
some people use electrocottery. So, but in general, it is
a very common problem in these breeds. You can tell
because they just can't breathe. And when they can't breathe
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or their breathing is labored and noisy, you know that's
the problem. So and you can just have a check out.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
One of the things I will tell you for those
of you who have these breeds and you hear the
breathing issues, you can take into your vet. Who's gonna
open the mouth and say, oh, here's the problem. They
have to be evaluated under anesthesia. So my what I
typically do. Since again some many of these dogs are
going to get spade or neutered, I will I tell
the owner. I can tell you the naries. That's the
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only thing you can see. You cannot evaluate saccules nor
elongated self palate in an awake dog, so you have
to I wait till we anesetize, and I when I
pass that endotracheal tube is when I make my judgment call.
And then I'll talk to the owner and say, Okay,
you're good or you're not good, and we take it
from there. Okay. So another thing nuts we love our
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French ya. I know Frenchies are I have Frenchies. I'm
on my third and they are. They're a unique breed,
I can tell you that. And they're getting really, really popular.
They are obviously the number one dog in the AKA
registered dog in the AKC right now. They have overtaken
the Labrador Retriever, which is pretty amazing. So and I've
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had Labage for even longer than I've have Frenchie. I fact,
I have one right now. Let's see, I want to
make sure I've waited everybody all right. What I want
to do now, because it's our halfway point in the show.
I want to take a quick break when I come back,
when you come back, I want to talk about one
thing specifically, and that is the emergencies. I want to
talk about just some of the emergency issues that we've seen.
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How many are not what you can do before spending
hours upon hours. Let's see, in a big city, my
clients tell me they've gone to an emergency clinic, and
besides the that ninety five percent of them were non emergencies,
they waited for hours, and then what happens once you're
in that clinic disturbs me greatly. So I just want
to give you guys some pointers things to think about,
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and when we come back, we will and if any
other questions think of now sitting accented to me during
the break, and we'll go from there.
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And we're back live here on dot live Radio as well,
and we're just talking about ears, ear infections, ear disease.
And there are a number of reasons. First of all,
allergy atopy inhaled allergies. How one would know whether it's
environmental allergies like pollens, weeds and trees, and what we
call atopy inhaled allergens, that is, we're going to be
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a seasonal and if it's not seasonal and it's been
all the time, there is a possibility, especially especially if
it's linked to also dogs that are rubbing their faces okay,
or they are some ears, faces and feet. They're licking
a lot at their front feet so much so that
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they're causing a a what's called a discoloration saliva staining
of the hair at the top of the feet or
underneath the paws. It's all red. They're really attacking themselves.
Those three things combined, I would say food allergy is
high on my list, and so for that we talked
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about this before starting what's called a single anigen novel
protein diet. Both of those are very important. You can't
have a food if you read the ingredients that have
three or four different grains or vegetables that have two
different protein. You can't do that. The more you put in,
the more likely one of those is going to be
allergenic to the dog. And then you're gonna blow the
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whole food because you think of the whole food is bad.
It's not. It was that one protein. So we look
for things that are single protein and novel novel meaning
new to the dog. What are some of the least
novel beef, poultry, checking turkey, why because they've been in
the foods forever. Even lamb is is getting close to that.
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So novel is gonna be something that the dog is
probably never had. And things like telapia, cod, salmon, rabbit, venison, bison, alligator, kangaroo.
I mean, there are proteins out there that are really
crazy and so but that's what you want to put
your dog on slowly, and as far as grains or
a vegetable, one thing it could be sweet potato, could
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be potato, It could be green, pea, could be kinwah,
could be barley, could be oats. So you and there
are foods out there or make it yourself, and then
once you switch over it slowly to this new single
aigen novel protein diet. Then you're going to take kritze
four to six I should say six to eight weeks
to start seeing a change. So, but it is really tough.
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Most people fail these elimination diets. Why because it's really
hard and they always cheat or they give them something
that they don't realize, like a treat. That means, if
you're gonna pick salmon, for example, every pro the eats
gotta be salmon. It can't be anything else because then
you're just kidding yourselves because you're gundral this work. Then
you give them a treat that has some chicken, they
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start going after themselves go, oh well, I was hoping
salmon work, but it didn't work. All the salmon was
working great. It was a gift fact that you give
some chicken that didn't That didn't work. So be very
very very strict with yourselves. Speak your veterinarian. There are
ways to do it, and you can also there's some
other dice out there, so you don't have to make
anything or pick your brains out. That is hydrolyzed protein okay,
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And so hydrolyzed protein is also it's not as good
as single anagen novel, but it's it's and that is
they break the proteins down, the amino acids, so they're
no longer are seen by the body by the immune
system as the culprit as allergenic. It's just pieces. And
therefore these you know, they use basically the amino acids
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are broken down before they get into the system and
therefore they're they're not as allergenic, So that is something
to know. There was a question here coup them does
the hiki bayse ear mites? So ear mites there are
I like the ivermectins. Ibromectins work really well for ear mites.
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Some of the celimectin, for example celimectin which is the
active ingredient of revolution okay or celarid product, those are
meant to be there. They're sort of newer than advantage
or I shouldn't say that, imminecloprid and fipronail. But they
are still work well with cats and not as well
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with dogs. That's why I like the new isoxazolenes for dogs,
but they are good for ear mites. So any ivermectin
product either topically we make our own using liquid ivermectin
and so we put it topically and put them on
a system a systemic treatment the celarid and that seems
to work well with ear mites. And also you've got
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to make sure to clean the ears out or your
veterinarian or your veterans technicians to clean the ears out
really really well. There's also a product called mytox my talks.
I don't think it's OTC, but you can get it,
you know, online and your your veteranet maybe a habit
and I would put some my Talks in also very
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very effective. So and fortunately most adult dogs or cats
don't get ear mites unless they're outdoor cats and they're
mingling with kittens or dogs that are mingling with going
to a daycare when there are a lot of puppies.
