August 11, 2025 • 27 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets in the morning.
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Don't make me talk too much because as you can hear,
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To the point. Remember this. Years ago, I was doing
a piece on Kiss FM with Ryan Seacrest and of course,
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of all the days I had zero voice. And it
was so funny because he asked me a couple times
he said, Jeff, join it, like we do this, we
can do this. Another time I said, no, it's okay.
So anyway, so here to get hold of me. If
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So waving waving, a question coming in already. So let's
let's check that alone. And it is, what is your
take on set for cancer patients? Well, this is I
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don't know. I've never used it. You know, there are
a lot of natural remedies I have found, and again
I don't want to make a blanket statement because I
know that it'll bite me in the behind if there
was one sort of herbal alternative treatment that actually works.
But from my experience, most of these natural, non drug
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remedies do not work. I have good friends that are
homeopathic vets. They will do a lot of things and
they tell me that there are success stories. I personally
in my practice when people have tried it did not work.
I always appreciate the natural paths that also say when
it comes to certain diseases, yeah, you want to get
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a little more aggressive, you can do some western medicine
as well. But I'm not saying don't do it, and
I'm not saying don't do it as an addendum as
not necessarily a pure alternative. But if you want to
do something to promote the effect of whatever else you're using,
I would say go for it. I will tell you
one thing that none of these natural remedies are toxic,
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so there's no downside. So if your research that you
saw says that, yes, it's helpful, and you want to
try it. By all means, try it and let me know.
Let me know what. I treat one of my dog's
cancers with just these natural remedies and nothing else personally know.
But it's just me. I'm not saying don't do it.
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If there's enough scientific I look for the scientific data,
peer reviewed articles. Now, look, let's talk about acupuncture. Forty
years ago was a joke in very medicine, and now
it's accepted by almost everybody. We recommend it all the time.
So I'm not saying these things aren't helpful. I'm not
saying they don't have value. But on something like that,
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I just don't know enough about it to recommend it.
But I will tell you most likely it's not gonna hurt.
So I hope that helps a little bit if you
have data, I mean really scientific data. Said it my way. Okay,
can you talk a little bit about the bully that
got stuck in the dogs soroad? So those things are
so yeah. I had a case actually, neighbor down the
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street and it ate a bully stick and towed off
a hunk and it lodged in the esophagus. We couldn't
get it up. When we induced vomiting, nothing helped. Finally
we had to send them to an emergency facility that
had a scope. They tried, interestingly, which is what we
often do, try to push it into the stomach because
it's hard to get the grabbers around the stick or
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whatever it is foreign body without damaging the esophagus. But
they could not push it. They felt it was going
to tear the esophagus, so they did They slowly put
the grabbers around it, and they were able to get
it out. The dog is one hundred percent. I am
not a fan of those things because of that, I've
heard too many horror stories. So for me, a lot
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of times it's people's fault because they might use the
wrong size that's appropriate for the dog. But this one,
it was a big one. The dog actually ended up
chewing off a hunk and that's the hunk that got stuck.
So you know, it turned out to be a very
expensive bully stick. I would recommend to stay away from
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these things. If you have dogs that have been using
them for years, had never had a problem, and they're chewing, well,
they know what they're doing. It's okay, But as a
blanket rule, if I were to, if someone would ask me,
what do you think of bully sticks? I know too
many stories like this one. I'm not so sure so
and I hope that helps vasectomy versus neuter. Okay, here's
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the thing. There are two goals here of neutering, all right,
and typically it's not just preventing breeding. If the only goal,
the only goal was to prevent breeding, then of a sectomy
could be okay. But there's more to neutering, and the
more benefits from behavior, from eliminating a testosterone impulse that
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we neuter, not just for population control. So then again,
why if you have a dog that's a real good
breeding dog and he is worth a lot of money
every time he's used as a stud, then you wouldn't
want two of a sectary anyway. So if you're going
to stop him from breeding, why don't you just do
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the whole thing? And you know you have other problems,
prostate issues, behavior issues.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
This is a statistic I always like to share, and
that is again, if we make some assumptions about how
many dogs are spade and uter, well, first of all,
I'll simple one, what percent are male versus female. That's
it fifty to fifty. Come on, fifty to fifty. Now,
let's say only fifty percent were spadernuter. So in any
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one given quarter that was of a non neutered male,
we twenty five percent. Okay, So if I would tell
you statistically a dog found dead on a US roller highway,
you two. Well, first, I'm half week we fe male
and half female, okay, and then half of each will
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be spade onuter. So a non spade female twenty five percent,
spade female twenty five percent, a non neutered male twenty
five percent, and a neutered male twenty five percent. Well,
guess what the statistic is that seventy five percent of
dogs that are found dead on US roads and highways
are non neoded males. There's a lot more to it
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than just miseectomy, because if this dog kind of a
sected me, he may not breed with all those dogs
he's trying to get to. But that'll be really a waste.
