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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Eight for thirteen ten WIBA and ask the experts. Brought
to you by Checkout Veterinary online. Checkout vet dot com.
That's checkout vet dot com. Great website to learn more
about Checkout Veterinary and how they are unique and special
and how it's really stress fee free with a drive
in drive out service. If you can hear our voice
(00:20):
this morning, you are near checkout Vet super convenent. Get
you right off the Interstate Highway one fifty one and
at the Prairie Lakes Drive area, and again I can
learn all about it online. Checkout vet dot com. That's
checkout vet dot com. That first visit that exam. It
is free and a great opportunity because they are accepting
new patients right now. At Checkout Veterinary again you can
(00:41):
learn more online. Checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet
dot Com. Right on Prairie Lakes Drive. I think I
said Avenue earlier. Prairie Lakes Drive. You know what I'm
talking about. The shopping centers right there, great area and now,
of course joining us this morning is doctor Mardy Greer,
recognized as Veterinarian of the Year from Westminster Kennel Club.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Doctor how you doing this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm doing great. We have some really beautiful fall with
our last.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Chance, right, yes, last Huran.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We're going to talk a little bit about some of
those cooler temperatures and as we get into these colder months,
keeping your pets comfortable and safe all year long. I
did want to ask about, you know, I mentioned the
Prairie Lakes Drive area. I've got to guess for you
and the other vets and and the team at checkout Vet,
having all those options for lunch has gotta be got
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to be pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, it's a little dangerous. It's walkable to a lot
of places, so good as we can walk because we
need to burn up a little bit of the calories
before we eat them. So yeah, it's a it's a
beautiful area to be in. We're right close to everything,
you know, crumble cookies and goodness, you know, all the stuff. Yeah,
it's dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
There's there's a little breakfast place that we my wife
and I get to there once once in a while
on weekends and it reinforces we talk about, you know
the importance of routine medical care for your for your
pet and having those needs met. Convenience is a big
part of it is I think we all know this
that that the more convenience something is, the more likely
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we are to do it. And the same comes for
pet care. And that is part of why checkout Vet
is located where it is and set up the way
it is, isn't.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It it is. We're there seven days a week, so
that it's really convenient for people. You know, we all
have real lives with jobs, you know, things that happen
in our lives. We have to go to work, we
have to get the kids to soccer games, and you
know us to doctor's appointments and all the things. So
it's a pretty handy way to do it that seven
days a week. You give us a jingle and you
pull in and got to bang, gotta boom. Your care
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is taking care of it. Actually pretty great.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think it is an amazing model and again you
can learn more about it at checkout vet dot com.
Great opportunity also accepting new patients, so it's great data
start that relationship at checkout vet. Learn more online the
website again, checkout vet dot com and checkout vet dot com.
They're telful number six so eight three one eight sixty
seven that's three one eight sixty seven hundred one thing too,
(03:02):
I want to ask about we talk about convenience Marshall
Clinic for folks that don't know the veterinary world. Obviously,
it's how what a rewarding career it is, but it
is hard for smaller clinics to stay open these days,
and h operations and things like you have with check
(03:23):
out Vet. They're becoming more and more rare, and we're
seeing some of these community VET clinics unfortunately go by
the wayside. You were able to, specifically, as we talked
about the Marshall Clinic, that was a vet practice that
had been there for for years and years, and you
were able doctor to keep that clinic open and going
and really keep things nice, simple and convenient for the
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folks and the pets that had been had been going
there for years, right.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I mean, Marshall's just this little island that's not that
far from sun Prairie. But if you know, for people
that have limited transportation options and you know, other things,
that it was a real challenge for them, and a
lot of the clinics around them are not able to
take new patients. So people were really kind of stranded
in Marshall and the surrounding communities that they just didn't
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have the kind of veterinary care that they'd become accustomed
to over the last twenty years with Doctor Lou and
her team. So we felt pretty passionately, and in fact,
the technician who's my manager there had worked for doctor
Lou for a short time ten years ago, so she
was already and she lives in the area. She was
very close to there, so we were all pretty committed
to keeping that as an option open to people. Now
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they're four days, they're five days a week, their Monday
through Friday. They're not on the weekend. But if something
happens on the weekend, you're still part of our family
because check In, check Out, and Marshall are all under
the same umbrella. So you have the opportunity to end
up at one of our other practices if you if
we have a caseload that we can't accommodate you, or
if it's a Saturday era Sunday and you need to
get in. So say something happens, you have an ear
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infection or something, you know, dog tars atonio, something that
you know, it's like it's not life but it's pretty
hard to deal with. It's just a lot easier to
have somebody that you feel comfortable with, that knows you
that you're part of our family. So we welcome anybody
that needs those kinds of taking things taken care of
on weekends that we're more than happy to accommodate those needs.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's and that's fantastic. As we talk about checkout vet
open seven days a week, nine am until five pm.