But most of the time the infection, the ear infection
that dogs get is often called MALAICESI it's yeast, there's all.
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There are also some bacterial infections. Pseudomonis is a biggie,
very hard. So you again, sometimes when you have persistent
ear infections, it's important to do a culture, try to
find out what it is, have done a stuicidology, see
if you're yeast because if you have really bad yeast,
most of the ear preps that we recommend have anti
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fungal anti yeast medications in them. But if it's really
bad and recurrent, a couple of things happen. Number One,
when there's a lot of swelling as well the ear
is red and inflamed, those topicals don't work as well
because they can't get to this source. The ear is
too thickened, so that's the problem. So I often recommend
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an oral product as well, flu conosol, ketoconosol, itoconozol. You
have to talk to your veterinarian. There are a lot
of good products out there that seem to be able
to kill the a malices of the yeast on the inside.
And also if it comes back bacterial, you want to
put them on antibotic as well. This is where also
if it's allergy related and you're using an isochs azolene,
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we don't usually want to use steroids. But I went
to a talk a couple of years ago one of
my favorite conferences, which is the SKICE Conference put on
by the Colorado Veteran Medical Association. SKYE is standing for
ski CEO, and it's always had a Colorado venue. I
had to miss last year because it sat right the
same time as VMX. I was so upset. But I'm
looking forward to going this year. Always last week of January,
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and it's always a great Colorado of venue. And it's
one of the things he six thirty to seven is
a low breakfast, like breakfast seven to nine, you're in session,
nine to four you're on the slopes, and then four
to six or four to seven back in session, and
then you're you're free for the evening. It's fantastic, loose casual.
Everybody has so much fun. So but the speaker was
all about allergy and ears and he was a professor
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e DVM PhD Internal medicine and dermatology. I mean, this
guy was the real deal. And he says that even
though the words out there that you're going to be
putting your dog a dog on that saxageleines, you're no
longer need the steroids, except he says, if you have
really inflamed ears, that you have in order for anything
to work, including yes SOX, yeah, got to get rid
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of the swelling. And therefore he does recommen and using
a short course of steroids to get rid of that'spregnice
own to get rid of inflammation, so everything else can
start working. So I do double up and I can
don't blame me. I can blame it on the professor
because he knows way better than I do. And yes,
it does work really well. Okay, so airmites. Let's see,
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does the Hickey brace really work from torn ligaments? Well,
you know, any any brace. I'm not familiar with that brand,
but any brace, depending on First of all, the ligaments
could be the knee, it could be I'm dealing right now,
it's a toe, so I'm putting it in a split.
So anything that's going to prevent the movement, and ideally
if it can the pressure, especially when it's a toe,
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then it's going to help. I know that. When I
have my shoulder surgery, I could not not work. I
mean there's no way I could. They want to be
to take off for two weeks and not get are
you crazy? I took off. I did a day, I
was back to work day two days later, surgery Tuesday.
Home way day back at work Thursday, and I had surgery.
So I did one of those braces that wrapped around
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my body so I could not move my My arm
was stuck to my body and I put my elbow.
I wasn't broken. That worked fine. So I had my
surgery table elevated, talked to my elbow, and I was
doing surgery. People thought I was nuts. My doctor hated me.
But good news is I healed really well. So a
hawk brace, yes, So any of those braces, and there
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are good braces now that are you can remove the velcrode.
Anything that prevents movement of that joint is that's key.
If you can somehow prevent some of the pressure, which
is very difficult in a dog. Even though they're not
using the joint, they're stepping on it. Okay, when I
had my arm, I attacked to my body with that
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brace going around me, I couldn't move my no, no,
I couldn't move my shoulder at all. And there's nothing
that puts pressures like I'm lifting weights and doing you know,
shoulder presses. So that was good. In dogs, I know
it's really difficult, but that would be ideally is to
but definitely anything that stops the movement is going to
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be helpful when it comes to ligament damage. Ah, So
Francesca think of adopting a French eye out of shelter,
but that growth in his ears. So it really depends.
First of all, chronic chronic inflammation often leads to some
sort of growth in the ear. Oftentimes, if it's fairly
accessible through a scope, then they can be removed. I
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use my electrocattery for these, sometimes laser and that opens
up the ear ear canal. When you have a very
very narrowed ear canal because of a growth taking up
that space, the diameter within the diameter of the ear canal,
they're just more predisposed to infection. You don't get ear airflow,
you get the dirt stuck in there, you get moisture
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stuck in there. It's a perfect environment for infection, especially
east infection. So those if you can access, that's great.
Now if it's really down deep, then that's a different
story because then you might have to do almost like
a procedural where you cut all the way down, you
open up the canal, you remove it. But when you
sew it back together, there could be scarring, and then
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that scarring can lead to narrowing and then you so
sometimes if it's really bad, you end up needing what's
called a lateral canal. Resection. You just remove the lateral canal.
That's something your GP should be able to do. I
do them. Or if you need what's called a TIKA,
which is the total ear canal oblation, and that would
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I don't do those. I reserve those because you got
to go way into the ear canal into the bullets,
and the bullet that requires some really fancy forwork and
skill and training and I never learned that procedure, so
I don't do it. I refer that to the Board
certified surgeons. Okay, we're enjoying good, good, good life with corgis.
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What are your thoughts and recommentions on root and something's
on senior dogs, arthritis and other aging concerns. I'm not
familiar with routin, r u T, I n I know
for for arthritis, I would certainly recommend anything glucosamine, codroyt
and non story of l antin inflammatories. There is a librella,
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which is a pain medication. That is that I would do.
But you know, first of all, on these dogs because
there are fortunately from a prior question, there are ligament issues.
There are more soft tissue strains, tendons, there's I would
always want to confirm from an X ray that there
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is ongoing arthritis. Arthritis is usually a rate of graphic interpretation.