If you picked up the scent because he's a male,
if he's got tystosterone, you know they pick it up, okay,
when female is in heat and after all that jumping
around out of a fence, going down major thoroughfares and
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finally gets the female. At least you can breed. But
if he said sectimize, he's going to go to all
that work. You can't read anyway. Why have them with
the risk of all those potential dangers of him running around?
So my recommendation is to fix all right, preddice oone.
So for pregdice ozone, I like alternate day for a dog.
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I assume you want to get as fast as you
can to an alternate day schedule. So if you do
it too much every day, then you're going to suppress
the adrenals and you can act actually end up with
a problem called Addison's disease, which is the opposite of
cushions disease. Cushian's disease is an over secretion of the
adrenal glands. Addison's is where they stop working under secretion. Well,
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if you keep giving steroid on a regular basis daily,
the possibility is that you will suppress the adrenal glands
enough that they won't be able to work anymore. So
I would say first of all, to understand they're two
dose ranges. You have an anti inflammatory dose and you
have imino suppressive dose. Imuno suppressive dose is a much
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higher dose. It's usually two to three times higher. So
then the anti inflammatory dose for me anti inflammatory dose
is about a quarter milligram per pound twenty pound dog
five miligrams and I do it twice a day for
a few days. Then I go to once a day
for a few days, and then every other day, and
then if you want, if the dog is doing well
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and you want to give it, try every third day,
then that's good. But the goal is to get them
off of every day fairly quickly. I hope that helps well.
Prentnice alone is for usual we use for cats. Pregnice
own you can use for dogs, and predicelan can be
for dogs as well, but it's the same thing. They're
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metabolizing a bit differently. But prendice alone is converted to presdicezone,
but for cats they need the Prentice alone to be effective.
What age should you start dental cleaning at the vet?
And once you hear more great question. So if there
was a blanket statement and I hate those, as you know,
I would say starting at the age of three. Seventy
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five percent of dogs and cats over the age of
three start having periodontal conditions disease, So I would say
then three. But I've had dogs coming in that are
five and six and don't have a speck of tartar,
and their goals look great. It's still individual. I also
had dogs that are two and already have tartar building up.
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So I always joke the dog get to read the book.
He doesn't know what's supposed to happen, and it is
what it is. So I would tell you, starting at
the age of three, in the general rule would be
dogs already started having calculus tartar, so they would need
a teeth cleaning. Now, look, if you brush your dog's
teeth on a regular basis once a year, is probably
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gonna be fine. Unfortunately, most of you, and I know
who you are, are not brushing your petch teeth regularly.
So I've had dogs coming in every six months, And
I love the client that looks at me and says,
what do you mean we have to do a dental
We just did it six months ago. I go, wow,
it's been six months. Really we should do a little
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home test. Okay, I think I've talked this you about
this before, but it drives the point home so well,
not six months, not five, not four, just one month,
four weeks easy, four weeks. Don't brush your teeth at all.
Let's see what you look like after a month. So
when you hear six months, that's a long time unless
you're brushing your tee the pet's teeth regularly. So anyway,
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the only way to really do it well is brushing.
You could put water, addemps, you could do crunchy foods. No, no, no, no no,
you need to brush the teeth, all right. So what's
a good alternative for fleetick heartworm prevention that is topical
only and prevent neurological side effects? Well, you know, there
really is the only one topical for flea and tick
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is going to be brevecto, and I don't know if
they even have one for fleetick and heartworm. So most
of the ones are oral. Anything gets absorbed into the
blood through the skin as those topicals do, or ingestion,
if they're going to get neurological side effect, they're going
to get it. Now, is it overrated in my opinion? Yes?
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Does it happen however, yes, And so I've had very
few cases of that reaction, that is, it is published
it is real, so you know it's hard. It's like Librella.
You go online about Librella and it's the worst noube
drug ever. Yet I've used it, I don't know, over
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a hundred times and I've had zero, zero reactions. So
and not knowing that clients not be asking clients to
come back for more Umbrella. They're coming in on their
own why because that stuff worked. So it's a tough call.
So I don't know if there is topical fleet take
heartworm that may not have any neurologic side effect. Now,
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one thing I will tell you as far as the
exosacylines go, which are Cordelia simperica, pervecto, and next guard.
The dog may have a reaction to one of them,
but you can switch to another and they may be fine,
and it doesn't cause neurologic disease. It can accentuate if
a dog already has or had a seizure or some
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sort of neurologic dysfunction. If you have the perfectly healthy dog,
the most cases where there were sea your behaviors, it
was because they already had some predisposition. So again you
got to look at these things carefully. But I am
I use it on my dogs, and I've used it
on I mean, thousands of patients and we've had no problems.
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Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but it does happen because
it's published. All right, I hope that helps. Yeah, no
bully sticks, I agree, Bethany high hear my voice. I'm
giving a good phone. All right? Good dogs? Have schizophrenia?
