Ask the Vets - Episode 509 August 17, 2025

This week's topics include Superzoo recap, litter box placement, water fountains for cats, sunscreen, heat stroke, and more! Tune in every SUNDAY at 12 Noon Eastern, 9am Pacific and call in with your questions at 877-385-8882 or join us on Zoom.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:02):
This is Pet Life Radio. Let's talk pets in the morning.

(00:22):
The morning we are live and Life Radio here for you,
here for your pets and dream Hello Lie with Corky
is good morning, So greet your questions ready. I hope
you all had a good week. I had a pretty
good week. Actually, well, I know, I'll try to exchange
your birthday. I have to have my sister remind me
of that it's my daughter's birthday. Well it's also it
was my grandson's birthday yesterday, so it was Kai just

(00:46):
tarted one and then say, Shane is today? That is
so funny. So yeah, we had a gathering. Everybody was
over the last night for dinner, and so my my youngest,
my youngest grandchild. But be I don't know if you knew,
but I think Shane is ready the oven. The baby's
in the oven for her number three. So hello, Hey Jeff,

(01:07):
how you doing? So anyway, it's been kind of crazy week.
So on Wednesday, so I had a very busy day
on Tuesday day ended with having to do a Actually
it's it's never good that it happened, but it's good
as far as me talking to you about Spain. So yeah, Obviously,
there are a lot of difference of opinion. Most agree
except for one breed, Golden Retriever, that Spain in the

(01:30):
long haul is advantageous. And let's of course, let's set
the straight. If you have a breeding dog and this
is what you do, and you're a legitimate breeder, and
you have to work with a veterinarian, everything is good,
you know what you're doing. Okay, Then there are issues
that may be prevented in most cases by Spain in

(01:53):
the Golden Retriever. They say, no, it's it's statistically insignificant.
But there seemed to be more cancers and problems in
dogs that were spade and neutered in goldens. But that's
the only breed, the only breed. They looked at the
same parameters when it came to lack Labradors, which are
now very similar or flat coded retrievers, it didn't hold up.
It's only the golden anyway. So this beautiful, beautiful pitbull

(02:17):
comes in one hundred pounds, it's a big gog and
she's been adr for a couple of days. Her heat
was about eight weeks ago. Seven eight weeks ago. I'm
thinking to myself, oh, by the way, ADR, very very
scientific term here. I'm used by veterinarians over place. Ain't
doing right. So you know, the old farmer, I don't
know what's going on. She just ain't doing right. So anyway,
that became ADR and we used it all the time.

(02:39):
So hey, Steve, So the issue there is, okay, just
in heat eight weeks ago, intact female. I'm thinking right away,
could be biometa. Let's take an extra we take an xtray.
Oh my god, the uterus is big. We put an
ultra sound probe on her and she's already has fluid.
She's already leaking. That means it ruptured somewhere through the

(03:00):
us or the uterine horns, and that's really bad. So
we're talking. I can't wait on this surgery. Even though
I had a plane to catch Tuesday evening, this comes first.
So anyway, we rescheduled some of my late afternoon appointments
that I was going to see and leave and instead
we go into surgery. And this thing, it was one

(03:20):
of the biggest I've ever seen. It was huge, it
was leaking. We had to carefully. There was no way
to get it out without even leaking more out. So
we did our best, and we knew that we're going
to have what we call a septic abdomen, and we
went ahead and we started, I mean, after we did
the spade, the uterus was this big, all full of puss.
It was closed. At least with an open pie and

(03:42):
beach trump they're draining, but a closed pile there's not draining.
So it's all literally the uterus is getting bigger and
bigger and bigger, and it's filled with pus. It's infectioned.
This could be life threatening, which is why it's so preventable.
If you have a dog and you're not going to
use it for breeding and hopefully you won't look. You know,
we give some people have mutts, you know, just strays,

(04:03):
rescues they're not being very well. First rescues usually spada
before they let them out, which is very smart. So anyway,
long story short, did a surgery, saw her again Friday afternoon.
We put an ultrasound pro on her. She has some
pockets of maybe maybe some fluid build up, but no,
what I was worried about, are we getting effusion? If
I tell you, we flushed that abdmen with about four

(04:26):
liters of saline sterosaline to just dilute. It's a little
saying in our world that dilution is the solution to pollution.
So the more we basically put saline in there to dilute, dilute, dilute,
and make it basically hopefully negates the effect of having
still bacteria and infection in the abdomen. Hopefully we'll be ahead.