Now sometimes you may have the indid of CT or
even an amor I because sometimes you can have subtle
arthritis that is not visible on an X ray, I
would think that if that's the case and the pain
is there, I would again, it spends how you want
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to approach it. Academically. You got to go on to
keep looking practically, which is I pride myself I'm being
a practical vet. I would say, since these seems glucosamine
harmless if the dog is healthy, already done bloods, and
a good nonstory of anti inflammatory like carprofin like a
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the deroxikib, all those other or derrek coxib. These are
non story antin inflammatories that seem to work really well.
Loxiccam which is medicam a short course in a healthy
dog with normal bloods, normal liver, I would try that
Galla galapriant. So you basically, sometimes we rule out or
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we make a diagnosis based on response to therapy, and
it's sometimes a lot cheaper as long as that therapy
is not going to be harmful. And so from a
practical standpoint. That's that's what I'd recommend. If you think
that the pain is an issue, you can try Librella.
Do your homework on Librella. There's a lot out there. Unfortunately,
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there's a lot of bad stuff. I don't buy it.
I've had I've used hundreds of doses. I had one case.
One and one percent is not bad when it comes
to reactions, and it wasn't even a serious I can
talk death and all that the classic. You know what,
I heard from an independent research company that was studying
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this that the dog who is claimed that the Librella
caused this dog to die. Two days later, when they
were sent for an independent pathology lab for an autopsy, okay,
I called the postmortem exam, they found the dog had
a splendid tumor which was obviously there for a long time,
that ruptured and this dog bled out. Had nothing to
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do with the Librella. But people love to point fingers,
so a lot of these stories you hear, and guess what,
here's another one for you. Librella. It said for arthritis pain.
How many young healthy dogs are gonna need to take Librella?
Not many, if any ah, but who needs it? It's
gonna be that older dog that's slowing down, that could
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have another dozen different problems going on. You put them
on umbrella, and three weeks later after the second they died.
Really was it the librella? I don't think so. Before
it came here, our FDA is strict as as hell,
and it was used millions of doses in Europe for
five years or whatever it was before it actually was
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approved here in the US. And their reaction rate was
less than one percent. So any drug, I mean, I've
told you this. My dad once out after you're taking
for years penicillin, had an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin and
was rushed to hospital, couldn't breathe. All right, Whose fault
is that? I would that guy that goes to a
restaurant and has an at of factor reaction to shrimp
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with no prior history, okay, And is that the restaurant's fault.
So it just really blows my mind when these people
complain I would use it. I would use it on
my own dog. And could they get a reaction, Yes,
the severe reactions of death very rare. So if it
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was really going to relieve the suffering, and I've tried
other things first, and they didn't work well or well
enough for me or more importantly for my dog, I
would use Librella. So but talk to your veterinarian. Do
your homework. Look it's easy, dope. Look at all like
legitimate sources. Okay, don't look at people lay people. Don't
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even look at holistic homeopathic vets that don't like anything Western.
Look at legitimate studies, scientific studies, peer reviewed articles from
the universities, and come up with your your decision based
on that, and then let me know. Got a collaboration
with Lynette, who's fantastic. Thank you so much. Okay, Well,
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it's a good something for senior dogs. So for senior
dogs a couple of things. First of all, a joint supplement,
especially if it's a big breed, anything with glucosamine, Condroit
and MSM. I think those are all good. One thing
that I've been using and I use it for my dog,
my almost soon to be next month, fourteen year old labrador.
He's doing great. He's on Condroy and he's on that stuff.
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But I also have him on leap ears and leap
ears is an NAD plus. I take it myself and
not no let me rephrase. I don't take leap ears
not a dog product, but I take an NAD supplemented
and the reason why I take it honestly, I was
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approached by leapyers to maybe help endorse their product, and I,
you know, like I said, in influence or whatever it means,
I'm not I don't believe myself as one, but anyway
they thought I was. So. But I'm not going to
lend my name and promote something I don't understand myself.
So I started doing some homework on this whole process
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of any D plus and the brain and the aging
and all that stuff and the focus and memory. God
to iive you that. So and I was so impressed
with the science that I look started looking for human versions.
And I take any D every day, and so I
do like leap years. It's a chew. I've yet to
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meet a dog that doesn't like it, and it seemed
to be working really well. My dog, I'm telling you,
he's an almost fourteen year old Labrador. And except for
my last lab Grover, who went to sixteen and a half,
the oldest dog I already got labrador was thirteen and
a half, and that was Woody. So I'm telling you
I am already very very impressed with it. So look
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it up see if it works for you. Take a
rous it's our e u S. I took true Niagen
also very good. The Roosts product that I take. You
look it up, RUSS Pharma, Pharmacology, something like that. You
see it. It's made in America, and I just liked
it because it was more cost effective and it had
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one extra ingredient that I liked, and it is and
it was more of the the na d the ribus
somnoid wherever the hell they call it. It actually had
more of it. So I that's what I did. All right.
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Mcore original art. You want to asking for a request
to join a lot of times people hit that and
they don't mean to hit it. So if you really,
really really think that that's what you want, then just
give me a thumbs up and I'll let you in anyway.
Where once again, I am. What about Collagen? Yeah, Collagen
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also there's some I don't I don't take it, but
I've heard good things about it, and I don't use
it for my dogs yet. But from what I read
and understand, there's no downside. I just don't know anything
about the brands. I have not done any research on
it myself, so but maybe I should. Huh D. I mean,
I got a bad right knee and I'm still playing
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basketball at seventy so, uh you know, I sometimes I
take look, I take my fair share. I take a
coach are ten, which is you know, I take my
my my glucose to me and kudroit and uh so
you know, anything that I can do to get my
free radicals under control, I'll do that. So I I
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like myself, but take I take a item in a
multi So anyway I should, I'm gonna look into it
because I hear I hear a lot of people take
college in Okay. So I've overstepped my welcome, all right.
I know that Mark is giving me those dirty looks.