Be pipolar? Oh? You know what, that's a really good question,
and I think so, but we don't know how to
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evaluate it now. My term it dementia, and you know Alzheimer's,
the doggy version of Alzheimer's. It can, but I mean
there are some dogs that have exhibited some pretty strange behavior.
Definitely neurologic, definitely, as we would say a screw loose
somewhere in that brain. Has it been diagnosed officially? I
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don't think so. That'd be a great question for a neurologist.
In fact, in fact, I'm going to talk to one
of my neurobuddies. I have very good friends with my
neurology professor, and he's now emeritus at David. He actually
now writes children's books. They're really cute, but he is
he's my go to guy. I'm gonna ask him and
now of that, how can we tell that's a great question?
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Back hair Live. I'm gonna share this with pet life
Radio too. So the question was what do we think
about colostrum for a seven year old cat with uti
It's the inn at jack infection with bacteria and the
urner jack. So I've heard of it I don't know
whether it's it's very effective. I don't know for sure
whether this cat is a female, well though I assume
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it probably is because females get much more UTIs in males.
And so when I have a persistent UTI and a
cat or a dog, the classic antibotic the schedule is
for ten days, I might up at fourteen. But if
I have one it's persistently coming back, I would first
of all make sure one hundred percent that you get
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a culture. You must have a culture and sensitivity because
if you're just guessing what antibotic and it keeps coming back, well,
that's one of the reasons. It's the lung antibotic. So
you know, if I have rods, I'm going to probably
use a selfless spoor and maybe docty cycling. I'll give
it a shot sometimes, but if I ever get a
urin analysis back that has fifty to one hundred or
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greater than one hundred bacteria per high power field, I
will insist on a culture, because if you pick the
lung antibotic right, that means that those bacteria are still
multiplying and multiplying, then you're going to a really sick cat.
On your hand or a sick dog. If it's less
than twenty five twenty five to fifty A, you know,
I might take a guess based on the bacteria or
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the types. Was it rods, was it coxie? Was it mixed?
And then a lot of times I'm right, and that's good.
But I always tell the owner if this comes back,
we are going to do a culture. So culture and
sensitivity is very important, all right, deedles Hello. Also, by
the way, cats do better than dogs on still not
you should just use it as reckless abandoned, but they
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tolerate the steroids a little bit better than dogs. So
I would still try to get onto an alternate day
or every third day dose. You know. At some point
all right, hello, hello, Hello, Really ten thousand dogs were
rescued and not want to react to flee in tickbats. Yeah,
thank you, And that's Eloise and Eloise because she is
a phenomenal rescue and ten thousand dogs that were rescued,
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not one out of reaction to the flee in tickbeds.
And that's what I'm getting. But you know, it's like
anything else, as we know, think of yelp, think of yelp.
All right, how many of you, show of hands, love YELP,
I personally hated, and I ignore it now. I don't
even listen. I don't even care because it is BS.
People that like to complain like to complain. You know.
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Back in the day before there was all this online stuff,
I used to lecture a lot about marketing in the
veterinary world, and we talked about the negative reviews when
you piss somebody off, a client off, all right, something
you whatever, you did, it didn't work out well and
you didn't handle it well as a veterinarian. I'm talking
to veterinarians now, So I say, they're gonna go and
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tell ten people. But if when your clients leave happy,
they may may tell up to three people. And I
won't even directly. You don't, they're not gonna get out
the roller decks start calling everybody. They're together with the
girls and they're talking, having some coffee or whatever, and
the subject of pets comes up, and they want to said, oh,
I had this great I had this great vet whatever.
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So my point was you'd have to make like three
times more people happy just to equal to one that
you're pissed off. So now with all this social media stuff.
It's not ten people, three people, it's ten thousand people,
it's a million people. So it's unbelievable to me. So anyway,
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I don't worry about it. I don't care. But unfortunately
it has been the literal, literal demise of some veterinarians
because of terrible reviews online on yelp, and I think
sadly one of the reasons why veterinarians now have overtaken
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dentists as far as medical professionals with the highest suicide rates.
That blows my mind. And yet it's true, it really
is true. So all right, it's a male dog with
bladder inflammation, all right, So if it has bladder inflammation,
then again culture first, make sure the culture is done,
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get them on the appropriate and then what you may
want to do is use like be deestinied or even
low dose pregnice zonne something to reduce the inflammation. Now,
it also could be very possibly that the problem with
the bladder itself, as you say inflammation, there may be
a bladder cancer in there called transitional cell carcinoma, and
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that also might be part of the problem. So you
might want to have an internist do a thorough thorough
ultrasound of the bladder and see if there's anything else
going on from an anatomical standpoint that is contributing to
this problem with multiple back caural infections. Okay, I re
ask you vegetables mushrooms complex helps too, So all that's
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good protein cruciferous vegetables, mushroom complex helps. Do you see
many dogs that clients want to give meage that you
say they are hyper and do you think it's medical
or needs training? That's a great question. I think it's both.