(04:49):
So she started eating, which is good. Temperature has been normal,
Her white blood salcon is very high, but it was
very high beforehand as well, So we know that we're
dealing with the potential what we call a septic abdomen.
We are tiptoeing. We had my colleague who was able
to put an ultra sound probe. He looked at it
and again, this guy is phenomenal. And I said to him,
when are we looking at reopening? He goes, absolutely not.

(05:10):
It's only been three days since surgery. We're expecting to
see pockets. We know the uterus itself, the body of uterus,
you can only take out so much, so there's gonna
be some infection in there. He says, just really wait
it out and see what happened. So anyway, that's kind
of where we're at, all right. So anyway, as of
then he was doing well. So that's got another dog
we did. Also also on Tuesday, was a smaller dog

(05:33):
who had a very bad habit. That bad habit was
getting into the hamper and it is eight sots. In fact,
my daughter, my oldest, just called me sent me a
Texas Morning that would have her dogs. In the last
twenty four hours threw up three socks. Oh my god.
Fortunately it's a bigger dog. But I said to Ron,
and you're gonna have to do that. You've gotta put
a bet. You gotta keep your dirty laundry literally away

(05:56):
from the dogs. There are dogs that like to do
this stuff and it's terrible, so we got to be really,
really careful about that. So anyway, super Zoo was great.
You may have seen some of the posts I send
you know again, I'm introduced to some great you know dogs.
I was working with the company that has a really
cool new litter box and not only is an automatic
litter box that's pretty normal now, but it's got a

(06:17):
camera so every time a cat goes in, you can
see which cat it is, and it's much more affordable.
I have their big fancy one that keeps a record
of the weight, It records the cat going in, how
often it goes in, how much time it spends in
the box. That's amazing, and it's self cleaning, but it's covered.
A lot of cats don't like cover litter boxes. They
don't like going into a dark space where because remember,

(06:39):
that's a pretty vulnerable area when they are in the
middle of doing their business and they want to be
on the lookout. Remember, they're often you know, being there
are predators out there that see casts as a prey,
so they are really checking out. That's why people have
cat problems and they don't want to use the litter box.
I say, I always questioned, where do you put it? Oh, well,
we have a little door, we have a little kiddy

(06:59):
door or that goes down to the basement. Now is
that like a dark basement that nobody really ever uses? Yeah,
but that's where Why no, you got to stop that.
How about they tell me, well, we haven't in a closet.
We keep it in a closet. Well, god, guys, they
don't want to go. Hey, deb they don't want to
go into a dark they don't want to go where
they can't keep an eye on what's going on around them.

(07:20):
Think about it. So some cats like cover look cover.
Litter box is great for the owners because there's less
you don't get the smell. You know, you don't see it.
I mean, I get it, I get it, but you
have to understand cat behavior and cats sometimes don't like
going where they can't keep an eye on what is
going on around them. So this one is an open box.
It does the cleaning, It has a camera all it does.

(07:42):
It doesn't record, but you can see it, so it
gives you an alert. As soon as a cat walks
into the box, you'll get alert on your phone or
on your phone and you can see which cat it is.
So if you have a multiple cat household, that's great.
It's also got this special litter that absorbs everything and
it cleans. You goes through a cleaning cycle when the
cat leaves, and you can keep that litter in there
for like they say about a month and then you
want to change out the letter. So anyway, it's really cool.