So next week I'm here saying that time saying that
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they're really good. But if it's something that's really serious
or urgent, because we didn't get a chance to talk
about one of the things I wanted to talk about,
and that is what constitutes urgency. And how do I
know whether I need to go rush to an emergency
where I get to wait for six hours and spend
two thousand dollars. So we'll talk about that. I'll give
you my I'll throw my two cents in there, and
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from my experience as chief veteran Advisor of air Vet,
how many emergencies are really emergency. So we'll talk about
that next week. And again, thanks for joining me. A
great week everybody. I'm so glad you had to get
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Happy Sunday. I hope you all had a good Fourth
of July. Safe. I hope your pets were safe. You know,
it's funny in all the years of Fourth July, and
I've had many, many, many dogs over the years, including
five now, and I have my dogs have never had
the problem with the with the noise of the sound
of fact, I leave outside fine there, it's like never happened.
(00:46):
So I guess in that in that regard, I'm pretty lucky.
But I heard of something really cool. So you may
have heard this. I didn't know because i've it's been
new to me. Apparently they have these kind of noise
reducing heads answer almost like an earphone that you could
put over your dog. And I guess it must kind of,
you know, kind of a soft wrap around the head
(01:08):
with some noise reducing sub product or fabric something right
that fits over their ears. And so one of my
clients let me know that he tried it and it works.
He said it was great. So I never heard of it,
but something to look into maybe in the years next
year or two. So how I got a question is
from Francesca All right, good morning. Question. Why do you
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suggest for mail dog that he gets fixed sooner or later?
What are the risks of not having a fixed? Thank you? Okay,
so great question. And when it comes to neutering and
spaying anyway, I am an advocate. I think that it
can avoid a lot of problems in the future. There
is one breed, however, that new studies have shown that
it might actually be better not to spade uter. But
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the only breed that that holds true is the Golden Retriever. Now,
more work is being done. I know UC Davis studying
this and a couple other universities are studying it. That
there seems to be a higher prevalence of tumors in
general in these dogs in the Golden Retriever if they
are spade or newters. So that's interesting. A couple of
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things have changed over the years. Number one, we do
know that in males, and I'm gonna give you a
statistic more from the behavior side, but there are some
advantages as well, but more from the behavior side, and
that is say, be that they've shown that if one
were to make a couple of assumptions, and the assumptions
being say, half the dogs in America are male and
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half are female. Just make it simple, and let's say
half are spade neuter, half aren't. So then probably more
are spade newter than not. But let's say half half,
just to prove my point. So then in any of
the quadrants, okay, male female, spade or not spade or
not neuter, the percentage of male that are intact should
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be around twenty five percent. Okay, so right, half male,
half female, half spade, half neutered, half not neutered. So
you're looking at twenty five percent. So then statistically, if
you were to hear a statistic about the dogs that
are found dead on US roads and highways, well, we think,
just by by the numbers, quarter of them males that
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are neutered, quarter of them males not neutered, a quarter
female space, a court not space. Well guess what it is.
Seventy five percent of dogs found dead on US roads
and highways are non neutered males. What does it tell you?
It tells you that these dogs, you know, behaviorally, they
like to rome, and they're the ones that are jumping
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fences and getting out, and they're picking up the sense
of females that are in season and estris and this
is what's going on. So right there, from a safety
you know and standpoint, it's probably better to get them
spaded and neutered. Now, how about medically, if you space,
if you neuter a dog young, then you can eliminate
prostatitis anytime, anytime prostat Now, there was a study down
(04:03):
about prostate cancer and it seems to be there's no
benefit or detriment either way. So I'm not going to
tell you do it. It's kind of prevent prostate cancer. Fortunately,
protect cancer is not that very common, but prostatitis inflamed
prostate which is very painful for the dog. You'll see blood,
bloody urine. This is something that seems to be how
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much higher prevalence in intact males when you new to it.
In fact, if you get a dog that persistently gets prostatitis,
first of all, you know who's probably intact. Secondly, when
we get them through this about we want to neuter. Ideally,
you don't want to neuter a dog in the middle
of a prostatitis is that can lead to what's called
prostatic cysts. We want to wait till everything goes down,
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everything is normal, and then we want to get them fixed. Now,
so there are some of your advantages. Now. Of course,
testicular cancer again it's not super prevalent, but if you
remove the test if, there's no way they can get
testicular cancer. So, and here's another one. This is important too,
that when it comes to testicular cancer, if your dog
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has what's called a mon orchid or crypt orchid, meaning
the testicles have not descended, they are somewhere in the
abdomen or in the flank. Flank testicle is not as bad,
but abdominal testicles there is, they are much a much
greater higher risk of developing cancer. Why, testicles in the
scrotum are basically subjected to ambient temperature whatever it is,
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seventy eighty whatever. But a dog's body temperature is one
hundred point five to one hundred and two point five.
That means the testicle that is in the abdomen is
subjected to that temperature, and that temperature predisposes them to
more prostatic disease, including prostatic cancer. I mean, excuse me,
testicular disease. Then that means testicular cancer. So it's something
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you really really want to know that if you are
if you have a dog that is a house dog
and you're not gonna show him, you're not going to
breed him, then, in my opinion, is better safer long
all to get him neutered. You don't want to wait
until he's a problem and then do it if you
can do it prophylactically. So and it might save their
lives because if you have a dog gets going to
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roam and gets hit by a car or you know,
in a fight with a coyote or something like that,
it could be a real problem. So I hope that
answers your question. And so, and I'm dealing with a
case now and female, I mean as well, since we're
talking about this a five year old frenchye, Well again,
five year old frenchy, I would definitely neuter. Now, one
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can argue both ways. Well, got these figures al already,
nothing's ever happened, Well it's going to happen. Well, I've
had prostate infections prostatitis come in dogs that are ten
or eleven, and at that point you really want to
get them through the about and then you want to
fix them. Well, would I rather anesthetize a five year
old dog or an eleven year old dog. So unless
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you have this dog, and I'll give another statistic. Most
legitimate breeders, I mean we're talking breeding responsible. They know
their crafts. Once their dogs hit six or seven, they're
gonna fix them anyway because they're too old to breed.