Really is. I've had some dogs they are just the personality,
they're just hyper personalities. And then also many dogs that
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express their hyper activity because they are stressed, so it's
an anxiety. So when they're anxious, then they start exhibiting
this hyper behavior. So, in other words, can training help,
com medication help? And the answer yes to both. It
all depends what the underlying cause is. So do I
know that people are having a value? I always ask people,
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you know, are they always hyper like this? When are
they not? When do they seem to be more in
control when they are hyper or when they are this anxious?
What is changing? What has changed? That is? Typically it
is how often does it happen? Have you been able
to come up with any links to the behavior by
external influences? So again, and there are many dogs that
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are just it's their personality. I mean, it's crazy, hyper anxious. Now,
I think to your point I think you're making as
a trainer, is that there may be parts of this
dog's rearing, or if it was a shelter rescue, that
it's prior experience that has made it hyper and so
that maybe if getting into that could be beneficial. Unfortunately,
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as I often a joke, when we have dogs like this,
I can't send them on the couch right and start
having a conversation with them. When did this happen? What
happened in your life? Tell me about your day? I mean,
you can't do that. So a lot of times we
have to either take the easy road out and give
them meds or try training and see if that helps.
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But what do you think is it trainable? You think
without meds? Come back to me, let me go all right,
says this system for three months? You don't want the month?
First of all, Sharon, about Provecto, I shouldn't sy I'm
not a fan. It's not my favor has that. First
of all, it only is eight weeks with the ticks
for most of the ticks. Secondly, even for fleas, clients
(22:58):
complain all the time that they're having to use it again.
So you're paying for three months and it's a more
expensive per pill obviously because it's three months, but you're
only getting two. Well, yeah, I don't know that's the
best the best plan. I'd rather get one that works
for one, and I'm paying for one, so I am
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not using I don't use Veto that way. I like Siperica,
I like next Car, and I like Cordelia, Love Cordelia.
For cats, I believe maybe next year one of the
others is coming out with his own cat version. So
but having said that, if you are using Vecto and
it is working to your satisfaction, then don't switch. Don't switch.
It's it's good. So I'm just sharing some of my
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clients feedbacks. All right, all right. Bruce Brocklan, Holy cow, Bruce.
That's fantastic. Bruce is the high school classmate of mine,
and my god, I'm so thrilled. Anyway, Bruce, how you doing.
You gotta get in touch with me. That's really cool?
All right, nutrition die for cancer patients. Low carbon, high protein, Yes,
(24:05):
pretty much protein, but also there are some other nutrients,
and I'm not I don't know exactly. We'd have to
get a hold of an oncologist to talk about it,
but I would say that there are other things that
you try to avoid. You They even have diets strictly
for cancer. The goal is here that whenever we give
them when you have a growing cancer, in essence, it's
(24:28):
robbing the bodies of the nutrients because it's using them
for itself to grow. So the cancer's growing and you're
still losing weight. It's really, really it's a tough call.
So but I will I'll try and find out. I
sound like thanks, I sound like my grandfather. That's from
my sister, so I know he always had a horse voice.
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You know, death come here. Sounds like you could to
be the Godfather. So anyway, a lot of hyperdogs i'm training,
their owners are not extra Oh well, that's perfect. Yes,
great point makes a great point, and that is that
sometimes when you have these hyper dogs, they're not getting
enough exercise. So you know, one of the things we
always say, you got to get them out there, you
got to get them running. Around, use up some of
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that energy because they need it. This is exactly what's
going on. So what happens if they get home and
you want to get them home and you want them
like you say, plump tucker tired out, You want to
just get them to All they want to do is rest,
So sometimes going out, spending a little you know, a
half hour extra at the park, throwing the ball, frisbee,
get a little hike, whatever it is. So when they
(25:32):
come home, they didn't want to be hyper, they didn't
want to run around. They just want to relax. Okay,
el luis vicky also seems dogs and as soon as
they train, the dogs know what to do, so anxiety
is much lower. So some of the anxiety than is
that they don't know what to do. So when you
get them on a schedule, they learn their schedule, they're
more comfortable. Then they may not be so hyper inactive.
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Food is notion for cancer and dogs. Organic grass fed
beef carbons feed it, protein starves it. That is true.
Basically organic grass fed beef okay, carbs feed the cancer
whereas protein starves it. So that's the point. That's why
these foods are usually lowering carbs higher in protein. All right,
I think. I hope I got to everybody. I hope
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number of my our classmates come on the show. So anyway,
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take on set for cancer patients? Well, this is I
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don't know. I've never used it. You know, there are
a lot of natural remedies I have found, and again
I don't want to make a blanket statement because I
know that it'll bite me in the behind if there
was one sort of herbal alternative treatment that actually works.
But from my experience, most of these natural, non drug
(01:50):
remedies do not work. I have good friends that are
homeopathic vets. They will do a lot of things and
they tell me that there are success stories. I personally
in my practice when people have tried it did not work.