(08:04):
But the best part about it is it's from pet
kit and it's one hundred ninety nine bucks, which is
really good because the one that I have is like
eight hundred dollars, So it is new stuff. One thing
about this conference. When I go to super Zoop it's
the first of all, it's huge, and there are so many.
I saw this really cute thing. Hey JB. There's a
cute little thing that I saw that I just stopped

(08:24):
to talk about it because I love the name. And
I'm walking by, you know, like Theodo riders all over
the place. Anti. You know, stain removers all that. That's great,
But I love the name. This was piss Off. So
it's like that name. What a great name. I got
to say this. Ah, So it does it. It removes
the stain, its odor, it's natural, it doesn't restroy your carpeting.

(08:45):
I just thought it was such a cute name. I
did a little spot with them as well, and piss
off the best kiddie fountain. You know, there are many
out there. Again, some of them have cameras. Another thing
I liked a lot, so we have one that it depends.
First of all, it's interesting how many cats. Look. I
have a lot of cats. One of them not only
loves to drink water, learned how to turn the faucet

(09:07):
on by himself. The problem is he didn't learn how
to turn it off, So, you know, he'll get in there.
He lets it the stuff. Hey staff he Nancy Cremer,
Oh my god, Nancy's boy. I'm getting some people that
I've known for years and years and years have disappeared
off the face of the earth, at least to me. Nancy,
how are you. I hope you're doing fine. Say hello sometime.

(09:28):
So anyway, the automatic feeders their water. They have a faucet.
It sits there and it does, you know, automatically, which
is really good. And it's great to just see these
cats like to drink water. But they it has to
be running water. It's got to be like a fountain something.
So anyway, there are a number of them out there.
I don't know if there's a best because they're all

(09:48):
the same principle. I have one. It works fine. I
love to see my cats over a one cat likes
a sink water better from the faucet when I don't
turn it on for them. Oh, I had to rig
away that he can't turn on by himself. Of course,
I've gone to the kitchen sometimes and that water is
running full stream. Could have been doing that all night long. Now,
what are my water bills so high? But anyway, he
does like drinking from the fountain. But there's another thing

(10:09):
I like, and this is great too. I think we
talked about this before. So it's a little device goes
on a counter, and again it's two way. You can
talk to your pet. You see the pet, you call
them over there, and then when you ask them to
do something like sit, you hit a button on your
phone and it throws a treat at them. So it's
basically self rewarding. And you can keep an eye on
your pets while you're gone. You can keep them occupied.

(10:30):
You can throw treats at them for being good. That's
really cute. I love that stuff. You have another question,
Oh so, my sister, good question. I don't know. Let
me say hi to people. There is a something going
on here in the West Side and it's the Venice canals.
We don't know what it is, and they've been testing
be you talked about. You know, maybe it's the algae
blue green algae, which is very toxic. You know, it's

(10:52):
kind of behaving like blue green algae, but with blue
green algae. They are actually swimming in this stuff. They're
drinking here. They say some of the animals really didn't
do much except walk through the canals I'm thinking. I
mean again, my mind goes to a bad place because
it is so localized. It's happened so many times that
I think there are twelve thirteen dogs now that have

(11:14):
been at least died, many more sick. And they've tested
for cyanobacteria, which is the bacteria in blue green aalogy,
and apparently that was negative. They're looking at the toxins.
I think there is something very sinister going on here
because I'm wondering about some sort of toxin. Someone weird
always laying it out. I don't know, but I've been

(11:34):
seeing less about them. But I have a right. In fact,
I was going to do a story on an Inside
Edition and oh, by the way, I did a story.
It's going to air this week. I think an Inside
Edition on sunscreened or packs. We got to talk about
that too. Anyway, we don't know the answer, Beth, we
don't know what it is yet. My first thought, by
the way, was blue greenalgay, because it's when I've done

(11:57):
stories on cyanobacteria, which is the blue green algae. It's
exactly is they go into a stream or a lake
somewhere that has the algae. But people don't know it,
and they swim and they're dead in an hour later.
That is so scary to eat again. You see algae,
you see a different color to water. Do not do
not let your dogs swim in it because it potentially

(12:18):
could be deadly. Let's see any questions questions. There was
another question five pounds my house by three cat loul. Yes,
you know it's great if you have good If you
have cats that you think aren't drinking all right, then
you want to definitely try fountains, try water fountain because
a lot of cats, for some reason, they love the
dripping water. They don't want to lap it up from
a bowl. They actually like it coming down from some source.