No one's gonna want to breed with a seven or
eight year old dog. Females, they're not going to do
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well anyway. So that's why. So when you know a
legitimate breeder wants to get their pets fixed and they're
making lots of boku bucks doing the breeding, those studs
go out for who knows a frenchy stud, but they
probably get I wouldn't surprise you. They get three to
five thousand dollars a breeding, so why not. But when
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they hit that certain age, they usually get them fixed.
And so females before we go into the boaz, we'll
talk about that in a second. Before we get there,
I want to talk about the females again. There are
more advantages to spaying a dog early. Unlike the male, medically,
it can be done almost any time. Females, there's the
incidents of breast cancer. Memory cancer in a female dog
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jumps up dramatically when they are intact. If you spay
them before the first heat, then the it's almost ninety
eight percent ninety five percent reduction. Risk reduction if you
let them have one and spain before the second is
about eighty eight to ninety percent, still pretty darn good.
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But after that there's no risk reduction. So you want
to get them at least before the second heat. Now,
what about other issues? Why not do them all before
the first heat? Ah, In very small breeds, then that
is still acceptable. But there are a number of studies
out now that are realizing. They're showing that there are
more problems in dogs that were spayed too early later
(08:47):
on in life, and therefore they recommend letting them have
one heat, And so I'm on that. I'm in that
camp right now. Larger breeds you can, you can let them,
you can wait, let them have one heat, but spay
them before the second. Small breeds you can still. I
just wait till all their adult teeth are in, because
you don't want to knock them out twice unless there's
(09:09):
severe crowding early on, and it's going to affect how
the teeth come in if you wait too long. Some
of those dogs rarely that need to have two procedures.
One as soon as the puppy tooth, the deciduous tooth
does not fall out, and you can see the adult
tooth is coming in in an abnormal position. You want
to go ahead and I get the puppy teeth out
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most of the time, to wait till like six months.
All the adult teeths to be in, and any teeth
that are still in baby teeth that are still in
by six months needs to come out anyway, so do
them at that time. Males on neutering, for example, though
larger the breed, the longer I want to wait, they
take longer to mature. They they're eat faster, but longer mature.
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So if I have a giant breed, I'll try to
keep until the year and a half, even two a
lo large breed to one one and a half, so
medium breeds one at least twelve months. But the little
guides if you want to do it earlier, you can
do it earlier. Okay, waving waving, waving behavior, And do
I see a change the behavior after operation? I usually
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don't see a change at all. And people say, yeah,
but he's such a good watch dog. Let me tell
you something if you talk too military or police departments
that use a lot of these dogs, they are the
females are just as aggressive, just as credable, So you
can't use that argument. It's not gonna work now, either
male or female, they are going to be the same.
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So I want I don't if with the hope is
they become a little more homebody, They become a little
less aggressive with other dogs, like walking them out in
the neighborhood. If there's another male dog, they should chill.
Now have I seen that my little frendsheet or one
of my little terriers. No, still as obnoxious as they come,
but they are neutered. And but sometimes it's just the
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nature of the dog, whether male female, in tax bait,
it doesn't any difference. So anyway, but overall, I do
think they mellow. They become a little bit more better
family oriented in my opinion. Okay, hippos, how do you
know if your dog has boas so boas is break
acephallic obstructive airway syndrome break. Thesephalics are the dogs with
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the pushed in faces, the Bostons, the Frenzies, the Pugs,
the English bulldogs, the Sheetsu's, the loss all those Japanese
chin all those dogs are really pushed in faces are subject.
The French bulldogs are notorious. They are probably the number
one breed to suffer from this syndrome. How do you know,
First of all, they're just their breathing. Their breathing, it's
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not like it's when they get excited, they really struggle.
They get overheated, They really struggle. Their noses are also
really pinched. If you look at their nostrils and compare
it to a normal dog, they're really like this. So
they can't even you know, do air exchange through their
nose either. So their throat, what happens is they have
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what they call laryngeal saccules are enlarged, they have elongated
soft palate, they have stenotic naaries. Okay, this all and
just the whole back of the throat is just very thickened.
Some of these things are anatomic and they also get
I often hyatl hernias. So there are so many problems
associate with these dogs. So I do the surgery the naies,
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the sacules, the soft palate. I use laser. I think
it's fantastic. A lot of doctors just still do with
good old fashioned surgery. You get bleeding, they it all stop.
They know they cut the nose. I do laser, So
laser I get. I mean I have to rarely use
the suture for laser. There's I would say ninety eight
(12:55):
percent don't bleed at all. Two percent a little bleeding.
I can neither use a little epin or I'll just
put one or two sutures in. But it's very, very unusual,
So I think laser is the way to go. But
some people use electrocottery. So, but in general, it is
a very common problem in these breeds. You can tell
because they just can't breathe. And when they can't breathe
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or their breathing is labored and noisy, you know that's
the problem. So and you can just have a check out.
Speaker 2 (13:24):
Now.
Speaker 1 (13:24):
One of the things I will tell you for those
of you who have these breeds and you hear the
breathing issues, you can take into your vet. Who's gonna
open the mouth and say, oh, here's the problem. They
have to be evaluated under anesthesia. So my what I
typically do. Since again some many of these dogs are
going to get spade or neutered, I will I tell
the owner. I can tell you the naries. That's the
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only thing you can see. You cannot evaluate saccules nor
elongated self palate in an awake dog, so you have
to I wait till we anesetize, and I when I
pass that endotracheal tube is when I make my judgment call.
And then I'll talk to the owner and say, Okay,
you're good or you're not good, and we take it
from there. Okay. So another thing nuts we love our
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French ya. I know Frenchies are I have Frenchies. I'm
on my third and they are. They're a unique breed,
I can tell you that. And they're getting really, really popular.