I always appreciate the natural paths that also say when
it comes to certain diseases, yeah, you want to get
(02:10):
a little more aggressive, you can do some western medicine
as well. But I'm not saying don't do it, and
I'm not saying don't do it as an addendum as
not necessarily a pure alternative. But if you want to
do something to promote the effect of whatever else you're using,
I would say go for it. I will tell you
one thing that none of these natural remedies are toxic,
(02:35):
so there's no downside. So if your research that you
saw says that, yes, it's helpful, and you want to
try it. By all means, try it and let me know.
Let me know what. I treat one of my dog's
cancers with just these natural remedies and nothing else personally know.
But it's just me. I'm not saying don't do it.
(02:56):
If there's enough scientific I look for the scientific data,
peer reviewed articles. Now, look, let's talk about acupuncture. Forty
years ago was a joke in very medicine, and now
it's accepted by almost everybody. We recommend it all the time.
So I'm not saying these things aren't helpful. I'm not
saying they don't have value. But on something like that,
(03:19):
I just don't know enough about it to recommend it.
But I will tell you most likely it's not gonna hurt.
So I hope that helps a little bit if you
have data, I mean really scientific data. Said it my way. Okay,
can you talk a little bit about the bully that
got stuck in the dogs soroad? So those things are
so yeah. I had a case actually, neighbor down the
(03:39):
street and it ate a bully stick and towed off
a hunk and it lodged in the esophagus. We couldn't
get it up. When we induced vomiting, nothing helped. Finally
we had to send them to an emergency facility that
had a scope. They tried, interestingly, which is what we
often do, try to push it into the stomach because
it's hard to get the grabbers around the stick or
(04:03):
whatever it is foreign body without damaging the esophagus. But
they could not push it. They felt it was going
to tear the esophagus, so they did They slowly put
the grabbers around it, and they were able to get
it out. The dog is one hundred percent. I am
not a fan of those things because of that, I've
heard too many horror stories. So for me, a lot
(04:25):
of times it's people's fault because they might use the
wrong size that's appropriate for the dog. But this one,
it was a big one. The dog actually ended up
chewing off a hunk and that's the hunk that got stuck.
So you know, it turned out to be a very
expensive bully stick. I would recommend to stay away from
(04:45):
these things. If you have dogs that have been using
them for years, had never had a problem, and they're chewing, well,
they know what they're doing. It's okay, But as a
blanket rule, if I were to, if someone would ask me,
what do you think of bully sticks? I know too
many stories like this one. I'm not so sure so
and I hope that helps vasectomy versus neuter. Okay, here's
(05:10):
the thing. There are two goals here of neutering, all right,
and typically it's not just preventing breeding. If the only goal,
the only goal was to prevent breeding, then of a sectomy
could be okay. But there's more to neutering, and the
more benefits from behavior, from eliminating a testosterone impulse that
(05:35):
we neuter, not just for population control. So then again,
why if you have a dog that's a real good
breeding dog and he is worth a lot of money
every time he's used as a stud, then you wouldn't
want two of a sectary anyway. So if you're going
to stop him from breeding, why don't you just do
(05:57):
the whole thing? And you know you have other problems,
prostate issues, behavior issues.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
This is a statistic I always like to share, and
that is again, if we make some assumptions about how
many dogs are spade and uter, well, first of all,
I'll simple one, what percent are male versus female. That's
it fifty to fifty. Come on, fifty to fifty. Now,
let's say only fifty percent were spadernuter. So in any
(06:23):
one given quarter that was of a non neutered male,
we twenty five percent. Okay, So if I would tell
you statistically a dog found dead on a US roller highway,
you two. Well, first, I'm half week we fe male
and half female, okay, and then half of each will
(06:43):
be spade onuter. So a non spade female twenty five percent,
spade female twenty five percent, a non neutered male twenty
five percent, and a neutered male twenty five percent. Well,
guess what the statistic is that seventy five percent of
dogs that are found dead on US roads and highways
are non neoded males. There's a lot more to it
(07:06):
than just miseectomy, because if this dog kind of a
sected me, he may not breed with all those dogs
he's trying to get to. But that'll be really a waste.
If you picked up the scent because he's a male,
if he's got tystosterone, you know they pick it up, okay,
when female is in heat and after all that jumping
around out of a fence, going down major thoroughfares and
(07:28):
finally gets the female. At least you can breed. But
if he said sectimize, he's going to go to all
that work. You can't read anyway. Why have them with
the risk of all those potential dangers of him running around?
So my recommendation is to fix all right, preddice oone.
So for pregdice ozone, I like alternate day for a dog.