Don't forget again that first visit that exam. It is
free to your pet, and they are accepting new patients
right now online checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet
dot com. And doctor I know we had a frost
free and freeze warning. I do believe recently as well.
(05:37):
So we're getting to that that time a year, and
it's definitely a time to be thinking about pets.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I have a chihuahua, so we don't obviously we take
a lot of precautions. He's never outside unsupervised, even even
in the perfect weather, and never outside for all that long.
Are there some dogs though that that do do better?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Or do you all right?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Like outdoors, like you know, having a dog house and
kind of spending time like that or is that something
that's not really really the best practice. What's kind of
the guidance there, Well.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It depends a lot on the breed of the dog.
In the last forty or fifty years, we've seen a
big change in how dogs are housed and what we
do with them. You know, fifty years ago, the dogs
were in a kennel in the garage, and you know,
it was all good, and you know, maybe they'd come
in during the evening when the family was there, or
maybe they were more of a house dog at that point.
But over the last fifty years they've gone from being
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you know, in an outdoor kennel or a garage kennel
to sleeping in the house to sleeping in the bed,
and so things have certainly changed a lot. Now there
are some breeds of dogs that really appreciate being outside
when it's cool, and those are typically the double coated breeds, Melanies,
the Bernie's Mountain Dogs, the Golden Retrievers. They go out,
you know, like in the snow, a Bernie's Mountain dog
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will go out and find the highest pile of snows
they could find in the yard, lay down on it
and you can't get them to come into the house
because so happy they are really you know, genetically programmed
to be up on something high and so they want
to be there. The husky's the melody, it's you know,
a lot of these breeds of dogs that are really
accustomed to being in those kinds of climates. They were
evolved in those climates. They do very well. We have
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other breeds of dogs that are they don't have a
double coat. They're short coated Dalmatians for instance, they don't
have a double coat. They've just got a simple hair coat.
A Labrador has a double coat, a Golden Retriever has
a double coat. Of Dalmatian does not. A lot of
the terriers don't. So those are the dogs that don't
tolerate the cold very well because they just don't have
the extra insulation. And of course then if the dog
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is outside, they need to eat two to three times
more calories to keep them warm than they would if
they were sleeping in the house. So there's definitely a
lot of things that need to be taken into consideration
when you're deciding where that pet should be housed. Then
we have you know, the cats, oh my gosh, like
the cats that you know, you might have started feeding
a cat this summer on the back porch, and now
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the weather's starting to get cold than the cat kind
of looking at you longingly as you walk back in
the house after putting food into the dish, like maybe
it's warm in there? Is there any based in your
house for me? And so there's a lot of things
that start happening if we aren't really careful about our acquisitions.
You know how when we first get the dog or
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first get the cat, how do we want to house them?
What is their best needs? How do we best meet
their needs? What do we do with these pets so
that they're really in the best place possible. Cats, if
you're going to bring a cat into the house, and
you know a lot of people do, they'll be like
they'll come into the clinic with a captain and to say, well,
this isn't really my cat. Okay, well you're here with it.
What do you mean it's not really your cat? Well,
you know, I was just feeding it. Okay, Well how
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long have you been feeding it? Well, you know, like
since spring when the mother showed up with kittens. Okay,
news flash, that's your cat. So you're you know, you're
at that point kind of obligated. But cats carry some
important viral diseases that we don't want to just bring
any stray cat into our homes if we already have
it an established cat population, Fela leukemia FIV, which is
fe I mean, there's suppressive virus, upper respiratory diseases. There's
(09:04):
a lot of things that cats carry, and they're very
happy to share them with other cats by mutual grooming
and by sharing food and water bowls and litter boxes
and all those things. So if we have the opportunity
to bring a new cat into the household, it's really
important that you get into your VAT clinic first, get
those LAKINI and FIV tests done, get them vaccinated to
make sure that they're dewormed, they don't have fleas. I
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just had a couple into the Lamyra clinic a couple
of weeks ago that they had this cat that was
in their house that suddenly started really scratching at her
head and her neck really aggressively, and we took a
look at her and she had fleas, and they said,
but she never goes outside. But they had a cat
that went in and out so the in and out
cat brought the fleas into the house. The house cat
then ended up with them. So those are all things
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that should be preventively addressed so that you don't end
up with a situation like that. It's not what you
want to end up having to deal with, is one
of your established cats in your household to get stick
from something that came in from the outside.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
The website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
If you've got a question for the doctor, we've got
a phone line open for you right now at six
oh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh
eight three two one thirteen ten. Love to get you
on the air with doctor Greer of Checkout Veterinary. Okay,
can also email anytime if you've got a question, great data,
(10:21):
make an appointment, start a relationship with checkout Vet. They
are accepting new patients currently telephon number six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred that's six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred, or just head on
over to the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
vet dot com My wife always has me get hay
bails for the Halloween and autumn months. And then what
ends up happening with some of those hay bales is
(10:43):
she breaks them down, takes old toads, cuts a hole