They are obviously the number one dog in the AKA
registered dog in the AKC right now. They have overtaken
the Labrador Retriever, which is pretty amazing. So and I've
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had Labage for even longer than I've have Frenchie. I fact,
I have one right now. Let's see, I want to
make sure I've waited everybody all right. What I want
to do now, because it's our halfway point in the show.
I want to take a quick break when I come back,
when you come back, I want to talk about one
thing specifically, and that is the emergencies. I want to
talk about just some of the emergency issues that we've seen.
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How many are not what you can do before spending
hours upon hours. Let's see, in a big city, my
clients tell me they've gone to an emergency clinic, and
besides the that ninety five percent of them were non emergencies,
they waited for hours, and then what happens once you're
in that clinic disturbs me greatly. So I just want
to give you guys some pointers things to think about,
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and when we come back, we will and if any
other questions think of now sitting accented to me during
the break, and we'll go from there.
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And we're back live here on dot live Radio as well,
and we're just talking about ears, ear infections, ear disease.
And there are a number of reasons. First of all,
allergy atopy inhaled allergies. How one would know whether it's
environmental allergies like pollens, weeds and trees, and what we
call atopy inhaled allergens, that is, we're going to be
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a seasonal and if it's not seasonal and it's been
all the time, there is a possibility, especially especially if
it's linked to also dogs that are rubbing their faces okay,
or they are some ears, faces and feet. They're licking
a lot at their front feet so much so that
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they're causing a a what's called a discoloration saliva staining
of the hair at the top of the feet or
underneath the paws. It's all red. They're really attacking themselves.
Those three things combined, I would say food allergy is
high on my list, and so for that we talked
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about this before starting what's called a single anigen novel
protein diet. Both of those are very important. You can't
have a food if you read the ingredients that have
three or four different grains or vegetables that have two
different protein. You can't do that. The more you put in,
the more likely one of those is going to be
allergenic to the dog. And then you're gonna blow the
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whole food because you think of the whole food is bad.
It's not. It was that one protein. So we look
for things that are single protein and novel novel meaning
new to the dog. What are some of the least
novel beef, poultry, checking turkey, why because they've been in
the foods forever. Even lamb is is getting close to that.
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So novel is gonna be something that the dog is
probably never had. And things like telapia, cod, salmon, rabbit, venison, bison, alligator, kangaroo.
I mean, there are proteins out there that are really
crazy and so but that's what you want to put
your dog on slowly, and as far as grains or
a vegetable, one thing it could be sweet potato, could
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be potato, It could be green, pea, could be kinwah,
could be barley, could be oats. So you and there
are foods out there or make it yourself, and then
once you switch over it slowly to this new single
aigen novel protein diet. Then you're going to take kritze
four to six I should say six to eight weeks
to start seeing a change. So, but it is really tough.
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Most people fail these elimination diets. Why because it's really
hard and they always cheat or they give them something
that they don't realize, like a treat. That means, if
you're gonna pick salmon, for example, every pro the eats
gotta be salmon. It can't be anything else because then
you're just kidding yourselves because you're gundral this work. Then
you give them a treat that has some chicken, they
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start going after themselves go, oh well, I was hoping
salmon work, but it didn't work. All the salmon was
working great. It was a gift fact that you give
some chicken that didn't That didn't work. So be very
very very strict with yourselves. Speak your veterinarian. There are
ways to do it, and you can also there's some
other dice out there, so you don't have to make
anything or pick your brains out. That is hydrolyzed protein okay,
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And so hydrolyzed protein is also it's not as good
as single anagen novel, but it's it's and that is
they break the proteins down, the amino acids, so they're
no longer are seen by the body by the immune
system as the culprit as allergenic. It's just pieces. And
therefore these you know, they use basically the amino acids
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are broken down before they get into the system and
therefore they're they're not as allergenic, So that is something
to know. There was a question here coup them does
the hiki bayse ear mites? So ear mites there are
I like the ivermectins. Ibromectins work really well for ear mites.
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Some of the celimectin, for example celimectin which is the
active ingredient of revolution okay or celarid product, those are
meant to be there. They're sort of newer than advantage
or I shouldn't say that, imminecloprid and fipronail. But they
are still work well with cats and not as well
(20:36):
with dogs. That's why I like the new isoxazolenes for dogs,
but they are good for ear mites. So any ivermectin
product either topically we make our own using liquid ivermectin
and so we put it topically and put them on
a system a systemic treatment the celarid and that seems
to work well with ear mites. And also you've got
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to make sure to clean the ears out or your
veterinarian or your veterans technicians to clean the ears out
really really well. There's also a product called mytox my talks.
I don't think it's OTC, but you can get it,
you know, online and your your veteranet maybe a habit
and I would put some my Talks in also very
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very effective. So and fortunately most adult dogs or cats
don't get ear mites unless they're outdoor cats and they're
mingling with kittens or dogs that are mingling with going
to a daycare when there are a lot of puppies.
But most of the time the infection, the ear infection
that dogs get is often called MALAICESI it's yeast, there's all.
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There are also some bacterial infections. Pseudomonis is a biggie,
very hard. So you again, sometimes when you have persistent
ear infections, it's important to do a culture, try to
find out what it is, have done a stuicidology, see
if you're yeast because if you have really bad yeast,
most of the ear preps that we recommend have anti
(22:02):
fungal anti yeast medications in them. But if it's really
bad and recurrent, a couple of things happen. Number One,
when there's a lot of swelling as well the ear
is red and inflamed, those topicals don't work as well
because they can't get to this source. The ear is
too thickened, so that's the problem. So I often recommend
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an oral product as well, flu conosol, ketoconosol, itoconozol. You
have to talk to your veterinarian. There are a lot
of good products out there that seem to be able
to kill the a malices of the yeast on the inside.