(12:41):
It's either faucet or fountain. So that's good. As far
as the name of the camera, jab, I'll get it
for you. There are a couple of companies out there.
The one that I've been working with now has an
automatic feeder, not where you can adjust when you want
it to deliver food. So it's the same kind of
principle where you can hit a button and it'll deliver food.
And again has the camera and that's pet Kit p
E T K T. But there are some others that

(13:03):
are look like a little do. I'll get the names,
but they're pretty cool. I love the principle. All right,
I see it's time. Let's take a break here on
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Speaker 1 (14:23):
All right, we're here lying again. So we're talking about
one of my cats real quick. So so anyway with
he Usually when I'm paring my dog's food, he'll jump
onto the counter. He likes to eat some of the
dog food as well. Now I gi him a little
teeny bitch just to keep me happy. And this is
We're going years of this. That was his stick. So
the next day, Tuesday morning, the day was leaving again,
he didn't really eat, so I check him out. I

(14:43):
feel him. His color was good. I feel his belly,
and his kidneys literally instead of like this were like this.
I'm talking huge. Oh my god, this is abnormal. So
I bring him in. We get some blood, get some urine,
and start him on some fluids, and you know, I
want to get some answers. So we do an in
house chest because I can't wait for tomorrow because I'm
going to be I was going to be Wednesday in

(15:05):
Vegas at super Zoo. And his kidney values are off
the charts. So we take a picture an x ray
and his lungs are also full of fluid. We drain
a bunch of fluid off of his chest and we
sent the x rays off to a radiologist for a review,
and they feel that there is plural diffusion. That's you know,
basically it's liquid fluid inside the chest cavity. So we

(15:25):
drain a bunch off, send that off for evaluation. I
come back the next day Tuesday night, I pick him
up from the hospital. He was in the hospital on IV.
We leave the cather rings and bring him back on Thursday,
and I do also an aspirt of his kidneys. So anyway,
long story short, he refuses to eat. He's such a
sick cat, you know, I don't want put him to sleep,

(15:45):
but I get some answers. So we get the answers.
Renal lymphoma, large cell renal lymphoma is huge. So immediately
I start him on a medicine called vin Christine, and
I give him injectable. He won't eat anything. He hates
him being force fed, so I put him injectible steroids
and bring them home. The weekend. We're giving him subcutaneous
fluids because we don't have anybody in the hospital. You know,

(16:06):
I don't want to keep them in the hospital overnight
with nobody there anyway, so ps we're force feeding him
and he just still doesn't want to eat. But this
morning I felt a kidneys and they are almost back
to normal. This's been Christine. This anti lymphoma drug literally
did its job. Now is it too late? Here's my
take home lesson, especially with cats, they will not let

(16:29):
you know they are sick until they just can't hide
it anymore. Eight weeks ago, his bloods were perfect. That
means this thing could have been going on. But it
takes usually two thirds or three quarters of kidney mass
to be destroyed, whether it's by infection, whether it's just
old you know kmana kidney disease, or in this case, lymphoma,

(16:51):
before you might start seeing changes in the blood test.
It's bizarre. So take home lesson, stay on top of
your pets. Older pets when they hit seven eight years old,
you should be in annually for checkouts. But so even
annually some SYSM may not be enough. But any change,
even if it's a small change in behavior. Literally I

(17:12):
saw it notres on Monday. When it happened to get Tuesday,
I brought him in. Unfortunately, even that wasn't soon enough,
whether or not would have made a difference. And then
the officer, when you take tests, you gotta wait a
day or two to get the results. You don't want
to treat for something like cancer. If it wasn't cancer,
if it was just chronic kidney disease, then that I
can buy it. So now I'm stuck in a quandary
because he's he still looks like crap and he's not eating,