(07:49):
I assume you want to get as fast as you
can to an alternate day schedule. So if you do
it too much every day, then you're going to suppress
the adrenals and you can act actually end up with
a problem called Addison's disease, which is the opposite of
cushions disease. Cushian's disease is an over secretion of the
adrenal glands. Addison's is where they stop working under secretion. Well,
(08:12):
if you keep giving steroid on a regular basis daily,
the possibility is that you will suppress the adrenal glands
enough that they won't be able to work anymore. So
I would say first of all, to understand they're two
dose ranges. You have an anti inflammatory dose and you
have imino suppressive dose. Imuno suppressive dose is a much
(08:32):
higher dose. It's usually two to three times higher. So
then the anti inflammatory dose for me anti inflammatory dose
is about a quarter milligram per pound twenty pound dog
five miligrams and I do it twice a day for
a few days. Then I go to once a day
for a few days, and then every other day, and
then if you want, if the dog is doing well
(08:53):
and you want to give it, try every third day,
then that's good. But the goal is to get them
off of every day fairly quickly. I hope that helps well.
Prentnice alone is for usual we use for cats. Pregnice
own you can use for dogs, and predicelan can be
for dogs as well, but it's the same thing. They're
(09:13):
metabolizing a bit differently. But prendice alone is converted to presdicezone,
but for cats they need the Prentice alone to be effective.
What age should you start dental cleaning at the vet?
And once you hear more great question. So if there
was a blanket statement and I hate those, as you know,
I would say starting at the age of three. Seventy
(09:36):
five percent of dogs and cats over the age of
three start having periodontal conditions disease, So I would say
then three. But I've had dogs coming in that are
five and six and don't have a speck of tartar,
and their goals look great. It's still individual. I also
had dogs that are two and already have tartar building up.
(09:57):
So I always joke the dog get to read the book.
He doesn't know what's supposed to happen, and it is
what it is. So I would tell you, starting at
the age of three, in the general rule would be
dogs already started having calculus tartar, so they would need
a teeth cleaning. Now, look, if you brush your dog's
teeth on a regular basis once a year, is probably
(10:18):
gonna be fine. Unfortunately, most of you, and I know
who you are, are not brushing your petch teeth regularly.
So I've had dogs coming in every six months, And
I love the client that looks at me and says,
what do you mean we have to do a dental
We just did it six months ago. I go, wow,
it's been six months. Really we should do a little
(10:39):
home test. Okay, I think I've talked this you about
this before, but it drives the point home so well,
not six months, not five, not four, just one month,
four weeks easy, four weeks. Don't brush your teeth at all.
Let's see what you look like after a month. So
when you hear six months, that's a long time unless
you're brushing your tee the pet's teeth regularly. So anyway,
(11:03):
the only way to really do it well is brushing.
You could put water, addemps, you could do crunchy foods. No, no, no, no no,
you need to brush the teeth, all right. So what's
a good alternative for fleetick heartworm prevention that is topical
only and prevent neurological side effects? Well, you know, there
really is the only one topical for flea and tick
(11:26):
is going to be brevecto, and I don't know if
they even have one for fleetick and heartworm. So most
of the ones are oral. Anything gets absorbed into the
blood through the skin as those topicals do, or ingestion,
if they're going to get neurological side effect, they're going
to get it. Now, is it overrated in my opinion? Yes?
(11:48):
Does it happen however, yes, And so I've had very
few cases of that reaction, that is, it is published
it is real, so you know it's hard. It's like Librella.
You go online about Librella and it's the worst noube
drug ever. Yet I've used it, I don't know, over
(12:08):
a hundred times and I've had zero, zero reactions. So
and not knowing that clients not be asking clients to
come back for more Umbrella. They're coming in on their
own why because that stuff worked. So it's a tough call.
So I don't know if there is topical fleet take
heartworm that may not have any neurologic side effect. Now,
(12:31):
one thing I will tell you as far as the
exosacylines go, which are Cordelia simperica, pervecto, and next guard.
The dog may have a reaction to one of them,
but you can switch to another and they may be fine,
and it doesn't cause neurologic disease. It can accentuate if
a dog already has or had a seizure or some
(12:54):
sort of neurologic dysfunction. If you have the perfectly healthy dog,
the most cases where there were sea your behaviors, it
was because they already had some predisposition. So again you
got to look at these things carefully. But I am
I use it on my dogs, and I've used it
on I mean, thousands of patients and we've had no problems.
(13:17):
Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, but it does happen because
it's published. All right, I hope that helps. Yeah, no
bully sticks, I agree, Bethany high hear my voice. I'm
giving a good phone. All right? Good dogs? Have schizophrenia?
Be pipolar? Oh? You know what, that's a really good question,
and I think so, but we don't know how to
(13:39):
evaluate it now. My term it dementia, and you know Alzheimer's,
the doggy version of Alzheimer's. It can, but I mean
there are some dogs that have exhibited some pretty strange behavior.
Definitely neurologic, definitely, as we would say a screw loose
somewhere in that brain. Has it been diagnosed officially? I
(14:01):
don't think so. That'd be a great question for a neurologist.
In fact, in fact, I'm going to talk to one
of my neurobuddies. I have very good friends with my
neurology professor, and he's now emeritus at David. He actually
now writes children's books. They're really cute, but he is
he's my go to guy. I'm gonna ask him and
now of that, how can we tell that's a great question?