in the side, throws the hay in an old blanket
in there, and she sets them out back by the
woods for the cats.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Good idea, bad idea?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is that something because we've got got a in the
back in the woods, there are some kiddy cats that
that kind of come around the area. Is that type
of thing helpful or is that something that's only encouraging
more kiddy cats.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, it does encourage the cats, but I guess that's
the question is do you want to have cats wandering
around your house? And the advantage to it is you
may have better rodent control. You may not have the
mice and other little creatures that end up in your
homes and your garages this time of year. So it
might help with population control of the rodents that you
don't want in your backyard. But yeah, you're definitely going
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to have a cat population that starts to be attracted
to that. They know if the cats are nutered in
spade that those are close populations of cats that more
cats don't typically come into that community of cats, but
many of us don't have the resources or we can't
catch the cats to get them spaded or utered, So
it can certainly increase the population of cats. And then
people worry, of course about the songbirds. Are the cats
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not just going to eat the mice, but are they
going to start preying on songbirds? And is that going
to limit some of the opportunities to watch birds in
your yard. And if you're up close to those kinds
of wooded areas and you put up bird feeders, it's
pretty lovely to those birds come and go. So it's it's,
you know, really kind of a philosophical decision, and you know,
you may want to think about if your neighbors what
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they want and have a little community conversation about that too,
because there can be some pretty good sized populations of
cats that end up attracted to those things. So the
more you feed them, the more you encourage them, the
more you get. But it may for some people that's
very appealing and for other people it's very upsetting.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Talk this morning with doctor Marty Greer of check out
Vet of Course Online checkout vet dot com. That's check
out vet dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I was thinking about just ways to keep warm. I
know we're getting towards that, you know, really cold that night. Specifically,
cats will find heat sources and one of the things
that heats up is a car engine. That is something
that folks need to need to be cautious of as well.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Isn't it right if you have your car on the
driveway or in the garage and you've only been home
for a few minutes and the engine still warm before
you hop back in the car and take off again,
you want to kind of thump the hood of the car,
maybe tooth the horn little bit, because if there is
a cat that's hunkered down on the engine block to
keep warm, we don't want anything to happen as you
start the vehicle with the fan belts and all the
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things that happen under the hood of the car, So
you want to be careful with that. If your car's
been sitting on the driveway all night, it's cold, it's
probably not attracting a cat, but you definitely don't want
those things to happen. And it's surprising just how fast
those things can happen a couple of years ago in June,
I stopped at a stop sign and I had seven
baby raccoons run into my wheel well at the stop sign,
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like long enough to stop and make a left turn,
so they can move pretty quickly, and you don't want
any of those things to happen. It would make your
heart hurt if you injured somebody inadvertently, so you want
to just be careful with that now, you know. If
you want to provide a warm place for the cats,
the blankets are fine, But one of the things to
really think about though in the winter is a water
supply for our pats that are outside, because once it
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gets below thirty degrees, the water freezes and it freezes
pretty hard, so the cats, the songbirds, the dogs. If
you have a dog that's housed outside in the day
or at night, you want to make sure that they
have access to water that's not frozen, because sometimes you
forget those things. Then you can buy some pretty nice
heated water bowls you can just pick them up at
the store online that you just plug in and then
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there's a small voltage heater in that bowl to keep
the water fluid. They put them in bird feeders and
you know, like bird baths and things like that. So
there are things that you can do for the outdoor
animals that are fairly easy to do, and then you're
just providing that extra little bit of you know, care
for them. Because water is in short supply in the
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winter time, they can't just eat snow. It has to
be a fresh water source.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary
online checkout vet dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's checkout vet dot com. Don't forget that first visit.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That exam is free and they are accepting new patients
right now. Checkout Veterinary. You can learn more online checkout
vet dot com. Dolph number six so eight three eight
sixty seven hundred. That's six eight three sixty seven hundred.
Well contined our conversation with doctor already Greer. We will
do that next as ask the experts with Checkout Veterinary
continues right here on thirteen ten do w u ib
A eight fifty six thirteen ten wuib and ask the
(15:10):
experts with Checkout Veterinary. Talking this morning with doctor Marty
Greer of Checkout Veterinary. Recognized by Westminster Kennel Club as
Veterinarian of the Year delphin number six SO eight three
one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six soh eight three
one eight sixty seven hundred accepting new patients right now
at checkout Veterinary. You can learn more online checkout vet
dot com. That's checkout vet dot com and doctor. I've
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got to guess, while we're still not too obviously full
on winter.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's we all know it's going to get much, much,
much colder, uh these these days.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And you talk about some of those breeds of dogs
and that really like the like the colder weather. This
is really good exercise weather for them.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Isn't it. Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, this is a great time of year for almost
all of our dogs. Even the dogs that have no undercoat.