(17:35):
but his kidneys are almost down to normal size. So
I'm just keeping him alive, literally, just to see. I
want the stuff to kick in, and today I'm gonna
take him in. I'm gonna give I've been giving him
flu as every day, but I'm gonna try to get
him on an appetite stimulate, an anti nausea medication just
to see if I if I can get this sucker
to start eating again, then we have a chance. So anyway,

(17:58):
but it's again woe is me. But that's my lesson.
Just keep an eye on your pets and don't wait
for them to really be bad. When you start seeing
a change in an older pet, even though you may
have taken blood eight weeks before and they were fine,
you got to have them checked out again because this
stuff can sneak up on you. Less sell with dogs,
more so with cats. But still dogs are babies. They

(18:21):
start that, you know, really early. Cats, however, they will
fight it and fight it. He was literally Sunday, a
day before he stopped. He was jumping up on the
counter when I was feeding my dogs getting his food.
It is crazy, all right, sun screen. So there was
a story that came out, I think it was in
the New York Times or one of the World Street
the Wall Street Journal, about the potential toxicity on sunscreen

(18:45):
for our pets, our dogs mostly and even for cats,
white cats, they get on their ears. So I started
doing some homework, and basically the homework is this. The
bottom line is there are no human sunscreens unless they're supernatural.
Most of them have xancoxide, have salicylates, have the benzenes,

(19:07):
anything that looks any name that is big enough that
you either can't pronounce or don't know what it is,
don't use it on your dogs. There are two issues here.
Number one with a salicilites, for example, locally all right, aggressive,
they can cause some skin irritation, all right, Then what

(19:28):
happens to a cat or a dog when their skin
is irritated? What do dogs do? Now, let's think of
it this way, to put into perspective. I've heard people say, well, God,
if it's safe for a baby, it's SPF fifty, it's
got to be safe for your pet. Oh. Yeah, what
was the last time a baby licked their lotion off
or their spray off, they don't do that. So if
it doesn't irritate the skin, that doesn't mean it's okay

(19:51):
for a pet, because pets are gone to lick things off,
and a lot of these things are very, very toxic
or irritative to the actual GI tract, so you need
to avoid. I bought a bunch just not in the store,
and every single one had those huge long names I
couldn't even pronounce and read up on them. If you

(20:12):
go online and look at safe sunscreens for pets, they'll
tell you all the ingredients that are so potentially dangerous
either because they are irritative to the skin or from
toxic to the GI tract from licking that can cause
I mean severe side effect. For example, many of you
may know this, some don't. That's okay. Salicylates. What is

(20:33):
the most famous product that we take that is salicilic acid?
And he guesses aspirin. Aspirin now is aspen in low doses? Right,
Usually it's a baby aspen eighty one milligrams per every
fifteen to twenty pounds of body weight that you can
use as a short term because of nothing else at
home for a dog, yes, you can use it, But

(20:56):
what happens to us even if we take too much
aspen or any said noun story of the anti inflammatories,
What happens gi upset, scattric ulcers, same thing in pets.
So if you can't monitor what's gotting in and you
give them some of these meds that have some sort
of salasites in them, then you are looking for trouble.

(21:18):
So there are and I found this out too. And oh,
by the way, most sunscreens dog or cat or people
are not FDA approved because who thinks that they're going
to eat them? So you got to be careful. There
are a number of brands I found, like five brands
of pet safe certified pet safe sunscreens if you're going

(21:39):
to use them now wor importantly, which pets need sunscreen?
And why?

Speaker 2 (21:43):
So?