And also if it comes back bacterial, you want to
put them on antibotic as well. This is where also
if it's allergy related and you're using an isochs azolene,
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we don't usually want to use steroids. But I went
to a talk a couple of years ago one of
my favorite conferences, which is the SKICE Conference put on
by the Colorado Veteran Medical Association. SKYE is standing for
ski CEO, and it's always had a Colorado venue. I
had to miss last year because it sat right the
same time as VMX. I was so upset. But I'm
looking forward to going this year. Always last week of January,
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and it's always a great Colorado of venue. And it's
one of the things he six thirty to seven is
a low breakfast, like breakfast seven to nine, you're in session,
nine to four you're on the slopes, and then four
to six or four to seven back in session, and
then you're you're free for the evening. It's fantastic, loose casual.
Everybody has so much fun. So but the speaker was
all about allergy and ears and he was a professor
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e DVM PhD Internal medicine and dermatology. I mean, this
guy was the real deal. And he says that even
though the words out there that you're going to be
putting your dog a dog on that saxageleines, you're no
longer need the steroids, except he says, if you have
really inflamed ears, that you have in order for anything
to work, including yes SOX, yeah, got to get rid
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of the swelling. And therefore he does recommen and using
a short course of steroids to get rid of that'spregnice
own to get rid of inflammation, so everything else can
start working. So I do double up and I can
don't blame me. I can blame it on the professor
because he knows way better than I do. And yes,
it does work really well. Okay, so airmites. Let's see,
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does the Hickey brace really work from torn ligaments? Well,
you know, any any brace. I'm not familiar with that brand,
but any brace, depending on First of all, the ligaments
could be the knee, it could be I'm dealing right now,
it's a toe, so I'm putting it in a split.
So anything that's going to prevent the movement, and ideally
if it can the pressure, especially when it's a toe,
(24:43):
then it's going to help. I know that. When I
have my shoulder surgery, I could not not work. I
mean there's no way I could. They want to be
to take off for two weeks and not get are
you crazy? I took off. I did a day, I
was back to work day two days later, surgery Tuesday.
Home way day back at work Thursday, and I had surgery.
So I did one of those braces that wrapped around
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my body so I could not move my My arm
was stuck to my body and I put my elbow.
I wasn't broken. That worked fine. So I had my
surgery table elevated, talked to my elbow, and I was
doing surgery. People thought I was nuts. My doctor hated me.
But good news is I healed really well. So a
hawk brace, yes, So any of those braces, and there
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are good braces now that are you can remove the velcrode.
Anything that prevents movement of that joint is that's key.
If you can somehow prevent some of the pressure, which
is very difficult in a dog. Even though they're not
using the joint, they're stepping on it. Okay, when I
had my arm, I attacked to my body with that
(25:46):
brace going around me, I couldn't move my no, no,
I couldn't move my shoulder at all. And there's nothing
that puts pressures like I'm lifting weights and doing you know,
shoulder presses. So that was good. In dogs, I know
it's really difficult, but that would be ideally is to
but definitely anything that stops the movement is going to
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be helpful when it comes to ligament damage. Ah, So
Francesca think of adopting a French eye out of shelter,
but that growth in his ears. So it really depends.
First of all, chronic chronic inflammation often leads to some
sort of growth in the ear. Oftentimes, if it's fairly
accessible through a scope, then they can be removed. I
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use my electrocattery for these, sometimes laser and that opens
up the ear ear canal. When you have a very
very narrowed ear canal because of a growth taking up
that space, the diameter within the diameter of the ear canal,
they're just more predisposed to infection. You don't get ear airflow,
you get the dirt stuck in there, you get moisture
(26:52):
stuck in there. It's a perfect environment for infection, especially
east infection. So those if you can access, that's great.
Now if it's really down deep, then that's a different
story because then you might have to do almost like
a procedural where you cut all the way down, you
open up the canal, you remove it. But when you
sew it back together, there could be scarring, and then
(27:15):
that scarring can lead to narrowing and then you so
sometimes if it's really bad, you end up needing what's
called a lateral canal. Resection. You just remove the lateral canal.
That's something your GP should be able to do. I
do them. Or if you need what's called a TIKA,
which is the total ear canal oblation, and that would
(27:37):
I don't do those. I reserve those because you got
to go way into the ear canal into the bullets,
and the bullet that requires some really fancy forwork and
skill and training and I never learned that procedure, so
I don't do it. I refer that to the Board
certified surgeons. Okay, we're enjoying good, good, good life with corgis.
(28:00):
What are your thoughts and recommentions on root and something's
on senior dogs, arthritis and other aging concerns. I'm not
familiar with routin, r u T, I n I know
for for arthritis, I would certainly recommend anything glucosamine, codroyt
and non story of l antin inflammatories. There is a librella,
(28:21):
which is a pain medication. That is that I would do.
But you know, first of all, on these dogs because
there are fortunately from a prior question, there are ligament issues.
There are more soft tissue strains, tendons, there's I would
always want to confirm from an X ray that there
(28:44):
is ongoing arthritis. Arthritis is usually a rate of graphic interpretation.
Now sometimes you may have the indid of CT or
even an amor I because sometimes you can have subtle
arthritis that is not visible on an X ray, I
would think that if that's the case and the pain
is there, I would again, it spends how you want
(29:06):
to approach it. Academically. You got to go on to
keep looking practically, which is I pride myself I'm being
a practical vet. I would say, since these seems glucosamine
harmless if the dog is healthy, already done bloods, and
a good nonstory of anti inflammatory like carprofin like a
(29:27):
the deroxikib, all those other or derrek coxib. These are
non story antin inflammatories that seem to work really well.
Loxiccam which is medicam a short course in a healthy
dog with normal bloods, normal liver, I would try that
Galla galapriant. So you basically, sometimes we rule out or
(29:51):
we make a diagnosis based on response to therapy, and
it's sometimes a lot cheaper as long as that therapy
is not going to be harmful. And so from a
practical standpoint. That's that's what I'd recommend. If you think
that the pain is an issue, you can try Librella.
Do your homework on Librella. There's a lot out there. Unfortunately,
(30:12):
there's a lot of bad stuff. I don't buy it.