You could just put them in a little jacket and
get them out there. The streets are still clear of
there's no snow, there's no i mean, there's no salt
on the sidewalk yet. So this is great weather to
get out and get some good exercise, go to the park.
You know, it's just fun to be outside in the fall.
(16:09):
I raked a bunch of leaves up in a big
pile the other day for my grandson to go jumping
in so that you know, the dog and the kids
were jumping in the in the pile of leaves. They
have a little Schnellzer. She came out kind of shaggy looking,
leaves stuck in her coat, but you know, she was
having fun with the kids. So this is a great
opportunity to do those things. So if you're out in
the yard doing that last minute summer clean up, yardwork,
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the stuff that you need to do before fall, you know,
take the dogs along, take the kiddos along, and have
a nice time out there, because there are too many
of these nice days left, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And it's what a great what a great experience for
the pats and for the people as well at plan
and having fun and this stuff. Doctor two, as we
talk a little bit about the changing seasons and the
changing happens that I know a lot of folks are
bringing in some some of those outdoor plants, bringing them
in the ones that are not not winter hardy, and
and you know, the cold stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Takes care of them.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Are there any anything people need to be concerned with
as far as as far as pets eating or attempting
to eat some of those. Obviously there's there's always that risk.
But is that something that that's common or relatively rare
that we run into.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Issues with that?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, a lot of the cats, especially like you, on
the leaves of the plants, and lilies can be dangerous
for cats, So we're going to be really careful with lilies.
Most of the other plants, moms and things like that,
they're pretty safe to bring into the house. But of
course then you also worry about did you bring something
else in with the plant where there are little creatures
living in the pot, and are there little you know,
like spider mites on the plants that are going to
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infect your houseplants? Do you want to be careful with
those things. But what a lot of people find is
they bring the plant into the house and the cat
decides that's their new litter box. And it may be
very appealing to the cat to get into the dirt
of the pot and use that for a litter box.
But if you come into the living room and start
having odors that come from you a plant, you may
not be very happy with your cat. So you want
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to perhaps cover the dirt with some lava ro or
some stones, or maybe some aluminum foil is something to
keep the cat out. Cats hate aluminum oil. So if
you just crinkle up some balls of aluminum ooil or
spread it across the plant pot, you know, around the
base of the plant, then cats typically don't like those things.
So there are some things like aluminum foil that are
deterrent to cats that are non toxic, they're safe, they're inexpensive,
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just you know, tinfoil, aluminum oil. Pull it off and
put some in the plant, and that should protect the cats,
protect the plant from the cat turning that into their
knees litter box their new favorite thing.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That's indeed, that's a fact too that cats don't like
aluminum foil.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Nope, they don't.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So when I play, I bring it up. A friend
of mine Rob growing up, he used to putt like
a nice little leather recliner in the living room of
his house and he would put a piece of foil
on their class so it keeps the cat away. I'm like,
you're so full of it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It does, no, No, it does.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah, it's truly. Cats don't like the feel of it
under their feet. It's sort of a discurrent. So yeah,
he was he was dead on man that was. That
was really good thinking. And illuminum foil is cheap. You know,
if it gets crinkled up, you throw it away, you
get a new piece, so it's pretty.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Easy to use get a fresh me.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That is again, I always learned something new from you, doctor.
I never thought it would be that cats are annoyed
by aluminum foil. But that's one of the great things.
We're geting interpportunity to talk with doctor Marty Greer each
and every week right here on thirteen ten wib A.
Don't forget if you ever have a question, the phone
lines are open during the segment. We'd love to hear
from you. Of course, you can learn more about checkout
VET online. Checkout vet dot com accepting new patients right now.
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Check out vet dot com teleph number six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six so eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred.
Speaker 2 (19:34):
Doctor Greer, thank you so much for time this morning.
You have a great day.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (19:38):
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Speaker 1 (19:39):
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about Checkout Veterinary and how they are unique and special
and how it's really stress fee free with a drive
in drive out service. If you can hear our voice
(00:20):
this morning, you are near checkout Vet super convenent. Get
you right off the Interstate Highway one fifty one and
at the Prairie Lakes Drive area, and again I can
learn all about it online. Checkout vet dot com. That's
checkout vet dot com. That first visit that exam. It
is free and a great opportunity because they are accepting
new patients right now. At Checkout Veterinary again you can
(00:41):
learn more online. Checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet
dot Com. Right on Prairie Lakes Drive. I think I
said Avenue earlier. Prairie Lakes Drive. You know what I'm
talking about. The shopping centers right there, great area and now,
of course joining us this morning is doctor Mardy Greer,
recognized as Veterinarian of the Year from Westminster Kennel Club.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Doctor how you doing this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:01):
I'm doing great. We have some really beautiful fall with
our last.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Chance, right, yes, last Huran.