Speaker 1 (21:44):
First of all, unless you're bald, you don't put sunscreen
on top of your head, all right? Why because hair
is a great blocker and skin protecting. Most dogs have
coats of hair so on their bodies. So where what
would a dog need and why? Well, first of all,
certain breeds, like the colleagues, have long snouts, and their
hair on the snout is very thin. There's something called

(22:06):
dlee discoid lupus aritheumatosis, and that is an immune media
disease and it's sun induced in many cases. So if
you have sun induced skin disease, then obviously you'd want
to put block there. Cats for example, their ears, white
cats especially, and if you look at a cat, the
area right and in front, in their temporal area, the
hair is very very thin, and so of course they

(22:28):
can get sun there as well, sun poison. Now, roll
your dog over and check out his groin or her
groin and sometimes even the chest, and we're you going
to see much thinner coat, much thinner sometimes no hair
at all, like in the groin area. So if you
have a dog that likes to sit outside and loves
to sit on their back right, then they're again subjected

(22:52):
to sunburn, and so you want to protect that area
and again tops of ears and also like a lot
of light dogs like them, you know, pitbull terriers, pit
bulls in general, bull terriers, dalmatians. If you look at
dogs that have very very very short hair and white,
if you can see if you can see their light

(23:13):
pinkish skin through their coat. These dogs need sunscreen, so
there are what I would recommend. There are a couple
of different types of sunscreen you can get. Some are
like a bomb, like your deodorant stick. It's a thick
jelly you stick your finger and rubbed in. I like
those for areas where there are specific areas the cats
in the temporal area the dogs on the snout okay,

(23:34):
and sprays for areas that are larger and you don't
want to goopy. It's like, why don't like triple antibotic
ointment sometimes as opposed to a spray because the ointments
once something is thick and goofy, the dogs didn't want
to try to lick it off. In this case of
save sunscreens, it's not gonna hurt them, but they're like
kry off the screen. So what good is it going
to do?

Speaker 3 (23:55):
Now?

Speaker 1 (23:55):
What about the snout and the nose. That's a tough one.
Why Because you put something on a dog's nose and
gets what they are gonna lick it off as fast
as they can. So what I recommend doing let me
see elis here ah heat stroke? I will that's a
good one. Anytime you're putting something on a snout what
I recommend is doing it there we go. We use

(24:17):
sunscreen spray called Koula, a pet spray made in France.

Speaker 3 (24:20):
Good.

Speaker 1 (24:21):
I mean, there are those out there. I guess my
take home lesson here is don't use human products at all.
The way you want to do it is put the
salve on or I like this for like the bomb,
like the deodorant stick or the salve. Literally put it on,
rub it in. You've already prepared their meal and right
away put their food down. You want to get them

(24:42):
to eat the food immediately. They'd rather do that than
lick something off their nose. And then if that can
stay on for even five minutes, it'll get absorbed and
then that'll provide the protection that's needed. So that's what
i'd recommend. Okay, heat stroke cloud chaser. Yes, So how
sad that you bring I mean it's appropriate you bring
this up now. So my daughter gets a call from

(25:03):
a friend of hers just the other day, and I
don't want to go through the specifics. It's sad, but
a dog was left in the car and almost like
these stories you hear about babies drowning, everybody thought the
other person knew about it. Otherwise, and it didn't wait
a second, where's the dog? The dog was left in Florida,
all right, you know, hot and Muggy gets in Florida

(25:24):
in a car for two hours. When they realized it,
where's the dog? Oh my god, everyone says, it's still
in the car. So what happened was they ran out
one of my daughter's friends when they used to live
in La. The dog was so hot it hurt to
touch it. The temperature must have been one hundred and
seven hundred and eight degrees and it could barely breathe.
They started, they wet it down with cool water, tap water,

(25:45):
not don't not ice cold water that shocks the system.
And they try, they try, and the dog passed away.
I mean, that is horrendous. The windows nothing, they didn't prepare.
It wasn't like they were running in which I totally
you don't want to do that either, running into this
to pick up the dry cleaning for you're gonna be
wait for two minutes, and you leave the windows cranking
to park in the shade. Now, if that's all it was,