I've had I've used hundreds of doses. I had one case.
One and one percent is not bad when it comes
to reactions, and it wasn't even a serious I can
talk death and all that the classic. You know what,
I heard from an independent research company that was studying
(30:35):
this that the dog who is claimed that the Librella
caused this dog to die. Two days later, when they
were sent for an independent pathology lab for an autopsy, okay,
I called the postmortem exam, they found the dog had
a splendid tumor which was obviously there for a long time,
that ruptured and this dog bled out. Had nothing to
(30:57):
do with the Librella. But people love to point fingers,
so a lot of these stories you hear, and guess what,
here's another one for you. Librella. It said for arthritis pain.
How many young healthy dogs are gonna need to take Librella?
Not many, if any ah, but who needs it? It's
gonna be that older dog that's slowing down, that could
(31:20):
have another dozen different problems going on. You put them
on umbrella, and three weeks later after the second they died.
Really was it the librella? I don't think so. Before
it came here, our FDA is strict as as hell,
and it was used millions of doses in Europe for
five years or whatever it was before it actually was
(31:40):
approved here in the US. And their reaction rate was
less than one percent. So any drug, I mean, I've
told you this. My dad once out after you're taking
for years penicillin, had an anaphylactic reaction to penicillin and
was rushed to hospital, couldn't breathe. All right, Whose fault
is that? I would that guy that goes to a
restaurant and has an at of factor reaction to shrimp
(32:04):
with no prior history, okay, And is that the restaurant's fault.
So it just really blows my mind when these people
complain I would use it. I would use it on
my own dog. And could they get a reaction, Yes,
the severe reactions of death very rare. So if it
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was really going to relieve the suffering, and I've tried
other things first, and they didn't work well or well
enough for me or more importantly for my dog, I
would use Librella. So but talk to your veterinarian. Do
your homework. Look it's easy, dope. Look at all like
legitimate sources. Okay, don't look at people lay people. Don't
(32:48):
even look at holistic homeopathic vets that don't like anything Western.
Look at legitimate studies, scientific studies, peer reviewed articles from
the universities, and come up with your your decision based
on that, and then let me know. Got a collaboration
with Lynette, who's fantastic. Thank you so much. Okay, Well,
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it's a good something for senior dogs. So for senior
dogs a couple of things. First of all, a joint supplement,
especially if it's a big breed, anything with glucosamine, Condroit
and MSM. I think those are all good. One thing
that I've been using and I use it for my dog,
my almost soon to be next month, fourteen year old labrador.
He's doing great. He's on Condroy and he's on that stuff.
(33:31):
But I also have him on leap ears and leap
ears is an NAD plus. I take it myself and
not no let me rephrase. I don't take leap ears
not a dog product, but I take an NAD supplemented
and the reason why I take it honestly, I was
(33:52):
approached by leapyers to maybe help endorse their product, and I,
you know, like I said, in influence or whatever it means,
I'm not I don't believe myself as one, but anyway
they thought I was. So. But I'm not going to
lend my name and promote something I don't understand myself.
So I started doing some homework on this whole process
(34:14):
of any D plus and the brain and the aging
and all that stuff and the focus and memory. God
to iive you that. So and I was so impressed
with the science that I look started looking for human versions.
And I take any D every day, and so I
do like leap years. It's a chew. I've yet to
(34:35):
meet a dog that doesn't like it, and it seemed
to be working really well. My dog, I'm telling you,
he's an almost fourteen year old Labrador. And except for
my last lab Grover, who went to sixteen and a half,
the oldest dog I already got labrador was thirteen and
a half, and that was Woody. So I'm telling you
I am already very very impressed with it. So look
(34:56):
it up see if it works for you. Take a
rous it's our e u S. I took true Niagen
also very good. The Roosts product that I take. You
look it up, RUSS Pharma, Pharmacology, something like that. You
see it. It's made in America, and I just liked
it because it was more cost effective and it had
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one extra ingredient that I liked, and it is and
it was more of the the na d the ribus
somnoid wherever the hell they call it. It actually had
more of it. So I that's what I did. All right.
Speaker 3 (35:33):
Here is.
Speaker 1 (35:36):
Mcore original art. You want to asking for a request
to join a lot of times people hit that and
they don't mean to hit it. So if you really,
really really think that that's what you want, then just
give me a thumbs up and I'll let you in anyway.
Where once again, I am. What about Collagen? Yeah, Collagen
(35:56):
also there's some I don't I don't take it, but
I've heard good things about it, and I don't use
it for my dogs yet. But from what I read
and understand, there's no downside. I just don't know anything
about the brands. I have not done any research on
it myself, so but maybe I should. Huh D. I mean,
I got a bad right knee and I'm still playing
(36:18):
basketball at seventy so, uh you know, I sometimes I
take look, I take my fair share. I take a
coach are ten, which is you know, I take my
my my glucose to me and kudroit and uh so
you know, anything that I can do to get my
free radicals under control, I'll do that. So I I
(36:41):
like myself, but take I take a item in a
multi So anyway I should, I'm gonna look into it
because I hear I hear a lot of people take
college in Okay. So I've overstepped my welcome, all right.
I know that Mark is giving me those dirty looks.
So next week I'm here saying that time saying that
channel here on pet Life Radios Ask the Best with
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Doctor Jeff and on Instagram Live Save your questions if
they're really good. But if it's something that's really serious
or urgent, because we didn't get a chance to talk
about one of the things I wanted to talk about,
and that is what constitutes urgency. And how do I
know whether I need to go rush to an emergency
where I get to wait for six hours and spend
two thousand dollars. So we'll talk about that. I'll give
you my I'll throw my two cents in there, and
(37:24):
from my experience as chief veteran Advisor of air Vet,
how many emergencies are really emergency. So we'll talk about
that next week. And again, thanks for joining me. A
great week everybody. I'm so glad you had to get
forth and all well. Be seeing expatis com.
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