Speaker 1 (01:06):
We're going to talk a little bit about some of
those cooler temperatures and as we get into these colder months,
keeping your pets comfortable and safe all year long. I
did want to ask about, you know, I mentioned the
Prairie Lakes Drive area. I've got to guess for you
and the other vets and and the team at checkout Vet,
having all those options for lunch has gotta be got
(01:26):
to be pretty nice.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Isn't it.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Yeah, it's a little dangerous. It's walkable to a lot
of places, so good as we can walk because we
need to burn up a little bit of the calories
before we eat them. So yeah, it's a it's a
beautiful area to be in. We're right close to everything,
you know, crumble cookies and goodness, you know, all the stuff. Yeah,
it's dangerous.
Speaker 1 (01:48):
There's there's a little breakfast place that we my wife
and I get to there once once in a while
on weekends and it reinforces we talk about, you know
the importance of routine medical care for your for your
pet and having those needs met. Convenience is a big
part of it is I think we all know this
that that the more convenience something is, the more likely
(02:08):
we are to do it. And the same comes for
pet care. And that is part of why checkout Vet
is located where it is and set up the way
it is, isn't.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
It it is. We're there seven days a week, so
that it's really convenient for people. You know, we all
have real lives with jobs, you know, things that happen
in our lives. We have to go to work, we
have to get the kids to soccer games, and you
know us to doctor's appointments and all the things. So
it's a pretty handy way to do it that seven
days a week. You give us a jingle and you
pull in and got to bang, gotta boom. Your care
(02:39):
is taking care of it. Actually pretty great.
Speaker 1 (02:41):
I think it is an amazing model and again you
can learn more about it at checkout vet dot com.
Great opportunity also accepting new patients, so it's great data
start that relationship at checkout vet. Learn more online the
website again, checkout vet dot com and checkout vet dot com.
They're telful number six so eight three one eight sixty
seven that's three one eight sixty seven hundred one thing too,
(03:02):
I want to ask about we talk about convenience Marshall
Clinic for folks that don't know the veterinary world. Obviously,
it's how what a rewarding career it is, but it
is hard for smaller clinics to stay open these days,
and h operations and things like you have with check
(03:23):
out Vet. They're becoming more and more rare, and we're
seeing some of these community VET clinics unfortunately go by
the wayside. You were able to, specifically, as we talked
about the Marshall Clinic, that was a vet practice that
had been there for for years and years, and you
were able doctor to keep that clinic open and going
and really keep things nice, simple and convenient for the
(03:45):
folks and the pets that had been had been going
there for years, right.
Speaker 3 (03:49):
I mean, Marshall's just this little island that's not that
far from sun Prairie. But if you know, for people
that have limited transportation options and you know, other things,
that it was a real challenge for them, and a
lot of the clinics around them are not able to
take new patients. So people were really kind of stranded
in Marshall and the surrounding communities that they just didn't
(04:10):
have the kind of veterinary care that they'd become accustomed
to over the last twenty years with Doctor Lou and
her team. So we felt pretty passionately, and in fact,
the technician who's my manager there had worked for doctor
Lou for a short time ten years ago, so she
was already and she lives in the area. She was
very close to there, so we were all pretty committed
to keeping that as an option open to people. Now
(04:32):
they're four days, they're five days a week, their Monday
through Friday. They're not on the weekend. But if something
happens on the weekend, you're still part of our family
because check In, check Out, and Marshall are all under
the same umbrella. So you have the opportunity to end
up at one of our other practices if you if
we have a caseload that we can't accommodate you, or
if it's a Saturday era Sunday and you need to
get in. So say something happens, you have an ear
(04:54):
infection or something, you know, dog tars atonio, something that
you know, it's like it's not life but it's pretty
hard to deal with. It's just a lot easier to
have somebody that you feel comfortable with, that knows you
that you're part of our family. So we welcome anybody
that needs those kinds of taking things taken care of
on weekends that we're more than happy to accommodate those needs.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
That's and that's fantastic. As we talk about checkout vet
open seven days a week, nine am until five pm.
Don't forget again that first visit that exam. It is
free to your pet, and they are accepting new patients
right now online checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet
dot com. And doctor I know we had a frost
free and freeze warning. I do believe recently as well.
(05:37):
So we're getting to that that time a year, and
it's definitely a time to be thinking about pets.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
And I don't know.
Speaker 1 (05:44):
I have a chihuahua, so we don't obviously we take
a lot of precautions. He's never outside unsupervised, even even
in the perfect weather, and never outside for all that long.