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is that? Okay? How about the cars like Tesla now
can leave the air conditioning on. They have a dog mode,
which I think it's fantastic, and it leaves the air
conditioner on while you're out out of the car. But inevitably,
every single one of these stories, what happens is you
meet somebody that you start cleaning and then he says, oh,
my god, I'm the coffee stopice right next to Oh,
I'll just run to get the coffee. I mean, whatever

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it is, it never works out well. So my recommendation
is don't do it. And here's a perfect example. And
also there was another case I heard. We're talking about
this with a poor dog. Not that you can ever
equate a dog with a child, but for many it
is an equation. They do equate because the dog is
their child. A little three year old was drowning, were

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drowned in a pool, and the same kind of thing.
A husband thought the kid was outside by itself, but
they have a baby gate. They didn't realize the baby
gate didn't latch, and all of a sudden, the dog
is barking, and what is he doing. He's watching an
e FN sports show and he bet on the game,
and he is so intrigued. He ignored the barking dog
and then at quiet it down for a second. You

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know why it quieted down because the kid was not
flapping to try to save its life. And I mean,
these are the horrendous stories you hear all the time.
Don't be a statistic all right. Do not leave your
dogs in a car park car without you in it,
even for a minute, even in the shade, because you're
begging for this disaster and it's terrible, all right. I

(27:35):
hope I made my point strong enough on that one. Guys,
is it just happened? Thank you for the recommendations. By
the way, Thank you so much. JB Gila, how are you.
I haven't talked to you in a while anyway, so
I've of course run over my time. I'm getting dirty
looks from Mark, our producer, so I want to wave
Mama Sue hello. So thank you so much for joining me.

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I hope you'll learn something today. Please please keep a
close watch on your aging pets. Things can change literally
in days, just asking me about Ali number two dogs,
the park cars, keep up your cats. Hydrated fountains are great,
and oh sunscreens, be really careful when you're doing sunscreens.
So yes, we need an now our heartback. I'd love it.

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I would love it, but I can't do it. But yes,
just save your questions. We get to them and you
know how to reach me and also buy. Whether I
see a lot of names here, you have new names,
friends that might benefit from spending a little time with
us for a half hour Sunday mornings. Please tell them
just follow me on Instagram, verbs, underscore, DVM. What they'll
get is an alert every time we start the show,

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and then they can join us and ask questions away.
I know this works. I get a lot of referrals.
How do you hear about me? Oh? My friend, we
ever talked about these things. The referrals really help. And
the more people that join us, the more people I
can help and to me other than as you know,
my first my first love and it still is, is
seeing patient. That's why I always you know this is

(29:03):
I have friends that sort of I wouldn't say trade
it in their practice, but like good people, good veterinarians
that are liking to do Instagram and TikTok more than
seeing patients. I'm not one of those guys. I do
this half hour a week. I love it. I love
helping people. When I work with these companies to help
market their products. If I believe in the product like
leap ears or I scribble v for veterinarians or pet

(29:27):
kit for people, I'll do that as well, but I
have to like the product. But I'm not gonna stop
seeing patients to do this stuff. I have fun. It's
great back in the day when I was doing a
bunch of tv im my Instide Edition and KTLA five
and KEKELCBS. I still love doing that stuff and I
do it. They call me, and when I call me,
I'm there. But again, like I usually those outs on

(29:49):
a Sunday or early early morning where it doesn't interfere
with my seeing my patients. So for me, that's first
and foremost. I would love to have your friends, pets
and patients just warn them. Yeah, sometimes it gets pretty
busy in my office and there may be a wait,
but I never say no. So if it's if a
pet needs to be seen, I will use up my

(30:09):
free time in order to see their pet. And that's
been my motto and my goal for forty almost forty
two years. So that's kind of why I'm here all right. Anyway,
I have a great week everybody, and we will see
you next week. Same bat time, same back channel during
the week. If you need me doctor Jeff, doctor deepth
dot com, Doctor Jeff and Tott Life Radio dot com.
You can send meself stuff if you send the pet
Life mark forwards them to me so we will make

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sure that we can help you as much as we can,
because that's something that I love to do seeing actually
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