(14:23):
All right. On that note, we're gonna go take a
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Back hair Live. I'm gonna share this with pet life
Radio too. So the question was what do we think
about colostrum for a seven year old cat with uti
It's the inn at jack infection with bacteria and the
urner jack. So I've heard of it I don't know
whether it's it's very effective. I don't know for sure
whether this cat is a female, well though I assume
(16:01):
it probably is because females get much more UTIs in males.
And so when I have a persistent UTI and a
cat or a dog, the classic antibotic the schedule is
for ten days, I might up at fourteen. But if
I have one it's persistently coming back, I would first
of all make sure one hundred percent that you get
(16:23):
a culture. You must have a culture and sensitivity because
if you're just guessing what antibotic and it keeps coming back, well,
that's one of the reasons. It's the lung antibotic. So
you know, if I have rods, I'm going to probably
use a selfless spoor and maybe docty cycling. I'll give
it a shot sometimes, but if I ever get a
urin analysis back that has fifty to one hundred or
(16:45):
greater than one hundred bacteria per high power field, I
will insist on a culture, because if you pick the
lung antibotic right, that means that those bacteria are still
multiplying and multiplying, then you're going to a really sick cat.
On your hand or a sick dog. If it's less
than twenty five twenty five to fifty A, you know,
I might take a guess based on the bacteria or
(17:09):
the types. Was it rods, was it coxie? Was it mixed?
And then a lot of times I'm right, and that's good.
But I always tell the owner if this comes back,
we are going to do a culture. So culture and
sensitivity is very important, all right, deedles Hello. Also, by
the way, cats do better than dogs on still not
you should just use it as reckless abandoned, but they
(17:30):
tolerate the steroids a little bit better than dogs. So
I would still try to get onto an alternate day
or every third day dose. You know. At some point
all right, hello, hello, Hello, Really ten thousand dogs were
rescued and not want to react to flee in tickbats. Yeah,
thank you, And that's Eloise and Eloise because she is
a phenomenal rescue and ten thousand dogs that were rescued,
(17:52):
not one out of reaction to the flee in tickbeds.
And that's what I'm getting. But you know, it's like
anything else, as we know, think of yelp, think of yelp.
All right, how many of you, show of hands, love YELP,
I personally hated, and I ignore it now. I don't
even listen. I don't even care because it is BS.
People that like to complain like to complain. You know.
(18:12):
Back in the day before there was all this online stuff,
I used to lecture a lot about marketing in the
veterinary world, and we talked about the negative reviews when
you piss somebody off, a client off, all right, something
you whatever, you did, it didn't work out well and
you didn't handle it well as a veterinarian. I'm talking
to veterinarians now, So I say, they're gonna go and
(18:35):
tell ten people. But if when your clients leave happy,
they may may tell up to three people. And I
won't even directly. You don't, they're not gonna get out
the roller decks start calling everybody. They're together with the
girls and they're talking, having some coffee or whatever, and
the subject of pets comes up, and they want to said, oh,
I had this great I had this great vet whatever.
(18:56):
So my point was you'd have to make like three
times more people happy just to equal to one that
you're pissed off. So now with all this social media stuff.
It's not ten people, three people, it's ten thousand people,
it's a million people. So it's unbelievable to me. So anyway,
(19:16):
I don't worry about it. I don't care. But unfortunately
it has been the literal, literal demise of some veterinarians
because of terrible reviews online on yelp, and I think
sadly one of the reasons why veterinarians now have overtaken
(19:36):
dentists as far as medical professionals with the highest suicide rates.
That blows my mind. And yet it's true, it really
is true. So all right, it's a male dog with
bladder inflammation, all right, So if it has bladder inflammation,
then again culture first, make sure the culture is done,
(19:58):
get them on the appropriate and then what you may
want to do is use like be deestinied or even
low dose pregnice zonne something to reduce the inflammation. Now,
it also could be very possibly that the problem with
the bladder itself, as you say inflammation, there may be
a bladder cancer in there called transitional cell carcinoma, and
(20:20):
that also might be part of the problem. So you
might want to have an internist do a thorough thorough
ultrasound of the bladder and see if there's anything else
going on from an anatomical standpoint that is contributing to
this problem with multiple back caural infections. Okay, I re
ask you vegetables mushrooms complex helps too, So all that's
(20:44):
good protein cruciferous vegetables, mushroom complex helps. Do you see
many dogs that clients want to give meage that you
say they are hyper and do you think it's medical
or needs training? That's a great question. I think it's both.
Really is. I've had some dogs they are just the personality,
they're just hyper personalities. And then also many dogs that
(21:05):
express their hyper activity because they are stressed, so it's
an anxiety. So when they're anxious, then they start exhibiting
this hyper behavior. So, in other words, can training help,
com medication help? And the answer yes to both. It
all depends what the underlying cause is. So do I
know that people are having a value? I always ask people,
(21:28):
you know, are they always hyper like this? When are
they not? When do they seem to be more in
control when they are hyper or when they are this anxious?