Are there some dogs though that that do do better?
Speaker 2 (05:59):
Or do you all right?
Speaker 1 (06:01):
Like outdoors, like you know, having a dog house and
kind of spending time like that or is that something
that's not really really the best practice. What's kind of
the guidance there, Well.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
It depends a lot on the breed of the dog.
In the last forty or fifty years, we've seen a
big change in how dogs are housed and what we
do with them. You know, fifty years ago, the dogs
were in a kennel in the garage, and you know,
it was all good, and you know, maybe they'd come
in during the evening when the family was there, or
maybe they were more of a house dog at that point.
But over the last fifty years they've gone from being
(06:33):
you know, in an outdoor kennel or a garage kennel
to sleeping in the house to sleeping in the bed,
and so things have certainly changed a lot. Now there
are some breeds of dogs that really appreciate being outside
when it's cool, and those are typically the double coated breeds, Melanies,
the Bernie's Mountain Dogs, the Golden Retrievers. They go out,
you know, like in the snow, a Bernie's Mountain dog
(06:54):
will go out and find the highest pile of snows
they could find in the yard, lay down on it
and you can't get them to come into the house
because so happy they are really you know, genetically programmed
to be up on something high and so they want
to be there. The husky's the melody, it's you know,
a lot of these breeds of dogs that are really
accustomed to being in those kinds of climates. They were
evolved in those climates. They do very well. We have
(07:15):
other breeds of dogs that are they don't have a
double coat. They're short coated Dalmatians for instance, they don't
have a double coat. They've just got a simple hair coat.
A Labrador has a double coat, a Golden Retriever has
a double coat. Of Dalmatian does not. A lot of
the terriers don't. So those are the dogs that don't
tolerate the cold very well because they just don't have
the extra insulation. And of course then if the dog
(07:37):
is outside, they need to eat two to three times
more calories to keep them warm than they would if
they were sleeping in the house. So there's definitely a
lot of things that need to be taken into consideration
when you're deciding where that pet should be housed. Then
we have you know, the cats, oh my gosh, like
the cats that you know, you might have started feeding
a cat this summer on the back porch, and now
(07:58):
the weather's starting to get cold than the cat kind
of looking at you longingly as you walk back in
the house after putting food into the dish, like maybe
it's warm in there? Is there any based in your
house for me? And so there's a lot of things
that start happening if we aren't really careful about our acquisitions.
You know how when we first get the dog or
(08:19):
first get the cat, how do we want to house them?
What is their best needs? How do we best meet
their needs? What do we do with these pets so
that they're really in the best place possible. Cats, if
you're going to bring a cat into the house, and
you know a lot of people do, they'll be like
they'll come into the clinic with a captain and to say, well,
this isn't really my cat. Okay, well you're here with it.
What do you mean it's not really your cat? Well,
you know, I was just feeding it. Okay, Well how
(08:40):
long have you been feeding it? Well, you know, like
since spring when the mother showed up with kittens. Okay,
news flash, that's your cat. So you're you know, you're
at that point kind of obligated. But cats carry some
important viral diseases that we don't want to just bring
any stray cat into our homes if we already have
it an established cat population, Fela leukemia FIV, which is
fe I mean, there's suppressive virus, upper respiratory diseases. There's
(09:04):
a lot of things that cats carry, and they're very
happy to share them with other cats by mutual grooming
and by sharing food and water bowls and litter boxes
and all those things. So if we have the opportunity
to bring a new cat into the household, it's really
important that you get into your VAT clinic first, get
those LAKINI and FIV tests done, get them vaccinated to
make sure that they're dewormed, they don't have fleas. I
(09:24):
just had a couple into the Lamyra clinic a couple
of weeks ago that they had this cat that was
in their house that suddenly started really scratching at her
head and her neck really aggressively, and we took a
look at her and she had fleas, and they said,
but she never goes outside. But they had a cat
that went in and out so the in and out
cat brought the fleas into the house. The house cat
then ended up with them. So those are all things
(09:45):
that should be preventively addressed so that you don't end
up with a situation like that. It's not what you
want to end up having to deal with, is one
of your established cats in your household to get stick
from something that came in from the outside.
Speaker 1 (10:00):
Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary.
The website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout vet dot com.
If you've got a question for the doctor, we've got
a phone line open for you right now at six
oh eight three two one thirteen ten. That's six oh
eight three two one thirteen ten. Love to get you
on the air with doctor Greer of Checkout Veterinary. Okay,
can also email anytime if you've got a question, great data,
(10:21):
make an appointment, start a relationship with checkout Vet. They
are accepting new patients currently telephon number six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred that's six oh eight
three one eight sixty seven hundred, or just head on
over to the website checkout vet dot com. That's checkout
vet dot com My wife always has me get hay
bails for the Halloween and autumn months. And then what
ends up happening with some of those hay bales is
(10:43):
she breaks them down, takes old toads, cuts a hole
in the side, throws the hay in an old blanket
in there, and she sets them out back by the
woods for the cats.
Speaker 2 (10:50):
Good idea, bad idea?
Speaker 1 (10:52):
Is that something because we've got got a in the
back in the woods, there are some kiddy cats that
that kind of come around the area. Is that type
of thing helpful or is that something that's only encouraging
more kiddy cats.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
Well, it does encourage the cats, but I guess that's
the question is do you want to have cats wandering
around your house? And the advantage to it is you
may have better rodent control. You may not have the
mice and other little creatures that end up in your
homes and your garages this time of year. So it
might help with population control of the rodents that you
don't want in your backyard. But yeah, you're definitely going
(11:25):
to have a cat population that starts to be attracted
to that. They know if the cats are nutered in
spade that those are close populations of cats that more
cats don't typically come into that community of cats, but
many of us don't have the resources or we can't
catch the cats to get them spaded or utered, So
it can certainly increase the population of cats. And then
people worry, of course about the songbirds. Are the cats
(11:46):
not just going to eat the mice, but are they
going to start preying on songbirds? And is that going
to limit some of the opportunities to watch birds in
your yard. And if you're up close to those kinds
of wooded areas and you put up bird feeders, it's
pretty lovely to those birds come and go. So it's it's,
you know, really kind of a philosophical decision, and you know,
you may want to think about if your neighbors what
(12:08):
they want and have a little community conversation about that too,
because there can be some pretty good sized populations of
cats that end up attracted to those things. So the
more you feed them, the more you encourage them, the
more you get. But it may for some people that's
very appealing and for other people it's very upsetting.
Speaker 1 (12:25):
Talk this morning with doctor Marty Greer of check out
Vet of Course Online checkout vet dot com. That's check
out vet dot com.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
What about you?
Speaker 1 (12:33):
I was thinking about just ways to keep warm. I
know we're getting towards that, you know, really cold that night. Specifically,
cats will find heat sources and one of the things
that heats up is a car engine. That is something
that folks need to need to be cautious of as well.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
Isn't it right if you have your car on the
driveway or in the garage and you've only been home
for a few minutes and the engine still warm before
you hop back in the car and take off again,
you want to kind of thump the hood of the car,
maybe tooth the horn little bit, because if there is
a cat that's hunkered down on the engine block to
keep warm, we don't want anything to happen as you
start the vehicle with the fan belts and all the
(13:08):
things that happen under the hood of the car, So
you want to be careful with that. If your car's
been sitting on the driveway all night, it's cold, it's
probably not attracting a cat, but you definitely don't want
those things to happen. And it's surprising just how fast
those things can happen a couple of years ago in June,
I stopped at a stop sign and I had seven
baby raccoons run into my wheel well at the stop sign,
(13:30):
like long enough to stop and make a left turn,
so they can move pretty quickly, and you don't want
any of those things to happen. It would make your
heart hurt if you injured somebody inadvertently, so you want
to just be careful with that now, you know. If
you want to provide a warm place for the cats,
the blankets are fine, But one of the things to
really think about though in the winter is a water
supply for our pats that are outside, because once it
(13:51):
gets below thirty degrees, the water freezes and it freezes
pretty hard, so the cats, the songbirds, the dogs. If
you have a dog that's housed outside in the day
or at night, you want to make sure that they
have access to water that's not frozen, because sometimes you
forget those things. Then you can buy some pretty nice
heated water bowls you can just pick them up at
the store online that you just plug in and then
(14:13):
there's a small voltage heater in that bowl to keep
the water fluid. They put them in bird feeders and
you know, like bird baths and things like that. So
there are things that you can do for the outdoor
animals that are fairly easy to do, and then you're
just providing that extra little bit of you know, care
for them. Because water is in short supply in the
(14:34):
winter time, they can't just eat snow. It has to
be a fresh water source.
Speaker 1 (14:39):
Talking this morning with doctor Marty Greer of Checkout Veterinary
online checkout vet dot com.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
That's checkout vet dot com. Don't forget that first visit.
Speaker 1 (14:46):
That exam is free and they are accepting new patients
right now. Checkout Veterinary. You can learn more online checkout
vet dot com. Dolph number six so eight three eight
sixty seven hundred. That's six eight three sixty seven hundred.