What is changing? What has changed? That is? Typically it
is how often does it happen? Have you been able
to come up with any links to the behavior by
external influences? So again, and there are many dogs that
(21:51):
are just it's their personality. I mean, it's crazy, hyper anxious. Now,
I think to your point I think you're making as
a trainer, is that there may be parts of this
dog's rearing, or if it was a shelter rescue, that
it's prior experience that has made it hyper and so
that maybe if getting into that could be beneficial. Unfortunately,
(22:15):
as I often a joke, when we have dogs like this,
I can't send them on the couch right and start
having a conversation with them. When did this happen? What
happened in your life? Tell me about your day? I mean,
you can't do that. So a lot of times we
have to either take the easy road out and give
them meds or try training and see if that helps.
(22:38):
But what do you think is it trainable? You think
without meds? Come back to me, let me go all right,
says this system for three months? You don't want the month?
First of all, Sharon, about Provecto, I shouldn't sy I'm
not a fan. It's not my favor has that. First
of all, it only is eight weeks with the ticks
for most of the ticks. Secondly, even for fleas, clients
(22:58):
complain all the time that they're having to use it again.
So you're paying for three months and it's a more
expensive per pill obviously because it's three months, but you're
only getting two. Well, yeah, I don't know that's the
best the best plan. I'd rather get one that works
for one, and I'm paying for one, so I am
(23:19):
not using I don't use Veto that way. I like Siperica,
I like next Car, and I like Cordelia, Love Cordelia.
For cats, I believe maybe next year one of the
others is coming out with his own cat version. So
but having said that, if you are using Vecto and
it is working to your satisfaction, then don't switch. Don't switch.
It's it's good. So I'm just sharing some of my
(23:42):
clients feedbacks. All right, all right. Bruce Brocklan, Holy cow, Bruce.
That's fantastic. Bruce is the high school classmate of mine,
and my god, I'm so thrilled. Anyway, Bruce, how you doing.
You gotta get in touch with me. That's really cool?
All right, nutrition die for cancer patients. Low carbon, high protein, Yes,
(24:05):
pretty much protein, but also there are some other nutrients,
and I'm not I don't know exactly. We'd have to
get a hold of an oncologist to talk about it,
but I would say that there are other things that
you try to avoid. You They even have diets strictly
for cancer. The goal is here that whenever we give
them when you have a growing cancer, in essence, it's
(24:28):
robbing the bodies of the nutrients because it's using them
for itself to grow. So the cancer's growing and you're
still losing weight. It's really, really it's a tough call.
So but I will I'll try and find out. I
sound like thanks, I sound like my grandfather. That's from
my sister, so I know he always had a horse voice.
(24:49):
You know, death come here. Sounds like you could to
be the Godfather. So anyway, a lot of hyperdogs i'm training,
their owners are not extra Oh well, that's perfect. Yes,
great point makes a great point, and that is that
sometimes when you have these hyper dogs, they're not getting
enough exercise. So you know, one of the things we
always say, you got to get them out there, you
got to get them running. Around, use up some of
(25:11):
that energy because they need it. This is exactly what's
going on. So what happens if they get home and
you want to get them home and you want them
like you say, plump tucker tired out, You want to
just get them to All they want to do is rest,
So sometimes going out, spending a little you know, a
half hour extra at the park, throwing the ball, frisbee,
get a little hike, whatever it is. So when they
(25:32):
come home, they didn't want to be hyper, they didn't
want to run around. They just want to relax. Okay,
el luis vicky also seems dogs and as soon as
they train, the dogs know what to do, so anxiety
is much lower. So some of the anxiety than is
that they don't know what to do. So when you
get them on a schedule, they learn their schedule, they're
more comfortable. Then they may not be so hyper inactive.
(25:54):
Food is notion for cancer and dogs. Organic grass fed
beef carbons feed it, protein starves it. That is true.
Basically organic grass fed beef okay, carbs feed the cancer
whereas protein starves it. So that's the point. That's why
these foods are usually lowering carbs higher in protein. All right,
I think. I hope I got to everybody. I hope
(26:14):
I wave to everybody. So those of you that are
here for the first time and you want to learn
more just in general about your pets, you can ask
me anything. It's free and if I don't get an answer,
I will find the answer. So please tell all your
friends that if they have pets, start following ORBS underscore DVM.
(26:35):
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then you're going to get that alert every Sunday at
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to hop on the show and anything I can help
you with I would like to. And those are your
first timers. I hope you enjoyed the show. I love
doing it, so that's good. And so Bruce, I don't
(26:56):
know if you saw that Steve Fields is on the
show because my brother in law, so I would yell
at interview doesn't come on and all we've pets. A
number of my our classmates come on the show. So anyway,
hope all as well. All right, So next week, same
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