Well contined our conversation with doctor already Greer. We will
do that next as ask the experts with Checkout Veterinary
continues right here on thirteen ten do w u ib
A eight fifty six thirteen ten wuib and ask the
(15:10):
experts with Checkout Veterinary. Talking this morning with doctor Marty
Greer of Checkout Veterinary. Recognized by Westminster Kennel Club as
Veterinarian of the Year delphin number six SO eight three
one eight sixty seven hundred. That's six soh eight three
one eight sixty seven hundred accepting new patients right now
at checkout Veterinary. You can learn more online checkout vet
dot com. That's checkout vet dot com and doctor. I've
(15:31):
got to guess, while we're still not too obviously full
on winter.
Speaker 2 (15:35):
It's we all know it's going to get much, much,
much colder, uh these these days.
Speaker 1 (15:40):
And you talk about some of those breeds of dogs
and that really like the like the colder weather. This
is really good exercise weather for them.
Speaker 2 (15:47):
Isn't it. Oh?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Yeah, this is a great time of year for almost
all of our dogs. Even the dogs that have no undercoat.
You could just put them in a little jacket and
get them out there. The streets are still clear of
there's no snow, there's no i mean, there's no salt
on the sidewalk yet. So this is great weather to
get out and get some good exercise, go to the park.
You know, it's just fun to be outside in the fall.
(16:09):
I raked a bunch of leaves up in a big
pile the other day for my grandson to go jumping
in so that you know, the dog and the kids
were jumping in the in the pile of leaves. They
have a little Schnellzer. She came out kind of shaggy looking,
leaves stuck in her coat, but you know, she was
having fun with the kids. So this is a great
opportunity to do those things. So if you're out in
the yard doing that last minute summer clean up, yardwork,
(16:30):
the stuff that you need to do before fall, you know,
take the dogs along, take the kiddos along, and have
a nice time out there, because there are too many
of these nice days left, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (16:39):
And it's what a great what a great experience for
the pats and for the people as well at plan
and having fun and this stuff. Doctor two, as we
talk a little bit about the changing seasons and the
changing happens that I know a lot of folks are
bringing in some some of those outdoor plants, bringing them
in the ones that are not not winter hardy, and
and you know, the cold stuff.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
Takes care of them.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
Are there any anything people need to be concerned with
as far as as far as pets eating or attempting
to eat some of those. Obviously there's there's always that risk.
But is that something that that's common or relatively rare
that we run into.
Speaker 2 (17:13):
Issues with that?
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, a lot of the cats, especially like you, on
the leaves of the plants, and lilies can be dangerous
for cats, So we're going to be really careful with lilies.
Most of the other plants, moms and things like that,
they're pretty safe to bring into the house. But of
course then you also worry about did you bring something
else in with the plant where there are little creatures
living in the pot, and are there little you know,
like spider mites on the plants that are going to
(17:36):
infect your houseplants? Do you want to be careful with
those things. But what a lot of people find is
they bring the plant into the house and the cat
decides that's their new litter box. And it may be
very appealing to the cat to get into the dirt
of the pot and use that for a litter box.
But if you come into the living room and start
having odors that come from you a plant, you may
not be very happy with your cat. So you want
(17:56):
to perhaps cover the dirt with some lava ro or
some stones, or maybe some aluminum foil is something to
keep the cat out. Cats hate aluminum oil. So if
you just crinkle up some balls of aluminum ooil or
spread it across the plant pot, you know, around the
base of the plant, then cats typically don't like those things.
So there are some things like aluminum foil that are
deterrent to cats that are non toxic, they're safe, they're inexpensive,
(18:19):
just you know, tinfoil, aluminum oil. Pull it off and
put some in the plant, and that should protect the cats,
protect the plant from the cat turning that into their
knees litter box their new favorite thing.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That's indeed, that's a fact too that cats don't like
aluminum foil.
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Nope, they don't.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
So when I play, I bring it up. A friend
of mine Rob growing up, he used to putt like
a nice little leather recliner in the living room of
his house and he would put a piece of foil
on their class so it keeps the cat away. I'm like,
you're so full of it.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
It does, no, No, it does.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Yeah, it's truly. Cats don't like the feel of it
under their feet. It's sort of a discurrent. So yeah,
he was he was dead on man that was. That
was really good thinking. And illuminum foil is cheap. You know,
if it gets crinkled up, you throw it away, you
get a new piece, so it's pretty.
Speaker 2 (19:04):
Easy to use get a fresh me.
Speaker 1 (19:05):
That is again, I always learned something new from you, doctor.
I never thought it would be that cats are annoyed
by aluminum foil. But that's one of the great things.
We're geting interpportunity to talk with doctor Marty Greer each
and every week right here on thirteen ten wib A.
Don't forget if you ever have a question, the phone
lines are open during the segment. We'd love to hear
from you. Of course, you can learn more about checkout
VET online. Checkout vet dot com accepting new patients right now.
(19:28):
Check out vet dot com teleph number six oh eight
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Speaker 2 (19:34):
Doctor Greer, thank you so much for time this morning.
You have a great day.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Thank you.
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